Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. FellowSpeak: "How a Podcast Started a Revolution in South Korea" (November 20, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54057 54057-13521821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

A 30 min. talk by Youngju Ryu, 2018-19 Institute for the Humanities Hunting Family Fellow and associate professor of modern Korean literature) followed by Q & A.

"South Korea just showed the world how to do democracy," reported The Washington Post on May 10, 2017, a day after Koreans voted a new president into office following the impeachment of Park Geun-hye. Officially dubbed the "Candlelight Revolution," the peaceful transfer of power was a result of massive street demonstrations, which in turn highlighted the role of new media such as the podcast. Ideally suited to the era of smartphones, podcast fell through the cracks in the regulatory framework of South Korean media environment, and allowed the public to access information and news stories that had been quashed in mainstream terrestrial, cable, and paper news media. The podcast also became the venue for innovating political idiom in irreverent and parodic ways, and for bringing politics into the realm of pop culture in a widespread phenomenon that came to be known as “poli-tainment” (politics + entertainment). As part of ongoing work on cultural politics of resistance and democratization, the talk will address how the podcast boom sparked the carnivalesque rebirth of protest culture at the heart of South Korea's latest struggle for democracy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:45:30 -0400 2018-11-20T12:30:00-05:00 2018-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Protest Sculptures In Front Of Admiral Yi , Wikimedia Commons contributors
HET Brown Bag | M-theory and String Theory S-matrix From CFT (November 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57765 57765-14303997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

SPECIAL SEMINAR

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 19 Nov 2018 08:29:27 -0500 2018-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
HET Brown Bag | Path Integrals, Finite Temperature, and Lattices (November 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57851 57851-14363800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:37:33 -0500 2018-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times? How Our Social Relationships Can Help and Harm Our Health (November 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57960 57960-14381737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Humans are fundamentally social beings. Our connections with others offer opportunities for support and nurturance but can also be potent sources of stress and pain. In this talk, I will describe my research examining the psychological and biological mechanisms that connect negative interpersonal experiences to our physical health. First, using evidence from disease models of asthma and the common cold, I will show how potent interpersonal stressful events occurring during the first two decades of life contribute to both nearer-term and longer-term physical health outcomes. Specifically, I will focus on experiences of social rejection and family acrimony, emphasizing the role the immune system plays in carrying these negative experiences over time to affect health. Next, I will present work showing that receiving a hug may protect against the harmful psychological consequences of negative interpersonal experiences in daily life. I will conclude by discussing future research plans.

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Other Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:56:42 -0500 2018-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Michael Murphy
HET Seminars | Particle Physics Beyond Colliders (November 30, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57852 57852-14363801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:42:07 -0500 2018-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Exhibition Walk-Through - 2018 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition (December 1, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57872 57872-14365958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 1, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

On Saturday December 1 from 2 - 4pm, join exhibition jurors for a walk-through of the 2018 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition. In this public discussion, exhibition jurors will share how and why they selected the award winning artworks.  There will also be short artist talks by participating students. This event is free and open to the public. 

The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, a showcase of the best work produced by Stamps undergraduate students, is on view from November 30, 2018-January 6, 2019 at Stamps Gallery.

A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition, the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition provides an opportunity for the school to support students whose creative work is recognized as exceptional by invited jurors, with thousands of dollars in awards announced at the exhibition reception.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:15:25 -0500 2018-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UJS_web_banner-1500b.gif
HET Brown Bag | Cosmology with Sub-MeV Thermal Relics (December 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58101 58101-14424582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:38:19 -0500 2018-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Renzong’s Reign (1022-1063): A Time for Music and Culture in Northern Song China (December 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57959 57959-14381734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

During the first decades of the twelfth century, the Song Dynasty in China built a vibrant world of art, entertainment and music that nobles, literati, and commoners of the time would produce and consume. How and why such an urbanized and diverse music culture emerged is one of the main topics having been researched and discussed. This presentation examines available historical data on the Song Dynasty music and music culture, explaining the roots and forces that generated vibrant music developments.

About the speaker:

Huang Yiou is Assistant Professor in Music College at Shanghai Normal University in China, where she teaches courses on Chinese music history. Her research focuses on the period of the Song Dynasty Music between the 10th and 13th century. She was a visiting scholar of the Center for Chinese Studies of the University of Michigan in 2010.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:39:32 -0500 2018-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Education (December 8, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57762 57762-14289145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 8, 2018 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle

We would like to cordially invite you to a stellar gathering of world-renowned distinguished speakers, including Swami Sarvapriyananda from the Vedanta Society of New York.

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Conference / Symposium Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:09:06 -0500 2018-12-08T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Vedanta Study Circle Conference / Symposium poster
Adderley Positive Research Incubator - Healthy Minds: Addressing Mental Health and Help-Seeking Behavior in College Student Populations (December 13, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58001 58001-14390314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Well-being Fri, 07 Dec 2018 09:15:32 -0500 2018-12-13T13:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T14:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Well-being 200th Adderley Positive Research Incubator
FellowSpeak: "At the Gates of the Temple: Culture, Politics and Public Space in Ptolemaic Egypt" (January 15, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58131 58131-14426853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

U-M Associate Professor of History and 2019 Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow Ian Moyer reconstructs a history of public space in Ptolemaic Egypt by examining the gates and forecourt areas of Egyptian temples as places of communication, interaction, and translation that connected indigenous Egyptian élites, the Macedonian Greek dynasty of the Ptolemies, and the wider population of Egypt.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:08:11 -0500 2019-01-15T12:30:00-05:00 2019-01-15T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Egyptian courtyard
Food Literacy for All (January 15, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-01-15T18:30:00-05:00 2019-01-15T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
HET Brown Bag | CWoLa Hunting -- Machine Learning for Model-Agnostic Bump Hunts (January 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59652 59652-14777839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:38:46 -0500 2019-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
HET Seminars | An Attractor Mechanism for nAdS(2)/nCFT(1) (January 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59653 59653-14777840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:32:18 -0500 2019-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Food Literacy for All (January 22, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-01-22T18:30:00-05:00 2019-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Wolverine Caucus: Changing course in International Trade Policy – a growing concern in Michigan, the US and the World Who is helped – who is hurt? (January 23, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57854 57854-14363807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UofM Government Relations

President Donald Trump has tackled international trade policy during his second year in of office, just as he promised he would during his 2016 election campaign. Tariffs on steel and aluminum from various countries, exports from China, and potentially on automobiles and supply chains are having an effect – including the likelihood that consumers at home will see rising prices in the months and years to come. Renegotiated trade agreements made with South Korea, Mexico, and Canada will also change trade outcomes and could in influence corporate decision making in the manufacturing of goods and products. Please join us for an enlightening presentation by Professor Alan Deardorff who will explore these and other changes taking place in trade policy, and their likely implications for Michigan, the United States, and the world!

Alan V. Deardorff is the John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics and Professor of Public Policy. His research focuses on international trade. Dr. Deardorff and Bob Stern have developed the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade, which is used to estimate the effects of trade agreements. He is also doing theoretical work in international trade and trade policy. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Labor, State, and Treasury and to international organizations including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank. Dr. Deardorff received his Ph.D. from Cornell University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:42:55 -0500 2019-01-23T11:30:00-05:00 2019-01-23T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UofM Government Relations Lecture / Discussion Changing course in International Trade Policy
HET Brown Bag | Analytic Approach to EIgenstate Thermalization (ETH) in the SYK Model and Schwarzian Theory (January 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60107 60107-14838290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The SYK model provides an uncommon example of a theory where Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) can be verified in analytically. In this talk I will discuss this model in the deep infrared limit where the theory has an emergent conformal (reparametrization) symmetry that is broken both spontaneously and explicitly. To study the validity of ETH, we compute the heavy- light correlation functions of operators in the conformal spectrum of the theory. We compute these correlation functions with and without the contribution of the low energy (Schwarzian) modes, which are known to be the origin of the chaotic behaviour in this theory. In considering the contributions of the Schwarzian modes we find a weaker form of ETH: while the heavy operator insertions increase the effective temperature perceived by the light insertions, this effective temperature is proportional to the background temperature and goes to zero with the background temperature. In the case where Schwarzian modes aren’t considered, we find ETH in limit in which the weight of the heavy operators approach infinity. I will also discuss implications of these results for the states in AdS2 gravity dual.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:41:55 -0500 2019-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Better Assemblies Through Geometric Frustration (January 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60291 60291-14857788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:44:48 -0500 2019-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar GG Brown Laboratory
HET Seminar | Dark Matter Production: Finite Temperature Effects in the Early Universe (January 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60108 60108-14838294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Seminars

In the early universe, the Standard Model particles formed a hot thermal bath. We highlight the importance of finite temperature corrections in these conditions on various production mechanisms of dark matter, primarily through temperature dependent masses and scalar vevs. We first consider a variation on standard freeze-out, where kinematic thresholds determine the relic abundance. We then consider a freeze-in model where the production rate is dramatically increased when a kinematic threshold opens. Finally, we present a qualitatively new production mechanism for dark matter, where dark matter decay is allowed for a limited amount of time just before the electroweak phase transition.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:48:48 -0500 2019-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
UMMA Presents: TimeSlips: The Freedom to Imagine (January 26, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58517 58517-14510839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 26, 2019 9:30am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Anne Basting, founder and CEO of the award-winning TimeSlips Creative Storytelling program will give a talk on her work to create meaning and connection with those living with memory loss. Basting is recognized as an international expert in community-engaged arts practices and the author of several books, including Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia.  She is an advocate for the arts as an integral element in our care systems.  Basting is a Professor of Theater at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and a MacArthur Fellow.

TimeSlips is evidence-based, award-winning and person centered, bringing meaning and purpose into the lives of elders through creative engagement. TimeSlips strives to inspire others to see beyond memory loss and recognize the strength of people with dementia. Says Basting: “We transform aging care by building Creative Communities of Care that engage elders, volunteers, staff and families.”

Research suggests that TIMESLIPS can:
Increase the quality and quantity of interactions between staff and residents in care settings Improve caregiver attitudes toward aging and people with dementia Reduce psychotropic medications by decreasing contributing factors of anxiety and depression Improve affect and communication among people with dementia Decrease distressed behaviors among people with dementia Increase social engagement among people with dementia
This talk is free of charge and all are welcome: care partners and care givers, professionals including physicians, nurses, social workers and others, artists and performers, as well as people with memory loss and their family and friends, are encouraged to attend. 

TimeSlips: The Freedom to Imagine is offered in conjunction with UMMA’s Meet Me at UMMA programs for people with memory loss, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and other generous donors who support Meet Me.

Meet Me at UMMA is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Monroe-Brown Foundation Discretionary Fund for Outreach to the State of Michigan, and individual donors.
 

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:16:31 -0500 2019-01-26T09:30:00-05:00 2019-01-26T11:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
FellowSpeak: “Building Race and Nation: Slavery, Dispossession and Early American Civic Architecture” (January 29, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58287 58287-14452844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Institute for the Humanities Visiting Professor Mabel Wilson (Columbia University) will give a 30 minute talk followed by Q & A.

Wilson will also give the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture: "Memory/Race/Nation: The Politics of Modern Memorials" on January 25, 6pm, at the Art & Architecture Building, A&A Auditorium.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:43:47 -0500 2019-01-29T12:30:00-05:00 2019-01-29T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Samuel Jennings, Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences or the Genius of America of America Encouraging the Emancipations of the Blacks, 1792. Library Company of Philadelphia
Food Literacy for All (January 29, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-01-29T18:30:00-05:00 2019-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Testing Models of Dark Matter and Modifications to Gravity using Local Milky Way Observables (January 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60479 60479-14899147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Jan 2019 09:02:39 -0500 2019-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
POSTPONED: Roundtable / Q+A (January 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59080 59080-14677957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

***THIS EVENT WILL NOT BE OCCURRING 1/30 DUE TO UM WEATHER CLOSURES***
Stay tuned for rescheduling details to come...

Following her 1/30 reading for the Hopwood Awards Ceremony, two-term U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey joins us for a Q+A and conversation with A. Van Jordan (professor, poet, and director of the Helen Zell Writers' Program) in the Hopwood Room.

Please join us! Open to the public; light refreshments will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:38:50 -0500 2019-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-31T11:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Workshop / Seminar
HET Seminars | From Seiberg-Witten Theory to Adjoint QCD (February 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60482 60482-14899149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Jan 2019 09:07:52 -0500 2019-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Artist Talk: Connecting Communities: Wang Qingsong in Detroit and Beijing (February 2, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58525 58525-14510847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 2, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Chinese artist Wang Qingsong’s 2018 work The Bloodstained Shirt restages in Highland Park, Michigan, an iconic 1959 drawing by Wang Shikuo of peasants rising up against a cruel landlord and triumphantly reclaiming their right to the land. Wang’s projects are usually located in China, but while visiting southeast Michigan he was struck by the similarities between the effects of inequitable real estate development on local communities in Detroit, Highland Park, and his native Beijing. His large-scale photograph in the UMMA exhibition Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing features more than seventy volunteers from the greater Detroit community and University of Michigan. Eight months later, Michigan residents created a work of protest banners in collaboration with Wang, also included in the exhibition. Join the artist to hear more about the evolution of this project, from the initial idea to a larger project connecting the two urban centers.

Light refreshments and open gallery after the program. 

Lead support for Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing is provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and the Herbert W. and  Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:16:46 -0500 2019-02-02T16:30:00-05:00 2019-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58199 58199-14441906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Perpetuation of cultural racism through social & mass media" by Travis Dixon, Professor, Dept of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:42:58 -0500 2019-02-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Gun violence in the United States: Competing frames and policy tensions (February 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60056 60056-14814821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. This event will be livestreamed. Check event website just before the event for viewing details.

Join the conversation: #policytalks

This event is made possible in part through the generous support of the Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha A. Darling Health Policy Fund.

About the event:

Gun violence represents a significant social problem in the United States. In a single week, the U.S. experiences, on average, over 1,200 gun-related incidents, including accidents, suicides, homicides, and mass shootings. Of all developed nations, the U.S. has - by far - the highest rates of gun ownership and gun violence.

Many competing lenses frame the primary causes or drivers of the unique and multi-faceted problem of gun violence in the U.S., lenses that invoke perspectives on crime, race, mental health, immigration, and other contentious issues. Moreover, the topic of gun violence results in extremely heated, bitter, and politically-divisive policy debates. This will be a moderated discussion with a panel of experts who have competing views on how best to frame or define the problem of gun violence and priority policy solutions.

Panelists:

Jane Coaston, Senior politics reporter at VOX

Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Sociology, Director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University

Rebecca Cunningham, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of Injury Prevention Center, and Associate Vice President for Research-Health Sciences, University of Michigan

Moderator:

Paula Lantz, PhD, Professor of Public Policy, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Ford School of Public Policy

For more information, visit http://myumi.ch/aKrYo.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:06:50 -0500 2019-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Jane Coaston, Jonathan Metzl, and Rebecca Cunningham
Food Literacy for All (February 5, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-02-05T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
HET Brown Bag | Hamiltonian Truncation and the S^3 Partition Function (February 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60738 60738-14961638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:21:07 -0500 2019-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
HET Seminars | The Search for Axion Dark Matter (February 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60740 60740-14961641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:20:37 -0500 2019-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
UMMA and Stamps School of Art Design present: Steven Heller: Paul Rand: A Designer’s Scribbles (February 8, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60082 60082-14816986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

 

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:40:02 -0500 2019-02-09T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-09T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar NASA image of Earth viewed from space
Material Conversations (February 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60674 60674-14937157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: University Library

Join us for the first in a brownbag series highlighting materials research at the university. Our speaker will be Shannon McDevitt, Materials Developer at Herman Miller and U-M Materials Science & Engineering Science alumna.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:16:28 -0500 2019-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center University Library Lecture / Discussion Materials conversation flyer
FellowSpeak: "Small Talk: Talk Therapy and the Microscopic Science of Face-to-Face Interaction" (February 12, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58288 58288-14452847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Associate Professor of Anthropology and 2018-19 Institute for the Humanities Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow Michael Lempert will give a 30 minute talk followed by Q & A.

