Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Seminar (November 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68641 68641-17128443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Reproducibility with high-dimensional data

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

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

DCMB Faculty Host: Alla Karnovsky, PhD

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:05:22 -0400 2019-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Brown Bag: "Henry Clinton and British Strategy in the American Revolutionary War" (November 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68504 68504-17090629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Huw Davies will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Howard H. Peckham Fellowship. His research focuses on re-evaluating the history of the British Army in Colonial and Revolutionary America, India, and Europe, 1750-1850.

In the space of seven decades between 1740 and 1810, the British Army fought wars on four continents, producing a unique accumulation of knowledge, experience and ideas about tactics, operations and strategy. Henry Clinton was at the centre of this knowledge network, and had vociferous opinions about how Britain should use its military power.

Davies will present a paper, using research conducted at the Clements Library, to illustrate Clinton’s thinking on war and how he influenced the direction of the British Army. Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 18:33:31 -0400 2019-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Battle of Monmouth, 28th June 1778, with notations by Henry Clinton.
Saturday Morning Physics | Supermassive Black Holes and You (November 16, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66283 66283-16725803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 16, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:23:35 -0400 2019-11-16T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-16T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Hubble Space Telescope photos of two very active central galaxies in two different clusters of galaxies
Positive Links Speaker Series (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65989 65989-16678391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Host:
Lindred Greer, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:51:58 -0400 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Lisa M. Leslie
FellowSpeak: “Real and Imagined: Animating the Spaces Between Us” (November 19, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66148 66148-16709266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Heidi Kumao gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

The power of animation and figurative (robotic, mechanical) art lies in their accessibility to the general public. Animation and tabletop puppet tableaus are viewed as approachable, non-threatening art forms associated with children. Audiences are often more receptive to content delivered in these forms, and this expectation provides artists with the perfect foil to communicate politically relevant, psychologically complex, and feminist narratives. This talk will focus on creative art projects that translate the intangible cognitive processes underlying ordinary human interactions into accessible and poetic visual narratives. These robotic and mechanical sculptures, experimental animations, and installations give physical form to emotion, memory, and relationship dynamics while challenging viewers to rethink the vocabulary used to tell these personal stories. The use of hybrid media art forms and a research-based art practice are integral to the art process that will also be discussed.

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Meeting Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:25:36 -0400 2019-11-19T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Meeting Installation view of “Egress”. Mixed media: 6 min video projected onto stack of books, media player, media file, speakers.
Dissonance Event Series: Protecting Patient Privacy in Big Data (November 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69146 69146-17252912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:29:44 -0500 2019-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T19:15:00-05:00 Michigan League Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Dissonance Event: Protecting Patient Privacy in Big Data
Invitation to Kabuki: Lecture and Performance by Actor Kyozo Nakamura (November 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65027 65027-16503318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki, a 400-year old Japanese form of theater, is known for its fantastically colorful stage, dramatic stories, and utterly beautiful men and women played by an all male cast. Still popular in modern day Japan, kabuki performers are specially trained from a young age to faithfully copy their predecessors’ forms and styles until they have the skills to develop their own styles. Join us for a dynamic lecture and demonstration with veteran onnagata (actor specializing in female roles), Kyozo ​Nakamura. Mr. Nakamura​ will introduce the basics of male and female acting in kabuki and talk about his own path to become an accomplished actor. The audience will also begin their kabuki performance training, copying Nakamura's movements in an interactive call and response.

This program is presented in conjunction with Copies and Invention in East Asia, an exhibition which highlights the creative possibilities of copying as an artistic practice. Following the performance, the gallery will be open to enjoy.

This program is co-presented by the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Center for Japanese Studies, with support from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.

 


Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Performance Fri, 08 Nov 2019 18:17:01 -0500 2019-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
DCMB Weekly Seminar (November 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68972 68972-17205312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:51:34 -0400 2019-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Poetry (& More) with Kay Ulanday Barrett (November 21, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69131 69131-17252895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Spectrum Center, Council for Disability Concerns, and School of Social Work DEI are very excited to host multi-talented brown trans disabled artist, Kay Ulanday Barrett this November. Kay is a poet, performer, and educator whose work has been supported and published by organizations including the UN Global LGBTQ+ Summit, the Asian American Literary Review, and Race Forward. Join us in hosting them during Trans Awareness Week to hear about their work, both in reading and in their experience creating it. Learn more about Kay on their website http://www.kaybarrett.net/ or in the description below!

Event navigation details: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav
More Trans Awareness Week events: http://bit.ly/TransAwareness19

Thank you to our co-sponsors: the UM Initiative on Disability Studies, the Department of American Culture, the English Department, the Asian / Pacific Islander American Studies Department, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the School of Social Work for making this happen!

About Kay:
Named 9 Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Writers You Should Know by VOGUE, KAY ULANDAY BARRETT is a poet, performer, and cultural strategist. K. has featured at The Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Princeton University, Tucson Poetry Festival, NY Poetry Festival, The Dodge Poetry Foundation, The Hemispheric Institute, & Brooklyn Museum. They are a 2x Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net 2019 nominee, and 2019 Queeroes Literary Honoree by Them.+ Condé Nast. They received fellowships and residencies from Lambda Literary Review, VONA/Voices, The Home School, Monson Arts, and Macondo. They are a Guest Editor for Nat.Brut & Guest Faculty for The Poetry Foundation. Their contributions are found in Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Asian American Literary Review, PBS News Hour, Poets House, F(r)iction, VIDA Review, NYLON, The Huffington Post, Bitch Magazine, & more. Their first book, When The Chant Comes was published by Topside Press in 2016. Their second collection More Than Organs, will be published by Sibling Rivalry Press, Spring 2020.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:54:53 -0500 2019-11-21T18:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Kay Ulanday Barrett, a Filipino nonbinary individual staring at the camera with a neutral expression. They are wearing a fedora-like hat, tan jacket, purple bowtie, and blue button-up shirt. Additionally, they have clear-frame glasses and a lip piercing down the center of their bottom lip.
E-Hour Speaker Series: Sara Jones (November 22, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69543 69543-17357980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 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.

Sara Jones, a Ross MBA ‘10, was one of the first people named to work on Boeing’s ambitious, future-looking HorizonX organization when it was announced in 2017. Now, her work with the company on creating the next generation of the aerospace industry is getting recognized in the press.

Recently listed among the 40 Under 40 in Seattle by the Puget Sound Business Journal for her contributions to the future of business, Jones is a principal strategist for Boeing’s HorizonX and NeXt teams, which includes three other Michigan and Ross alumni — Michael Hauser, MBA ‘02; Duane Gardner, BSE ‘14; Tyler Jackson, MSE ‘16.

Together, along with a team of about 50 people, they work on identifying, commercializing, and operationalizing, the future technologies and business models that will help Boeing not only stay competitive, but lead innovation in the aerospace industry. Their vision is to bring flight closer to home through initiatives like autonomous passenger and cargo air vehicles, hybrid electric airplanes and the ecosystems that will support them.

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Presentation Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:03:58 -0500 2019-11-22T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Sara Jones - Senior Manager, Disruptive Innovation & Ventures - Boeing HorizonX
Saturday Morning Physics | Scientific Publishing: How Wrong is it to Publish in the Right Journals? (November 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66289 66289-16725807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:26:46 -0400 2019-11-23T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-23T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar UMich Law Library
UM Psychology Community Talk: The Science of Choking Under Pressure: Why we fail and how to succeed when it matters (November 25, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67441 67441-16855672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Just in that moment when we want to do our best and the pressure is on, we often fail to live up to our potential. From sports to public-speaking to test-taking, many of us have experienced and witnessed "choking under pressure". What is happening in your brain and body when you choke in stressful situations? Is there anything we can do about it? In this talk, UM Psychology Professor Taraz Lee shares insights from the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience that shed light on the phenomenon of "choking under pressure" including some of the psychological tools you can use to perform at your best when it matters most.

Bio: Taraz Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan in the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Area and the head of the Cognition, Control, and Action (CoCoA) Lab. Using a variety of techniques such as functional neuroimaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, behavioral studies, and computational modeling, Prof. Lee and his lab study how motivation and executive control processes both help and hurt performance in a variety of domains. Many people have the intuition that exerting too much control over well-learned actions can be harmful, especially when under pressure to perform. At the same time, most day-to-day activities clearly benefit from goal-directed control and enhanced motivation. The CoCoA Lab is interested in understanding this apparent paradox. How do the mechanisms of executive control and motivation both support and potentially hamper the activity of neural systems needed for successful performance?

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Presentation Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:04:34 -0400 2019-11-25T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Taraz Lee
E-Hour Speaker Series: Nex Cubed (December 6, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69865 69865-17474750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Food will be provided!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:46:04 -0500 2019-12-09T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:20:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) Workshop / Seminar Flyer with info
UM Psychology Community Talk: 7 Ways Children's Storytelling Skills Impact Literacy Development (December 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66998 66998-16794255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Did you know that by the time a child is two or three years old they can tell a simple story? These early storytelling skills can help children develop a strong foundation for building later reading and writing skills. Research suggests that opportunities to practice telling stories helps children develop stronger language skills and a better understanding of how stories are structured. This presentation will review seven ways that young children's storytelling skills can impact their literacy development. The presentation will also share tips on how best to support young children to become better storytellers.

Bio: Nicole Gardner-Neblett, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist whose work focuses on the individual and contextual factors that promote children’s language and literacy development. She adopts a strengths-based approach to understanding children’s development and identifying effective practices to transform the early learning experiences of young children. In particular, Dr. Gardner-Neblett’s work examines the oral narrative, or storytelling, skills of African American children and the implications for literacy development and educational practice.

