Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. HET Brown Bag | Respect the ELDER: New Thermal Target for Dark Matter Direct Detections and Going Beyond with Astrophysical Signatures (September 13, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43407 43407-9759938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

A less explored procedure for a thermal relic to reach its current abundance is that it first elastically (thermally) decouples from the relativistic species before it freezes out from the number-changing processes. Here we present a novel dark matter (DM) candidate, an Elastically Decoupling Relic (ELDER), which is a thermal relic whose present-day abundance is determined by the cross-section of its elastic scattering on Standard Model particles, based on the aforementioned procedure.

Assuming that this scattering is mediated by a kinetically mixed dark photon, the ELDER scenario makes robust predictions for electron-recoil direct-detection experiments, as well as for dark photon searches. These predictions are independent of the details of interactions within the dark sector. The ELDER predictions provide a target region that will be almost entirely accessible to the next generation of searches for sub-GeV dark matter and dark photons.

If time permits, I will talk briefly about optical, gravitational, and radio signatures of DM-induced neutron star (NS) Implosions. The Astrophysical signatures (NS-NS mergers included!) are ways to go orders beyond the DM direct-detection limits.

This talk is based on Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 221302 (arXiv:1512.04545), JHEP, 08:078, 2017 (arXiv:1706.05381), and arXiv:1706.00001

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Sep 2017 08:36:21 -0400 2017-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
2017 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (September 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40819 40819-8774608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

There are two forms of waves that can propagate across the universe: Electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves. Galileo initiated electromagnetic astronomy 400 years ago by pointing a telescope at the sky and discovering the moons of Jupiter. LIGO recently initiated gravitational astronomy by observing gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Dr. Thorne will describe this discovery, the 50 year effort that led to it, and the rich explorations that lie ahead.

The University of Michigan's Department of Physics hosts the annual Ta-You Wu Lecture, which is one of the most prestigious lecture events in our Department. The Lectureship was endowed in 1991 through generous gifts from the University of Michigan Alumni Association in Taiwan. It is named in honor of Michigan Physics alumnus and honorary Doctor of Science, Ta-You Wu, one of the central figures of the 20th century in the Chinese and Taiwanese physics communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:31:06 -0400 2017-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Kip S. Thorne, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus (Caltech)
Remembering Tom Hayden through Current Scholarship (September 14, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42551 42551-9611964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join us to celebrate the life and legacy of anti-​war activist, politician, and U-M alumnus Tom Hayden (1939-2016) through the research of current U-M students and recent U-M graduates who have focused on topics related to Hayden's work. Talks will be followed by a reception.

Austin McCoy, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in Egalitarianism and the Metropolis, U-M, speaks about "Tom Hayden and the Final Campaign to End the War."
Leah Schneck, senior in the Residential College studying Social Theory and Practice, talks to "Participatory Democracy: Arnold Kaufman and the Rise of the New Left (1960-67)."
Sian Olson Dowis, doctoral candidate in U.S. History at Northwestern University, covers "Out of Isolation: The New Left in Urban America."

In 2014 U-M Library acquired Hayden's papers to add to the Joseph A. Labadie Collection, an archive in the Special Collections Library documenting the history of social protest movements and marginalized political communities from the 19th century to the present. The Tom Hayden Papers are used frequently by students, scholars and researchers.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:09:25 -0400 2017-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T17:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Tom Hayden 2014
Russian Language Conversation Group (September 14, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9925942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-09-14T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Alumni of the Michigan Daily (September 15, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43966 43966-9855276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: UM Office of Student Publications

Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni of The Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan’s student newspaper, will explore media issues in the digital age at a special program of panel discussions on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. The event, which begins at 1pm in Rackham Auditorium, is sponsored by the UM Office of Student Publications in conjunction with Wallace House (home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowship program & The Livingston Awards.)

Highlighted in this event will be: Eugene Robinson, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer for Commentary and the new Chair of the Pulitzer Board; Ann Marie Lipinski, winner of a Pulitzer in 1988 for Investigative Reporting; Lisa Pollak, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer for Feature Writing; Stephen Henderson, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer for Commentary; Neil Chase who directed coverage that won the 2017 Pulitzer for Breaking News; Amy Harmon, winner of two Pulitzers, in 2008 for Explanatory Reporting and in 2001 as part of a team; Dan Biddle, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting; and Rebecca Blumenstein, who led a team to a 2007 Pulitzer for International Reporting.

The award-winning journalists will be joined by other distinguished Daily alumni and student staff members in discussions of newsroom diversity, sports in the social media era, and alternative career paths for young journalists. The sessions will also include a discussion of how the University’s student publications have evolved through the decades.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:11:54 -0400 2017-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) UM Office of Student Publications Lecture / Discussion Pulitzer Prize-Winning Alumni
Russian Language Conversation Group (September 15, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9829825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
HET Seminar (September 15, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43406 43406-9759936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:32:45 -0400 2017-09-15T15:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Brown Bag | Worldsheet CFTs for Microstate Geometries (September 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44540 44540-9923133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

In string theory, black hole microstates at finite coupling give rise to horizon-scale structures that might solve the information paradox. Explicit constructions of these solutions are based on configurations of branes puffed up by the supertube effect. In an appropriate duality frame, we can construct the simplest supertube by adding momentum to a symmetric distribution of NS5 branes on their Coulomb branch. This suggests an exact worldsheet description of the supertube as a null gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten model. Such exact treatment in worldsheet string theory also describes BPS and non-BPS three-charge microstate geometries. This construction reveals stringy structures that are invisibile in the supergravity approximation, and that play a crucial role in understanding the constituents that carry most of the entropy.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:17:11 -0400 2017-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Taking Computing+Data Wide Across the Curriculum: The Illinois CS+X Degree Programs (September 20, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44314 44314-9908882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 5:00pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Computer Science and Engineering Division

Computer Science has become the most popular major and largest teaching unit on many campuses. This is focusing welcome attention on CS curriculum design: what do we teach, and to whom. The first response to “rising-tide” demand is to go “deep”: more majors, courses, more classroom seats, etc. I will argue this is necessary, but not sufficient. Many students need a solid base of computing+data to address challenges in social science, humanities, policy, business, and the like. But they do not aspire to be computer (or even data) scientists. We need a systematic middle way to take CS “wide” into these diverse disciplines. The University of Illinois CS+X program is a portfolio of novel B.S. degrees, launched in 2014, architected as (Half-CS + Half-X), delivered as a degree in the Dept. of X. Several degrees are now on offer, ranging from CS+Anthropology to CS+Astronomy. The program has surprising traction – for example, one quarter of our Astronomy Dept. is now CS+X, and a dozen more +X degrees are in various stages of design/approval. I’ll talk about how we built the Illinois CS+X program, and where it’s going next. I’ll also briefly summarize a related initiative, the Illinois CS Data Science MS degree, now being delivered on the Coursera MOOC platform.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:35:55 -0400 2017-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 BBB Computer Science and Engineering Division Lecture / Discussion Rutenbar
Russian Language Conversation Group (September 22, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9829826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
Vestiges of Snake Cults: The Banana Python and His Sons (September 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44784 44784-9980556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Snake cults, which were probably once prevalent among the indigenes of southern China, have all but disappeared through the subjugation of snake deities (a.k.a. demons) by Buddhist monks, Daoist priests and Shamanistic local deities. While most snake deities exist as defeated demons/demonesses in religious lore, their power continues to be harnessed in some religious rituals and recognized in remote regions of Fujian. The Banana Python God and his three sons are a prominent example of their survival in transformed incarnations. In her presentation, Dr. Fan Pen Chen of SUNY-Albany, will share photos of temple murals as well as video recordings of string-puppet performances that depict the sacred tale of these snake gods.

Dr. Fan Pen Chen is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at SUNY-Albany. She is the author of Chinese Shadow Theater: History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors; Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays from Shaanxi and Shanxi; Marionette Plays from Northern China; Journey of a Goddess: Chen Jinggu Subdues White Snake (forthcoming); and dozens of articles on Chinese drama, fiction, puppetry, and folk religion.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:15:21 -0400 2017-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Snake Girl
Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Rishi Narayan (September 29, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44522 44522-9923117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 11:30am
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series provides a venue for students to engage and network with world-class entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and business leaders from across the globe. This gateway class explores fundamental topics in entrepreneurship such as emerging business models, new venture creation, and technology commercialization while exposing both undergraduate (freshmen – seniors) and graduate students to the ecosystem in a variety of industries. Note: These talks are open to the community as space permits.

About Rishi Narayan:

Rishi Narayan is a entrepreneur and early-stage investor based out of Ann Arbor, MI. Rishi has founded several companies, including Underground Printing, a national custom apparel and collegiate merchandise retailer with 20 locations throughout the country. He is also a principal in the startup angel fund Chibor Angels, specializing in seed and early stage investments. Rishi holds his B.S.E. and M.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

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Presentation Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:01:51 -0400 2017-09-29T11:30:00-04:00 2017-09-29T12:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Rishi Promo Graphic
Special Cosmology Seminar | Integrated Approach to Cosmology (September 29, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44880 44880-10000731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

Recent progress in observational cosmology and the establishment of ΛCDM have relied on the combination of different cosmological probes. These probes are not independent, since they all measure the same physical fields. The resulting cross-correlations allow for a robust test of the cosmological model through the consistency of different physical tracers and for the identification of systematics. Integrated analyses taking into account both the auto- as well as the cross-correlations between cosmological probes therefore present a promising analysis method for both current as well as future data.

In this talk, I will present an integrated analysis of CMB temperature anisotropies, CMB lensing, galaxy clustering and weak lensing as well as background probes. I will describe the cosmological probe combination framework, the obtained results and illustrate how this analysis has provided a confirmation of ΛCDM through the consistency of different probes. Furthermore, I will discuss possible tensions between the derived constraints on cosmological parameters and existing ones.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:01:52 -0400 2017-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Russian Language Conversation Group (September 29, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9829827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
HET Seminar | Gravitational Radiation from Classical QCD (September 29, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44543 44543-9923136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:07:55 -0400 2017-09-29T15:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Engaging with Art (October 1, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44952 44952-10015362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a theme and includes a variety of styles and media to illuminate his or her ideas. Themes may be repeated but each docent's approach and choice of objects is unique.

Engaging with Art tours are generously supported by the Berkowitz Family Endowed Fund.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:39:23 -0400 2017-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Engaging with Art
NIH Loan Repayment (LRP) Informational Session (October 2, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44729 44729-9969030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 1:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Heatlh

The NIH LRP repays up to $35,000 annually of a researchers' qualified educational debt. Attend the information session on 10/2/17 to learn more

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:26:53 -0400 2017-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T15:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Heatlh Workshop / Seminar School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Inference of Population Structure & Demographic History of Indigenous Populations of Africa (October 3, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45100 45100-10084365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Inference of population structure and demographic history of indigenous populations from Africa

Dr. Hiba Babiker
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
 
Africa contains one-third of the world’s languages and its populations have the highest genetic diversity compared to the rest of the world. Focusing on indigenous populations from Africa has the potential to reveal past demographic events and to provide insights into human adaptation and disease susceptibility in Africans and populations of African descent. My talk will explore the genetic variation of Northeast African populations and recent findings from genome-wide analysis of the Dogon populations from West Africa. These findings shed light on the coevolution of languages and genes and highlight the importance of interdisciplinary research in decoding unanswered questions in the human history.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:02:57 -0400 2017-10-03T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Hiba
“What Should We Do About Global Poverty?” (October 5, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44864 44864-9992119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan will host an Oct. 5 speech and discussion with Sir Angus Deaton, a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose work has changed how many think about both global wealth and poverty.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 4 p.m. in Robertson Auditorium at U-M’s Ross School of Business. A discussion and question/answer period will follow Deaton’s talk.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:05:26 -0400 2017-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Angus Deaton
Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Donna Harris (October 6, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44894 44894-10003604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 11:30am
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series provides a venue for students to engage and network with world-class entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and business leaders from across the globe. This gateway class explores fundamental topics in entrepreneurship such as emerging business models, new venture creation, and technology commercialization while exposing both undergraduate (freshmen – seniors) and graduate students to the ecosystem in a variety of industries. Note: These talks are open to the community as space permits.

About Donna Harris:

Donna is cofounder of 1776, Strategic Advisor to the 1776 Board of Directors, and General Partner 1776 Ventures. Under her leadership 1776 has grown from a theory to a globally recognized brand at the center of worldwide startup activity. Launched in 2013, 1776 now has campuses in Washington, D.C.; Arlington, Virginia; San Francisco; New York City and Dubai, and it operates a venture fund making investments worldwide.

1776 has supported the founding of hundreds of young companies that are growing and creating jobs in the Washington, D.C., region. Thousands more around the globe enjoy backing and guidance from its network. With visitors ranging from President Obama and former British Prime Minister David Cameron, to CEOs of America’s top technology companies, 1776 has become the singular go-to stop in the region for political and corporate leaders seeking to engage the innovation economy.

Before launching 1776, Donna served the Startup America Partnership as managing director. Working in partnership with the White House, the Kauffman Foundation and the Case Foundation, she led the formation of entrepreneurial communities across the United States and integrated them into a national startup ecosystem. Her work was the precursor to the Startup Nations initiative, enabling informal knowledge-sharing among economies to help accelerate new and young firm formation in their countries in order to create jobs, build economies and expand human welfare. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Global Entrepreneurship Network, which oversees the program.

Prior to joining Startup America, Donna was Vice Chair of Interpoint Group, a government markets, government relations, public affairs strategy and management firm. Interpoint generated nearly $8 billion in revenue while passing or defeating legislation, and the group executed public affairs campaigns for corporations, non-profits, foundations and governments globally. Under her leadership, the company grew tenfold before its acquisition by Pegasus Capital Partners.

Previously she founded and served as CEO of Kinderstreet, which sold software in the education, sports and recreation markets. Donna grew the company from concept to a national leader in the field with more than 900 active schools using the product across 41 states. Arc Capital Development acquired Kinderstreet in 2005.

Earlier in her career, she served as vice president of Centromine, a provider of web-based clinical and fiscal systems in the health and human services industry. There, she led all product and market strategy and assisted in raising $11 million in venture capital financing. Echo Group acquired Centromine in 2000.

Donna serves as a trustee of the Federal City Council, a policy adviser to the Economic Innovation Group and a member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. In addition to serving on the Global Entrepreneurship Network’s board of directors, she also sits on the National Center for Entrepreneurship’s board. She is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Georgetown University and is an active angel investor as a cofounder of K Street Capital.

Donna is a frequent speaker and contributor to publications like the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and Huffington Post. Recognized as one of Washington, D.C.’s Power 100 by Washington Business Journal and Washington Life, and as a Tech Titan by Washingtonian Magazine, she has become one of the most influential leaders in the region’s new economy.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan University and an M.B.A. with distinction from University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. She has also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from American University and resides in Northern Virginia with her husband, son and two dogs.

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Presentation Mon, 02 Oct 2017 10:38:39 -0400 2017-10-06T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-06T12:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Donna Promo Image
Keeping the Dream Alive Part II: DACA and our Community (October 6, 2017 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45126 45126-10092996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 11:45am
Location: South Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Who are DACA recipients and what effect does lack of immigration status have on individuals, families, communities? What role can law students and attorneys play? Professor William Lopez from the UM National Center for Institutional Diversity and Michigan Law alumnus George Barchini, '15, will discuss the social context for DACA and what law students and lawyers can do.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:04:21 -0400 2017-10-06T11:45:00-04:00 2017-10-06T12:50:00-04:00 South Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion South Hall
Russian Language Conversation Group (October 6, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9829828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-10-06T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
Saturday Morning Physics | The Arctic and the Tropics: Worlds Apart, Both Amplifying Climate Change (October 7, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44328 44328-9908895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

(Part of the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester Symposium MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis)
Humans have rapidly changed our Earth's climate, well beyond the natural variations recorded over at least the last million years. This perturbation has reached the point where other parts of the natural system are poised to change their behavior through accelerating feedbacks. Melting of permafrost in the Arctic and deforestation of forests and agroforestry systems in the tropics are two such important examples. These feedbacks are poorly understood, but have the potential to alter the globe as we know it and critically test humanity's resolve for mitigation and ability to adapt.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:44:47 -0400 2017-10-07T10:30:00-04:00 2017-10-07T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
In Conversation: Abstract Moments throughout History in Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (October 8, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44964 44964-10015380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please include date and title of program in the subject line of your email.

Join Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art, on a tour of Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction, an exhibition that celebrates the rich history of over two thousand years of abstraction in art. The conversation will guide us through works created in different times and locations where the intention of abstraction emerged—from the 5th century Korean ceramic roof-tile, the Chinese calligraphy of the Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644), to the 19th century African reliquary figure—illustrating that abstraction in visual art was not the invention of the modern West.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:00:25 -0400 2017-10-08T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-08T16:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Abstraction
Special Physics Lecture | The Ultracold Neutron Physics Program at the ILL (October 9, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45542 45542-10228832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 2:30pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) is an international research centre at the leading edge of neutron science and technology. As the world’s flagship centre for neutron science, the ILL provides scientists with a very high flux of neutrons feeding some 40 state-of-the-art instruments, which are constantly being developed and upgraded.
The instruments of the nuclear and particle physics group (NPP) and their fields of research are briefly presented.
ILL’s two ultracold neutron installations are described in more detail.
The ongoing research program using ultracold neutrons as measuring the lifetime of the free neutron, the search for an electric dipole moment and gravity resonance spectroscopy are highlighted.

About the Speaker:
Peter W.H. Geltenbort received a PhD from the University of Tuebingen, Germany, in 1983. He joined the Nuclear and Particle Physics (NPP) College at the ILL in 1983 responsible for a fission fragment spectrometer. From 1989 to 1993 he held the position of Head of the Detector Group. In 1993 he reintegrated into the NPP group responsible for the Ultracold Neutron/Very Cold Neutron facilities at the ILL. His current research interests are the fundamental properties of the neutron.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Oct 2017 10:33:57 -0400 2017-10-09T14:30:00-04:00 2017-10-09T15:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Chinese Food and Female Characters in Late Imperial Chinese Novels (October 11, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45549 45549-10228905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

This lecture presents an examination of how food is used for the portrayal of female characters in two important works of the late Imperial Chinese vernacular novel: Jin Ping Mei 金瓶梅 (The Plum in the Golden Vase, 16th Century) and Ernü yingxiong zhuan兒女英雄傳 (A Tale of Lovers and Heroes, 19th century). The former is famous for its verisimilitude in presenting the domestic life of women in a wealthy merchant household, and the latter features an independent and valiant swordswoman who eventually agrees to marry into a Manchu gentry family. Critical discussions about food in relation to women in Chinese fictional narratives often focus on two aspects: food as a supplement or counterpart for sex, and food as a medium for social transactions. This lecture provides a close reading of several passages from the two novels where neither sexuality nor social transactions are a major concern. Instead, the reading focuses on how details about food and dining provide alternative means for depicting the female characters’ personalities and their inner thoughts in the fast-paced and plot-driven narratives. This discussion about the literary functions of food also touches on related subjects such as the stylistic features of vernacular storytelling and the food culture in late imperial China.

Yan Liang is an associate professor of Chinese language and literature at Grand Valley State University. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2008. Her research interests include late imperial Chinese literature, vernacular fiction and storytelling, Chinese food culture, and Chinese popular culture. Her recent publications include studies about the literary functions of food descriptions in late imperial Chinese vernacular novels and the eighteenth-century poet and gourmet Yuan Mei (1716-1798).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:07:09 -0400 2017-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Yan Liang
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Soft Photons, Soft Gravitons and Decoherence (October 11, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45552 45552-10228908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Central to the solution of the infrared catastrophe of quantum electrodynamics and perturbative quantum gravity is the idea that detection apparatus inevitably have limited resolution and, in any scattering process, an infinite number of arbitrarily soft photons and gravitons are produced and escape detection. Photons and gravitons have polarizations and momenta and one might suspect that those which escape can carry away a significant amount of information. In this talk, I will examine the question as to the quantity of this information loss, its consequences.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:16:47 -0400 2017-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Russian Language Conversation Group (October 13, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9829829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-10-13T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
Saturday Morning Physics | Beyond Our Solar System: Witnessing the Formation of Exotic Worlds (October 14, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44381 44381-9911800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Planets form out of cool gas-rich disks of material encircling young stars. Much of our theoretical understanding for this process has been based off of our best-studied example, our own Solar System. However, the discovery of new exotic planets and orbital architectures has demonstrated nature is far more creative than we had imagined. In this talk Dr. Cleeves will highlight exciting new results regarding our understanding of planet formation, and speculate on what these results may mean for forming new, potentially habitable, worlds.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:46:46 -0400 2017-10-14T10:30:00-04:00 2017-10-14T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Headshot of Ilse Cleeves
Engaging with Art (October 15, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44952 44952-10015364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a theme and includes a variety of styles and media to illuminate his or her ideas. Themes may be repeated but each docent's approach and choice of objects is unique.

Engaging with Art tours are generously supported by the Berkowitz Family Endowed Fund.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:39:23 -0400 2017-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-15T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Engaging with Art
Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Katherine Ryder (October 20, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44862 44862-9995000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:30am
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series provides a venue for students to engage and network with world-class entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and business leaders from across the globe. This gateway class explores fundamental topics in entrepreneurship such as emerging business models, new venture creation, and technology commercialization while exposing both undergraduate (freshmen – seniors) and graduate students to the ecosystem in a variety of industries. Note: These talks are open to the community as space permits.

About Katherine Ryder:

Katherine Ryder is the founder and CEO of Maven, the digital clinic for women.
Maven is a telehealth platform offering instant access to its best-in- class network
of women’s and family health providers, with a flagship 15-month maternity
management program for employers to help new parents throughout their
transition back to work.

Katherine previously worked as an early stage investor at the venture capital firm
Index Ventures, based in London, where she focused on consumer technology,
and in particular on investments in the health, education, art, and retail sectors.

Prior to joining Index, Katherine worked as a journalist, writing for
The Economist from Southeast Asia, New York, and London. In 2009, she worked
with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, helping him write his memoirs
about the U.S. financial crisis.

Katherine received her B.A. from the Honors College at the University of Michigan
and her MSc from the London School of Economics. Katherine is based in New
York City.

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Presentation Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:02:34 -0400 2017-10-20T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-20T12:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Katherine
Russian Language Conversation Group (October 20, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9829830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-10-20T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
Special Astronomy Talk | Light Pollution: Simple Solutions for a Serious Environmental Issue (October 20, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45806 45806-10307559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 3:30pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Light pollution is increasingly a major environmental threat. In addition to obscuring the night sky, the destruction of the natural nocturnal environment disrupts the behavior of countless species, triggering biological abnormalities and seriously impacting the health of many populations, including our own. Light pollution is a waste of energy, generated simply by human thoughtlessness and poor planning. Although meant to improve public safety, many lighting systems actually compromise safety. Light pollution is easy to address by good planning and public awareness, and at low financial cost. There is already substantial awareness of light pollution in Michigan, where dark skies are a recognized commodity. I will review the types of light pollution, safety and environmental impacts, and easy things everyone can do to help.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:55:53 -0400 2017-10-20T15:30:00-04:00 2017-10-20T16:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Fine Tuning the Universe (October 21, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44382 44382-9911802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The chemical evolution of the universe begins a second after the Big Bang and continues to the present day. The fusion of small nuclei into larger ones occurs in numerous astrophysical sites with undeniable ramifications to life on Earth. If conditions had been different across the multitude of nucleosynthesis environments, then some claim that there would be no possibility of life in this universe. In this talk, Dr. Grohs will examine anthropic arguments particular to nuclear astrophysics, and discuss applications to habitability in potentially other universes within a multiverse framework.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:40:19 -0400 2017-10-21T10:30:00-04:00 2017-10-21T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Gallery Tour: Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors—Part 2: Abstraction (October 22, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44990 44990-10041307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 22, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni on the global art world. This exhibition features works collected by a diverse group of alumni and the artworks themselves span 3,500 years of art making. Victors for Art offers visitors an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not together. Presented in two parts—Figuration (February 18-June 11, 2017) and Abstraction (July 1-October 29, 2017), this second part, Abstraction, invites visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA docents will explore the work of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, Kenojuak Ashevak, and Do Ho Su, as well as other treasures such as a fifth-century Korean roof end tile, an Amish quilt.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

Visit umma.umich.edu/events to learn more!

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Social / Informal Gathering Sun, 24 Sep 2017 18:35:00 -0400 2017-10-22T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-22T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Ashevak Enchanted Owl
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: Jason Yates: Fast Friends Forever (October 24, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44988 44988-10041305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason Yates, a Detroit native, currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Yates’ work focuses on a collaborative ethos and bridging the gap between various genres — namely art, music, fashion, and design. The rich cultural history of Detroit is hugely influential in Yates’ work and has been since his teenage years, when he became friends and artistic collaborators with musician George Clinton. He received his BFA from the University of Michigan in 1995 before moving to Los Angeles to study with Mike Kelley, Mayo Thompson, and Liz Larner in the MFA program at Art Center in Pasadena. Yates formed 'Fast Friends Inc.' a collaborative project to disseminate art outside the conventional gallery system and to distribute the work on the artist’s own terms. Chris Kraus writes in Where Art Belongs: “Yates is an exceptional artist.” For six years as Fast Friends Inc., he created band posters for Ariel Pink, Matt Fishbeck (of the band Holy Shit), and others that are also original art works.

This University of Michigan Bicentennial event is presented with additional support from Wasserman Projects wand the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Visit umma.umich.edu/events to learn more!

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 24 Sep 2017 18:21:49 -0400 2017-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 2017-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion UMMA Reading
HET Brown Bag | Extended Steinmann Relations and Cosmic Galois Theory in Planar N = 4 (October 25, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46076 46076-10387184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

While traditional methods for calculating scattering amplitudes prove too computationally intensive to be useful at higher loop orders, a great deal is now known about the analytic and kinematic properties of amplitudes to all orders in planar N=4. This information can be leveraged to construct these amplitudes directly, by putting together an ansatz of the relevant class of functions and requiring that it share the distinctive properties of a given amplitude. In this talk, I will describe how this bootstrap-type approach can be used to uniquely determine all six-particle amplitudes in this theory through (at least) five loops, focusing on how these methods make transparent the Steinmann relations and bear out the predictions of cosmic Galois theory. I will also discuss how these methods can be generalized to quantities of direct relevance to particle physics experiments.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:56:36 -0400 2017-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Monica Youn and Joyce Carol Oates, Poetry and Prose Reading (October 26, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44989 44989-10041306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Monica Youn is the author of three books of poetry: Blackacre (Graywolf Press, 2016); Barter(Graywolf Press, 2003); and Ignatz (Four Way Books, 2010), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the New York Times Magazine, and she has been awarded fellowships from the Library of Congress and Stanford University, among other awards. A former attorney, she now teaches poetry at Princeton University and at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She previously taught at Bennington College, Columbia University, and at the Sarah Lawrence College MFA Program. Youn’s poetry has been described as “interested in the intersection between the beauty we want in life, and the darkness that often serves as an invisible barrier for it,” with her background in law allowing her to “probe and navigate these gray areas gently, using an economy of language that both cuts to the heart of the matter and reveals nuanced layers of caution, lust, and desperation.”

One of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century, Joyce Carol Oates counts historical biographies, depictions of working class families, and magical realist Gothic fiction among her oeuvre. She often depicts hardships and violence in American towns, and has received both critical and popular acclaim in her 50-year career. Oates is the author of over 70 books, including the novels them (1969), winner of the National Book Award; Bellefleur (1980); You Must Remember This (1987); Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990); We Were the Mulvaneys (1996); Blonde (2000), winner of the National Book Award; The Gravedigger’s Daughter (2007); and The Accursed (2013). Her short stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Harper’s, and have been widely anthologized. In an interview for the Paris Review, she says: “I try to write books that can be read in one way by a literal-minded reader, and in quite another way by a reader alert to symbolic abbreviation and parodistic elements. And yet, it's the same book—or nearly. A trompe l'oeil, a work of ‘as if.’”
UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

Visit umma.umich.edu to learn more!

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Presentation Sun, 24 Sep 2017 18:27:17 -0400 2017-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Dug Song (October 27, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44896 44896-10003607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 11:30am
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series provides a venue for students to engage and network with world-class entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and business leaders from across the globe. This gateway class explores fundamental topics in entrepreneurship such as emerging business models, new venture creation, and technology commercialization while exposing both undergraduate (freshmen – seniors) and graduate students to the ecosystem in a variety of industries. Note: These talks are open to the community as space permits.

About Dug Song:

Dug has a history of leading successful products and companies to solve pressing security problems. Dug spent 7 years as founding Chief Security Architect at Arbor Networks, protecting 80% of the world’s Internet service providers, and growing to $120M+ annual revenue before its acquisition by Danaher. Before Arbor, Dug built the first commercial network anomaly detection system (acquired by NFR / Check Point), and managed security in the world’s largest production Kerberos environment (University of Michigan).