"Small Talk: Talk Therapy and the Microscopic Science of Face-to-Face Interaction"

When the sciences of face-to-face interaction became a boom industry in postwar and early Cold War America, many grew convinced that interaction was small: a micro-sociological world knowable through mechanical recording, painstaking transcription, and fine-grained analysis. The most feverishly microscopic researchers tried to catch the subtlest verbal and nonverbal signs that people gave off, as if straining to touch the nerve of interpersonal life. This microscopy arose from an intimate dialogue between psychiatry and communication science that began in the 1930s with the study of psychoanalysis using dictation machines. Recording-based talk therapy research left the sciences of conversation with a microscopic sensibility and a conviction about the scale of their object of knowledge.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:21:04 -0500 2019-02-12T12:30:00-05:00 2019-02-12T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Photopolygraph
“Closing Critical Gaps in Women’s Healthcare Around the World: The Story of Medicines360, A Nonprofit Pharma Company,” (February 12, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60772 60772-14963944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

How innovative business models can make a positive social impact by improving access to quality medicines for women regardless of where they live, their insurance status, or whether they can pay will be the topic for the Feb. 12 WDI Global Impact Speaker Series. Sally Stephens, chief business officer of Medicines 360, will discuss the organization's global focus and how it is driven to meet an unmet need for women around the world, including in the U.S. That is, affordable, long-acting contraceptives. Medicines360 has the only nonprofit pharmaceutical company with a marketed product in the U.S. Its first product is a hormonal intrauterine device, or IUD, which had been out of reach for many women because of the high cost of the sole brand on the market. Medicines360 offers its FDA-approved Liletta at a discounted price to public sector clinics across the U.S. to increase access to this important family-planning product. Additionally, Medicines360 has been working with international health organizations to offer the product, branded as Avibela in low- and middle-income countries, to also increase access to these markets. Avibela was launched in Madagascar in 2018. Sales of Liletta in the U.S. help fund research and development efforts by the company to bring contraceptives to countries such as Madagascar. Stephens will discuss the history of Medicines360, its successes and its plans to expand access to its affordable medicines and products for women.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:32:04 -0500 2019-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Medicines360
Food Literacy for All (February 12, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-02-12T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58201 58201-14441908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Structural racism & residential segregation" by Joe T. Darden, Professor, Dept of Geography, Michigan State University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:44:09 -0500 2019-02-13T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
HET Brown Bag | Learning New Physics from a Machine (February 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61034 61034-15024920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:28:05 -0500 2019-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
DCMB Seminar on Wed 13 Feb || Michael Feig, PhD (Prof. of MSU) (February 13, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60987 60987-15000014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Biological macromolecules function in dense, crowded cellular environments. Early studies of crowding effects have emphasized volume exclusion effects, but it is becoming clear that frequent non-specific interactions between proteins, nucleic acids, and metabolites may be the more important factor in modulating the structure and dynamics of biomolecules. Computer simulation studies at different scales of a series of models ranging from concentrated homogeneous protein solutions to models of bacterial cytoplasms are presented to explore the effects of non-specific quinary protein-protein interactions on protein stability and dynamics. One focus is on the formation of transient clusters that determine diffusive properties and lead to liquid-liquid phase transitions. The computational results are related to existing experimental data and the challenges and opportunities to expand the current studies to whole-cell modeling in molecular detail are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:11:52 -0500 2019-02-13T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
HET Seminars | Building Bulk Observables in AdS/CFT (February 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61036 61036-15024922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:28:30 -0500 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Are Concussions the Downfall of Football? (February 16, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59479 59479-14745550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 16, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:41:04 -0500 2019-02-16T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-16T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Ohio-Michigan Helmet Impact
Hopwood Awards Ceremony + Reading (February 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52770 52770-14981947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Please join us as we celebrate the fall winners of the 2018-19 Hopwood Underclassmen awards.

Following the announcement of the awards, there will be a reading from Linda Gregerson, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English. Light reception to follow. Free to attend and open to all!

A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Linda Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature. She is the author of six books of poetry and two books of criticism, and the co-editor of one collection of scholarly essays. Gregerson's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Granta, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Best American Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies. Among her honors and awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Kingsley Tufts Award, four Pushcart Prizes, grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Mellon, and Bogliasco Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Poetry Society of America, and the National Humanities Center. In 2014, Gregerson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Ceremony / Service Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:01:52 -0500 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Photo of past Hopwood Awards ceremony
LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week 2019 Featured Speaker Ignacio Rivera (February 18, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60545 60545-14908148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

In collaboration with several units and student organizations, Spectrum Center is excited to invite Ignacio Rivera (they/them pronouns) as a Featured Speaker to campus for the 4th annual LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week. Ignacio G. Hutiá Xeiti Rivera is a trans and queer activist of color with over 20 years of experience in anti-oppression and sexual liberation work -- including topics of consent, sexual survivorship, and sex after sexual violence. Ignacio’s work continues to center those at the margins, in particular, people of color, and those with queer and trans identities.

This event will take place in the School of Social Work Educational Conference Center. It is free and open to the public. Please contact spectrumcenter@umich.edu with any accessibility needs.

Thanks to our co-sponsors: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC), Trotter Multicultural Center, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), School of Social Work DEI, Coalition for Queer and Trans People of Color

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:53:28 -0500 2019-02-18T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion a brown background with an illustration of the speaker and various logos
“Suffering and Bleeding As Though You Was Killing Hogs”: Mass Incarceration and Black Women’s Health (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60404 60404-15099304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

In 1911, Mary Dykes was tried for vagrancy and sentenced to twelve months hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. A few months later she “became insane” and “unable to work.” In 2016, Sherry Richburg’s leg was amputated after a prison physician denied her access to antibiotics. Mary and Sherry exemplify the historical abuses of the prison health care system and its mistreatment of black female patients. The medical lives of black women in America's jails and prisons is the focus of this presentation.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Talitha LeFlouria is the Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor in African and African-American Studies at the University of Virginia and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She is a scholar of African American history, specializing in mass incarceration; modern slavery; and black women in America. She is the author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (UNC Press, 2015). This book received several national awards including: the Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians (2016), the Philip Taft Labor History Award from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations & Labor and Working-Class History Association (2016), the Malcolm Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award from the Georgia Historical Society (2016), the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians (2015), and the Ida B. Wells Tribute Award from the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (2015). Her work has been featured in the Sundance nominated documentary, Slavery by Another Name, as well as C-SPAN and Left of Black. Her written work and expertise have been profiled in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, The Nation, Huffington Post, For Harriet, and several syndicated radio programs.

Professor LeFlouria is the co-director of the Public Voices Fellowship Program at the University of Virginia. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Historians Against Slavery and on the editorial board of the Georgia Historical Quarterly and International Labor and Working-Class History journal.

Presented by IRWG's Black Feminist Health Studies program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:16:55 -0500 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion photo of Talitha LeFlouria
NII/Psychology/fMRI Talk: Hyperalignment: modeling the shared information encoded in idiosyncratic fine-scale cortical topographies. (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60860 60860-14979672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:20:46 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Food Literacy for All (February 19, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
HET Brown Bag | Energy Condition, Modular Flow, and AdS/CFT (February 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61328 61328-15088049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:39:43 -0500 2019-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
DCMB Weekly Seminar (February 20, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61211 61211-15052055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Nephrotic syndrome (NS), a kidney disease caused by failure of the glomerular filtration barrier, leads to substantial morbidity and mortality due to infection, clotting, and progression to chronic kidney disease. Our ability to effectively care for our patients with NS is hampered by a limited understanding of its underlying molecular mechanisms. Major progress has been made through the discovery of more than 50 single-gene causes of NS. But altogether these explain less than 15% of cases in the U.S. To gain a more complete picture of the genetic architecture of NS, we need to go beyond Mendelian gene discovery. In this seminar, I will present work done by our group to achieve this goal, with a particular focus on unique opportunities that result from integrating genome-scale omics datasets with deep phenotypic data in the longitudinal NEPTUNE NS cohort.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:57:44 -0500 2019-02-20T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Dreaming a disabled, queer of color future: A poetic keynote by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (February 20, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60569 60569-14910389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Spectrum Center

LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a queer disabled femme writer, organizer, performance artist and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. They are the author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice , Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (short-listed for the Lambda and Publishing Triangle Awards, ALA Above the Rainbow List), Bodymap (short listed for the Publishing Triangle Award), Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner), and Consensual Genocide, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. Their next two books, Tonguebreaker and Exploring Transformative Justice: A Reader (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon) are forthcoming in 2019. A lead artist with Sins Invalid, her writing has been widely published, with recent work in PBS Newshour, Poets.org's Poetry and the Body folio, The Deaf Poets Society, Bitch, Self, TruthOut and The Body is Not an Apology. She is a VONA Fellow and holds an MFA from Mills College. She is also a rust belt poet, a Sri Lankan with a white mom, a femme over 40, a grassroots intellectual, a survivor who is hard to kill.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is part of a series of keynote speakers Spectrum Center is hosting on campus covering radical queer advocacy and activism work in collaboration with several departments and student organizations at University of Michigan.
This program is presented by the U-M Spectrum Center, and co-sponsored by Trotter Multicultural Center, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), Center for Campus Involvement (CCI), University Housing Diversity and Inclusion, Institute for the Humanities, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Michigan Community Scholars Program, LSA Residential College, School of Social Work DEI, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:33:49 -0500 2019-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion an image of the speaker smiling in front of flowers. they are wearing lipstick and their hair is tinted green.
HET Seminars | *To Be Confirmed* (February 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61331 61331-15088051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

*To Be Confirmed*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:39:40 -0500 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Lecture / Discussion West Hall
LCTP Second Annual Public Lecture (February 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59239 59239-14719624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Physics

We now know that the overwhelming majority of matter throughout our galaxy and the universe is something other than what we are made of. All ordinary matter - gas, dust, stars, planets - is a small fraction of the mass of the universe. We remain profoundly ignorant of what this missing universe is. In this talk, we will describe the range of ideas that have arisen as to what this mysterious stuff might be, where it came from, and how to look for it. We will detail the progress made in the search to understand the nature of dark matter, and what questions this era hopes to answer, including perhaps the central one: what does the dark universe have to do with the one we can see?

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:08:09 -0500 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Department of Physics Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Clyde Petersen Alternate Realities, Intentional Histories and Queer Survival: Building Your own Worl (February 21, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58875 58875-14569983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Clyde Petersen is a Seattle-based artist working in film, animation, music, installation, and spectacle. A proud member of the transgender and queer communities in Seattle, Petersen’s work explores identity and narrative form. Petersen’s autobiographical stop-motion animated feature film Torrey Pines, a queer punk coming-of-age tale, premiered in October 2016 and toured the world with a live score. Petersen is also the leader of Your Heart Breaks, an internationally touring queercore punk band founded in 1998, and the host of the internet film series Boating with Clyde. His work has been featured around the world in museums, galleries, and other venues. Petersen is currently working on two new feature films and has a solo exhibition at the Bellevue Arts Museum titled Merch and Destroy, featuring a life-size Ford Econoline van built entirely out of cardboard and a series of fantasy guitars.

Presented with support from the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:24:02 -0500 2019-02-21T17:10:00-05:00 2019-02-21T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/petersen.jpg
Saturday Morning Physics | Searching for Dark Matter with Antimatter (February 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59484 59484-14745555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:42:13 -0500 2019-02-23T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-23T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Dark Matter and Antimatter Collage
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58202 58202-14441912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Historical racism & contemporary social structure" by
David Cunningham, Professor, Dept of Sociology
Hedwig Lee, Professor, Dept of Sociology
Geoff Ward, Associate Professor, Dept of African & African American Studies
all of Washington University in St. Louis

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:41:38 -0500 2019-02-25T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Book Talk and Signing - Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future... And What We Can Do About It (February 25, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61074 61074-15027213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center (M-LEEaD) presents a book talk by Dr. Leo Trasande who will be speaking about his recent publication Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future... and What We Can Do About It in conversation with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, author of the 2018 book What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:32:02 -0500 2019-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 2019-02-25T18:30:00-05:00 Public Health II Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Book Talk Flyer
FellowSpeak: "Apostolic Longing in the Early Modern Spanish World" (February 26, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58290 58290-14452848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

U-M Professor of History and 2018-19 Institute for the Humanities John Rich Faculty Fellow Kenneth Mills gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

Combing scripture and classical authorities was all well and good. And there were the Church fathers, the erudite humanists, and the observations of itinerant chroniclers to consider too. Yet all this learning ultimately fell short, suggesting rather than proving that in the first century a wing-footed apostle of Jesus had preached the gospel as far afield as Asia and the Americas. After a certain point -- for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers who embraced notions of divine omniscience, a salvific vision for all humanity, and thus of pristine evangelisation beyond the circum-Mediterranean -- a different kind of search was on, indeed critical. The search for physical evidence, for oral evidence, and for the material traces and signs of an apostle. How would any such “new world” findings and sacred adventures be told?

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Feb 2019 13:50:23 -0500 2019-02-26T12:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion "Pentecost" (1962), detail. By Rosemary Kilbourn. from Rosemary Kilbourn. Out of the Wood (2012), p. 117.
Food Literacy for All (February 26, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-02-26T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
HET Brown Bag | Searching for Flavour Symmetries: Old Data New Tricks (February 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61584 61584-15150258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Feb 2019 08:40:12 -0500 2019-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Public Talk: Phil Tinari, Director and CEO, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (February 28, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60956 60956-14993222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Phil Tinari is the Director and CEO of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), a leading Chinese independent institution of contemporary art in Beijing. At this talk, Tinari will discuss Chinese art and its global context, with reference to his work at UCCA, as well as curatorial projects at the Guggenheim and SFMOMA. Since 2011, Tinari has led UCCA's transformation from a founder-driven, private museum into China’s leading independent, international institution of contemporary art, culminating in 2017 with a restructuring that has brought the institution, originally known as the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, into the patronage of a new group of mainly Chinese trustees. During Tinari’s tenure, UCCA has become known for both its artistic program and its operational model. It has mounted more than seventy exhibitions and a wide range of public programs, bringing artistic voices both established and emerging, Chinese and international, to a growing audience of nearly a million visitors each year.

Prior to joining UCCA, Tinari launched LEAP, an internationally distributed, bilingual magazine of contemporary art published by the Modern Media Group, in 2009. A widely published writer and critic, he is a contributing editor of Artforum, and was founding editor of that magazine’s Chinese edition in 2007. He was co-curator, with Alexandra Munroe and Hou Hanru, of the 2017 exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, now on view at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and opening in November at SFMOMA. In 2016 he was named a fellow of the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.- China Relations. Fluent in Mandarin and based in Beijing since 2001, Tinari holds degrees from Duke and Harvard, and is currently completing a doctorate in art history at Oxford.

 

This talk is co-presented by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the Confucius Institute, and UMMA, and coincides with the UMMA exhibition Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing (February 2 - May 26, 2019).

Lead support for Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing is provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and the Herbert W. and  Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Presentation Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:16:42 -0500 2019-02-28T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
What is Socialism and How To Fight For It (February 28, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61578 61578-15137088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

President Donald Trump’s fascist tirades against socialism show the ruling class fears the specter of revolution. “The twilight hour of socialism has arrived in our hemisphere,” Trump declared on February 18.

It is not socialism’s “twilight hour,” but rather its resurgence.

Socialism is becoming increasingly popular, but many are asking themselves: what is socialism?
The capitalist media presents Democratic Party politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “socialists.” But these members of the pro-capitalist Democratic Party do not call for mass strikes, the expropriation of the wealth of the rich, the nationalization of the corporations, the ending of all US wars and military involvement abroad, and the opening of the borders to give immigrants the right to travel freely.

Challenging the power of the financial aristocracy requires the revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist system. The fight for genuine social equality requires mobilizing the social power of the billions-strong international working class in a united movement for socialism.
The coming period will see the rebirth of the class struggle on a scale not seen in decades. To prepare, socialists must study the history of the workers’ movement and of Trotskyism, the revolutionary socialist opposition to Stalinism, and the representatives of classical Marxism today.

This lecture will explain what genuine socialism is.

Joseph Kishore is the National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), the US section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). He is a prominent writer for the World Socialist Web Site, the most widely-read socialist news publication in the world.

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Meeting Sat, 23 Feb 2019 18:49:38 -0500 2019-02-28T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League International Youth and Students for Social Equality Meeting Striking maquiladora workers in Matamoros Mexico, January 2019
HET Brown Bag | Inflation and Supersymmetry Breaking in an M-theory Framework (March 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62006 62006-15273938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:48:46 -0400 2019-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Food Literacy for All (March 12, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-12T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
HET Brown Bag | Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimensions (March 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62007 62007-15273940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:53:25 -0400 2019-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
DCMB Weekly Seminar (March 13, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61972 61972-15250104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Though the potential impact of machine learning in healthcare warrants genuine enthusiasm, the increasing computerization of the field is still often seen as a negative rather than a positive. The limited adoption of machine learning in healthcare to date highlights the fact that there remain important challenges. In this talk, I will highlight two key challenges related to applying machine learning in healthcare: 1) interpretability and 2) small sample size. First, machine learning has often been criticized for producing ‘black boxes.’ In this talk, I will argue that interpretability is neither necessary nor sufficient, demonstrating that even interpretable models can lack common sense. To address this issue, we propose a novel regularization method that enables the incorporation of domain knowledge during model training, leading to increased robustness. Second, machine learning techniques benefit from large amounts of data. However, oftentimes in healthcare we find ourselves in data poor settings (i.e., small sample sizes). I will show how domain knowledge can help guide architecture choices and efficiently make use of available data. There’s a critical need for machine learning in healthcare; however, the safe and meaningful adoption of these techniques requires close collaboration in interdisciplinary teams and a careful understanding of one’s domain.

Jenna Wiens is a Morris Wellman Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, data mining, and healthcare. She is particularly interested in time-series analysis and transfer/multitask learning. The overarching goal of her research agenda is to develop the computational methods needed to help organize, process, and transform patient data into actionable knowledge. Jenna received her PhD from MIT in 2014. In 2015 she was named Forbes 30 under 30 in Science and Healthcare; she received an NSF CAREER Award in 2016; and recently she was named to the MIT Tech Review's list of Innovators Under 35.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:45:04 -0500 2019-03-13T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Jenna Wiens, PhD
Top Ten Dementia Headlines: Facts behind the news stories (March 13, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61923 61923-15239147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join MCCFAD for the third Arab American Community Health Learning Event as neurologist, Dr. Seraji-Bozorgzad from the Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center unveils the facts behind the top ten dementia headlines.

