Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Dissertation defense: Novel phylogenomic methods for uncovering the evolutionary history of the hyperdiverse clade Caryophyllales (June 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51961 51961-12327246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Joe presents his doctoral dissertation.

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Presentation Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:52:29 -0400 2018-06-18T09:00:00-04:00 2018-06-18T10:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation Phylogeny overlay on flowers
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 18, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 18, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-18T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-18T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-19T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-19T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
The Role of Direct-to-Consumer Genetics in Patient Health (June 19, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52407 52407-12704154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: NextGen Med

NextGen Med presents "The Role of Direct-to-Consumer Genetics in Patient Health" with Robert Gentleman, PhD, Vice President of Computational Biology at 23andMe, and David Ginsburg, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Michigan.

Tuesday, June 19th, 2018
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
2901 Taubman Health Sciences Library

Please join us for a discussion on direct-to-consumer genetic products, their impact on patient health, and the role 23andMe plays in the collection and use of genomic data.

This event is free, and we welcome all members of the University of Michigan community including students, faculty and staff. Please RSVP at https://goo.gl/oSJr2h

NextGen Med is a group of medical students committed to inviting local and global leaders to discuss current challenges in medicine with the UMMS community. We aim to expose future leaders in health care to today’s most pressing questions and tomorrow’s greatest innovations. We would like to thank the Leadership Curriculum within the medical school for their support. Additional Questions? Contact NextGenMed@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 May 2018 13:34:07 -0400 2018-06-19T17:30:00-04:00 2018-06-19T19:00:00-04:00 Taubman Library NextGen Med Lecture / Discussion
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (June 20, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52331 52331-12639134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 May 2018 14:08:55 -0400 2018-06-20T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-20T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 20, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-20T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-20T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Research Education and Activities for Classroom Teachers (June 22, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51957 51957-12327241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 22, 2018 9:30am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: American Chemical Society Polymer Division - Student Chapter

REACT is a one-day workshop for Michigan K-12 STEM teachers at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor campus). This event provides K-12 STEM teachers free exposure to the impactful research being done at the University of Michigan through focused student talks, lab tours, and hands-on demonstrations by student organizations.

This year's REACT workshop includes research from Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Human Genetics, and Physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:25:00 -0400 2018-06-22T09:30:00-04:00 2018-06-22T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 American Chemical Society Polymer Division - Student Chapter Workshop / Seminar
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 25, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 25, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-25T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-25T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-26T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-26T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 27, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-27T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-27T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Dissertation defense: The influence of mutualisms below ground on multitrophic interactions above ground (July 2, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49056 49056-11372687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 2, 2018 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Amanda Meier defends her doctoral dissertation

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Presentation Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:48:28 -0400 2018-07-02T10:00:00-04:00 2018-07-02T11:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation aphids
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-02T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-02T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 3, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-03T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-03T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 4, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-04T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-04T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
A Crash Course in Space Sciences and Engineering (July 9, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47800 47800-11012567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 9, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This overview of the space industry will include lectures and discussion on space history and policy, international and commercial space programs, NASA, and current space missions, along with an overview of space science and engineering concepts.

No science or math background is required. However, a basic understanding of chemistry, physics, and algebra will be helpful. Depending on the group size and interests, a model rocketry workshop and/or an astronomy field trip may be included.

Instructor Emily Judd is a Ph.D. student in the UM Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, studying planetary upper atmospheres. This study group for those 50 and over will be held on Mondays from July 9 to July 30.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:44:12 -0400 2018-07-09T13:00:00-04:00 2018-07-09T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-09T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-09T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 10, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-10T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-10T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Amplitudes (July 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52332 52332-12639135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 May 2018 14:10:01 -0400 2018-07-11T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-11T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 11, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-11T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-11T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Dissertation defense: Tests of biomes as ecological proxies for community-wide patterns based on environmental niche (July 12, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52705 52705-12967704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 12, 2018 10:00am
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Mariah Kenney presents her master's thesis

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Presentation Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:09:06 -0400 2018-07-12T10:00:00-04:00 2018-07-12T11:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation map of biome suitability
Opening reception: The Bearded Lady Project film screening and portrait exhibit (July 12, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52853 52853-13090524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 12, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Opening reception for The Bearded Lady Project portrait exhibit and a film screening. University of Michigan Professor Catherine Badgley and recent U-M doctoral graduate Katie Loughney are the speakers.

American Frame donated frames for the exhibition.

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Film Screening Thu, 05 Jul 2018 08:59:23 -0400 2018-07-12T18:00:00-04:00 2018-07-12T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Film Screening flyer for Bearded Lady and empowerment events
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-16T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-16T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 17, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-17T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-17T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Coordination Chemistry of Paramagnetic “Scorpionate” Complexes As Probed By Spectroscopic and Computational Methods (July 17, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52826 52826-13083861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

The trispyrazolylborate, scorpionate, ligand (pioneered by the late S. Trofimenko) coordinates almost every type of metal ion (p, d, and f block). More recently, trisimidazolylborate analogs of this ligand (pioneered by J. M. Smith) have led to complexes with interesting structure and reactivity. We will describe the use of spectroscopic techniques, primarily EPR, but also optical spectroscopy, including MCD, to study the electronic structure of several paramagnetic, first row transition metal ion (Mn(III, IV), Fe(II), Co(II), and Ni(II)) complexes supported by scorpionate ligands. For such high-spin (meaning with S > 1/2, in this context) complexes, EPR at high magnetic fields (up to 25 T) and correspondingly high frequencies (sub-THz: 95 ? 750 GHz), known as HFEPR, is especially useful. We will discuss how classical ligand-field theory (LFT), as well as more modern, quantum chemical theory (QCT) methods can be used to provide valuable chemical information on these systems.




















Joshua Telser (Roosevelt University)

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Other Tue, 17 Jul 2018 18:15:17 -0400 2018-07-17T15:30:00-04:00 2018-07-17T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | The MUSE Experiment and Proton Radius Puzzle (July 18, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53033 53033-13209179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In 2010, a novel method of spectroscopic measurements on muonic hydrogen resulted in a 4% smaller proton radius than previously observed, and at an order of magnitude improvement in precision. This measurement, and a second in 2013, established the so-called "Proton Radius Puzzle". Now, the MUSE collaboration will simultaneously measure, for the first time, electron and muon scattering of both polarities from a liquid hydrogen target. In this talk, I will survey the physics of the Proton Radius Puzzle, introduce how the proton radius is measured in scattering and spectroscopic experiments, and discuss how the MUSE experiment will fill an important gap in the proton radius data.

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:14:06 -0400 2018-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-18T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 18, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-18T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-18T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Philip S. Brachman Memorial Lecture (July 18, 2018 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52971 52971-13166053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 5:15pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: School of Public Health

Larry Brilliant, MD, MPH
Former Associate Professor of Epidemiology
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Chairman, Ending Pandemics (working to make the world safe from global epidemics)
San Francisco, CA

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:22:56 -0400 2018-07-18T17:15:00-04:00 2018-07-18T18:30:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower School of Public Health Lecture / Discussion Brilliant Lecture
Ask A Scientist at Art Fair (July 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52908 52908-13142319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

ESPA will have an Ask A Scientist booth at the Ann Arbor Art Fair on Saturday, July 21, and Sunday, July 22. Sign up to be at the booth (and get a t shirt), or stop by and talk to one of us! Register to be an advocate here: https://goo.gl/forms/YYAzJViB9wwtrkoF3

Booth is located with the other non-profit booths on Liberty St between 5th St and Division St. Look for Booth #55. Scientists may also be walking around wearing t-shirts - please stop us and strike up a conversation!

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Fair / Festival Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:58:02 -0400 2018-07-21T10:00:00-04:00 2018-07-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Fair / Festival
U-M Biological Station Exploration Day 2018 (July 21, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52175 52175-12518254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 21, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

The University of Michigan Biological Station will open its doors to the public on Saturday, July 21.

Come explore the Biological Station, located off of Riggsville Road in Pellston, Michigan. Through a variety of hands-on activities, learn about the field courses we teach every spring and summer, as well as the ongoing scientific research we've been conducting since our founding in 1909.

The program will start at 2pm in the Gates Lecture Hall. Tours and programs will follow.

There will be no cost to attend. Please note that pets are not allowed in the station because of our research and experiments.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 03 Jul 2018 15:42:18 -0400 2018-07-21T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Reception / Open House Cabins
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 23, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 23, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-23T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-23T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 24, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-24T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Rare Decay of the Kaon with the KOTO Experiment (July 25, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52333 52333-12639136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:23:25 -0400 2018-07-25T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 25, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-25T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 30, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 30, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-30T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-30T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
JSM Conference Reception (July 30, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52945 52945-13157416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 30, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Please join us for drinks and hors d’oeuvres at Ambleside I - Vancouver Marriott Downtown Hotel, 4th Floor
1128 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC, V6E 4R5

Monday, July 30, 2018, 6:00 P.M. - 7:30 P.M.

U-M Biostatistics & Statistics Alumni, Students, Faculty, and Friends are welcome.
Hope to see you there!!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 11 Jul 2018 11:57:52 -0400 2018-07-30T18:00:00-04:00 2018-07-30T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Social / Informal Gathering Alumni flyer
Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium (July 31, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51048 51048-13332417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Schedule:

8:45 a.m. | Welcome by U-M Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Martin Philbert and LSI Director Roger Cone

8:55 a.m. | Introduction of the Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecturer
Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Diabetes and Metabolic Health, and Professor, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Director, Life Sciences Institute 2002-2015

9:00 a.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture — Single cell genomics: When stochasticity meets precision
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D.
Lee Shau-kee Chair Professor, Director of the Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center and Director of the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking University

9:50 a.m. | Morning break

10:10 a.m. | Solving biomedical challenges through single cell genomics approaches
Alexandra-Chloé Villani, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Director, Single Cell Genomics Research Program, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital; Member of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

11:00 a.m. | Exploring the biological basis of neuronal identity and diversity: From transcription mechanism to circuit function
Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D.
Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

11:50 a.m. | Poster session and lunch

1:20 p.m. | Spatial genomics and single cell lineage dynamics by seqFISH and MEMOIR
Long Cai, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology

2:10 p.m. | Analytics of single cell RNA-SEQ: Lessons from heterogeneity of immune cells
Nir Yosef, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

3:00 p.m. | Afternoon break

3:20 p.m. |Myeloid cell contribution to tumor outcome
Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Precision Immunology Institute, Department of Oncological Sciences and Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

4:10 p.m. | Closing remarks

Thank you to this year's external sponsors: 10x Genomics, Illumina and RareCyte

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 29 Aug 2018 07:19:05 -0400 2018-07-31T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Conference / Symposium 2018 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 31, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-31T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors (August 1, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52334 52334-12639137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:25:53 -0400 2018-08-01T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 1, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-01T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Alum|NUM Pre-Karle Symposium Alumni Event (August 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52786 52786-13079502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Alumni Networking at the University of Michigan (Alum|NUM), a half-day event which connects Chemistry Department alumni with current graduate students and post-docs

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Reception / Open House Mon, 02 Jul 2018 09:41:07 -0400 2018-08-02T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Reception / Open House save the date image
Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium (August 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51048 51048-13349556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Schedule:

8:45 a.m. | Welcome by U-M Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Martin Philbert and LSI Director Roger Cone

8:55 a.m. | Introduction of the Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecturer
Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Diabetes and Metabolic Health, and Professor, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Director, Life Sciences Institute 2002-2015

9:00 a.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture — Single cell genomics: When stochasticity meets precision
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D.
Lee Shau-kee Chair Professor, Director of the Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center and Director of the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking University

9:50 a.m. | Morning break

10:10 a.m. | Solving biomedical challenges through single cell genomics approaches
Alexandra-Chloé Villani, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Director, Single Cell Genomics Research Program, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital; Member of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

11:00 a.m. | Exploring the biological basis of neuronal identity and diversity: From transcription mechanism to circuit function
Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D.
Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

11:50 a.m. | Poster session and lunch

1:20 p.m. | Spatial genomics and single cell lineage dynamics by seqFISH and MEMOIR
Long Cai, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology

2:10 p.m. | Analytics of single cell RNA-SEQ: Lessons from heterogeneity of immune cells
Nir Yosef, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

3:00 p.m. | Afternoon break

3:20 p.m. |Myeloid cell contribution to tumor outcome
Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Precision Immunology Institute, Department of Oncological Sciences and Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

4:10 p.m. | Closing remarks

Thank you to this year's external sponsors: 10x Genomics, Illumina and RareCyte

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 29 Aug 2018 07:19:05 -0400 2018-08-02T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Conference / Symposium 2018 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium
Karle Symposium (August 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52649 52649-12916811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Learn about the exciting research at Michigan Chemistry through this graduate student organized event -- featuring our talented students as speakers and at poster sessions.

The key note speaker is Prof. Malika Jefferies-EL, Boston University, on "Design and Synthesis of Organic Semiconductors for Advanced Applications".

Also there will be plenary industrial talks by Dow and PPG, who provide travel awards to students. The Dow speaker is Dr. Jodi Mecca on "High Throughput Coatings at Dow: Challenging Paradigms through Experimentation and Fundamental Science" and the PPG speaker is Dr. Steven R. Zawacky who will be speaking on "Making a Greener Catalyst for Electrodeposited Organic Coatings."