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Presentation Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:02:51 -0400 2017-10-27T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-27T12:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Dug
Russian Language Conversation Group (October 27, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9829831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Landau Singularities and the Amplituhedron (October 27, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46077 46077-10387186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Modern methods for computing scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory get enormous mileage out of knowledge (or assumed knowledge) of their singularity structure. I will demonstrate how, in the very special case of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, all information about this singularity structure can (in principle) be derived via combinatorial geometry problems using the amplituhedron, providing thereby the basic input to the "amplitude bootstrap" program.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Oct 2017 09:02:47 -0400 2017-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe (October 28, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44383 44383-9911803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 28, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

James Robert Walker Memorial Lecture
'We Have No Idea' is a fun, interactive presentation about everything that we DON’T know about the Universe, from the origin of our cosmos, to the dark matter that surrounds us. It features science and live cartooning. No scientific knowledge required, just a sense of curiosity and a sense of humor!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:38:06 -0400 2017-10-28T10:30:00-04:00 2017-10-28T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Engaging with Art (October 29, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44952 44952-10041308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 29, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a theme and includes a variety of styles and media to illuminate his or her ideas. Themes may be repeated but each docent's approach and choice of objects is unique.

Engaging with Art tours are generously supported by the Berkowitz Family Endowed Fund.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:39:23 -0400 2017-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Engaging with Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 29, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44991 44991-10041309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 29, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished Stamps School of Art and Design professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations at the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative of reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community. UMMA docents will introduce the juxtaposed images and help connect the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity.

Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

Visit umma.umich.edu/events to learn more!

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Social / Informal Gathering Sun, 24 Sep 2017 18:49:23 -0400 2017-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Jim Cogswell's Cosmogonic Tattoos
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Searching for Dark Matter in Distant Galaxies (November 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46335 46335-10464010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Galaxies beyond our own represent some of the brightest potential sources of dark matter flux on the sky. As such they represent excellent candidates for indirect detection and in this talk I will demonstrate how to exploit this information to search for dark matter using the Fermi telescope. In particular I will outline how to map from an observed baryonic galaxy to its underlying dark matter distribution and a demonstration that our methods work in a simulated N-body environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:42:34 -0400 2017-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Documentary Screening: Grooming a Generation (November 2, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46080 46080-10387191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Students of Color at Rackham (SCOR)

LitWits, SCOR, and the Graduate Student Community Organization present Grooming a Generration, a new documentary about a community literacy program in Ypsilanti directed by U-M alum Andy Sax. The director will be in attendance for a Q&A session following the film.

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Film Screening Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:08:51 -0400 2017-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Students of Color at Rackham (SCOR) Film Screening In this documentary, Andrew Sacks explores an effort by a group of barbers to improve their young customers’ literacy and appreciation of the written word. Low tech but high concept, there are no tablets, apps, or software. Just a shelf of books, a 25 minute haircut appointment, and an adult who truly cares.
MICDE/CM Theory Seminar | Light Controlled Topological Phase Transitions in Multi-Orbital and Frustrated Magnetic Systems (November 2, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46437 46437-10489749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminars

Spurred by recent progress in melting, enhancement and induction of electronic order out of equilibrium, a tantalizing prospect concerns instead accessing transient Floquet steady states via broad pump pulses, to affect electronic properties. Here, we consider a two-pronged approach to manipulate the topology of a band insulator, as well as topological order in a Mott insulator. We first develop a strategy to understand non-equilibrium Floquet-Bloch bands and topological transitions directly from ab initio calculations, and illustrate for the example of WS2 that control of chiral edge modes can be dictated solely from symmetry principles and is not qualitatively sensitive to microscopic materials details. Second, we extend these ideas to strongly correlated systems and show that pumping frustrated Mott insulators with circularly-polarized light can drive the effective spin system across a phase transition to a chiral spin liquid (CSL).The results presented suggest new avenues to marry dynamical symmetry breaking, strong interactions, and ab initio materials modelling, to access elusive phase transitions that are not readily accessible in equilibrium.

BIO: Professor Devereaux received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1988 & 1991, respectively. He is the Director of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), the Associate Lab Director (ALD) for Photon Science, a professor in the Photon Science Faculty at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University and a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. His main research interests lie in the areas of theoretical condensed matter physics and computational physics. His research effort focuses on using the tools of computational physics to understand quantum materials. His group carries out numerical simulations on SIMES’ high-performance supercomputer, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), and other US and Canadian computational facilities.

Prof. Devereaux is being hosted by Prof. Gull (Physics). If you are interested in meeting him please send an email to mcteja@umich.edu.

For more information visit http://micde.umich.edu/event/micde-seminar-thomas-devereaux-photon-science-stanford-university/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:48:53 -0400 2017-11-02T14:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminars Workshop / Seminar East Hall
Distinguished University Professorship Lecture | Networks of People, Places, and Information and What Physics Can Say About Them (November 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45857 45857-10318936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Physics

Many features of the world around us can be represented as networks. There are social networks of friendship or acquaintance, infrastructure networks like the internet or the power grid, transportation networks of roads, railways or airline flights, networks of information like the world wide web, and many others. This lecture will introduce some of the rich history of the study of networks and discuss some of the remarkable advances of the last few years, when a combination of insights from physics, the social sciences, biology, mathematics, and computer science have come together to shed light on issues as diverse as the spread of disease, online dating, scientific collaboration, animal behavior, web search, and the very structure of human society.

BIO
Mark Newman received a Ph.D. in physics from Oxford University in 1991 and conducted postdoctoral research at Cornell University before taking a position at the Santa Fe Institute, a think-tank in New Mexico devoted to the study of complex systems. In 2002 he left Santa Fe for the University of Michigan, where he is currently the Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of Physics and a professor in the university's Center for the Study of Complex Systems. Among other honors, he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, he has been a Simon's Foundation Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, and was winner of the 2014 Lagrange Prize, the largest international prize for research on complex systems. He is the author of over 150 scientific publications and seven books, including "Networks", an introduction to the field of network theory, and "The Atlas of the Real World", a popular book on cartography.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:13:18 -0400 2017-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Physics Lecture / Discussion Mark Newman
The Road to Graduate Success (November 2, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45207 45207-10110353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

Graduate school can be daunting. It’s often an extended exercise in not being told about the things you’d better know. The path to success is seldom smooth nor clear, populated by busy people and opaque processes. Alas, here is a forum for graduate students to hear from their senior colleagues about challenges in their academic journeys and how they overcame them. We asked an interdisciplinary group of these busy people to devote two hours of their time to answering your questions. Join us to gain insight from their hindsight!

Edible fare and refreshments to be served!

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 30 Sep 2017 13:50:04 -0400 2017-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion Event poster
“American Berserk” artist talk and opening reception with Valerie Hegarty (November 2, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43949 43949-9855237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 6:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:56:29 -0400 2017-11-02T18:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Valerie Hegarty tongue
Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Jon Stross & Daniel Chait (November 3, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44897 44897-10003612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 11:30am
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series provides a venue for students to engage and network with world-class entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and business leaders from across the globe. This gateway class explores fundamental topics in entrepreneurship such as emerging business models, new venture creation, and technology commercialization while exposing both undergraduate (freshmen – seniors) and graduate students to the ecosystem in a variety of industries. Note: These talks are open to the community as space permits.

About Jon Stross:

Jon Stross is a Co-founder of Greenhouse – a modern, smart recruiting platform. Greenhouse automates and simplifies the best practices for recruiting top talent, continuously monitors your recruiting activity, and automatically suggests improvements.

From 2005-2011, Jon was General Manager of International at BabyCenter.com, the leading destination on the Internet for new and expectant parents. Under his management, BabyCenter grew from a US business with a small UK site to a global business present in 21 markets, while maintaining strong financials and reaching over 25 million unique visitors per month. Jon had global P&L responsibility for this worldwide media business, including sales, marketing, editorial, product and technology. Additionally, he led BabyCenter’s efforts in build mobile health applications in emerging markets and have consulted on the topic over the last few months. Babycenter was acquired by Johnson & Johnson.

Previously, Jon was a member of the executive team at Merced Systems, an enterprise performance management software company. In this role, he was responsible for the vision and execution of the entire product, and for leading the deployment to early customers. Merced Systems was recently acquired by NICE for $170MM.

Jon initially served as the first Product Manager of BabyCenter, when it was founded in 1997, leading the development of both the main site and the e-commerce business.

Jon Stross graduated in 1995 from the University of Michigan with a degree in Political Science.

About Daniel Chait:

Daniel Chait is CEO & co-founder of Greenhouse, which designs tools that help create and navigate the changing world of work. Forward-thinking companies use Greenhouse’s recruiting software to plan, execute and optimize hiring. From strategic sourcing to customizable interview kits, Greenhouse provides a technology platform that helps organizations of all sizes improve their recruiting performance.
Daniel has been a technology entrepreneur in New York for nearly 20 years. Before Greenhouse, he co-founded Lab49, a global firm providing technology consulting solutions for the world’s leading investment banks.

Daniel is a frequent speaker on the topics of recruiting and entrepreneurship. He has presented at numerous venues including General Assembly, the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, Launch Scale, DEMO Traction, and the Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference.

Daniel graduated in 1995 from the University of Michigan with a degree in Computer Engineering (#GoBlue!).

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Presentation Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:03:10 -0400 2017-11-03T11:30:00-04:00 2017-11-03T12:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Jon & Dan
HET Seminars | New Directions in the Search for Dark Matter (November 3, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46336 46336-10464011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

The existence of dark matter has been well established with overwhelming evidence, but its particle identity is still unknown. For more than three decades, significant theoretical and experimental efforts have been directed towards the search for a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP), often overlooking other possibilities. The lack of an unambiguous positive WIMP signal, at both indirect- and direct-detection experiments and at the LHC, stresses the need to expand dark matter research into additional theoretical scenarios and, more importantly, to develop new experimental capabilities that go beyond the limitations of WIMP detection. In this talk I will shortly review the current status of the field and discuss new theoretical ideas and experimental avenues for searching for light dark matter in the MeV to GeV mass range, focusing on direct detection experiments.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:46:12 -0400 2017-11-03T15:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | The Machinery of Big Data Science (November 4, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44527 44527-9923126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 4, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Science domains are generating ever-increasing amounts of data in fields from high-energy physics to earth science to medicine. This translates into significantly increasing challenges for scientists who need to access, transform, analyze and share this data to extract new scientific insights. Dr. McKee will describe these challenges and expose the underlying "hidden" machinery that has been developed to make data-intensive science possible.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:11:06 -0400 2017-11-04T10:30:00-04:00 2017-11-04T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Special MIRA - U-M Physics Department Seminar | The Tragic Destiny of Mileva Marić Einstein (November 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46016 46016-10353059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

What were Albert Einstein's first wife’s contributions to his extraordinary productivity in the first years of his career? A first biography of Mileva Marić was published in Serbian in 1969 but remained largely unknown despite being translated first in German, then in French in the 1990’s. The publication of Mileva and Albert’s love letters in 1987 brought more information but more recently, two very well documented publications shed even more light on Mileva Marić’s life and work. I will review this evidence in its social and historical context to give a better idea on her contributions. The audience will be able to appreciate why such a talented physicist has been so unkindly treated by history.

About the Speaker:
Pauline Gagnon was born in Chicoutimi in Quebec, Canada in 1955. She received a B.Sc. in Physics from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1978 and taught physics for six years in local colleges. After moving to California, she first obtained a Masters degree at San Francisco State University then completed a PhD in particle physics at the University of California in Santa Cruz in 1993. She joined a research team from Carleton University in Ottawa to conduct research at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics located near Geneva. She later became Senior Research Scientist at Indiana University until she retired in 2016. She contributed to the construction of a tracking device for the ATLAS detector, and searched for dark matter particles in the decays of Higgs bosons and in the form of hypothetical particles called dark photons.

From 2011 until 2014, she worked within the CERN Communication group, writing blogs for the Quantum Diaries and answering questions from numerous media worldwide. Explaining particle physics in simple and accessible terms has become her trademark. Since 2013, she has given more than 80 presentations to large audiences in eight countries on three continents. Her popular science book Who Cares about Particle Physics: Making Sense of the Higgs boson, the LHC and CERN goes beyond the current research program at CERN, looking at how research is done by large international teams and exploring the importance of fundamental research in physics. With this book, she hopes to reach even larger audiences, being convinced that particle physics is too much fun to leave it only to physicists!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:11:38 -0400 2017-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Searching for weakly-coupled particles: from stars to colliders (November 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46529 46529-10543995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Many theories of beyond Standard Model physics include new light, weakly-coupled particles, which can be challenging to search for experimentally. I will talk about two observational probes of such particles. The first is based on “stellar cooling”: if new particles are produced in the hot cores of stars, they can escape from the star and carry away energy, affecting its structure and evolution. I’ll describe how the plasma environment in stellar cores can parametrically alter the rates for these process, and how this can significantly change the constraints and discovery potential for some new particle candidates.

I will also discuss searches for light vectors at colliders. Unless these couple to a fully conserved SM current, the production rate for longitudinal modes is enhanced by (energy / vector mass)^2. This is true even if the current is only broken at loop level, as for anomalous vectors, and can result in significantly improved constraints on many models of phenomenological interest.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:55:41 -0500 2017-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Russian Language Conversation Group (November 10, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9829833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-11-10T14:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
Saturday Morning Physics | Gravitational Wave Memory (November 11, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44536 44536-9923127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 11, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze space as they pass by; but even after the wave has completely passed, space does not return to its old unstretched and unsqueezed state. This residual stretch and squeeze is called gravitational wave memory.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:52:29 -0400 2017-11-11T10:30:00-05:00 2017-11-11T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Trans Awareness Week Keynote Speech (November 13, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45077 45077-10081479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join us in welcoming Z Nicolazzo (pronouns: ze/hir) to campus. Ze will join us for Transgender Awareness Week on Monday, November 13th. Ze is an assistant professor in the Adult and Higher Education program, and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, both at Northern Illinois University. Hir research focuses on mapping gender across college contexts, with a particular emphasis on affirmative and resilience-based research alongside trans* students. Ze recently published a book titled Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion.

Co-sponsored with Women's Studies, U-M Libraries, Counseling and Psychological Services, Center for the Education of Women, the Residential College, Center for the Study of Higher and Post-secondary Education, Michigan Community Scholars Program, Institute for Research on Gender and Women, Institute for the Humanities, School of Social Work TBLG Matters and Housing Diversity and Inclusion.