When: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 6pm to 8pm
Location: Islamic Center of America, 19500 Ford Rd., Dearborn, Michigan 48128

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:17:23 -0500 2019-03-13T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

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

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

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


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

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


Friday, March 15 featured events:

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

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


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

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

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

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

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

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


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

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


Friday, March 15 featured events:

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

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


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:00:46 -0400 2019-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
UMS Pre-Performance Talk: Triptych (the eyes of one on another): Richard Meyer on the Legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe (March 15, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60275 60275-14857772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How has Robert Mapplethorpe's legacy evolved in the thirty years since his death from AIDS in 1989? How did the NEA funding controversy and charges of indecency surrounding his posthumous exhibition The Perfect Moment shape the way his work has been remembered? How have contemporary artists been influenced by, and commented on, his large and varied body of work? In conjunction with UMS's world premiere of Triptych (the eyes of one on another), a new music theatre work about Mapplethorpe's life and work, noted art historian Richard Meyer will unpack Mapplethorpe's complicated afterlife in the public imagination. 

Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University, teaches courses in twentieth-century American art, the history of photography, arts censorship and the first amendment, curatorial practice, and gender and sexuality studies. His first book, Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art, was awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2013, he published What Was Contemporary Art?, a study of the idea of "the contemporary" in early twentieth-century American art, and, with Catherine Lord, Art and Queer Culture, a survey focusing on the dialogue between visual art and non-normative sexualities from 1885 to the present. 

This program is organized by UMS and co-sponsored by UMMA.

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Performance Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:29 -0500 2019-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T19:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

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

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

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


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

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


Friday, March 15 featured events:

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

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


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:42:36 -0500 2019-03-16T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-16T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Full Detector
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58203 58203-15335278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Racial liberalism & environmental racism in Flint, Michigan" by Malini Ranganathan, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:05 -0400 2019-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Film Screening & Moderated Discussion: The Bleeding Edge (March 18, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61841 61841-15215056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: UMMS Office of Regulatory Affairs

In THE BLEEDING EDGE, Academy Award nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (THE INVISIBLE WAR, THE HUNTING GROUND) turn their sights on the $400 billion medical device industry, examining lax regulations, corporate cover-ups, and profit driven incentives that put patients at risk daily. Weaving emotionally powerful stories of people whose lives have been irrevocably harmed, the film asks: what life-saving technologies may actually be killing us?

The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion.

Moderator: Raymond De Vries, PhD

Panelists:
Barry Belmont, Biomedical Engineering
Jeanne Wright, MICHR
Laura Cabrera, Center for Ethics & Humanities in the Life Sciences, MSU

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Film Screening Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:59:06 -0500 2019-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T21:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons UMMS Office of Regulatory Affairs Film Screening The Bleeding Edge Event Poster
Living Poetry / Braving Joy: Naomi Long Madgett + Gabrielle Civil (March 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59388 59388-14737056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Naomi Long Madgett and Gabrielle Civil will join us in the Hopwood Room for a public conversation about living a literary life: What does it mean to be a black woman / poet today? How has the role or impact of poetry changed? What’s most vital in a poet’s education? How can we rethink and reclaim publishing? How we can bridge the divides between different schools of poetry? How can we reconcile the ivory tower and the community center? What can poetry do in our communities? What good books are we reading (songs are we singing, art are we seeing)? What do we love? How can we brave joy?

About the presenters:

Mentored by poet Langston Hughes, Naomi Long Madgett moved to Detroit in 1946. In the 1960s, she joined a group of African American writers who met regularly at Boone House, including Margaret Danner, Dudley Randall and Oliver LaGrone. Madgett was named Detroit poet laureate in 2001. In her poetry, influenced by the work of Emily Dickinson, John Keats, and Langston Hughes, Madgett often engages themes of civil rights and African American spirituality. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including One and the Many (1956), Exits and Entrances (1978), and Octavia and Other Poems (1988, reissued and expanded in 2002). In 1972, Madgett founded Lotus Press. She edited the anthology Adam of Ifé: Black Women in Praise of Black Men (1992), and her own work was included in the anthologies The Poetry of the Negro, 1746–1949 (1949, edited by Langston Hughes) and Ten: Anthology of Detroit Poets (1968, edited by Oliver LaGrone). A selection of her papers, documenting her poetry career and the history of Lotus Press, is held by the University of Michigan’s Special Collections Library.

Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered fifty original solo and collaborative performance works around the world. Signature themes included race, body, art, politics, grief, and desire. Since 2014, she has been performing “Say My Name” (an action for 270 abducted Nigerian girls)” as an act of embodied remembering. She is the author of Swallow the Fish and Tourist Art (with Vladimir Cybil Charlier). She currently teaches Creative Writing and Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.Experiments in Joy is forthcoming from CCM Press.

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Presentation Mon, 04 Mar 2019 09:58:25 -0500 2019-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Presentation Gabrielle Civil in a yellow dress, Naomi Long Madgett sitting on a couch
“Suffering and Bleeding As Though You Was Killing Hogs”: Mass Incarceration and Black Women’s Health (March 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60404 60404-14875265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

In 1911, Mary Dykes was tried for vagrancy and sentenced to twelve months hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. A few months later she “became insane” and “unable to work.” In 2016, Sherry Richburg’s leg was amputated after a prison physician denied her access to antibiotics. Mary and Sherry exemplify the historical abuses of the prison health care system and its mistreatment of black female patients. The medical lives of black women in America's jails and prisons is the focus of this presentation.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Talitha LeFlouria is the Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor in African and African-American Studies at the University of Virginia and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She is a scholar of African American history, specializing in mass incarceration; modern slavery; and black women in America. She is the author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (UNC Press, 2015). This book received several national awards including: the Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians (2016), the Philip Taft Labor History Award from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations & Labor and Working-Class History Association (2016), the Malcolm Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award from the Georgia Historical Society (2016), the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians (2015), and the Ida B. Wells Tribute Award from the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (2015). Her work has been featured in the Sundance nominated documentary, Slavery by Another Name, as well as C-SPAN and Left of Black. Her written work and expertise have been profiled in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, The Nation, Huffington Post, For Harriet, and several syndicated radio programs.

Professor LeFlouria is the co-director of the Public Voices Fellowship Program at the University of Virginia. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Historians Against Slavery and on the editorial board of the Georgia Historical Quarterly and International Labor and Working-Class History journal.

Presented by IRWG's Black Feminist Health Studies program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:16:55 -0500 2019-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion photo of Talitha LeFlouria
Food Literacy for All (March 19, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58203 58203-14441913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Racial liberalism & environmental racism in Flint, Michigan" by Malini Ranganathan, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:05 -0400 2019-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
HET Brown Bag | Pulsar Timing as a Probe of Primordial Black Holes and Subhalos (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62229 62229-15335273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:58:44 -0400 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
DCMB Seminar || "Towards a phylogeny of cell types" (March 20, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62260 62260-15337499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Single-cell RNA-seq is a powerful technology for identifying novel and known cell types, however its power is limited to organisms with well-annotated genomes. We present a reference-free method to compare single cells both within and across species. In this method, k-mers from each cell’s RNA-seq profile are randomly subsampled into a compressed representation called a “sketch” using document comparison algorithms of MinHash or HyperLogLog. For within-species comparison, the RNA sketches are sufficient, but as protein sequence is more stable across species, we translate the RNA k-mers into protein k-mers with 6-frame translation, discarding all protein k-mers containing stop codons. We show this method can “lift over” single-cell RNA-seq annotations from mouse to human and compare to using purely 1:1 mapping orthologous genes. Thus, k-mer sketches are an efficient method to find shared and unique cell types both within and across species without need for a reference genome or transcriptome.

Refreshments: 3:30 pm to 4:00 pm in Atrium Hall, 4th Floor of Palmer Commons
Lecture: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Forum Hall, 4th Floor of Palmer Commons

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:09:46 -0400 2019-03-20T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Discover Series: Bird's-Eye Views of America (March 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61721 61721-15176768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:31:22 -0500 2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Ann Arbor 1880
A Transcript for all Reasons: RNA Biomedicine (March 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62192 62192-15311060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Sequencing of the human genome has led to the discovery that while less than two percent of the genome codes for proteins, most of it — perhaps greater than 90 percent — is primarily dedicated to making a wide variety of RNA molecules. These RNAs have been implicated in diverse biological activities and diseases, opening new approaches to personalized medical treatment.



The co-directors of the U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine, Mats Ljungman and Nils Walter, will outline the tools now available to study and manipulate RNA and how they have the potential to build a bridge from laboratory to clinic. They also will outline their vision for accelerating RNA research at UM through the recent funding obtained from Biosciences Initiative.

These talks are open to everyone and free, but please register.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:31:13 -0400 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 Frankel Cardiovascular Center Department of Chemistry Lecture / Discussion RNA poster presenters in old English costumes
2019 MDes Public Talk: Designing Decisions (March 22, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60349 60349-14866439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Follow the path of four projects that address the challenges that healthcare professionals face as they try to support patients and policymakers in making informed decisions. Discover designed interventions to support patients, healthcare providers, and policymakers navigate the complexities of appropriate care.

These public talks, by the third graduating class of Stamps Master of Design in Integrative Design program, will discuss ways design can help encourage reflection, communicate needs, cultivate collaboration, and support decision-making.

This event includes four public talks by Prachi Bhagane and Bruna Oewel, Kady Jesko, Hyeryoung Kim, and Katherine Jones.

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Presentation Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:15:27 -0500 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Presentation https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/1000x501-2019-gradtalk-designing-decisions-01.jpg
Saturday Morning Physics | From Tiny to Huge and Something in Between: Exploring the Universe of Neutrinos, Magnets and Galaxies (March 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59602 59602-14754555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:43:05 -0500 2019-03-23T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-23T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Observation
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58205 58205-14441914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Historical trauma: Racial dispossession & Native populations" by Joseph Gone, Professor, Dept of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:40:41 -0500 2019-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
FellowSpeak: "The Digital Popular: Media, Culture and Politics in Networked India" (March 26, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58291 58291-14452849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

U-M Associate Professor of Communication Studies and 2018-19 Steelcase Faculty Fellow Aswin Punathambekar gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

U-M Associate Professor of Communication Studies and 2019 Steelcase Faculty Fellow Aswin Punathambekar explores political salience of popular culture in the context of rise of digital media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of digital media use in contemporary India. In a context where cassette culture, color television, VCRs, cable and satellite broadcasting, the internet, and mobile phones all arrived within a span of two decades, digital media platforms are layered onto existing media infrastructures, institutions, and the intensely mediated routines of daily life for hundreds of millions of people. The result is the emergence of a hybrid arena defined by two distinct zones of public culture: on the one hand, powerful film and television industries that are shaped primarily by logics of scale, audience niches, and a politics of representation, and on the other hand, social media companies defined by emergent logics of data-driven programming and production, algorithmic curation, and user participation. As part of an ongoing project on mediated political cultures, this talk will address how these media dynamics have transformed links between popular culture and politics and, in the process, reconfigured the meanings and performances of citizenship in contemporary India.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:39:15 -0500 2019-03-26T12:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Ha Ha Land
Food Literacy for All (March 26, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
HET Brown Bag | Sphere Packing and Quantum Gravity (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62522 62522-15397099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Mar 2019 08:55:03 -0400 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
DCMB Weekly Seminar (March 27, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61637 61637-15161278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Next generation and single cell sequencing have ushered in an era of big data in biology. These data present an unprecedented opportunity to learn new mechanisms and ask unasked questions. Matrix factorization (MF) techniques can reveal low-dimensional structure from high-dimensional data to uncover new biological knowledge. The knowledge of gained from low dimensional features in training data can also be transferred to new datasets to relate disparate model systems and data modalities. We illustrate the power of these techniques for interpretation of high dimensional data through case studies in postmortem tissues from GTEx, acquired therapeutic resistance in cancer, and developmental biology.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:22:07 -0400 2019-03-27T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Placental-Maternal-Fetal Communication Vesicles, and Pregnancy Health (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62129 62129-15299880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The trophoblast at the feto-maternal interface fulfills functions that are critical for embryonic development, including gas exchange, supply of nutrients, removal of waste products, endocrine regulation, and immunological defense. In his lab, Dr. Sadovsky utilizes molecular and cellular approaches to decipher mechanisms underlying placental development, differentiation, and response to injury. Using cultured primary human placental cells, genetically-altered mice, and placental samples from human pregnancies, his lab examines molecular mechanisms underlying trophoblast response to diverse stressors that adversely influence the homeostatic balance between cell injury and adaptation. Dr. Sadovsky’s research assesses how these stressors contribute to placental dysfunction and fetal growth restriction (FGR), which predispose to childhood neurodevelopmental dysfunction and adult metabolic syndrome.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:45:29 -0400 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar Sadovsky Seminar
Discover Series: A Close Look at Vues D'Optique (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61725 61725-15176770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

During the late 18th century, European engravers created 'vues d'optique,' a special kind of print designed to be viewed with an optical device called a zograscope that would make them appear three-dimensional. Join Curator of Graphics Clayton Lewis and Assistant Curator Jakob Dopp as they discuss these visual entertainment showpieces.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:37:52 -0500 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Vue de Boston
CSE Distinguished Lecture Series--Physics, Machine Learning, and Networks (March 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62714 62714-15434134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Computer Science and Engineering Division

There is a deep analogy between Bayesian inference — where we try to fit a model to data, which has a ground-truth structure partly hidden by noise — and statistical physics. Many concepts like energy landscapes, free energy, and phase transitions can be usefully carried over from physics to machine learning and computer science. At the very least, these techniques are a source of conjectures that have stimulated new work in probability, combinatorics, and theoretical computer science. At their best, they offer strong intuitions about the structure of inference problems and possible algorithms for them.

One recent success of this interface is the discovery of a phase transition in community detection in sparse graphs. Analogous transitions exist in many other inference problems, where our ability to find patterns in data jumps suddenly as a function of how noisy they are. I will discuss why and how this detectability transition occurs, review what is known rigorously, and present a number of open questions that cry out for proofs.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:18:02 -0400 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Computer Science and Engineering Division Lecture / Discussion Cris Moore
HET Seminars | Dark Matter In and Out of Equilibrium (March 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62524 62524-15397101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:06:43 -0400 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Update on Physics from the LHC (March 30, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59603 59603-14754556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:43:29 -0500 2019-03-30T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-30T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar LHC Tunnel
Food Literacy for All (April 2, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-04-02T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Change Our World (April 3, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62429 62429-15364111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Join the U-M Slam Poetry competition team and Roya Marsh at Change Our World on Wednesday April 3rd as they present perspectives through poetry! This event gives you the opportunity to see different perspectives on the world and social justice through the medium of spoken word. The event begins at 7pm in the Rackham Auditorium and is free to U-M students, faculty, and staff!

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Performance Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:03:47 -0400 2019-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T21:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Campus Involvement Performance Change Our World
Rachel Ivy Clarke: Presentation (April 4, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59930 59930-14799632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Formerly the cataloging librarian at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Rachel Ivy Clarke is currently an assistant professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. Her research centers on the reconceptualization of librarianship as a design profession (rather than a scientific one) to facilitate the systematic, purposeful design of library services for the 21st century. She holds a BA in creative writing from California State University Long Beach, an MLIS from San Jose State University, and a PhD from the University of Washington.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:15:47 -0500 2019-04-04T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
HET Seminars | Cosmic Censorship Violation and Black Hole Collisions in Higher Dimensions (April 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62737 62737-15457904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Seminars

The cosmic censorship conjecture raises the question of whether classical gravitational dynamics can drive a low-energy configuration into an accessible regime of quantum gravity, with Planck-scale curvatures and energy densities visible by distant observers. I will present evidence that cosmic censorship is violated in the quintessential phenomenon of General Relativity: the collision and merger of two black holes. It only requires a sufficient total angular momentum in a collision in high enough number of dimensions.
Nevertheless, I will argue that even if cosmic censorship is violated in this and in some other know instances, its spirit remains unchallenged: classical relativity describes the physics seen by observers outside the black holes accurately, with only minimal quantum input that does not entail macroscopic disruptions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:01:59 -0400 2019-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Saturday Morning Physics | On the Shore of the Cosmic Ocean (April 6, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59605 59605-14754557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 6, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.” Carl Sagan visualized our perspective on Earth as looking out to a vast ocean, and with an international fleet of space-based and ground observatories now and soon to come, we are poised more than ever to jump into the larger universe. The upcoming Solar Orbiter mission gives us a perfect example of how far we can go when we work together across traditional boundaries and realize that nothing in science is done in isolation. Understanding our own star leads to an increased awareness and appreciation of the Earth’s place in our solar system, as well as the Sun’s influence on planets near and far, all the way out to the boundary of our solar system. And our vision doesn’t stop there; using our star as a template informs our view of other star systems and their worlds. What we learn now, sitting on that shore, will enrich our journey out into the endless cosmic sea.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Feb 2019 13:10:15 -0500 2019-04-06T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-06T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Explore Science
FellowSpeak: “'How did you get fat anyway?': Black Women’s Diet and Exercise in the Mid-Twentieth Century" (April 9, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58292 58292-14452850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies, and 2018-19 Institute for the Humanities Charles P. Brauer Faculty Fellow Ava Purkiss gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

In 1959, black fashion and marketing expert Elsie Archer published Let’s Face It: A Guide to Good Grooming for Negro Girls in which she offered health and beauty advice to young black women. Before suggesting diet plans and exercise programs, she asked her readers: “How did you get fat anyway?” Archer added that avoiding fatness through diet and exercise would enable young black women to discover their feminine charms, enhance their appearances, and achieve a body that will “fit in.” My talk will examine how black women like Archer used nutrition advice, diet and exercise promotion, and fat shaming tactics to literally shape the fit black female body in the mid-twentieth century.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:12:44 -0500 2019-04-09T12:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Eating for Health
Unlikely General: ‘Mad’ Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America (April 9, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61729 61729-15178976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

With the young republic in crisis, President Washington chose as general an aging brigadier whose private life was mired in scandal. Follow the story of General Anthony Wayne, drawn from his own passionate letters where he vividly confessed his deepest thoughts.