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Presentation Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:18:54 -0400 2019-12-09T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Nicole Gardner-Neblett
Brown Bag: "The Radical Visual Rhetoric of Early Abolition" (December 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68700 68700-17138821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Dr. Phillip Troutman will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Reese Fellowship in the Print Culture of the Americas. Dr. Troutman is a 2018-2019 Smithsonian Senior Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Writing and of History at the George Washington University. He is working on a book, drawing on visual theory, rhetoric, history, and art history to provide the first assessment of the American Anti-Slavery Society's visual program of periodicals, pamphlets, prints, and books in the 1830s, their formative decade. In contrast to other scholars of anti-slavery images, he argues that the AASS's visual rhetoric in the 1830s was innovative, specific, and radical, especially in its depiction of the subjectivity and agency of African Americans.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:37:19 -0400 2019-12-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion "The Anti-Slavery Record," February 1836, courtesy American Antiquarian Society
Positive Links Speaker Series (December 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65990 65990-16678392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Host:
Jane Dutton, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:38:06 -0400 2019-12-14T10:30:00-05:00 2019-12-14T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Flooding in Dearborn Spring 2019
In Conversation: Travel into Infinity with artist Chul Hyun Ahn (January 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69276 69276-17279444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Korean artist Chul Hyun Ahn uses mirrors and light to create geometric shapes that repeat infinitely into the distance. Ahn’s repetitions of circles, squares, and lines resonate with Zen Buddhist ink painting, which aims to transmit complex teachings through minimalist brushstrokes and basic shapes. In this informal gallery talk, Ahn will discuss the techniques and concepts behind his mesmerizing works which have fascinated many visitors to the UMMA exhibition Copies and Invention in East Asia. The exhibition challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation, through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 04 Jan 2020 00:16:51 -0500 2020-01-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-05T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Storytime at the Museum: Korea (January 11, 2020 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68745 68745-17147133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:15am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytime at the Museum promotes art enjoyment for our youngest patrons. Join us as we travel around the world and look at art from different countries. We read a story in the galleries and include a fun, age-appropriate, hands-on activity related to it. Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group. Meet in front of the UMMA Shop.

Please note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

Storytime is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:16:41 -0500 2020-01-11T11:15:00-05:00 2020-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
FellowSpeak: "The Roman-period Theater as Cognitive Microecology: Setting, Seating, and Costume" (January 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69968 69968-17489275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This talk examines the Roman-period theater as a cognitive ecology, one that supported and engaged different modes of thinking and learning by its occupants during nondramatic, civic and political gatherings. Using cognitive theory as a heuristic framework, this talk argues that the architecture and sculptural displays worked in tandem with controlled seating and specific manners of dress to promote effective learning about social class and cultural and civic identities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-01-14T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-14T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Roman theater at Sabratha, Libya
MIPSE Seminar | Will this Thruster Get Us to Europa? Modeling Ion Engine Erosion and Quantifying Lifetime Margins and Uncertainty (January 15, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70791 70791-17644316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Solar electric propulsion (EP) is a key technology for human and robotic space missions, and is part of NASA’s vision for expanding human presence beyond low earth orbit. The high specific impulse of EP enables reductions in propellant mass, but at the price of long burn times. Deep space missions re-quire operating times of many 104 hours. Demonstrating that the thruster meets this requirement is a challenge. Multiple life tests of the full mission duration are not practical. The life capability must be demonstrated by combining physics-based modeling and short duration testing.
JPL developed the CEX2D and CEX3D codes to model erosion of ion accelerator systems in ion engines, a dominant failure mechanism. The codes model a primary ion beamlet and charge exchange (CEX) ions from the beamlet. Impingement of main, beamlet, and CEX ions on the grids then determine erosion rates. The models predict time-to-failure, but key questions include: What is the uncertainty in those estimates? How much margin is needed to account for the uncertainties? Estimating uncertainty in experiments is routine, but the modeling community is still developing techniques for estimating errors. In this talk we discuss the physical processes of ion engine grid erosion, how they are modeled, and methods for quantifying model uncertainty and required life margins.

About the speaker:
Dr. Polk is a Principal Engineer in the Propulsion, Materials, and Thermal Engineering Section at the Jet Propulsion Lab, and a lecturer in Aerospace Engr. at Caltech. He received a BS in Aero. Engr. at Georgia Tech and a PhD in Mech. & Aero. Engr. from Princeton. Dr. Polk is an expert in high-current cathode physics, EP wear processes, high power EP, and probabilistic methods to analyze engine life. He was the task manager for an 8200 hour wear test of a 2.3 kW ion engine as used on the Deep Space 1 mission, was a co-investigator in the Next Generation Ion Propulsion Program and principal investigator of the Nuclear Electric Xenon Ion System program. From 1997 to 2001 he was supervisor of the Advanced Propulsion Group at JPL. He now manages JPL’s high power EP tasks and is the Deputy Ion Propulsion System Lead for the Advanced EP System for the Lunar Gateway. He has authored over 100 papers and has received 7 best paper awards at the Intl. EP Conference and the Joint Propulsion Conference.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=mbd38de4eb55d697d214347b83b23fbd7
Meeting number: 621 559 684
Password: MIPSE20

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:20:47 -0500 2020-01-15T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-15T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Jay Polk
DCMB Weekly Seminar (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70964 70964-17760238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Synchronization occurs all around us. It underlies how fireflies flash as one, how human heart cells beat in unison, and how superconductors conduct electricity with no resistance. Synchronization is present in the precision of the cell cycle, and we can explore how breakdown of precision leads to disease. The many unique and fundamental functions of different cell types are achieved over and over independently, through a form of synchronization involving choreography of many proteins and genes. I will share a general historic and descriptive introduction to synchrony, including the classic work of Alan Turing. I will present some new work done jointly with Cleve Moler (MathWorks) and Steve Smale (UC Berkeley), where biology has inspired us to build new mathematical techniques to explore synchrony and its breakdown.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:39:08 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70342 70342-17584117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Host:
Gretchen Spreitzer, Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Management and Organizations

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

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

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Presentation Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:58:34 -0500 2020-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Robert E. Quinn
MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research: Perspectives from New Scholars (January 20, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70636 70636-17611219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Institute for Social Research, the Research Center for Group Dynamics, and the Program for Research on Black Americans present:

MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research:
Perspectives from New Scholars

Jan 20 || 2:30 pm
ISR 1430 Thompson
Reception immediately following panel discussion

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Lloyd M. Talley, Ph.D.
University of Michigan School of Social Work

Taylor W. Hargrove, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DeAnnah R. Byrd, Ph.D.
Wayne State University

MODERATED BY:
David C. Wilson, Ph.D., University of Delaware

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:03:54 -0500 2020-01-20T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Q & A: Raquel Salas Rivera (January 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64530 64530-16386893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Raquel Salas Rivera is Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, winner of the 2018 Ambroggio Prize, & winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.

Free to attend and open to all!

We invite all to join in this event; if you have any accessibility questions or requests about attending, please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:36:32 -0500 2020-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Poet Raquel Salas Rivera wearing a floral shirt and hoop earrings
A Modern-day Witch Hunt? A Historical Examination of Impeachment. (January 21, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71473 71473-17829920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan History Club

The History Club presents “A Modern-day Witch Hunt? A Historical Examination of Impeachment.” During the event, we seek to answer questions undergraduates have regarding presidential impeachment while situating the process in a deeper historical context. Our esteemed panelists come from a variety of backgrounds to offer students a nuanced view of impeachment today. We are excited to welcome Dr. Valerie Kivelson, Dr. Matthew Lassiter, and Charles Adside, Esquire.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:53:41 -0500 2020-01-21T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall University of Michigan History Club Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Digitizing Archives of Abolitionists: The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society Papers (January 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70024 70024-17497480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Rochester (NY) Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers (1848-1868) consist of the society's incoming correspondence about slavery, fugitive slaves, the conditions of freemen, and other progressive issues; printed annual reports; and other items. Abolitionists Frederick Douglass, Julia Wilbur, Julia Griffiths, and others are among the collection's writers. The William L. Clements Library selected this collection to be fully digitized and made accessible online in a new digitized manuscripts platform that launched in 2019: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/r/rochester/

In this presentation, Curator of Manuscripts Cheney J. Schopieray will provide an overview of the collection and digitization process, as well as an opportunity to examine some of the materials in person.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:48:00 -0500 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Detail from the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers
Artist Talk with Cullen Washington, Jr.: Abstract Meditations on the Grid and Humanity presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series (January 23, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68749 68749-17147137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Cullen Washington, Jr.’s work offers meditations on human interconnectivity and “the universal framework that undergirds all things.” Fusing together seemingly disparate concepts via the connective tissues of mixed media, Washington uses non-representational abstraction to understand order, chaos, social relationships, and other natural phenomena. The work takes audiences on a vibrant journey through and with materiality – a concerted and haptic interplay between gestures of painting and drawing and the modes of reproduction.

In the exhibition Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square, his most recent series, Agoras, explores the “agora”— the ancient Greek public space — as a "gathering place" for activated assembly that functions as the heart of the commercial, spiritual, and political life in the city. Washington describes the contemporary agora as an “area of convergence, where the displaced can find a place.”

Washington’s work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum and has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, Saatchi Gallery London, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Yaddo, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. He is also a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.

Co-presented by the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series and UMMA as part of the 2020 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.

Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square will be on view at UMMA January 25 - May 17, 2020.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:16:55 -0500 2020-01-23T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Cullen Washington Jr.: Abstract Meditations on the Grid and Humanity (January 23, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70387 70387-17594434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Cullen Washington Jr.’s work offers meditations on human interconnectivity and “the universal framework that undergirds all things.” Fusing seemingly disparate concepts via the connective tissues of mixed media, Washington uses nonrepresentational abstraction to understand order, chaos, social relationships, and other natural phenomena. The work takes audiences on a vibrant journey through and with materiality — a concerted and haptic interplay between gestures of painting and drawing and the modes of reproduction. In the exhibition Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square,his most recent series, Agoras, explores the “agora” — the ancient Greek public space — as a central “gathering place” for activated assembly that functions as the heart of the commercial, spiritual, and political life in the city, where the displaced can find a place. Washington’s work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and has been exhibited at the Queens Museum in New York, the Saatchi Gallery in London, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Yaddo artists’ community in New York, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He has also received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.

Presented in partnership with UMMA as part of the 2020 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.

Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square will be on view at UMMA January 25–May 17, 2020.

Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Department of the History of Art.

Image: Cullen Washington, Jr., “Agora 1,” 2017, mixed media collage on canvas. Courtesy the artist. © Cullen Washington, Jr. Photography: Andrea Feldman

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:46:44 -0500 2020-01-23T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Washington2.jpg
AIAA Distinguished Lecture Series | Exploring Pluto and Beyond (January 23, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71485 71485-17834198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

Pizza, salad, soda provided at 6:30
Lecture and discussion to begin at 7:00

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:55:17 -0500 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Department of Physics Lecture / Discussion GG Brown Laboratory
Family Art Studio: Imaginary Places (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68752 68752-17147140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop. Take a tour of abstract paintings in UMMA's Collection Ensemble installation, as well as work by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, followed by a hands-on workshop where you will create an abstract painting of your own! Led by local artist and UMMA docent Susan Clinthorne.

Please note:  Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:17:17 -0500 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Family Art Studio: Imaginary Places (January 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68753 68753-17147141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

DescriptionFamilies with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop. Take a tour of abstract paintings in UMMA's Collection Ensemble installation, as well as work by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, followed by a hands-on workshop where you will create an abstract painting of your own! Led by local artist and UMMA docent Susan Clinthorne.

Please note:  Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:17:17 -0500 2020-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
In Conversation: Disability and Power with Dessa Cosma (January 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68755 68755-17147143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Dessa Cosma is a social justice activist and the founding director of Detroit Disability Power, which works to bridge the gap between the disability community and social justice movements. For Cosma, disability is a key part of her identity and of critical importance socially and politically—just like race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. In this informal gallery talk, she will respond to the works of Japanese artist Mari Katayama and reflect upon her experiences and political expression as a disability activist. Mari Katayama uses her disabled body as the subject in her provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textiles. Katayama was born with two fingers on one hand and had both of her legs amputated by the age of nine; she has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and her physicality in the context of contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art.   

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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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Jan 2020 18:17:21 -0500 2020-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
UM Psychology Community Talk: That's the Power of Love: Compassion, Love, and Transformation in Urban America (January 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71220 71220-17791919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: The words "urban" and "inner city" typically conjure up images of densely populated neighborhoods, crime, mean streets, isolation, and human struggle. Popular media plays on these representations. Missing from this familiar story are the everyday stories of goodness that occur in cities. This presentation draws on interviews with people who live in urban areas, including highly under-resourced urban areas, to explore how the human capacity for love, forgiveness and compassion emerges in everyday life in urban America. I use these stories to explore how we are all transformed by everyday encounters with love and human goodness.

Bio: Jacqueline S. Mattis, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of African American and Afri-Caribbean youth and adults, and on the factors that are associated with positive psychological development of urban residing African Americans and Afri-Caribbeans. In particular, she explores the factors that contribute to altruism, compassion, empathy, forgiveness and optimism among urban-residing African American people.

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Presentation Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:01:34 -0500 2020-01-27T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Jaqueline Mattis
FellowSpeak: "Down and Out and Pregnant in Medieval France" (January 28, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69972 69972-17491319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This talk will address the meaning and consequences of extramarital pregnancy for women in medieval France, married and unmarried, low and high status, nuns, wives, widows, prostitutes, wet nurses, and domestic servants.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:54:13 -0500 2020-01-28T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Diane chassent Callisto, Ovide moralisé 1380-1395 Lyon, BM, 0742 (0648), f. 030
Cognitive Diversity and Collective Intelligence (January 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72096 72096-17937823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

In 2019 Dr. Page was named John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management. He also is the Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration and professor of management and organizations in the Ross School, and a professor of political science, complex systems and economics in LSA.

Dr. Page will be one of three recipients to receive their awards and give their talks at this time. The other two speakers are: John M. Carethers, whose presentation is titled “Human Conditions from Defective DNA Mismatch Repair” and Anna Suk-Fong Lok, whose presentation is titled “Elimination of Viral Hepatitis: A Tale of Two Viruses.” See link below for Record article about the three recipients.

A reception will follow the talks.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:29:20 -0500 2020-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Scott E. Page
DCMB Seminar Series (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71998 71998-17911963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Experimental and computational strategies to aid compound identification and quantitation in metabolomics

Abstract: Over the past two decades, metabolomics as a technique has moved from the primary domain of analytical chemists to more widespread acceptance by biologists, clinicians and bioinformaticians alike. Metabolomics offers systems-level insights into the critical roles small molecules play in routine cellular processes and myriad disease states. However, certain unique analytical challenges remain prominent in metabolomics as compared to the other ‘omics sciences. These include the difficulty of identifying unknown features in untargeted metabolomics data, and challenges maintaining reliable quantitation within lengthy studies that may span multiple laboratories. Unlike genomics and transcriptomics data in which nearly every quantifiable feature is confidently identified as a matter of course, in typical untargeted metabolomics studies over 80% of features are frequently not mapped to a specific chemical compound. Further, although many metabolomics studies have begun to stretch over a timeframe of years, data quantitation and normalization strategies have not always kept up with the requirements for such large studies. Fortunately, both experimental and computational strategies are emerging to tackle these long-standing challenges. We will report on several techniques in development in our laboratory, ranging from chromatographic fractionation and high-sensitivity data acquisition, to computational strategies to aid in tandem mass spectrometric spectral interpretation. These developments serve to facilitate analysis for both experts and novice users, which should ultimately help improve the biological insight and impact gained from metabolomics data.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:07:13 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
E-Hour Speaker Series: Sam Schillace (January 31, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72243 72243-17963883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

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

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:46:47 -0500 2020-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Sam Schillace
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joy Saniyah (February 3, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71943 71943-17903278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

We're kicking off Health and Wellness Week with a very special keynote speaker, Dr. Joy Saniyah! She will be presenting based on the question: "what is right with you?" and talking about what you can do to improve your overall wellness while focusing on your strengths. Register for this event and other HWW events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthReg

Joy Saniyah, Ph.D. (she/her) is the Founder & Director of Integrative Empowerment Group, PLLC (IEG). IEG is a multidisciplinary mental health and wellness group practice that aims to provide a safe space for clients to feel heard, understood, and empowered regardless of their identities, beliefs, and ways of living and loving. As a queer woman of color, Joy is passionate about working with those who are traditionally marginalized in society and underrepresented in help seeking environments. She has extensive experience working with people of color and clients who identify as LGBTQA. Joy is an advocate for those exploring gender identity including transition support. Finally, she is an experienced Kink and Poly Knowledgeable professional. Joy graduated with a Master's Degree in Organizational Psychology from Teacher's College at Columbia University and a Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University in New York City. Joy has over 13 years of experience working with college students at several major universities including three years at Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Joy is passionate about integrative approaches to healing and as such is also a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200), a Certified Kemetic Yoga Teacher, and a Reiki Level II Practitioner.

See more Health & Wellness Week events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthWeek2020
Get event details at: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:47:12 -0500 2020-02-03T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-03T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A photo of Dr. Joy Saniyah, a Black woman with red loc'd hair, glasses, and earrings. Date, time, and location is listed to the left of it.
Three Common Assumptions about Chronic Inflammation that area Probably Wrong (February 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72465 72465-18009370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 1:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:06:55 -0500 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T14:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion
Neuro Imaging Initiative: Temporal dynamics of brain activity - an application to pain (February 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72244 72244-17963881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:10:34 -0500 2020-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Featured Speaker: Dr. Brett Kruzsch (February 5, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71939 71939-17903276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Dr. Brett Krutzsch presents "Queer Martyrdom: The Religious and Sexual Politics of LGBTQ Inclusion." Register for this event and other HWW events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthReg

This talk will compare the LGBTQ murder that generated the most media attention in the country’s history—the killing of white, gay, college student Matthew Shepard in 1998—with a similar LGBTQ murder that received considerably less attention—the killing of Native American, two-spirit, high school student F.C. Martinez in 2001. We will explore how activists used both deaths for political purposes and why Shepard became a more popular political emblem. We will also consider how religion shaped the activism surrounding their deaths and how LGBTQ activists used religion to promote greater acceptance of queer Americans.

See more Health & Wellness Week events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthWeek2020
Get event details at: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav

About the speaker:
Dr. Brett Krutzsch is a scholar in the Center for Religion and Media at NYU. He is an expert on LGBTQ politics and religion in the United States. He is the author of the 2019 book Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics from Oxford University Press. His writing has appeared in several scholarly journals as well as The Washington Post, Newsday, The Advocate, and he has been featured on NPR.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:36:01 -0500 2020-02-05T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-05T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A photo of Brett Krutzsch, a white man with brown hair, next to a shortened version of his bio.
Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara: Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer, A Performance Piece and Lecture (February 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71938 71938-17903273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara is a native Angelino Chicano musician, singer and songwriter, a record producer of Chicano rock and roll and rock en español compilations, and a performance artist, poet, short story writer, historian, journalist, and activist. His newly published book Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer (University of California Press, 2018) is a moving memoir of his life and a compelling counter-history of the city of Los Angeles.

“It is as if Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara, polymath Azteca warrior and Chicano superhero, rose with the first East Los Angeles Aztlȧn sun that gave creative light to the barrio.” – Louie Pérez, musician, songwriter with Los Lobos

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:03:57 -0500 2020-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T21:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara 2.6.20
E-Hour Speaker Series: Samir Kaul (February 7, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72245 72245-17963884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

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

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:00:50 -0500 2020-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Samir Kaul
Saturday Morning Physics | The Universe Caught Speeding: Dark Energy, Two Decades After (February 8, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70879 70879-17726703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In the late 1990s cosmologists discovered that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down as expected. This discovery, honored with the Physics Nobel Prize in 2011, has generated waves in the field of cosmology and presents us with a grand mystery: what is the origin and nature of dark energy, the stuff that causes the accelerated expansion? Professor Huterer will review the exciting new developments in this field, including hints for new physics lurking in the data, and the upcoming ground and space telescopes dedicated to solve the dark energy mystery.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:43:26 -0500 2020-02-08T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Dark matter density (left) transitioning to gas density (right). Credit: Illustris Simulations
Family Art Studio: Printing the World Around Us (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68758 68758-17147146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired by UMMA's second exhibition of Inuit Art, Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Guided by local artist Sajeev Vadakoottu, participants will make a drawing of an image from their own imagination directly on a screen, essentially creating a stencil, and use that stencil to make prints on paper, bags or t-shirts. (Please bring your own canvas bags or t-shirts!) 

Please note: Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

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

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:17:23 -0500 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Family Art Studio: Printing the World Around Us (February 8, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68759 68759-17147147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired by UMMA's second exhibition of Inuit Art, Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Guided by local artist Sajeev Vadakoottu, participants will make a drawing of an image from their own imagination directly on a screen, essentially creating a stencil, and use that stencil to make prints on paper, bags or t-shirts. (Please bring your own canvas bags or t-shirts!)