Registration Link: http://bit.ly/2yCaNqx

Free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:46:44 -0400 2017-11-13T18:30:00-05:00 2017-11-13T20:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A photo of Dr. Z Nicolazzo. Ze is smiling and standing in front of a building.
Collecting for the Academy: University Museums and the Production of Knowledge (November 14, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43956 43956-9855247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The University of Michigan boasts 20 distinct museums and collections, which contain over twenty-five million zoological specimens, herbarium sheets, ethnographical artifacts, and artworks from around the globe. Despite this staggering wealth of objects, to date there have been few attempts to understand their place in the history of the University and its scientific and disciplinary culture. In this talk, Kerstin Barndt shares new findings about the genesis of the collections in Michigan’s nineteenth century geological surveys and global collection expeditions, and about the role of the U-M museums in Michigan’s state formation.

Drawing comparisons with paradigmatic university museums in the US and in Europe, she concentrates on the life cycle of particular collections and highlights their important role in the disciplinary and historical self-understanding of the university. With some of these collections having subsequently lost this function and now considered missing, Barndt’s work performs a crucial work of historical recovery that shows how academic museums and their displays delineated and contested the distinctions between nature and culture, science and religion. Illustrated with copious examples from the riches of U-M’s collections, this talk outlines the many, complex, and hybrid dimensions of university museums as institutions of research, teaching and public display.

Barndt's research is currently featured in the exhibition "Object Lessons:
Recollecting Museum Histories at Michigan" on view at the U-M Museum of Natural History through December 30, as well as the book, with Carla Sinopoli, "Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge: The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817–2017 ."

Kerstin Barndt is associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures and a 2013-14 Helmut F. Stern fellow at the Institute for the humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:57:39 -0500 2017-11-14T12:30:00-05:00 2017-11-14T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion photo by Richard Barnes
Trans* in STEM: Gender Identity and Expression in the Field (November 14, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46347 46347-10464025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 5:00pm
Location: West Quadrangle
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Please join the Spectrum Center and oSTEM for a panel of professors, graduate students and professionals who will discuss their experiences, challenges and hopes surrounding being trans/non-binary while working and studying in the field of STEM. There will be an opportunity for a short Q&A at the end. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:34:40 -0400 2017-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T18:30:00-05:00 West Quadrangle Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A young person doing scientific work
CEW at U-M Presents: LAVERNE COX (November 15, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45808 45808-10307561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: CEW+

This event is free and open to the public, however, tickets are required. A limited amount of tickets are available at the Michigan Union Ticket Office online, in person, or via phone. The lecture cannot be recorded; however, it will be live-streamed at the Rackham Amphitheatre and the Michigan League Ballroom.

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U-M CEW brings celebrated and award-winning transgender actress, producer & equal rights advocate Laverne Cox to Rackham Auditorium on Wednesday, November 15th at 6:00 p.m. In Ms. Cox’s lecture, titled Ain't I a Woman: My Journey to Womanhood, she will be sharing her experiences as a trans woman of color, and her work as an international advocate for human rights and gender equality. This lecture serves as the capstone event to the 2017 CEW Spectrum of Advocacy & Activism Symposium being held earlier in the day.

Laverne Cox is an Emmy-nominated actress, Emmy-winning producer and the first transgender woman of color to have a leading role on a mainstream scripted television show. As the 2017 Mullin Welch guest lecturer, Laverne will be sharing her experiences as a trans woman of color, and her work as an international advocate for human rights and gender equality.

As "Sophia Burset," an incarcerated African American transgender woman on “Orange is the New Black,” Laverne is the first trans woman of color to have a leading role on a mainstream scripted television show. Along with several acting awards, Laverne was notably the first trans woman to appear on the cover of TIME magazine. An accomplished producer and celebrated equal rights advocate, she continues to drive positive change on a global scale as she shares her views on race, class, and gender with audiences through a range of platforms.

Laverne projects a combination of strength and vulnerability in her presentations while delivering an animated reflection on the transgender experience. Her recollections of growing up in Mobile, Ala., moving to New York City, and finding the courage to step into womanhood illustrate the unique challenges faced by the transgender community. With a powerful and empowering message about self-acceptance and love, Laverne moves audiences to respect and appreciate all individuals and advocate for positive change.

This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the CEW Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the CEW Mullin Welch Fund. Additional funding is provided by the Office of the Provost’s King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Professorship Program.

CEW would also like to thank the following University of Michigan event partners: Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG), College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA), Office of the Vice Provost for Equity, Inclusion and Academic Affairs, University Human Resources (UHR), Women of Color Task Force (WCTF), Athletics, School of Public Health (SPH), Student Life, Spectrum Center, and the Ginsberg Center.

The CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund promotes diversity and cultural awareness by bringing women leaders to campus.

The CEW Mullin Welch Lecture Series was established in 1989 by Frances Daseler and Marjorie Jackson in memory of their sister Elizabeth Charlotte Mullin Welch. This fund brings to the U-M campus outstanding women who exemplify Elizabeth's characteristics: creativity, strength of character, and expansive vision.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:07:55 -0400 2017-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Laverne Cox
Russian Language Conversation Group (November 17, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9829834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
HET Seminars | Cosmology of a Fine-Tuned SUSY Higgs (November 17, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46738 46738-10592253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

I will discuss some work in progress that explores whether a mildly fine-tuned Higgs boson, as in (mini-)split supersymmetry, can have interesting or observable cosmological consequences. As moduli fields oscillate, the Higgs can respond and temporarily acquire very large values along a D-flat direction. Possible consequences include a burst of gravitational wave production and an altered estimate of the number of e-folds of inflation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:19:26 -0500 2017-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | In Awe of the Northern Lights (November 18, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44537 44537-9923128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 18, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Since 2012 astronomer and U-M alumnus José Francisco Salgado has been photographing the Northern Lights from Canada, Alaska, and Iceland, as part of his work of communicating science through the arts. So far, his Northern Lights films set to music have been presented with orchestras in 13 cities in four countries and have reached a combined audience of 130,000 people. In this lecture, Dr. Salgado will speak about the physical processes behind the mesmerizing auroras and the experience of photographing them from subarctic Canada twice a year.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:18:20 -0500 2017-11-18T10:30:00-05:00 2017-11-18T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Salgado Picture
Fireside Chat with Josh Silverman and Mike Fisher, CEO and CTO of Etsy (November 20, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46833 46833-10658845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Computer Science and Engineering Division

Come to find out about exciting opportunities, engineering culture, technical challenges and how Etsy uses AI to make creative shopping more fun!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:33:58 -0500 2017-11-20T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Computer Science and Engineering Division Lecture / Discussion Fireside chat
IOE 813 Seminar: Geoffrey Barnes, MD, MSc (November 20, 2017 4:40pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46898 46898-10670080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 4:40pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Health Systems Engineering and Implementation Science: Using the Best of Both Worlds to Standardize Periprocedural Anticoagulation

Oral antithrombotic medications (“blood thinners”) are some of the most commonly used and dangerous medications that patients take. This is especially true around the time of a surgical procedure, when the medications must be stopped to avoid bleeding related to the procedure. With the recent introduction of 4 new oral antithrombotic medications, many patients and providers are confused as to the best methods to manage anticoagulants.  Using health systems engineering methods, we aimed to understand the current work flow for patients planning to undergo surgical procedures while taking chronic oral antithrombotic medications. We then developed a re-organized care model aimed at improving safety and coordination of care. Using implementation science techniques, we developed an implementation plan for re-organizing periprocedural care at the University of Michigan. We are currently exploring the generalizability of these models and their implementation plan across a diverse array of health systems.

Geoffrey Barnes, MD, MSc, is a cardiologist and vascular medicine specialist at the University of Michigan. He completed his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, followed by medical school, residency and fellowship training at the University of Michigan. He has been on faculty at the University of Michigan since 2014. He co-directs the Michigan Anticoagulation Quality Improvement Initiative (MAQI2), a collaborative of six health center anticoagulation clinics aimed at improving care for patients across the state of Michigan. Informed by his undergraduate engineering degree, he strives to use logical models to understand and improve healthcare delivery systems. His current research is focused on improving the delivery of anticoagulation care for patients undergoing surgical procedures.

The seminar series “Providing Better Healthcare through Systems Engineering” is presented by the U-M Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS): Our mission is to improve the safety and quality of healthcare delivery through a multi-disciplinary, systems-engineering approach.
For additional information and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series, please contact genehkim@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:14:09 -0500 2017-11-20T16:40:00-05:00 2017-11-20T18:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Special Cosmology Seminar | Quantum Theory and Cosmology away from the Planck Regime (November 21, 2017 3:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46897 46897-10670076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 3:10pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

We will review the so called “measurement problem” in quantum theory and argue that it becomes exacerbated in the cosmological context, and see how this connects with some problematic aspects of the standard accounts for the inflationary origin of cosmic structure.
We will argue that new physics, possibly tied to novel aspects of quantum gravity, should be invoked if we want to fully justify the phenomenological success of the basic inflationary scheme. The general view is one that has been strongly advocated by R. Penrose and we will discuss
how that can possibly be accommodated within our current understanding of the interface of quantum theory and gravitation.
We will then see, in particular that, such view leads to a modified outlook to that presented by the standard treatments, regarding the famous and yet undetected primordial tensor modes.
We will end with a proposal, motivated by the preceding discussion, of a novel approach to dealing with the so called “dark energy” puzzle.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:20:53 -0500 2017-11-21T15:10:00-05:00 2017-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
HET Brown Bag | Dark Fires in the Sky: Model-Independent Dark Matter Detection via Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars (November 29, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47036 47036-10776986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

I present a largely model-independent probe of dark matter-nucleon interactions. Accelerated by gravity to relativistic speeds, local dark matter scattering against old neutron stars deposits kinetic energy at a rate that heats them to infrared blackbody temperatures. The resulting radiation is detectable by next generation telescopes such as James Webb and the Thirty Meter Telescope. While underground direct detection searches are not (or poorly) sensitive to dark matter with sub-GeV masses, higher-than-weak-scale masses, scattering with strong cross-sections, scattering below neutrino floors, spin-dependent per-nucleon scattering below per-nuclear cross-sections, velocity-dependent scattering, and inelastic scattering for inter-state transitions exceeding O(100 keV), the (non-)observation of dark kinetic heating of neutron stars should advance these frontiers by orders of magnitude. Popular dark matter candidates previously suspected elusive, such as the thermal Higgsino, may be discovered.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:14:02 -0500 2017-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Russian Language Conversation Group (December 1, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9829836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
Saturday Morning Physics | Atomic Sensors: An Emerging Quantum Technology (December 2, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44538 44538-9923129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 2, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Advances in our ability to study and exploit the properties of atoms for measurements of physical quantities has ushered in a new age of technological possibilities in quantum sensing and measurement. Seminal developments include atomic clocks, atomic magnetometers, and inertial sensors based on atom interferometry. This lecture will introduce the advent of new quantum technologies for sensing and measurements of electric fields based on using exquisitely sensitive and versatile atoms in highly-excited Rydberg states. Dr. Anderson will describe the new atomic sensor technologies under development at Rydberg Technologies LLC, from basic measurement principles to applications in metrology, RF engineering, and plasma science.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:59:15 -0400 2017-12-02T10:30:00-05:00 2017-12-02T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
HET Brown Bag Seminar | From higher spins to generalized SYK models (December 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46737 46737-10592252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The spectrum of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model consists of an infinite tower of operators, which resembles the spectra of various vector models that are holographically dual to higher spin gravity theories. In this talk, I will discuss a direct connection between SYK-like tensor models and the Gross-Neveu vector model. This is achieved by studying a toy model where a tensor field is coupled with some vector fields. By integrating out the tensor field, the toy model reduces to the Gross-Neveu model in 1 dimension. At a different corner of the moduli space of this toy model, a perturbation can be turned on and the toy model flows to an SYK-like model at low energy. In addition, a chaotic-nonchaotic phase transition is observed as the sign of the perturbation is altered. If time permitted, I will briefly discuss some aspects of supersymmetric SYK-like models.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:35:51 -0500 2017-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Richard Lui to moderate Women's Entrepreneurship Panel (December 8, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44901 44901-10003614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 11:30am
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series provides a venue for students to engage and network with world-class entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and business leaders from across the globe. This gateway class explores fundamental topics in entrepreneurship such as emerging business models, new venture creation, and technology commercialization while exposing both undergraduate (freshmen – seniors) and graduate students to the ecosystem in a variety of industries. Note: These talks are open to the community as space permits.

About Richard Lui:

Nonpartisan Reporting Spanning 25 Years
Richard Lui's career in politics and political news spans 25 years, including news anchor for MSNBC, NBC News and CNN Worldwide. In 2007 he became the first Asian American male to anchor a daily national news broadcast in America. Most recently, Lui reported on the ground on the Paris and San Bernardino Terror Attacks and in Ferguson and Baltimore during heightened racial unrest. He's received Emmy and Peabody awards and the Champion in Media Award at the Multicultural Media Correspondents Dinner Award at the National Press Club.

Launched 6 Tech Brands over 3 Business Cycles
Business Insider named Lui one of 21 careers to watch alongside Warren Buffett and Sheryl Sandberg. Over the course of 30 years, Lui has launched six techbology brands over three business cycles, most recently with an artifiical intelligence company in Silicon Valley. After MBA at Michigan Ross School of Business, he joined Citibank where he co-created a fintech payment model he holds a patent for. He was a management consultant at Mercer for an IBM joint venture. Lui sits on four boards of directors / advisers in spaces ranging from international relations to artificial intelligence.

Top 1% WSB Speaker, over 500 Events
Lui is ranked in the top 1% of subject matter experts of Washington Speakers Bureau speakers. Lui was awarded Civil Rights awards, including the National Education Association's Human and Civil Rights Award, Asian American Jounalists Association's Civil Rights Award, and the Asian Americans Advancing Justice Courage Award. He is also ranked globally in the top 1% of social media users by Twitter Counter, and more lightheartedly, for four years ranked by Mediaite as one of the "50 Sexiest in TV News."

Political Practitioner
During the last 15 years Lui's reporting has focused on politics, covering every U.S. national election since 2004. He has interviewed hundreds of politicians, from Detroit Mayor to U.S. President. He has been a contributing columnist for USA Today, Politico, Seattle Times, Detroit Free Press, Huffington Post, and others. Lui is a Policy Fellow at UC Riverside.

Lui's passion for politics started in the 70s, when he debated California's controversial Proposition 13 on bus rides to school. His interest turned into a job at the age of 19: campaign manager for San Francisco College Board incumbent Alan Wong. After the election, Lui returned to college. His plan was to write on policy and the affairs of state, subscribing to the Washington Post when it had to be mailed to the west coast.