Writer and historian Mary Stockwell was an Earhart Foundation Fellow at the Clements Library. Her book “Unlikely General: ‘Mad’ Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America” was published by Yale University Press in 2018. She has a B.A. in history from Mary Manse College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Toledo.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:53:06 -0500 2019-04-09T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T19:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion "Unlikely General" Book Cover
Food Literacy for All (April 9, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
HET Brown Bag | Gravity Amplitudes from the Ultraviolet (April 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62928 62928-15517952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills can be described in terms a geometrical object, the Amplituhedron. Special properties of loop integrands seem to indicate that this picture persists beyond the planar limit. My talk will describe a first step, and several challenges, in finding similar structures in gravity amplitudes.
I will explain how their ultraviolet behaviour, usually considered problematic, might hold the key to this problem.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Apr 2019 09:36:01 -0400 2019-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
DCMB Seminar (April 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62715 62715-15434135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Ophthalmology is heavily dependent on imaging and numerical data, making it an excellent candidate for the application of deep learning to tasks in image analysis and clinical decision support. In this seminar, we will discuss the rapid automated segmentation of anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) and its implications for the clinical investigation of the cornea and the intraoperative guidance of surgical maneuvers. In addition, we will discuss the relevance of deep learning to lens implant selection for cataract surgery -- the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the United States. We will conclude by examining the potential roles for deep learning in the analysis of the SOURCE database -- a comprehensive repository of ophthalmic clinical and imaging data being built at UM Kellogg Eye Center to encompass data across 18 institutions.

3:30 PM - Refreshments in Atrium Hall, Palmer Commons
4:00 PM - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:37:32 -0400 2019-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Helmut W. Baer Lecture | The Neutron Lifetime Puzzle (April 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60984 60984-15000011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Neutrons make up half of all matter but become unstable when freed from the nucleus. The precise value of the neutron lifetime plays an important role in nuclear and particle physics and cosmology. Professor Liu will describe the latest measurement, which traps neutrons by levitating neutrons with a large array of permanent magnets. The lifetime measured this way appears different than that measured with a beam of neutrons leading some to conjecture their disappearance into an undetectable state.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:43:05 -0500 2019-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Chen-Yu Liu
Michigan Quantum Science and Technology Workshop (April 11, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62495 62495-15372993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Physics Workshops & Conferences

One of the near term objectives of the Working Group is to develop a complete picture of the Michigan footprint in quantum science and technology and work to shape the image so that it can be understood in the context of the quantum initiative that is shaping up in the different funding agencies. To help in this process, a workshop is being held in April where speakers from other institutions and organizations will give their perspective on the future in this area. In addition, there will be approximately 5 internal speakers. Each of the internal speakers are working to prepare a description of the focus and impact of an area of research that includes the work of several faculty including themselves. Between the internal speakers, we expect to be able to include almost all the research areas of people who has responded to the invitation to submit their work for inclusion.

Confirmed external speakers include:
Sophia Economou (Virginia Tech)
Dan Gauthier (Ohio State)
Chris Greene (Purdue)
Tony Heinz (Stanford)
Peter Littlewood (U. Chicago)
Igor Markov (Adjunction Prof. Umich))
Johannes Pollanen (Michigan State)
Mike Raymer (U. Oregon)

Any questions? Please contact:
Duncan Steel, Robert J. Hiller Professor
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor of Physics
dst@umich.edu
(734) 764-4469

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:46:51 -0400 2019-04-11T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Physics Workshops & Conferences Workshop / Seminar Spectroscopy
Academic Innovation Student Showcase (April 11, 2019 1:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62595 62595-15407995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 1:15pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

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

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Conference / Symposium Sat, 06 Apr 2019 20:04:25 -0400 2019-04-11T13:15:00-04:00 2019-04-11T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Academic Innovation Conference / Symposium Displayphoto
Michigan Quantum Science and Technology Workshop (April 12, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62495 62495-15372992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Physics Workshops & Conferences

One of the near term objectives of the Working Group is to develop a complete picture of the Michigan footprint in quantum science and technology and work to shape the image so that it can be understood in the context of the quantum initiative that is shaping up in the different funding agencies. To help in this process, a workshop is being held in April where speakers from other institutions and organizations will give their perspective on the future in this area. In addition, there will be approximately 5 internal speakers. Each of the internal speakers are working to prepare a description of the focus and impact of an area of research that includes the work of several faculty including themselves. Between the internal speakers, we expect to be able to include almost all the research areas of people who has responded to the invitation to submit their work for inclusion.

Confirmed external speakers include:
Sophia Economou (Virginia Tech)
Dan Gauthier (Ohio State)
Chris Greene (Purdue)
Tony Heinz (Stanford)
Peter Littlewood (U. Chicago)
Igor Markov (Adjunction Prof. Umich))
Johannes Pollanen (Michigan State)
Mike Raymer (U. Oregon)

Any questions? Please contact:
Duncan Steel, Robert J. Hiller Professor
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor of Physics
dst@umich.edu
(734) 764-4469

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:46:51 -0400 2019-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Physics Workshops & Conferences Workshop / Seminar Spectroscopy
HET Seminars | Cosmology and Astrophysics of the Twin Higgs (April 12, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62929 62929-15517953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

The Twin Higgs model is an attractive solution to the little Hierarchy problem with top partners that are neutral under SM gauge charges. The framework is consistent with the null result of LHC colored top partner searches while offering many alternative discovery channels. Depending on model details, the phenomenology looks very different: either spectacular long-lived particle signals at colliders, or a plethora of unusual cosmological and astrophysical signatures via the existence of a predictive hidden sector. I will examine the latter possibility, and describe how the asymmetrically reheated Mirror Twin Higgs provides a predictive framework for a highly motivated and highly non-trivial interacting dark sector, with correlated signals in the CMB, Large Scale Structure, and direct detection searches, as well as higgs precision measurements at colliders. This provides a vivid example of the collider-cosmology complementarity, and motivates a variety of new astrophysical searches, including the search for X-ray point sources from Mirror Stars, that are motivated by the hierarchy problem.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Apr 2019 09:39:58 -0400 2019-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Why Physicists in Search of Dark Matter are Building the Most Sensitive Radios Ever Made (April 13, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59609 59609-14754563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Most of the "stuff" in our own Galaxy and the Universe as a whole is known to be in a form of a mysterious substance called dark matter. One idea for what this stuff is, that has been quickly gaining traction in recent years, is a hypothetical particle called the axion. Professor Safdi will explain why this model appears promising, and he will describe how researchers are trying to confirm this theory using ultra-sensitive radios.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:44:38 -0500 2019-04-13T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-13T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Abra 10cm
The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It (April 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62736 62736-15453645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Across the world, the far-right occupies positions of power it has not held since World War Two. With social inequality reaching astronomical proportions, the ruling elites are resurrecting all the political filth responsible for the worst crimes of the 20th century.

In Germany, the scene of the holocaust and Hitler’s Nazi movement, fascism is once again rearing its ugly head. A neo-Nazi party, the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD), is now the main opposition party with high-level support from within the state and academia. Building a mass movement capable of defeating fascism requires learning the lessons of history.

The lessons of the 1930s show that the fight against fascism requires the independent mobilization of the working class against the capitalist system. Learning these critical lessons is the only way to prevent the disaster of Nazism on an even greater scale today.

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Speaker: Christoph Vandreier, German Trotskyist, prominent leader of the fight against fascism and author of “Why Are They Back? Historical Falsification, Political Conspiracy, and the Return of Fascism in Germany.”

Vandreier is Deputy National secretary of the Sozialistiche Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) in Germany, which was placed under state surveillance on advise of the neo-Nazi AfD for its “anti-fascist” and “anti-capitalist” politics.

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Presentation Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:36:21 -0400 2019-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Youth and Students for Social Equality Presentation Public meeting: The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It – Speaker: Christoph Vandreier, author of Why Are They Back?
Food Literacy for All (April 16, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-04-16T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Washtenaw County Consensus Conference: Water Security (April 17, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63212 63212-15593437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

Across Michigan and throughout Washtenaw County, issues related to water safety, access, and usage have become prominent topics of public discussion. Despite access to 4 out of 5 Great Lakes, the past few years have repeatedly demonstrated challenges in providing safe water to all current and future Michigan residents. These challenges have drawn the attention of policy makers and experts, but a critical component of the discussion on improving water security must be the values and perspectives of impacted community members.

Join us on April 20th for a discussion between community member panelists and experts in various topics of water security, as they discuss the challenges and opportunities that Washtenaw County faces in guaranteeing access to clean water for all of its residents and the steps policy makers should take to improve water security now and into the future.

Please register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/washtenaw-county-consensus-conference-tickets-59903418738

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:34:03 -0400 2019-04-17T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
HET Brown Bag | Relic Neutrino Decoupling in Standard and Non-Standard Scenarios (April 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63101 63101-15576709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

When the Universe was from about 1 second to 1 minute old, many interesting processes took place. On the one hand, weak interactions became inefficient and relic neutrinos decoupled from the cosmic plasma. And, at the far end, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis kicked off and the first light nuclei were formed. In between, electrons and positrons annihilated into photons, effectively reheating them with respect to the already decoupled neutrinos. The outcome of all these processes can affect the evolution of the Universe from that time until what we know today. In this talk I will focus on the decoupling process of relic neutrinos, starting with the standard scenario in which we properly accounted for flavour oscillations. Then I will explain how the effective number of relativistic species, also known as effective number of neutrinos (Neff) is modified assuming some non-standard scenarios. In this way, comparing the standard value of Neff with present and future observations we can get some insight about physics beyond the Standard Model, from the presence of non-standard interactions in the neutrino sector to the possibility of having an extra (sterile) neutrino species.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:51:00 -0400 2019-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
DCMB Seminar || Can cancer cells "engineer" regulatory pathways? (April 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62789 62789-15466655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Over the past few years, small non-coding RNAs (smRNAs) have emerged as major regulators of metastatic progression. While micro-RNAs were among the first characterized post-transcriptional regulators of metastasis, we have now demonstrated that other annotated smRNAs, such as tRNAs and tRNA fragments, also impact metastatic progression. In their capacity as master regulators of gene expression, smRNAs play a major role in development, normal cell physiology, and homeostasis. However, they are often co-opted by cancer cells to help reprogram their gene expression landscape as the disease progresses. Our group has recently discovered a new class of small RNAs, which we have named orphan non-coding RNAs or oncRNAs [Fish et al, Nature Med 2018], that are largely undetected in normal cells and tissues and emerge as a consequence of cellular transformation. Because they were not previously annotated, oncRNAs had gone unnoticed in prior studies by us and others that were instead focused on quantitative changes in the expression of common smRNA regulators, such as miRNAs and tRNA fragments. These oncRNAs, which we first identified in breast cancer, provide a pool of new biomolecules with regulatory potential that can be subsequently adopted by tumor cells to carry out new oncogenic functions. We have demonstrated that breast cancer cells adopt a specific oncRNA (named T3p) to regulate the expression of two key promoters of metastasis. This finding demonstrates that oncRNAs can serve as potential building blocks for “cancer-emergent” regulatory pathways. We posit that oncRNA-mediated regulatory interactions add a new layer of complexity to gene regulation in cancers.

3:30 pm to 4:00 pm - Light refreshments in Atrium Hall, Palmer Commons
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Lecture in Forum Hall, Palmer Commons

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 09:22:50 -0400 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
CANCELED :: Roundtable and Q&A with Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan (April 19, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60967 60967-14997739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

****This event has been canceled due to changing travel plans. We hope to see you at the 4/18 Hopwood Awards Ceremony instead (Thursday, April 18, 6:00 PM, Rackham Auditorium).****

Please join us in the Hopwood Room for a discussion between essayists Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan. This lunchtime event will be catered; food will be available at 11:30, and the discussion will start at noon.

Hilton Als began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989, writing pieces for ‘The Talk of the Town,’ he became a staff writer in 1994, theatre critic in 2002, and lead theater critic in 2012. Week after week, he brings to the magazine a rigorous, sharp, and lyrical perspective on acting, playwriting, and directing. With his deep knowledge of the history of performance—not only in theatre but in dance, music, and visual art—he shows us how to view a production and how to place its director, its author, and its performers in the ongoing continuum of dramatic art. His reviews are not simply reviews; they are provocative contributions to the discourse on theatre, race, class, sexuality, and identity in America. Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.

Aisha Sabatini Sloan was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her writing about race and current events is often coupled with analysis of art, film and pop culture. She studied English Literature at Carleton College and went on to earn an MA in Cultural Studies and Studio Art from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona. Her essay collection, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. Her most recent essay collection, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, was just chosen by Maggie Nelson as the winner of the 1913 Open Prose Contest and will be published in 2017. She is currently a Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:07:21 -0400 2019-04-19T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan
CSE Distinguished Lecture Series--Physics, Machine Learning, and Networks (April 19, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62714 62714-15434132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 2:00pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Computer Science and Engineering Division

There is a deep analogy between Bayesian inference — where we try to fit a model to data, which has a ground-truth structure partly hidden by noise — and statistical physics. Many concepts like energy landscapes, free energy, and phase transitions can be usefully carried over from physics to machine learning and computer science. At the very least, these techniques are a source of conjectures that have stimulated new work in probability, combinatorics, and theoretical computer science. At their best, they offer strong intuitions about the structure of inference problems and possible algorithms for them.

One recent success of this interface is the discovery of a phase transition in community detection in sparse graphs. Analogous transitions exist in many other inference problems, where our ability to find patterns in data jumps suddenly as a function of how noisy they are. I will discuss why and how this detectability transition occurs, review what is known rigorously, and present a number of open questions that cry out for proofs.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:18:02 -0400 2019-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 BBB Computer Science and Engineering Division Lecture / Discussion Cris Moore
Food Literacy for All (April 23, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-04-23T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Discover Series: Books as Physical Objects (April 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61727 61727-15176773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join the Clements Library's Conservator, Julie Fremuth, as we discover how the rare and unique materials in the Clements Library illustrate the evolution of paper, printing, and binding in America. Examples of treatments will be on display.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:46:42 -0500 2019-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Book Spines
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Finding String Theory from the Large N Bootstrap (May 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63423 63423-15692041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

Professor Perlmutter will discuss some recent methods for computing nonplanar CFT correlators, dual to one-loop amplitudes in AdS. This will include two applications to string theory: first, the development of a novel approach to computing perturbative string amplitudes; and second, a rigorous way to count the number of "large'' extra dimensions in the gravity dual of a strongly coupled, large N CFT.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:38:34 -0400 2019-05-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Public Speaking Skills (May 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59036 59036-14659268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Have you ever wanted to improve your public speaking? This course will guide you to finally allow yourself to perform speeches while having fun doing it! You will have the opportunity to help other participants by giving feedback on their speeches, and to perform leadership roles.
The speeches can help you articulate in impromptu situations using a fun 1-2 minute table topic question-answer format, or allow you to perform 5-7 minute speeches with your own stories on any subject. The goal of this study group is to be that confident, effective speaker you always wanted to be! Then if you want to continue this study group, the lecturer will help you and your participants to form an ongoing group to meet regularly with a structured agenda where each participant will have a self-paced curriculum with milestones and awards for improvement. Eric George instructor received his BA in Computer Systems at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and is currently working toward an MA in Health Services Administration at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and will meet Mondays, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., May 6-June 10.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 31 Dec 2018 11:32:09 -0500 2019-05-06T13:00:00-04:00 2019-05-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Special HET Seminar | UV Cancellations in Gravity Loop Integrands (May 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63571 63571-15784206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 May 2019 16:01:54 -0400 2019-05-13T15:00:00-04:00 2019-05-13T16:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
How to Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease (May 16, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63457 63457-15710551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 16, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join MCCFAD on Thursday, May 16th at 11 am at the St. Mary Cultural Center, for another Arab American community health event. Dr. Laura Zahodne, a clinical neuropsychologist at the University of Michigan, will present information on Alzheimer's Disease and ways to reduce your risk.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL

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Presentation Wed, 01 May 2019 12:35:12 -0400 2019-05-16T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Event flyer
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | Quantum Oscillations in Electrical Resistivity in Kondo Insulators (May 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63620 63620-15816694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In metals, orbital motions of conduction electrons on the Fermi surface are quantized in magnetic fields, which is manifested by quantum oscillations in electrical resistivity. This Landau quantization is generally absent in insulators. Here we report a notable exception in an insulator — ytterbium dodecaboride (YbB12). The resistivity of YbB12exhibits distinct quantum oscillations despite having a much larger magnitude than in metals [1]. This unconventional oscillation is shown to arise from the insulating bulk, even though the temperature dependence of the oscillation amplitude follows the conventional Fermi liquid theory of metals. The large effective masses indicate the presence of a Fermi surface consisting of strongly correlated electrons. Quantum oscillations are also observed in the magnetization of YbB12 [1]. Our result reveals a mysterious dual nature of the ground state in YbB12: it is both a charge insulator and a strongly correlated metal.

