Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Lagranian Control at Large and Local Scales in Mixed Autonomy Traffic Flows (May 13, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83812 83812-21538223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series returns this May with Professor Alexandre Bayen, the Liao-Cho Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley! This talk investigates Lagrangian (mobile) control of traffic flow at local scale (vehicular level), and how self-driving vehicles will change traffic flow patterns. Professor Bayen describes approaches based on deep, reinforcement learning presented in the context of enabling mixed-autonomy mobility. This lecture also explores the gradual and complex integration of automated vehicles into the existing traffic system. Attendees will learn the potential impact of a small fraction of automated vehicles on low-level traffic flow dynamics, using novel techniques in model-free, deep reinforcement learning, in which the automated vehicles act as mobile (Lagrangian) controllers to traffic flow.

Illustrative examples will be presented in the context of a new, open-source computational platform called FLOW, which integrates state-of-the-art microsimulation tools with deep-RL libraries on AWS EC2. Interesting behavior of mixed autonomy traffic will be revealed in the context of emergent behavior of traffic: https://flow-project.github.io/

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:42:19 -0400 2021-05-13T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-13T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Race - The Power of an Illusion (June 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-03T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
From Rescue to Rebuild: Developing a National ECE System That Works (June 3, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83910 83910-21611029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 3, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Education Policy Initiative

Between historic bipartisan investments to stabilize and expand access to child care in 2020 and new proposals from Congress and the Biden Administration, the nation is poised to significantly increase access to quality early childhood education (ECE). These investments are acutely needed to ensure that all children—particularly children from families with low incomes—have access to high-quality ECE; working and middle class families have access to affordable care; and early educators are supported and adequately compensated.

As Congress and the Administration consider their next major investments in ECE, however, they need a vision for a new and better system. How do we ensure that our many early childhood programs—including child care subsidies, Head Start, state preschool, and special education programs—can be a system of coherent support from birth through early elementary? Experts will address this question in an upcoming webinar, “From Rescue to Rebuild: Developing a National ECE System That Works.” The webinar will focus on long-term federal policy solutions to build a comprehensive, equitable, and integrated early learning system, drawing from the work of the Learning Policy Institute and New America, as well as the authors of Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality. It will also address concrete actions that policymakers can take in the near term with federal stimulus funds.

Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pKpDoK9bSZiiSidYPJdFSw

Speakers:

Laura Bornfreund, Director, Early and Elementary Education, New America

Ajay Chaudry, Professor, New York University and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Linda Darling-Hammond, President and CEO, Learning Policy Institute

U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)

Hanna Melnick, Senior Policy Advisor, Learning Policy Institute

Christina Weiland, Associate Professor of Education, University of Michigan

Additional speakers to be added.

Related Resources
Building a National Early Childhood Education System that Works (brief)

Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality, 2nd Edition (book)

Supporting Early Learning in America: Policies for a New Decade (report)
Child Care in Crisis: Can Biden’s Plan Save It? (article)

Education Policy Initiative (website)

Michigan Education Data Center (website)

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Other Thu, 29 Apr 2021 12:54:27 -0400 2021-06-03T13:00:00-04:00 2021-06-03T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Education Policy Initiative Other Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Safety Assessment of Autonomous Vehicles with a Naturalistic and Adversarial Driving Environment (June 9, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84039 84039-21619637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Safety performance testing is critical to the development and deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs). The prevailing approach life-like simulations of our driving environment. However, due to its high dimensionality and the rareness of safety-critical events, hundreds of millions of miles would be required to demonstrate an AV's safety performance.

The research in this presentation proposes a naturalistic and adversarial driving environment that can significantly reduce the required number of miles driven while simultaneously maintaining unbiasedness. Drs. Henry Liu and Shuo Feng will demonstrate the effectiveness of this in a highway-driving simulation.

Learn more about the proposed research: https://myumi.ch/BoQ2Q

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About the speakers:
Dr. Henry Liu is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, a Research Professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), and the Director for the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT). Professor Liu conducts interdisciplinary research at the interface of transportation engineering, automotive engineering, and artificial intelligence. Specifically, his scholarly interests concern traffic flow monitoring, modeling, and control, as well as testing and evaluation of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). He has published more than 120 refereed journal papers on these topics and his work has been widely recognized in the public media for promoting smart transportation innovations. He has appeared on media outlets including CNBC, Forbes, Technode, and more. In 2019, Professor Liu was invited to testify on the nation's transportation research agenda in front of the US House Subcommittee on Research and Technology. Professor Liu has nurtured a new generation of scholars, and some of his Ph.D. students and postdocs have joined first-class universities such as Columbia, Purdue, and RPI. Professor Liu is also the managing editor of the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Dr. Shuo Feng is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, China, in 2014 and 2019, respectively. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan from 2017 to 2019. His research interests lie in the testing and evaluation of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), cooperative automation, and traffic environment modeling. Dr. Feng has published around 20 articles in refereed journals including Nature Communications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. He has served as a member in the SAE ORAD V&V committee and workshop organizer of the IEEE 2021 Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. He received the “Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award” from the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) in 2020.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 13 May 2021 13:32:49 -0400 2021-06-09T13:00:00-04:00 2021-06-09T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image of the CCAT Research Review which features the speaker's headshots
2021 International Symposium on Transportation Data and Modeling (June 21, 2021 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83965 83965-21619227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 21, 2021 8:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

ISTDM 2021 aims to gather transportation researchers and practitioners across the globe for exploring the frontiers of big data, modeling, and simulation to advance transportation research to support the connected, cooperative, and automated mobility. With a greater focus on emerging technologies, ISTDM 2021 rebrands the two long-standing transportation symposia: International Symposium of Transport Simulation (ISTS), and the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization (IWTDCS).

The conference program can be found at https://limos.engin.umich.edu/istdm2021/schedule/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 04 May 2021 10:27:16 -0400 2021-06-21T08:45:00-04:00 2021-06-21T12:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Banner Image for ISTDM 2021. It features headshots of the keynote speakers
2021 International Symposium on Transportation Data and Modeling (June 22, 2021 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83965 83965-21619228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 8:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

ISTDM 2021 aims to gather transportation researchers and practitioners across the globe for exploring the frontiers of big data, modeling, and simulation to advance transportation research to support the connected, cooperative, and automated mobility. With a greater focus on emerging technologies, ISTDM 2021 rebrands the two long-standing transportation symposia: International Symposium of Transport Simulation (ISTS), and the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization (IWTDCS).

The conference program can be found at https://limos.engin.umich.edu/istdm2021/schedule/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 04 May 2021 10:27:16 -0400 2021-06-22T08:45:00-04:00 2021-06-22T12:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Banner Image for ISTDM 2021. It features headshots of the keynote speakers
2021 International Symposium on Transportation Data and Modeling (June 23, 2021 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83965 83965-21619229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 8:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

ISTDM 2021 aims to gather transportation researchers and practitioners across the globe for exploring the frontiers of big data, modeling, and simulation to advance transportation research to support the connected, cooperative, and automated mobility. With a greater focus on emerging technologies, ISTDM 2021 rebrands the two long-standing transportation symposia: International Symposium of Transport Simulation (ISTS), and the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization (IWTDCS).

The conference program can be found at https://limos.engin.umich.edu/istdm2021/schedule/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 04 May 2021 10:27:16 -0400 2021-06-23T08:45:00-04:00 2021-06-23T12:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Banner Image for ISTDM 2021. It features headshots of the keynote speakers
2021 International Symposium on Transportation Data and Modeling (June 24, 2021 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83965 83965-21619230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 24, 2021 8:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

ISTDM 2021 aims to gather transportation researchers and practitioners across the globe for exploring the frontiers of big data, modeling, and simulation to advance transportation research to support the connected, cooperative, and automated mobility. With a greater focus on emerging technologies, ISTDM 2021 rebrands the two long-standing transportation symposia: International Symposium of Transport Simulation (ISTS), and the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization (IWTDCS).

The conference program can be found at https://limos.engin.umich.edu/istdm2021/schedule/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 04 May 2021 10:27:16 -0400 2021-06-24T08:45:00-04:00 2021-06-24T12:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Banner Image for ISTDM 2021. It features headshots of the keynote speakers
New Urban Mobility: Transformations and & Value Creation (July 15, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84276 84276-21621021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 15, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Currently, urban mobility is facing several challenges: some are the result of long-term urbanization trends and others are the outcome of more recent changes to population behaviors. Addressing these challenges requires systems thinking and a broadening of collaboration between automakers, mobility services companies, and cities. These constituencies must transform, which will determine their new roles in the new, urban mobility. New value chains will emerge along with novel forms of value that will be realized through innovative business models. This presentation, brought to us by Evangelos Simoudis, Ph.D., will highlight the decisions automakers, mobility service companies, and cities must make, and the transformations they will undergo with regards to technology and business models. Dr. Simoudis will also discuss the risks arising from the use of data and artificial intelligence in new, urban mobility.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Jun 2021 09:14:48 -0400 2021-07-15T13:00:00-04:00 2021-07-15T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image for CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Evangelos Simoudis
How to Use TransPop Data: The first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States (July 22, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84448 84448-21623998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 22, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for a virtual presentation of TransPop, the first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States. During this presentation you'll learn how to use these data to reach your own groundbreaking results.