In the 1990s, Lui reported for news radio KALX during a unique time in California politics. Two of his first stories as a journalist were Dianne Feinstein's first successful U.S. Senate campaign and the Rodney King verdict and riots.

Later in the 2000s, Lui reported from Asia during an increasingly heated political climate. Two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia transformed: Indonesia's Sukarno family was defeated after rule spanning over half a century; and Malaysia's prime minister, after almost a quarter of a century handed over power. Lui also reported on Taiwan's controversial election between pro- and anti- China political parties. He was at Channel NewsAsia, an English-only news network in 20 countries and territories.

He is a Policy Fellow at the University of California Riverside where he explores the cross of public policy and media, Global Ambassador for Plan International, one of 200 active US State Department Traveling Speakers, and spokesperson for NGOs focusing on gender equality and human trafficking including the UN's HeForShe campaign.

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Presentation Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:03:48 -0400 2017-12-08T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-08T12:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Richard
Russian Language Conversation Group (December 8, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43680 43680-9829837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:13 -0400 2017-12-08T14:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Russian Conversation Group: Fridays @ 2pm in 3304 MLB
HET Seminar | Effective field theories for dark matter direct detection (December 8, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47257 47257-10855068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

I will discuss the nonperturbative matching of the effective field theory describing dark matter interactions with quarks and gluons to the effective theory of nonrelativistic dark matter interacting with nonrelativistic nucleons. In general, a single partonic operator already matches onto several nonrelativistic operators at leading order in chiral counting. Thus, keeping only one operator at the time in the nonrelativistic effective theory does not properly describe the scattering in direct detection. Moreover, the matching of the axial--axial partonic level operator, as well as the matching of the operators coupling DM to the QCD anomaly term, naively include momentum suppressed terms. However, these are still of leading chiral order due to pion poles and can be numerically important. I will illustrate the impact of these effects with several examples. Finally, I will comment about the importance of renormalization group running in direct dark matter detection.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:40:24 -0500 2017-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Winter Open House (January 5, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47909 47909-11053979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Before and after the program there will be opportunities to join OLLI and to:

· Meet study group instructors and learn about coming classes
· Talk with committee members about upcoming lecture series, day trips, and after five events
· Join a committee
· Drop off registrations for winter and spring program opportunities – for processing on January 10

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Socializing and refreshments
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.: Program and visitors
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Birthday cake and remembrances

OLLI members can take a real trip down memory lane through displays of pictures, brochures, and catalogues from archives of the UM Bentley Library and the OLLI office. Written work and visual arts produced by OLLI members over the last 30 years will be on display. Remembrances of OLLI members will be shared. A lottery for free registrations to events in the Winter Catalogue will be available.

If you are over 50, come and join the fun at this free event that is open to the public!

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Reception / Open House Sat, 23 Dec 2017 09:21:51 -0500 2018-01-05T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-05T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Reception / Open House kickoff
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Simplified Limits on Resonances at the LHC (January 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48219 48219-11191402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

When an excess appears in LHC data, we should compare the results with broad classes of models, to get an immediate sense of which kinds of BSM theories could conceivably be relevant. Often, the new physics is likely to be an s-channel resonance. In this case, a simplified model of the resonance can translate an estimated signal cross section into bounds on the product of the dominant production and decay branching ratios. This quickly reveals whether a given class of models could possibly produce a signal of the required size at the LHC. This talk will outline a general framework and show how it operates for resonances of varying widths and with different numbers of production and decay modes. It will also discuss applications to cases of experimental interest, including resonances decaying to di-bosons, di-leptons, or di-jets. If the LHC experiments start reporting searches for BSM resonances in terms of the simplified limits variable ζ defined here, the community will home in more quickly on the models most likely to explain any observed excess.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:22:25 -0500 2018-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
HET Semiars | SIMPs and ELDERs: New Ideas for Dark Matter (January 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48218 48218-11191401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Dark Matter could reside in a hidden sector with gauge structure similar to the Standard Model. In particular, the hidden sector may include a non-Abelian gauge interaction with confinement scale around 100 MeV, similar to our QCD. Dark mesons, counterparts of the usual pions, kaons etc., can then play the role of dark matter. Such particles may experience strong number-changing self-interactions, similar to the 2K<->3pi scattering familiar in QCD. Intriguingly, such self-interactions can naturally produce a thermal relic abundance of dark mesons consistent with observations. In this talk we will explore two variations of this basic scenario, “Strongly-Interacting Massive Particle” (SIMP) and “Elastically-Decoupling Relic” (ELDER). We will discuss the basic features of each scenario, explicit models in which they may be realized, and their experimental signatures.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:20:09 -0500 2018-01-12T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Talk: Comics Artist/Creator Shawn Martinbrough (January 15, 2018 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46890 46890-10670067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Comics artist and creator Shawn Martinbrough will present the talk “Continuing the Legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Through the Art of Storytelling” on Monday, January 15, 2018 from 2:30 - 3:30 pm in Stamps Auditorium (1226 Murfin Ave, Ann Arbor). This 2018 University of Michigan Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Symposium event is co-presented by the Stamps School of Art & Design, the College of Engineering, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning.

Shawn Martinbrough is the author of How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling, published by Random House and reprinted in several languages. He is a critically acclaimed creator/artist whose DC, Marvel and Dark Horse Comics projects include Batman: Detective Comics, Luke Cage Noir, Captain America, The Black Panther and Hellboy: Secret Nature.  Currently, Martinbrough is the artist of Thief of Thieves, the acclaimed crime series written by Robert Kirkman, creator of the AMC television series, The Walking Dead and award winning author Andy Diggle.

Martinbrough has co-created characters featured in the blockbuster 20th Century Fox feature film, Deadpool, the animated Batman: Gotham Knights and the FOX television series, GOTHAM and The GIFTED.

Shawn’s work has been covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, BET, ESSENCE, EBONY, The New York Daily News, USA Today, AOL, Publisher’s Weekly, and SIRIUS/XM Radio.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:15:22 -0500 2018-01-15T14:30:00-05:00 2018-01-15T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/ShawnMartinbroughweb.jpg
Exploring Parallel Engagements in Contemporary Chinese Art World (January 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48726 48726-11297751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Contemporary Chinese Art has been evolving rapidly over the last few decades, and two prominent lines of engagements have emerged. The first line shows artists who challenge and confront intense socio-political situations of China; they confront global forces with individualistic artistry. The second line shows artists who attempt to construct their own artistic niches and global expressions of peace and other humanist concerns. This talk introduces these parallel lines of engagements, illustrating the ways Chinese artists discuss their art works since 1980s.

ZHANG Fang, writer and art critic/historian, is Hughes Scholar (2016-2017) at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Zhang has published quite extensively in foreign and Chinese journals introducing the China syndrome which are compounded by multi-faced social, political, economic and cultural diaspora.

*Image: Follow Me, 120x300cm, laser print, 2003, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:25:25 -0500 2018-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Follow Me
HET Brown Bag Seminars | The strong CP problem and UV instantons (January 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48221 48221-11191405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The absence of sizeable CP violation in the strong sector is a long standing puzzle. A class of solutions to this problem rely on a global U(1) symmetry that is anomalous with QCD. These solutions lead to robust low-energy predictions, for example a massless up quark or a light axion. I will present simple extensions to such solutions which can dramatically change these low-energy predictions. In our models, contributions from small instantons play a significant role in affecting the low-energy physics while preserving the solution to the strong CP problem.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:24:20 -0500 2018-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
MIPSE Seminar | Ion Propulsion and the Job-Creating Power of the Rocket Equation (January 17, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47479 47479-10929758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Solar electric propulsion (EP) is firmly in the main-stream of propulsion technologies for deep space missions. To go faster and farther, deep space mis-sions of the future will require increasingly larger total changes in the spacecraft velocity – ΔV. The largest ΔV provided by any onboard propulsion system in deep space is 11 km/s by the ion propulsion system on NASA’s Dawn mission. This is 3 to 4 times higher than the ΔV by any onboard chemical propulsion system. Solar EP has now been used on six missions beyond Earth orbit: Deep Space 1, SMART-1, Hayabusa 1, LISA Pathfinder, Hayabusa 2, and Dawn; and on hundreds of commercial communication satellites. The next uses of EP will be NASA’s mission to the metal world (16) Psyche and ESA’s BebiColombo mission to Mercury. This activity is driven by the inescapable reality of the rocket equation. Yet EP has just scratched the surface of what it can do. This talk will discuss how advanced EP technologies will impact an impressive range of future space activities including: rapid transportation throughout the solar system; human missions beyond low-Earth orbit; planetary defense; asteroid mining; gravitational wave experiments; and even interstellar precursor missions.

John Brophy received a B.S. in Mechanical Engr. from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1978, and M.S. Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University in 1980 and 1984. In 1991 he led the U.S. team in the evaluation of Hall thruster technology in the Soviet Union leading to the wide-spread adoption of this technology in the West. In 1992 he initiated the NSTAR Project that successfully demonstrated of ion propulsion on Deep Space 1. He was responsible for the delivery of the Ion Propulsion System for NASA’s Dawn mission launched in 2007, resulting in the first-ever use of ion propulsion on a deep-space science mission. In 2011 he co-led the Asteroid Retrieval Mission study at Caltech’s Keck Institute for Space Studies that resulted in NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission. He is a JPL and an AIAA Fellow. He received the Ernst Stuhlinger Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Electric Propulsion in 2015 and the AIAA Wyld Propulsion Award in 2017.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link: https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=m5180f2510ed6c8bf089ed215993a6f2c.
Password: MIPSE
Meeting number/Access code: 629 222 215.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:39:07 -0500 2018-01-17T15:30:00-05:00 2018-01-17T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion John Brophy
INNOVATE Kickoff Event (January 17, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48670 48670-11265204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Central Student Government

Are you interested in helping out your community and getting more involved on campus? Are you currently working on a project, but have no clue how to fund it or take it to the next level?

Sign up for INNOVATE, a public service pitch competition hosted by Central Student Government! INNOVATE focuses on supporting students in any field of study by providing them with mentors, weekly info guides on idea development and campus resources, and funding up to $10,000! No previous experience in entrepreneurship necessary!

Join us January 17th from 7-9 p.m. in the League Ballroom to enjoy FREE dinner, meet teammates, listen to student speakers talk about their experiences, and learn more about the competition. Hope to see you there!

Check out our Facebook event to learn more: https://www.facebook.com/events/2009342979324527/
Sign up at: tinyurl.com/innovatesignups

Further Questions? Check out csg.umich.edu or email CSGinnovate@umich.edu

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Rally / Mass Meeting Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:56:15 -0500 2018-01-17T19:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Central Student Government Rally / Mass Meeting INNOVATE
LCTP Inaugural Lecture | The Future of Fundamental Physics (January 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47892 47892-11043650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Fundamental physics started the 20th century with the twin revolutions of relativity and quantum mechanics, and much of the second half of the century was devoted to the construction of a theoretical structure unifying these radical ideas. Yet storm clouds are gathering, which point towards a new set of revolutions on the horizon in the 21st century. Space-time is doomed—how can it emerge from more primitive building blocks? And how is our macroscopic universe compatible with violent microscopic quantum fluctuations that seem to make its existence wildly implausible? In this talk I will describe these deep mysteries and outline some of our strategies for making progress on them. I will also discuss plans for a giant new particle accelerator with energy seven times higher than the Large Hadron Collider that will be necessary to make major progress on at least some of these questions in the coming decades.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:37:43 -0400 2018-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Entrepreneurship Speaker Series (January 19, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44454 44454-11297801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series provides a venue for students and the Ann Arbor community to engage and network with world-class entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and business leaders from across the globe.

Note: These talks are open to the community as space permits.

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Rahm Emanuel was sworn in to a second term as the 55th mayor of the City of Chicago on May 18th, 2015.

During his first term, Mayor Emanuel launched Building a New Chicago, an $8 billion coordinated infrastructure plan to revitalize the city’s roads, rails, and runways. The plan has already led to the creation of 60,000 new jobs and will create another 40,000 jobs in the next four years.

Over the last year and a half, more than forty corporations have moved or announced their intent to move to Chicago, and the City of Chicago has led the country in corporate relocation and direct foreign investment for four consecutive years.

Prior to becoming Mayor, Emanuel served as the White House Chief of Staff in President Obama’s administration, served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Clinton White House rising to serve as Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy.

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Presentation Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:32:47 -0500 2018-01-19T12:30:00-05:00 2018-01-19T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation E-Hour: Rahm Emanuel
HET Seminars | Marble Statues in the Forest Beyond Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime (January 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48023 48023-11170152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:16:44 -0500 2018-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HEP - Astro Seminar | Cutting-Edge Instrumentation for the Advanced ACT Polarimeter (January 22, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49102 49102-11375486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HEP - Astro Seminars

In this talk I will present an overview of the upgrade to the polarization-sensitive camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope known as Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT). This upgrade targets ambitious science goals using advanced technologies including dense arrays of cryogenic bolometers with superconducting sensors and continuously-rotating silicon-metamaterial half-wave plates for modulation of incoming polarization. I will discuss work on the detector arrays, advances in our understanding of our bolometers, and the data processing pipeline under development to handle polarization-modulated data.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:31:34 -0500 2018-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall HEP - Astro Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
The Glorious Life: A Journey of Spectacles (January 24, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48738 48738-11297796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Join us for the reception and an informal talk by WANG Qingsong!