Please note: Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive mroe than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

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

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:16:58 -0500 2020-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
OS Hosts Douglas Guthrie (February 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72169 72169-17948639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Doug Guthrie is an organizational sociologist and China scholar. As a former senior executive with Apple in China (2014-19), he will be on campus to provide his experience and insight on organizational strategy and structure.

Talk Title: Organizational Strategy and Structure in the Era of Xi Jinping: The Case of Apple in China

China is a critical location for multinational corporations for a number of reasons: It is the world’s most populous nation, arguably the world’s largest market, and it is home to the world’s most innovative supply chain. After a decade of the Chinese government’s laissez-faire attitude toward foreign corporations operating in China (under Hu Jintao), in 2013, the political environment changed significantly with the ascension of Xi Jinping. Many foreign corporations were caught off guard, and some paid a heavy price. How companies responded to this new political environment is a question of organizational strategy, structure, and design — issues that are at the core of organizational research. In this talk, drawing on decades of China research, and five years as a senior executive working for Apple in China (2014-19), I will use the Apple case to discuss the complexities of navigating China’s current political environment. We will explore Apple’s unique organizational structure — both internally and externally — and its strategy for approaching this critical challenge.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:42:39 -0500 2020-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T14:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Organizational Studies Program (OS) Presentation doug githrie
Three common assumptions about chronic inflammation that are probably wrong (February 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72643 72643-18035589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:50:26 -0500 2020-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation McDade
FellowSpeak: "Terminal Regions: Queer Environmental Ethics in the Absence of Futurity" (February 11, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69977 69977-17491331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This talk asks what contemporary environmentalism’s (seemingly necessary) emphasis on the future has rendered unthinkable. By reading queer texts whose animating conditions require their protagonists to bracket questions of futurity as normatively lived, I trace paradigms of relationality, practices of care, political affects, temporal modes, and forms of solidarity that as yet have not found their way into ecocritical conversations and practices of environmental stewardship.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:11:43 -0500 2020-02-11T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion The Babushkas of Chernobyl
Signs of Disability: Faculty, Accommodations and Access at Work (February 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72355 72355-17998138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:32:14 -0500 2020-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Quartering the British Army in Revolutionary America (February 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71155 71155-17783465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In the decades before the Revolution, British soldiers were a common sight in America. They lived in private houses in Trenton, marched up Broadway in New York, and came to blows with colonists in Boston. What was it like to live in this world?

Drawing on his new book "Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution" (which he largely researched at the Clements Library), John McCurdy explains how the colonists made room for redcoats by reimagining places like home, city, and empire. They insisted on a right to privacy in their houses and civilian control of troops stationed in their cities, both of which they achieved through the Quartering Act. McCurdy also explores how protests by the Sons of Liberty and events like the Boston Massacre caused the civilian-martial comity to unravel such that Americans ultimately declared the “quartering of large bodies of armed troops among us” to be a reason for independence.

This lecture is presented in collaboration with the U-M Eisenberg Institute, which supported McCurdy's work on this book through a Residency Research Grant. John G. McCurdy is Professor of History and Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:47:28 -0500 2020-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Boston Massacre Engraving by Paul Revere, 1770
2020 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics | Tracking the Motion Inside Molecules with X-Ray Lasers (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70890 70890-17732907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The last decade marked the development of a new kind of powerful research laser that can deliver a trillion 1-Angstrom x-rays in a femtosecond or even less. This x-ray free-electron laser is revolutionizing the way scientists observe dynamics on the quantum scale in the laboratory. We are beginning to learn how to track the relative motion of atoms inside molecules. Professor Bucksbaum will discuss the current efforts and future opportunities to employ these sources for molecular movies.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:51:38 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar electrons streaming
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (DCMB) Weekly Seminar (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72535 72535-18015945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Normal mechanical function of the heart requires that ATP be continuously synthesized at a hydrolysis potential of roughly -60 kJ mol-1. Yet in both the aging and diseased heart the relationships between cardiac work rate and concentrations of ATP, ADP, and inorganic phosphate are altered. Important outstanding questions are: To what extent do changes in metabolite concentrations that occur in aging and heart disease affect metabolic/molecular processes in the myocardium? How are systolic and diastolic functions affected by changes in metabolite concentrations? Does metabolic energy supply represent a limiting factor in determining physiological maximal cardiac power output and exercise capacity? Does the derangement of cardiac energetics that occurs with heart failure cause exercise intolerance?

To answer these questions, we have developed a multi-physics multi-scale model of cardiac energy metabolism and cardiac mechanics that simulates the dependence of myocardial ATP demand on muscle dynamics and the dependence of muscle dynamics on cardiac energetics. Model simulations predict that the maximal rate at which ATP can be synthesized at free energies necessary to drive physiological mechanical function determine maximal heart rate, cardiac output, and cardiac power output in exercise. Furthermore, we find that reductions in cytoplasmic adenine nucleotide, creatine, and phosphate pools that occur with aging impair the myocardial capacity to synthesize ATP at physiological free energy levels, and that the resulting changes to myocardial energetic status play a causal role in contributing to reductions in maximal cardiac power output with aging. Finally, model predictions reveal that reductions in cytoplasmic metabolite pools contribute to energetic dysfunction in heart failure, which in turn contributes to causing systolic dysfunction in heart failure.

BlueJeans Livestream Link: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments served in Forum Hall Atrium
4:00 p.m. - Lecture in Forum Hall

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:41:29 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
A Concert for HOPE (February 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71771 71771-17879422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Performance Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:45:40 -0500 2020-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T21:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery Performance Impacting HOPE Collaborative
DS/CSS Seminar Series: Danaja Maldeniya (February 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72761 72761-18070594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

PhD candidate Danaja Maldeniya will discuss collaborative crowdsourcing and how the structure and operation of these virtual and loosely knit teams differ from traditional organizations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:50:15 -0500 2020-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Danaja Maldeniya standing in a park.
CANCELED: Amanda Williams and Andres L. Hernandez: Liminal Practice(s) (February 13, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58872 58872-14569980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Amanda Williams and Andres L. Hernandez presentation scheduled for Thursday, February 13, 2020 has been canceled due to flight delays.

A visual artist who trained as an architect, Amanda Williams’ practice blurs disciplinary distinctions. She employs color as a way to draw attention to the political complexities of race, place, and value in cities and raises questions about the state of urban space in America. She has exhibited widely, including a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. In collaboration with Andres L. Hernandez, an artist-designer-educator based in Chicago, and artist Shani Crowe, Williams installed Thrival Geographies (In My Mind I See a Line) at the U.S. Pavilion in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Andres L. Hernandez re-imagines the environments we inhabit, and explores the potential of spaces for public dialogue and social action. Hernandez is co-founder of the Revival Arts Collective, and founder and director of the Urban Vacancy Research Initiative. With Williams, he is a member of the design team for the Museum of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

Co-presented with the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:16:04 -0500 2020-02-13T17:10:00-05:00 2020-02-13T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Williams-Hernandez.jpg
Saturday Morning Physics | Ocean Modeling: Big Computers, Big Science (February 15, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71160 71160-17783477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:29:14 -0500 2020-02-15T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-15T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar The Pleiades Supercomputer which some of the models Professor Arbic uses runs on. (NASA)
Framingham Heart Study: Fundamental Concepts of Cardiovascular Disease Risk (February 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72466 72466-18009371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:04:21 -0500 2020-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Ram
Artist Talk with Courtney McClellan: Observer v. Witness, presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and UMMA (February 17, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68761 68761-17147149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Courtney McClellan is an artist and writer from Greensboro, N.C., and the current Roman Witt Artist in Residence at the Stamps School of Art & Design. Her work addresses public ritual, institutional space, and objects that invite or demand speech. Her explorations result in sculpture, performance, installation, writing, and video. Her studio practice includes experimenting with materials, but also reaches to fields like law, theater, and journalism. For the past five years she has studied legal simulation.

At UMMA, McClellan will mount Witness Lab, an architectural courtroom installation and performance series. The facsimile courtroom located in the glassed-in Stenn Gallery will host legal simulations from participating groups including The Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Additionally, court transcript readings and trial advocacy workshops will be performed in the gallery. Stamps students will observe and document the courtroom activity through drawing, text, photography, and video. The accumulated documents will result in a publication. 

Witness Lab offers audiences a complex truth. By studying the courtroom as a space of performance, and the lawyers as agents of justice, participants and passersby consider the physical and social architecture of the law.

 

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:17:18 -0500 2020-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Courtney McClellan: Observer v. Witness (February 17, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70391 70391-17594438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Special Event: Monday, February 17, 5:30pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S State St, Ann Arbor 48109

Courtney McClellan is an artist and writer from Greensboro, North Carolina, and the 2019-2020 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence. Her work addresses public ritual, institutional space, and objects that invite or demand speech. Her explorations result in sculpture, performance, installation, writing, and video. Her studio practice includes experimenting with materials, but also reaches into fields such as law, theater, and journalism. For the past five years she has studied legal simulation.

At UMMA, McClellan will mount Witness Lab, an architectural courtroom installation and performance series. The facsimile courtroom located in the glassed-in Stenn Gallery will host legal simulations from participating groups including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Additionally, court transcript readings and trial advocacy workshops will be performed in the gallery. Stamps students will observe and document the courtroom activity through drawing, text, photography, and video. The accumulated documents will result in a publication.

Witness Lab offers audiences a complex truth. By studying the courtroom as a space of performance, and the lawyers as agents of justice, participants and passersby consider the physical and social architecture of the law.

Presented in partnership with University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), presenting Witness Lab, a project by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan. This courtroom installation is activated from February 15 through May 17, 2020. Lead support for Witness Lab is provided by the University of Michigan Law School and the Office of the Provost.

Image credit: Double Jeopardy, GIF, 2019

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 18:15:46 -0500 2020-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/McClellan.jpg
FellowSpeak: "Eco Soma: Speculative Performance Experiments" (February 18, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69993 69993-17491337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In her talk, Petra Kuppers will present ecopoetic disability culture work that engages contact zones between human and non-human others. She will focus on art-based methods of envisioning change, and show that disability, traditionally seen as an enemy to environmentalism (with concrete ramps supposedly damaging pristine wildernesses), can instead offer imaginative ways toward living well in climate catastrophe, unrest, and challenge.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:10:20 -0500 2020-02-18T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Screen-shot from “Waking the Green Sound: a dance film for the trees,” directed by Wobbly Dance
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70344 70344-17586171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Host:
Jane Dutton, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology

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

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

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Presentation Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:07:29 -0500 2020-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Lindy Greer
Settler Colonial Choreography and the Divided Body: Performing Masculinities Through the Switch Dance at a Native American Prison Powwow (February 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71853 71853-17894529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Native American Studies Program welcomes Dr. Tria Blu Wakpa, a rising scholar whose innovative work combines Native American Studies and Dance Studies. Wakpa is a scholar and practitioner of Indigenous contemporary dance, North American Hand Talk (Indigenous sign language), martial arts, and yoga. Her research combines community-based, Indigenous and feminist methodologies with critical race theories to examine the politics and practices of dance and embodiment historically and contemporarily in educational and carceral institutions for Indigenous peoples. Her work has been published in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal and Dance Research Journal. Dr. Wakpa is also the co-founder and co-editor of the academic journal Race & Yoga and a former UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. We invite you to partner with us in supporting this rising scholar and connecting students and the university publics to learn about her current work.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:56:43 -0500 2020-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Tria Blu Wakpa Poster
From PBB to PFAS: Research and Action to Address Michigan’s Large Scale Chemical Contaminations (February 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68807 68807-17153411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The PBB to PFAS Symposium will provide a unique venue for fostering collaboration between researchers and community members with:

• Keynote address by Dr. Linda Birnbaum (Director NIEHS, retired);

• Presentations by community residents and academic researchers working on PBB and PFAS health impacts;

• Breakout groups focused on strategies for building effective community-academic collaborations;

• Organized by UM's Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD), Central Michigan University's Dept of History, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Emory University’s HERCULES Exposome Research Center;

• ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS: Michele Marcus, PhD, Emory University’s Michigan PBB Registry; Jane Keon, Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force; Francis Spaniola, former Michigan State Representative; Tony Spaniola, JD, creator Michigan Cancer Registry; Courtney Carignan, PhD, Michigan State University; Monica Lewis-Patrick, President & CEO, River Network and We The People of Detroit

• COMMUNITY PANELISTS: Sandy Wynn-Stelt, Rockford; Theresa Landrum, Detroit; Lawrence Reynolds, Flint; Donele Wilkins, Detroit; Tim Neyer, Mt. Pleasant

• MORE SPEAKERS AND BREAKOUT SESSIONS TO BE ANNOUNCED

• Keynote address by Dr. Birnbaum will be livestreamed.

• Registration (free) is required.

• Register for the IN-PERSON Event in Ann Arbor: http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_FromPBBtoPFAS_Register.php?Attendance=InPerson
OR
• Register for the Keynote LIVESTREAM: http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_FromPBBtoPFAS_Register.php?Attendance=LiveStream

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:21:01 -0500 2020-02-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Conference / Symposium PBB to PFAS symposium Feb 20 2020
DS/CSS Seminar Series: Julia Mendelsohn (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72978 72978-18120897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

PhD candidate Julia Mendelsohn will discuss the creation of a computational linguistic framework for analyzing dehumanizing language and the application of that framework to discussions of LGBTQ people in the New York Times from 1986 to 2015.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:59:28 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Workshop / Seminar Julia Mendelsohn
David Lang: Music and Bad Manners (February 20, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70392 70392-17594439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Note: This presentation will take place at Rackham Auditorium, 915 Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI.

As one of America’s most performed composers, David Lang has “solidified his standing as an American master,” as The New Yorker puts it. His catalog of work is extensive, and his opera, orchestra, chamber, and solo works are by turns ominous, ethereal, urgent, hypnotic, unsettling, and emotionally direct. In 2008, the New York-based composer was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion, a score for four voices and a few percussion instruments, played by the singers, based on the children’s story by Hans Christian Andersen. Additionally, Lang’s score for Paolo Sorrentino’s film Youth received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, among others. Other recent work includes man made, a concerto co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony; the loser, an opera based on the novel by Thomas Bernhard, which opened the 2016 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and prisoner of the state, an opera co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, De Doelen concert hall in the Netherlands, the Barbican Centre in London, l’Auditori concert hall in Barcelona, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra in Germany, the Concertgebouw in Belgium, and Malmö Opera in Sweden. Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of Bang on a Can, a New York-based organization dedicated to the support of experimental music.

David Lang’s appearance is courtesy of the William Bolcom Guest Residency at the U-M School of Music, Theater, and Dance.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:49:49 -0500 2020-02-20T17:10:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Lang.jpg
Life In Graduate School Seminar | How to Find a Postdoc Position (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72814 72814-18079325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Life in Graduate School Seminars

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:31:43 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Life in Graduate School Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | The Truth About Entropy (February 22, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71162 71162-17783480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:54:49 -0500 2020-02-22T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-22T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Crystalline structures pc: NASA David Weitz
Early Life Influences on Adult Health and Wellbeing (February 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72467 72467-18009372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:09:29 -0500 2020-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Adair
Town Hall Meeting: Socialism and the 2020 elections (February 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73071 73071-18138331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

One word is dominating the 2020 election cycle: socialism.

Donald Trump and his fascist allies declare the US “will never be a socialist country.” Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg proclaim their desire to save the Democratic Party from socialists, while Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) claim socialism means working within the Democratic Party for mild reforms. The ruling class, presiding over a society dominated by inequality, war and state repression, increasingly views socialism as an immediate threat.

The Socialist Equality Party is running in the 2020 elections to explain what socialism really means. Join the SEP’s candidates—Joseph Kishore for President and Norissa Santa Cruz for Vice President—in the historic struggle to unite all workers internationally, independent of the political parties of the ruling class. The working class is the social force that can replace capitalism with international socialism.

This town hall meeting with Joseph Kishore is part of a national series of meetings being held across the United States, hosted by the IYSSE and the SEP.

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Meeting Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:41:37 -0500 2020-02-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League International Youth and Students for Social Equality Meeting Joseph Kishore (President) and Norissa Santa Cruz (Vice President), Socialist Equality Party
UM Psychology Community Talk: Failure to Launch or Developmental Launching Pad? Navigating the Transition to Adulthood in the 21st Century (February 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71222 71222-17791921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: What is it about twentysomethings today? Popular media portray young adults as selfish slackers who never want to grow up. Although the concept of delayed adulthood has some basis in reality, it can be argued that an extended period of exploration might be adaptive in the 21st century. In this talk, we will explore the impact of this slower transition to adulthood on the health and well-being of youth today as well as the diversity of their experiences as they seek to define themselves. Dr. Jodl will also offer some practical advice to parents on how to best support their young adults as they navigate the transition to adulthood.

Bio: Kathleen M. Jodl is the Jacquelynne S. Eccles Collegiate Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She joined the Michigan community in 1997 after earning her doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Virginia. Her research interests focus on family influences on adolescent development and the transition to adulthood. Over the last 10+ years, Dr. Jodl has taught thousands of undergraduates in a wide range of courses at UM including a gateway course in developmental psychology, social development, and a popular seminar on emerging adulthood. She brings a wealth of hands-on experience “living the dream” as the mother of four young adults ranging in age from 15 to 21 years.

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Presentation Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:09:00 -0500 2020-02-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Kathleen Jodl
[MISC Talk] David Nemer (February 25, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73147 73147-18147049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:30am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Dr. David Nemer will discuss how WhatsApp became a potent tool for the spread of misinformation during the 2018 Brazilian general election.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:22:46 -0500 2020-02-25T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion David Nemer
LHS Collaboratory (February 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72208 72208-18035597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

"Value Proposition of Learning Health Systems"
Erik Gordon, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 – 12 pm–1:30 pm
Great Lakes Room, Palmer Commons (Lunch is included)

Professor Gordon's areas of interest are entrepreneurship and technology commercialization, venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, the biomedical industry (pharmaceuticals, devices, healthcare big data, and biotechnology), IoT, FinTech, and digital and mobile marketing. He also served on the faculty of University of Michigan Law School. He has served on the faculty and as Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate Division of Business & Management (Carey Business School) at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught in the business and medical schools and at the University of Florida, where he also served as director of the Center for Technology & Science Commercialization Studies and as Director of MBA Programs. He has served as an adviser or co-founder to numerous companies. He is frequently quoted in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters and other outlets, is a regular contributor to Marketplace Morning Report (in NPR's Morning Edition), Bloomberg Radio, and appears on PBS's Nightly Business Report. His degrees are in economics and law.
Please register in advance, dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory.
Email: LHScollaboratory-info@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:07:52 -0500 2020-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:30:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
FellowSpeak: "Community Carillon/Corporate Carillon" (February 25, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69994 69994-17491338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout the twentieth century, carillons such as the bells in Burton Memorial Tower were erected by institutions on the promise of uniting harmonious communities and elevating the Everyman’s taste with Western classical music. Thanks to the invisibility of carillonists and of their agency, carillon concerts remain an uncontested musical practice on the social, cultural, architectural, and sonic landscape, while their power to construct exclusionary sonic communities functions in plain view and hearing. This work challenges the racialized and gendered boundaries that have constructed the carillon as a spatio-sonic tool for social harmony. Carillons served governments and corporations in Cold War-era technology development, cultural diplomacy, and corporate expansion, and if we listen carefully, we can hear their colonial entanglements.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:09:44 -0500 2020-02-25T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Construction of the Philips Carillon for Philips Electronics in Eindhoven, the Netherlands (1966)
Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism (February 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70972 70972-17760245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

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

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

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

Poster Session
4:30pm - 6pm

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:38:30 -0500 2020-02-26T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium event flyer
DS/CSS Seminar Series: Ashwin Rajadesingan (February 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73244 73244-18181858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

PhD candidate Ashwin Rajadesingan will discuss two ongoing approaches to depolarize online political discussions: Can priming a superordinate identity such as the American national identity improve conversation quality between partisans? Does individuating users to see beyond partisan identities or highlighting shared social identities improve political discussions online?

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:09:09 -0500 2020-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Workshop / Seminar Ashwin Rajadesingan
ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: William D Lopez, PhD (March 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73220 73220-18179627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Reads Presents:

"Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" by William D. Lopez.

In "Separated," Dr. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals.

Dr. Lopez is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Many of you may be familiar with Dr. Lopez and his work from his time in RCGD a few years ago. Dr. Lopez is also Faculty Director of Public Scholarship at the National Center for Institutional Diversity.

Limited copies of the books are available NOW to be signed out at ISR Thomson HR Office #1078 and the Perry Receptionist desk.

It is a pleasure to host Dr. Lopez at ISR for a visit on March 4th to present on his book! This is a special opportunity to meet the author and have your book signed!

Special Author Visit & Talk
Wednesday, March 4th
ISR Thompson 1430
10:00am-11:30am

Book Signing
11:30am-12noon

To purchase Dr. Lopez's book: https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=%099781421433318

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:18:25 -0500 2020-03-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-03-04T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion poster
Women on a Mission 2.0: Leadership, Citizenship & Advocacy (March 6, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73597 73597-18267644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 6, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: CEW+

The free morning keynote will be a conversation with Dr. Joy DeGruy, nationally & internationally renowned researcher, educator, author, & presenter, and Dr. Julianne Malveaux, economist, author, social and political commentator, & businesswoman. They will discuss inclusive citizenship and the role of women as transformative change agents for voting rights, economic policy, prison reform, and access to education.

Please note that the keynote lecture (8:30-10:30am at Hill Auditorium) is open to the general public and no registration is required. However, pre-registration is required to attend the full-day WCTF Career Conference workshops and luncheon.

Click here to view the live stream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/cew/cew030620.html

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 11:45:18 -0500 2020-03-06T08:30:00-05:00 2020-03-06T10:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Dr. Joy DeGruy & Dr. Julianne Malveaux
On the Perils of Intrauterine Determinism: An Epidemiologic Inquiry into the 2:4 Digit Ratio (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72468 72468-18009373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Evolution & Human Adaptations Program (EHAP)

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:32:49 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Evolution & Human Adaptations Program (EHAP) Presentation Eduardo
FellowSpeak: "Prison Theatre: Performance and Incarceration" (March 10, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69995 69995-17491340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view, despite the many journalistic and cinematic portrayals which try to imagine or rationalize a nation's practices of imprisonment. Inside the walls, prisoners stage their own theatrical productions, articulating their identities and experiences for audiences carefully monitored by gatekeepers. Ashley Lucas’s forthcoming book Prison Theatre: Performance and Incarceration examines performances within prisons across the globe, offering a uniquely international account and exploration of prison theatre. By discussing a range of performance practices tied to incarceration, this book looks at the ways in which arts practitioners and imprisoned people use theatre as a means to build communities, attain professional skills, create social change, and maintain hope.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:11:14 -0500 2020-03-10T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion The cast of Open Hearts Open Minds’ production of A Winter’s Tale at Two Rivers Correctional Facility in Umatilla, Oregon, 2014
My Brothers Empowerment Series (March 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72936 72936-18096962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

My Brothers is a monthly dialogue series for men of color at the University of Michigan. The goal of the program is to empower self-identified men of color around issues of identity, intercultural competency, health, and wellness in an open, spirited atmosphere. The program welcomes all self-identified men of color at the University of Michigan — undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:47:19 -0500 2020-03-10T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion My Brothers
U-M Museum Studies Program Presents Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections (March 10, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73581 73581-18263272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How do Indigenous objects in museum collections speak to those who collect, curate, observe, and claim them?  The observable materials and patterns of construction obviously reflect particular ecosystems, cultures, and technologies, but do these objects also retain memories of the artisans who created them?  Do they wield more than just imagined meaning or distributed agency?  In this talk, Dr. Bruchac discusses strategies for recovering object histories through material analyses, consultation, and critical re-assessments of imposed museological categories (e.g., art, artifact, utilitarian, etc.) that may have distanced objects from their origins and isolated them from others like themselves.  Case histories will feature new research into iconic creations – such as a 17th century wooden war club embedded with re-purposed wampum beads, and a shell band wampum belt with a single glass bead – that function as "object witnesses" to entangled colonial settler/Indigenous encounters.  Through her practice of "reverse ethnography," Bruchac will reveal how, in many cases, memories can be reawakened when otherwise mysterious objects are reconnected with the stories, ecosystems, knowledges, and communities that created them.  Object histories can also be recovered by tracking the desires and actions of non-Indigenous curators and collectors who transported these objects and stories to physically and conceptually distant locales.   Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies, and Associate Faculty in the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania.  Her new book, "Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists," was the winner of the 2018 Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award.

Co-sponsored by the Department of American Culture; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; LSA/Great Lakes Theme Semester; Native American and Indigenous Student Interest Group; Native American Studies Program; Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Program in Science, Technology and Society (STS); U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology; U-M Office of Research; and the U-M Museum of Art.

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Other Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:18 -0400 2020-03-10T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Event Update: Location Change - ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: Harriet A. Washington (March 11, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73221 73221-18179628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Reads Fall Book Selection: A Terrible Thing to Waste; Environmental Racism and It’s Assault on the American Mind

Wednesday, March 11, 2019 (Earth Week)
1:00pm to 3pm
ISR Thompson 1430ABCD

Virtual Live Stream Presentation with: Join us at ISR or online at https://bluejeans.com/569501572

In support of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts at the University of Michigan and the Institute of Social Research and School of Public Health we are excited to partner in bringing an award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington.

Washington will join us via livestream to discuss her book "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind."

Ms. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the environmental discussion presenting an argument that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, one that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait, using copious data that instead point to a different cause of the reported African American-white IQ achievement gap.

The book explains that environmental racism - a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and insufficient sanitation services is terrible for the brain. Ms. Washington investigates heavy metals, neurotoxins, deficient prenatal care, bad nutrition, and even pathogens as chief agents influencing intelligence to explain why communities of color are disproportionately affected -- and what can be done to remedy this devastating problem.

Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at
Tuskegee University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus
Nonfiction Award.

Presentation Co-Sponsors: ISR (ISR Reads, SRC Racism Lab and PSC Population Dynamics and Health Programming & School of Public Health

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:34:03 -0400 2020-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Rethinking the Art of Plasma Etch (March 11, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70792 70792-17644317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Since the 1970s, the semiconductor industry has fabricated electronic circuits using a plasma based pattern-transfer ap-proach that is remarkably reminiscent of the etching artform used centuries ago. Only now, the patterns are a million times smaller and driven by the wafer fab equipment industry. The most advanced plasma etching technique in production today is called atomic layer etching (ALE) in which a single layer is removed in a cyclic manner. This talk will review the ALE ap-proach in comparison to conventional plasma etching tech-niques, such as Reactive Ion Etching (RIE). As RIE reaches its fifth decade, its drawbacks have become apparent. ALE offers better control by isolating steps in time and switching between the steps in a repeatable cycle. To the extent that an ALE pro-cess behaves ideally – with high ALE synergy and self-limiting behavior – the primary benefit is improved uniformity across all length scales: at the surface, between different aspect rati-os, and across the full wafer. Another benefit that will be high-lighted is the atomic-scale smoothness in topography of the surface left behind after etching. The underlying mechanism and benefits of plasma ALE will be described, providing insight into the plasma science behind the ancient art of etching. Overall, ALE is simpler to understand than conventional plasma etch processing, and is proving to be important as we apply the art of etch at the atomic scale.

About the Speaker:
Richard A. Gottscho is Executive VP, Chief Technology Officer at Lam Research since May 2017. He previously was Executive VP, Global Products Group beginning August 2010; and group VP and general manager, Etch Businesses beginning March 2007. He joined Lam in January 1996 and has held various director and VP roles spanning deposition, etch, and clean products. Prior to joining Lam, he was at Bell Laboratories for 15 years, where he headed research departments in electronics materials, electronics packaging, and flat panel displays. In 2016, Dr. Gottscho was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He has received several awards, including the AVS Peter Mark Me-morial Award, AVS Plasma Science and Technology Division Prize, the Dry Process Symposium Nishiza-wa Award, and the Tegal Thinker Award. He is a fellow of the APS and AVS. He has authored numerous papers, patents, and lectures, and has served on journal editorial boards and program committees for major conferences in plasma science and engineering. He served as vice-chair of a National Research Council study on plasma science. Dr. Gottscho earned Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University, respectively.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=m470378ee7563bc37fae0bcbb395a7d98
Meeting number: 624 374 412
Password: MIPSE2019

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 07 Mar 2020 09:20:03 -0500 2020-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Rick Gottscho
CANCELED: A reading and conversation with Lacy M. Johnson (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72317 72317-17974669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED AS OF 3/9/2020.

Join us for a reading by Lacy M. Johnson, author of *The Reckonings* and professor of creative non-fiction at Rice University. David Morse, Lecturer at the Ford School's Writing Center, will moderate the conversation.

From the speaker's bio:

Lacy M. Johnson is a Houston-based professor, curator, activist, and is author of *The Reckonings*, which was named a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in Criticism and one of the best books of 2018 by Boston Globe, Electric Literature, Autostraddle, Book Riot, and Refinery 29. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Tin House, Guernica, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, Sentence, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University(link is external) and is the Founding Director of the Houston Flood Museum.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:59:00 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Lacy M. Johnson
DCMB Weekly Seminar (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73002 73002-18123077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

In this talk, some major challenges are reviewed of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address the needs of medicine and healthcare. These challenges include technical issues such as data-related and/or algorithmic challenges that the use of AI for medicine would present. The speaker then presents some potential solutions in form of novel algorithmic approaches that may at least partially address some of these challenges.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:49:28 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Positive Links Speaker Series (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70345 70345-17586172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:22:08 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Wayne Baker
CANCELLED: Ask an MFA (March 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73714 73714-18328748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

This event has been cancelled.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:50:31 -0400 2020-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 Hopwood Awards Program Workshop / Seminar Three people hold up signs that read "Ask an MFA"
DS/CSS Seminar Series: Lynette Shaw (March 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73553 73553-18261050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Dr. Lynette Shaw will discuss how the rise of cryptocurrencies has led to a renewed, contemporary confrontation with the fundamentally social processes through which economic value is constructed.