The TransPop study not only describes the demographic make-up of the transgender population and their experiences related to identity and transition, but also aims to provide information on areas like health outcomes, health care access, quality of life, and experiences with discrimination.

In addition to being the first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States, it also includes a comparative cisgender sample. A primary goal of this study was to provide researchers with a representative sample of transgender people in the United States. The study examines a variety of health-relevant domains including health outcomes and health behaviors, experiences with interpersonal and institutional discrimination, identity, transition-related experiences, and basic demographic characteristics (age, race/ethnicity, religion, political party affiliation, marital status, employment, income, location, sex, gender, and education).

The TransPop study is available at https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37938.v1.

This webinar is free and open to the public. A live transcript will be available. The webinar will be recorded, and the recording and slides will be sent to all registrants after the webinar.

Zoom FAQs for Attendees: http://myumi.ch/kx2oo

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Presentation Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:31:28 -0400 2021-07-22T14:00:00-04:00 2021-07-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Promotional image for TransPop data webinar from ICPSR featuring transgender flag on white background
Dimensions of Public Attitudes Toward the Affordable Care Act, 2010 through 2017 (July 27, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84699 84699-21624454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30 pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:31:13 -0400 2021-07-27T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures 2021
Dimensions of Public Attitudes Toward the Affordable Care Act, 2010 through 2017 (July 27, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84752 84752-21624872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:12:05 -0400 2021-07-27T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture series
Analyzing Open-Ended Responses for Understanding Opinions About Presidential Candidates (July 28, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84698 84698-21624453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:28:58 -0400 2021-07-28T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Blalock Lecture series 2021
Understanding Network Structures (July 29, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84697 84697-21624452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 29, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:25:28 -0400 2021-07-29T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-29T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Blalock Lecture Series 2021
Harnessing Big Data for Health and Social Science Research (August 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84713 84713-21624468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This lecture will be pre-recorded and available two weeks before this session on the ICPSR Summer Program YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQWgr9Np3SKx54T_0hbo-Q

Please join us for this live Q&A session with the presenter on 8/3/21 at 12pm EDT at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock.

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:03:54 -0400 2021-08-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-08-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
The Youth Policy Lab: Partnership Driven Research to Improve the Lives of Young Michiganders (August 4, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84714 84714-21624469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:37:47 -0400 2021-08-04T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-04T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
Data Collection Methods in the Age of Data Science: Where Are We Headed? (August 5, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84715 84715-21624470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 5, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:39:39 -0400 2021-08-05T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-05T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
Measuring Exposure to News and Political Information in the Digital Age (August 10, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84716 84716-21624471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:44:49 -0400 2021-08-10T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-10T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
The Post-API Age Reconsidered: Social Media Research in the '20s and Beyond (August 11, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84717 84717-21624472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This lecture will be pre-recorded and available two weeks before this session on the ICPSR Summer Program YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQWgr9Np3SKx54T_0hbo-Q

Please join us for this live Q&A session with the presenter on 8/11/21 at 12pm EDT at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock.

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:30:58 -0400 2021-08-11T12:30:00-04:00 2021-08-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture series
Measuring White Racial Solidarity and Examining its Relationship to Political Attitudes and Preferences (August 12, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84718 84718-21624473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 12, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:29:27 -0400 2021-08-12T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture series
HAALSI - Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (September 9, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85067 85067-21625537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 9, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

HAALSI is a longitudinal, population-based survey implemented by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand, and is funded by the National Institutes on Aging.

HAALSI aims to examine and characterize a cohort of 5,059 men and women ≥ 40 years of age in rural South Africa with respect to health, physical and cognitive function, aging, and well-being, and is designed to be harmonized with other international HRS sister studies.

This webinar will feature the HAALSI research team: Dr. Julia Rohr – Research Scientist/Project Director; Dr. Elyse Jennings - Research Scientist; David Kapaon – Research Assistant.

During this webinar, we will:
Provide an overview of the HAALSI project
Describe the importance of the data that have been collected.
Participants will also have the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions.

This webinar is free and open to the public.
This webinar will be recorded and the recording will be sent to all registrants.
Zoom FAQ for Attendees: http://myumi.ch/kx2oo

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Presentation Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:23:00 -0400 2021-09-09T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Promotional image for Health and Aging in Africa HAALSI webinar at ICPSR
The Future of Mobility & Connected Transportation with Smart Infrastructure (September 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85754 85754-21628677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Cavnue was founded with the vision of bringing mobility to everyone. In order to do that, we must expand the autonomous driving capabilities of vehicles beyond where they are today. We believe that simplifying road designs and connecting vehicles to the infrastructure will be an important element in bringing autonomous technology to scale and making safer roads for everyone.