WANG Qingsong, one of China’s most highly regarded contemporary artists, will present an overview of his artistic works inspired by dramatic transformations that took place inside China in the last two decades. Addressing issues like real-estate development, massive consumption, education system failure, migration as well as globalization, Wang’s works present conflicts, contradictions, and contortions in an artistic and satirical ways.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:44:21 -0500 2018-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Glory of Hope
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Astrophysical Signatures of Dark Matter Accumulation in Neutron Stars (January 31, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49364 49364-11450939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Over the past few decades, terrestrial experiments have placed increasingly strong limits on the dark matter-nucleon scattering cross-section. However, a significant portion of the standard dark matter parameter space remains beyond our reach. Due to their extreme density and huge gravitational fields, neutron stars stand as optimal targets to probe dark matter-neutron interactions. As an example, over the last few years, the existence of Gyr-age neutron stars has placed strong limits on models of asymmetric dark matter. In this talk, I will discuss novel methods which utilize neutron stars to potentially detect dark matter interactions by studying the galactic morphology of neutron stars, as well as electromagnetic signals which may be produced via neutron star collapse. Intriguingly, these observations can probe extremely generic dark matter models spanning from MeV - PeV energies, and including troublesome portions of parameter space such as pure-Higgsino dark matter.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:29:24 -0500 2018-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
HET Seminars | String Theory of Supertubes (February 2, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49365 49365-11450940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

The internal structure of extremal and near-extremal black holes in string theory involves a variety of ingredients — strings and branes — that lie beyond supergravity, yet it is often difficult to achieve quantitative control over these ingredients in a regime where the state being described approximates a black hole. The supertube is a brane bound state that has been proposed as a paradigm for how string theory resolves black hole horizon structure. This talk will describe how the worldsheet dynamics of strings can be solved exactly in a wide variety of supertube backgrounds, opening up the study of stringy effects in states near the black hole transition.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:31:40 -0500 2018-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | The Great American Eclipse of 2017 (February 3, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48076 48076-11178019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 was seen by millions of people from coast to coast and may have been the most anticipated, most photographed celestial event of all time. My own journey to this eclipse began 39 years ago, when as a high school student I witnessed the last North American total eclipse with a group of friends and our remarkable science teacher. I'll describe how we all reunited last summer as part of a nationwide team of citizen scientists, collecting data that will add to our knowledge of our nearest star. I'll also discuss the next North American total eclipse in 2024—you won't have to travel far from Ann Arbor to see it!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:22:39 -0500 2018-02-03T10:30:00-05:00 2018-02-03T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Solar
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Loops from Nodes: Two-Loop Supergravity Amplitudes From the Ambitwistor String (February 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49369 49369-11450943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The last years have seen remarkable progress in understanding the scattering amplitudes of massless particles in arbitrary dimensions.Underlying the simple formulae are chiral worldsheet models, known as Ambitwistor Strings. While correlators of these models admit a conventional genus expansion of the worldsheet, the amplitudes actually localize on the maximal non-separating degeneration. We explore this simplification at two loops for type II supergravity, concluding in several observations for generic massless field theories.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:55:36 -0500 2018-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
4th Annual W.M. Trotter Lecture (February 8, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47335 47335-10869002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The W.M. Trotter Multicultural Center is honored to be centering the voices of transgender and non-binary individuals at our 4th Annual W.M. Trotter Lecture, with a particular focus on the intersecting identities of gender and race. We are beyond thrilled to welcome to the University of Michigan, speakers Janet Mock, author of Redefining Realness, Surpassing Certainty, and King Amiyah Scott of Fox Network’s STAR. Current and former students and staff from the University of Michigan will also contribute to this phenomenal event! We aim to hold a space in which the personal narratives and lives of trans folks can be shared, celebrated, and honored.

Previous lectures include The Black Male Athlete; Who is He and What is He to You in 2016, which was held in the Ross Auditorium, celebrating Student Leaders in 2015; as well as, the 2014 Inaugural W.M. Trotter Lecture that featured activist, poet, and educator Cheryl Clarke.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:19:54 -0500 2018-02-08T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T21:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Trotter Lecture Flyer
Saturday Morning Physics | The Physics of Complex Systems (February 10, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48126 48126-11180721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

This talk will describe how we use ideas from physics to understand a wide range of complex systems, including traffic patterns, random processes, social networks, and the spread of diseases. Using a combination of computer simulations, math, and experimental observations, physics can shed light on questions as diverse as why traffic jams occur, how coral grows, or how the flu spreads around the world.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:22:00 -0500 2018-02-10T10:30:00-05:00 2018-02-10T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Newman
HET Brown Bag Series | The Quest for New Physics: From Atomic Physics to the LHC (February 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49947 49947-11608279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The Standard Model of particle physics well describes a vast number of observables up to the TeV scale. However, it cannot be a complete description of Nature as it cannot explain various experimental observations. For example, it lacks a viable dark matter candidate and can neither explain the observed matter/antimatter asymmetry of our Universe nor neutrino oscillations. Thus, physics beyond the Standard Model is well motivated. In this seminar, we explore different methods to probe new physics at multiple energy scales, from high energy colliders, such as the LHC, to precision low energy experiments. In particular, we focus on searches for new force carriers at the LHCb experiment and in precision atomic spectroscopy. We show that the inclusive search for dark photons at the LHCb experiment already probes new parameter space and can be easily interpreted for a large variety of new physics models. On the precision frontier, we explore the potential of isotope shift spectroscopy to probe new long range force carriers.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:19:16 -0500 2018-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Department Colloquia | Comb-Based Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy (February 14, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49956 49956-11608293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:58:07 -0500 2018-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Seminars | Universality and Thermalization of Fast Quenches (February 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49948 49948-11608280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Quantum quench - a sadden change of system Hamiltonian - provides a rich and tractable framework to access dynamics of thermalization of a quantum isolated system. When the chnge of Hamiltonian is fast but not instantaneous (so called fast quenches) the dynamics often can be described in terms of the UV fixed point, thus leading to universal predictions. We employ conformal perturbation theory to calculate the behavior of various quantities (one and two point functions) during and after the quench. Furthermore, by calculating the energy fluctuations after the quench we argue that at late times the system will thermalize, provided it satisfies the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:21:36 -0500 2018-02-16T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Detection for Nuclear Nonproliferation (February 17, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48127 48127-11180722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Since the discovery of fission, nuclear chain reactions, and nuclear weapons, preventing the spread of nuclear weapons has become a top priority for our nation and the world. Several international treaties have been put into place to curb the expansion of nuclear capabilities. Nevertheless, there are states that may be pursuing elements of an overt or covert nuclear weapons program. New science and technology developments are needed to verify the existing or proposed treaties in this area and to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:41:51 -0500 2018-02-17T10:30:00-05:00 2018-02-17T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Camera
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Quantum Curves and Q-deformed Painlevé Equations (February 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49953 49953-11608291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

In this talk I will first review some aspects of Painlevé equations and their connection to four dimensional gauge theory; then I will generalise this construction to q-difference Painlevé equations and topological string theory. I will show that their tau-functions are Fredholm determinant of operators associated to quantum mirror curves on a corresponding geometry. As a consequence, the zeroes of these tau-functions compute the exact spectrum of the associated quantum integrable systems. I will focus on the particular example of q-Painlevé III_3 which is related to topological string on local P1xP1 and to relativistic Toda system.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:40:56 -0500 2018-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
HET Seminars | Dark Matter Beyond Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (February 23, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50190 50190-11656403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Dark matter (DM) comprises approximately 27% of the energy in the observable universe. Its properties, such as its mass and interactions, remain largely unknown. Unveiling the properties of DM is one of the most important tasks in high energy physics. For the past few years, motivated by possible new physics at the electroweak scale, many DM experiments have looked for DM with mass at O(100) GeV. This is not the only possibility, however. Large chunks of parameter space supported by other well-motivated models remain to be carefully studied. Exploring these regimes requires creative ideas and advanced technologies. I will first talk about the novel proposal on using superconductor as the target material for DM direct detection. This setup has the potential to lower the direct detection mass threshold from few GeV to keV, consequently probing the warm dark matter scenario. Then I will present a recent proposal utilizing the Gravitational Wave (GW) experiments, i.e. LIGO and LISA, to search for ultra-light dark photon dark matter. We show these GW experiments can go well beyond existing constraints and probe large regions of unexplored parameter space. Both proposals are under serious investigation by experimental groups and likely to be carried out in the near future.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:08:04 -0500 2018-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Holographic Mellin Amplitudes (March 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49954 49954-11608292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Holographic four-point functions are known for their notorious computational difficulties. In the past two decades, only a handful of them have been explicitly calculated using the standard algorithm. In this talk I will introduce modern methods to compute holographic correlators efficiently, which are inspired by the bootstrap philosophy and the on-shell methods of scattering amplitudes in flat space. I will show that by translating the problem into Mellin space many difficulties encountered when applying the traditional method are avoided. I will argue that imposing symmetry constraints and general consistency conditions -- avoiding all details of the complicated effective Lagrangian -- leads to many novel results for holographic four-point functions in AdS5×S5, AdS7×S4 and AdS4×S7. I will conclude by outlining some interesting future directions of this program.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:42:47 -0500 2018-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-03-07T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
HET Seminars | Flavor-Specific Scalar Mediators (March 9, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50657 50657-11847603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

New singlet scalar bosons have broad phenomenological utility and feature prominently in many extensions of the Standard Model. Such scalars are often taken to have Higgs-like couplings to SM fermions in order to evade stringent flavor bounds, e.g. by assuming Minimal Flavor Violation (MFV), which leads to a rather characteristic phenomenology. Here we describe an alternative approach, based on an effective field theory framework for a new scalar that dominantly couples to one specific SM fermion mass eigenstate. A simple flavor hypothesis, similar in spirit to MFV, ensures adequate suppression of new flavor changing neutral currents. We consider radiatively generated flavor changing neutral currents and scalar potential terms in such theories, demonstrating that they are often suppressed by small Yukawa couplings, and also describe the role of CP symmetry. We further demonstrate that such scalars can have masses that are significantly below the electroweak scale while still being technically natural, provided they are sufficiently weakly coupled to ordinary matter. In comparison to MFV, our framework is rather versatile since a single (or a few) desired scalar couplings may be investigated in isolation. We illustrate this by discussing in detail the examples of an up-specific scalar mediator to dark matter and a muon-specific scalar that may address the muon anomalous magnetic moment discrepancy.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:15:42 -0500 2018-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Spins, Magnetism and Computers (March 10, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48128 48128-11180723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 10, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

How do computers work, and what is a hard drive? There has been tremendous progress in making computers faster and smaller, but what comes next? In this talk, Professor Vanessa Sih will describe the role that spin and magnets play in today's computers and in proposed future technology.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:20:50 -0500 2018-03-10T10:30:00-05:00 2018-03-10T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Lab
Foundations of Modern Physics interdisciplinary reading group (FOMP) | Particle Physics after the Discovery of the Higgs Boson (March 11, 2018 9:40am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49616 49616-11484722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 11, 2018 9:40am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Physics

Registration link: https://goo.gl/forms/kqitVpWhC2WI5JWr1

List of speakers:
Prof. Bing Zhou (UMich, Physics)
Dr. Chris Quigg (Fermilab)
Prof. Porter Williams (University of Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science)
Prof. Tian Cao (Boston University, Philosophy): Ontological foundations of the Higgs mechanism

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Feb 2018 10:40:22 -0500 2018-03-11T09:40:00-04:00 2018-03-11T17:45:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Foundations of Particle Physics Workshop
HET Brown Bag Series | Empirical Determination of the Dark Matter Velocity Distribution (March 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50189 50189-11656314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Using the hydrodynamic simulation Eris, as well as various realizations of the Milky Way from the FIRE simulation, we found that the kinematics of dark matter follows closely the kinematics of old metal poor stars. We use this correspondence to obtain the first empirical measurement of the local velocity distribution of dark matter, by first analyzing the Gaia data release coupled with RAVE as well as the ninth release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and computing the velocity distribution of metal poor stars. We find that this velocity distribution is peaked at lower velocities than the generally assumed Maxwell Boltzmann distribution, leading to a weakening of direct detection limits at dark matter masses less than 10 GeV by a factor of a few. We also found a few kinematic outliers in the stellar data that might be hints of dark matter substructure.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:05:30 -0500 2018-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
2018 Helmut W. Baer Lecture in Physics | Detecting the Tiny Thump of the Neutrino (March 14, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40987 40987-8875735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Neutrinos are “ghostly” particles, interacting only rarely with matter. Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) was first predicted in 1973; it’s a process in which a neutrino scatters off an entire nucleus. By neutrino standards, CEvNS occurs frequently, but it is tremendously challenging to see. The only way to observe it is to detect the minuscule thump of the nuclear recoil. CEvNS was measured for the first time by the COHERENT collaboration using the unique, high-quality source of neutrinos from the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This talk will describe COHERENT's recent measurement of CEvNS, the status and plans of COHERENT's suite of detectors at the SNS, and the physics we will learn from the measurements.

The Helmut W. Baer Lecture is a special colloquium supported by family and friends in honor of Dr. Helmut Baer. Dr. Baer's career in physics began with his work at the University of Michigan where he was awarded a doctorate in nuclear physics in 1967. He published over 100 articles that cover a range of physics topics including nuclear physics and pion interactions. Dr. Baer was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in March of 1989, and to his delight enjoyed countless opportunities over the years to talk about physics at universities and conferences internationally. Dr. Baer set the highest personal standards for himself and his research. This lecture is held approximately every two years.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:12:31 -0400 2018-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion West Hall
HET Seminars | Constraints on Interacting Massive High Spins (March 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49951 49951-11608290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

There seem to be no good examples of UV complete theories that have low-lying massive higher spin states isolated by a large gap, despite the relative ease of constructing effective field theories describing such states. We discuss constraints from analytic dispersion relations and subluminality of eikonal scattering that may help to explain this and provide insight into the possible interactions of massive higher spins.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:38:08 -0500 2018-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Using Physics to Fish for Cells (March 17, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48129 48129-11180724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 17, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The separation and detection of cells, DNA, and proteins from blood samples is essential for testing diseases, drug development, and biological research. This talk will discuss how physics is being used to separate cells and will include emerging approaches that range from magnetics to microbubbles. Dr. McNaughton will also include several demos of these technologies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:20:17 -0500 2018-03-17T10:30:00-04:00 2018-03-17T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Cells
WISE Willie Hobbs Moore Luncheon (March 20, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50331 50331-11710225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Tuesday, March 20, 11:30 am - 1:00
Registration information to come.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:49:41 -0500 2018-03-20T11:30:00-04:00 2018-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Lecture / Discussion
HET Brown Bag Series | Conformal truncation: A new method for studying strong-coupled QFTs (March 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51154 51154-12007285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

I will present a new numerical method for studying strongly-coupled QFTs. The method is formulated for continuum spacetime of any dimension, in real time and infinite volume, and is thus complementary to other numerical methods, such as the lattice. The method harnesses conformal symmetry, but in a manner applicable to general, non-conformal QFTs. Specifically, the input is information about the UV CFT from which the QFT originates. The output is the physical IR QFT spectrum, along with real-time, infinite-volume correlation functions. I will discuss applications to 2D phi^4 theory, where we have performed novel computations of correlation functions at any coupling, such as the Zamolodchikov c-function along the full RG-flow. The 2D Ising model provides a highly-nontrivial cross-check of our numerics.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:22:22 -0400 2018-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
MDes Public Presentation: Caring for the Caregivers (March 23, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49770 49770-11532459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Caring for the Caregivers: Designed interventions to support families and loved ones as they navigate the complexities of modern medicine.