Visit the UMSI event page for more information.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:20:02 -0500 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Workshop / Seminar Dr. Lynette Shaw
Live Event Canceled - Dr. Alex Dehgan: Hacking in the Sixth Extinction (March 12, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70393 70393-17594440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Dr. Alex Dehgan’s contributions to the fight against climate change are prolific, solutions-oriented, and built to a global scale. As CEO and co-founder of Conservation X Labs, an innovation and technology start-up focused on conservation, Dehgan and his team apply science, technology, open innovation, design, and engineering to try to end human-induced extinction and address the planet’s biggest environmental challenges. Dehgan holds a PhD and master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings. He was chosen as an “Icon of Science” by Seed magazine in 2005, received the World Technology Award for Policy in 2011, and has been recognized through multiple awards from the US Departments of State and Defense, and USAID. In 2013, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) selected Dehgan as one of its 40@40 fellows out of 2,600 AAAS Science Policy Fellows as an individual who has shown “exemplary dedication to applying science to serve society, was a creative, innovative, and collaborative problem solver in addressing global challenges, and was an uncommon ambassador for the role of science and technology.” He is the author of The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation (PublicAffairs, 2019).

This event is supported by the U-M Museum of Natural History and is part of the University of Michigan’s Earth Day at 50 celebration. Learn more: earthday.umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:43 -0400 2020-03-12T17:10:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Deghan.jpg
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 13, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72845 72845-18261079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.


CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict, civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:22:59 -0400 2020-03-13T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
E-Hour Speaker Series: Jonathan Golden (March 13, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72247 72247-17963886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:21:33 -0500 2020-03-13T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Jonathan Golden
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 13, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72845 72845-18085916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.


CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict, civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:22:59 -0400 2020-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
CANCELED: Continuing Challenges to Suffrage in Michigan in 2020: Who Still Can’t Vote? (March 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73281 73281-18190698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Due to the COVID-19 situation, this event has been canceled.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be livestreamed. Check the event page just before the event for viewing details.

This panel will address the long struggle for women’s right to vote in the U.S., officially secured 100 years ago, and—equally importantly—the continuing struggle to secure full democratic participation in Michigan. Panelists will describe real barriers to voting in Michigan today, as well as efforts to change rules and regulations to expand access to voting, and what it will take to increase access for some groups in the upcoming election.

Panelists are:

-Danielle Atkinson, founding director of Mothering Justice
-Stephanie Chang (MPP/MSW '14), member of the Michigan State Senate and co-founder and past president of Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote-Michigan
-Dessa Cosma, Executive Director of Detroit Disability Power
-Sharon Dolente (MPP ’04), voting rights strategist at Michigan ACLU
-Michael Steinberg (moderator), Professor from Practice, U-M Law School, former legal director, Michigan ACLU

Cosponsored by the Department of Women's Studies, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. For more information on U-M Suffrage 2020, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/umsuffrage2020/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:36:52 -0400 2020-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
CANCELLED Childhood Undernutrition: A Neglected Contributor to High Blood Pressure in Adulthood (March 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72604 72604-18026876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:19:26 -0400 2020-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Strassman
CANCELLED: Ask an MFA (March 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73714 73714-18304812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

This event has been cancelled.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:50:31 -0400 2020-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Workshop / Seminar Three people hold up signs that read "Ask an MFA"
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Quantum Hydrodynamics and Warm Dense Matter (March 18, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70794 70794-17644319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
The experimental and computational investigation of both equilibrium and non-equilibrium strongly coupled systems with partially or fully degenerate electrons is an intellectu-ally stimulating and scientifically challenging problem. Warm dense matter (WDM) is of particular interest since it “exists in the lower-temperature portion of the high energy density (HED) regime, under conditions where the assumptions of both condensed-matter theory and ideal-plasma theory break down, and where quantum mechanics, particle correlations, and electric forces are all important.” [FESAC 2009]. Interiors of giant planets, brown dwarfs, and neutron star envelopes are all examples of WDM. A wide variety of theoretical methods have been developed and are in routine use for studying warm dense matter. This includes density functional theory, time-dependent density functional theory, and quantum kinetic theory. Recently, there has been a resurgence in interest in using a “simpler” approach to investigating WDM based on quantum hydrodynamics. Quantum Hydrodynamics (QHD) has a long and interesting history, dating back to the first developments by Madelung and Bohm. In this talk, we discuss the historical and recent developments in QHD as applied to quantum many-body systems relevant to HED regimes. Recent work involving adding a QHD capability to the radiation hydrodynamics code MIRANDA will be discussed with applications to the electron gas.

About the speaker:
Frank Graziani received a BS in physics from Santa Clara U., and a PhD in physics from UCLA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at U. Colorado and U. Minnesota working in cosmology and particle physics; and worked with NASA on exoplanet dynamics and star formation. Dr. Graziani joined Lawrence Livermore National Lab. in 1989 where he works in radiation transport and plasma physics. He has held many leadership positions at LLNL, including code project lead, group leader, V&V Leader, PI for LDRD-Strategic Initiatives, lead for the National Boost Initiative and Assoc. Division Leader for computational physics. He now directs the High Energy Density Sciences Center. He has won four DOE Defense Program Awards of Excellence, the LLNL Director’s S&T Award and is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. His research interests include the micro-physics of dense plasmas and HED education. Dr. Graziani is editor of two books on computational methods and a book on WDM physics.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:11:38 -0400 2020-03-18T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-18T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Frank Graziani
[POSTPONED] History of Photography (March 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72660 72660-18035612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

***Update 3/10/20: This event has been postponed. It will be rescheduled at a later date.***

The Clements Library's photography collection is comprised of over 150,000 images with examples of virtually every popular photographic format in use in America from 1840 into the 20th century. In recent years, the photograph collection has become the library’s fastest growing. Join the Graphics Division as they showcase amazing photographic items from the collections. A wide range of images and photographic technology will be on display as Clements staff explain the evolution of techniques used throughout the decades.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:06:25 -0400 2020-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Curator of Graphics Clayton Lewis shares a photo album.
CANCELED Wallace House Presents Recode’s Kara Swisher interviews former Facebook executive Alex Stamos (March 18, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70104 70104-17530521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple. A handful of tech companies have changed the way we live and built unprecedented industrial bases in the process. Their reach extends far beyond our pocketbooks into privacy, individual liberties, and the fabric of our democracy.

In August 2018, Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos announced he would leave the company following reports of disagreements with other executives over how to address the Russian government’s use of Facebook to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Since his departure he’s advocated for the breakup of the tech giant and co-authored the white paper “Securing American Elections: Prescriptions for Enhancing the Integrity and Independence of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections and Beyond.”

Do we really understand what we are giving away in exchange for speed and convenience? Do the tech giants understand, or care about, their responsibility in this digital age that they created?

Alex Stamos is the former chief security officer at Facebook and is now director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center’s Internet Observatory at Stanford University.

Kara Swisher is the co-founder and executive editor of Recode and host of the weekly interview podcast “Recode Decode.” She is also the co-executive editor of Code Conferences, which feature prominent speakers from the digital industry. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times opinion pages and a Livingston Awards national judge.

This event is co-sponsored by Computer Science and Engineering, the College of Engineering, the Center for Social Media Responsibility, ITS and Dissonance at the University of Michigan and Duo Security.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:39:05 -0400 2020-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Kara Swisher and Alex Stamos
Canceled: Disability Dialogues (March 19, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73407 73407-18217154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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This TED-style event allows students, faculty, and staff to share their personal experiences with disabilities in an inclusive, supportive, educational environment.

Organized by disabled students and students with disabilities from the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) Student Advisory Board, this annual event is a great way for individuals to share their experiences with members of the campus and Ann Arbor community. Come join us for a couple minutes or a couple hours!

We ask that attendees do not wear perfume, cologne or strong scents as others can be sensitive to said fragrances — our main wish is to create an inclusive environment! Also if, during the event, you need to get up, move around the room or leave for whatever reason, you are encouraged to do so. There will be various furniture set-ups throughout the room to hopefully accommodate everyone’s needs.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:02:16 -0400 2020-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion -
Via BlueJeans Dissertation Defense Talk (March 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73595 73595-18267642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Via BlueJeans

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Presentation Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:08:25 -0400 2020-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Sarah Westrick
CANCELLED Constructing an Effective Diversity Statement (March 20, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72356 72356-17998139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 12:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:32:30 -0400 2020-03-20T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-20T14:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
CANCELLED Genomic Imprinting and the Intergenerational Transmission of Maternal Phenotypes (March 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72605 72605-18026877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:19:57 -0400 2020-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Claudius
CANCELLED: UM Psychology Community Talk: The secret lives of wild primates: The battle of the sexes that doesn't show up on wildlife documentaries (March 23, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71223 71223-17791922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Note: This event has been canceled.

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Presentation Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:33:40 -0400 2020-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Jacinta Beehner
LHS Collaboratory Webinar "Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge at Michigan Medicine" (March 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72652 72652-18035599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Presentation 1:
"Electronic Health Record (EHR)-Integration for Learning Health Systems"

Michael Lanham, MD
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer
Clinical Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Fertility and Reproductive Health
University of Michigan

Presentation 2:
“Machine Learning Infrastructure in a Learning Health System”

Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc
Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan


Please register in advance, *dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory. *
Email: *LHScollaboratory-info@umich.edu*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:04:19 -0400 2020-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
CANCELED FellowSpeak: "E pluribus unum: Out of many voices, one language" (March 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69996 69996-17491341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this talk, Baptista explores how in a multilingual setting, the languages spoken by speakers with different first languages coalesce to give rise to creole languages. She specifically seeks to draw correspondences between linguistic features in the source languages and those of the resulting creoles while examining the processes that give rise to the observable features.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:21 -0400 2020-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Cape Verde islands: Santo Antão
E-Hour Speaker Series: Kathleen Sienko (March 27, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72249 72249-17963889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:53:29 -0500 2020-03-27T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Sienko
CANCELLED A Delicate Balance: Trade-offs, Strategies & Mechanisms of Female Reproduction (March 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72606 72606-18026878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:20:48 -0400 2020-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Virginia
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Journey to the Sun (April 1, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70795 70795-17644320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
NASA Heliophysics research studies a vast system stretching from the Sun to Earth to far beyond the edge of the planets. Studying this system – much of it driven by the Sun’s constant outpouring of solar wind – not only helps us understand fundamental infor-mation about how the universe works, but also helps protect our technology and astronauts in space. NASA seeks knowledge of near-Earth space, because, when extreme, space weather can interfere with our com-munications, satellites and power grids. The study of the Sun and space can also teach us more about how stars contribute to the habitability of planets through-out the universe.
Mapping out this interconnected system requires a holistic study of the Sun’s influence on space, Earth and other planets. NASA has a fleet of spacecraft stra-tegically placed throughout our heliosphere – from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the far-thest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system, and all helping us untagle the effects of the star we live with.