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:40:51 -0400 2018-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Conference / Symposium logo block with K and 20 18
Single-Cell Data Analytics Symposium (August 6, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52442 52442-12724698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 8:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Please join us for the second annual Single-cell Genomic Data Analytics Symposium. The day-long symposium will highlight researchers from U-M and around the world whose work is on the leading edge of innovation and discovery. This symposium is organized by the Michigan Center for Single-Cell Genomic Data Analytics and sponsored by the Michigan Institute for Data Science.

External speakers:
• Dana Pe’er, Scientific Director, GMTEC; Chair, Computational and Systems Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
• Christina Kendziorski, Professor, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin
• Peter Kharchenko, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics Harvard Medical School
• Emma Lundberg, Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University; Associate Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

U-M Speakers:
• Johann Gagnon-Bartsch, Statistics, LSA • Xiang Zhou, Biostatistics, SPH
• Max Wicha, Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery, Internal Medicine, Medical School
• Gil Omenn, Harold T. Shapiro Distinguished University Professor and Director, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
• Jun Li, Human Genetics, Medical School
• Anna Gilbert, Mathematics, LSA
• Sue Hammoud, Human Genetics, MedicalSchool
• Justin Colacino, Environmental Health Sciences, SPH
• Clay Scott, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
• Lana Garmire (new faculty), Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Medical School
• Josh Welch (new faculty), Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Medical School

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:14:53 -0400 2018-08-06T08:30:00-04:00 2018-08-06T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium MIDAS logo
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 6, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-06T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-06T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 7, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-07T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
BME Coulter at Researchpalooza (August 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53517 53517-13392478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Medical Science Unit I
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Come visit Coulter at #researchpalooza, tomorrow, Aug 8th from 11-2 pm in front of Med Sci I to find out how we help move medical innovation closer to the clinic and enter to win a Starbucks gift card! See you at tables 91 and 92.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:04:34 -0400 2018-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-08T14:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit I Biomedical Engineering Fair / Festival Coulter
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | PHENIX Direct Photon Spin Asymmetry (August 8, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52335 52335-12639138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:25:08 -0400 2018-08-08T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-08T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 8, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-08T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-08T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Dissertation defense: The geography of diversification: a critical evaluation of methods and an empirical exploration of global marine fish diversity (August 10, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52255 52255-12576992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 10, 2018 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Pascal defends his Ph.D. dissertation

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Performance Mon, 30 Jul 2018 08:48:52 -0400 2018-08-10T10:00:00-04:00 2018-08-10T11:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Performance Earth surrounded by phylogeny
Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry They Inspire (August 10, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47915 47915-11121025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 10, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

The chemical synthesis of natural products provides an exciting platform from which to conduct fundamental research in chemistry and biology. Our group is currently pursuing the synthesis of a number of structurally complex natural products, including the diterpenoids ryanodine, talatisamine, and pleuromutilin. The densely-packed arrays of heteroatoms and stereogenic centers that constitute these polycyclic targets challenge the limits of current technology and inspire the development of new synthetic strategies and tactics. This seminar will describe the latest progress in our methodological and target-directed synthesis endeavors.









Sarah Reisman (Caltech)

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Other Tue, 24 Jul 2018 06:15:17 -0400 2018-08-10T15:00:00-04:00 2018-08-10T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 13, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 13, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-13T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-13T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 14, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-14T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-14T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-15T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-15T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
BME PhD Defense: Grant Hanada (August 17, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53562 53562-13407924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Mobile brain and body imaging (MoBI) presents new and promising methods for moving traditional research studies out of a controlled laboratory and into the real world. Most current neuroimaging techniques require subjects to be stationary in laboratory settings because of both hardware and software limitations. Recent developments in mobile brain imaging have utilized Electroencephalography (EEG) in conjunction with advanced signal processing techniques such as Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to overcome these obstacles and study humans doing complex tasks in non-traditional environments. In my first study, I used high density EEG to examine the cortical dynamics of subjects walking on a split-belt treadmill with legs moving independently of each other at different speeds to investigate how humans adapt to novel perturbations. I found significantly increased low and high frequency spectral power across all sensorimotor and parietal neural sources during split-belt adaptation compared to normal walking, which provides insight into the brain areas and patterns used to accommodate locomotor adaptation. In my second study I combined multi-modal sensing and biometric devices including EEG, eye tracking, heart rate, accelerometers, and salivary cortisol into a portable setup that subjects wore indoors on a treadmill using virtual reality as well as outdoors in a public arboretum. Subjects walked for 1 hour each indoors and outdoors while completing a free viewing visual search oddball task in virtual reality and in real life. I reported on the methods for how to set this experiment up, synchronize all data, and standardize the data in order to make it usable as an open access dataset that has been made available to the public online. My third study used this data set to examine the P300 event-related potential response during both indoors in virtual reality and outdoors in the arboretum. I found a significantly increased P300 amplitude response across the centro-parietal electrodes that distinguished target flags from distractor flags during visual search for both indoor and outdoor environments. And finally, for my fourth study I used the same data set to look at the behavioral and neural correlates associated with gait dynamics when subjects walked indoors on a treadmill vs outdoors in variable terrain while also doing the visual search task. I found significant EEG power differences across multiple neural sources that showed increased spectral fluctuations throughout the gait cycle when subjects walked outdoors compared to indoors on a treadmill.

The collective studies in this dissertation present new ways of using mobile brain and body imaging devices to expand our knowledge of the neural dynamics involved in humans moving in complex ways and in variable environments outside of traditional laboratories.

DATE: Friday, August 17, 2018
TIME: 1:30 PM
LOCATION: General Motors Conference Room, Lurie Engineering Center (4th floor)
CO-CHAIRS: Dr. Cynthia Chestek and Dr. Daniel P. Ferris

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Aug 2018 09:24:16 -0400 2018-08-17T13:30:00-04:00 2018-08-17T14:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME
Thesis Defense: Protein Cross-linking Capillary and Microchip Electrophoresis for Protein- Protein Interaction Analysis (August 17, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53780 53780-13461537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry




Claire Ouimet (Advisor: Prof. Robert Kennedy)

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Other Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:15:39 -0400 2018-08-17T15:00:00-04:00 2018-08-17T16:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Thesis Defense: "Towards Automated Epigenetics: Sample Processing with Droplet Microfluidics" (August 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53781 53781-13461538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry




Yi Xu (Advisor: Prof. Ryan C. Bailey)

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Other Mon, 20 Aug 2018 18:15:44 -0400 2018-08-20T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-20T10:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 20, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 20, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-20T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-20T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 21, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-21T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-21T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Mind the Gap: Using the Stellar Mass – Halo Mass Relation to understand Galaxy Growth and Cluster Assembly (August 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52336 52336-12639139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

A large variance exists in the amplitude of the galaxy cluster Stellar Mass – Halo Mass (SMHM) relation. We find that the magnitude gap between the brightest central galaxy (BCG) and its fourth brightest neighbor accounts for this variance. At fixed halo mass, clusters with higher magnitude gaps have larger BCG stellar masses. This stratification is also observed in semi-analytic simulations of low-redshift clusters; this suggests that this stratification results from the hierarchical growth of BCGs and may link assembly of the halo with BCG growth. We quantify the impact of the magnitude gap in the SMHM relation using a multiplicative stretch factor, which we measure to be significantly non-zero. Including the magnitude gap also significantly reduces the intrinsic scatter in the BCG stellar mass at fixed halo mass. Additionally, hierarchical growth predicts that at higher redshifts fewer mergers have occurred, indicating that the BCG’s stellar mass and magnitude gap should decrease with increasing lookback time. This suggests that the slope and magnitude gap stretch factor may evolve with redshift. We test this prediction using SDSS-redMaPPer clusters to measure the SMHM relation’s parameters as a function of redshift to z < 0.3. Contrary to expectations from semi-analytic galaxy evolution models, we find no evolution. We will discuss our results in the context of hierarchical growth and prior measurements of BCG growth over the redshift range of our sample.

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:03:36 -0400 2018-08-22T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-22T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 22, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-22T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-22T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 27, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 27, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-27T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-27T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) 2018 (August 28, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65656 65656-16627866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Organizers:
Aaron Pierce (LCTP), Jianming Qian (ATLAS), James Wells (LCTP),
Bing Zhou (ATLAS),
Junjie Zhu (ATLAS)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:35:47 -0400 2018-08-28T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T12:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Conference / Symposium West Hall
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) Workshop (August 28, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54046 54046-13519655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Physics Workshops & Conferences

The Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics in conjunction with the Michigan ATLAS group will host this annual workshop at the U-M Department of Physics.

This three day workshop is an annual event intended to bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss the physics of multiple vector bosons at the LHC. Topics include diboson and triboson production; vector boson scattering and vector boson fusion; precision calculation and measurement of multiboson production; new physics in multiboson production; anomalous TGC and QGC couplings; effective field theory; Monte Carlo generators; and the latest LHC Run 2 results. Past workshops have been at TU Dresden (2013), BNL (2014), DESY (2015), Wisconsin (2016), and KIT (2017).

If you are interested in these topics, you are all welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:57:17 -0400 2018-08-28T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Physics Workshops & Conferences Workshop / Seminar LCTP Conference Program
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 28, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-28T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) 2018 (August 29, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65656 65656-16627867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Organizers:
Aaron Pierce (LCTP), Jianming Qian (ATLAS), James Wells (LCTP),
Bing Zhou (ATLAS),
Junjie Zhu (ATLAS)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:35:47 -0400 2018-08-29T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T12:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Conference / Symposium West Hall
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) Workshop (August 29, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54046 54046-13519657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Physics Workshops & Conferences

The Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics in conjunction with the Michigan ATLAS group will host this annual workshop at the U-M Department of Physics.

This three day workshop is an annual event intended to bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss the physics of multiple vector bosons at the LHC. Topics include diboson and triboson production; vector boson scattering and vector boson fusion; precision calculation and measurement of multiboson production; new physics in multiboson production; anomalous TGC and QGC couplings; effective field theory; Monte Carlo generators; and the latest LHC Run 2 results. Past workshops have been at TU Dresden (2013), BNL (2014), DESY (2015), Wisconsin (2016), and KIT (2017).

If you are interested in these topics, you are all welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:57:17 -0400 2018-08-29T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Physics Workshops & Conferences Workshop / Seminar LCTP Conference Program
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 29, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-29T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) 2018 (August 30, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65656 65656-16627868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Organizers:
Aaron Pierce (LCTP), Jianming Qian (ATLAS), James Wells (LCTP),
Bing Zhou (ATLAS),
Junjie Zhu (ATLAS)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:35:47 -0400 2018-08-30T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T12:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Conference / Symposium West Hall
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) Workshop (August 30, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54046 54046-13519658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Physics Workshops & Conferences

The Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics in conjunction with the Michigan ATLAS group will host this annual workshop at the U-M Department of Physics.

This three day workshop is an annual event intended to bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss the physics of multiple vector bosons at the LHC. Topics include diboson and triboson production; vector boson scattering and vector boson fusion; precision calculation and measurement of multiboson production; new physics in multiboson production; anomalous TGC and QGC couplings; effective field theory; Monte Carlo generators; and the latest LHC Run 2 results. Past workshops have been at TU Dresden (2013), BNL (2014), DESY (2015), Wisconsin (2016), and KIT (2017).

If you are interested in these topics, you are all welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:57:17 -0400 2018-08-30T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Physics Workshops & Conferences Workshop / Seminar LCTP Conference Program
Innovation by Evolution: Expanding the Enzyme Universe (August 30, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51514 51514-12129616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry


Not satisfied with nature’s vast enzyme repertoire, we want to create new ones and expand the space of genetically encoded enzyme functions. I will describe how we use the most powerful biological design process, evolution, to optimize existing enzymes and invent new ones. In this first lecture, I will describe different evolutionary strategies that allow us to circumvent our profound ignorance of how sequence encodes function. Mimicking nature’s evolutionary tricks and using a little chemical intuition, we can generate whole new enzyme families that catalyze important reactions, including ones not known in nature, thereby adding new capabilities to the chemistry of the biological world and increasing the scope of molecules and materials we can build.