Follow the path of two projects that address the challenges caregivers face as they try to support patients in and outside of a hospital. These talks by the second graduating class of Stamps Master of Design in Integrative Design program will discuss ways design can help uncover needs, bring diverse stakeholders together, navigate complexity, and support ethical interventions.

TWO PRESENTATIONS, FEATURING:
1: Scott Dailey, Prerna Dudani, Priyanka Raju Dantuluri
2: Brandon Keelean

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Presentation Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:15:31 -0400 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Presentation https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/MDes-Thesis-2018.jpg
Saturday Morning Physics | Sound, Shapes and Photosynthesis: Physics is Everywhere (March 24, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48130 48130-11180725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

We also celebrate the Van Loo Saturday Morning Physics Lecture on this date.
(Three talks in one)
Entropy, Shape, and Phase Transition - Chrisy Xiyu Du (U-M Physics)
Using Femtosecond Spectroscopy to Illuminate Photosynthesis - Veronica Policht (U-M Physics)
Photosynthesis powers life on Earth. Following the initial absorption of light, the primary energy conversion steps in photosynthesis occur incredibly rapidly (10^-12 s), making it particularly challenging to study. We'll discuss how carefully timed sequences of ultrafast laser pulses enable us to take real-time snapshots that improve our understanding of this critical process.
The Sound Heard 'Round the World' - Brian Worthmann (U-M Applied Physics)
In everyday life, we as humans are used to sounds traveling anywhere from a few feet for a quiet conversation, up to a few miles for some of the loudest sounds. But in the ocean, a fascinating combination of physics allows sound to travel significantly much, much further. We'll talk about how sound travels in air, why it's different in the ocean, and why this fact was a closely guarded secret during the Cold War.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:12:44 -0400 2018-03-24T10:30:00-04:00 2018-03-24T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Plants
HET Brown Bag Series | A Natural Generalization of the Standard Randall-Sundrum Framework and its Phenomenological Implications (March 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51355 51355-12086777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

In the first part of the talk, I will introduce a very natural extension of well-motivated extra-dimensional framework of Randall-Sundrum type. Such a generalization is motivated by (null) results from both high energy (LHC) and low energy (flavor, CP, and electroweak precision) experiments. In particular, null results from the LHC led us to consider the possibility that little hierarchy may exist. In addition to the consistency with low energy bounds, our generalization can address the question of the form of TeV scale new physics we can expect. I will argue that such new physics appearing at the TeV scale is in the form of vector-like confinement with new states interacting with SM through mostly flavor universal couplings. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss several exciting signals probable at the LHC and in future colliders.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:22:19 -0400 2018-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
MIPSE Seminar | Emerging Research Topics in Plasma Science: Plasma-control of Electromagnetic Waves and High Energy Density Plasma Jets and Their Interactions (March 28, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47480 47480-10929759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

This presentation will focus on two emerging areas of plasma science research at Stanford. The first part of will provide an overview of recent work at Stanford and of a Stanford-led multi-university effort on the integration of plasmas into metamaterials and photonic crystals for the control of electromagnetic waves in the centimeter – millimeter range of the spectrum. Plasmas, because of their unusual dielectric constant, provide a means of reconfiguring otherwise passive microwave photonic and plasmonic devices that are used to filter, switch, or redirect electromagnetic waves. The second part will focus on recent studies of high energy density plasmas and the formation of hypervelocity plasma jets of extreme density (1018 cm-3) and temperature (50-100 eV). The interactions of these jets with surfaces generate an extreme heat flux (>10 GW/m2) and can serve as simulators of disruptions that occur in magnetic confinement fusion reactors. We will describe efforts at characterizing the jet structure including first videography of unsteady dynamics, and also recent measurements of surface heat deposition rates.

Mark A. Cappelli is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and co-Director of the Engineering Physics Major. He received his B.Sc. degree in Physics from McGill University, and his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Aerospace Sciences. The focus of his Ph.D. dissertation involved the formation of high density plasma channels to facilitate the propagation of ion beams to targets in light-ion beam fusion. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1987. At Stanford, he has studied the applications of plasmas to space propulsion, materials synthesis and processing, combustion, aerodynamics, and most recently, to the control of electromagnetic waves.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=m76c8ad745d3dc7c85f690b71c96ea453
Password: MIPSE
Meeting number/Access code: 624 958 992
Audio connection through phone: (510) 338-9438

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:50:17 -0400 2018-03-28T15:30:00-04:00 2018-03-28T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Mark Cappelli
2018 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics | From Bits to Qubits: A Quantum Leap for Computers (March 28, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40839 40839-8799223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The steady increase in computational power of information processors over the past half-century has led to smart phones and the internet, changing commerce and our social lives. Up to now, the primary way that computational power has increased is that the electronic components have been made smaller and smaller, but within the next decade it is expected to reach the fundamental limits imposed by the size of atoms. However, it is possible that further huge increases in computational power could be achieved by building quantum computers, which exploit in new ways of the laws of quantum mechanics that govern the physical world. This talk will discuss the challenges involved in building a large-scale quantum computer as well as progress that we have made in developing a quantum computer using silicon quantum dots.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:20:15 -0400 2018-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Photo of Susan Coppersmith
Who Can Relate? A Conversation with Artist Peter Tunney (March 29, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51496 51496-12123943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

From Wall Street financier to artist and social activist: Peter Tunney discusses his experience with mental health on Thursday, 3/29, at 12pm in the auditorium in the Stamps School of Art & Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd). Q&A following the talk will be moderated by Stamps Professor James Cogswell. Free pizza will be provided after the event!

This event, sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, is part of the “Who Can Relate?” series of events on campus, focusing on mental health and wellness. 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:15:26 -0400 2018-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-29T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/michigan_flyer_who_can_relate_blue-white-011.jpg
UNshaken: Subnational Actors Step Up at the Global Climate Talks (March 29, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50867 50867-11887880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: ClimateBlue

Join us for a discussion of the recent international climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany! Hear perspectives from University of Michigan student delegates who were there as observers. Stay to learn some takeaways from a panel of experts and policymakers on what’s next for climate policy, globally and locally now that the U.S. has submitted intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and subnational action is building momentum. After the delegate talks and the expert panel we invite you to speak to student and community groups at our organization fair & reception. Additionally, the call for the COP24 U-M delegation will be announced at this event, opening the spring application period!

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unshaken-subnational-actors-step-up-at-the-global-climate-talks-tickets-44007843645

NOTE: Cooley room capacity is capped at 80 attendees and food provided will match the attendance cap of 80 people, so first come first served at the reception (with ticket)! Attendees without rsvp tickets will still be let in to talk with organization representatives.

Schedule:
Opening Remarks: 4:30 pm Beth Gibbons, Executive Director of American Society of Adaptation Professionals (Cooley Building G906)

Introduction to UNFCCC: 4:45 pm Dr. Avik Basu, SEAS Lecturer, Co-creator of the interdisciplinary UNFCCC course at UM (Cooley Building G906)

Delegate Talks: 5 pm - 6 pm (Cooley Building G906)

Expert Panel: 6:10 pm - 6:50 pm (Cooley Building G906)

Organization Fair & Reception: 7 pm - 8:00 pm (Pierpont, East Room), Refreshments will be served

This event is co-sponsored by the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department, the School for Sustainability and Environment and the University of Michigan Energy Institute.



Expert panel:

Moderator:
Michael Lerner, Political Science PhD student, COP 23 Delegate, MUSE leadership

Panelists:
Alicia Douglas, Cities Rising, CEO of Water Rising Institute

J.C. Kibbey, Midwest Outreach and Policy Advocate, Union for Concerned Scientists

Nathan Geisler, Energy Analyst, City of Ann Arbor

Noah Deich, Director and Co-Founder of the Center for the Carbon Removal

Dr. Trish Koman, Environmental epidemiologist (UM), Climate Reality leader (Washtenaw County Chapter)



Organizations:

Climate Blue
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department (CLaSP)
Climate Reality
Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL)
Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center (GLISA)
People of the Global Majority in the Environment
Sierra Club Beyond Coal
Students Sustainability Initiative (SSI)
Sustainability Without Borders (SWB)
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:28:39 -0400 2018-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 2018-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building ClimateBlue Conference / Symposium UNshaken word graphic.
HET Seminars | Gravitational Probes of Dark Matter Physics (March 30, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51356 51356-12086778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 30, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Dark matter orchestrates the expansion of the universe and the development of the cosmic web of structure, yet its identity is unknown. We know that dark matter molds luminous matter into galaxies, yet the microphysical processes that govern its own creation and evolution remain a mystery. Despite its cosmic importance, the nature of dark matter remains one of the biggest unsolved problems in fundamental physics. However, it is one that may be solved with the tools of astronomy. In this talk, I will show how astronomical observations have shaped our understanding of the microphysical properties of dark matter. I will discuss the exciting prospects for a new generation of astronomical facilities to enable measurements of dark matter physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:24:17 -0400 2018-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Brown Bag Series | Supertranslations and Superrotations at the Black Hole Horizon (April 4, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51560 51560-12167536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

In this talk, we study the asymptotic symmetries in the near-horizon region of extremal and non-extremal black holes. By prescribing a physically sensible set of boundary conditions at the horizon, we derive the algebra of asymptotic Killing vectors, which is shown to be infinite-dimensional; it includes two sets of supertranslations and two mutually commuting copies of the Virasoro algebra. We define the surface charges associated to these large diffeomorphisms and evaluate them for different stationary black hole solutions. We finally discuss the relationship between these horizon charges and the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) ones by computing the memory effect produced at the black hole horizon by a gravitational shock wave sent from null infinity.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:20:37 -0400 2018-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
MIPSE Seminar | Plasma Treatment of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Ion Exchange Brine Solutions: Reactor Design Challenges and Physicochemical Processes at the Plasma-liquid Interface (April 4, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47482 47482-10929761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Plasma-based water treatment (PWT) uses electrical discharges formed in contact with or in the vicinity of water to degrade chemicals in contaminated water. Plasma in these conditions is capable of producing a diverse range of highly reactive species with low energy input without chemical additives, which makes PWT a promising treatment technology. PWT has not yet proven to be viable, largely due to a lack of knowledge for designing effective plasma reactors and targeting appropriate applications. We have developed a bench-scale PWT process to treat perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in groundwater with high enough efficiency to rival leading technologies. A scaled-up continuous-flow prototype demonstrated PFASs degradation rates far exceeding those of the bench system. A more practical solution for PWT of high flowrates of PFAS-containing water is to combine it with an ion exchange (IX) system wherein the plasma treats the IX regeneration brine, a complex chemical mixture of PFASs, methanol, and sodium chloride. In this talk development of PWT systems will be discussed, correlating bulk liquid transport with the plasma-liquid interface dynamics using analytical measurements and fluid dynamics modeling.

Thagard received her BS in chemical engineering from the U. of Zagreb in Croatia and her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Florida State U. Before coming to Clarkson, Thagard held post-doctoral appointments at Toyohashi U. of Technology in Japan and at Colorado State U. Her expertise is in electrical discharge plasma processes with a focus on theoretical and experimental investigations of fundamental plasma chemistry in single and multiphase plasma environments. Her research group is pursuing national and international interdisciplinary projects, including: (i) Development of chemical reactors for plasma-assisted water treatment, (ii) Plasma sterilization and food decontamination, and (iii) Plasma-assisted conversion of liquid fuels into hydrogen-rich gas. Thagard has coauthored 35 journal articles, three book chapters, and three patents. Her work has been funded by NSF, EPA, NY Pollution Prevention Institute and United States Air Force. Thagard serves on the Editorial Board of Plasma Chem. Plasma Proc.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=ma5efb98cc3c13095c91918e959db97b1

Password: MIPSE
Meeting number/Access code: 627 051 517
Audio connection through phone: (510) 338-9438

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Apr 2018 11:49:39 -0400 2018-04-04T15:30:00-04:00 2018-04-04T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Selma Mededovic Thagard
HET Seminars | Black Holes & Number Theory: How to Bootstrap a Black Hole via Modular Forms (April 5, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51561 51561-12167537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 11:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

In the language of statistical physics, an extremal black hole is a zero temperature system with a huge amount of residual entropy. Understanding which class of counting formulas can account for a large degeneracy will undoubtedly unveil interesting properties of quantum gravity. In this talk I will discuss the application of Siegel modular forms to black hole entropy counting. The role of the Igusa cusp form in the D1D5P system is well-known in string theory, and its transformation properties are what allow precision microstate counting in this case. We implement this counting for other Siegel modular and paramodular forms, and we show that they could serve as candidates for other gravitational systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:24:42 -0400 2018-04-05T11:30:00-04:00 2018-04-05T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Seminars | Revisiting Goldstone's Theorem (April 6, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51563 51563-12167539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

In recent times we have learned that if in QFT, the constraint of locality and/or Lorentz invariance are lifted, the patterns of symmetry breaking are far richer than in local relativistic field theories. Recently we have studied some (conformal) field theories with global symmetries in the sector where the value of the global charge Q is large. We find that the low energy excitations in this sector are described by a particular form of the non-relativistic Goldstone theorem. We also provide heuristic arguments that the effective theory describing such sector contains an effective coupling constant suppressed by powers of the large charge. The comparison of our heuristic arguments with "exact" results (lattice MonteCarlo) are remarkably good.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:26:37 -0400 2018-04-06T15:00:00-04:00 2018-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Saturday Morning Physics Lite: Now with 40% Less Facts (April 7, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48131 48131-11180742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 7, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Do you ever wonder if what you observe in the world around you is real or just a trick of the mind? Let the professionals guide you through a maze of physical demonstrations that will test your confidence in your understanding as we try to trick your mind to see if you can spot the not!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:18:17 -0500 2018-04-07T10:30:00-04:00 2018-04-07T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Physics
An Ambedkarite Vision for the 21st Century (April 7, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51599 51599-12170485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 7, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Association for India's Development - Ann Arbor

Cynthia Stephen is a researcher, writer, activist and legal counsel who has worked on issues related to the rights of the minorities - women and dalits - in India for the past 30 years. She has served as a member in several national, and international committees including the UN's Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

In this talk, she will focus on the relevance of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's ideas on center-state relations, socialism and justice in today's increasingly complex globalized world.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:17:54 -0400 2018-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-07T18:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Association for India's Development - Ann Arbor Lecture / Discussion An Ambedkarite Vision for the 21st Century
HET Brown Bag Seminars | GeV-Mass Thermal WIMPs: Not Even Slightly Dead (April 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51779 51779-12248758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

A leading dark matter candidate is a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). The observed dark matter abundance can be naturally obtained through freezeout of the thermal annihilation rate. The defining feature of a thermal WIMP is that its total annihilation cross section is specified through the rate ~ 3 x 10^-26 cm^3/s, inversely proportional to the dark matter density. Searches for dark matter annihilation products have set strong limits in certain cases, requiring that the dark matter mass be greater than around 100 GeV if annihilation proceed solely to b quarks (Fermi), τ leptons (Fermi), or electrons (AMS). We construct the first limits on the total annihilation cross section, showing that allowed combinations of the annihilation-channel branching ratios considerably weaken these limits. We will show that GeV-mass thermal WIMPs have not yet been adequately tested, and outline ways forward.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:28:47 -0400 2018-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-11T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
The Michigan Fashion Media Summit (April 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46642 46642-10569777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Fashion Media Summit Organization

The Michigan Fashion Media Summit is a day-long experience for students and industry professionals that are passionate about fashion, retail, media, and business. The mission is to inspire and educate the next generation of fashion industry leaders by connecting them to creative and professional opportunities across the retail world. The Michigan Fashion Media Summit is the premier platform for college students, University of Michigan alumni, and industry professionals to collaborate and shape the future fabric of fashion.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:14:53 -0500 2018-04-13T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Fashion Media Summit Organization Conference / Symposium MFMS
CSAAW presents "Smoking and depression co-morbidity: modeling prevalence, disparities, and intervention" (April 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51891 51891-12283032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Abstract:

Smoking and mental illness are leading contributors to mortality and morbidity in the U.S. They are also significantly associated with each other, with substantially higher rates of smoking among people with mental illness compared to the general population. Depression in particular is a commonly occurring mental disorder. Research shows that comorbidity of smoking and depression are subject to feedback effects, as depression is known to predict future smoking, while smoking also predicts future depression. To date, there has been little evidence on the health gains associated with interrupting this dynamic through interventions that target patients with depression. If implemented, cessation treatment for smokers with depression could lead to even greater improvements to population health. However the population benefit of integrating cessation treatment into mental health care has not yet been estimated. I develop the first joint model of smoking and depression co-morbidity in the US, projecting future patterns of smoking and depression through 2050.This model can analyze the independent and synergistic effects of intervention strategies on smoking, depression, and mortality outcomes.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:43:41 -0400 2018-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar CSAAW GRAPHIC
Q&A with Janet Leahy (April 17, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51551 51551-12161720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Q&A with television writer & producer Janet Leahy, facilitated by Oliver Thornton! Open to all.

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Janet Leahy was a graduate of UCLA’s school of film and television. She started her career as a secretary on the situation comedy, Newhart and went on to become a freelance writer for the series. From there she spent eighteen years as a comedy writer, producing, writing and executive producing for series such as Cheers, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, and Grace Under Fire, among others. Her work continued in the one hour arena as Consulting Producer on Gilmore Girls, followed by Executive Producer of Boston Legal, Life Unexpected, and Mad Men. Janet has received several Emmy nominations and awards, as well as the Writers’ Guild and Peabody awards for her work.

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Oliver Thornton is an EMMY® Award-winning writer and producer who has worked with broadcast stations and independent production companies to produce a range of projects from PSA campaigns to full-length documentaries and series.

He was the producer and co-writer of Feel Grand with Jane Seymour, a nationally distributed talk show through American Public Television, as well as co-writer and co-producer of the EMMY® Award-winning Think Squad series on Detroit Public Television. He also produces a variety of documentaries and series for DPTV and Fox Sports Detroit, including Inside Grand Hotel, A New Day In Detroit, the EMMY®-nominated J.P. - The Voice of Detroit, Pioneer Family - On Van Hoosen Farm and Oakland Basketball All-Access as well as the EMMY® Award-winning Blue Ice: The Story of Michigan Hockey, Detroit Titan Court Report: Legends & Traditions and Great Teachers. He was a writer, producer and director on the EMMY®-nominated Michigan Football Memories and has also written and produced multiple EMMY® Award-winning PSA campaigns including Give a Child a Great Start and Be Humane.

In addition to his production work, he is also a faculty member of the University of Michigan’s Screen Arts and Cultures department. A graduate of the program in 2000 and the recipient of a Hopwood Award in screenwriting, he currently teaches three classes in Writing for Television.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:46:26 -0400 2018-04-17T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-17T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Photo by Janet Leahy
Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony (April 18, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43014 43014-11342284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

The 2018 Hopwood Graduate and Undergraduate Awards will be announced and celebrated by Hopwood director Michael Byers. After the presentation of these awards, Janet Leahy will offer a lecture.

Janet Leahy was a graduate of UCLA’s school of film and television. She started her career as a secretary on the situation comedy, Newhart and went on to become a freelance writer for the series. From there she spent eighteen years as a comedy writer, producing, writing and executive producing for series such as Cheers, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, and Grace Under Fire, among others. Her work continued in the one hour arena as Consulting Producer on Gilmore Girls, followed by Executive Producer of Boston Legal, Life Unexpected, and Mad Men. Janet has received several Emmy nominations and awards, as well as the Writers’ Guild and Peabody awards for her work.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:25:32 -0500 2018-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 2018-04-18T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Photo of Janet Leahy
Inaugural Josef Miller Symposium (April 23, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51177 51177-12010130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 23, 2018 8:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: U-M Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Please join us on Monday, April 23, 2018 for the inaugural Josef Miller Symposium, which will honor the memory of the former Kresge Hearing Research Institute director through a day of science and shared discovery.

Admission to the lecture and luncheon are free, but please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inaugural-josef-miller-symposium-tickets-41141044973

Donations to the Miller Memorial Fund are welcome, visit here to give: http://victors.us/millermemorial

Scheduled Talks
Blake S. Wilson, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Duke Hearing Center
Duke University
Duke University Medical Center
“The Modern Cochlear Implant and the First Substantial Restoration of a Human Sense Using a Medical Intervention”

Mats Ulfendahl, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
“An Animal CI Model for Exploring Novel Intervention Therapies”

Tianying Ren, M.D.
Professor, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University
“A Micromechanical Mechanism for Cochlear Amplification”

Thomas Lenarz, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Medical University of Hannover
“Hearing Preservation Cochlear Implantation: Precision Medicine in Otology”

Brad May, Ph.D.
Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Johns Hopkins University
“Improving the Reliability of Behavioral Screening Procedures for Animal Models of Tinnitus”

Colleen G. Le Prell, Ph.D.
Emily & Phil Schepps Professor of Hearing Science
Audiology Program Head
University of Texas at Dallas
“Prevention of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Translational From Animal Models to Clinical Trials”

Jose Manuel Juiz, Ph.D.
Professor, Castilla-La Mancha University
Director, Research Institute on Neurological Disabilities-IDINE
School of Medicine
“Noise Damage and the Central Auditory Pathway: Some Plastic/Adaptive Processes”

Tatsuya Yamasoba, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
University of Tokyo
“Cochlear Damage Due to Germanium Dioxide-Induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction and its Prevention by Antioxidants”

Peter Thorne, CNZM, Ph.D.
Section of Audiology Director, Eisdell Moore Center
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
“Manipulation of Purinergic Signaling in the Cochlea as an Otoprotective Strategy”

John C. Middlebrooks, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
University of California, Irvine
“The Cochlear Implant Plus One”

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:56:49 -0400 2018-04-23T08:30:00-04:00 2018-04-23T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons U-M Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Conference / Symposium Miller Banner
Department of Physics | Cluster Polylogarithms with Applications to Scattering Amplitudes (May 14, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52259 52259-12579623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 14, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

I will present several new results in the intersection of cluster algebras and polylogarithm functions motivated by the study of scattering amplitudes. For example, I will show how the iterated integral structure of polylogarithms can be intimately tied to the structure of cluster algebras through a property called cluster adjacency. As an example I will give a polylogarithm function of weight 4 related to the A_2 cluster algebra. I will then discuss systematic ways in which larger cluster algebras can be associated with more complicated polylogarithm functions, such as scattering amplitudes, through various subalgebra decompositions.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 09 May 2018 12:02:32 -0400 2018-05-14T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-14T15:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Color Centers in Diamond (May 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52310 52310-12631408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Color centers in diamond are a broad class of optically accessible physical systems which, by virtue of being embedded crystal defects in the diamond lattice, are relatively isolated from the macroscopic environment. This makes them promising candidates for a variety of applications from precision metrology to quantum information processing. One key to realizing these applications is a detailed understanding of the electron dynamics that govern the opto-electronic properties of color centers. I will present our recent work studying silicon–vacancy centers with multidimensional coherent spectroscopy, discuss the implications of these results for proposed silicon–vacancy center applications, and mention a few exciting new directions of study in the world of color center spectroscopy.

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, 15 May 2018 10:02:49 -0400 2018-05-16T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-16T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis in Spinor Condensates (May 23, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52327 52327-12639130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Thermalization of isolated quantum systems is a long-standing fundamental problem where different mechanisms are proposed over time. Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is one of the most well-known of these mechanisms. I will start my talk by introducing the problem of quantum thermalization and ETH as a possible route to thermalization. Then I will switch gears and turn to the topic of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. Eventually the aim of the talk is to answer the question of "Could spinor condensates be another test-bench for testing eigenstate thermalization hypothesis besides widely used quantum many-body systems?". I will show the experimental advantages of spinor condensates to observe ETH and the possible limits of this model. Finally, it seems possible to draw a relation between the thermalization and localization properties of the eigenstates via studying spinor condensates.

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 13:59:34 -0400 2018-05-23T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Illuminating Photosynthesis with Two Dimensional Spectroscopy (May 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52467 52467-12793960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Photosynthesis is a process vital to life on Earth by which energy from light is converted to chemical energy. Although much is understood about this process, unanswered questions remain that, if answered, could inspire more efficient artificial light harvesting technologies. The technique of two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy has shown promise in addressing some of these questions. In this talk, I will discuss 2D studies of the Bacterial Reaction Center (BRC), a pigment-protein complex that serves as a model system for investigating the initial steps of photosynthesis. By exciting the BRC in the near-IR and detecting the response over a broad portion of the visible spectrum, we are able to uncover previously obscured coupling between BRC pigments and begin to further elucidate the kinetic pathways of energy transfer and charge separation.

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 Wed, 30 May 2018 09:53:46 -0400 2018-05-30T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-30T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Single Cell Response to Multiple Carbon Sources: A Case Study of Combinatorial Signal Integration (May 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52470 52470-12793962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Quantitative Biology Seminars

A major determinant of the fitness of biological systems is their ability to integrate multiple cues from the environment and coordinate their response accordingly. Yet, our understanding of combinatorial integration of multiple inputs and its age dependence is still limited. One of the well-studied examples of such regulation is catabolite repression - a phenomenon where preferred carbon source (e.g., glucose) represses the pathway required for the consumption of alternative carbon sources (e.g., galactose). As a model system, we study how yeast response to hundreds of environments with different carbon sources as a function of time and age. We found that, in contrast to the textbook view, instead of merely inhibiting galactose utilization when glucose is above a threshold concentration, individual cells respond to the ratio of glucose and galactose, and based on this ratio determine whether to induce genes involved in galactose metabolism. We investigate the genetic architectures that can result in a ratio sensing and derive the conditions in which the optimal switching strategy involves preparation and when it is changed from threshold-sensing to ratio-sensing. We characterize the ability of cells to respond to changes in carbon source as a function of age and show that there is a non-trivial relation between mortality rate and failure rate.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 10:15:46 -0400 2018-05-30T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-30T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Quantitative Biology Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Special Cosmology Seminar | Photo-z’s and Cosmology From Weak Lensing Cross-Correlations in DES (June 5, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52497 52497-12840321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

In this talk I will explain how we can use weak lensing cross-correlations, in particular galaxy-galaxy lensing, to constrain the redshift distributions of the source galaxies. I will present the results obtained using this technique on DES Y1 data. Also, I will describe how using a similar method but now including CMB lensing cross-correlations we can constrain cosmological parameters, using SPT and Planck data.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Jun 2018 09:41:30 -0400 2018-06-05T15:30:00-04:00 2018-06-05T16:30:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Exploring the Origins of Nitrogen in Terrestrial Worlds (June 6, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52328 52328-12639131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In the study of star and planet formation, one outstanding question is how the materials necessary for life (such as water, carbon, and nitrogen) arrived on rocky worlds like our Earth. In my dissertation, I am studying this topic through observations of young, still-forming solar systems to better understand their chemical compositions. By focusing on nitrogen-bearing organic molecules, and using models of protostellar envelopes, I hope to better understand the origins of the Earth's nitrogen.

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 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 08:15:35 -0400 2018-06-06T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-06T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR | The Future of Fundamental Particle Physics – Should China Build the Great Collider? (June 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52469 52469-12793961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Standard Models of particle physics and cosmology are wonderful theories that fully describe our world. But there are some hidden aspects of nature we don’t understand yet, such as dark matter, a quantum theory of gravity, and more. There are some counterintuitive things we know – for example the earth orbits the sun, although it does not seem to. There may be more counterintuitive aspects of nature such as extra space dimensions that arise in string theory. The talk, based on discussions with Stephen Hawking, will describe the Standard Models, the puzzling issues beyond the Standard Models, and how the well-motivated Great Collider will contribute to solving them. The Great Collider will also provide major economic and cultural development.

The talk will begin at 4:00 p.m. sharp!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Jun 2018 14:46:09 -0400 2018-06-08T16:00:00-04:00 2018-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Supermassive Black Holes as the Regulators of Star Formation in Central Galaxies (June 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52623 52623-12908314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Cavities and bubbles in the extended X-ray emission from massive galaxies demonstrate that feedback from supermassive black holes can have a profound effect on the hot gaseous atmospheres that surround these systems. The consequences of these effects result in dramatic changes with respect to how the baryon cycle works and whether new stars are able form within these galaxies. With this concern in mind, we present a relationship between the black hole mass, stellar mass, and star formation rate of a diverse group of 91 local galaxies with dynamically-measured black hole masses. For our sample of galaxies with a variety of morphologies and other galactic properties, we find that the specific star formation rate is a smoothly decreasing function of the ratio between black hole mass and stellar mass. With respect to galaxy formation models, our results present a powerful diagnostic with which to test various prescriptions of black hole feedback and its effects on star formation activity. Using the new IllustrisTNG simulation, we illuminate the physics behind quiescence in this model and compare with our observational results. We also use dozens of other TNG runs with varying physics implementations to show how observable galaxy trends and correlations are affected by changes in the black hole feedback physics, thereby providing a pathway to physically interpret observations.

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, 12 Jun 2018 11:01:19 -0400 2018-06-13T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-13T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
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
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
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
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
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
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
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