Billions have been invested to date, yet all we see are a few autonomous vehicle pilots running in cities across the country. How will fully driverless cars change mobility forever? What makes the technology so hard? How will connected vehicles and smart infrastructure play a part in bringing this technology to the world? This talk will create a conversation around these questions.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:53:46 -0400 2021-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image to promote Distinguished Lecture Series with Jaime Waydo. It features Jaime's headshot as well as the presentation title
Learning Analytics and Education Research Data (September 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86438 86438-21634314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

The PEERS Learning Analytics and Education Research Data webinar focus on using learning analytics data for STEM education research. The webinar will inform researchers about the potential of learning analytics data for their research, strategies for accessing learning analytics data, and relevant tools for analysis.

The presentations will cover topics such as learning sciences, access points of higher education data, relationships between cognitive theories of human learning, human-computer interactions, psychological theories of student engagement, and what goes on in college classes.

This webinar will feature the following researcher: Ben Motz (Indiana University), Rene Kizilcec (Cornell University), Xu Wang (University of Michigan), and James Russell (Unizin)

During this webinar, we will:
Define learning analytics
Describe the methods and importance of the research that have been conducted
Discuss how to access and work with the learning analytics datasets
Participants will also have the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions.

This webinar is free and open to the public.
This webinar will be recorded and the recording will be sent to all registrants.
Zoom FAQ for Attendees: http://myumi.ch/kx2oo

Sponsored by the PEERS Data Hub: www.PeersDataHub.net

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Presentation Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:31:32 -0400 2021-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Promotional image for ICPSR webinar featuring teacher and student with green background
Covid Vax Chat with the White House (October 4, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87748 87748-21645526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Covid Campus Coalition

Join Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and the Covid Campus Coalition in an interactive conversation about COVID-19 vaccines and college life! Ask questions and meet students from universities across the country!

About us: The Covid Campus Coalition is a national student-run effort to provide college students with accurate, timely information about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines. Our goal is to combat misconceptions about the COVID-19 vaccine and empower students to make fully informed decisions about their own health!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:09:35 -0400 2021-10-04T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Covid Campus Coalition Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
Data Positivity: Data Doing Good (October 6, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87738 87738-21645507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

How does data affect policy? Health care reform? The issues you care about? Find examples and practical resources during our virtual conference, "Data Positivity: Data Doing Good" 10/6-10/8, free and open to the public. Find a session list and register at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR-Biennial-Meeting

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:15:04 -0400 2021-10-06T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A bright, colorful promotional image for the ICPSR Biennial Meeting 2021
Data Positivity: Data Doing Good (October 7, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87738 87738-21645508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

How does data affect policy? Health care reform? The issues you care about? Find examples and practical resources during our virtual conference, "Data Positivity: Data Doing Good" 10/6-10/8, free and open to the public. Find a session list and register at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR-Biennial-Meeting

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:15:04 -0400 2021-10-07T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A bright, colorful promotional image for the ICPSR Biennial Meeting 2021
Data Positivity: Data Doing Good (October 8, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87738 87738-21645509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

How does data affect policy? Health care reform? The issues you care about? Find examples and practical resources during our virtual conference, "Data Positivity: Data Doing Good" 10/6-10/8, free and open to the public. Find a session list and register at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR-Biennial-Meeting

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:15:04 -0400 2021-10-08T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A bright, colorful promotional image for the ICPSR Biennial Meeting 2021
Coco Fusco: The Right to Have Rights (October 14, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86424 86424-21634283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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This program will be webcast on the main Penny Stamps Series page and at dptv.org/pennystamps. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

New York based artist, writer and scholar Coco Fusco presents a virtual talk entitled The Rights to Have Rights. In this talk, Fusco will present research on Cuban artists confronting the state, and work dealing with repressed histories of the revolutionary era in Cuba. This talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by U-M Professor Larry La Fountain-Stokes (American Culture, Latino/a Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures and Women and Genders Studies).

Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is a recipient of a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Arts Award, a 2021 Latinx Artist Fellowship, a 2018 Rabkin Prize for Art Criticism, a 2016 Greenfield Prize, a 2014 Cintas Fellowship, a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2013 Absolut Art Writing Award, a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship, a 2012 US Artists Fellowship and a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco's performances and videos have been presented in the 56th Venice Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, two Whitney Biennials (2008 and 1993), and several other international exhibitions. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, the Imperial War Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. She is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York. She is a Professor of Art at Cooper Union.

Fusco is the author of Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015). She is also the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). She contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books and numerous art publications.

Fusco received her B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University (1982), her M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University (1985) and her Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University (2007).

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.    

This program is organized by the Center for World Performance Studies and presented in partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative and the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series with support from UMMA.

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Other Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:16:23 -0400 2021-10-14T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Cycling Safety: From Crash Data Analysis to a Naturalistic Cycling Study (October 27, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88208 88208-21651370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The safety issues of cycling have become an increasing concern. This presentation, led by Drs. Shan Bao and Fred Feng, describes two unique studies related to cycling safety, from crash data analysis to a recent naturalistic cycling study in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Crash Report Sampling System data was used in this study to identify significant factors that impact cyclists’ crash injury levels. In the naturalistic cycling study, a fleet of four electric bikes was instrumented with cameras and GPS and was given to study participants as a substitute for their own bicycle. A total of over 5,000 miles of riding data from 77 subjects were collected over two years. The dataset could be used for studying the interactions between motorists and cyclists on real-world roadways.

More about this research: https://myumi.ch/jxl0N

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About the speakers:
Dr. Bao is an Associate Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, University of Michigan-Dearborn, with a joint appointment as Associate Research Scientist in the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute’s Human Factors Group. She is also an affiliated faculty member with UM Civil and Environmental Engineering department, MIDAS and UM Robotics Institute. Dr. Bao received her Ph.D. in mechanical and industrial engineering from the University of Iowa in 2009. Her research interests focus on human factors issues related to connected and automated vehicle technologies, ADAS system evaluation, and big data analysis. She has served as the PI or co-PI of 54 research projects. She has published 72 technical publications, including 40 refereed journals articles. Shan is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and has served as the chair of the Surface Transportation Technical Group of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is a also member of the TRB Vehicle User Characteristics committee and the TRB Human Factors in Road Vehicle Automation subcommittee.

Dr. Fred Feng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is also an affiliate faculty of Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). Dr. Feng's research focuses on advancing the safety of environmentally sustainable, healthy, and equitable modes of transportation, such as cycling, walking, and public transit, through the development of data-driven insights, strategies & tactics, and technologies. To this end, we use a variety of quantitative methodologies including behavioral data analysis, statistical learning, computational human performance modeling, and human factors. Dr. Feng earned his B.E. (2006) and M.S. (2009) at Tsinghua University in China, and his PhD (2015) in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before joining UM-Dearborn, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Dr. Feng serves on the Scientific Committee of the International Cycling Safety Conference and on the Board of directors of Washtenaw Bicycling and Walking Coalition.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:51:04 -0400 2021-10-27T14:30:00-04:00 2021-10-27T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Decorative Image for the CCAT Research Review with Drs. Shan Bao and Fred Feng. It features the presentation title 'Cycling Safety: From Crash Data Analysis to a Naturalistic Cycling Study' and an image of a person riding in a bicycle lane.
“Disparities in Reproductive Aging & Midlife Health between Black & White Women” and “Taking Action to Advance the Study of Race & Ethnicity” (October 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87494 87494-21642885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Please register for more information and Zoom link.
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JiZPRVJaStK7yNbArsSubA

The webinar, hosted by the Center for Midlife Science, features papers that will appear in a special series for the journal, Women's Midlife Health.

Talk #1 “Disparities in Reproductive Aging and Midlife Health between Black and White Women: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)” with Tené T. Lewis, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University; and Siobán D. Harlow, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan.

Talk #2: “Taking Action to Advance the Study of Race and Ethnicity: The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)” with Shawna Follis, PhD, MS (Dept. of Medicine, Stanford Univ. School of Medicine); Monik C. Jiménez, ScD, SM, FAHA, (Harvard Medical School and T.H. Chan School of Public Health); and Lorena Garcia, MPH, DrPH, (Division of Epidemiology, Dept. of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis School of Medicine).

Moderators: Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School; and Gloria Bachmann, MD, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Sponsored by the journal, Women’s Midlife Health; Center for Midlife Science at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health; Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine Diversity and Inclusion Board. SWAN is funded by the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Nursing Research and the Office of Research on Women's Health. WHI is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:04:41 -0400 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Lecture / Discussion Webinar Series on Structural Racism and Midlife Health
Public Talk: Sir David Adjaye + Chika Okeke-Agulu: Homeward (November 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86425 86425-21634284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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This program will be webcast on the main Penny Stamps Series page and at dptv.org/pennystamps. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

The debate about restitution and the ethics of Western museums’ owning African artworks collected during the era of colonization has never been more in the public eye. Most well-known, perhaps, are the “Benin bronzes,” artistic and royal heirlooms made since the 13th century by highly specialized metalworkers in the Kingdom of Benin (now southern Nigeria). In 1897, British forces sacked the capital of this prosperous kingdom. They tore sculptures and plaques from the palace walls, and took them back to Europe, where the looted treasures were sold to museums and private collectors. The royal court of Benin, Nigerian officials, and high-profile scholars such as Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu (Princeton) have been demanding their return for decades. Over the last decade, some museums based in the Global North have been listening to these calls for repatriation, and some have pledged to return works from their collections. To provide a new home for the repatriated works, plans for a new Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA), are currently in development with world renowned architect Sir David Adjaye leading the building design project. 

On the occasion of Wish You Were Here: African Art & Restitution, a public investigation into our own collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), Sir David Adjaye and Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu will discuss their current and recent projects that address   how works of art may re-enter the societies they were torn away from. Laura De Becker, Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at UMMA, will introduce the event.   Sir David Adjaye OBE is an award winning Ghanaian-British architect known to infuse his artistic sensibilities and ethos for community-driven projects. His ingenious use of materials, bespoke designs and visionary sensibilities have set him apart as one of the leading architects of his generation. In 2000, David founded his own practice, Adjaye Associates, which today operates globally, with studios in Accra, London, and New York taking on projects that span the globe. The firm’s work ranges from private houses, bespoke furniture collections, product design, exhibitions, and temporary pavilions to major arts centers, civic buildings, and master plans. His largest project to date, The National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, DC opened on the National Mall in Washington DC in 2016 and was named Cultural Event of the Year by The New York Times.

In 2017, Adjaye was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of the year by TIME Magazine. Most recently, Adjaye was announced the winner of the 2021 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. Approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen, the Royal Gold Medal is considered one of the highest honors in British architecture for significant contribution to the field internationally. Sir Adjaye is also the recipient of the World Economic Forum’s 27th Annual Crystal Award, which recognizes his “leadership in serving communities, cities and the environment.”

Chika Okeke-Agulu, an artist, critic and art historian, is director of the Program in African Studies and professor of African and African Diaspora art in the Department of African American Studies, and Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. His books include Yusuf Grillo: Painting. Lagos. Life (Skira, 2020); Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text (Skira, 2016); Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (2015); and (with Okwui Enwezor), Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2010). He recently co-organized, with Okwui Enwezor, El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2019). He is co-editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, has written for The New York Times and Huffington Post, and maintains the blog Ọfọdunka.

His many awards include The Melville J. Herskovits Prize for the most important scholarly work in African Studies published in English during the preceding year (African Studies Association, 2016); and Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (College Art Association, 2016).Okeke-Agulu serves on the advisory boards of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre, Tate Modern, London, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Bët-bi/Le Korsa Museum Project, Senegal. He is also on the advisory council of Mpala Research Center, Nanyuki, Kenya; serves on the executive board of Princeton in Africa, and on the editorial boards of African Studies Review and Journal of Visual Culture. 

Laura De Becker is the Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). A specialist in Central African art, she joined UMMA after a fellowship at Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. After many years of working with a team to research to envision a new installation of UMMA’s African art collection, De Becker’s , a project that doubled the footprint of the African galleries at UMMA, opened in September 2021. De Becker’s work on the reinstallation led to , a separate project grappling with issues of restitution, also on view at UMMA for the 2021-22 academic year.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.  

This program is presented in partnership with the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series with support from the Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:15:54 -0500 2021-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
American Historical Print Collectors Society 2021 Webinar (November 20, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89090 89090-21660467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join the American Historical Print Collectors Society for a fascinating look at maritime history in historic prints, maps and charts. Open to the general public as well as AHPCS members. Free; co-sponsored by the U-M William L. Clements Library.

Register at http://myumi.ch/51nbp

HOST: Clayton Lewis, Curator of Graphics Material, William L. Clements Library and AHPCS Vice President.

SCHEDULED SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

"Shaping A New Course: Chart Making in America, 1694-1815" with Richard Malley, Curator of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum in Wethersfield, CT.

As American colonists in the 17th-18th centuries gradually developed home-grown approaches to political, social and economic challenges, so too did mariners, mathematicians and scholars in creating an impressive body of local and regional charting. This talk examines a number of New England-based pioneers whose work contributed to American seaborne success in the colonial and Early National periods. It is an outgrowth of a collections assessment of Mystic Seaport Museum’s map and chart collection conducted by Malley, 2015-2016.

"The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington" with James Brust, Vice President, AHPCS.

Lithographer and publisher Nathanael Currier’s first significant success was with the 1840 disaster lithograph "The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington." Collector/scholar James Brust examines the truth and the legends surrounding this image’s many forms, including appearances in the “penny-press” New York Sun days after the event. Brust collaborated with the late Wendy Shadwell for much of his research.

"Coastal Views of Fitz Henry Lane" with Georgia Barnhill, Curator of Graphic Arts Emerita at American Antiquarian Society.

Georgia Barnhill’s presentation will focus on New England coastal views by American Luminist painter and printmaker Fitz Henry Lane. Lane grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where his father was a sailmaker. Barnhill will discuss some of the precursors to Lane’s views and will examine several closely.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:06:01 -0500 2021-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington," (1840) courtesy of James Brust.
Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Safety (November 30, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89138 89138-21660642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

A significant, persisting challenge in transportation is traffic safety which, despite a decrease in vehicle miles traveled (VMT), led to 38,680 deaths and over 2.8 million injuries in the United States last year. Traffic crashes also result in an estimated economic loss of over $230 billion annually. Integrated vehicle passive and active safety systems and connectivity are required to mitigate crashes or avoid collisions.

For the final Distinguished Lecture Series of 2021, the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) is pleased to welcome Dr. Azim Eskandarian to review some timely research areas on vehicle control systems, signal processing, and communication-enabled connectivity to address the pervasive vehicle safety problem. Dr. Eskandarian will also discuss a holistic approach to vehicular safety and its advanced research challenges, including connectivity, ranging from partial to full autonomy and collision avoidance implications. Attendees will see a critical perspective on personal mobility and the future of driving that ensures safety and congestion mitigation while minimizing energy consumption.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Nov 2021 09:40:57 -0500 2021-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Azim Eskandiarian. It features the presentation title 'Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Safety', Professor Eskandarian's headshot, and an animated image of a smart intersection.
Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence — CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series (February 24, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91474 91474-21679946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Recent years have seen astounding growth in the deployment of AI systems in critical domains such as autonomous vehicles, criminal justice, healthcare, hiring, housing, human resource management, law enforcement, and public safety, where decisions taken by AI agents directly impact human lives. Consequently, there is an increasing concern if these decisions can be trusted to be correct, reliable, fair, and safe, especially under adversarial attacks. How then can we deliver on the promise of the benefits of AI but address these scenarios that have life-critical consequences for people and society? In short, how can we achieve trustworthy AI?

Under the umbrella of trustworthy computing, there is a long-established framework employing formal methods and verification techniques for ensuring trust properties like reliability, security, and privacy of traditional software and hardware systems. Just as for trustworthy computing, formal verification could be an effective approach for building trust in AI-based systems. However, the set of properties needs to be extended beyond reliability, security, and privacy to include fairness, robustness, probabilistic accuracy under uncertainty, and other properties yet to be identified and defined. Further, there is a need for new property specifications and verification techniques to handle new kinds of artifacts, e.g., data distributions, probabilistic programs, and machine learning-based models that may learn and adapt automatically over time. This talk will pose a new research agenda, from a formal methods perspective, for us to increase trust in AI systems.
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About the speaker: Dr. Wing joined Columbia in 2017 as the inaugural Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute. Prior to Columbia, Dr. Wing was Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research, served on the faculty and as department head in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, and served as Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Wing’s research contributions have been in the areas of trustworthy AI, security and privacy, specification and verification, concurrent and distributed systems, programming languages, and software engineering. Her 2006 seminal essay, titled "Computational Thinking,’’ is credited with helping to establish the centrality of computer science to problem-solving in fields where previously it had not been embraced and thereby influencing K-12 and university curricula worldwide.

She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Wing received distinguished service awards from the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computing Research Association and an honorary doctorate degree from Linköping University, Sweden. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in computer science, all from MIT.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 25 Jan 2022 11:21:26 -0500 2022-02-24T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Jeannette Wing. It features the presentation title 'Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence' and Professor Wing's headshot.
Physiological Sensing to Indicate Driver Takeover Abilities — CCAT Research Review (March 9, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92203 92203-21688056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The emerging level 3 autonomous vehicle (L3AV) can perform all aspects of the driving task and allow for complete disengagement of drivers (e.g., sit back and relax) under certain driving scenarios including immediate response (e.g., emergency braking). However, this still requires the driver to be prepared for takeover within a few seconds of warning. Being able to measure and predict the takeover performance (TOP) ahead of time and issue adequate warnings is critical to ensure driver comfort, trust, and safety in the system and acceptance of the technology.

A necessary undertaking in this process is to develop a robust approach to understand the drivers’ capabilities to take over the vehicle safely and promptly in L3 AV under different driving and disengagement scenarios. In this project, we propose an integrated treatment of the drivers’ TOP measured through multimodal physiological features and driving environment data in L3 AVs. We will present the results of data collected from 20 drivers. The drivers were presented with different secondary tasks and driving scenarios in a simulator and their physiological responses were collected using different sensing devices such as electroencephalogram (EEG), galvanic skin response (GSR), and heart rate (HR). The presentation will highlight the relationship between the driver's physiological state such as level of engagement with the secondary task and their TOP.

More about this research: https://myumi.ch/Axbod

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:47:19 -0500 2022-03-09T14:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image for the CCAT Research Review with Carol Menassa, Vineet Kamat, Da Li, and Julian Brinkley. It features the presentation title 'Can Physiological Sensing Indicate Driver Takeover Abilities in Lvl 3 Automation?' and a test subject using a driving simulator.
2022 Precision Health Symposium (March 16, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91836 91836-21683225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 8:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Precision Health

Join us for a half-day, in-person event (with remote option) that will focus on the transformative impact artificial intelligence and machine learning are having on precision healthcare. Attendees will hear from thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners who will guide the conversation from big picture concepts, to the importance of applying new research tools responsibly and inclusively, to the need for integrating new methods and inclusivity considerations into training for clinicians, researchers, and other learners.

Keynote Speaker: Bob Wachter

Featured Speakers: Akbar Waljee, Lionel Robert, Jodyn Platt

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Mar 2022 16:32:48 -0500 2022-03-16T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Precision Health Workshop / Seminar Precision Health Symposium
The Clements Bookworm: "Women in Photographs" Collector's Corner (March 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92545 92545-21692156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In celebration of Women's History Month, prolific collector Cynthia Motzenbecker will share and discuss historic images of women from her private collection. Beginning with daguerreotypes and ambrotypes, she will comment on the development of techniques and photographic history illustrated by her examples. Motzenbecker is a member and past president of the Michigan Photographic Historical Society.

This episode is generously sponsored by an avid Bookworm supporter.

Please register at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:13:36 -0500 2022-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Photograph by Gösta Florman, Motzenbecker Private Collection
2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure (April 12, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93055 93055-21700218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The 5th annual CCAT Global Symposium returns this year on April 12th and 13th! The conference will be hosted at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor, MI with both in-person and virtual registration options available to attendees. The two-day, two-track event will continue discussions on cybersecurity, infrastructure, shared mobility, and more.

The 2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure is sponsored by Michigan Engineering, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, and WSP. Women in Autonomy serves as our conference partner.

For complete details and hotel room blocks, please visit the Symposium page on the CCAT website: https://ccat.umtri.umich.edu/symposium/

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:14:47 -0500 2022-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Decorative Image for the 2022 CCAT Global Symposium. It features a 3-D animated city with several forms of transportation and text that reads '2022 Global Symposium' with the CCAT logo in the bottom right.
2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure (April 13, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93055 93055-21700219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The 5th annual CCAT Global Symposium returns this year on April 12th and 13th! The conference will be hosted at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor, MI with both in-person and virtual registration options available to attendees. The two-day, two-track event will continue discussions on cybersecurity, infrastructure, shared mobility, and more.

The 2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure is sponsored by Michigan Engineering, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, and WSP. Women in Autonomy serves as our conference partner.

For complete details and hotel room blocks, please visit the Symposium page on the CCAT website: https://ccat.umtri.umich.edu/symposium/

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:14:47 -0500 2022-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Decorative Image for the 2022 CCAT Global Symposium. It features a 3-D animated city with several forms of transportation and text that reads '2022 Global Symposium' with the CCAT logo in the bottom right.
Autonomous Vehicle Impacts on Travel-Based Activity & Activity-Based Travel (May 10, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94198 94198-21724108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Transportation Research Institute
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Chandra Bhat, University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Joe J. King Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, to the Distinguished Lecture Series! For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be offering hybrid attendance options.

This presentation undertakes a deep-dive into the kinds of activities that individuals are likely to pursue when freed from the task of driving in the future transportation landscape of fully automated vehicles (AVs). Dr. Bhat's study indicates that “productive use of time” is not necessarily always tied with activities, such as work and study; rather, being able to partake in relatively “chill” activities (such as sleeping, relaxing, and gazing out the window) is also considered as good use of time. This suggests caution in the interpretation of what are traditionally referred to as “productive” activities, and also, a need for scholarly restraint in the use of the label “multi-tasking” to exclusively refer to non-passive activities.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:00:00 -0400 2022-05-10T14:00:00-04:00 2022-05-10T15:00:00-04:00 Transportation Research Institute Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Chandra Bhat. It features Dr. Bhat's headshot and the presentation title 'Autonomous Vehicle Impacts on Travel-Based Activity & Activity-Based Travel'.