About the speaker:
Dr. Nicola Fox is the Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Until August 2018, Dr. Fox worked at the Applied Physics Lab at the Johns Hopkins University where she was the Chief Scientist for Heliophysics and the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Dr. Fox served as the deputy project scientist for the Van Allen Probes, and the operations scientist for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program. Fox received her BS in Physics and PhD in Space and Atmospheric Physics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. She received an MS in Telematics and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:50 -0400 2020-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-01T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Nicola Fox
CANCELLED Long-Term Impacts of Nutrition Supplementation in Childhood: A 50-Year Study in Guatemala (April 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72607 72607-18026879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:21:29 -0400 2020-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Stein
FellowSpeak: "Syrian Women's Labor and the Early Arab American Peddling Economy" (April 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69997 69997-17491342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The little-known Syrian American peddling economy (1870-1955) is an unexpected site for parsing how American perceptions of Arabs have long been rooted in ideas of their sexual and gender difference. After leaving Ottoman Greater Syria, Syrians sold goods across the U.S. while navigating systems of racism that intertwined with gender and sexual norms. Peddling enabled their survival and transformed their family structure. Syrian women participated robustly in the peddling economy and their diverse forms of labor attracted scrutiny, particularly from social welfare reformers. I read the social welfare archive for the associations between transience, transgressions of women’s roles, sexual non-normativity, and Orientalist tropes of difference in order to consider how Syrian women were racialized through their participation in peddling economies. This analysis shows how Syrian women’s peddling practices were directly at odds with notions of white, middle class femininity and thus a threat to some Syrians’ claims of whiteness. This talk also illuminates internal Syrian dynamics of class and its intersections with gender, examining Syrian women both as “clients” of social welfare and as social reformers themselves.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:10:58 -0500 2020-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Syrian women peddlers and lace-makers in Spring Valley, Illinois circa World War I, Courtesy of the Faris & Yamna Naff Arab American Collection, National Museum of American History
Author Event | Stephen Kesler: Great Lakes Rocks (April 9, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73387 73387-18214928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

***Please note that events at AADL are currently postponed indefinitely.***

The Great Lakes region contains some of Earth’s oldest rocks as well as some of its youngest geologic features. Great Lakes Rocks: 4 Billion Years of Geologic History in the Great Lakes Region tells this 4 billion-year history starting with the hills, lakes and rivers that we see today and moving back in time through the advance and retreat of the glaciers, the formation of tropical seas and reefs, the rifting that almost split North America into two parts, and ending with the volcanism and mountain building that made one of Earth’s earliest continents. This history includes strange iron-rich and salt-rich oceans, an immense meteorite impact, a super-giant lava flow, and many ore deposits that lured early European settlers into the area. It also helps us predict the geologic future of the Great Lakes region, which will likely include earthquakes, meteorite impacts, changes in our rivers, lakes, and waterfalls and, most of all, in our climate. At this event, Stephen Kesler will showcase rock samples from around the Great Lakes.

Steve Kesler earned a PhD in geology from Stanford University and has taught at Louisiana State University, University of Toronto, Instituto de Recursos Norenovables (Mexico) and University of Michigan. Since joining U-M in 1977, he and many students have gone on field trips over most of the Great Lakes region. In addition to Great Lakes Rocks, he has co-authored several other recent books including Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment; Metals and Society; and Future Global Mineral Resources.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:23:12 -0400 2020-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:29:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Lecture / Discussion Cover image for "Great Lakes Rocks: 4 Billion Years of Geologic History in the Great Lakes Region," by Stephen E. Kesler
CANCELLED Why the stress response is actually a good thing: Examining survival across a natural disaster in a wild primate (April 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72608 72608-18026880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:22:00 -0400 2020-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Jacinta
CANCELLED: Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony (April 14, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64841 64841-16460978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

This event has been cancelled.

Please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296 with any questions.

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:59:38 -0400 2020-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-14T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Author Kiese Laymon, an African American man with a shaved head wearing a black zippered shirt.
CANCELLED Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Over the Life Course (April 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72609 72609-18026881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:22:31 -0400 2020-04-20T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Kerri
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth (April 22, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72596 72596-18024699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
As a fundamental process for converting kinetic to thermal energy, collisionless shocks are ubiquitous throughout the heliosphere and astrophysical systems, from Earth’s magnetosphere to supernova remnants. While these shocks have been studied for decades by spacecraft, telescopes, and numerical simulations, there remain key open questions in shock physics, such as: How do shocks accelerate particles to extremely high energies? or How are particles heated across a shock? Laboratory experiments thus provide a significant opportunity to both complement spacecraft and remote sensing observations with well-controlled and well-diagnosed datasets, and to help benchmark numerical simulations that bridge laboratory and astrophysical systems.
In this talk, I will discuss recent results from experiments and simulations on the formation and evolution of collision-less shocks created through the interaction of a supersonic laser-driven magnetic piston and magnetized ambient plas-ma. Through advanced diagnostics a fast, high-Mach-number shock is observed. Direct probing of particle velocity distributions reveals the coupling between the piston and ambient plasmas that is a key step in forming magnetized collisionless shocks. Particle-in-cell simulations further detail the shock formation process, the role of collisionality, and the dynamics of multi-ion-species ambient plasmas. I will also discuss how this experimental platform complements spacecraft missions and can allow novel investigations of shock heating and particle acceleration.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Schaeffer is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Astro-physical Sciences at Princeton University. He received his BA in Physics at Cornell University and his PhD in Physics from UCLA, and did his postdoctoral work at Princeton in high-energy-density laboratory astrophysics. Dr. Schaeffer has extensive experience in experiments involving mag-netized laser plasmas, collisionless shocks, and magnetic reconnection, and a keen interest in bridging laboratory and astronomical observations. He also has expertise in a wide range of di-agnostics, including Thomson scattering, refractive imaging, proton radiography, and x-ray im-aging. He has authored dozens of papers and has presented at numerous conferences around the world.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:24 -0400 2020-04-22T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-22T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Derek Schaeffer
CANCELLED: UM Psychology Community Talk: Sex and the Brain: What Difference does it Make? (April 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71224 71224-17791924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Note: This event has been cancelled.

Abstract: Have you ever wondered how males and females come to be different? Is it all cultural? Are the brains of females and males hardwired to be different? In this talk we will explore sex differences in brain and behavior and how the brain becomes individualized in female and males. We will see that during development, genetics, hormones, and the environment all act on the brain to influence neuronal growth and connections. This can result in sex dependent development of the brain, as an individual interacts with the environment during maturation. We will discuss what this means for the brain and for behavior of males and females during childhood, adolescence and adulthood and the implications for cognitive function. Then, we will consider sex differences in the motivation to take drugs of abuse and drug taking behavior. Sex differences in addiction are seen for all classes of abused drugs in humans and animal models. These sex differences in the neural mechanisms of addiction have implications for interventions and treatment that will be discussed.

Bio: Dr. Becker received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the Patricia Y. Gurin Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Research Professor in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, and Senior Neuroscience Scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Becker is the author of over 150 articles or chapters and has had numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Becker’s research of the last 30 years has been investigating how gender/sex and ovarian hormones influence brain and behavior. These findings are important for our understanding of the underlying neural processes involved in sex differences in drug abuse and other neurological disorders.

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Presentation Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:02:34 -0400 2020-04-27T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Jill Becker
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Live Panel Discussion (April 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74437 74437-18714561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: North Quad Programming

Join us Tomorrow Tuesday, April 28 at 1 PM for a 1-hour live panel discussion with UMDPSS Special Victims Unit experts talking about sexual assault and domestic violence during a pandemic followed by Q&A. Panel will feature:

Lead Police Officer Maureen Burke - Outreach Coordinator

Lead Police Officer Margie Pillsbury - Investigations Coordinator

Marlanna Landeros - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
and Student Programs

CLICK HERE TO ENTER LIVE PANEL. TUE APRIL 28, 1PM:
https://meet.google.com/neg-jwca-jmx

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:42:01 -0400 2020-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-28T14:00:00-04:00 North Quad North Quad Programming Lecture / Discussion April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Journey to the Sun (April 29, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70795 70795-17957293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
NASA Heliophysics research studies a vast system stretching from the Sun to Earth to far beyond the edge of the planets. Studying this system – much of it driven by the Sun’s constant outpouring of solar wind – not only helps us understand fundamental infor-mation about how the universe works, but also helps protect our technology and astronauts in space. NASA seeks knowledge of near-Earth space, because, when extreme, space weather can interfere with our com-munications, satellites and power grids. The study of the Sun and space can also teach us more about how stars contribute to the habitability of planets through-out the universe.
Mapping out this interconnected system requires a holistic study of the Sun’s influence on space, Earth and other planets. NASA has a fleet of spacecraft stra-tegically placed throughout our heliosphere – from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the far-thest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system, and all helping us untagle the effects of the star we live with.

About the speaker:
Dr. Nicola Fox is the Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Until August 2018, Dr. Fox worked at the Applied Physics Lab at the Johns Hopkins University where she was the Chief Scientist for Heliophysics and the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Dr. Fox served as the deputy project scientist for the Van Allen Probes, and the operations scientist for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program. Fox received her BS in Physics and PhD in Space and Atmospheric Physics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. She received an MS in Telematics and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:50 -0400 2020-04-29T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Nicola Fox
The Kids are Not All Right: Educational Inequalities in the Time of COVID-19 (May 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74605 74605-18851154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series:
The Kids are Not All Right: Educational Inequalities in the Time of COVID-19

Presenter: Pamela Davis-Kean, Professor of Psychology and Research Professor at ISR

Wednesday, May 20
11am
https://umich.zoom.us/j/97584475822

With schools closed due to the COVID19 virus, the teaching and learning environments for children have now merged into one place--the home. With schools being the "great equalizer" for education opportunities, what does it mean for families to provide assistance and much of the teaching during the quarantine and what challenges will schools face if they are able to open in the fall? Dr. Davis-Kean will discuss her research on the inequalities in educational opportunities and what that means for families, schools, and children as this unprecedented crisis is potentially increasing achievement gaps across the country.

This webinar is the first in a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR. If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 May 2020 14:42:52 -0400 2020-05-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer