Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Gigliola Staffilani (MIT) to give MCAIM Colloquium (November 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79435 79435-20325793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Abstract: In recent years great progress has been made in the study of dispersive and wave equations. Over the years the toolbox used in order to attack highly nontrivial problems related to these equations has developed to include a variety of techniques from Fourier and harmonic analysis, analytic number theory, math physics, dynamical systems, probability and symplectic geometry. In this talk I will introduce a variety of problems connected with dispersive and wave equations, such as the derivation of a certain nonlinear Schrodinger equation from a quantum many-particles system, periodic Strichartz estimates, the concept of energy transfer, the invariance of a Gibbs measure associated to an infinite dimension Hamiltonian system and non-squeezing theorems for such systems when they also enjoy a symplectic structure.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:56:08 -0500 2020-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Workshop / Seminar Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2021 Major/Minor Expo (March 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82587 82587-21124033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

Interested in learning more about what a major in Astronomy entails?

The Major/Minor Expo, held every March, will allow you to explore the 70+ majors and 100+ minors LSA has to offer, as well as many non-LSA academic programs, by talking with advisors, faculty, and current students. You can also gather information about opportunities for research on campus, internships, study abroad, professional development, and experiential learning.

For more information and to prepare for the expo, check out the resources and links here: https://lsa.umich.edu/advising/understand-degree-options/choosing-a-major/expo-for-majors-and-minors.html

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:04:34 -0500 2021-03-01T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Astronomy Exhibition Major/Minor Expo
2021 Major/Minor Expo (March 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82587 82587-21124034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

Interested in learning more about what a major in Astronomy entails?

The Major/Minor Expo, held every March, will allow you to explore the 70+ majors and 100+ minors LSA has to offer, as well as many non-LSA academic programs, by talking with advisors, faculty, and current students. You can also gather information about opportunities for research on campus, internships, study abroad, professional development, and experiential learning.

For more information and to prepare for the expo, check out the resources and links here: https://lsa.umich.edu/advising/understand-degree-options/choosing-a-major/expo-for-majors-and-minors.html

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:04:34 -0500 2021-03-05T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Astronomy Exhibition Major/Minor Expo
MIRA Conversations on Inclusion and Equity Presents: (March 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82672 82672-21155686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics

“Diversity in Astronomy: The Role of Summer Research Programs”

Summer research is probably one of the most effective ways to give students experiences and motivation for a career in science. In 2002, I served as the first director of the UW-Madison Astrophysics REU program, and I have been involved in this program ever since, including running the program during the one summer where we had a gap in funding. I will describe the evolution of this program, my thoughts and experiences about what works, and what we could be doing better as a community. The continuity of this program has allowed us to obtain funding from the UW-Madison’s Graduate School, individual grants, and other sources. (This additional support has allowed us to fund 45 additional students beyond the NSF supported students.) From 2002 to 2018, over fifty mentors have worked with a total of 175 students, including 92 women (53%), 49 students who are members of under-represented minorities (URM, 28%), and four students with documented disabilities. We now have fifty-one alumni who have earned their PhDs (22 in Astronomy/Space Physics, 14 in Physics, and nine in other areas), including twenty-five women and eleven URM alumni.

Please note: Should you require any reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access and opportunity related to this event please contact Nicholle Cardinal at ndcard@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:43:55 -0500 2021-03-05T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics Lecture / Discussion Dr. Bob Benjamin
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics (AIM) Seminar | Probing the Cores of Massive Stars through their Surface (March 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82849 82849-21201322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Stars are opaque, which makes it difficult to study their interiors. Recent space-based telescopes have led to the new field of asteroseismology: by measuring global oscillation modes of a star, you can infer its interior properties. Massive stars have convection in their cores which can generate waves, which might be detectable at the surface. In the first part of this talk, I will describe a heuristic way of estimating wave generation by convection, and compare it to high-resolution numerical simulations in Cartesian geometry. To make quantitative predictions to compare with observations, one must run simulations in spherical geometry. In the second part of my talk, I will present a new spectral algorithm for solving nearly arbitrary, tensorial PDEs in spherical coordinates. The challenge is to devise bases which respect regularity conditions at r=0, which depend on the rank of the tensor. The algorithm can be easily applied to the problem of wave generation by convection in stars, as well as a wide range of other problems in stellar astrophysics, core geophysics, and planetary sciences.

Please contact Charlie Doering (doering@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:52:03 -0500 2021-03-19T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
MCAIM Colloquium - Inference for Circadian Pacemaking (March 31, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83216 83216-21320455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Organisms have evolved an internal biological clock which allows them to temporally regulate and organize their physiological and behavioral responses to cope in an optimal way with the fundamentally periodic nature of the environment. It is now well established that the molecular genetics of such rhythms within the cell consist of interwoven transcriptional-translational feedback loops involving about 15 clock genes, which generate circa 24-h oscillations in many cellular functions at cell population or whole organism levels. We will present statistical methods and modelling approaches that address newly emerging large circadian data sets, namely spatio-temporal gene expression in SCN neurons and rest-activity actigraph data obtained from non-invasive e-monitoring, both of which provide unique opportunities for furthering progress in understanding the synchronicity of circadian pacemaking and address implications for monitoring patients in chronotherapeutic healthcare.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:36:41 -0400 2021-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Mathematics Livestream / Virtual Bärbel Finkenstädt Rand, University of Warwick, Department of Statistics