[1] Z. xiang et al., Science 362, 65 (2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 May 2019 15:03:22 -0400 2019-05-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-16T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Summer Omics Learning Seminar Series - Co-Sponsored by M-LEEaD Omics, Bioinformatics Core, and DCMB (May 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63533 63533-15782021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Transcriptomics

"Learning mechanism of action from LINCS perturbation signatures"

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 May 2019 11:46:41 -0400 2019-05-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-23T12:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Brown Bag: "The Folly and Madness of War" (May 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63621 63621-15816695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this talk, Dr. Sarah Swedberg will discuss her current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Howard H. Peckham Fellowship on Revolutionary America. Her project, "The Folly and Madness of War, 1775-1783" focuses on the ways the United States founding generation worried about irrationality as they worked to build a rational state.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 May 2019 10:59:18 -0400 2019-05-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Sarah Swedberg, PhD
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | Multi-Scale Problems in Quantum Chromodynamics (May 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63814 63814-15896408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The origin of structure in the proton still evades a detailed description by first-principles calculations. Instead, the structure is extracted from global fits to its data. In proton-proton collisions, the current extraction procedure relies on our ability to independently describe each proton. It has been predicted, however, that correlations between two protons prohibit an independent description of each proton in certain scattering processes. These correlations may provide a powerful source of insight into the origin of collective structures in strongly-bound few-body systems. In this talk, I will explain how to probe these correlations and present measurements by the PHENIX experiment at Brookhaven National Lab in Long Island, New York. Measurements are also planned by the LHCb experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 24 May 2019 09:06:38 -0400 2019-05-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium East Hall
Dialogues in Contemporary Thought VI | On Life (May 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63805 63805-15888321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Prof. Branka Arsic (Columbia University) will be giving a public lecture on Thursday May 30th, at 4 p.m. QA to follow.

Description: My talk starts out from remarks Melville left in his Encantadas concerning the Galapagos tortoises and goes on to examine the scientific and historical archives to which he had recourse, from Cuvier and Broderip to Porter and Delano. On that basis I seek to reconstruct exactly what, in the early 19th century, prompted scientists, doctors, and naturalists, as well as traders and ordinary seamen, to obsess about the tortoise as a life form, one that was brought to the brink of extinction by the middle of the century. I argue that the reason why both physiologists in Continental scientific laboratories, and whalers traversing Antillean waters in trade ships, chose this particular animal to answer the question of what life is, derived from their ideas about what constituted pain, suffering, and cruelty. By rehearsing such debates over the presumed expressions of suffering, apathy and indifference on the part of the tortoise, I work to suggest that what scientists understood as apathy towards pain licensed the production of a bizarre taxonomy of life forms based on a creaturely capacity to resist violence. I, therefore, pay significant attention to the differences that science advanced between biologically - as opposed to psychologically - rational and irrational life forms, which leads to my concluding analysis of why, as a consequence, the irrational was designated as available for experimentation and vivisection.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 May 2019 08:31:00 -0400 2019-05-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Dialogues in Contemporary Thought | On Life
Aphasia Awareness Event: Ted Baxter Book Reading, Signing, and Q&A (June 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63734 63734-15839173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University of Michigan Aphasia Program (UMAP) is sponsoring a special event in honor of Aphasia Awareness Month, June. We are excited to invite you to a book reading and signing with author, stroke survivor, and former UMAP client, Ted Baxter! In addition to reading from his recovery memoir, Relentless, Ted will give a short talk and answer questions about what he’s learned on his journey. Ann Arbor independent bookstore Nicola's Books is graciously hosting. The event is free and open to the public.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 17 May 2019 09:39:07 -0400 2019-06-05T19:00:00-04:00 2019-06-05T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Center for Language and Literacy Social / Informal Gathering Event Image
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Seminar (June 6, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63849 63849-15939550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 6, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Protein synthesis is an indispensable process which accounts for a large proportion of the energetic resources of any living cells. Therefore, translational regulation must be tightly controlled. Such regulation is critical for protein biogenesis, folding, trafficking and degradation under stable and changing conditions. I will focus on the importance of hidden evolutionary signatures within the coding region of proteins that govern translational efficiency and dominate proteostasis in health and disease. I will discuss the notion of tRNA adaptation index (tAI) as an indirect measure for translation elongation efficiency. Specifically, I will show that proteins which must be localized to specific sites and organelles in cells evolved to support their optimal translation elongation rate. A link between an evolutionary signature within mRNAs and efficient management of protein production will be illustrated for the case of synaptic proteins and their family members. Neuronal communication is governed by the coordinated action of the synapse. In all organisms having a nerve system, the synapses are signified by the abundance of ion channels, cytoskeletal elements, ligand binding receptors, and secreted proteins. As such, the proteins composition is a showcase for an extreme demand of translational control. In the last part of the talk, I will extend the concept of translation regulation by illustrating the robustness of the translational machinery in view of post-translational regulation of miRNA in cells. I will present COMICS as a simulator that predict the global cell response to miRNA alterations, and illustrate the immunity of the translation apparatus to miRNA fluctuations. In summary, I will show that evolutionarily conserved design principles while often hidden are a strong determinant in the cell homeostasis in health and disease.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 May 2019 13:40:25 -0400 2019-06-06T15:30:00-04:00 2019-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Celebrating Brian L. Dunnigan (June 11, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61777 61777-15179587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Clements Library Associate Director and Curator of Maps Brian Leigh Dunnigan will retire on July 1, 2019. Join us as we congratulate him and reflect on his career. The Clements will hold a viewing of Dunnigan's exhibit (4:30-5:30pm) prior to this special event at the Ross School's 5th floor Blau Colloquium, featuring Remarks and a Reception.

Brian Dunnigan joined the Clements Library staff in 1996, but he was already a familiar face in the reading room as a researcher for years prior. His expertise in cartography includes manuscript military maps and plans of the 18th and 19th centuries, town and fortification plans, and the mapping of the Great Lakes. In addition to caring for the map collections and publishing research, Brian expanded his duties to serve as the Clements' Interim Director in 2007-2008 and was named Associate Director in 2010. He also provided leadership for our fellowship programs and served as editor of The Quarto, the bi-annual publication of the Clements Library Associates.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 May 2019 13:23:32 -0400 2019-06-11T18:00:00-04:00 2019-06-11T19:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Brian L. Dunnigan
Special Astronomy Talk | The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5) (June 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63945 63945-16033412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Astronomy Colloquia

Recently, more than a dozen new stellar streams in the Milky Way were discovered in the southern hemisphere with the Dark Energy Survey (DES). In this talk, I will present an ongoing spectroscopic program S5, which maps these southern streams with the 2df/AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. S5 is the first systematic program pursuing a complete census of known streams in the southern hemisphere. The radial velocities and stellar metallicities from S5, together with the proper motions from Gaia DR2, provide a unique sample to understand the Milky Way halo populations, the progenitors and formation of the streams, the mass and shape of the Milky Way potential, and to test the characteristics of dark matter. So far, the S5 program has obtained the 6D+1 (metallicity) phase space information for 10 streams in the DES footprint, all of which are the first-time measurements for these southern streams, and we are expanding our program beyond the DES footprint to cover more southern streams. I will give an overview of the S5 program, including target selection, observation, and data analysis, and I will end with a discussion of the implications of the preliminary results from S5.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Jun 2019 08:37:53 -0400 2019-06-13T15:00:00-04:00 2019-06-13T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Astronomy Colloquia Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Summer Omics Learning Seminar Series - Co-Sponsored by the M-LEEaD Omics, Bioinformatics Core, and Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (June 18, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63536 63536-15782024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 11:00am
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Metabolomics

"Analyzing Metabolomics Data: Current Tools and Future Challenges"

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 May 2019 11:52:05 -0400 2019-06-18T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T12:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | Information Scrambling in Quantum Phases (June 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64033 64033-16089305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have become a widely-appreciated tool to measure the correlation build-up in space and time, and hence quantitatively characterize information scrambling in interacting many-body systems. Started off as a theoretical tool to understand quantum information in a black hole its impact quickly expanded to a wide variety of subjects including quantum chaos, many-body localization, quantum integrability and recently symmetry-breaking quantum phase transitions. After giving a short introduction to information scrambling and out-of-time-order correlators, I will talk about the emergent relation between symmetry breaking quantum phase transitions and the information scrambling. I will introduce a new theoretical tool to study the physics encoded in an OTOC: dynamical decomposition method. I will show how this tool lets us analytically see the reasons and the mechanism of dynamical detection of symmetry-broken quantum phases via OTOCs. Based on the studies in literature and our numerical results in XXZ-model, our method seems to be universal in explaining the reasoning behind the relation between scrambling and the quantum criticality. If time permits, I will talk about an interesting numerical observation that led us to find a relation between the topological order (in 1D superconductor) at zero temperature and the OTOCs at infinite temperature.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 17 Jun 2019 08:37:14 -0400 2019-06-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium East Hall
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | The MicroBooNE Neutrino Experiment (June 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64062 64062-16113186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Despite its postulation in the 1930s and discovery in the 1950s, very little is known about the neutrino, a neutral fundamental particle with thousands of times less mass than the electron that can potentially answer some of the biggest questions in physics. MicroBooNE, an 85-active-ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) experiment located at Fermilab in Batavia, IL, seeks to answer one such question: whether more than three types of neutrinos exist. Additionally, MicroBooNE is a means to study neutrino-argon scattering and perform R&D for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a large-scale LArTPC set to take data in the mid-2020s. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of neutrinos before describing MicroBooNE and its public physics results to date.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:01:20 -0400 2019-06-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-27T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium East Hall
Summer Omics Learning Seminar Series - Co-Sponsored by the M-LEEaD Omics, Bioinformatics Core, and the Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (July 9, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63537 63537-15782025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 11:00am
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Adductomics

"Strategies and approaches for human biomonitoring of environmental and dietary carcinogens"

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 May 2019 11:56:21 -0400 2019-07-09T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-09T12:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Brown Bag: "Liverpool, Slavery and the Atlantic Cotton Frontier, 1763-1833" (July 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64169 64169-16177692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Alexey Krichtal will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Jacob M. Price Fellowship. A 5th year PhD candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University, Krichtal studies the development of cotton cultivation in the Americas and Liverpool's role as the linchpin of an Atlantic circuit for the distribution, marketing, and sale of that commodity.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:18:43 -0400 2019-07-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-07-10T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Atlantic Map 1788
A Phase Transition in Network Community Inference (July 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64251 64251-16266505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Decomposing a network into communities (a partition of the vertices such that there is a significantly higher density of connections within groups than between groups) has been a subject of great interest in the network science community due to its numerous applications in data compression and machine learning. For many real networks, however, we do not know the "true" community labels, and so one way of assessing whether a community detection algorithm works well or not is to frame the task as an inference problem: there is a set of nodes with artificially assigned "ground truth" community labels, from which a network is created through some probabilistic generative process, and the goal is to recover this structure using only the network and the algorithm of interest. Intuitively, if a graph is too sparsely connected or it is generated from a noisy process, we should fail to recover partitions that are correlated with our artificial ground truth. In this talk I discuss an interesting phenomenon in which it suddenly (in terms of a control parameter) becomes impossible to recover the true communities in a graph, even when they are explicitly planted in its topology! This abrupt qualitative change in the difficulty of the community detection problem is characterized by a phase transition analogous to that in a generalized Potts model in statistical mechanics, which can be derived from a statistical physics perspective using a free energy approximation and the cavity method. I will also discuss future work in this area and its implications for nonconvex optimization.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Jul 2019 09:33:02 -0400 2019-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-07-18T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Brown Bag: "Cinema of Social Dreamers: Artists and Their Imaginations Return to the Caribbean" (July 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63916 63916-15993697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this talk, Yasmine Espert will discuss her current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the inaugural Brian Leigh Dunnigan Fellowship in the History of Cartography. Her research this year is also supported by the Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Fellowship for 20th Century Art. A PhD candidate in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, her dissertation research explores how artists of African and Afro-Asian descent map their dreams of the Caribbean.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:54:11 -0400 2019-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-07-22T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Caribbean map
Summer Omics Learning Seminar Series - Co-Sponsored by the M-LEEaD Omics, Bioinformatics Core, and the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (July 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63539 63539-15782027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Genomics

"The Michigan Genomics Initiative: An In-House Integrated Data Frame to Conduct Precision Health Queries"

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 May 2019 11:59:55 -0400 2019-07-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-23T12:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | A Hearty Higgs Boson: Exploring Higgs Boson Properties Through the Refined Palette of the ATLAS Detector (August 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64807 64807-16450928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The Higgs Boson is a newly introduced cuisine in the world of particle physics. We can now recognize it on the menu card of the Standard Model, but the details of its production, decay, and interactions are not yet precisely understood. I'll discuss the various recipes for creating a Higgs Boson with the Large Hadron Collider, and how these different methods affect the flavors we detect within the ATLAS detector. I'll also explore how refining our palette for Higgs Bosons can impact our broader understanding of fundamental physics.

Please Note: change in venue for this week's symposium.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Aug 2019 10:38:02 -0400 2019-08-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-08T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | High Performance Micro-Sensors for Navigation-Grade MEMS Gyroscope (August 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65037 65037-16507308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

GPS navigation is commonly used in many applications including defense, autonomous vehicles, and robotics. However, absolute dependence on GPS is unreliable due to its limited reachability and susceptibility to interference. For example, a jammer or even a simple and cheap device can be used to spoof GPS signal. As a result, for navigation of high-end vehicles like that of defense and military, one can’t rely entirely on GPS. To make navigation more secure and reliable, inertial sensors are used for navigation when GPS signal is unavailable. Inertial sensors consist of primarily three accelerometers and three gyroscopes in the three perpendicular axes to measure acceleration (or velocity or position) or rate (or angle) of rotation respectively for navigation. Gyroscopes are used to measure the rotation rate and angle of rotation with high precision. Commercial gyroscopes which are used in commercial flights as well as space missions are very precise in their measurement. However, their large sizes, high costs and power requirements limit their use in many applications.

MEMS or Microelectromechanical systems consists of a range of mechanical structures which can be used for various applications. They have an inherent advantage of low cost (C), weight (W), size (S) and power (P) or low CWSaP. They, however, are limited in performance due to large noise. This is a major hurdle which has been limiting the entry of MEMS inertial sensors in navigation-grade performance applications. Our research is focused on bridging this gap and making an ultra-low noise MEMS gyroscope using the microfabrication technologies.

In this talk, I will talk about the design and fabrication of miniaturized 3D shell resonators for gyroscopes. These resonators have exhibited quality factor as high as 10 million leading to very low noise gyroscope at their small size. The achieved performance matrices would enable the use of MEMS sensors as a navigation-grade gyroscope at a cost lower by several orders of magnitude than the existing commercial gyroscopes. Only this would enable each one of us to own a self-driving car and autonomous robots at our homes!

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Aug 2019 10:59:38 -0400 2019-08-15T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-15T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium West Hall
Special Cosmology Seminar | Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations with the Magneticum Simulation (August 19, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65271 65271-16563482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 19, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HEP - Astro Seminars

Galaxy clusters are one of the most powerful cosmological tool. Their abundance as a function of cluster mass is sensitive to both the expansion history and the history of structure formation in the Universe. Various cluster observables such as X-ray luminosity, temperature and Sunyaev- Zel’dovich (SZ) effect have been shown to scale with cluster mass, therefore, can be used as a proxy of total cluster mass.

We use Magneticum simulation setup to explore the cosmology dependence of galaxy cluster scaling relations which otherwise cannot be tested by observations. We run the same simulation set-up in fifteen different cosmological environments. Our simple, cosmology dependent mass-observable scaling relation parametrisation can be used to forecast the degeneracies between the amplitude of the scaling relation and the cosmological parameters as well as to explore the combination of potential probes to break these degeneracies.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:03:00 -0400 2019-08-19T15:00:00-04:00 2019-08-19T16:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HEP - Astro Seminars Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Application of Big Data in Medicine - Experience in China (August 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65206 65206-16547477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 11:38:17 -0400 2019-08-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T14:00:00-04:00 Taubman Library DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Brown Bag: "Pocket-Sized Nation: Cultures of Portability in America, 1790-1850" (August 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63782 63782-15873606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this talk, Madeline L. Zehnder will discuss her current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Mary G. Stange Fellowship. A PhD candidate in the University of Virginia's Department of English, Zehnder is working on a dissertation about portable objects in early American literature and material culture.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 May 2019 10:59:48 -0400 2019-08-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Madeline Zehnder
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | Miniaturized Frequency Combs Enable Advanced Spectroscopies to Leave the Lab and (Maybe) Enter Orbit (August 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65404 65404-16595537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Frequency Combs, or pulsed lasers which are capable of emitting many narrow and closely spaced spectral lines (teeth) with fixed phase relationships between adjacent teeth, are an essential tool in precision metrology and spectroscopy. Their usefulness comes from the fact that their entire spectrum can be controlled by just adjusting the time between pulses and the pulse-to-pulse phase slip of their electric field. This means that, using relatively simple control schemes, frequency combs enable the most precise measurements of time and frequency possible, among a plethora of other applications. Typically, however, these light sources are roughly the size of a kitchen table and require the high stability of a lab environment to maintain the controllability of their output. Miniaturized combs exist, in the form of microscopic ring resonators, but these light sources are not very tunable, typically require large and powerful pump lasers to operate, and are expensive to manufacture. These drawbacks are all showstoppers when it comes to allowing frequency comb enabled precision measurement and spectroscopy to leave the lab. We have demonstrated a new, extremely cheap, simple, and low power laser diode-based frequency comb which is roughly the size of a grain of rice. This laser can be battery powered, and its spectrum is highly controllable, making it an ideal light source to allow advanced precision measurement and spectroscopy to leave the lab. In my talk, I will give a brief overview of frequency comb-based measurements, demonstrate the stability and tunability of our new sources, and outline their prospect for future ground- and space-based applications.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:51:15 -0400 2019-08-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium West Hall
IOE 813 Seminar: Amy Kilbourne, PhD, MPH (September 9, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66176 66176-16717507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Health systems strive to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care by ensuring that evidence-based, cost-efficient, and acceptable treatment innovations get off the research-academic shelf and into the hands of patients and their providers. However, tracking of this “research-to-practice” translation has found that it can take 17 years for treatment innovations to reach frontline care settings. Moreover, only 1 in 5 of these treatments are ultimately sustained in real-world practice. This research-to-practice gap wastes millions of dollars that are invested in research on treatment discoveries that do not make it into the hands of patients who can ultimately benefit from them. Key barriers to implementing treatment innovations into routine practice include lack of planning to prepare frontline clinicians in their adoption, lack of opportunities to adapt innovations across diverse patient populations, and limited incentives for health care organizations to sustain innovations once the research study ends. This talk will describe novel research approaches to help close the gap between innovation and implementation, notably the new VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) Implementation Roadmap and accompanying Implementation Strategy Training Hubs. We also describe novel designs such as sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) and adaptive designs, that can help determine which implementation strategies are most effective in overcoming provider and organizational barriers to treatment adoption, and how these designs and implementation strategies can be applied to settings outside the clinic walls such as schools. We also describe the challenges in conducting these studies to determine the best implementation strategies and the active ingredients for such studies to ultimately inform health systems in the successful spread of innovations to ultimately improve patient outcomes.

Dr. Amy M. Kilbourne, PhD, MPH is Director of the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan (UM) Medical School. With over 40 centers across the U.S., the mission of QUERI is to improve Veteran health by accelerating the implementation of research findings into real-world practice. Dr. Kilbourne’s goal is to improve Veteran health through implementation science, i.e., the use of strategies to help providers scale up and spread effective practices in real-world treatment settings. She has led several national improvement initiatives including a VA national population management program to provide outreach services for Veterans with serious mental illness (Re-Engage) and a community care implementation research roadmap. Dr. Kilbourne is the recipient of several awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and the Gerald L. Klerman Research Award from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA). Dr. Kilbourne received her bachelors of arts at the University of California at Berkeley (double major in molecular biology and rhetoric), and her masters in epidemiology and PhD in health policy from the University of California Los Angeles.

This is the first of our weekly seminars this semester. For a full listing of seminars, see https://cheps.engin.umich.edu/seminar-series/2019-seminar-series/

This seminar series 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.

1123 LBME is room 1123 in the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building (LBME). The street address is 1101 Beal Avenue. A map and directions are available at: http://www.bme.umich.edu/about/directions.php.

For additional information and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series, please contact genehkim@umich.edu.

Photographs and video taken at this event may be used to promote CHEPS, College of Engineering, and the University.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Sep 2019 11:38:24 -0400 2019-09-09T16:30:00-04:00 2019-09-09T18:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Amy Kilbourne, PhD, MPH
Environmental Research Seminar "Health & Household-Related Benefits of Weatherizing Low-Income Homes & Affordable Multifamily Buildings" (September 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65290 65290-16565509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The federal government, states, and utilities administer programs to improve the energy efficiency of low-income homes and affordable multifamily buildings. Investments in measures to save energy, as simple as air sealing and insulation, can also yield a broad range of non-energy benefits. This presentation will present research results that show that weatherization can improve health, home conditions, and social determinants of health. The results are drawn from three separate studies that were conducted nationally, regionally (Midwest and Northeast), and in Knoxville, Tennessee. Three3, Inc. conducts research and educational programming to promote the integration of environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The organization particularly focuses on fostering sustainable futures that: provide equitable benefits to low-income and disadvantaged populations (intra-generational equity); meets ethical obligations to future generations (inter-generational equity); and makes best use of the convergence of human knowledge and technology to meet sustainability goals.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:56:22 -0400 2019-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar 09/10/2019 Bruce Tonn "Health & Household-Related Benefits of Weatherizing Low-Income Homes & Affordable Multifamily Buildings"
Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series (September 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66530 66530-16744977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

The first seminar in the Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series of the fall 2019 semester.

Tuesday, September 10th
4pm
2147 GG Brown

Challenges in Prosthetic Limbs: Design, Control, Use, and Utility
Presented by: Assistant Professor Peter G. Adamczyk of the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Abstract
Artificial limbs offer an opportunity to improve movement through biomimetic devices. One approach is to directly replace joint function, but achieving humanlike performance is challenging for design, control, cost and longevity of the systems. An alternative approach is to exploit biomechanical workarounds for lost function rather than directly replacing it. This presentation will describe several such “semi-active” prostheses – low-power systems that modulate their mechanical properties but cannot power body movement – that aim to add adaptability and versatility with minimal addition of weight, height, complexity, power demand and cost.
Another challenge in rehabilitation and assistive technology is determining which among several interventions is most beneficial to everyday movement. “Real-world” assessment using wearable sensors is a popular approach, but current analysis techniques struggle to reduce days-long data sets to generalizable knowledge. The second part of this presentation will describe this challenge and a novel approach to data reduction aimed at enabling lab-like scientific findings from long-term wearable data sets, with upcoming application to prosthetic ankle-foot systems.

Bio
Dr. Peter Adamczyk earned degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University (B.S.) and the University of Michigan (M.S. and Ph.D) in the areas of Robotics and Biomechanics. He spent several years running a startup company dedicated to advancing the science and technology of lower-limb prosthetics and real-world motion assessment. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he directs the Biomechatronics, Assistive Devices, Gait Engineering and Rehabilitation Laboratory (UW BADGER Lab, http://uwbadgerlab.engr.wisc.edu).

Dr. Adamczyk’s research aims to enhance physical and functional recovery from impairments affecting walking, running, and standing. Core foci include the design of semi-active foot prostheses for gait restoration after amputation; wearable sensors for movement assessment during real-life activities; and rehabilitation robotics to explore motor learning and neural adaptation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:49:02 -0400 2019-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Workshop / Seminar Peter G. Adamczyk
Wallace House Presents McKenzie Funk on Climate Change (September 10, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64630 64630-16397019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Mike & Mary Wallace House
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

The 34th Graham Hovey Lecture

“Seeing Green: The Business and Inequity of Climate Change” with McKenzie Funk

While the issue of climate change rises in importance to the U.S. electorate, players in energy, banking and business are cashing in on the environmental crisis. McKenzie Funk, 2012 Knight-Wallace Fellow, is the author of “Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming.” Join him for a critical discussion of drought, rising seas, profiteering, and the hardest truth about climate change: It’s not equally bad for everyone.

Funk writes for Harper’s, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Outside, The New York Times Magazine and the London Review of Books. His 2014 book “Windfall” won a PEN Literary Award and was named a book of the year by The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Salon and Amazon.com. A National Magazine Award and Livingston Award finalist, Funk won the Oakes Prize for Environmental Journalism for his reporting on the melting Arctic and has received fellowships at the Open Society Foundations and MacDowell Colony for his forthcoming work on data and privacy.

Funk studied philosophy and comparative literature at Swarthmore College and capitalism and the paradigm of endless growth as a 2012 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He speaks five languages and is a native of the Pacific Northwest, where he lives with his wife and sons.

The annual Graham Hovey Lecture recognizes a Knight-Wallace journalist whose career exemplifies the benefits of a fellowship at the University of Michigan and whose ensuing work is at the forefront of national conversation. The event is named for the late Graham Hovey, director of the fellowship program from 1980 to 1986 and a distinguished journalist for The New York Times.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:36:20 -0400 2019-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T21:00:00-04:00 Mike & Mary Wallace House Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Wallace House Presents McKenzie Funk on Climate Change
DCMB Seminar - Neurons in pathology through the lens of multi-omics and data analytics (September 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65485 65485-16605630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:49:51 -0400 2019-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Positive Links Speaker Series (September 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65986 65986-16678389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Building Resilience in Times of Chaos
Emma Seppälä

Wednesday, September 11, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/r88De

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

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

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

About the talk:
We have little control over our environment and the challenges that come our way. But there is something we can do about our internal environment: the state of our mind, our ability to handle challenges, and bounce back. In this session, Seppälä will explore different empirically validated techniques to improve our emotional intelligence, our social connection, and our ability to endure and thrive no matter what comes our way.

About Seppälä:
Emma Seppälä, PhD is Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and the author of The Happiness Track (HarperOne, 2016). She is Co-Director of the Yale College Emotional Intelligence Project at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and Faculty Director of the Yale School of Management’s Women’s Leadership Program.

She consults with Fortune 500 leaders and employees on building a positive organization. She has spoken at TedX Sacramento, TEDx Hayward, and companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Bain & Co, Ernst & Young, and a United States Congressional Hearing. Her articles have been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, Business Insider, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Forbes, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and NPR. She has also been a repeat guest on Good Morning America.

Host:
Kim Cameron, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations; William Russell Kelly Professor Emeritus of Business Administration; Professor Emeritus of Higher Education

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Event link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/building-resilience-in-times-of-chaos

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:28:13 -0400 2019-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Emma Seppälä
Brown Bag: Exploiting Fur in the British Atlantic World, 1783-1821 (September 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64942 64942-16491259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Dr. David Hope will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as a recipient of the Jacob M. Price Fellowship. Dr. Hope is an economic historian and Economic History Society Anniversary Fellow — a one-year postdoctoral position co-sponsored by the Economic History Society, Newcastle University (UK), and the Institute of Historical Research (University of London). He is working on a monograph situating the fur trade within the wider Atlantic economy, offering new insights into the organization of overseas trade, the distribution and consumption of global luxuries, and the synergy between environment and empire.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:56:30 -0400 2019-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Plan of the Straits - Fur Trade cartouche (1761)
IOE 813 Seminar: Shuai Huang, PhD (September 16, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66783 66783-16796472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The data-rich environments in healthcare and ubiquitous use of smartphones hold great promises to accelerate the paradigm transition of U.S. healthcare from reactive care to preventive care. One question is how we could translate the disease data into better care management of patients through an emerging ecosystem of healthcare apps, made possible by smartphones now considered as medical devices. It is known that many diseases manifest complex progression process, involving both temporal dynamics and spatial evolution that could be captured by a rich array of sensors in a smartphone. How could we model, monitor, and modify these processes are challenging problems. For example, diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Type 1 Diabetes share the commonality that they involve slow and predictable progression processes. Knowing how a disease progresses is helpful, particularly if we’d like to prevent the disease as early as we could for maximum therapeutic efficacy and improved quality of life. The modeling of the progression process is statistically challenging given the high-dimensionality of the data, the mixed types variables, and the data’s longitudinal nature. Another commonality of these diseases is that, since they are chronic conditions, being able to recognize subtle symptoms that indicate significant clinical events or suggest worse outcomes is crucial for preventative care. Further, patients need to be dynamically prioritized by their projected risk for resource allocation optimization. This needs robust models that build on the statistical knowledge provided by disease modeling and monitoring, to guide the selection of high-risk patients for targeted care. In this talk, I will share some of our works to tackle these challenges by developing novel models and algorithms to provide data-driven decision-making capabilities for better disease management implemented through smartphone apps.

Dr. Shuai Huang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington. He received a B.S. degree on Statistics from the School of Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2007 and a Ph.D. degree on Industrial Engineering from the Arizona State University in 2012. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME) and the Integrated Brain Imaging Center (IBIC) at the University of Washington. Dr. Huang develops methodologies for modeling, monitoring, diagnosis, and prognosis of complex networked systems such as the brain connectivity networks and disease progression process that have multiple stages and pathways. He also develops statistical and data mining models to integrate massive and heterogeneous datasets such as neuroimaging, genomics, proteomics, laboratory tests, demographics, and clinical variables, for facilitating scientific discoveries in biomedical research and better decision-makings in clinical practices. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), Helmsley Foundation, NIH, and several biomedical research institutes. Dr. Huang currently serves as Associate Editor for the IIE Transactions in Healthcare Systems Engineering and Quality Technology and Quantitative Management.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:53:38 -0400 2019-09-16T16:30:00-04:00 2019-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Shuai Huang, PhD
MIPSE Seminar | Simulation-Guided Design of a MegaJoule Dense Plasma Focus (September 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65588 65588-16619786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
A dense plasma focus (DPF) is a relatively compact coaxial plasma gun which completes its discharge as a Z-pinch. These devices have been designed to operate at a variety of scales in to produce short (<100 ns) pulses of ions, X-rays, or neutrons. LLNL has recently constructed and brought into operation a new device, the MJOLNIR (MegaJouLe Neutron Imaging Radiography) DPF which is designed for radiography and high yield operations. This device has been commissioned over the last year and has achieved neutron yields up to 9x10^11 neutrons/pulse at 2.2 MA pinch current while operating at up to 1 MJ of stored energy. MJOLNIR is equipped with a wide range of diagnostics, including activation foils, neutron time of flight detectors, a fast framing camera, optical light gates, and a time-gated neutron and x-ray imager. LLNL also runs unique particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of DPF in the Chicago code, and has been able to gain significant insight into the physical factors that influence neutron yield. To that end, MJOLNIR is one of the first DPFs whose design and continual upgrades are heavily influenced by predictive modeling. In this presentation, we will describe insights from modeling, device operation, and recent results. Preliminary x-ray and neutron images will also be presented.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Andrea Schmidt is group leader of the Plasma Engineering Group and Associate Program Lead for Pulsed Power Fusion Plasmas at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). She received her Ph.D. in Physics from MIT and her BS in Physics from the U. of California/Berkeley. She joined LLNL as a postdoctoral researcher in 2011 and joined the staff in 2013. As a postdoc, Schmidt was involved in electrical grid research, and modeling the dense plasma focus (DPF) device. She performed the first kinetic modeling of a DPF, demonstrating that a particle approach was needed to capture beam formation and neutron yield. She is now leading several projects in DPF research including the development of a large MJ-class DPF experiment built for flash neutron radiography. Schmidt also led modeling and experimental efforts for magnetron sputtering and was part of a team investigating a shear-flow-stabilized z-pinch configuration for controlled fusion.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:04:06 -0400 2019-09-18T15:30:00-04:00 2019-09-18T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Andrea Schmidt
Pan-African Pulp Installation (September 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65730 65730-16631989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come watch artist Meleko Mokgosi work on his site-specific installation Pan-African Pulp! 

Mokgosi installed several parts of his commission project in late August. Now, for the final phase of the installation, he will paint a mural September 20–22 on and off during building hours. Stop by the Vertical Gallery to see the project evolve!

Mokgosi will also give a public talk at 7:30 p.m. on September 21 during UMMA After Hours, as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Other Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:17:45 -0400 2019-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Statistics 50th Anniversary (September 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61206 61206-15052048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Statistics

The Department of Statistics will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary on September 20th and 21st in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There will be talks led by former professors and alumni, as well as panel discussions.

Please check back on this page at a later date for more information!

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Other Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:03:31 -0500 2019-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Statistics Other Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
E-Hour Speaker Series (September 20, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67351 67351-16839920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year.

Friday's speaker is Ram Vasudevan, an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan with an appointment in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Program. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and an Honors Degree in Physics in May 2006, an MS degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2009, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering in December 2012 all from the University of California, Berkeley. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral associate in the Locomotion Group at MIT from 2012 till 2014 before joining the University of Michigan in 2015. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and ONR Young Investigator Award.

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Presentation Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:44:22 -0400 2019-09-20T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-20T13:20:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation RAM VASUDEVAN HEADSHOT
Pan-African Pulp Installation (September 21, 2019 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65731 65731-16631990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 11:45am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come watch artist Meleko Mokgosi work on his site-specific installation Pan-African Pulp! 

Mokgosi installed several parts of his commission project in late August. Now, for the final phase of the installation, he will paint a mural September 20–22 on and off during building hours. Stop by the Vertical Gallery to see the project evolve!

Mokgosi will also give a public talk at 7:30 p.m. on September 21 during UMMA After Hours, as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center.

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Other Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:16:56 -0400 2019-09-21T11:45:00-04:00 2019-09-21T23:45:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
UMMA After Hours: Fall Opening (September 21, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64139 64139-16171628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join us to celebrate an exciting new season at UMMA! Enjoy live music, gallery talks, food, and more at this free community event.

Painter and printmaker Meleko Mokgosi’s newly commissioned work, Pan-African Pulp, transforms UMMA’s Vertical Gallery into a multimedia exploration of the history of global Pan-Africanism, a movement with significant history in Detroit. Mokgosi will give a talk at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium.

This fall, UMMA launches a new experimental space, ArtGym, with Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs. Cast your vote and be part of our crowdsourcing experiment to choose the 250 photographs UMMA will add to our permanent collection.

Copies and Invention in East Asia, in our Taubman Gallery, will challenge your understanding of originality and delight you with an exploration of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean art spanning ancient to contemporary times.

We look forward to seeing you there!  

UMMA events are generously sponsored by Fidelity Investments. The media sponsor for UMMA After Hours is the Ann Arbor Observer.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 21 Sep 2019 12:17:36 -0400 2019-09-21T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Pan-African Pulp Installation (September 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65732 65732-16631991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come watch artist Meleko Mokgosi work on his site-specific installation Pan-African Pulp! 

Mokgosi installed several parts of his commission project in late August. Now, for the final phase of the installation, he will paint a mural September 20–22 on and off during building hours. Stop by the Vertical Gallery to see the project evolve!

Mokgosi will also give a public talk at 7:30 p.m. on September 21 during UMMA After Hours, as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center.

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Other Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:16:57 -0400 2019-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
UM Psychology Community Talk: Understanding Memory: How it Works and How to Improve it (September 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64329 64329-16316438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Exploring the Mind

Abstract: Human beings store away huge quantities of information in memory. We remember countless facts about the world (e.g., birds have wings, 2+2=4, there are 26 letters in the alphabet) as well specific information about our own lives (e.g., what we had for lunch, where we went for our last vacation, our first kiss). How does that work? How do we store information away into memory and then retrieve exactly the information we need minutes, days, or even years later? Conversely, why do we so often forget someone’s name or where we put our keys? And perhaps most importantly, is there anything we can do to improve our memory and keep it sharp? In this talk, we’ll dive into the psychological and neural mechanisms that underlie our amazing ability to remember. And we’ll also discuss ways to maximize our memory by applying techniques that have been scientifically demonstrated to improve retention.

Bio: Professor Thad A. Polk is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. His research combines functional imaging of the human brain with computational modeling and behavioral methods to investigate the neural architecture underlying cognition. Some of his major projects have investigated changes in neural representations as we age, contributions of nature versus nurture to neural organization and differences in the brains of smokers who quit compared with those who do not. Dr. Polk has taught well over 6,000 UM students over the past 20 years and has developed three neuroscience courses aimed at the general public for The Great Courses (The Addictive Brain, The Aging Brain, The Learning Brain). In 2012 Princeton Review included him on its list of the Best 300 Professors in the U.S.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:56:44 -0400 2019-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Exploring the Mind Presentation Thad Polk
Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series (September 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67552 67552-16892242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

Speaker: Amy Marconnet - Associate Professor at Purdue University

Abstract
Nanostructuring material s allows independent control of multiple material s properties. High conductivity material s such as carbon nanotube forests are useful as thermal interface materials (TIMs) for dissipating power in electronic devices, while low conductivity material s like nanoporous silicon for thermal barrier coatings and enhanced thermoelectric performance. Beyond thermal transport, storage of thermal energy is critical for effective heat removal for applications involving
highly-transient heat fluxes, and during material processing. Often to achieve the desired functionality, multiples material s are combined together to form heterogeneous composites. For example, in lithium-ion batteries, the particulate active material s (with micro- and nano-scale features) are sandwiched between metal electrodes and polymer-based separators with microscale thicknesses to form macroscale battery cells. This seminar will discuss methods to understand and
control thermal transport and development of accurate and reliable experimental and analytical techniques for thermal characterization across multiple length scales. Further, I will highlight the integration of material synthesis with thermal property measurements and physics-based analysis to provide new avenues for improved material s and device performance.

Bio
Amy Marconnet i s an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. She received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wi Wisconsin – Madison in 2007, and an M.S. and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2009 and 2012, respectively. She then worked briefly as a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at Purdue University in 2013. Research in the Marconnet Thermal and
Energy Conversion (MTEC) Lab integrates metrology and analysis of underlying transport mechanisms with design and development of nanostructured material s for heat transfer and energy conversion applications.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:27:34 -0400 2019-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Amy Marconnet
DCMB Seminar, "Bioinformatics in Drug Discovery" (September 25, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66407 66407-16734206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:01:32 -0400 2019-09-25T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-25T15:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Life In Graduate School | Computational Resources at Michigan (September 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67234 67234-16828994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Life in Graduate School Seminars

Computational Resources at Michigan

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:21:06 -0400 2019-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Life in Graduate School Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
E-Hour Speaker Series (September 27, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67534 67534-16890102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

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

Friday's speaker is Bret Kugelmass, an American technology entrepreneur who’s turned his focus to climate and energy advocacy. One of the early pioneers in commercializing drones (Airphrame – acq. 2017) for environmental surveys and emergency response he’s experienced first-hand market growth within complex technical, regulatory, and public opinion framework. Motivated by the climate crises he moved to DC to set up a research initiative (Energy Impact Center) focused on exploring nuclear power and its role in deep decarbonization.

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Presentation Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:25:29 -0400 2019-09-27T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T13:20:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation BRET KUGELMASS HEADSHOT
The Science of Yogic Breathing - workshop for student wellness (September 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65926 65926-16670254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Breathing regulation is one of the key practices within the Yoga discipline. Often called Pranayama or Yogic breathing this practice is gaining increasing importance in the Western world. The availability of ancient literature and modern scientific evidence is sparse on this subtopic of Yoga. Dr. Sundar Balasubramanian is a pioneer in the area of salivary biomarkers combining Pranayama practice. He has been researching techniques related to Pranayama from the ancient and unique Siddha tradition. He has published scientific research papers and book on Thirumanthiram, written by Saint Thirumoolar. This workshop consisting of both theoretical and practical components is unique in combining ancient wisdom with modern science based on the teacher’s first-hand experience and research. The attendees will be able to,

1. Get acquainted with the ancient literary excerpts on Yogic breathing
2. Get to practice key breathing exercises from an ancient tradition
3. Understand the physiological, emotional and biological mechanisms of Pranayama based on the research work done by the presenter
4. Learn the clinical and social applications of Pranayama

This program is designed for students of all levels. Participants can learn easy exercises to relieve day-to-day stress, and to improve overall wellness. No need for Yoga mats or Yoga attire. Participants can practice seated on chairs with campus/office attire. No large meal within 2 hours prior to the session. Drink adequate fluid.

Session timings: Lecture - First 30 minutes; Q/A-10 minutes; Practice-50 minutes (questions allowed if they are about the exercises being practiced).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:06:41 -0400 2019-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T16:30:00-04:00 North Quad Barger Leadership Institute Workshop / Seminar Yogic Breathing
FellowSpeak: "Being and Acting the Other: Expanding Ethics to Account for Complex Personhood" (October 1, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66070 66070-16686690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

How can one make sense of individual ethical action when one is partly the other? Based on fieldwork in end-of-life care in Northern Thailand, where many individuals consider themselves to be hybrids of many beings, I will explore the implications of complex personhood for living an ethical life.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:26:20 -0400 2019-10-01T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-01T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Many Faced God
Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series (October 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67537 67537-16892234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

Impacting Healthcare Costs with a University of Michigan innovation – FlexDex

Dr. Kent Bowden, General Surgery, Cadillac Hospital, Munson Healthcare System

Abstract
Driven by minimally invasive procedures that require intensive suturing, the adoption of robotics in general surgery has accelerated dramatically in spite of high costs and steep learning curve. While big hospitals are able to absorb the cost of owning and maintaining multi-million dollar DaVinci surgical robots and associated infrastructure, small community hospitals face a difficult decision.

In this talk, I will present this dilemma faced by Cadillac Hospital, which serves the rural community of about 80,000 residents in seven counties in northern Michigan. A few years ago, we had to decide to either invest significant time, money, and personnel in creating and running a robotics program, or lose our patients and surgeons to bigger hospitals and medical centers. This would be a loss for the
local community, economy, and quality of living. Instead, we looked for alternate options. There weren’t many but the most promising one seemed to be a technology from our own state – FlexDex – created at the University of Michigan.

I will describe how I ended up adopting FlexDex and pioneering complex surgical procedures with it just as they would be performed on the DaVinci surgical robot but at much lower costs to the hospital. I have now performed over four hundred FlexDex procedures including hernia repair, colon resection, fundoplication, and hysterectomy. The savings from this decision and the “notoriety” that this brought us has expanded our surgical efficiency as well as capabilities.

FlexDex is now spreading all over the world and is being adopted in urology, gynecology, cardiothoracic, bariatric, and whipple procedures among others. I will discuss the future potential of this technology in providing greater access to minimally invasive surgery world-wide at an affordable cost. I will also discuss ongoing technology needs and challenges that remain in surgery that might
inspire new research and innovation at universities.

Bio
Dr. Kent Bowden, D.O. is a General Surgeon at Cadillac Hospital, Munson Healthcare. He trained at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University and graduated in 2005. He completed his Residency at Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing, MI in 2010, and joined private practice in a rural hospital where he could have a broad-spectrum practice. His objective as a surgeon is to
provide cost-effective, personalized and world-class care to patients in his local community. In addition to pioneering cases with FlexDex, he enjoys coaching basketball at his children's school and spending time outdoors with his family. Dr. Bowden is a Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons (FACOS).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:10:54 -0400 2019-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Dr. Kent Bowden
Special Joint Lecture (MICHR and DCMB) (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67257 67257-16829032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:53:44 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Feminist Futures: Art, Design & Activism Series Kick-off Party + Participatory Performance & Reading (October 5, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66990 66990-16792093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 5, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for the official kick-off party for the Feminist Futures: Art, Design & Activism Event Series. The afternoon will include participatory readings of texts and poetry on feminism, queerness and gender written by Gloria Anzaldúa, Zach Blas, Lucy Lippard, Audre Lorde, Fred Moten, and Wu Tsang. The event will include a re-staging of the landmark performance of artist Faith Wilding’s poem “Waiting” by Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist, Arturo Herrera.Participatory readings will be led by artists Chace “Mic Write” Morris and Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe.After the readings we will announce the Feminist FuturesReading List for upcoming series events. Enjoy a live DJ and refreshments.

Feminist Futures: Art, Design and Activism is an ongoing event series exploring the role of feminism in art, design, scholarship, and politics. The series brings together multigenerational artists and thinkers in contemporary art, design, art history, and related fields who have shaped, and are shaping, current discourses on gender and the fight for equality.

Arturo Herrera is an interdisciplinary artist based in Detroit, Michigan. Herrera explores issues across national boundaries, including the politics of race and language, borders, and self-disclosure of sexual orientation. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine art in Canada, at the University of Windsor, with concentrations in sculpture, photography, and performance art. Herrera’s most recent presentation was at the Detroit Historical Museum, as part of the show Looking For America, an event organized by the New American Economy, American University School of Public Affairs, and CuriosityConnects.us. Previously, his work has been presented at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Venice International Performance Art Week in Venice, Italy.

Chace Morris (Mic Write) is a poet/emcee from Detroit. He is currently working on the 2nd installment of his critically-acclaimed EP, ONUS Chain, a video trilogy & music EP hailed by Okayplayer as “one of the best protest records of 2016.” Chace is a 2018 MAP Fund recipient, 2-time Knight Arts Challenge recipient, a Kresge Literary Fellow, a Callaloo Fellow, 2-time Rustbelt Poetry Slam Champion & the recipient of the 2016 Alain Locke Award from the Detroit Institute Of Arts. His poems have been published in The Offing, Wildness, Muzzle, Drunk In A Midnight Choir & Radius— once nominated for a Pushcart Prize— & his music has been featured on Bandcamp Daily, NPR, The Village Voice, Detroit Free Press, Mother Jones & NBC’s The Grio. He is also a contributing writer to Black Nerd Problems & constant artistic partner of Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe. Sherina is proud to have collaborated with her partner, Chace Morris (Mic Write). Together, the duo produced C R O S S R O A D at the Detroit Institute of Arts in October, 2017.

Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe is a writer, editor, performer & educator from Detroit, MI. She is a 2018 MAP grant awardee, a 2017 Knight Arts Challenge awardee, a 2014 Kresge Theater fellow, a 2014 Cave Canem fellow, 2013 Voices of Our Nations Authors alum, executive director of Obsidian Blues and co-founder of the C R O S S R O A D collective. Her 2015 play “On Becoming Unfukwitable” forged new dramatic territory with a searing insight into how a daughter transcends molestation by her father. The production blends healing practices and multiple genres to create a group story-telling experience. Her ability to create a safe space for survivors makes “Unfukwitable” an insightful, evocative, liberating and transformative experience. Her latest project, *** *****, uses art to create a healing vibration to transcend trauma.

Feminist Futures: Art, Design & Activism Series is organized by Stamps Gallery and co-sponsored by the Center for the Education of Women+ (CEW+): Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund with support from the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG) and the U-M Library.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-futures-art-design-activism-series-kick-off-party-participatory-performance-readings-tickets-71552843481

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Auditions Wed, 02 Oct 2019 18:15:43 -0400 2019-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/facebook_ff-banner.png
Brown Bag: "Environmental History and Military Metabolism in the War of Independence" (October 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65581 65581-16619782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Dr. David Hsiung will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Faith and Stephen Brown Fellowship. A U-M grad (PhD in History 1991), he is now the Charles and Shirley Knox Professor of History at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. Dr. Hsiung is working on a book tentatively titled “One If By Land: An Environmental History of the Birth of American Independence and Its Consequences.”

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:37:24 -0400 2019-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Seat of war in the environs of Philadelphia (1777)
Wallace House Presents “Held Hostage: Ensuring the Safe Return of Americans Held Captive Abroad” (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66390 66390-16734116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Each year, it’s estimated that hundreds of American journalists, humanitarian aid workers, business people and tourists are taken captive by foreign governments, terrorist groups and criminal organizations. How can we better understand U.S. hostage policy and the risks and challenges of bringing our fellow Americans home? Join us for a discussion on negotiating with hostile actors, growing threats to journalists and aid workers both at home and abroad, and the safety measures they should undertake.

Panelists:

Diane Foley is the mother of five children, including American freelance conflict journalist James W. Foley. She founded the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation in September 2014, less than a month after his public execution. Diane is currently serving as the President and Executive Director of JWFLF. Since 2014, she has led JWFLF efforts to fund the start of Hostage US and the international Alliance for a Culture of Safety. In 2015, she actively participated in the National Counterterrorism Center hostage review which culminated in the Presidential Policy Directive-30. This directive re-organized U.S. efforts on behalf of Americans taken hostage abroad into an interagency Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs and a White House Hostage Response Group. Previously, Diane worked first as a community health nurse and then as a family nurse practitioner for 18 years. She received both her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Review of Books, World Policy Journal, Asahi Shimbun, and The Times of India. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom. His book, “The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom,” was published in November 2014.

Moderator:

Margaux Ewen is the executive director of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, a non-profit organization founded after the brutal 2014 murder of James Foley, an American freelance journalist, while he was held captive by ISIS in Syria. The foundation’s mission is to advocate for the freedom of all Americans held hostage or unjustly detained abroad and promote the safety of journalists worldwide. Prior to joining the Foley Foundation, Margaux was North America director for Reporters Without Borders. She has a demonstrated history of working in the broadcast media industry and advocating for media rights and has two law degrees from the Sorbonne in France and from The George Washington University in the U.S.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 09:19:40 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Wallace House Presents “Held Hostage: Ensuring the Safe Return of Americans Held Captive Abroad”
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Wednesday Seminar (October 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68092 68092-17009821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:26:01 -0400 2019-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: Mari Katayama: My Body as Material (October 10, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64152 64152-16171641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, she has only two fingers on one hand and had both her legs amputated at the age of nine; she has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. Katayama treats her entire body, bodily parts, and prosthetics as “materials” to be arranged in photographs, read as soft sculptures, and decorated with lace, shells, and shiny objects. As the protagonist in intricately arranged narrative scenes, the artist invites the viewer to voyeuristically experience a private space developed from her imagination. Katayama’s work exposes anxieties that haunt many of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. One of the most exciting new artists emerging from contemporary Japan, Katayama’s work is featured this year’s Venice Biennale in Italy. Her exhibition at UMMA, Mari Katayama (on view October 12, 2019–January 26, 2020), will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S. The talk will be moderated by Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art at UMMA and the exhibition curator.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:44 -0400 2019-10-10T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-10T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Saturday Morning Physics | What's So Super About Supercomputing? (October 12, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66273 66273-16725785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 12, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Supercomputers have been around for decades, but now they impact every aspect of our lives even if we aren't aware of it. Supercomputing isn't just about hardware and software, it is about what supercomputers can be used for, and even more importantly, it is about the human capabilities and efforts that go into using them.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:51:22 -0400 2019-10-12T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-12T23:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar A Supercomputer, Credit Dan Meisler
Vedanta Discourse (October 14, 2019 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68069 68069-16994910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 6:15pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle

We welcome you to attend Vedanta Discourse by Swami Yogatmananda, Minister in Charge, Vedanta Society of Providence, RI.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:50:45 -0400 2019-10-14T18:15:00-04:00 2019-10-14T19:45:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Vedanta Study Circle Lecture / Discussion October 14, 2019 talk by Swami Yogatmananda
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (October 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68138 68138-17011980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:39:45 -0400 2019-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
2019 Borer Lecture: Laurie Goodyear, PhD (October 18, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65756 65756-16654032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Brehm Tower
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

This year's Katarina T. Borer Lectureship in Exercise Endocrinology and Metabolism guest speaker is Laurie Goodyear, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Section Head, Joslin Diabetes Center, at Harvard Medical School. She will present "Why Moms and Dads Should Exercise: Molecular Discoveries of the Beneficial Effects of Parental Exercise on Offspring Health."

Friday, October 18, at 2:30pm
Brehm Tower, Oliphant-Marshall Auditorium (1st floor)
1000 Wall St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Reception to follow

RSVP at http://myumi.ch/errk2!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:54:36 -0400 2019-10-18T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 Brehm Tower School of Kinesiology Lecture / Discussion Borer Lectureship: Laurie Goodyear, PhD
Saturday Morning Physics | The Astronet: A Human-Centric Network of Free-Flying Space Co-Robots (October 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66276 66276-16725786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In this talk, Professor Panagou will describe her work for the NASA Early Career Faculty Award on the "Astronet": a human-centric robotic network of future space free-fliers (Astrobees) that will assist the astronauts in EVAs and IVAs on the ISS, and for space exploration. She will describe her team's algorithmic developments on the intelligence and autonomy of the Astronet, and on how it can interact and assist astronauts in multi-tasking procedures in unstructured environments. She will show simulations results on an ISS simulator, as well as preliminary experimental results with small quadrotors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:01:32 -0400 2019-10-19T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-19T23:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar The Astronet
Structural models of psychopathology and its relation to personality across the lifespan (October 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68350 68350-17069159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Personality traits emerge early in life and appear to reflect liability for various forms of psychopathology. At the same time, the nature and specificity of these associations remains unclear. I will present data establishing rapprochement between contemporary models of personality and psychopathology, integrating empirically based, hierarchically organized structural representations of both at phenotypic and etiologic levels. This work emphasizes the utility of broad higher-order factors (or spectra) of psychopathology (i.e., internalizing, externalizing), but not necessarily the p-factor or individual diagnostic entities, as valuable foci for targeting transdiagnostic mechanisms undergirding psychopathology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:58:12 -0400 2019-10-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion AWatts_2019
FellowSpeak: “'He’d be a good rhymer': Polish Hip-Hop and the Legacy of Romanticism" (October 22, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66073 66073-16686695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

2019-20 Postdoctoral Fellow Alena Aniskiewicz gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

In 2012, the Polish rapper Doniu told *The New York Times*, “If Mickiewicz was alive today; he’d be a good rhymer.” Identifying Adam Mickiewicz—a nineteenth-century Romantic poet—as a precursor to the “rhymers” of contemporary hip-hop, Doniu’s assertion speaks to Polish hip-hop communities’ efforts to locate the international genre within national cultural traditions. This talk will examine the Romantic legacies of “freestyling” and politically engaged lyrics as they are referenced and performed in the work of Polish hip-hop artist Peja and his group Slums Attack. Capitalizing on the resonance between national and genre ideals of authenticity and speaking to and for marginalized communities, Peja positions himself as heir to the Romantic poets whose work has shaped ideas of Polishness for two hundred years. In so doing, he performs a vision a Poland that remains defined by its national past, even as it embraces a modern global music.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:27:03 -0400 2019-10-22T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Hip-hop at a record store.
Prediction Error & Model Evaluation for Space-Time Downscaling: case studies in air pollution during wildfires (October 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68191 68191-17026797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

ABSTRACT:
Public Health Scientists use prediction models to downscale (i.e., interpolate) air pollution exposure where monitoring data is insufficient. This exercise aims to obtain estimates at fine resolutions, so that exposure data may reliably be related to health outcomes. In this setting, substantial research efforts have been dedicated to the development of statistical models capable of integrating heterogenous information to obtain accurate prediction: statistical downscaling models, land use regression, as well as machine learning strategies. However, when presented with the tasks of choosing between models, or averaging models, we find that our understanding of model performance in the absence of independent statistical replications remains insufficient. This lecture is motivated by several studies of air pollution (PM 2.5 and ground-level ozone) during wildfires. We review the basis for cross validation as a strategy for the estimation of the expected prediction error. As these performance measure play a crucial role in model selection and averaging we present a formal characterization of the estimands targeted by different data subsetting strategies, and explore their performance in engineered data settings. A final analysis and a warning about preference inversion is presented in relation to the a 2008 wildfire event in Northern California.

BIO:
Dr. Telesca is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California Los Angeles. He received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington and spent two years at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include Bayesian methods in multivariate statistics, functional data analysis, statistical methods in bio- and nano-informatics. Dr. Telesca is a member of the California NanoSystems Institute, the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and principal data scientist at Lucid Circuit Inc.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:51:07 -0400 2019-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T14:30:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Donatello Telesca Environmental Statistics Day Lecture
CSE Distinguished Lecture (October 22, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68104 68104-17011785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Computer Science and Engineering Division

Abstract: After more than 30 years in academia researching in the area of AI, as a student and as a faculty, I joined JPMorgan to create and head an AI research group. In this talk, I will present several concrete examples of the projects we are pursuing in engagement with the lines of business. I will focus on areas related to data, learning from experience, explainability, and ethics. I will conclude with a discussion of my current understanding of the transformational impact that AI can have in the future of financial services.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:01:43 -0400 2019-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Computer Science and Engineering Division Lecture / Discussion Manuela Veloso
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar Series (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68168 68168-17020453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:12:18 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Mari Katayama Open Gallery 5-6 p.m. (October 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68737 68737-17147125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Visit the Mari Katayama exhibition during special open hours 5-6 p.m. preceding a public talk by George Estreich titled "Persuasion, Human Improvement, and Disability: A Talk from Fables and Futures" at 6 p.m. in UMMA's Helmut Stern Auditorium.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Presentation Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:17:32 -0400 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Persuasion, Human Improvement, and Disability: A Talk from Fables and Futures with George Estreich (October 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68738 68738-17147126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

George Estreich, author of Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves (MIT Press), will explore the literary aspects of persuasion, with particular attention to metaphor. What values do these persuasive acts embody? Whose purposes do they serve? And whom do they obscure, dehumanize or erase? The literary content of these persuasive acts suggests a necessary role for writers, literary critics and scholars of disability studies, as we seek to guide the use of new and powerful biotechnologies in human beings. 

George Estreich's writing has appeared in Tin House, the New York Times, Salon, and other publications. He teaches writing at Oregon State University.   Prior to Estreich's talk, the UMMA exhibition Mari Katayama will be open for browsing beginning at 5 p.m. In the exhibition, Katayama features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile.

 

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

This program is organized by the department of English Language and Literature and co-sponsored by UMMA and the department of American Culture. 

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Presentation Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:17:32 -0400 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
How Transdiagnostic Models of Psychopathology Can Inform Clinical Science: From Measurement to Minority Health (October 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68479 68479-17086380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dimensional models of psychopathology, that transcend diagnostic boundary, have gained traction within the clinical science literature as a means of overcoming the drawbacks of traditional psychiatric diagnostic systems. In this talk, I illustrate the ways in which my research program—aimed at understanding core dimensional factors of psychopathology—can transform clinical science research and practice. I additionally discuss how transdiagnostic dimensional models of psychopathology can inform understanding of health disparities among populations defined by marginalization and stigma.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:45:56 -0400 2019-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion C.Rodriguez-Seijas
Heather Igloliorte: Inuit Art Futures (October 25, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64160 64160-16171649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Heather Igloliorte is an Inuk scholar, curator, and art historian, leading the field of contemporary Inuit art curatorial practice and working to develop the next generation of Inuit leaders. Join us on Friday, October 25, to hear her public talk that kicks off the 2019 Inuit Art Society Annual Meeting on the last weekend of UMMA's exhibition The Power Family Program for Inuit Art: Tillirnanngittuq.

 

Heather Igloliorte holds the University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts at Concordia University, where she leads the Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership Partnership Grant and Co-Directs the Initiative for Indigenous Futures Cluster (IIF) in the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology with Professor Jason Edward Lewis. Igloliorte currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Indigenous Circle for the Winnipeg Art Gallery, working on the development of the new national Inuit Art Centre; and sits on the Board of Directors for the Native North American Art Studies Association, the Inuit Art Foundation, and the Nunavut Film Board, among others. 

Please join us for a reception and opportunity to see the exhibition at 5:30 p.m. More information about the Inuit Art Society Annual Meeting can be found on their website at www.inuitartsociety.org.

 

 

 

This exhibition inaugurates the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

The Inuit Art Society Annual Meeting is organized by the Inuit Art Society with generous funding from the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Consul General of Canada, Detroit office.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-10-25T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T20:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Saturday Morning Physics | The Birth and Amazing Life of Nonlinear Optics (October 26, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66278 66278-16725792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 26, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:04:49 -0400 2019-10-26T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-26T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar HERCULES LASER Credit Joseph Xu
UM Psychology Community Talk: Listening to shades of blue: What is special about the brain of a synesthete? (October 28, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65654 65654-16627858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Exploring the Mind

Abstract: Synesthesia is an automatic and involuntary phenomenon in which one sensory modality evokes additional experiences in an unrelated modality (e.g., sounds evoking colors or tastes). Synesthesia is also associated with other psychological/neurological differences that can lead to savant-like traits. What is special about the brains' of synesthetes that leads to these experiences in only 4% of the population? And, if synesthetes’ brains are different, why can non-synesthetes acquire these sensations following drug-use or sensory deprivation? Dr. Brang will review wide-ranging evidence for synesthesia as a continuum of experiences that are present in the general population, neurobiological models underlying synesthesia-like phenomena, as well as the consequences of having synesthesia.

Bio: David Brang is an Assistant Professor in the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience area in the Department of Psychology, where he directs the Multisensory Perception Lab. He received his BA in Cognitive Science and PhD in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego, and completed Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. His research examines how the sensory systems (such as vision and hearing) influence one another in order to enable sensory signal recovery after brain damage or disease.

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Presentation Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:20:40 -0400 2019-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Exploring the Mind Presentation David Brang
TED Talks (October 29, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64616 64616-16396982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

TED is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to “ideas worth spreading,” via powerful talks. TED began as a conference investigating topics where technology, entertainment, and design converged. Today, TED hosts remarkable speakers from all disciplines addressing a broad variety of fascinating topics before live, thoughtfully engaged audiences. The video recordings of these talks now comprise a library of over 3,000 talks viewed online by millions.

In each session we will view two TED talks as a group and will engage in a discussion about what we saw. Facilitators Lee Pizzimenti and Terry Smith will pick the first two talks to be discussed on the first day, and members of the group will select talks for further sessions. The facilitators will present several suggestions, but will encourage members of the group to suggest TED talks they think would interest the group. You can google TED talks to sample the offerings and find background information.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Tuesdays from October 29 through December 3.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:16:28 -0400 2019-10-29T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
FellowSpeak: “'We Sometimes Cut Good Tissue Along with Bad': Economies of Sacrifice and the Korean War in 'One Minute to Zero' and 'Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War'” (October 29, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66081 66081-16686707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Daniel Kim, associate professor of English and American studies at Brown University and 2019 Norman Freehling Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

In this talk Kim examines two cinematic representations of the Korean War as a way of comparing how US and South Korean nationalist narratives attempt to justify the staggering loss of civilian life that took place during the conflict. At the dramatic center of *One Minute to Zero*, a Hollywood film from 1952, is a massacre of refugees. Kim contextualizes this depiction within the framework of what he terms Military Humanitarianism, an ideology that emerged in the United States during this period to frame its interventions as benevolent. Somewhat surprisingly this film openly foregrounds how US forces, in the course of saving Korean civilians from the menace of Communism, will also have to kill them. *Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War*, a South Korean blockbuster that appeared in 2004, similarly casts a spotlight on the atrocities that were inflicted upon civilians, though in this case by South Korean military and paramilitary forces. Both films sentimentally embed their viewers in an ethos of sacrifice, an affectively saturated biopolitical calculus, in which such deaths emerge as a tragic but ultimately necessary price for securing the nation’s future. Overall, this talk elaborates a transnational mode of analyzing such works that maintains a contrapuntal awareness of how critiques of the dominant narratives in one nationalist tradition might reinforce those in another and vice versa.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:29:47 -0400 2019-10-29T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion "Tae Guk Gi" and "One Minute to Zero" movie posters
13th Annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67523 67523-16890090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Child Health Evaluation And Research Center (CHEAR)

Registration is now open for the 13th annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy sponsored by the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center.

This year, CHEAR welcomes Robert Gordon, JD, the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Director Gordon will speak on the topic of food insecurity and child health.

An open reception and poster session will follow the lecture from 5:30-6:30pm.
This lecture is free and open to all members of the University of Michigan community and the general public, but registration is required.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:39:16 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T18:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Child Health Evaluation And Research Center (CHEAR) Lecture / Discussion 13th Annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy
2019 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64676 64676-16426883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light bulb or sunlight. This much higher intensity led to new phenomena being observed, such as violet light coming out when red light went into the material. After Gérard Mourou and I developed chirped pulse amplification, also known as CPA, the intensity again increased by more than a factor of 1,000 and it once again made new types of interactions possible between light and matter. We developed a laser that could deliver short pulses of light that knocked the electrons off their atoms. This new understanding of laser-matter interactions, led to the development of new machining techniques that are used in laser eye surgery or micromachining of glass used in cell phones.

You may find more details: lsa.umich.edu/physics/special-lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:38:46 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Donna Strickland, Professor of Physics, University of Waterloo and 2018 Nobel Laureate
Saturday Morning Physics | Who Ordered That? The Marvelous, Mysterious Muon (November 2, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66294 66294-16725811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 2, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:16:44 -0500 2019-11-02T10:30:00-04:00 2019-11-02T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Fermilab
The “Irrepressible Conflict”: Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution (November 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69096 69096-17244687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

LECTURE 2 OF A 3-PART SERIES

The “Irrepressible Conflict”: Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution – Speaker: Eric London
• The origins of the Civil War
• The role of white workers in the abolition of slavery
• How did Marx view the Civil War?
• Reconstruction, the emergence of the working class, and the origins of Jim Crow


Eric London is a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Equality Party and writer for the World Socialist Web Site with a focus on US politics, immigration, US history, Latin America, workers struggles and democratic rights. He is also the author of the recently released book Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement.

The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in the US and its youth and student movement, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), is holding a series of meetings on “Race, Class and the Fight for Socialism: Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America.”

This series is the socialist answer to the New York Times “1619 Project,” which has been accompanied by an unprecedented publicity blitz, including at schools and campuses throughout the country. The occasion they cite for the publication of this project is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of 20 African slaves at Port Comfort, Virginia.

The Times project raises the question: Is race the driving force of history, as the Times insists? Or, as Karl Marx analyzed, is it class? Is “anti-black racism … in the very DNA of this country” as the Times writes? Or is the history of the United States fundamentally the history of class struggle? As social inequality reaches record levels, is America heading toward race war or socialist revolution?

The promotion of the 1619 Project takes place under conditions of expanding class struggle internationally and a growing interest in socialism among workers and youth in the United States. Its aim is to block the development of a united movement of workers across all races by cultivating racial divisions.

These meetings will refute the historical falsifications advanced in the 1619 Project, explain their underlying political motivations and present the strategy for socialist revolution in America today.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:59:04 -0500 2019-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T21:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion "Effect of the Proclamation, Freed Negroes Coming Into Our Lines at New Bern, North Carolina" (Harper's Weekly, 1863)
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68926 68926-17197024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:56:42 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
In a Distracted World, Solitude is Practice for Tomorrow’s Leaders (November 6, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65923 65923-16670251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Michigan Leadership Collaborative (MLC) Speaker Event: In a Distracted World, Solitude is Practice for Tomorrow’s Leaders
with Mike Erwin

Introduction by Saddi Washington, U-M Basketball Assistant Coach

The volume of our communication, and our unfettered access to information and other people, have made it more difficult than ever to focus. Despite this reality, there is another truth: Opportunities to focus are still all around us. But we must recognize them and believe that the benefit of focus, for yourself and the people you lead, is worth making it a priority in your life. In other words, before you can lead others, the first person you must lead is yourself.

MIKE ERWIN was born and raised in Syracuse, NY. He has dedicated his life to serving the nation---and empowering people to build positive relationships.

A 2002 graduate of The U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, Mike was commissioned as an Intelligence Officer, deploying three times between 2004 and 2009. Following his third deployment, Mike attended the University of Michigan from 2009-2011, where he studied positive psychology and leadership under the tutelage of Drs. Chris Peterson and Nansook Park. He went on to serve as an Assistant Professor in Psychology & Leadership at West Point from 2011-2014.

While in graduate school in 2010, Mike founded a non-profit organization named Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB). Team RWB’s mission is to enrich the lives of America’s veterans by connecting them to their communities through physical and social activity.

Mike is the co-author of LEAD YOURSELF FIRST by Bloomsbury Press (2017). The book focuses on how solitude strengthens people’s ability to lead with clarity, balance and conviction. The book profiles leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Winston Churchill and Jane Goodall, and how they used solitude in some of their most pivotal moments.

Currently, Mike is leading another non-profit organization that he co-founded in 2015: The Positivity Project. Its mission is to empower America’s youth to build positive relationships through a deeper understanding of positive psychology’s 24 character strengths. Currently partnered with over 625 schools in 24 different states, The Positivity Project is helping over 400,000 students to see the good in themselves---and in other people---which is giving them the foundation to build stronger relationships.

EVENT NOTE: Please enter the building at State and Hill, 735 S. State Street.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:34:43 -0400 2019-11-06T19:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T21:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion event poster
Michigan Leadership Collaborative Speaker Event (November 6, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65658 65658-16627872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In a Distracted World, Solitude is Practice for Tomorrow's Leaders

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Presentation Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:02:30 -0400 2019-11-06T19:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T21:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Department of Psychology Presentation Michael S. Erwin Presentation