Frances Arnold (California Institute of Technology)

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Other Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:15:41 -0400 2018-08-30T16:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Bringing new chemistry to life with laboratory-evolved carbene and nitrene transferases (August 31, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51515 51515-12129617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry
















Frances Arnold (California Institute of Technology)

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Other Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:15:40 -0400 2018-08-31T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T15:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Welcome Back BBQ! (September 1, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54247 54247-13559097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 1, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students

We will be hosting a barbecue to welcome back SMES-G members and any incoming students interested in being apart of our organization. We will be at Wheeler Park on Saturday, September 1 from 1-4pm. Food and drinks will be provided

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Social / Informal Gathering Sun, 26 Aug 2018 23:12:31 -0400 2018-09-01T13:00:00-04:00 2018-09-01T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students Social / Informal Gathering Welcome BAck BBQ Image
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 3, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 3, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-03T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-03T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 4, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-04T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-04T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Viewing Night at the Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor (September 4, 2018 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53965 53965-13504398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 9:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

Please note that scattered showers and high humidity may force a last minute cancellation. Please check the weather forecast/radar yourself, and check the Detroit Observatory Facebook Event for last minute updates! Thank you for your understanding.
If it's warmer than 40ºF, drier than 80%, and clear enough to see something, the dome at the Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor will be open to the public. Don't miss a rare opportunity to look through a Victorian era telescope.
This 19th century telescope is in a 19th century building, and you must be able to climb stairs to reach the dome with the telescope.
Get your free ticket to the dome at the door between 9 & 10 PM*.
Check the website http://lsa.umich.edu/astro/public-outreach/detroit-observatory-open-houses.html or Facebook Page (the regular feed, not this event feed) after 5 PM if there's any doubt about the weather. If Tuesday is poor, we’ll try again on Wednesday evening.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:10:14 -0400 2018-09-04T21:00:00-04:00 2018-09-04T22:30:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Department of Astronomy Reception / Open House People entering the front door of the Detroit Observatory in the evening
Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium (September 5, 2018 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51048 51048-11950553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 8:45am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Schedule:

8:45 a.m. | Welcome by U-M Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Martin Philbert and LSI Director Roger Cone

8:55 a.m. | Introduction of the Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecturer
Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Diabetes and Metabolic Health, and Professor, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Director, Life Sciences Institute 2002-2015

9:00 a.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture — Single cell genomics: When stochasticity meets precision
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D.
Lee Shau-kee Chair Professor, Director of the Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center and Director of the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking University

9:50 a.m. | Morning break

10:10 a.m. | Solving biomedical challenges through single cell genomics approaches
Alexandra-Chloé Villani, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Director, Single Cell Genomics Research Program, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital; Member of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

11:00 a.m. | Exploring the biological basis of neuronal identity and diversity: From transcription mechanism to circuit function
Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D.
Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

11:50 a.m. | Poster session and lunch

1:20 p.m. | Spatial genomics and single cell lineage dynamics by seqFISH and MEMOIR
Long Cai, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology

2:10 p.m. | Analytics of single cell RNA-SEQ: Lessons from heterogeneity of immune cells
Nir Yosef, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

3:00 p.m. | Afternoon break

3:20 p.m. |Myeloid cell contribution to tumor outcome
Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Precision Immunology Institute, Department of Oncological Sciences and Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

4:10 p.m. | Closing remarks

Thank you to this year's external sponsors: 10x Genomics, Illumina and RareCyte

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 29 Aug 2018 07:19:05 -0400 2018-09-05T08:45:00-04:00 2018-09-05T16:15:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Conference / Symposium 2018 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
"Adding, removing and measuring cysteine post-translational modifications" (September 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54414 54414-13583288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry




Brent Martin (University of Michigan)

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Other Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:15:48 -0400 2018-09-05T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Department Colloquium | State of the Department Address (September 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53478 53478-13386088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Brad Orr will open the school year by informing everyone of the new research and happenings in the Physics Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:16:35 -0400 2018-09-05T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Growth and Grit - Developing a Mindset For Success (September 5, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53945 53945-13504379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Science Learning Center

What if your ability to succeed in your classes was determined in part before you even stepped into the classroom? What is the one quality you need to overcome adversity academically and in life? This workshop will detail the research of Dr. Carol Dweck and her groundbreaking work on the concept of mindset. Students will learn how to abandon a debilitating fixed mindset in favor of a growth mindset, leading to success in areas they once considered too difficult. The workshop will also introduce students to the research of Dr. Angela Duckworth, and how a growth mindset can lead to the development of grit, an essential characteristic to overcoming our fear of failure.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:48:39 -0400 2018-09-05T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T19:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
“Molecular Imaging and Cellular Manipulation in Immuno-engineering” (September 6, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53897 53897-13476566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 6, 2018 9:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Abstract:

Genetically-encoded biosensors based on fluorescence proteins (FPs) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) have enabled the specific targeting and visualization of signaling events in live cells with high spatiotemporal resolutions. Single-molecule FRET biosensors have been successfully developed to monitor the activity of a variety of signaling molecules, including tyrosine/serine/threonine kinases. We have a developed a general high-throughput screening (HTS) method based on directed evolution to develop sensitive and specific FRET biosensors. We have first applied a yeast library and screened for a mutated binding domain for phosphorylated peptide sequence. When this mutated binding domain and the peptide sequence are connected by a linker and then concatenated in between a pair of FRET FPs, a drastic increase in sensitivity can be achieved. It has also been increasingly clear that controlling protein functions using lights and chemical compounds to trigger allosteric conformational changes can be applied to manipulate protein functions and control cellular behaviors. In this work, we first engineered a novel class of machinery molecules which can provide a surveillance of the intracellular space, visualizing the spatiotemporal patterns of molecular events and automatically triggering corresponding molecular actions to guide cellular functions. We have adopted a modular assembly approach to develop these machinery molecules. As a proof-of-concept, we engineered such a molecule for the sensing of intracellular tyrosine phosphorylation based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and the consequent activation of a tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) Shp2, which plays a critical and positive role in various pathophysiological processes. We have further integrated this machinery molecule to the “don’t eat me” CD47 receptor SIRPa on macrophages such that the engagement of SIRPa and its activation of naturally negative signals will be rewired to turn on the positive Shp2 action to facilitate phagocytosis of red blood cells and target tumor cells, initiated by the specific antigen-targeting antibodies and their interaction with Fcg receptors. Because of the modular design of our engineered molecule, our approach can be extended to perform a broad range of cell-based imaging and immunotherapies, and hence highlight the translational power in bridging the fundamental molecular engineering to clinical medicine. We have also integrated with lights and ultrasound to manipulate the molecular activation of genes and enzymes, which allowed us to control the cellular functions of immunocells with high precision in space and time. As such, we can integrate fundamental science and engineering principles for biomedical and clinical applications.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:43:44 -0400 2018-09-06T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-06T10:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME
BMS Symposium (September 6, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53782 53782-13461539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 6, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Society depends on polymeric materials more now than at any other time in history. Although synthetic polymers are indispensable in a diverse array of applications, ranging from commodity packaging and structural materials to technologically complex biomedical and electronic devices, their synthesis and disposal pose important environmental challenges. The focus of our research is the development of sustainable routes to polymers that have reduced environmental impact. This lecture will focus on our research to transition from fossil fuels to renewable resources for polymer synthesis, as well as the development of polymeric materials designed to bring positive benefits to the environment.












Adrian Ortiz(Bristol Myers Squibb) , Geoffrey Coates(Cornell University)

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Other Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:15:58 -0400 2018-09-06T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-06T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Get Fit With Us! (September 8, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54702 54702-13636346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 8, 2018 9:30am
Location: Palmer Field
Organized By: Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students

Having a healthy mind and body is key to the success of any graduate student. That's why we welcome you to join us for a 1 hour social workout session,involving running, Pilates, and weight-training. Come kick-start your weekend.

Work at your own pace. Make friends. Make memories.

Visit our website: bit.ly/SMES-G

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:35:56 -0400 2018-09-08T09:30:00-04:00 2018-09-08T10:30:00-04:00 Palmer Field Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students Exercise / Fitness Get Fit With Us!
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Verticalization of Bacterial Biofilms (September 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54684 54684-13636270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Biofilms are communities of bacteria adhered to surfaces. Recently, biofilms of rod-shaped bacteria were observed at single-cell resolution and shown to develop from a disordered, two-dimensional layer of founder cells into a three-dimensional structure with a vertically-aligned core. Here, we elucidate the physical mechanism underpinning this transition using a combination of agent-based and continuum modeling. We find that verticalization proceeds through a series of localized mechanical instabilities on the cellular scale. For short cells, these instabilities are primarily triggered by cell division, whereas long cells are more likely to be peeled off the surface by nearby vertical cells, creating an "inverse domino effect". The interplay between cell growth and cell verticalization gives rise to an exotic mechanical state in which the effective surface pressure becomes constant throughout the growing core of the biofilm surface layer. This dynamical isobaricity determines the expansion speed of a biofilm cluster and thereby governs how cells access the third dimension. In particular, theory predicts that a longer average cell length yields more rapidly expanding, flatter biofilms. We experimentally show that such changes in biofilm development occur by exploiting chemicals that modulate cell length.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:16:58 -0400 2018-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-10T01:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 10, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-10T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
"Catalytic Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis and Oxygen Atom Transfer" (September 10, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54415 54415-13583289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry






Corinna Schindler (University of Michigan)

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Other Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:15:46 -0400 2018-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-10T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
HEP-Astro Seminar | Searches for di-Higgs Production and Using Hardware Track Triggers to Search for New Physics (September 10, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53569 53569-13410061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The particle physics community has been working to study the properties of the Higgs boson since its discovery in 2012. As part of the Higgs physics program, the ATLAS experiment has conducted searches for di-Higgs (hh) production, which will allow us to measure the Higgs self-coupling and compare to Standard Model (SM) predictions. We can also search for enhanced hh production in beyond-the-SM scenarios, such as resonant production via a new heavy scalar, or non-SM couplings to the Higgs boson, either of which would increase the hh cross section. Looking forward, the LHC Run 3 will bring a new set of challenges, including more pp collisions per bunch crossing. Extracting rare physics signatures from this busier environment will be difficult for the ATLAS trigger system. The FastTracKer (FTK), a hardware upgrade to the ATLAS trigger system, will use new technologies to perform full-scan tracking for each event selected at the first level of the trigger. The tracks will then be provided to the software-based High Level Trigger, which makes the final trigger decisions. This will make it possible to efficiently find difficult objects, such as taus and b-tagged jets, at the trigger level. In this talk, I will present ATLAS searches for hh production using a variety of final states, as well as their combination, and discuss the use of FTK in the ATLAS trigger system during LHC Run 3.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:16:58 -0400 2018-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 11, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | Synchrotron Radiation from an Accelerating Light Pulse (September 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54950 54950-13656389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Synchrotron radiation, namely, electromagnetic radiation produced by charges moving in a curved path, is regularly generated at large-scale facilities where GeV electrons move along kilometer-long circular paths. We use a metasurface to bend light and demonstrate synchrotron radiation produced by a sub-picosecond pulse, which moves along a circular arc of radius 100 µm inside a nonlinear crystal. The emitted radiation, in the THz frequency range, results from the nonlinear polarization induced by the pulse. The generation of synchrotron radiation from a pulse revolving about a circular trajectory holds promise for the development of on-chip THz sources.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:16:52 -0400 2018-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
WISE Sundaes on Tuesday (September 11, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54279 54279-13563515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Welcome to the University of Michigan from the UM Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program!

Please join WISE for ice-cream sundaes and the inside scoop on how seasoned UM students in sciences, engineering, mathematics, and related concentrations survived their freshman year and beyond!

Find out from our panel of seasoned undergraduate women in science and engineering how they managed it all! Learn about resource centers on campus that are used by science, math, and engineering students. Bring your questions.

This is targeted to incoming first year and transfer students but is open to any interested student!

Please register for this event using this link:
http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/sessions/sundaes-on-tuesday-welcome-for-um-women-interested-in-science-and-engineering-2/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:49:47 -0400 2018-09-11T18:30:00-04:00 2018-09-11T20:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Bioethics Discussion: Neuroethics (September 11, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49420 49420-11453762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the origins of our moral situation.

Readings to consider:
"Neuroethics: an agenda for neuroscience and society"
"Neuroethics: the practical and the philosophical"
"Neuroethics for the new millennium"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/.

Please also swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Jun 2018 05:39:23 -0400 2018-09-11T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Neuroethics
4th Annual Udall Center for Parkinson's Disease Research Symposium (September 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53802 53802-13461570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Udall Center for Parkinson's Disease Research

Join us for the 4th Annual Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research Symposium featuring a keynote presentation by:

Lynn Rochester, PhD, Professor of Human Movement Science, Director of the Clinical Ageing Research Unit, Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.

A complementary luncheon will follow.

Preceding Dr. Rochester’s keynote address, there will be talks from a variety of researchers pursuing research on Parkinson’s disease and related diseases from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and the Van Andel Institute.

There is no cost to attend; registration is required by Friday, September 7th at the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-udall-center-for-parkinsons-disease-research-symposium-tickets-43164497173

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:12:00 -0400 2018-09-12T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Udall Center for Parkinson's Disease Research Conference / Symposium Udall Conference Flyer
Dissertation defense: Bacterial community composition, ecosystem function, and genome structure in freshwater microhabitats (September 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52236 52236-12559274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Marian presents her doctoral dissertation.

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Presentation Tue, 04 Sep 2018 14:43:14 -0400 2018-09-12T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T10:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation scene from a boat
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Statistical Mechanics of a Two-Dimensional Black Hole (September 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54936 54936-13654180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The dynamics of a nearly-AdS2 spacetime with boundaries can be reduced to that of two particles in the anti-de Sitter space. We determine the class of physically meaningful wavefunctions, and prescribe the statistical mechanics of a black hole. We demonstrate how wavefunctions for a two-sided black hole and a regularized notion of trace can be used to construct thermal partition functions, and more generally, arbitrary density matrices. We also obtain correlation functions of external operators. The talk is based on work with A. Kitaev in the preprint arXiv:1808.07032.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:22:53 -0400 2018-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 12, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-12T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Department Colloquium | Topological Protection in Messy Matter: Edge Modes in Disordered Fiber Networks and Quasicrystals (September 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53479 53479-13386089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Topological states of matter have been intensively studied in crystals, leading to fascinating phenomena such as scattering-free edge current in topological insulators. However, the power of topological protection goes well beyond ordered crystal lattices. In this talk we explore how topology protects mechanical edge modes in messy, noncrystalline, systems. We will use disordered fiber networks and quasicrystals as our examples, to demonstrate how topological edge floppy modes can be induced in these structures by controlling their geometry. Fiber networks are ubiquitous in nature and especially important in bio-related materials. Quasicrystals show unusual orientational order with quasiperiodic translational order. Realizing topological edge floppy modes in these noncrystalline structures may open the door to rich new physics in biological networks as well as novel designs of topological mechanical metamaterials.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:16:54 -0400 2018-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Make It Stick - Research-based Learning Strategies You Need to Know (September 12, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53949 53949-13504381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Science Learning Center

The study and learning strategies students often bring to college are often insufficient to help them succeed at the university level. Particularly in challenging STEM courses, students can't simply memorize or cram their way to a good grade. This workshop will focus on the popular learning strategies to avoid, as well as the top three strategies you don't know but are shown by research to be the most effective for long-term learning.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:54:53 -0400 2018-09-12T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
Improving Intracortical Microelectrode Interface Utilizing Nano-Architecture (September 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54258 54258-13563460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Abstract: Intracortical microelectrodes provide a means to both treat and understand diseases and injuries of the nervous systems. A major hurdle to the clinical deployment of microelectrode technologies is recording instability caused by the neuroinflammatory response and lack of integration with the native tissue. The neuroinflammatory response observed after device implantation has been linked to oxidative stress that occurs due to neurological injury and disease. It is important to improve the understanding of the neuroinflammatory and oxidative stress response in order to develop next generation electrodes and treatment strategies. A potential strategy to mitigate this response involves understanding the disparity in architecture between the in vivo environment and commercially available intracortical microelectrodes. The smooth surface structure of intracortical microelectrodes implanted within the nanometer-scale architecture of brain tissue may contribute to the foreign body response. The factors examined in Dr. Ereifej’s work and how they are utilized to inform the future design of compatible intracortical microelectrodes will be discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 08:51:46 -0400 2018-09-13T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T10:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME
EEB Thursday Seminar: Insights into ecology and evolution of microbial populations through single-amino acid variants (September 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49646 49646-11487531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Neither the mechanisms by which genomic heterogeneity emerges within naturally occurring microbial populations, nor how it drives the partitioning of ecological niches are well understood. Yet the increasing number of environmental metagenomes with astonishing depth of sequencing offer new opportunities to investigate evolutionary processes acting upon them, and link genomic variation to predicted tertiary structures of genes to gain biochemical insights.

Cosponsored by Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/7jUvGkA0iRE

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Nov 2018 14:37:22 -0500 2018-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion protein structure graphic
Natural product bioactive peptide discovery via PepSAVI-MS (September 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53888 53888-13472315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

As current methods for antibiotic drug discovery are being outpaced by the rise of antimicrobial resistance, new methods and innovative technologies are crucial to replenish our dwindling arsenal of antimicrobial therapeutics. While natural products are a well-studied source of biologically active small molecules, peptidyl factors contributing to their medicinal properties remain largely unexplored. To this end, we have developed the PepSAVI-MS (Statistically-guided bioactive peptides prioritized via mass spectrometry) pipeline1 to identify bioactive peptide targets from complex biological samples. MS/MS techniques such as CID, ETD, UVPD are implemented for de novo characterization. To validate this pipeline, we have demonstrated successful detection and identification of a known antimicrobial peptide, cycloviolacin O2 (cyO2), from the botanical species Viola odorata. Additionally, we have widened the known antimicrobial spectrum for V. odorata cyclotides, including antibacterial activity of cyO2 against A. baumannii and novel anticancer activities for cycloviolacins by their cytotoxicity against ovarian, breast and prostate cancer cell lines. The developed platform is highly versatile as it is adaptable to any natural product source of peptides and can test against diverse physiological targets, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoans, and cancer cells for which there is a developed bioassay. As such, we demonstrate extension of this pipeline to fungal and bacterially-sourced AMPs through the identification of the killer toxin KP4 from Ustilago maydis2 and the bacteriocin Bac-21 from Enterococcus faecalis harboring pPD1. Bac-21 is identical in nucleotide sequence to another enterococcal bacteriocin, AS-48, but we have experimentally validated the protein sequence of Bac-21 for the first time. Additionally, we begin to probe the vast array of botanical natural product sources to prioritize highly active species for downstream analysis.
















Leslie Hicks (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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Other Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:15:52 -0400 2018-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Closing the Deal: Arabidopsis LORELEI is Required for Pollen Tube Reception by the Female Gametophyte (September 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54045 54045-13519653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Cora MacAlister

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:51:59 -0400 2018-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar cover of Plant Cell journal with micro image
HET Seminars | Might the Dark Matter Also Be the Inflaton? (September 14, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54937 54937-13654181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Dark matter and inflation represent two of the biggest open question in cosmology. Although they are generally thought of as distinct and unrelated phenomena, here I will ask whether they might be closely connected. In particular, I will describe a class of models in which a stable inflaton is produced as a thermal relic in the early universe and constitutes the dark matter. I will show that the annihilations of these inflatons can efficiently reheat the universe, and I will identify several examples of inflationary potentials within this scenario which can accommodate all cosmic microwave background observables. As a simple example, I will discuss a model in which inflaton annihilations that take place through a Higgs portal interaction, leading to encouraging prospects for future direct detection experiments.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:31:46 -0400 2018-09-14T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Get Fit With Us! (September 15, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54702 54702-13636347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 15, 2018 9:30am
Location: Palmer Field
Organized By: Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students

Having a healthy mind and body is key to the success of any graduate student. That's why we welcome you to join us for a 1 hour social workout session,involving running, Pilates, and weight-training. Come kick-start your weekend.

Work at your own pace. Make friends. Make memories.

Visit our website: bit.ly/SMES-G

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:35:56 -0400 2018-09-15T09:30:00-04:00 2018-09-15T10:30:00-04:00 Palmer Field Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students Exercise / Fitness Get Fit With Us!
Monarch Migration Festival (September 16, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54324 54324-13572276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 16, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Every year, waves of monarch butterflies migrate over mountains, forests, and deserts in the United States to reach their wintering grounds in Mexico. Join LSNC in a celebration of the monarch butterfly's migration, and help contribute to conservation efforts for monarchs by engaging in a variety of butterfly-related activities. Learn about the challenging journey monarchs take every year, have your face painted, and meet local experts and vendors support butterfly conservation efforts.

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Other Tue, 28 Aug 2018 06:43:21 -0400 2018-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 2018-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Other
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 17, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 17, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | Recent Developments and Applications of Improved Fast Neutron Detectors (September 17, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55127 55127-13689413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 17, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Neutrons are hard to detect and until recently the technique used by Chadwick to identify the neutron in the 1930s has often been used to detect them. This method, based on recoil proton detection, does not provide detailed information on the neutron energy spectra unless one can do a neutron time-of-flight measurement (n-ToF). This is not always possible especially with the new generation of low b.g. underground accelerators designed for nuclear-astrophysics measurements.. Even when n-ToF is feasible, it often is not very efficient as a long flight path must typically be used together with a bunched and pulse-selected beam . Recent developments in deuterated scintillators, both liquids and recently crystalline, can provide efficient detection of neutrons and their energy spectra w/o n-ToF. As will be illustrated, these new detectors are proving to be especially useful for study of many types of rare nuclear reactions, for home-land security applications, for ion-beam dosimetry, and for measurements of important reactions creating problematic neutrons in the large scintillators used for neutrino oscillation measurements and for dark-matter searches.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:17:07 -0400 2018-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 18, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | An Atomic Receiver for AM and FM Radio Communication (September 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55388 55388-13725241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Radio-frequency field modulation underlies nearly all modern communication, from car radios to wifi. Despite being a mature technology first developed in the late nineteenth century, radio communication has several ongoing challenges including information security, increasing bandwidth by tapping the microwave- and mm-wave regimes, and improving resilience against electromagnetic interference (EMI). An exciting prospect to solving many of these challenges lies in replacing antenna technology with quantum technologies. In this talk, I will describe the recent development at Rydberg Technologies of a fundamentally new atomic receiver technology for AM and FM radio communication [1, 2]. The atomic receiver exploits the properties of Rydberg atoms, highly excited atomic states that are very sensitive to electromagnetic fields, to collect and demodulate AM and FM radio based on atomic spectroscopy in compact room-temperature vapor cells. Features of the atomic receiver include its small size, ability detect carrier-waves spanning several octaves, and a circuit-free detector element. Even in this first demonstration, the bandwidth and dynamic range are sufficient to receive human vocals.

References:

[1] D.A. Anderson, R.E. Saprio, G. Raithel, ‘An Atomic receiver for AM and FM radio communication,” (2018) https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08589

[2] Rydberg Technologies www.RydbergTechnologies.com

In the news:

'Get ready for atomic radio,' MIT Technology Review 2018 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611977/get-ready-for-atomic-radio/

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:17:17 -0400 2018-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
2018 Welcome Dinner (September 18, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54346 54346-13572333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

Interested in teaching? Want to learn more about education? Looking for more resources at the University? Look no further! Join us for dinner to kick off our event series, “Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia.” Featuring ASEE’s faculty advisor Dr. Susan Montgomery experienced educator and instructor of the annual Teaching Engineering course! RSVP Required at asee.engin.umich.edu under Upcoming Events or https://goo.gl/forms/Gs2pSCvWH2ih0c7k1.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:11:18 -0400 2018-09-18T17:30:00-04:00 2018-09-18T19:30:00-04:00 Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Workshop / Seminar ASEE Logo
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Cosmological Signatures of Sub-MeV Dark Matter Freeze-In (September 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53968 53968-13504400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Dark matter could be a thermal relic of freeze-in, where the dark matter is produced by extremely feeble interactions with Standard Model particles dominantly at low temperatures. The simplest sub-MeV dark matter models with freeze-in include models with a kinetically-mixed dark photon mediator, or equivalently models where dark matter is millicharged under the Standard Model U(1). In this talk I will discuss how such models can impact and be constrained by cosmological observables, including the CMB, the Lyman-alpha forest, and the EDGES observation of the cosmological 21 cm global signal.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:07:21 -0400 2018-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Department Colloquium | Studying the Higgs Sector and Searching for New Physics with the Higgs Boson (September 19, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53481 53481-13386091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

I will present recent work at Michigan in measuring properties of the Higgs Boson with the ATLAS experiment, including the production of Higgs in association with top quarks and Higgs pair production. I will also discuss planned upgrades of the ATLAS experiment which will dramatically improve the sensitivity of these measurements and many more.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:17:06 -0400 2018-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
The World’s Greatest Geological Wonders: 36 Spectacular Sites (September 20, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53340 53340-13347362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The class will look at 36 of the world’s geological wonders using Michael Wysession’s beautifully illustrated DVD lectures. As well as videos, Professor Wysession provides the geological context for each site, which include, among others, Grand Canyon, the African Rift Valley, Yellowstone, Gibraltar, and Iceland. We’ll view three 30 minute lectures per class, each followed by short discussions.

Instructor Dick Chase worked 27 years as a research physicist for Ford and taught physics at several levels. This study group for those 50 and above will meet on Thursdays, 1-3, from September 20 through December 20. No Class on September 27 or November 22.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:18:12 -0400 2018-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
EEB Thursday Seminar- Community assembly and structure in islands: a bottom up approach (September 20, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49647 49647-11487532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Oceanic islands and archipelagos provide simplified biological communities compared to continental settings, making them useful systems for ecological and evolutionary investigation. Much of our general understanding of how such insular communities assemble over time comes from top-down extrapolations of process from species distribution data and molecular phylogenetic data. Here I will argue that to connect pattern with process, geographically explicit individual-based bottom-up approaches are needed that are broadly representative of the community itself. We have been working toward this, developing community-level sampling protocols for arthropod taxa that integrate DNA sequencing techniques to simultaneously facilitate taxonomic assignment and test hypotheses about the drivers of speciation. I will present results that reveal the subtle but pervasive impacts of island topography and climate that act in concert to drive speciation across entire arthropod communities. I will also present data from recent efforts within our research group to overcome the logistical constraints of geographic and taxonomic scale for comparative molecular analysis of invertebrate communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:11:49 -0400 2018-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Brent Emerson
Ultrafast tabletop XUV spectroscopy of transition metal complexes and organohalide perovskites (September 20, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52759 52759-13021395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy (XANES or NEXAFS) is a powerful technique for electronic structure determination. However, widespread use of XANES is limited by the need for synchrotron light sources with tunable x-ray energy. Recent developments in extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light sources using the laser-based technique of high-harmonic generation have enabled core-level spectroscopy to be performed on femtosecond to attosecond timescales. We have extended the scope of tabletop XUV spectroscopy and demonstrated that M2,3-edge XANES, corresponding to 3p→3d transitions, can reliably measure the electronic structure of first-row transition metal coordination complexes with femtosecond time resolution. We use this ability to track the excited-state relaxation pathways of photocatalysts and spin crossover complexes. In semiconductors such as CH3NH3PbI3, distinct signals are observed for photoinduced electrons and holes, allowing the dynamics of each carrier to be tracked independently. This work establishes high-harmonic spectroscopy as a useful tool for mainstream research in inorganic, organometallic, and materials chemistry.
















Josh Vura-Weis (University of Illinois)

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Other Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:15:46 -0400 2018-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Life After Graduate School | Wish I'd Known That Sooner (September 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53525 53525-13394610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

As physicists we place tremendous value on the pursuit of knowledge and scientific discovery, however after graduate school you will eventually recognize that in corporate research many professional interactions aren't aligned with such pursuits. The presenter, an Applied Physics alum, will share insights gained through years of failed (and sometimes successful) professional experiments to help the next-generation of applied physicists recognize the key indicators of stagnant career growth, as well as define strategies to avoid slow starts after earning your first job after graduation.


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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:17:13 -0400 2018-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Seminars | Supersymmetric Localization: Review and Recent Progress (September 21, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55372 55372-13722857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Supersymmetric localization is a powerful tool that can provide us with some exact non-perturbative results of quantum field theories. In the first half of this talk we will review its basic idea and some important applications. The results of localization can be used to test some conjectured dualities, for instance the Seiberg-like dualities in various dimensions, and also to help set up new dualities. We will demonstrate these aspects with some examples. In the second half of this talk, we will discuss some recent progress on the localization of 4d N=1 gauge theories. We consider 4d N=1 gauge theories on S2*R2 and compute their partition functions. The results are related to the partition functions of 4d N=1 gauge theories on the Omega background with two epsilon parameters, which can be viewed as building blocks of the Nekrasov partition functions of the 4d N=2 theories on the Omega background. As an application, we use the N=1 partition functions to test various dualities such as the 4d Seiberg duality. Further applications to the 4d Argyres-Douglas theories and the generalized AGT relation will also be discussed. This talk is based on a few papers 1309.3266, 1411.4694, 1505.06207, 1705.01896 and some work in progress.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:08:58 -0400 2018-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
The Enigmatic KIME: Time Complexity in Data Science (September 21, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54407 54407-13581110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: We will provide a constructive definition of “Big Biomedical/Health Data” and provide examples of the challenges, algorithms, processes, and tools necessary to manage, aggregate, harmonize, process, and interpret such data. In data science, time complexity frequently manifests as sampling incongruency, heterogeneous scales, and intricate dependencies. We will present the concept of 2D complex-time (kime) and illustrate how the kime-order (time) and kime-direction (phase) affect advanced predictive analytics and scientific inference based on Big Biomedical Data. Kime-representation solves the unidirectional arrows of time problems, e.g., psychological arrow of time reflects the irrevocable past to future flow and thermodynamic arrow of time reflecting the relentless growth of entropy. Albeit kime-phase angles may not always be directly observable, we will illustrate how they can be estimated and used to improve the resulting space-kime modeling, trend forecasting, and predictive data analytics. Simulated data, clinical observations (e.g., neurodegenerative disorders), and multisource census-like datasets (e.g., UK Biobank) will be used to demonstrate time-complexity and inferential-uncertainty.

Bio: Ivo D. Dinov is a professor of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan. He directs the Statistics Online Computational Resource, the Integrative Biostatistics and Informatics Core of the Michigan Nutrition and Obesity Research Center, and the Udall Parkinson’s Disease Biostatistics and Data Management Core. He co-directs the Center for Complexity and Self-management of Chronic Disease (CSCD Center) and the multi-institutional Probability Distributome Project. Dr. Dinov is an Associate Director for Education and Training of the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). He is a member of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), as well as an Elected Member of the Institutional Statistical Institute (ISI).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Sep 2018 09:51:17 -0400 2018-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Ivo D. Dinov, Phd
Get Fit With Us! (September 22, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54702 54702-13636348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 22, 2018 9:30am
Location: Palmer Field
Organized By: Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students

Having a healthy mind and body is key to the success of any graduate student. That's why we welcome you to join us for a 1 hour social workout session,involving running, Pilates, and weight-training. Come kick-start your weekend.

Work at your own pace. Make friends. Make memories.

Visit our website: bit.ly/SMES-G

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:35:56 -0400 2018-09-22T09:30:00-04:00 2018-09-22T10:30:00-04:00 Palmer Field Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students Exercise / Fitness Get Fit With Us!
Saturday Morning Physics | Opening Up the Solar System and Beyond: The Promise of Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion (September 22, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53966 53966-13504397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 22, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Part of the 50th Anniversary Live Presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
Co-Presentation with: UMS and the College of Engineering
We survey propulsion technologies that can enable reduced trip times for robotic and human missions alike beyond Mars, opening up the full solar system to in depth exploration and eventual colonization. Enabling these advances is the utilization of the power of the nucleus-nuclear energy.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:44:48 -0400 2018-09-22T10:30:00-04:00 2018-09-22T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 24, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | Anomaly of Dancing Reactor Antineutrinos (September 24, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53547 53547-13401553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation(RENO) started data-taking from August, 2011 and has observed the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos to measure the smallest neutrino mixing angle theta13. The experiment has analyzed roughly 2200 days of data to make an accurate measurement of the oscillation amplitude and frequency based on energy and baseline dependent disappearance of reactor antineutrinos. RENO’s precisely measured flux and spectral shape of reactor antineutrinos has shown a deficit in the flux and an excess in the region of 5 MeV relative to the most commonly used model. Furthermore, it has observed fuel-composition dependent variation of reactor antineutrino yield and spectrum. We find that reevaluation of 235U’s antineutrino yield per fission may solve the reactor antineutrino anomaly. We also report a hint of correlation between the 5-MeV excess and the 235U fuel isotope fraction.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:17:22 -0400 2018-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
RNA as a Drug Target and Material for Nanotechnology (September 24, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51011 51011-11941993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Research in the Hermann lab is focused on exploring the structure, molecular recognition and assembly of ribonucleic acid (RNA) architectures.
One key goal is the development of therapies targeting noncoding RNA (ncRNA). ncRNAs participate as key players in many biological processes and may adopt complex folds that are required for function. The development of ligands that bind selectively to ncRNA targets opens new ways to expand the existing repertoire of protein-directed therapeutics. I will present our research on the discovery of an unprecedented molecular switch target in the genome of RNA viruses including the human pathogen hepatitis C virus (HCV) and the development of ligands that inhibit the viral switch.
In the second part of the presentation, I will outline how we use RNA crystal structures to design nano-architectures that self-assemble from small RNA motifs and may serve as combinatorial platforms for applications in molecular recognition, sensor and catalyst development as well as protein interaction studies.












Thomas Hermann (University of California, San Diego)

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Other Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:15:45 -0400 2018-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Reimagining Healthcare (September 24, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55155 55155-13691646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 5:30pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: NextGen Med

Monday, September 24th, 2018
5:30-7:00 PM
Ford Auditorium, University Hospital

Please join us as our panelists share their perspectives on the future of healthcare in the United States focusing on how the government, payers, and providers can interact to alleviate some of the key issues facing healthcare today.

This event is free, and we welcome all members of the University of Michigan community including students, faculty, and staff. Food will be served following the panel while supplies last.

Please RSVP at https://goo.gl/GbazVh

Please direct any additional questions to MedECGUMMS@gmail.com or NextGenMed@umich.edu or visit medecg.org/reimagining-healthcare for more information.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:00:47 -0400 2018-09-24T17:30:00-04:00 2018-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals NextGen Med Lecture / Discussion
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 25, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | Quantum Oscillations in Kondo Insulator YbB12 (September 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55550 55550-13759135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In metals, orbital motions of conduction electrons on the Fermi surface are quantized in magnetic fields, which is manifested by quantum oscillations in electrical resistivity. This Landau quantization is generally absent in insulators. Here, we report a notable exception in an insulator — ytterbium dodecaboride (YbB12). The resistivity of YbB12, which is of a much larger magnitude than the resistivity in metals, exhibits distinct quantum oscillations. These unconventional oscillations arise from the insulating bulk, even though the temperature dependence of the oscillation amplitude follows the conventional Fermi liquid theory of metals with a large effective mass. Quantum oscillations in the magnetic torque are also observed, albeit with a lighter effective mass. Our result reveals a mysterious dual nature of the ground state in YbB12: it is both a charge insulator and a strongly correlated metal.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:17:18 -0400 2018-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Drugs (September 25, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49421 49421-11453763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the manipulation of our biochemical status.

Readings to consider:
"Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy"
"Adverse health effects of marijuana use"
"Practical, legal, and ethical issues in expanded access to investigational drugs"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/017-drugs/.

Partake in the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:53:37 -0400 2018-09-25T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Drugs
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Soft Gravitons and Hawking Radiation (September 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55886 55886-13802781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

We study the effect of the factorization of infrared dynamics on the process of particle creation near a black hole horizon. We show that the emission of soft particles factors out of the S-matrix in the fixed-background approximation and to leading order in the soft limit. The factorization is implemented by dressing the incoming and outgoing asymptotic states with clouds of soft photons and soft gravitons. We find that while the soft photon cloud has no effect, the soft graviton cloud induces a phase shift in the Bogolyubov coefficients relating the incoming and outgoing modes. However, the flux of outgoing particles, given by the absolute value of the Bogolyubov coefficient, is insensitive to this phase.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:44:29 -0400 2018-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Special Seminar: Speciation with introgression: a case of dynamic distributions and a part-time lover (September 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56037 56037-13821113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Dr. Brown's primary research interests include spatial evolutionary ecology and conservation. Additional information about his research program, methodological tools, and databases is included below.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:26:00 -0400 2018-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion frog diagram
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-26T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Department Colloquium | Correlated Topological Materials (September 26, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53482 53482-13386092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In Kondo insulators, strong correlation and band hybridization lead to a diverging resistance at low temperature. The resistance divergence ends at about 3 Kelvin, a behavior due to the surface conductance. Quantum oscillations were observed in magnetization, but not in electrical resistivity. This difference raised many speculations if a charge-neutral Fermi Surface exists in insulators and these fermions interact only with the magnetic field, not with electric fields. We solved the problem by resolving the Landau Level quantization and Fermi Surface topology in the electrical resistivity a Kondo insulator Ytterbium Dodecaboride (YbB12). The temperature dependence of the oscillation amplitude follows the conventional Fermi liquid theory of metals with a large effective mass. The result suggests that the observed Fermi surface originates from the charged particles. Our finding reveals a mysterious dual nature of the ground state in Kondo insulator YbB12: it is both a charge insulator and a strongly correlated topological metal.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:17:21 -0400 2018-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Green Life Sciences Symposium 2018: Plant-Environment Interactions Across Scales (September 27, 2018 8:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53208 53208-13287163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 8:15am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Plants interact with both a variety of community members (other plants, the microbial community, pollinators, herbivores) and are exposed to a variety of abiotic environmental stressors (drought and changing climate, human-mediated agents of selection). These interactions are often examined at the phenotypic level by evolutionary ecologists whereas the mechanistic basis of such interactions are detailed by molecular geneticists; longer-term outcomes of such interactions are assessed by paleobiologists. It is rare, however, that plant-environment interactions are examined across scales within the same system, i.e. from genes, to molecular mechanism, phenotype, fitness, and deeper evolutionary patterns across time. The aim of this conference is to highlight the work of prominent evolutionary ecologists, molecular geneticists, ecophysiologists, and paleobiologists at the University of Michigan and beyond that examine similar plant-interaction phenomena but at very different scales of study. Our overall goal is to stimulate new collaborations and novel takes on overlapping phenomenon studied across scales.

Illustration: John Megahan.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:05:38 -0400 2018-09-27T08:15:00-04:00 2018-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Conference / Symposium landscape illustration by John Megahan
Department of Statistics Career Fair (September 27, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54488 54488-13589889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Statistics

The Career Fair is an opportunity to speak with University of Michigan Alumni and representatives from business and industry regarding statistics-related internships and career opportunities.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:22:46 -0400 2018-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T16:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Statistics Careers / Jobs Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
NAME Community Project | Jeffrey Reifsnyder | Mercury Marine (September 27, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55971 55971-13814218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

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

Lunch provided

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:27:18 -0500 2018-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion NAME
Special HEP-Astro Seminar | Cosmological Results from the Final Data Release of the Planck Satellite (September 27, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55389 55389-13725242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

Planck is an ESA satellite aimed at the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background. This year, the Planck collaboration has released the final data and results from the mission. In this talk, I will describe the main results on cosmology from the mission, highlighting the changes with respect to previous releases, the agreement with other cosmological probes and the unsolved questions opened for the future.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:17:29 -0400 2018-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
CM Theory Seminar | Quantum Donuts and Wedding Cakes: Topology- and Interaction-driven Effects in Graphene Quantum Dots (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53483 53483-13386093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Graphene is a quasi two-dimensional material with low-energy excitations that can be described by the relativistic Dirac equation for massless chiral fermions. This has allowed graphene to act as a host solid state system for measuring analogous relativistic effects on a laboratory table-top. Recently, the ability to generate nanoscale substrate gate potentials in hexagonal boron nitride has opened the door for creating confined quantum dot (QD) states in a contiguous sheet of graphene. Unlike other QD systems, graphene’s exposed electronic surface is uniquely amenable to scanning probe measurements that reveal the detailed spatial structure of the resonant QD states. In this talk I will present scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S) measurements that explore the interplay between spatial and magnetic confinement of Dirac fermions in graphene QDs. I will first describe how quasi-bound resonances occur due to relativistic Klein scattering at QD edges. I will then show how the application of a weak magnetic field (B ~ 0.1 T) can act as a topological Berry phase on/off “switch” resulting in the sudden onset of large energy splittings in the graphene QD spectrum. Finally, at higher fields (B > 1T), I describe measurements that directly visualize the intricate evolution of the QD resonant states into highly degenerate Landau levels where electron interactions lead to the subsequent formation of a 'wedding cake'-like structure of compressible incompressible strips and strong Fermi velocity renormalization.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:17:28 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Multi-scale chemistry: From molecular to microsystems (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53783 53783-13461540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

The design and manipulation of molecules and chemical reactions offers the possibility for the engineering of materials and devices at multiple length scales from the molecular to the nano, micro, and macro. By way of several examples, this seminar will highlight how chemistry can be used across length scales to create programmable materials, 3D biosensors, and physiologically responsive robots.























David Gracias (Johns Hopkins University)

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Other Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:15:50 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
The Ross Effect (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55018 55018-13665226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Ross One Year Graduate Programs

Employers look for the skills you’re developing in your undergraduate degree, like the ability to understand complex concepts and deliver creative solutions. But, connecting with companies and highlighting these skills is not always easy. Join us at "The Ross Effect" to learn how three outstanding Ross graduate programs, the Master of Accounting, the Master of Management and the Master of Supply Chain Management, will leverage your undergraduate training for a smooth and successful transition into the workforce.

This event is being held exclusively for non-Ross University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) students. The event is being held on the 5th floor of the Blau/Kresge side of the Ross Building, in the Blau Colloquium.

Questions? Email TheRossEffect@umich.edu

Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ross-effect-how-a-ross-graduate-degree-amplifies-your-toolkit-registration-48421327494

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Presentation Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:53:32 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Ross One Year Graduate Programs Presentation Michigan Ross Logo
Ariel Waldman: Unexpected Space Exploration (September 27, 2018 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53878 53878-13472305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Ariel Waldman currently sits on the council for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program, which aims to nurture radical, science-fiction-inspired ideas that could transform future space missions. She is also the founder of Spacehack.org, a directory for citizen scientist participation in space exploration, and is the global director of Science Hack Day — a grassroots science prototyping initiative that takes place in more than 25 countries. Waldman was recognized by the Obama administration in 2013 as a Champion of Change in Citizen Science. She is the author of the book What’s It Like in Space?: Stories from Astronauts Who’ve Been There and co-author of a congressionally requested National Academy of Sciences report on the future of human spaceflight.

Waldman began her career at an interactive ad agency in her home state of Kansas while attending art school at the Kansas City Art Institute. But after watching the Discovery Channel mini-series When We Left Earth (2008), Waldman was so deeply inspired that she emailed NASA to offer her services. Her unbridled enthusiasm landed her a job at the agency, paving the way for her to embark on a lifelong mission to make science and space exploration disruptively accessible. Committed to this mission, Waldman continues to find clever new ways to encourage fellow enthusiasts to actively contribute to the advancement of science and space exploration.

Supported by Design Core Detroit Detroit Month of Design, U-M Institute for the Humanities, University Musical Society (UMS), Michigan Engineering, and Decipher: 2018 Design Educators Research Conference.

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Presentation Tue, 21 Aug 2018 11:18:48 -0400 2018-09-27T17:10:00-04:00 2018-09-27T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Presentation https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/waldman.jpg
Green Life Sciences Symposium 2018: Plant-Environment Interactions Across Scales (September 28, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53208 53208-13502211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 9:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Plants interact with both a variety of community members (other plants, the microbial community, pollinators, herbivores) and are exposed to a variety of abiotic environmental stressors (drought and changing climate, human-mediated agents of selection). These interactions are often examined at the phenotypic level by evolutionary ecologists whereas the mechanistic basis of such interactions are detailed by molecular geneticists; longer-term outcomes of such interactions are assessed by paleobiologists. It is rare, however, that plant-environment interactions are examined across scales within the same system, i.e. from genes, to molecular mechanism, phenotype, fitness, and deeper evolutionary patterns across time. The aim of this conference is to highlight the work of prominent evolutionary ecologists, molecular geneticists, ecophysiologists, and paleobiologists at the University of Michigan and beyond that examine similar plant-interaction phenomena but at very different scales of study. Our overall goal is to stimulate new collaborations and novel takes on overlapping phenomenon studied across scales.

Illustration: John Megahan.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:05:38 -0400 2018-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T18:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Conference / Symposium landscape illustration by John Megahan
Life After Graduate School | How Three Recent Opportunities are Changing our Company's Business Outlook (September 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53526 53526-13394611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Dr. Peter Cabauy is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of City Labs, Inc. In 2002, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Applied Physics. His thesis work was in Quantum Information Physics at Argonne National Laboratories (ANL), and he co-authored a publication with his thesis advisor, Dr. Paul Benioff, a seminal pioneer in the field of Quantum Computing.

In 2003, he founded and directed the Office of Entrepreneurial Science at Florida International University advising in intellectual property matters and laying the groundwork for its technology incubator program. In 2005, Dr. Cabauy co-founded City Labs where his diverse experience in technology entrepreneurship, experimental and theoretical physics has been instrumental in both structuring the company and developing its product line. Under his leadership, the company completed a Series A investment round in 2010, commercialized its signature betavoltaic product line in 2012 and has successfully navigated the complex regulatory landscape achieving the world's first general license for a betavoltaic product. As of 2018 City Labs has achieved a strong patent portfolio under Cabauy's leadership and is introducing a new class of betavoltaics that will expand its commercial reach into medical implants, wireless sensors and space satellite applications.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Sep 2018 18:17:18 -0400 2018-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Seminar | Black Holes, Nuggets, & Blobs. Oh my! (September 28, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55888 55888-13802783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

The past few years have seen a growing interest to explore dark matter candidates that are outside of the standard WIMP / axion paradigms. A resurgence of macroscopic dark matter candidates have brought with it a mix of whimsical names — primordial black holes, asymmetric dark matter nuggets, and dark blobs — to name a few. In general the difficulty with macro dark matter is not the observational constraints, which are typically quite sparse and weak, but rather the challenge is finding a well-motivated mechanism for producing gram-sized dark matter objects. In this talk, I will argue that “dark quark nuggets” are a generic prediction of confining, hidden-sector gauge theories. I will discuss the phenomenology of these theories, the cosmological production of dark quark nuggets, and their observational probes.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:49:56 -0400 2018-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Get Fit With Us! (September 29, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54702 54702-13636349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 9:30am
Location: Palmer Field
Organized By: Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students

Having a healthy mind and body is key to the success of any graduate student. That's why we welcome you to join us for a 1 hour social workout session,involving running, Pilates, and weight-training. Come kick-start your weekend.

Work at your own pace. Make friends. Make memories.

Visit our website: bit.ly/SMES-G

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:35:56 -0400 2018-09-29T09:30:00-04:00 2018-09-29T10:30:00-04:00 Palmer Field Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students Exercise / Fitness Get Fit With Us!
Green Wolverine Science Symposium (September 29, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54954 54954-13656393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 10:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Green Wolverine

Through collaboration with the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy and School of Nursing, Green Wolverine is hosting speakers from across the country for a CANNABIS SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM This is the first student-organized science symposium of its kind at the university.

Green Wolverine was founded with the goal of promoting education and public awareness of the importance of evidence-based discourse, in terms of deciding the future of cannabis in medicine, research, and industry.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:38:22 -0400 2018-09-29T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-29T16:20:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Green Wolverine Conference / Symposium World-class researchers, scientists, and physicians gather in Ann Arbor to illuminate the future of cannabis medicine, research, and industry.
Saturday Morning Physics | Dark Matters (September 29, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53967 53967-13504399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

This talk will give an update on the hunt for dark matter and the quest to understand how most of the matter in our universe came about.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:07:21 -0400 2018-09-29T10:30:00-04:00 2018-09-29T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Donuts & Cider in the Duderstadt Connector (October 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56050 56050-13823410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

Stop by the Duderstadt Connector for Apple Cider & Washtenaw Dairy Donuts between 10 am and 2pm on Monday, October 1st.

Pick up a 2019 MDP Program Booklet, get tips for how to apply, and prepare for one of the major MDP recruitment events on 10/2 or 10/3.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:10:22 -0400 2018-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Multidisciplinary Design Program Exhibition Cider and Donuts
2018 Organic Reactions Symposium (October 1, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50748 50748-11861929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

We recently explored the possibility of using gold(I) catalysts to activate allenes towards alcohol nucleophiles to effect allenoate Claisen rearrangements. However, instead of allene activation, a pendant ester was transesterified and etherified, which led to our development of a gold-catalyzed, microwave protocol to activate alcohols to form ethers and amines via an intermolecular, SN1-type reaction. Ultimately, in lieu of a metal-catalyzed version, we have developed a Bronsted acid-catalyzed allenoate Claisen that affords the corresponding products in high yields and enantioselectivities. Lessons learned from these studies have led to the serendipitous discovery of a silver-catalyzed, N-formylation reaction and have informed our development of an anti-Markovnikov hydroamination reaction.








Scott Denmark(University of Illinois) , Noah Burns(Stanford University) , Anna Wenzel(Claremont McKenna College)

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Other Mon, 01 Oct 2018 18:15:51 -0400 2018-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (October 1, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
RNA Innovation Seminar | Theme: Computational analysis (October 1, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55316 55316-13716052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Li Guan, PhD candidate
from the Laura Scott research group
“Human skeletal muscle eQTL meta-analysis reveals long-range genetic regulations”
&
Shiquan Sun, Ph.D.,
Postdoctoral fellow from the Zhou Lab
“Heritability estimation and differential analysis of count data with generalized linear mixed models in genomic sequencing studies”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:52:23 -0400 2018-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion seminar flyer
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (October 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-10-02T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | Translation Symmetry in Topologically Ordered Phases (October 2, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56047 56047-13823404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Lattice translation is a fundamental crystalline symmetry in many condensed matter systems.In this talk we examine the interplay of translation symmetry with topological order. In the first part of the talk, we will discuss recent advances in Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) type theorems, which put stringent microscopic constraints on the low-energy dynamics of translation-invariant lattice systems. We will introduce a new interpretation of the classic LSM theorem and its higher-dimensional version by Oshikawa and Hastings, as consequences of the bulk-boundary correspondence for translation symmetry-protected topological phases in higher dimensions. We then discuss various generalizations and refinements following this new perspective. In the second part, we discuss the relation between translation symmetry transformations on quasiparticle excitations and their mobility. It turns out that certain patterns of translation symmetry fractionalization (in the presence of a global U(1) symmetry) imply that quasiparticles are immobile, i.e. they become fractons. We show that such fractonic particles naturally appear in three dimensional U(1) spin liquids, and develop a systematic understanding for symmetry enforced restrictions on mobility. We will also discuss possible physical realizations.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:17:17 -0400 2018-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Insights into Complex Molecular Processes from Quantitative Atomistic Simulations (October 2, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52807 52807-13081672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Molecular dynamics simulations are a powerful means to provide
molecular-level insights into processes ranging from gas-phase
reaction dynamics to complex non-reactive and reactive rearrangements
in biological systems. The utility of such simulations depends
sensitively on the accuracy with which the intermolecular interactions
are represented. In this seminar I will discuss recent progress in
force field development including multipolar force fields, reproducing
kernel Hilbert space techniques and machine learning and their
application to spectroscopy and reactive processes in the condensed
phase. The focus is on directly linking experimental observations with
computations which provides molecular level understanding of
spectroscopic observables and time scales from state-of-the art
experiments. A typical example discussed will be the relationship
between structure and dynamics for infrared and X-ray absorption
spectroscopy of biomolecules or the thermodynamics of reversed phase
liquid chromatography.
















Markus Meuwly (University of Basel, Switzerland)

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Other Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:15:46 -0400 2018-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
MDP 2019 Project Preview Night (October 2, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56264 56264-13869403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 6:00pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

Student Recruitment for 2019 MDP Teams Has Begun!

You will shake hands and speak with Faculty PIs and engineering and product development professionals about the MDP team they are sponsoring. Build your network, learn about the teams, and position yourself as a great candidate. Attire is casual!

What is the MDP Project Preview Night?

The 2019 MDP Project Preview Night will showcase 40+ teams with open positions for students across the University. All Corporate Partners and Faculty Research Teams will be in the BBB Building to meet with interested students, discuss design team opportunities, and collect student resumes. Attend this event if you cannot attend the Project Fair on Wednesday. Casual attire is expected.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:48:25 -0400 2018-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T20:00:00-04:00 BBB Multidisciplinary Design Program Careers / Jobs BBB Atrium
Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Sciences Open House (October 2, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55689 55689-13768291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Attention all Science, Pre-Health, and Engineering majors!

Are you interested in learning about graduate programs that will prepare you for an exciting career in drug discovery & drug development? If so, please make plans to attend the Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Sciences Open House.

This event will feature a poster session where you can talk to graduate students and faculty members about their research. You will also have an opportunity to learn more about the benefits and requirements of the Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD programs.

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Other Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:03:49 -0400 2018-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T20:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons U-M College of Pharmacy Other
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44037 44037-9877694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Advisors, CGIS Alumni, and program representatives from around campus and the world will answer your questions about UM study abroad opportunities. Learn about UM faculty-led programs and meet with staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office. Enjoy performances from global student orgs, maize-n-blue giveaways, and free candy from around the world!

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Fair / Festival Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:01:54 -0400 2018-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Study Abroad!
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Detecting Dark Matter from Supernovae (October 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56206 56206-13867054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The central region of Supernovae are one of the hottest and densest regions in the Universe. Due to the high temperatures, particles with sub-GeV masses can be copiously produced if they have non-negligible couplings to the Standard Model. If dark matter has sub-GeV mass it will be produced in the hot Supernovae core and it will have sufficiently large momenta to be detectable in direct detection experiments. In this talk I discuss the sensitivity of current and future Xenon based direct detection experiments to a simplified model of dark matter which interacts with the Standard Model via the dark photon portal.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Oct 2018 08:47:35 -0400 2018-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
MDP 2019 Project Fair (October 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56265 56265-13869404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

Student Recruitment for 2019 MDP Teams Has Begun!

You will shake hands and speak with Faculty PIs and engineering and product development professionals about the MDP team they are sponsoring. Build your network, learn about the teams, and position yourself as a great candidate. Attire is casual!

What is the MDP Project Fair?

The 2019 MDP Project Opportunity Fair will showcase 40+ teams with open positions for students across the University. All Corporate Partners and Faculty Research Teams will be in the Duderstadt Atrium to meet with interested students, discuss design team opportunities, and collect student resumes. Attend this event if you cannot attend the Project Preview Night on Tuesday. Casual attire is expected.

This event is very, very similar to the Project Preview night on 10/2 6-8pm in BBB….just in a different location, and the sponsors/faculty will have table displays with prototypes, screens, giveaways, etc. Attend either event – whichever fits your busy schedule.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 01 Oct 2018 15:14:43 -0400 2018-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Multidisciplinary Design Program Careers / Jobs Duderstadt Connector
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (October 3, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-10-03T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
2018 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Topological Quantum Matter, Entanglement, and a "Second Quantum Revolution" (October 3, 2018 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53581 53581-13410079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 4:10pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Physics

While the laws of quantum mechanics have remained unchanged and have passed all tests for the last eighty-five years, new discoveries about the exotic states that they allow, “entanglement”, and ideas from quantum information theory, have greatly changed our perspective, and some believe that a “second quantum revolution” is currently underway. The discovery of unexpected “topological states of matter”, and their possible use for “topologically-protected quantum information processing” is one of the important themes of these developments, and will be described.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:03:27 -0400 2018-10-03T16:10:00-04:00 2018-10-03T17:10:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Physics Lecture / Discussion Chemistry Dow Lab
NAME Community Project | Jeffrey Reifsnyder | Mercury Marine (October 4, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55971 55971-13814219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

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

Lunch provided

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:27:18 -0500 2018-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion NAME
Exploring Indoor Chemistry: Criegees, Chlorohydrins, and Nitrous Acid (October 4, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52146 52146-12477549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

The chemical interactions that proceed indoors have not been as well studied as those that occur in outdoor environments. Rather, indoors, focus has primarily been given to emissions from building materials and effects of ventilation. However, it is known that oxidative and partitioning processes occur on most indoor surfaces that affect the chemical exposure that we all experience. Indeed, the concentrations of many chemical species are higher indoors than outdoors. This talk will present examples of indoor oxidative processes that arise via ozone, which is introduced by intake of outdoor air, and via cleaning agents, such as chlorine bleach. Highly reactive surfaces indoors include human skin oils and cooking emissions, and particular attention will be given to the ozonolysis products formed from Criegee intermediates. The nature of non-reactive partitioning in indoor species will also be examined. In particular, new field measurements indicate that molecules that are normally viewed as being highly reactive, such as nitrous acid, are sorbed to indoor surfaces in significant amounts.








Jonathan Abbatt (University of Toronto)

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Other Thu, 04 Oct 2018 18:15:51 -0400 2018-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-04T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
How Cyanobacteria Tell Time (October 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56095 56095-13832568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Anthony Vecchiarelli

Susan Golden, Distinguished Professor
Director, Center for Circadian Biology
HHMI Professor
Chancellor’s Associates Chair in Molecular Biology
Division of Biological Sciences
University of California, San Diego

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 27 Sep 2018 13:57:20 -0400 2018-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar cartoon of bacteria and sun and moon phases
Life In Graduate School Seminar | Going Off-Site for Research - How To Balance with Grad School and Life (October 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56209 56209-13867058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Life After Grad School Seminars

Going Off-Site for Research - How To Balance with Grad School and Life (Student Panel)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Oct 2018 08:57:05 -0400 2018-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Life After Grad School Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Analytical 3rd Year Student Seminars (October 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54982 54982-13662978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry






Megan Connor(Shultz Lab) , Matt Sorensen(Kennedy Lab)

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Other Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:15:49 -0400 2018-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
New Methods for Detecting Natural Selection in Large Samples of Genetic Data (October 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56321 56321-13878530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: Understanding how humans evolved and adapted to their environment is one of the most important and interesting questions in science. The recent emergence of large, publicly available genetic data sets places the answers to these questions closer within reach than ever before. New statistical methods are needed to take full advantage of these resources.

In this talk Dr. Terhorst will discuss some recent progress towards detecting signals of recent natural selection in genetic data from tens of thousands of individuals. On the computational side, he will describe new memory- and compute-efficient inference algorithms that allow us to analyze thousands of genomes in parallel using GPUs. On the theoretical side, he will describe a new test for neutrality based on combinatorial properties of Kingman’s coalescent. The test turns out to have interesting connections to a classic problem in theoretical statistics which has been studied by LeCam, Moran, Hall, and other luminaries. Some of this work is joint with Dan Erdmann-Pham, Kamm, Pier Palamara, Alkes Price and Yun Song.

Bio: Jonathan Terhorst joined the University of Michigan in the fall of 2017 as an assistant professor in the statistics department. Before that, he was a PhD student in statistics at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Yun Song. He is broadly interested in applications of statistics and machine learning to problems in biology, with a particular emphasis on statistical and population genetics.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:06:12 -0400 2018-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Jonathan Terhorst, PhD
Get Fit With Us! (October 6, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54702 54702-13636350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 6, 2018 9:30am
Location: Palmer Field
Organized By: Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students

Having a healthy mind and body is key to the success of any graduate student. That's why we welcome you to join us for a 1 hour social workout session,involving running, Pilates, and weight-training. Come kick-start your weekend.

Work at your own pace. Make friends. Make memories.

Visit our website: bit.ly/SMES-G

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:35:56 -0400 2018-10-06T09:30:00-04:00 2018-10-06T10:30:00-04:00 Palmer Field Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students Exercise / Fitness Get Fit With Us!
Saturday Morning Physics | Gravitational Waves with LIGO: Beyond the Big Chirp (October 6, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54060 54060-13521826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 6, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Collecting a zoo of black holes. Hunting for elusive signals from spinning neutron stars. Grappling with terabytes of data. On occasion, imitating thirsty ravens. These are just a few of the things that LIGO scientists are busy with, as the field of gravitational wave physics takes off from its historic first detection. This talk will provide a view of LIGO from the ground: key concepts, recent results, a taste of challenges large and small, and a particular focus on the work done here at University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:45:22 -0400 2018-10-06T10:30:00-04:00 2018-10-06T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Masses of Dead Stars LIGO
2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium (October 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45230 45230-11710204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Featured speakers:

“Big Data in Manufacturing Systems with Internet-of-Things Connectivity”
Dawn Tilbury, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

“Big (Network) Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science”
Patrick Wolfe, Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science, Purdue University.

“The Data Science Expert in the Room”
Katherine Ensor, Director, Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES), Rice University.

“The Elements of Translational Data Science”
Raghu Machiraju, Interim Director, Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University

The symposium will also include:

Research talks from U-M investigators
A poster session and student poster competition
Industry perspectives on data science and social good.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:01:31 -0400 2018-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (October 8, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-10-08T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | Why the Higgs is Light, Why It Has Standard Model Couplings to Gauge Bosons and Fermions, and Where There are More Higgses to be Found (October 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54417 54417-13583291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Current data from the LHC indicate that the 125 GeV Higgs boson, H, is either the single Higgs of the Standard Model or, to a good approximation, an "aligned Higgs". We propose that His the pseudo-Goldstone dilaton of Gildener and Weinberg. We point out for the first time that this naturally and, as far as we know, uniquely accounts for its low mass and its alignment. It further implies the existence of additional Higgs bosons in the vicinity of 200 - 500 GeV. We illustrate our proposal in a version of the two-Higgs-doublet model of Lee and Pilaftsis and we discuss the model's observational consequences at the LHC.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:17:12 -0400 2018-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Nitric Oxide Signaling: From Prokaryotes to Humans (October 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50775 50775-11864796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Nitric oxide (NO) has long been known to be an intermediate in bacterial pathways of denitrification. It is only since the middle to late 1980s that it was found to play a central role in a much broader biology context. For example, it is now well established that NO acts as a signaling agent in higher organisms. Yet NO is toxic and reactive under biological conditions. How is the biology carried out by NO controlled? How is NO used and the inherent toxicity avoided? How do organisms tell the difference between NO and O2? What is the biological output? A molecular perspective on ligand discrimination in hemoproteins has emerged as has a further understanding and predictions about selective ligand sensing and function in biology.














Michael Marletta (University of Berkeley)

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Other Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:15:47 -0400 2018-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium (October 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45230 45230-11710205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Featured speakers:

“Big Data in Manufacturing Systems with Internet-of-Things Connectivity”
Dawn Tilbury, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

“Big (Network) Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science”
Patrick Wolfe, Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science, Purdue University.

“The Data Science Expert in the Room”
Katherine Ensor, Director, Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES), Rice University.

“The Elements of Translational Data Science”
Raghu Machiraju, Interim Director, Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University

The symposium will also include:

Research talks from U-M investigators
A poster session and student poster competition
Industry perspectives on data science and social good.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:01:31 -0400 2018-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (October 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-10-09T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | From Chirped Pulse Amplification to High Field Physics (October 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56444 56444-13905899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Gerard Mourou, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan was awarded the Nobel prize in Physics in 2018 for his 1985 invention of chirped pulse amplification using lasers. This has resulted in an explosion of research using high intensity laser systems as well as numerous applications. I will discuss the development of the technology of short pulse, high power lasers from that time to the present - as well as the exciting research in high field science that this has enabled.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Oct 2018 18:17:07 -0400 2018-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Watching metalloenzymes at work (October 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53784 53784-13461541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Structures of bioinorganic catalysts can often uniquely rationalize important aspects of chemical and biological reaction control. My research group studies the structural differences between members of large metalloenzyme superfamilies that share common characteristics but trigger different reactions or use distinct cofactors. We have initially focused on systems unified in their ability to activate strong C-H, N-H, or O-H bonds. Key objectives include identification of the outcome-dictating structural features of a given catalyst and structure-guided reprogramming for new function. To achieve these ends, we determine stable reactant and product complexes, with an increasing focus on development and implementation of crystallographic approaches to study metalloenzyme reaction intermediates. These experiments are challenging due to the fleeting and reactive nature of these states but uniquely informative because of the fully contextualized view they provide at critical points in the catalytic cycle.












Amie Boal (The Pennsylvania State University)

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Other Tue, 09 Oct 2018 18:15:46 -0400 2018-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program Lecture (October 9, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53357 53357-13349553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

FEATURING: Kay Redfield Jamison

AUTHOR OF: Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

› Featured Speaker
› Panel discussion about the present and future of research in bipolar disorder
› Reception

The book, which was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, will be available for purchase at the event and Kay Redfield Jamison will do a book signing.

This event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required: PrechterProgram.org/lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Aug 2018 14:26:00 -0400 2018-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T21:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Eisenberg Family Depression Center Lecture / Discussion 12th Annual Prechter Lecture
Bioethics Discussion: Alternative Medicine (October 9, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49423 49423-11453765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion at the boundaries of the medical sciences.

Readings to consider:
"The placebo effect in alternative medicine"
"The use of complementary and alternative medicine in pediatrics"
"Efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine therapies in relieving cancer pain: a systematic review"
"Trends in the use of complementary health approaches among adults: United States, 2002-2012"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/018-alternative-medicine/.

Be mindful at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:54:30 -0400 2018-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Alternative medicine
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Lessons from the Landscape (October 10, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56486 56486-13930952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 12:00am
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

I will discuss how the string landscape might inform how we think about low energy effective field theories coupled to gravity. By studying the largest-to-date ensembles of geometries for string compactifications, we find several striking generic features: large hidden gauge sectors, regions of strong coupling, and large numbers of light axions. Understanding these ensembles, and the landscape as whole, requires a new set of tools, both formal and computational, including new mathematics and tools from data science, the development of which I will discuss.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Oct 2018 08:39:12 -0400 2018-10-10T00:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Story of Self Workshop (October 10, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56168 56168-13841821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 11:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

JC Kibbey hosts a workshop where scientists will learn the importance of personal narratives to make compelling arguments to non-scientists. This event will be held at two locations, one on central campus, another on north campus. Event is an hour long, and will start at 11:00 am (North Campus) and at 1:00 pm (Central Campus). Lunch will be provided. RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/sEzIv4jA64Sz6cZA3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:12:39 -0400 2018-10-10T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Workshop / Seminar JC Kibbey
Story of Self Workshop (October 10, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56168 56168-13841822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

JC Kibbey hosts a workshop where scientists will learn the importance of personal narratives to make compelling arguments to non-scientists. This event will be held at two locations, one on central campus, another on north campus. Event is an hour long, and will start at 11:00 am (North Campus) and at 1:00 pm (Central Campus). Lunch will be provided. RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/sEzIv4jA64Sz6cZA3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:12:39 -0400 2018-10-10T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T14:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Workshop / Seminar JC Kibbey
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (October 10, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-10-10T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Analytical 3rd Year Student Seminars (October 10, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54983 54983-13662979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry








Nicole Olson(Ault Lab) , Daniel Vallejo(Ruotolo Lab)

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Other Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:15:47 -0400 2018-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Department Colloquium | Drops, spiral waves, and gels: Experiments in non-equilibrium soft matter systems (October 10, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56299 56299-13878491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Soft matter abounds in the natural world. Moreover, soft materials are most often not in thermal equilibrium. I will present a series of vignettes from experiments in my lab that show the remarkable behaviors that emerge in driven soft materials. I will show how drying drops can be used in forensic analysis, how drops can be moved with light, how spiral waves appear in chemical reactions and how they interact with each other, and how the same chemical reaction can be used to induce mechanical motion of a gel.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:17:06 -0400 2018-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Innovate Blue: Engaging in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at U-M (October 10, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53951 53951-13504382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Innovate Blue is the network of more than 15 different centers and departments at U-M supporting the mission of encouraging innovation, creativity and an entrepreneurial spirit that spurs economic development and contributes to the public good. This workshop will introduce a few of the departments where they will present examples of previous student initiatives launched with the support of U-M, and introduce new opportunities for students to engage to pursue an entrepreneurial mindset. Ideal for ALL majors!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:58:48 -0400 2018-10-10T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar Hatcher Graduate Library
Op-Ed Writing Workshop (October 10, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56141 56141-13839495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 6:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

Dr. Brancho will host an informative workshop where participants will gain the basic skills to effectively write a short, but persuasive article meant for submission to news outlets as an opinion piece. If there is enough interest, a Peer-Editing follow-up will have peers review and further edit the opinion piece to improve chances publishing/persuasiveness.RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PRBTwjYFeK01_aVHvtopJrywjKMOXLMoq7RyYvABxFE/edit

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:12:07 -0400 2018-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T20:00:00-04:00 North Quad Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Workshop / Seminar Dr. Jimmy Brancho
Quantum Coherence in Chemistry: Tackling the Decoherence Challenge (October 11, 2018 4:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52043 52043-12376521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 4:00am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

A subject of considerable current interest in Chemistry is the possibility of using non-trivial quantum mechanical effects, such as coherence and interference, to enhance molecular function. This possibility is hindered by decoherence processes that prevent matter from fully exhibiting its quantum features. In this talk, I will summarize our progress understanding decoherence in molecular processes, and in particular electronic decoherence. I will discuss the basic mechanisms for electronic coherence loss, methods to quantify the decoherence, and a general theory of decoherence timescales. The talk with conclude with some novel prospects on the possibility of using lasers to control electronic decoherence in molecules.






Ignacio Franco (University of Rochester)

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Other Thu, 11 Oct 2018 18:15:53 -0400 2018-10-11T04:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T05:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Introduction To Science Policy (Panel Event) (October 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56195 56195-13855647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

GradSWE and MESWN are inviting students to attend this science policy panel event featuring Dr. Joy Rohde (associate professor of Ford school of public policy at UM), Kristina Ko (Senior Director of Federal Relations for Research), and Rachel Kirpes (PhD candidate at the department of Chemistry at University of Michigan).

The panel will be focused on introducing science and public policy, its impact on graduate student’s daily life, research, and funding, career paths in science and public policy and introducing more resources.

Questions are highly welcome. Lunch will be provided.

If interested, please RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-science-policy-panel-event-registration-50676262064

Please contact "Dhanya Abraham" and "Maryam Akram" at dmabe@umich.edu and akramrym@umich.edu if you have any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Oct 2018 21:57:40 -0400 2018-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Graduate Society of Women Engineers Workshop / Seminar Science Policy
The Taking of K-129 (October 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53422 53422-13381389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War—a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo—about how the CIA, the U.S. Navy, and America’s most eccentric mogul spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal the nuclear-armed Soviet submarine K-129 after it had sunk to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean; all while the Russians were watching.

The Taking of K-129 is a riveting, almost unbelievable true-life tale of military history, engineering genius, and high-stakes spy-craft set during the height of the Cold War, when nuclear annihilation was a constant fear, and the opportunity to gain even the slightest advantage over your enemy was worth massive risk.

Writer Josh Dean will visit the department for the new Community Project. He'll be joined by NAME alumni who worked on this unbelievable project, including Chuck Cannon, Charlie Canby and John Hollett.

When: October 11th 12-2 PM
Where: Gerald Ford Library

Lunch provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:43:32 -0400 2018-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Glomar Explorer
CM Theory Seminar | Mechanics of Allosteric Materials - How Proteins Mediate Long-Range Interaction (October 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53484 53484-13386094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

A crucial regulation for life is enabled at the molecular level through allosteric proteins, whose catalytic activity at the active sites can be significantly enhanced or inhibited by the appearance of specific chemicals binding at their allosteric sites. Predicting the allosteric pathways from protein structures would help us determine regulation networks and design smart drugs. However, it remains a challenge as the nature of allostery — this elasticity-mediated long-range interaction is understood superficially. To approach the problem with systematic samples, we introduce a numerical scheme with the model proteins evolving in-silico to accomplish specific allosteric functions. We then obtain statistical features among thousands of solutions to the tasks and deduce rules for the allosteric mechanics. For the geometric task when a specific strain is propagated through the media, we find commonly applied is an edge-mode mechanism which quickly amplifies the strain signal close to the active site. While for the cooperative task with elastic energy conveyed, we reveal that the appearance of a mechanism, an extended and nearly zero energy mode, dominates the pathway. This mechanism can appear as shear, hinge, and twist — designs found in some allosteric proteins, or be more complicated and hard to visualize. But independent of specific designs, we predict such a scaling relation for the frequency of the allosteric mechanism that the cooperative energy is optimized to be independent of the protein size.

Bio: After obtained Bachelor degree at Peking University in 2010, Le moved to the United States for his PhD at New York University, where he worked with Matthieu Wyart studying the glassy dynamics and rigidity transition. After that, he has been a postdoc fellow at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, where he is applying his physics knowledge to understand mysteries in various scales of biology: from the protein structure to epithelial tissue network to evolution of flu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Oct 2018 18:17:15 -0400 2018-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
EEB Thursday Seminar: Evolution of the essential gap gene giant causes hybrid inviability in Drosophila (October 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49650 49650-11487535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Hybrids have reduced fitness because of faulty interactions among genes that have diverged between the pure species. The most extreme hybrid defect is inviability. Hybrids therefore provide an easy to screen phenotype to identify what genes and molecular pathways have functionally diverged as genomes differentiate. Here I identify the Drosophila melanogaster allele of the highly conserved and essential gap gene giant (gt) as a key genetic determinant of hybrid inviability in crosses with D. santomea. The presence of this allele in D. melanogaster/D. santomea hybrids causes an abdominal ablation not seen in either pure species. giant is a key developmental regulator whose role in anterior-posterior specification of the dipteran embryo is conserved over 100 million years. The interaction of giant with a second allele, tailless,tll, is involved in the hybrid defects observed in these Drosophila hybrids. These results indicate that even genes with crucial developmental roles that are conserved over vast evolutionary time scales can experience functional evolution that leads to inviability of hybrids

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Nov 2018 11:13:32 -0500 2018-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Dros_teissieri_m
STEM Info Session (October 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56404 56404-13896800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Interested in science, technology, engineering, and math?

Join Senior Intercultural Program Advisor Sarah Pauling and Intercultural Program Advisor, Cristina Zamarron for an information session for current students interested in the following study abroad programs:

AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST
• Wildlife Management Studies in Tanzania

THE AMERICAS
•Environment and Sustainable Development in San Jose, Costa Rica

ASIA-PACIFIC
•EcoQuest Field Studies in Whakatiwai, New Zealand
•Frontiers Abroad- Geology, and Earth Systems Science

EUROPE
•Budapest Semester in Mathematics
•DIS Stockholm/Copenhagen
•STEM Summer Research Program
•University Study in the UK— London School of Economics (Summer)

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Meeting Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:50:57 -0400 2018-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Blue Planet and Planet Earth Production Teams: Capturing the Wild (October 11, 2018 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53882 53882-13472309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Tom Hugh-Jones is the producer of the David Attenborough-narrated Planet Earth BBC series and has spent twenty-two years producing natural history and science documentaries for broadcasters such as BBC, National Geographic, and Discovery. When he was just four years old, Tom’s anthropologist parents took him to live with a tribal community in the Colombian Amazon, sowing the seeds of his passion for adventure in the wild. Since then, Hugh-Jones has worked on many prolific titles such as Planet Earth, Human Planet, and Life Story, taking audiences around the world into the beating heart of breath-taking moments, close encounters, spectacular failures, and places no human should ever go.

Hugh-Jones will also bring special guests from Blue Planet Production to discuss the teamwork and process of making Planet Earth and its companion BBC show, Blue Planet. Guests include producer/director Rachael Butler and Pam and Tim Fogg of Rope Access Specialists, a team of experts in rope-access rigging and safety when shooting in difficult-to-reach locales such as caves, volcanoes, and cliffs.

Co-Presented by U-M Museum of Natural History’s William R. Farrand Memorial Lecture with support from U-M Institute for the Humanities.

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Presentation Fri, 17 Aug 2018 11:46:45 -0400 2018-10-11T17:10:00-04:00 2018-10-11T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Presentation https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/blue-planet.jpg
Hypoxic Regulation of Lipid Metabolism: Lessons for Cancer from Yeast (October 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56100 56100-13832570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Ming Li

Peter Espenshade, Professor of Cell Biology
Member, GI Cancer Program - Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:14:03 -0400 2018-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar cartoon of cell with molecules involved in lipid metabolism
Life After Graduate School | Life at an FFRDC (October 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54725 54725-13638583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Charles Munson completed his PhD on Cosmic Microwave Background cosmology in late 2016 in Jeff McMahon's lab. Since graduating, he has been working as an electrical engineer for the MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that manages seven federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). These FFRDCs support U.S. government agencies including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service. He will discuss the transition from physics to engineering, some information about the MITRE corporation, and his experience so far as a physicist at an FFRDC.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:17:11 -0400 2018-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Determine the Number of States in Hidden Markov Models VIA Marginal Likelihood (October 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56322 56322-13878531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: Hidden Markov models (HMM) have been widely adopted by scientists from various fields to model stochastic systems: the underlying process is a discrete Markov chain and the observations are noisy realizations of the underlying process. Determining the number of hidden states for an HMM is a model selection problem, which has yet to be satisfactorily solved, especially for the popular Gaussian HMM with heterogeneous covariance. In this paper, we propose a consistent method for determining the number of hidden states of HMM based on the marginal likelihood. We give a rigorous proof of the consistency of the proposed marginal likelihood method and provide simulation studies to compare the proposed method with the currently mostly adopted method, the Bayesian information criterion (BIC), demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed marginal likelihood method. The proposed method is applied to single-molecule data and yields interesting scientific insights.

Bio: Yang Chen received her Ph.D. (2017) in Statistics from Harvard University and joined the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Research Assistant Professor at the Michigan Institute of Data Science (MIDAS). She received her B.A. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China. Research interests include computational algorithms in statistical inference and applied statistics in the field of biology and astronomy.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:11:57 -0400 2018-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Yang Chen, PhD
Analytical 3rd Year Student Seminars (October 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54984 54984-13662980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry








Kunal Khanna(Walter Lab) , Shane Wells(Kennedy Lab)

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Other Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:15:50 -0400 2018-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Get Fit With Us! (October 13, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54702 54702-13636351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 13, 2018 9:30am
Location: Palmer Field
Organized By: Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students

Having a healthy mind and body is key to the success of any graduate student. That's why we welcome you to join us for a 1 hour social workout session,involving running, Pilates, and weight-training. Come kick-start your weekend.

Work at your own pace. Make friends. Make memories.

Visit our website: bit.ly/SMES-G

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:35:56 -0400 2018-10-13T09:30:00-04:00 2018-10-13T10:30:00-04:00 Palmer Field Society of Minority Engineers & Scientists Graduate Students Exercise / Fitness Get Fit With Us!
Modeling Dark Energy Observations in the Nonlinear Regime (October 15, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64729 64729-16436924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 15, 2018 9:00am
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Dragan Huterer (LCTP), Yuanyuan Zhang (Fermilab)

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:31:56 -0400 2018-10-15T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Conference / Symposium Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (October 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-10-15T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Moving beyond Methionine Synthase: New Insights into Cobalamin-Dependent Methyltransferase Reactions (October 15, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51068 51068-11953412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 15, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Biological methylation underpins myriad cellular processes through the modification of proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, heavy metals, and a variety of small organic molecules. In the vast majority of these reactions, the appended methyl group derives from S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and is attached most often to nitrogen and oxygen nucleophiles through a polar SN2 mechanism, although carbon, sulfur, and a variety of other nucleophilic atoms also receive SAM-derived methyl groups. Recently, it has become apparent that SAM is used to methylate non-reactive carbon and phosphorus atoms by mechanisms involving radical intermediates. To date, these reactions are catalyzed exclusively by radical SAM enzymes, a superfamily of enzymes that use an iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster to catalyze a reductive cleavage of SAM to methionine and the potent oxidant 5’-deoxyadenosin 5’-radical (5’-dA•). There are at least five subclasses of radical SAM methylases. Class B methylases represent the largest subclass, and use cobalamin to methylate both sp2- and sp3-hybridized carbon centers or phosphinate phosphorus centers during the biosynthesis of numerous biomolecules, including natural products with antibiotic and anticancer activities. This lecture will focus on two Class B radical SAM methylases involved in the biosynthesis of antibacterial agents. Fom3, which performs a key step in the biosynthesis of the broad-spectrum antibiotic fosfomycin, catalyzes the methylation of the sp3-hybridized C2’’ carbon of cytidylyl-2-hydroxyethylphosphonate to yield cytidylyl-2-hydroxypropylphosphonate. By contrast, TsrM catalyzes the first committed step in the biosynthesis of the quinaldic acid moiety of the thiopeptide antibiotic thiostrepton, which is the methylation of the sp2-hybridized C2 carbon of the indole ring of L-tryptophan. As will be discussed, while both Fom3 and TsrM are cobalamin-dependent radical SAM methylases, they use two distinctly different strategies to catalyze their reactions.














Squire Booker (The Pennsylvania State University)

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Other Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:15:46 -0400 2018-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-15T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab