Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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
MCAIM Colloquium - Topological Complexity and Optimization of High Dimensional Random Functions (September 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86534 86534-21634773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Smooth random functions of very many variables can be topologically very complex, and thus it can be terribly hard to find their minimum.One does not need to look very far for such an example: pick at random a homogeneous polynomial of degree p (with p larger than 3) of a large number of variables and restrict it to the (high-dimensional) unit sphere. Important examples of such functions include many Hamiltonians of statistical mechanics in disordered media (as Spin Glasses or Random Interfaces in high disorder). They can also include the loss functions of high dimensional inference problems, and naturally the landscapes defined by Machine Learning.

We will cover some of the recent progress in our understanding of both questions: the statics or geometric question about the topological complexity and the transition to simple landscapes (the so-called topological trivialization), as well as the dynamics and optimization questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:29:44 -0400 2021-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Workshop / Seminar Gérard Ben Arous, The Courant Institute
Saturday Morning Physics | The Physics of Music (October 23, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85678 85678-21628192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Music is a universal language that has the power to influence our moods and inspire. All music is ultimately due to the physics of different kinds of vibrating objects. Professor Aidala will discuss how natural modes of vibration lead to musical tones and timbres.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:58:11 -0400 2021-10-23T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-23T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Saturday Morning Physics Livestream / Virtual Professor Aidala demonstrating sound waves.
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents: (October 28, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88714 88714-21656960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

Unveiling Planet Formation in the Youngest Disks

The recent high-resolution imaging of protoplanetary disks by ALMA has demonstrated that substructures, most frequently in the form of narrow rings and gaps, in disks appear to be ubiquitous by ages of 1-10 Myr. This surprising development suggests that planet formation may begin earlier than previously expected, at times <1 Myr, while star and disk are still in their infancy. In this talk, I will discuss my ongoing work to characterize the state of planet formation in these young disks. This includes, in particular, efforts to study the bulk demographics (such as mass and size) of embedded disks through radiative transfer modeling of a sample of ~100 young disks as a part of the VANDAM: Orion Survey to understand the initial conditions present in disks for planet formation. I will also discuss my work to characterize the substructures present in these young disks that may indicate planet formation could be quite advanced, even in the youngest disks.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:49:06 -0400 2021-10-28T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents: (November 4, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88717 88717-21656966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:51:49 -0400 2021-11-04T15:30:00-04:00 2021-11-04T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents: (November 11, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88718 88718-21656967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:53:59 -0400 2021-11-11T15:30:00-05:00 2021-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents: (November 18, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88719 88719-21656968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:55:29 -0400 2021-11-18T15:30:00-05:00 2021-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents: (December 2, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88720 88720-21656969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:58:45 -0400 2021-12-02T15:30:00-05:00 2021-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents: (December 9, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88721 88721-21656970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 9, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:00:35 -0400 2021-12-09T15:30:00-05:00 2021-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion
MIDAS Seminar Series, ECE, Astronomy , and Women in Computing Co-Present: Katie Bouman, California Institute of Technology (December 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89972 89972-21667215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

As imaging requirements become more demanding, we must rely on increasingly sparse and/or noisy measurements that fail to paint a complete picture. Computational imaging pipelines, which replace optics with computation, have enabled image formation in situations that are impossible for conventional optical imaging. For instance, the first black hole image, published in 2019, was only made possible through the development of computational imaging pipelines that worked alongside an Earth-sized distributed telescope. However, remaining scientific questions motivate us to improve this computational telescope to see black hole phenomena still invisible to us and to meaningfully interpret the collected data. This talk will discuss how we are leveraging and building upon recent advances in machine learning in order to achieve more efficient uncertainty quantification of reconstructed images as well as to develop techniques that allow us to extract the evolving structure of our own Milky Way's black hole over the course of a night.

Katherine L. (Katie) Bouman is a Rosenberg Scholar and an assistant professor in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering, and Astronomy Departments at the California Institute of Technology. Before joining Caltech, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She received her Ph.D. in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT in EECS, and her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:44:32 -0500 2021-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 2021-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Katie Bouman Rosenberg Scholar Assistant Professor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents: (January 20, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91500 91500-21680108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 20, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:09:26 -0500 2022-01-20T15:30:00-05:00 2022-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion