Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Minicolloquium | Understanding Self-Organization of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells (October 23, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78664 78664-20099532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Minicolloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/AxgeZ

Human pluripotent stem cells resemble the cells of the early human embryo and have the potential to differentiate into any cell type of the body. Remarkably, they have an intrinsic ability to self-organize into embryo-like or organ-like structures and will spontaneously form spatial patterns in a dish through interplay of biochemical signaling networks and cell mechanics. Understanding how they do this will both answer fundamental questions about developmental biology and aid countless therapeutic applications. The quantitative toolkit of physics is essential to unravel the mechanisms that underlie the complex spatiotemporal behavior of these cells as they self-organize. I will discuss how quantitative experiments with stem cells have led us to challenge existing models for cell differentiation and pitch a project to explore how physical forces influence cell fate decisions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:15:38 -0400 2020-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Structural Analysis of the Helicobacter pylori Pore-Forming Toxin, VacA (October 23, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77655 77655-19899714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

Dissertation Seminar
Hosted the Dissertation Committee:
Professor Lois Weisman, Chair
Associate Professor Melanie Ohi, Mentor
Assistant Professor Michael Cianfrocco
Assistant Professor Randy Stockbridge

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 24 Sep 2020 07:28:16 -0400 2020-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Livestream / Virtual Amanda Erwin - PhD Candidate
Special Physics Presentation | Science Policy: The View from the Trenches (October 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77753 77753-19909895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Presentation Link: http://myumi.ch/zxWXV

What if you could erase the board and redesign APS lobbying and advocacy from scratch? What issues would you work on, what techniques would you deploy? That’s precisely the position the APS Office of Government Affairs found itself in nearly four years ago. The talk will describe the circumstances APS faced, and how we responded, focusing on particular APS campaigns that successfully pushed back against federal proposals for deep cuts to R&D funding and for a new tax on graduate students. The talk will then consider current issues and how APS is now using the grassroots-based approach it developed to advance legislation on STEM visa-reform and to pass legislation in the House of Representatives to address sexual harassment in STEM.

Bio:
Francis Slakey is the Chief External Affairs Officer of the American Physical Society, overseeing the governmental, international, and industrial activities of APS.

Dr. Slakey received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1992 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and was the Upjohn Lecturer on Science and Public Policy at Georgetown University where he founded the Program on Science in the Public Interest. He served in advisory positions for a diverse set of organizations including the National Geographic, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Panel on Solutions to Sustainability, the Creative Coalition, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a MacArthur Scholar, and a Lemelson Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution.

Dr. Slakey became the 28th American to summit Mt. Everest in an unguided environmental expedition that was the subject of the movie "Beyond the Summit", described in his international best-selling adventure memoir “To The Last Breath.” He is the first person in history to both summit the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean. In recognition of his adventures, as part of the 2002 Olympic Games, he carried the Olympic torch from the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 08:12:32 -0400 2020-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Livestream / Virtual Photo of Francis Slakey
HET Seminar | Feynman Integrals and Intersection Theory (October 23, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77380 77380-19846064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Seminar Link: http://myumi.ch/O4P7E

Singularity structure of scattering amplitudes is as intricate as it is inscrutable. Work in this area over the recent years has been hinting at an existence of a “scalar product” between Feynman integrals, which would tell us how to characterize their analytic behavior. In this talk I will explain how to formulate this notion using the tools of intersection theory as well as review its theoretical and practical applications.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Oct 2020 22:05:17 -0400 2020-10-23T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
RNA Seminar featuring: Aleksandra Filipovska, University of Western Australia (October 26, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75809 75809-19608025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED:https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f8wC8rrJQzuhYzTEXoW69Q

ABSTRACT:Mitochondria produce more than 90% of the energy required by our bodies and thereby have a fundamental role in cell and energy metabolism. Mitochondria are composed of proteins encoded by both the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes and the coordinated expression of both genomes is essential for energy production. Impaired energy production leads to mitochondrial dysfunction that causes or contributes significantly to a variety of diseases including metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Mitochondrial dysfunction is caused by mutations in nuclear or mitochondrial genes that encode proteins or regulatory RNAs essential for mitochondrial biogenesis. How uncoordinated gene expression causes mitochondrial dysfunction and compromised energy production in heart and metabolic diseases is poorly understood, making it difficult to develop effective treatments. To unravel how mitochondrial function fails and to identify therapeutic targets it is necessary (i) to understand how gene expression is regulated between mitochondria and the nucleus and (ii) how this regulation is disrupted in disease. We have created new and unique models of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases caused by mutations or loss of nuclear encoded RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) that regulate mitochondrial RNA metabolism and protein synthesis. These new models have identified that energy dysfunction can differentially affect specific organs such as the heart or liver, or multiple organs leading to heart failure or metabolic diseases that can be devastating, such as mitochondrial diseases, or may be as common as insulin resistance and obesity. I will discuss the mechanisms behind these diverse pathologies caused by impaired gene expression and energy dysfunction in heart and metabolic disease.

KEYWORDS: mitochondria, RNA, ribosomes, translation

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:16:54 -0400 2020-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion photo
Special Joint Seminar - Hosted by DCMB, Department of Mathematics, and the Smale Institute (October 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78673 78673-20099541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Dr. Leland Hartwell won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for the discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.

“We want our students to have an authentic experience of science. Nearly all science activities designed for schools require the students to demonstrate an established scientific principle by getting the right answer. Getting the “right” answer is not authentic science. Science is the exploration of the unknown – the answer cannot be known.“
- Leland Hartwell

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:04:27 -0400 2020-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Dr. Leland Hartwell, Nobel Laureate
Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe (October 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77315 77315-19838096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details

We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and Canada saw upward mobility rates near 50% for recent cohorts, while countries like Norway and Finland saw sustained rates above 70%. Decomposition analysis suggests that differences in the marginal income distributions, especially the amount of cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate that absolute mobility rates can be accurately estimated without linked parent-child data.


BIO:

Robert Manduca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan. His research focuses on the consequences of economic inequality for society, and on the determinants of urban and regional economic development. He received his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University and his Master's in City Planning from MIT.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 13 Oct 2020 11:29:52 -0400 2020-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Brown Bag seminar
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (October 26, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-10-26T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Grad School in the Biosciences - Before, During, and After PhD (October 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78568 78568-20066104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

A Zoom panel from faculty on applying and preparing for grad school, doing thesis research, and finding careers post-degree.

Monday, October 26th, at 3pm.

RSVP here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedKIRGEuiUSu8IA0jPFpEZY7j-lXaOc8Wp_Xv0OJ0VpAo8Rg/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:28:26 -0400 2020-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar FIRST Logo
Corinna Schindler Promotion Seminar (October 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75104 75104-19224388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Organic

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Other Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:15:12 -0400 2020-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Chemistry Other
HEP-Astro Seminar | Neutron Stars as Axion Laboratories (October 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78679 78679-20101506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

The QCD axion is a well-motivated dark matter candidate that may also solve the strong CP problem related to the absence of the neutron electric dipole moment. Multiple experimental efforts are currently racing to try to discover this particle in the laboratory. However, in this talk I will show that astrophysical observations are also a promising path towards detecting the axion and related axion-like-particles, which arise in some String Theory compactifications. I will focus in particular on neutron stars as laboratories for searching for axions, leveraging the strong magnetic fields in these systems. I will discuss two recent neutron star axion searches in my group, one in the radio band and one in the X-ray band, that probe new regions of axion parameter space and perhaps even uncover hints of new physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:15:38 -0400 2020-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (October 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-10-27T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Robert Batey (October 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73809 73809-18322359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Chembio

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Other Mon, 17 Aug 2020 06:15:10 -0400 2020-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
The Role of tRNA Charging Enzymes in Human Inherited Disease - Anthony Antonellis, Ph.D. (October 28, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77799 77799-19931630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2020 CDB Virtual Seminars:
We are pleased to welcome Anthony Antonellis, Ph.D., to present during a virtual seminar on October 28, 2020

Hosted by: Pierre Coulombe, Ph.D.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:56:58 -0400 2020-10-28T09:30:00-04:00 2020-10-28T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Livestream / Virtual The Role of tRNA Charging Enzymes in Human Inherited Disease
"Macrophages in Diabetic Wound Repair" (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78214 78214-19991039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center of Cell Plasticity and Organ Design is proud to present our Transitional Cross Talks series with speakers Katherine A. Gallagher, MD, & Bethany Moore, PhD.

Dr. Gallagher is an Associate Professor of Surgery and an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Moore is a Professor and the Interim Chair of Microbiology & Immunology, the Galen B Toews MD Collegiate Professor of Pulmonary Care & Critical Medicine, and a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

The talk is titled, “Macrophages in Diabetic Wound Repair”.

Moderator: Filip Bednar, MD, PhD, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery

Zoom Information:
Zoom Link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/92442599246

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:47:28 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the Event
DCMB / CCMB Seminar (October 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78528 78528-20058229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) allows researchers to examine the transcriptome at the single-cell resolution and has been increasingly employed as technologies continue to advance. Due to technical and biological reasons unique to scRNA-seq data, clustering and batch effect correction are almost indispensable to ensure valid and powerful data analysis. Multiple methods have been proposed for these two important tasks. For clustering, we have found that different methods, including state-of-the-art methods such as Seurat, SC3, CIDR, SIMLR, t-SNE + k-means, yield varying results in terms of both the number of clusters and actual cluster assignments. We have developed ensemble methods, SAFE-clustering and SAME-clustering, that leverages hyper-graph partitioning algorithms and a mixture model-based approach respectively to produce more robust and accurate ensemble solution on top of clustering results from individual methods. For batch effect correction, we have developed methods based on supervised mutual nearest neighbor detection to harness the power of known cell type labels for certain single cells. We benchmarked all methods in various scRNA-seq datasets to demonstrate their utilities.

Short bio: Yun Li, PhD is an Associate professor of Genetics and Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Li is a statistical geneticist with extensive experiences with method development and application on genotype imputation (developer of MaCH and MaCH-admix), genetic studies of recently admixed population, design and analysis of sequencing-based studies, analyses of multi-omics data including mRNA expression, DNA methylation and chromatin three dimensional organization. Dr. Li has been playing an active role in genetic studies of complex human traits resulting many GWAS and meta-analysis publications, including >30 in Nature, Science, Cell, and Nature Genetics. Dr. Li has been leading multiple R01 projects on statistical method development for complex trait genetics. Dr. Li has also been the Director for the Data Science Core of IDDRC (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center). Dr. Li has received many awards and became the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher due to her high impact scientific work. Specifically, her work has been cited >60,000 times with h-index of 64 and i10-index of 113.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:41:20 -0400 2020-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Yun Li, PhD (Associate Professor of Genetics & Biostatistics; Adjunct Associate Professor, Applied Physical Sciences at School of Medicine, Genetics at University of North Carolina)
Faculty Forum: Innovative STEM Educational Experiences (October 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78294 78294-20050334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

The CEO Team would like to personally invite you to our exciting Faculty Forum on Outreach and Engagement: Innovative STEM Educational Experiences - from Research to Practice!

We will learn from five of our Faculty Fellows about their amazing outreach initiatives in the STEM field and the interconnectedness between research, practice, and student engagement.

The event will open with a Welcome from LSA's Associate Dean Tim McKay. We will follow with Lightning Talks by Rebecca Hasson (Kinesiology), Anouck Girard (Aerospace Engineering), Sarah Koch, Stephen DeBacker, and Yunus Zeytuncu (Math). Our speakers will highlight different approaches and examples of their work, scholarship, and how they are inspiring youth! We will have an opportunity for small group discussions and networking.

This event will take place on October 29 from 2:00 - 3:15 PM via Zoom.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:24:19 -0400 2020-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Educational Outreach Livestream / Virtual Faculty Forum STEM flyer
EEB Virtual Seminar: Genomic approaches into regulatory genetic variation (October 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78619 78619-20075970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Individual genomes carry many DNA sequence variants that alter gene expression. This regulatory variation shapes phenotypic traits within species and can fuel evolutionary change. My laboratory uses the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to answer fundamental questions about regulatory variation. In this seminar, I will present our recent results on the distribution of regulatory variation across the genome, the identity of causal DNA nucleotides that act in cis and in trans, and the genetic basis of variation in protein versus mRNA abundance.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 08:10:11 -0500 2020-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Frank Albert eQTL Circles
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (October 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Minicolloquium | Using Physics to Function: Phases and Fluctuations in Cell Plasma Membranes (October 30, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78914 78914-20154723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Minicolloquium link: http://myumi.ch/AxgeZ

The thermodynamic properties of plasma membrane lipids play a vital role in many functions at the mammalian cell surface. Some functions are thought to occur, at least in part, because plasma membrane lipids have a tendency to separate into two distinct liquid phases. We propose that these lipid mediated functions occur because the plasma membrane is biologically tuned close to a miscibility critical point at physiological temperature. In this talk, I will briefly summarize experimental support for this hypothesis, and discuss ongoing research in the Veatch lab aimed at understanding if and how cells exploit critical phenomena in membranes to accomplish biological functions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:15:33 -0400 2020-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-11-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
HEP-Astro Seminar | First Evidence for Higgs Boson Decay to Muons (November 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77200 77200-19822146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Probing the Higgs boson coupling to the muon is one of the last experimentally accessible frontiers In the direct measurement of Higgs boson couplings at the LHC. This seminar will highlight the first evidence for the rare Higgs boson decay to muons, achieved by the CMS Collaboration using the full dataset collected at 13 TeV during Run-2 of the LHC. This milestone was achieved earlier than expected thanks to the excellent performance of the CMS detector, with high-precision tracking and muon reconstruction systems, and also through the development of novel analysis strategies that include intensive use of machine learning techniques. The first set of measurements of the Higgs boson properties through the muon decay channel is also presented, with the observed signal well consistent with the standard model predictions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 18:15:31 -0500 2020-11-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-11-03T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
"Epithelial Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer" (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78215 78215-19991040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center of Cell Plasticity and Organ Design is proud to present our Translational Cross Talks series with speakers Filip Bednar, MD, PhD, FACS, & Howard Crawford, PhD.

Dr. Bednar is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Crawford is a Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

The talk is entitled, “Epithelial Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer”.

Moderator: Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD, Professor of General Surgery

Zoom Information:
Zoom Link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/92442599246

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:45:03 -0400 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the Event
HET Brown Bag | Detecting terrestrial dark matter traffic jams (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79063 79063-20184347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Subcomponent dark matter having large interactions with the standard model or with itself can accumulate terrestrially over the age of the earth leading to massive build-ups. This thermalized population is too cold to be visible in traditional direct detection. In this talk I outline a few detection strategies including accelerating this slow dark matter with metastable nuclear isomers or with electrostatic accelerators like LUNA. Intriguingly such a terrestrial component could explain the neutron bottle-beam anomaly and can cause anomalous heating in cryogenic detectors.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:52:45 -0500 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
MIPSE Seminar | Quantum Hydrodynamics and Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (November 4, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76466 76466-19717159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The seminar is free and open to the public.
To request the Zoom link, please send an email to:
mipse-central@umich.edu

Abstract:
Matter at extreme pressures, temperatures, and densities characterizes a wide variety of natural and man-made phenomena, including interiors of Jovian size planets, hyper-velocity meteor impacts, the burning core of stars, thermonuclear burning inertial confinement fusion capsules. Matter at these conditions defines the exciting and challenging field of High Energy Density Physics (HEDP). Besides vast experimental resources, there exists a rich set of computational tools that model the micro to macro regimes of HEDP. Recently, there has been a resurgence in interest in using a “simpler” approach to investigating HEDP based on quantum hydrodynamics. Quantum Hydrodynamics (QHD) has a long and interesting history, dating back to the first developments by Madelung and Bohm. In this talk, we discuss the historical and recent developments in QHD, including pitfalls, as applied to quantum many-body systems relevant to HEDP regimes. We will present three different approaches to deriving the QHD equations-Madelung, Bloch, and Wigner and discuss their pros and cons. Finally, the role that Rayleigh-Taylor hydrodynamic instabilities play is discussed within the QHD formalism.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:59:54 -0400 2020-11-04T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-04T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Livestream / Virtual Dr. Frank Graziani
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (November 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78770 78770-20121164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Metabolomics is a powerful approach to characterize small molecules produced in cells, tissues, and other biological systems. Metabolites are direct products of enzymatic reactions and provide a snapshot of cellular activities. Metabolomics-based research has already had a profound impact on biomarker discovery, nutritional analysis, and other biomedical and biological discoveries. The most pressing problem in metabolomics however is identifying compounds in the sample-under-study from the metabolomics measurements. Current analysis tools are capable of annotating only a small portion of sample measurements.

In this talk, we present machine learning solutions to three challenges related to the interpretation of metabolomics data. To mimic the function of a mass spectrometer in generating a mass spectrum, we use graph neural networks to translate a molecular structure into its respective spectral signature. To interpret the biological measurements in the context of the biological sample, we use Bayesan learning to deduce the likelihood of pathway activities. To suggest putative candidate molecules that are biologically relevant matches to the measured spectra, we explore several methods for predicting possible enzymatic products. We discuss several results, highlighting the value of using machine learning for advancing metabolomics analysis.

Short bio: Soha Hassoun is Professor and Past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. Soha received her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University, the Master's degree from MIT, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington in Seattle. Soha’s lab uses Machine Learning to develop analysis and discovery tools for synthetic and systems biology, with a focus on enzyme promiscuity prediction and metabolomics analysis. Soha was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and several technical and service awards from various professional societies. She provided technical leadership for several conferences including ICCAD and DAC. She co-founded the International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation in 2009. Soha serves on the board of the Computing Research Association's Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:33:23 -0400 2020-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
The Hedgehog Concept in Developing Dental Ultrasonography Research (November 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79141 79141-20225568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Hsun-Liang (Albert) Chan, DDS, MS
Clinical Associate Professor
Diplomate, American Board of Periodontology
Assistant Program Director, Periodontics Graduate Program
University of Michigan School of Dentistry

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Class / Instruction Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:06:40 -0500 2020-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Class / Instruction Albert Chan
EEB Virtual Seminar: How walking is a lot like slithering (November 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76575 76575-19727086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Professor Revzen presents this week's seminar

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:38:27 -0400 2020-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual drawing of a red ant on a blue background with yellow, blue and white dots on tips of legs and thorax
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
BME PhD Defense: Zhonghua (Aileen) Ouyang (November 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78398 78398-20022735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Zoom. The link will be provided below.

Zoom: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94734899583?pwd=MDNEMjE3QU5xVGgwZzNQajE4UlJQUT09

Overactive bladder (OAB) is a highly prevalent condition which negatively affects the physical and mental health of millions of people worldwide. Sacral neuromodulation (SNM), currently serving ~300,000 patients worldwide, is a promising third-line therapy that provides improved efficacy and minimum adherence issue compared to conventional treatments. While current SNM is delivered in an open-loop fashion, the therapy could have improved clinical efficacy by adopting a closed-loop stimulation paradigm that uses objective physiological feedback. Therefore, this dissertation work focuses on using sacral level dorsal root ganglia neural signals to provide sensory feedback for adaptive SNM a feline model.

This work began with exploring machine learning algorithms and feature selection methods for bladder pressure decoding. A Kalman filter delivered the highest performance based on correlation coefficient between the pressure measurements and algorithm estimation. Additionally, firing rate normalization significantly contributed to lowering the normalized error, and a correlation coefficient-based channel selection method provided the lowest error compared to other channel selection methods.

Following algorithm optimization, this work implemented the optimized algorithm and feature selection method in real-time in anesthetized healthy and simulated OAB feline models. A 0.88 ± 0.16 correlation coefficient fit was achieved by the decoding algorithm across 35 normal and simulated OAB bladder fills in five experiments. Closed-loop neuromodulation was demonstrated using the estimated pressure to trigger pudendal nerve stimulation, which increased bladder capacity by 40% in two trials.

Finally, closed-loop SNM stimulation with DRG sensory feedback was performed in a series of anesthetized experiments. It increased bladder capacity by 13.8% over no stimulation (p < 0.001). While there was no statistical difference in bladder capacity between closed-loop and continuous stimulation (p = 0.80), closed-loop stimulation reduced stimulation time by 57.7%. Interestingly, bladder single units had a reduced sensitivity during stimulation, suggesting a potential mechanism of SNM.

Overall, this work demonstrated that sacral level DRG are a viable sensory feedback target for adaptive SNM. Validation in awake and chronic experiments is a crucial step prior to clinical translation of this method.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Oct 2020 22:08:12 -0400 2020-11-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
LAGS Seminar | My Private Sector Journey and Activities after Grad' School (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78856 78856-20133191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

After graduating from the University of Michigan, I moved from a traditional academic career path to working in the private sector. There are so many options out there after graduate school, that are worth mentioning. A few projects that I have worked on at my company will be presented. These projects have applications in remote sensing. The pros and cons of working in my company and some of my activities with other organizations will be shared.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:15:32 -0500 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Minicolloquium | Exploring and Engineering New Electronic Behavior in Two-Dimensional Materials (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78773 78773-20123133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Minicolloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/AxgeZ

The electronic properties of most everyday materials can be well understood in the single-particle picture, that of independent electrons interacting with their environment. When interactions between electrons are important, however, the collective and correlated behavior of electrons can be beautiful, complicated, counter-intuitive, and sometimes even useful. I will outline how we can engineer and search for new correlated electronic states starting from ‘Scotch tape exfoliation’ of atomically thin materials (such as graphene) as a basis for new types of devices. Then, I will discuss how my research group plans to use low-temperature electronic transport and spatially-resolved magnetic measurements to uniquely demonstrate the behavior of correlated electrons in 2D materials, highlighting some of my previous work on the fractional quantum Hall effect and superconductivity as concrete examples.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:15:31 -0500 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
HET Seminar | Direct Detection Signals from Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77382 77382-19846065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Seminar link: http://myumi.ch/O4P7E

Absorption of fermionic dark matter leads to a range of distinct and novel signatures at dark matter direct detection and neutrino experiments. We study the possible signals from fermionic absorption by nuclear or electron targets, which we divide into two classes of four Fermi operators: neutral and charged current. In the neutral current signal, dark matter is absorbed by a target nucleus or electron and a neutrino is emitted. For nuclear targets, this results in a characteristically different nuclear recoil energy spectrum from that of elastic scattering. For electron targets, we calculate electron recoil spectra in xenon-based detectors for sub-MeV dark matter. The charged current channel is specific to nuclear targets and leads to induced beta decays in isotopes which are stable in vacuum as well as shifts of the kinematic endpoint of beta spectra in unstable isotopes. Last, we present UV completions of the four Fermi operators which give rise to these signals and study the prospects of seeing an absorption signal in light of other constraints, such as dark matter decays and mediator searches.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:23:29 -0400 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Writing Graduate School Application Statements (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78947 78947-20160622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

What to include/avoid and how to frame your story while writing academic and personal statements for research-based grad programs.

RSVP: https://forms.gle/No9TpCrotxxuPk1B8

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:39:48 -0400 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 9, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-11-09T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
HEP-Astro Seminar | The Higgs Decay to Two Muons and Other Results From the ATLAS Dilepton Spectra (November 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79147 79147-20217701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Collisions of protons at the LHC that produce pairs of leptons offer a unique window into the dynamics and interactions of fundamental particles. This seminar will present two recent results based on data from such collisions that was recorded by the ATLAS experiment. First, is the search for the Higgs boson decaying to two muons. This Standard Model process is the only available opportunity to study the Higgs coupling to a second generation fermion. Second, is a search for new physics beyond the Standard Model that may produce non-resonant features in the dilepton mass spectra. Such an effect would be present if fermions are composed of smaller component particles. Both studies make use of new experimental and statistical techniques that improve their sensitivity and reliability.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:15:30 -0500 2020-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
EEB student evaluation seminar: The effects of management interventions and large carnivore declines on predator-prey interactions in coupled human-natural systems (November 10, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77622 77622-19891785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Kirby presents her preliminary seminar.
Check your email or contact eeb.gradcoord@umich.edu for the passcode.

Image: Wikimedia Commons by Benh LIEU SONG

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 07 Nov 2020 13:29:35 -0500 2020-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Portrait of three lions (one female and two males) of a pride, all resting at morning time. Taken in Masai Mara, southwest Kenya. Image: Wikimedia Commons by Benh LIEU SONG
U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020 (November 10, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75640 75640-19552851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Fully virtual. November 10th-11th

Keynote Speakers:
CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO
Assistant Professor, Urban Science & Planning
Director, Data + Feminism Lab
Department of Urban Studies & Planning, MIT

LAUREN KLEIN
Associate Professor, English, Quantitative Theory and Methods
Emory University

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) invites submission of 1) abstracts for presentations and 2) proposals for workshops, for the 2020 U-M Data Science Symposium.

As the focal point of data science at U-M, MIDAS facilitates the work of the broad U-M data science community, advances cross-cutting data science methodologies and applications, promotes the use of data science to benefit society, builds data science training pipelines, and develops partnerships with industry, academia and community. The annual symposium showcases the breadth and depth of U-M data science, shares research ideas that will lead to the next breakthroughs, and builds collaboration.

Presentations at the symposium should cover one or more of the following areas of data science:

Theoretical foundations
Methodology and tools
Real-world application in any domain
The ethics and societal impact of data science
Emerging areas of data science
WE INVITE SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING:
1. Proposals for mini-workshops. New this year, the symposium will include 3-5 mini-workshops on the afternoon of Nov. 10 as parallel sessions. Each workshop will be two hours long and for 50-100 attendees. They can be research discussion sessions, tutorials or hack sessions. Proposals should include the theme, format, organizer and potential presenters, as well as how the proposed mini-workshop brings out the strengths across multiple U-M research units and its benefit to U-M data science research and/or to the larger community. If your theme is selected, the symposium program committee will discuss with you further to help finalize the plan, and MIDAS will provide logistics support.

Some examples of possible themes: Mobilizing data science for crisis response; Data preparation for multi-party computing; Introduction of data science to attendees from non-profit organizations; Data science for wearables/mobile health.

If you would like to discuss your mini-workshop idea with the symposium committee before submission, please email Jing Liu, MIDAS Managing Director (ljing@umich.edu),

2. Abstracts for Research Talks (20 minutes including Q&A). The talks should discuss exciting research ideas, provide vision and context for challenging data science questions, stimulate discussions, and lay out collaboration opportunities. These talks should not simply be technical reports of projects.

3. Abstracts for Posters. The Posters can be used as technical reports of projects. Posters with students as first authors will be automatically entered in the poster competition.

DEADLINES:
Mini-workshop proposal submission: 11:59 pm, July 31, 2020; notification: Aug. 14, 2020
Talks and posters abstract submission: 11:59 pm, Sept. 18, 2020; notification: Oct. 9, 2020

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
At least one author/presenter should have a U-M affiliation.
Please do not include figures, tables or bibliography in the abstract.
To submit proposals for mini-workshops:
Please include a title, list of organizers/potential presenters and their affiliations.
The main body of the submission should be no more than 300 words.
Please include the theme, format, how it features the strengths from multiple U-M research units, and its impact.
To submit abstracts for research talks and posters:
Please include a title, list of authors/presenters and their affiliations.
The main body of the submission should be no more than 300 words.
For research talks, please include a brief summary of the research idea and its context, potential methods and impact, and how it can benefit from collaboration.
For posters, please include a brief summary of the research, methods, main results and impact.
For questions, please contact midas-research@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:29:30 -0400 2020-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
The Testing Paradox for COVID-19 (November 10, 2020 10:10am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79203 79203-20231444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:10am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Reported case-counts for coronavirus are wrinkled with data errors, namely misclassification of the tests and selection bias associated with who got tested. The number of covert or unascertained infections is large across the world. How can one determine optimal testing strategies with such imperfect data? In this talk, we propose an optimization algorithm for allocating diagnostic/surveillance tests when your objective is estimating the true population prevalence or detecting an outbreak. Infectious disease models and survey sampling techniques are used jointly to come up with these strategies

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:29:08 -0500 2020-11-10T10:10:00-05:00 2020-11-10T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Professor Bhramar Muherjee
Computational Neuroscience, Time Complexity, and Spacetime Analytics (November 10, 2020 11:10am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79206 79206-20231447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:10am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

The proliferation of digital information in all human experiences presents difficult challenges and offers unique opportunities of managing, modeling, analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing heterogeneous data. There is a substantial need to develop, validate, productize, and support novel mathematical techniques, advanced statistical computing algorithms, transdisciplinary tools, and effective artificial intelligence apps.

Spacekime analytics is a new technique for modeling high-dimensional longitudinal data, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This approach relies on extending the notions of time, events, particles, and wave functions to complex-time (kime), complex-events (kevents), data and inference-functions, respectively. This talk will illustrate how the kime-magnitude (longitudinal time order) and kime-direction (phase) affect the subsequent predictive analytics and the induced scientific inference. The mathematical foundation of spacekime calculus reveals various statistical implications including inferential uncertainty and a Bayesian formulation of spacekime analytics. Complexifying time allows the lifting of all commonly observed processes from the classical 4D Minkowski spacetime to a 5D spacetime manifold, where a number of interesting mathematical problems arise.

Spacekime analytics transforms time-varying data, such as time-series observations, into higher-dimensional manifolds representing complex-valued and kime-indexed surfaces (kime-surfaces). This process uncovers some of the intricate structure in high-dimensional data that may be intractable in the classical space-time representation of the data. In addition, the spacekime representation facilitates the development of innovative data science analytical methods for model-based and model-free scientific inference, derived computed phenotyping, and statistical forecasting. Direct neuroscience science applications of spacekime analytics will be demonstrated using simulated data and clinical observations (e.g., UK Biobank).

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:57:23 -0500 2020-11-10T11:10:00-05:00 2020-11-10T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Professor Ivo Dinov
Of Moms and Microbes: Pregnancy and the Microbiome (November 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79039 79039-20178452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Kimberly McKee, PhD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the UM Medical School will present a seminar, with Q&A, on "Of Moms and Microbes: Pregnancy and the Microbiome".

ZOOM link:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/97328685723

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:13:13 -0400 2020-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Environmental Research Seminar
Agent-Based Modeling and Systemic Racism (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79217 79217-20231458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

In this workshop, participants will gain a better understanding of systemic bias and how algorithms may continue to promote inequity. Participants will learn about agent based methods, a tool which can be used to examine algorithmic fairness. There will be opportunities to brainstorm ideas for new research projects within the participants’ fields.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:39:43 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Scrubbing and Cleaning of Sensitive Data (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79223 79223-20231463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Before analysis, data must be retrieved, scrubbed of identifiable information, cleaned (e.g., addressed missing data, reshaped appropriately), and delivered. Using biomedical and transportation datasets as examples of how this generalizable process works, this workshop will walk attendees through a real-world pipeline used to process and deliver datasets. Documentation and code will be made available through GitLab to allow for coding along with the demonstration. As a result of this workshop, attendees will leave with a practical template for implementing their own a data science pipeline.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:57:27 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Stitching Together the Fabric of 21st Century Social Science (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79225 79225-20231464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Today’s pressing questions of social science and public policy demand an unprecedented degree of data scope and integration as we recognize the cross-cutting dynamics of economics, political science, sociology, demography, and psychology. This panel features four UM researchers who are pushing the frontier of data construction and linkage in coordination with partners at the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:01:06 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Funded Summer Research! (November 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78017 78017-19955538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

REGISTER: https://myumi.ch/bvnN2

Attend this session to explore fully-funded summer research programs available to U-M undergraduates! Examples include the Amgen Scholars Program, NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates, DAAD Research Internships in Science & Engineering, and more!

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/summer-programs.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:07:18 -0400 2020-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual Microscope
Kevin Welsher (November 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75946 75946-19627781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

The biochemical environment of the cellular interior is extremely complex and plays a large role in the function of all biomolecules necessary to life. In this talk, I will describe two ways our group is trying to understand how the cellular environment affects biomolecule function using single molecule and biophysical tools. In the first part, I will discuss how single molecule studies have been impeded by the rapid 3D diffusion of single molecules in live cells, precluding long-duration and high-temporal resolution measurement. To overcome this hurdle, we have developed 3D single-molecule active real-time tracking (3D-SMART) which enables active feedback tracking of rapidly diffusing and lowly emitting fluorescent particles, from single virus-like particles and quantum dots in water, all the way down to single proteins and nucleic acids in viscous solution. 3D-SMART represents a new path toward high resolution single molecule spectroscopy on untethered molecules. In the second half of the talk, I will discuss our efforts to study the structure of the cytoplasm itself, starting with intracellular water. Despite its fundamental nature, direct visualization of subcellular solvation heterogeneity has remained elusive. To explore this question, we have demonstrated a vibrational-shift imaging approach to probe solvation at the microscopic level by combining spectral-focusing hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering (hsSRS) with an environmentally-sensitive nitrile probe. When applied to quantitatively measure the spatial variation of solvation in live cells, this new method reveals significantly reduced solvation in the cytoplasm compared to the nuclear compartment and bulk water! This work sheds light on heterogenous solvation at the subcellular level and opens up new avenues to explore solvation variance in complex systems.
Kevin Welsher (Duke University)

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Other Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:15:09 -0500 2020-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Chemistry Other
Using the craniofacial complex to explore mechanisms of Hedgehog signal transduction (November 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78433 78433-20044396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Samantha A. Brugmann, Ph.D to a Virtual Seminar on November 10, 2020.

Hosted by:
Ben Allen, PhD, Associate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
& The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:31:59 -0400 2020-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Livestream / Virtual Using the craniofacial complex to explore mechanisms of Hedgehog signal transduction
Novel Tools to Increase the Reliability and Reproducibility of Population Genetics Research (November 11, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79208 79208-20231449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Advances in population genetic research have the potential to create numerous important advances in the science of population dynamics. The interplay of micro-level biology and macro-level social sciences documents gene–environment–phenotype interactions and allows us to examine how genetics relates to child health and wellbeing. However, traditional genetics research is based on nonrepresentative samples that deviate from the target population, such as convenience and volunteer samples. This lack of representativeness may distort association studies. Recent findings have provoked concern about misinterpretation, irreproducibility and lack of generalizability, exemplifying the need to leverage survey research with genetics for population-based research. This project is motivated by the research team’s collaborative work on the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing Study and the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, which present these common problems in population genetics studies, to advance the integration of genetic science into population dynamics research. The project will evaluate sample selection effects, identify population heterogeneity in polygenic score analysis, and develop strategies to adjust for selection bias in the association studies of educational attainment, cognition status and substance use for child health and wellbeing. This interdisciplinary project will strengthen the validity and generalizability of population genetics research, deepen new understandings of human behavior and facilitate advances in population science.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:08:06 -0500 2020-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T09:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Yajuan Si
U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020 (November 11, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75640 75640-19552852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Fully virtual. November 10th-11th

Keynote Speakers:
CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO
Assistant Professor, Urban Science & Planning
Director, Data + Feminism Lab
Department of Urban Studies & Planning, MIT

LAUREN KLEIN
Associate Professor, English, Quantitative Theory and Methods
Emory University

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) invites submission of 1) abstracts for presentations and 2) proposals for workshops, for the 2020 U-M Data Science Symposium.

As the focal point of data science at U-M, MIDAS facilitates the work of the broad U-M data science community, advances cross-cutting data science methodologies and applications, promotes the use of data science to benefit society, builds data science training pipelines, and develops partnerships with industry, academia and community. The annual symposium showcases the breadth and depth of U-M data science, shares research ideas that will lead to the next breakthroughs, and builds collaboration.

Presentations at the symposium should cover one or more of the following areas of data science:

Theoretical foundations
Methodology and tools
Real-world application in any domain
The ethics and societal impact of data science
Emerging areas of data science
WE INVITE SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING:
1. Proposals for mini-workshops. New this year, the symposium will include 3-5 mini-workshops on the afternoon of Nov. 10 as parallel sessions. Each workshop will be two hours long and for 50-100 attendees. They can be research discussion sessions, tutorials or hack sessions. Proposals should include the theme, format, organizer and potential presenters, as well as how the proposed mini-workshop brings out the strengths across multiple U-M research units and its benefit to U-M data science research and/or to the larger community. If your theme is selected, the symposium program committee will discuss with you further to help finalize the plan, and MIDAS will provide logistics support.

Some examples of possible themes: Mobilizing data science for crisis response; Data preparation for multi-party computing; Introduction of data science to attendees from non-profit organizations; Data science for wearables/mobile health.

If you would like to discuss your mini-workshop idea with the symposium committee before submission, please email Jing Liu, MIDAS Managing Director (ljing@umich.edu),

2. Abstracts for Research Talks (20 minutes including Q&A). The talks should discuss exciting research ideas, provide vision and context for challenging data science questions, stimulate discussions, and lay out collaboration opportunities. These talks should not simply be technical reports of projects.

3. Abstracts for Posters. The Posters can be used as technical reports of projects. Posters with students as first authors will be automatically entered in the poster competition.

DEADLINES:
Mini-workshop proposal submission: 11:59 pm, July 31, 2020; notification: Aug. 14, 2020
Talks and posters abstract submission: 11:59 pm, Sept. 18, 2020; notification: Oct. 9, 2020

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
At least one author/presenter should have a U-M affiliation.
Please do not include figures, tables or bibliography in the abstract.
To submit proposals for mini-workshops:
Please include a title, list of organizers/potential presenters and their affiliations.
The main body of the submission should be no more than 300 words.
Please include the theme, format, how it features the strengths from multiple U-M research units, and its impact.
To submit abstracts for research talks and posters:
Please include a title, list of authors/presenters and their affiliations.
The main body of the submission should be no more than 300 words.
For research talks, please include a brief summary of the research idea and its context, potential methods and impact, and how it can benefit from collaboration.
For posters, please include a brief summary of the research, methods, main results and impact.
For questions, please contact midas-research@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:29:30 -0400 2020-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020
Sexually dimorphic expression and function of the melanocortin-3 receptor (November 11, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78706 78706-20107396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Roger D. Cone, Ph.D., to present during a virtual seminar on November 11, 2020.

Hosted by: Doug Engel, Ph.D.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:29:47 -0400 2020-11-11T09:30:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Livestream / Virtual Sexually dimorphic expression and function of the melanocortin-3 receptor - Roger D. Cone, Ph.D.
Machine learning-guided equations for the on-demand prediction of natural gas storage capacities of materials for vehicular applications (November 11, 2020 9:40am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79212 79212-20231453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:40am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Transportation is responsible for nearly one-third of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emission because of burning fossil fuel. While we dream for zero-carbon vehicles, future projections suggest little decline in fossil fuel consumption by the transportation sector until 2050. Therefore, ‘bending the curve’ of CO2 emission prompts the adoption of low-cost and reduced-emission alternative fuels. Natural gas (NG), the most abundant fossil fuel on earth, is such an alternative with nearly 25% lower carbon footprint and lower price compared to its gasoline counterpart. However, the widespread adoption of natural gas as a vehicular fuel is hindered by the scarcity of high-capacity, light-weight, low-cost, and safe storage systems. Recently, materials-based natural gas storage for vehicular applications have become one of the most viable options. Especially, nanoporous materials (NPMs) are in the spotlight of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) because of their exceptional energy storage capacities. However, the number of such NPMs is nearly infinite. It is unknown, a priori, which materials would have the expected natural gas storage capacity. Therefore, searching a high-performing material is like ‘finding a needle in a haystack’ that slows down the speed of materials discovery against growing technological demand. Here we present a novel approach of developing machine learning-guided equations for the on-demand prediction of energy storage capacities of NPMs using a few physically meaningful structural properties. These equations provide users the ability to calculate energy storage capacity of an arbitrary NPM rapidly using only paper and pencil. We show the utility of these equations by predicting NG storage of over 500,000 covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), a class of NPMs. We discovered a COF with record-setting NG storage capacity, surpassing the unmet target set by DOE. In principle, the data-driven approach presented here might be relevant to other disciplines including science, engineering, and health care.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:22:47 -0500 2020-11-11T09:40:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Alauddin Ahmed
Fusing Computer Vision And Space Weather Modeling (November 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79214 79214-20231455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Space weather has impacts on Earth ranging from rare, immensely disruptive events (e.g., electrical blackouts caused by solar flares and coronal mass ejections) to more frequent impacts (e.g., satellite GPS interference from fluctuations in the Earth’s ionosphere caused by rapid variations in the solar extreme UV emission). Earth-impacting events are driven by changes in the Sun’s magnetic field; we now have myriad instruments capturing petabytes worth of images of the Sun at a variety of wavelengths, resolutions, and vantage points. These data present opportunities for learning-based computer vision since the massive, well-calibrated image archive is often accompanied by physical models. This talk will describe some of the work that we have been doing to start integrating computer vision and space physics by learning mappings from one image or representation of the Sun to another. I will center the talk on a new system we have developed that emulates parts of the data processing pipeline of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (SDO/HMI). This pipeline produces data products that help study and serve as boundary conditions for solar models of the energetic events alluded to above. Our deep-learning-based system emulates a key component hundreds of times faster than the current method, potentially opening doors to new applications in near-real-time space weather modeling. In keeping with the goals of the symposium, however, I will focus on some of the benefits close collaboration has enabled in terms of understanding how to frame the problem, measure success of the model, and even set up the deep network.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:27:08 -0500 2020-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation David Fouhey
Decoding the Environment of Most Energetic Sources in the Universe (November 11, 2020 10:20am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79215 79215-20231456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 10:20am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Astrophysics has always been at the forefront of data analysis. It has led to advancements in image processing and numerical simulations. The coming decade is bringing qualitatively new and larger datasets than ever before. The next generation of observational facilities will produce an explosion in the quantity and quality of data for the most distant sources, such as the first galaxies and first quasars. Quasars are the most energetic objects in the universe, reaching luminosity up to 10^14 that of the Sun. Their emission is powered by giant black holes that convert matter into energy according to the famous Einstein’s equation E = mc^2. The largest progress will occur in quasar spectroscopy. Detailed measurements of spectrum of quasar light, as it is being emitted near the central black hole and partially absorbed by clouds of gas on the way to the observer on Earth, allows for a particularly powerful probe of quasar environment. Because spectra of different chemical elements are unique, spectroscopy allows to study not only the overall properties of matter such as density and temperature, but also the detailed chemical composition of the intervening matter. However, the interpretation of these spectra is made very challenging by the many sources contributing to the absorption of light. In order to take a full advantage of this new window into the nature of supermassive black holes we need detailed theoretical understanding of the origin of quasar spectral features. In a MIDAS PODS project we are applying machine learning to model and extract such features. We are training the models using data from the state-of-the-art numerical simulations of the early universe. This approach is fundamentally different from traditional astronomical data analysis. We have only started learning what information can be extracted and still looking for a new framework to interpret these data.

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Performance Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:31:24 -0500 2020-11-11T10:20:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:40:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Performance Oleg Gnedin
HET Brown Bag Seminar | UV/IR Mixing and the Hierarchy Problem (November 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79274 79274-20262820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The persistence of the hierarchy problem points to a violation of effective field theory expectations. A compelling possibility is that this results from a physical violation of EFT, which may arise from correlations between UV and IR physics—as is broadly demanded by gravity. I will discuss Noncommutative Field Theory as a toy model of UV/IR mixing, where an emergent infrared scale is generated from ultraviolet dynamics. I’ll explore a variety of such theories to develop a picture of how this feature appears, and to glean lessons to guide the realization of UV/IR mixing in more realistic theories.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:23:52 -0500 2020-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (November 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79286 79286-20264787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: There is a growing understanding that stress and depression during the process of training to become physicians is high. In this talk, we will discuss how we have used mobile and wearable data as well as genomics to understand the prevalence in the US and China, drivers and possible solutions about training physician depression and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected them in the two countries.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:13:58 -0500 2020-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Drs. Margit Burmeister and Srijan Sen
Department Colloquium | Small Galaxies, Big Science: Fundamental Physics from the Faintest Galaxies (November 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79309 79309-20272769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Department Colloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/GkgBm

The existence of dark matter, which makes up roughly 85% of the matter in the Universe, indicates a critical gap in our understanding of fundamental physics. To date, we have been unable to directly detect or produce this mysterious substance in terrestrial laboratories. However, we have learned an enormous amount about dark matter from astronomical observations. In particular, the smallest, faintest, and most dark-matter-dominated galaxies have proven to be exceptional laboratories for studying the fundamental properties of dark matter. Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by dozens of these ultra-faint "dwarf" galaxies, which have only recently been discovered thanks to the unprecedented sensitivity of digital sky surveys. As telescopes grow larger and more powerful, we continue to find fainter, more distant, and more dark-matter-dominated galaxies inhabiting our "cosmic backyard". I will describe recent advances in searches for the faintest galaxies, and how observations of our tiny galactic neighbors can help address one of the foremost open questions in physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:15:31 -0500 2020-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
A New Perspective on Amelogenesis and Dental Diagnoses (November 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79191 79191-20225570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

James P. Simmer, DDS, PhD Professor of Dentistry
Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics
University of Michigan School of Dentistry

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:24:08 -0500 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Simmer
Reflections on Learning to Improve: Foundational Ideas, Observations from Practice, and Building a Field (November 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78908 78908-20152763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

While the LHS Collaboratory is typically focused on learning health, learning systems actually have very broad applicability. Moreover, there has been a strong interest in the Collaboratory from the education community which is also focused on learning systems.

A thought leader in this area, Anthony S. Bryk, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will be speaking about a set of critical observations acquired in the course of his own efforts to improve how large complex educational systems work.

Discussants:

Elizabeth Birr Moje, Dean,
George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Education,
and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor School of Education
Faculty Associate in the Institute for Social Research; Latino/a
Studies; and the Joint Program in English & Education
University of Michigan

Caren M. Stalburg, MD, MA
Collaborative Lead for Education
Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director of HILS Online Masters
University of Michigan

Moderator:

Donald J. Peurach, PhD
Professor
University of Michigan School of Education
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:41:04 -0400 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
EEB Virtual Seminar: Algal microbiomes alter competitive interactions between their hosts (November 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79098 79098-20207879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Phytoplankton communities are responsible for half of Earth’s net primary productivity and their community composition is a regulator of many biogeochemical cycles and food web dynamics. Bacteria associated with phytoplankton have been shown to affect host fitness, either negatively or positively, but how these associated microbiomes influence phytoplankton interspecific interactions and coexistence remains untested. We carried out a series of experiments using both eukaryotic green algae as well as the harmful bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa to test whether microbiomes alter the strength of interactions among their hosts. Specifically, we tested whether microbiomes altered the sensitivity of its host to compete with an established species by performing competition assays between hosts grown either without or with associated bacteria. Among eukaryotic green algae, we found that host microbiomes reduced the sensitivity of phytoplankton to interspecific competition in half of all pairwise comparisons tested. Although microbiomes changed the magnitude of interspecific interactions, bacteria did not fundamentally alter the type of host ecological interaction observed (i.e., competition vs. facilitation). For competition between M. aeruginosa and green algae, we found that host-associated bacteria increased population densities of M. aeruginosa when competing with an established green algal culture. Conversely, when M. aeruginosa was dominant, green algae were only able to grow in the absence of host-associated bacteria. Our results suggest a sizable role of host-associated bacteria in the competitive and facilitative interactions that control phytoplankton biodiversity and community composition, including their importance in the establishment and persistence of freshwater cyanobacterial blooms.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:11:18 -0500 2020-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Denef seminar microbiomes
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
From better health to improved lethality: Controlling crystallization of pharmaceuticals and explosives (November 12, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78456 78456-20046388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Crystalline materials play a pivotal role in a broad range of technologies that are central to a modern society. Crystalline silicon enabled the computer revolution, for example, and studies of protein crystals have advanced our current understanding of human disease. I will discuss our work with the crystallization of small organic molecules with particular emphasis on how controlling crystallization can create better therapeutics and more powerful energetic materials. Much of the work hinges on the approach of manipulating multicomponent crystallization and several of the unique properties of crystallization relative to other synthetic techniques.
Adam Matzger

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Other Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:15:09 -0500 2020-11-12T16:30:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Chemistry Other
Minicolloquium | Cosmology in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy With Gravitational Waves (November 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79310 79310-20272770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Minicolloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/AxgeZ

Motivated by the exciting prospect of a new wealth of information arising from the first observations of gravitational and electromagnetic radiation from the same astrophysical phenomena, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has established a search and discovery program for the optical transients associated with LIGO/Virgo events (DESGW). Using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), DESGW has contributed to the discovery of the optical transient associated with the neutron star merger GW170817, and produced the first cosmological measurements using gravitational wave events as standard sirens. After three successful observing campaigns, I present, in this talk, an overview of our results and their implications for the emerging field of multi-messenger cosmology with gravitational waves and optical data.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Clinical Simulation Center Brown Bag Series (November 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79218 79218-20231461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

This talk will cover the basic elements of using simulation for non-technical skills. We will review some validated frameworks for assessing these “soft” skills, including NOTSS (Nontechnical Skills for Surgeons) and ANTS (Anaesthetistis’ Non-technical Skills), discuss unique concerns regarding writing learning objectives for these skills, and review some recently completed non-technical simulations from the Department of Surgery.

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Meeting Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:14:45 -0500 2020-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Meeting Laura Mazer, MD MHPE
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
HEP-Astro Seminar | Generic Objects of Dark Energy (GEODEs): Implications for Black Hole Evolution and Cosmology (November 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79229 79229-20233424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Resolution of the averaging ambiguity in Friedmann cosmology has revealed that the interiors of ultrarelativistic objects are tightly coupled to cosmological dynamics. General relativity now predicts that measurable energy shifts, like the well-known photon redshift, occur in all material with equation of state magnitude greater than 0.01. Objects that mimic classical black holes, but contain dark energy interiors (GEODEs), can undergo a pronounced cosmological blueshift. In particular, each member of a GEODE population can gain energy proportional to the physical volume of the universe, while the population itself disperses in volume with the cosmological expansion.The resulting physical dark energy density is constant in time, mimicking a cosmological constant. Assuming that stellar collapse remnants realized by Nature are actually GEODEs, we discuss the implications for quasar masses at high redshift and the black hole mass function as measured by LIGO at low redshift.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:15:23 -0500 2020-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
RNA Seminar featuring: Michelle Hastings, Professor, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (November 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75868 75868-19615934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VWX5SY6lSiaNyh5Weh8cHw

Michelle L. Hastings, PhD
Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy
Director, Center for Genetic Diseases
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

ABSTRACT: Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) have proven to be an effective therapeutic platform for the treatment of disease. These short, single-stranded, modified nucleotides function by base-pairing with the complementary sequence of an RNA and modulating gene expression in a manner that is dependent on the ASO design and targeting site. We have used ASOs to normalize aberrant gene expression associated with a number of diseases of the nervous system including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and Usher syndrome. One of our approaches is under development for the treatment of CLN3 Batten disease, a fatal, pediatric lysosomal storage disease caused by mutations in a gene encoding the lysosomal membrane protein CLN3. The most common mutation associated with CLN3 Batten is a deletion of exons 7 and 8 (CLN3Δex78), which disrupts the mRNA open reading frame by creating a premature termination codon that results in the production of a truncated protein. We devised a therapeutic strategy for treating CLN3 Batten Disease using an ASO that basepairs to CLN3 pre-mRNA and alters splicing to correct the open reading frame of the mutated transcript. Treatment of CLN3Δex78 neonatal mice by intracerebroventricular injection of the ASO resulted in the desired splicing effect throughout the central nervous system, improved motor deficits associated with the disease in mice, reduced histopathological features of the disease in the brain and extended life in a severe mouse model of the disease. Our results demonstrate that ASO-mediated reading frame correction is a promising therapeutic approach for CLN3 Batten disease.

KEYWORDS: pre-mRNA splicing, Antisense oligonucleotides, Usher syndrome, Batten Disease, lysosomal storage diseases

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:31:00 -0400 2020-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion photo
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 -- Pandemic Update: Vaccines, Testing and Treatments (November 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75656 75656-19552876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

In her follow-up to her talk to OLLI in May, Dr. Martin will explore what we’ve learned during the first nine months of the COVID-19 epidemic and how recent scientific advances have impacted the vaccine and antiviral landscape.

Dr. Emily Toth Martin is on the faculty of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on building a greater understanding of the epidemiology of viral respiratory diseases (including RSV, bocavirus, and influenza) through the use of molecular epidemiology. In particular, her work aims to identify strategies to reduce infections, particularly in individuals with chronic comorbidities and in hospital infectious environments (including MRSA / VRE coinfection).

Zoom Link to join this programming:
https:// umich.zoom.us/j/95090096277
Webinar ID: 95090096277

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Class / Instruction Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:22:52 -0400 2020-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Urgent and Critical Lectures
Deploying CV2X Infrastructure - CCAT Research Review (November 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78766 78766-20121156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The final CCAT Research Review of 2020 will feature Associate Professor, Gabor Orosz, of the University of Michigan.

The focus of this research is the deployment of connected smart infrastructure on highway I-275 in SE Michigan. Researchers will collect and aggregate traffic information that can be used by connected vehicles traveling the corridor to improve their efficiency. The system consists of a set of road side units (RSU) which collect traffic data via vehicle-to-everything (CV2X) communication. Vehicles of different levels of automation may utilize the collected data when selecting their lane and controlling their longitudinal motion in order to maximize their fuel economy and minimize their travel time. The impact of these vehicles on the rest of the traffic flow is also being evaluated.

About the speaker: Gabor Orosz received the MSc degree in Engineering Physics from the Budapest University of Technology, Hungary, in 2002 and the PhD degree in Engineering Mathematics from the University of Bristol, UK, in 2006. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Exeter, UK and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2010, he joined the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he is currently an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and in Civil and Environmental Engineering. During 2017-2018 he was a Visiting Professor in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics and control, time delay systems, and reinforcement learning with applications to connected and automated vehicles, traffic flow, and biological networks. He served as the Program Chair of the 2015 IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems and served as the General Chair of the 2019 IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles: Connected and Automated Vehicles. Since 2018 he has been serving as an editor for the journal Transportation Research Part C.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:09:41 -0400 2020-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
11th MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium (November 17, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78525 78525-20058225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The 11th Annual MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium will be held virtually on November 17 and 18, 2020. The Symposium will be an opportunity for all U-M and MSU students involved in plasma research and, in particular, students pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Plasma Science and Engineering, to present the results of their investigations, learn about the research of their fellow students, and network with MIPSE faculty and staff. All MIPSE students are encouraged to participate in the Symposium. All presentations will be considered for the Best Presentation Award, co-sponsored by KLA.

More information:
https://mipse.umich.edu/symposium_2020.php

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:01:16 -0400 2020-11-17T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Conference / Symposium MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium 2019
"Role of Hypoxia in Pancreatic Tumorigenesis" (November 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79321 79321-20272779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design is pleased to present Kyoung Eun Lee, PhD, as part of the 2020 Virtual Seminar Series!

Dr. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan.

The talk is entitled, “Role of Hypoxia in Pancreatic Tumorigenesis”.

Faculty Host: Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD, Professor, General Surgery

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:19:47 -0500 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the Event
Graduate Program Admissions Open House (November 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79292 79292-20264794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Meet our faculty and students and learn about our program.
Breakout rooms to explore your interests in:
--cell biology
--development and gene regulation
--microbiology
--neurobiology

We offer:
- Funding [tuition, stipend, health care]
- Waivers for application fees available.
- No GRE required

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Reception / Open House Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:58:44 -0500 2020-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Reception / Open House MCDB and microscope on blue background
EEB student evaluation seminar: What drives the production of invertebrate communities in seagrass beds? (November 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79256 79256-20241310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Samantha presents her preliminary seminar. See your email or contact eeb.gradcoord@umich.edu for the passcode.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:33:49 -0500 2020-11-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Queen conch NOAA open access
11th MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium (November 18, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78525 78525-20058226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The 11th Annual MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium will be held virtually on November 17 and 18, 2020. The Symposium will be an opportunity for all U-M and MSU students involved in plasma research and, in particular, students pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Plasma Science and Engineering, to present the results of their investigations, learn about the research of their fellow students, and network with MIPSE faculty and staff. All MIPSE students are encouraged to participate in the Symposium. All presentations will be considered for the Best Presentation Award, co-sponsored by KLA.

More information:
https://mipse.umich.edu/symposium_2020.php

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:01:16 -0400 2020-11-18T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Conference / Symposium MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium 2019
MIPSE Seminar | Lasers, Z Pinches, and Nuclear Weapons: The Importance of Plasma Physics to the NNSA (November 18, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76470 76470-19717163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The seminar is free and open to the public.
To request the Zoom link, please send an email to:
mipse-central@umich.edu

About the Speaker:
Dr. Sarah Nelson, a nuclear and radiochemist, is Deputy Director of the Office of Experimental Science for the NNSA Office of Defense Programs. Sarah earned her BS from U. California Santa Barbara and doctorate from U. California Berkeley studying odd-Z transactinide compound nucleus reactions including the discovery of the new isotope 260Bh. Prior to joining NNSA, Sarah was the Roger Batzel Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in nuclear chemistry diagnostic development for NIF and analysis of nuclear systems for domestic counterterrorism applications, co-discovering 14 new transactinide isotopes. Sarah also was selected as a Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellow of The National Academies in 2012. Prior to NNSA, Sarah was also with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on assignment with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. She has received numerous awards including the DTRA/US STRATCOM Center for Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction Director’s Award, LLNL’s Excellence in Publication Award in Basic Science, and the Gordon Battelle Prize for Scientific Discovery.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:12:17 -0400 2020-11-18T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Livestream / Virtual Dr. Sarah Nelson
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (November 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79290 79290-20264791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Genetic variation affecting gene expression is wide-spread within and among species. This variation reflects the combined actions of mutation introducing new genetic variants and selection eliminating deleterious ones. Comparative studies of gene expression in fruit flies, yeast, plants, and mice have shown that the relative contributions of cis- and trans-acting variants to expression differences change over evolutionary time, indicating that selection has different effects on cis- and trans-regulatory variants. To better understand the reasons for this now widely observed pattern, we have been systematically studying the effects of mutation and selection on expression of the TDH3 gene of the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This work has revealed differences between cis- and trans-regulatory mutations in their frequency, effects, and dominance. Differences in pleiotropy are also generally assumed to exist between cis- and trans-regulatory that affect their evolutionary fate, but have been difficult to measure. In this talk, I will discuss how newly arising cis- and trans-regulatory mutations affecting expression of this focal gene are structured within the regulatory network, their pleiotropic effects on expression of all other genes in the genome, and how these pleiotropic effects influence fitness. A computational model of regulatory evolution integrating empirically observed differences in properties of cis- and trans-regulatory mutations will also be presented and discussed.

Patricia Wittkopp received a BS from the University of Michigan, a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, and did postdoctoral work at Cornell University. In 2005, she began a faculty position at the University of Michigan, where she is now the Sally L. Allen Collegiate Professor and Arthur F Thurnau Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and is a member of the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. Her research investigates the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution, with an emphasis on the evolution of gene expression. She was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow, an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a March of Dimes Starter Scholar Award, the Margaret Dayhoff Mid-Career Award from the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:12:34 -0500 2020-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Department Colloquium | Catching and Reversing a Quantum Jump Mid-Flight (November 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79260 79260-20243268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Department Colloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/GkgBm

Measurements in quantum physics, unlike their classical physics counterparts, can fundamentally yield discrete and random results. Historically, Niels Bohr was the first to hypothesize that quantum jumps occurred between two discrete energy levels of an atom. Experimentally, quantum jumps were directly observed many decades later in an atomic ion driven by a weak deterministic force under strong continuous energy measurement. The times at which the discontinuous jump transitions occur are reputed to be fundamentally unpredictable. Despite the non-deterministic character of quantum physics, is it possible to know if a quantum jump is about to occur? Our work1 provides a positive answer to this question: we experimentally show that the jump from the ground state to an excited state of a superconducting artificial three-level atom can be tracked as it follows a predictable “flight” by monitoring the population of an auxiliary energy level coupled to the ground state. The experimental results demonstrate that the evolution of the jump — once completed — is continuous, coherent, and deterministic. Based on these insights and aided by real-time monitoring and feedback, we then pinpoint and reverse one such quantum jump “mid-flight”, thus deterministically preventing its completion. Our findings, which agree with theoretical predictions essentially without adjustable parameters, lend support to the modern formulation of quantum trajectory theory; most importantly, they may provide new ground for the exploration of real-time intervention techniques in the control of quantum systems, such as the early detection of error syndromes.

1. Z. Minev et al., Nature 570, 200–204 (2019)

Short Bio:

Michel Devoret graduated from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris in 1975 and started graduate work in molecular quantum physics at the University of Orsay. He then joined Professor Anatole Abragam's laboratory in CEA-Saclay to work on NMR in solid hydrogen, and received his PhD from Paris University in 1982. He spent two post-doctoral years working on macroscopic quantum tunneling with John Clarke's laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He pursued this research on quantum mechanical electronics upon his return to Saclay, starting his own research group with Daniel Esteve and Cristian Urbina. The main achievements of the "quantronics group" were in this period the measurement of the traversal time of tunneling, the invention of the single electron pump (now the basis of a new standard of capacitance), the first measurement of the effect of atomic valence on the conductance of a single atom, and the first observation of the Ramsey fringes of a superconducting artificial atom (quantronium). He became director of research at the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) at Saclay. In 2007, Michel has been appointed to the College de France, where he taught until 2012. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and a member of the French Academy of Sciences (2008). Michel has received the Ampere Prize of the French Academy of Science (together with Daniel Esteve, 1991), the Descartes-Huygens Prize of the Royal Academy of Science of the Netherlands (1996) and the Europhysics-Agilent Prize of the European Physical Society (together with Daniel Esteve, Hans Mooij and Yasunobu Nakamura, 2004). He is also a recipient of the John Stewart Bell Prize, which he received jointly with Rob Schoelkopf in 2013. In 2014, he has been awarded, together with John Martinis and Rob Schoelkopf, the Fritz London Memorial Prize. He received the Olli Lounaasma Prize in 2016.

Currently the F. W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University -- which he joined in 2002 -- he focuses his research on experimental solid state physics with emphasis on quantum mechanical electronics (a.k.a. "quantronics") for quantum information processing. In this new type of electronics, electrical collective degrees of freedom like currents and voltages behave quantum mechanically. Such mesoscopic phenomena are particularly important in quantum circuits based on Josephson junctions, which is his main research goal. He currently focuses on the new phenomena of fault-tolerant quantum operations and remote entanglement.


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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:15:22 -0500 2020-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Chemosensory pathways involved in periodontitis and odontogenic pain (November 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79190 79190-20225569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Marco Tizzano, PhD
Assistant Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Basic & Translational Sciences - Penn Dental Medicine

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:19:42 -0500 2020-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Tizzano
Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics & Movement Towards Racial Empowerment (November 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79333 79333-20272796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

A virtual panel discussion sponsored by the University of Michigan Health Sciences units, hosted by the School of Kinesiology, and featuring:

Vanessa Barrow, DPM
Podiatrist & Owner, Sole Aesthetic, LLC
Specialization: Aesthetic and regenerative medicine of the foot and ankle

Neha Gothe, PhD
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology & Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research: Bio-psycho-social health benefits of physical activity across the lifespan; yoga as a means to improve health and quality of life

Samuel R. Hodge, PhD
Professor of Kinesiology, Ohio State University
Research: Intersection of diversity, disability, and social justice in education and sport

NiCole R. Keith, PhD, FACSM
Professor of Kinesiology & Associate Dean, Indiana University School of Health & Human Sciences
President, American College of Sports Medicine
Research: Community-based participatory research, physical activity, and health equity

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:05:27 -0500 2020-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Lecture / Discussion University of Michigan Health Sciences present Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics and Movement Towards Racial Empowerment
EEB Virtual Seminar: Bridging the gap between statics and dynamics in community ecology (November 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77309 77309-19838058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Understanding the processes that shape ecological communities is one of the main goals of ecology. Multiple dynamic models of ecological communities have been developed, but they are typically tested by examining static patterns such as Species Abundance Distributions. Much less is known about the ability of these theories to explain the actual dynamics that are observed in ecological communities.

I focused on the two most minimalistic models of community dynamics, the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity (NTB) and Dynamic Equilibrium theory (DE). For both theories, I asked: 1) can the model explain observed patterns of community dynamics? 2) if not, what processes need to be added to explain community dynamics?

I have found that the magnitude of changes in abundances and species composition in the Barro Colorado Island forest community is considerably larger than expected under NTB. However, incorporating environmental fluctuations into the theory allows explaining patterns of richness, commonness and rarity, and dynamics in that forest. In my work on DE, I have used a novel methodology to show that both the assumptions and the predictions of the theory are violated in thousands of communities worldwide. I have found that there are larger temporal changes in species richness than expected, which are associated with a positive covariance between species, representing the shared response to environmental changes.

Overall, while most previous work in community ecology has emphasized the role of competition in shaping ecological communities, my results demonstrate the crucial role of environmental changes as a driver of community assembly.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:39:34 -0500 2020-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual small purple, white and yellow flowers
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Pushing the boundaries of H/D exchange-mass spectrometry to analyze glycans (November 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78457 78457-20046389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Analytical
Elyssia Gallagher (Baylor University)

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Other Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:15:09 -0500 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Chemistry Other
LAGS Seminar | Writing Books, Ticking Off Billionaires, and Other Fun Things You Can Do With a PhD in Physics from the University of Michigan (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78857 78857-20133192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Working as a science communicator can be rewarding, frustrating, surreal, and terrifying — not too different from academia. But how do you go from a graduate program in physics to a career in science communication? In this talk, author and journalist Adam Becker will discuss how he made that transition, and share his advice for those interested in becoming professional full-time science communicators. Since completing his PhD in physics at Michigan in 2012, Adam has written for many publications, including the New York Times, the BBC, NPR, Scientific American, and New Scientist. He's written a critically-acclaimed book, What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, which the New York Times Book Review called "a thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." Adam has also appeared on numerous podcasts and radio shows, recorded a series of animated videos with BBC Earth, and earned the ire of Sheldon Glashow. He will leave plenty of time at the end of his talk for questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:15:20 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Minicolloquium | Controlling Light-Matter Couplings for New Science & Technology (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79426 79426-20321866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Minicolloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/AxgeZ

Control and understanding of light and matter coupling are ubiquitous and of fundamental importance in modern science and technology. Recently developments in materials, photonics and condensed matter physics have opened doors to exciting new opportunities to create light-matter coupled systems unavailable before, which on one hand may provide an experimental testground of novel nonlinear, many-body and/or quantum phenomena, and on the other hand may serve as a bridge between such phenomena and better technology for the future. I will discuss a few recent work and some possible future topics under this theme, using unconventional semiconductor exciton-polariton systems and two-dimensional materials.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:15:20 -0500 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Impact of COVID-19 on Service Workers: Work Experiences & Concerns of food retail, food services, and hospitality workers (November 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79384 79384-20288598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Marie-Anne Rosemberg is an assistant professor in UM's School of Nursing.
ABSTRACT
Objectives: COVID-19 presents a unique burden specifically for workers in service industries not only because they are disproportionately at risk for contracting the virus but also because of their work-related burdens. We aimed to understand the impact of COVID-19 on these workers.
Methods: This was a mixed-method study with a congruent triangulation design. Participants were recruited through social media. Each interview lasted up to 20 minutes. The survey data included demographic questions along with items from the CAGE and PC-PTSD questionnaires.
Results: Twenty-seven individuals completed audio-recorded phone interviews and 28 completed the survey. Participants were mostly women with an age range between 19 and 65. Participants worked in food retail (n=23), restaurant (n=25), and hospitality (n=7) industries. Length of time on the job ranged from two months to 25 years and 60% of the participants worked full time. Participants reported experiencing symptoms of depression and maladaptive coping. Job insecurity, change of job tasks, and work hours were the most common ways that COVID-19 affected the workers. Themes that emerged about participant’s concerns included being infected and/or unknowingly infecting others, the unknown, isolation, and work and customer demands. Constant changes relating to communication and protection measures were a major source of stress. There was discordance in the perceived level of threat of COVID-19. Most participants reported that their workplace complied with their state’s mandates for protection measures. While others reported lacking basic supplies such as soap, hand sanitizer, and masks.
Conclusions: In addition to their work experiences, COVID-19 has affected service workers at the financial, physical and mental levels. This study has implications of employers, occupational health and safety professionals and policy stakeholders.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:33:42 -0500 2020-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-24T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Impact of COVID-19 on Service Workers
HET Brown Bag Seminar | When High Energy Meets High Intensity (November 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79475 79475-20335628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:19:35 -0500 2020-11-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-25T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 30, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
HEP-Astro Seminar | New Results on Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering From COHERENT (November 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77398 77398-19848060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) is a process in which a neutrino scatters off an entire nucleus at low momentum transfer, and for which the observable signature is a low-energy nuclear recoil. It represents a background for direct dark matter detection experiments, as well as a possible signal for astrophysical neutrinos. Furthermore, because the process is cleanly predicted in the Standard Model, a measurement is sensitive to beyond-the-Standard-Model physics, such as non-standard interactions of neutrinos. It was measured for the first time by the COHERENT collaboration using the high-quality source of pion-decay-at-rest neutrinos from the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a CsI[Na] scintillator detector. COHERENT has recently observed CEvNS in argon, a lighter nucleus, also. This talk will describe COHERENT's recent results, the status and plans of COHERENT's suite of detectors at the SNS, and future physics reach.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:15:20 -0500 2020-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Science Success Series | Medical School Inside Story (November 30, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76332 76332-19687524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Do you have questions about medical school admissions? Get your answers straight from the inside! U-M Medical School Admissions Director Carol Teener will demystify medical school applications, expectations, and reviews in her presentation.

Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/29208

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:14:02 -0400 2020-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (December 1, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
"Oncogenic and Environmental Suppression of Innate Immune Sensing of Cancers" (December 1, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79325 79325-20272782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design is pleased to present Yu Leo Lei, DDS, PhD as part of our 2020 Virtual Seminar Series!

Dr. Lei is an Assistant Professor of Dentistry at the School of Dentistry and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Michigan.

The talk is entitled” Oncogenic and Environmental Suppression of Innate Immune Sensing of Cancers”.

Faculty Host: Noriaki Ono, DDS, PhD, Associate Professor of Dentistry

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:28:40 -0500 2020-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the Event
MIPSE Seminar | Exploring Transformative Startup Solutions for Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas (December 2, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76473 76473-19717165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The seminar is free and open to the public.
To request the Zoom link, please send an email to:
mipse-central@umich.edu

Abstract:
The potential to use fusion as a carbon-free, fuel-abundant energy source to meet the world’s growing energy demands has motivated significant US and international research. One research path to realize fusion energy involves tokamaks that magnetically confine hot plasmas in the shape of a torus. Almost every tokamak fusion reactor in the world relies on magnetic induction from a central solenoid to drive the current necessary to create a fusion grade plasma. Minimizing or eliminating the need for a central solenoid in a tokamak would greatly simplify the construction and reduce the cost of these devices, increasing their viability for commercial energy production. Solenoid-free startup techniques such as helicity injection (HI) and radiofrequency (RF) wave injection offer the potential of reducing the technical requirements of, or possibly the need for, a central solenoid. A major upgrade is underway for the spherical tokamak, Pegasus-III at the U of Wisconsin. The new facility will be a dedicated US platform to study innovations in plasma startup techniques, allowing for studies of both HI and RF during plasma initiation, ramp-up and sustainment. Experimental plans for RF heating and current drive in the microwave regime will be presented. The new capabilities of Pegasus-III will provide a bold test of the viability of a non-solenoidal compact tokamak using reactor relevant techniques.

About the Speaker:
Prof. Diem’s research interests are in experimental plasma physics for fusion energy development with emphasis on validating numerical models with experimental data. She focuses on utilizing radio frequency (RF) waves to heat and drive current in magnetically confined plasmas. Prof. Diem’s current research is focused on electron Bernstein wave and electron cyclotron heating and current drive experiments on Pegasus-III at UW-Madison as well as collaborations domestically and internationally on RF injection in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Prof. Diem received her PhD in Plasma Physics from Princeton U. where she developed diagnostics to study electron Bernstein wave emission and mode conversion on the National Spherical Tokamak at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. She received a BS in Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics from UW-Madison. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison, Prof. Diem was a Research and Development Staff Scientist in the Fusion Energy Division at Oak Ridge National Lab. and was on long-term assignment at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics in San Diego, CA.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:32:57 -0400 2020-12-02T15:30:00-05:00 2020-12-02T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Livestream / Virtual Prof. Stephanie Diem
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (December 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79631 79631-20436379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

ABSTRACT: The brain is made of networks of neurons that send information to each other via spikes. Sleep and wake are the most clearly definable brain states and each exerts unique effects upon neural network spiking activity. We used large-scale recordings in the frontal cortex of mice and rats to examine the activity of neurons during wake/sleep cycles and found that a novel form of homeostatic action is taken by sleep: homogenization of firing rates. Whereas it was previously believed that sleep simple decreased firing rates, we found that this was much more true of the most active neurons only, thereby reducing the variance of the population.

To extend this observation of homeostatic forced during sleep we also examine how sleep and wake states interact with learning and performance, which is also facilitated by sleep. We have therefore begun to record before, during and after learning sessions to determine how learning interacts with the usual homeostatic effects of sleep. Further we can also record how waking changes in brain states such as motivation and attention modulate firing and information processing by neurons during behavior itself.

Finally, our end-goal to translate these kinds of basic neurobiologic observations in healthy rodents to states of stress or treatments of stress. Unfortunately the chronic stress states of relevance to psychiatric disease do not last seconds but days and weeks. We have therefore begun to build new long-term recording environments to enable future experiments over these time-spans.

BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Watson is an assistant professor in psychiatry at the University of Michigan. He grew up in Ann Arbor and then obtained his BA from Cornell University and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. During his Ph.D. he used two-photon microscopy to study the behavior of neurons in local cortical microcircuits. During his doctoral work he also participated in technical development of multi-beam two photon imaging techniques. Upon graduation from medical school, Dr. Watson pursued a residency in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College as well postdoctoral work at New York University. He received the National Institute for Mental Health’s Outstanding Resident Award, the American Psychiatric Association’s Lilly Research Fellowship and the Leon Levy Neuroscience Fellowship. He did a fellowship with Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki at NYU to record ongoing activity in naturally behaving and sleeping animals wherein he showed that sleep reorganizes neuronal firing architecture in the neocortex in previously unknown ways. He is now combining his electrical recordings with behavioral tools to deepen his understanding of both use and regulation of cortical brain circuits.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:45:44 -0500 2020-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
The neural circuit mechanism of spatial orientation memory in Drosophila (December 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79302 79302-20270667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Chung-Chuan Lo, Ph.D. to present during a virtual seminar on December 3, 2020.

Hosted By:
Dawen Cai, Ph.D.
Bing Ye, Ph.D.
Kavli Neuroscience Innovators

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:20:51 -0500 2020-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Livestream / Virtual Chung-Chuan Lo, Ph.D. - Professor and Director, Institute of Systems Neuroscience, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
“Mesenchymal Regulation of Tooth Root Formation and Eruption” (December 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79611 79611-20430435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Wanida Ono, PhD
Assistant Professor, Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry
University of Michigan School of Dentistry

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:32:33 -0500 2020-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Workshop / Seminar Ono
EEB Virtual Seminar: Using a community assembly framework to decrease vulnerability to biological invasions in temperate forests & Phenology and flowering overlap drive specialization in pollinator networks (December 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76577 76577-19727088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Laís and Paul present this week's virtual seminar.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:12:05 -0500 2020-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Bee overlaid on graphs and trees
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (December 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
LAGS Seminar | What does an alternative career look like and how does a PhD set you up for success? (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79679 79679-20448275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Dr. Rohan Hoare traveled from Melbourne, Australia, and Monash University to receive his PhD in atomic physics from Harvard in 1993. With his PhD in hand, he began his career in management consulting with McKinsey and Company for a decade and has since been an executive, president and CEO of seven companies in the health care industry. Most recently he is the cofounder of Brainmatterz, a sleep apnea detection company in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Hoare will talk about his path, what guided his opportunities and choices and what some employers may be looking for by hiring Physics PhDs.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:15:17 -0500 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
MCDB Virtual Seminar: Receptors, channels and animal behavior (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72767 72767-19848086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Bo Duan

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:45:08 -0400 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar MCDB initials & microscope drawing in yellow on a blue square
Minicolloquium | DM searches at U-M (December 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79624 79624-20432422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a dark matter experiment under construction at the 4850’ level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The experiment utilizes a two-phase time projection chamber (TPC), containing seven active tonnes of liquefied xenon, to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Auxiliary veto detectors, including a liquid scintillator outer detector, improve rejection of unwanted background events in the central region of the detector. LZ has been designed to explore much of the parameter space available for WIMP models, with excellent sensitivity for WIMP masses between a few GeV and a few TeV. With data taking expected to begin in a few months, this talk will report the current status of the LZ experiment, the contributions of U-M to LZ and the connection to other areas of particle physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:15:17 -0500 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (December 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
HEP-Astro Seminar | Measurements of the Hubble Constant Using Gravitationally Lensed Quasars (December 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79640 79640-20438358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

The current discrepancy between early- and late-Universe measurements of the Hubble constant (H0) highlights the need for additional independent and precise probes. Gravitationally lensed quasars can provide one such probe. Quasars are galaxies with an active galactic nuclei (AGN), usually a black hole, whose light output varies over time. We can measure the light output over time from each image of the lensed quasar. The different travel time for the light from each image means that the variations show up at different times for each image. Measuring the time delay between pairs of images and combining it with a model of the lens allows one to infer H0.

Over the past decade a number of improvements in both the data quality and modeling techniques have allowed the measurement of H_0 from time-delays to start to fulfill its promise of being competitive with other traditional methods such as the cosmic distance ladder.

I will present the current state of the H0 measurement from gravitationally lensed quasars and discuss future prospects.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Dec 2020 18:15:21 -0500 2020-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
RNA Seminar featuring: John Mattick, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (December 7, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75816 75816-19608031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fCIiMkveTdq3D9-PKFLm6Q

ABSTRACT: The genomic programming of the development of complex organisms appears to have been misunderstood. The human genome contains just ~20,000 protein-coding genes, similar in number and with largely orthologous functions as those in other animals, including simple nematodes with only 1,000 somatic cells. By contrast, the extent of non-protein-coding DNA increases with increasing developmental complexity, reaching 98.8% in humans. Moreover, it is now clear that the majority of the genome is not junk but is differentially and dynamically transcribed to produce not only mRNAs but also tens if not hundreds of thousands of short and long non-protein-coding RNAs that show specific expression patterns and subcellular locations. Many of these noncoding RNAs have evolved rapidly under positive selection for adaptive radiation, and many have been shown to have important roles in development, brain function, cancer and other diseases. They function at many different levels of gene expression and cell biology, including translational control, formation of subcellular (phase-separated) domains, and guidance of the epigenetic processes and chromatin dynamics that underpin development, brain function and physiological adaptation, with plasticity enabled by RNA editing, RNA modification and retrotransposon mobilization. These discoveries mean that the assumption that combinatorial control by transcription factors and other regulatory proteins is sufficient to account for human ontogeny is incorrect, as are the circular assumptions about the neutral evolution of the genome. The challenge now is to determine the structure-function relationships of these RNAs and their mechanisms of action, as well as their place in the decisional hierarchies that control human development, physiology, learning and susceptibility to disorders.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:51:46 -0500 2020-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion photo
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (December 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-12-08T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
HET Brown Bag | Scattering Amplitudes for Monopoles: Pairwise Little Group and Pairwise Helicity (December 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79741 79741-20483901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

On-shell methods are particularly suited for exploring the scattering of electrically and magnetically charged objects, for which there is no local and Lorentz invariant Lagrangian description. In this talk we show how to construct a Lorentz-invariant S-matrix for the scattering of electrically and magnetically charged particles, without ever having to refer to a Dirac string. A key ingredient is a revision of our fundamental understanding of multi-particle representations of the Poincar\'e group. Surprisingly, the asymptotic states for electric-magnetic scattering transform with an additional little group phase, associated with pairs of electrically and magnetically charged particles. The corresponding ``pairwise helicity'' is identified with the quantized ``cross product'' of charges, e_1 g_2 - e_2 g_1, for every charge-monopole pair, and represents the extra angular momentum stored in the asymptotic electromagnetic field. We define a new kind of pairwise spinor-helicity variable, which serves as an additional building block for electric-magnetic scattering amplitudes. We then construct the most general 3-point S-matrix elements, as well as the full partial wave decomposition for the 2\to 2 fermion-monopole S-matrix. In particular, we derive the famous helicity flip in the lowest partial wave as a simple consequence of a generalized spin-helicity selection rule, as well as the full angular dependence for the higher partial waves. Our construction provides a significant new achievement for the on-shell program, succeeding where the Lagrangian description has so far failed.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Dec 2020 07:53:41 -0500 2020-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Defense: Physiological Relevance of Novel Lysosomal Ion Channels (December 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79495 79495-20341510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Mentors: Richard Hume and Haoxing Xu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:00:07 -0500 2020-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Yellow initials MCDB and cartoon of a microscope on a blue background
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Wednesday Seminar (December 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79756 79756-20484062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Learning objectives:

1. Discuss the conceptual distinction and clinical utility of self-reported race/ethnicity and genetic ancestry in childhood asthma.
2. Discuss the role of genetic ancestry and socio-environmental exposures in childhood asthma.
3. Discuss ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores, precision medicine and childhood asthma disparities.

Short bio: Dr. Mersha is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Asthma Research and leads the Population Genetics, Ancestry, and Bioinformatics (pGAB) Laboratory (https://research.cchmc.org/mershalab/Home.php).
Dr. Mersha’s research combines quantitative, ancestry and statistical genomics to unravel genetic and non-genetic contributions to complex diseases and racial disparities in human populations, particularly asthma and asthma-related allergic disorders. Much of his research is at the interface of genetic ancestry, statistics, bioinformatics, and functional genomics, and he is interested in cross-line disciplines to unravel the interplay between genome and envirome underlying asthma risk. His long-term research goal is to understand and dissect how biologic predisposition and environmental exposures interact to shape racial disparities in complex disorders.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:27:42 -0500 2020-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Tesfaye ("Tes") Mersha, PhD (Associate Professor, Division of Asthma Research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (December 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-12-10T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
hold- MilliporeSigma (December 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69007 69007-17213800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Organic

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Other Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:11 -0500 2020-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Chemistry Other
Kuwada Retirement Symposium (December 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79008 79008-20170603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Symposium in honor of Professor John Kuwada, who is retiring in December.

10AM - noon: short talks by alumni
noon -1:30 PM : toasts, stories, etc from colleagues, friends & alumni
Contact Laura Smithson (ljsmiths@umich.edu) to be in the line-up to give a toast

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:14:32 -0500 2020-12-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Conference / Symposium poster of event with photo of John Kuwada
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (December 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-12-14T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Eric Xing – Carnegie Mellon University (December 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79453 79453-20327788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist, Petuum Inc.

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Presentation Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:17:42 -0500 2020-12-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Eric Xing
RNA Seminar featuring: Narry Kim, Seoul National University (December 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75818 75818-19608034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_c9BFJM9dRGKn1WFF4L_wLg

ABSTRACT: Viruses rely heavily on RNA binding proteins for their success as pathogens. In this presentation, I will first talk about RNA tail modification which impacts viral and cellular gene expression. We found that TENT4 enzymes extend poly(A) tail of mRNAs with ‘mixed tails’ to delay deadenylation and stabilize the RNAs. Hepatitis B virus and human cytomegalovirus hijack this mechanism to efficiently stabilize their own RNAs. In the later part of my presentation, I will discuss our recent work on SARS-CoV-2. To delineate the viral transcriptomic architecture and provide a high-resolution map of SARS-CoV-2, we performed deep sequencing of infected cells. Our data define the canonical transcripts and noncanonical transcripts encoding unknown ORFs. More recently, we have also performed proteomic analyses of the SARS-CoV-2 ribonucleoprotein complex. We identify many proteins that directly interact with viral RNAs and modulate viral growth. Functional investigation of the viral transcripts and host proteins discovered in this study will open new directions to the research efforts to elucidate the life cycle and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Dec 2020 12:55:41 -0500 2020-12-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Narry Kim, Seoul National University
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (December 15, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-12-15T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
PhD Defense: Sabrina Lynch (December 15, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79855 79855-20509613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Zoom. The link will be provided below.

Zoom link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94668154127

Thrombosis is a process whereby a blood clot forms in situ within a vessel and impedes flow. Although necessary to maintain hemostasis, the human thrombotic system often becomes unstable leading to scenarios of thrombosis and subsequent diseases such as myocardial infarction, stroke, pulmonary embolism, and deep vein thrombosis. Computational modeling is a powerful tool to understand the complexity of thrombosis initiation and provides both temporal and spatial resolution that cannot be obtained in vivo. The goal of this investigation is to develop a computational model of thrombosis initiation in patient-specific models that includes both a complex description of the hemodynamics and biochemistry of thrombin formation. We argue that the complex hemodynamics occurring in vivo significantly alter the initiation and progression of thrombosis.



While blood viscosity is known to exhibit nonlinear behavior, a Newtonian assumption is often employed in computational analyses. This assumption is valid in healthy arteries where shear rates are high and recirculation is low. However, in pathological geometries, such as aneurysms, and venous geometries, this assumption fails, and nonlinear viscous effects become exceedingly important. Previous computational models of thrombosis have investigated coagulation through chemistry based formulations focusing on protein dynamics but have generally excluded complex 3D hemodynamics.



A computational framework was developed to investigate the interplay between 3D hemodynamics and the biochemical reactions involved in thrombosis initiation in patient-specific models under transient flow. The salient features of the framework are: i) nonlinear rheological models of blood flow; ii) a stabilized numerical framework for scalar mass transport; and iii) a computational interface for nonlinear scalar models of protein dynamics that can be easily customized to include an arbitrary number of species and protein interactions.



We implemented and verified nonlinear rheological models of viscosity into CRIMSON and investigated the effects of non-Newtonian viscosity on both hemodynamic and transport metrics in an arterial and venous patient-specific model. Results demonstrated the importance of considering accurate rheological models.



A stabilized finite element (FE) framework was developed to solve scalar mass transport problems in CRIMSON. Simulation of cardiovascular scalar mass transport problems offers significant numerical challenges such as highly advective flows and flow reversal at outlet boundaries. Furthermore, little attention has been given to the identification of appropriate outflow boundary conditions that preserve the accuracy of the solution. These issues were resolved by developing a stabilized FE framework that incorporates backflow stabilization for Neumann outlet boundaries; a consistent flux boundary condition that minimally disturbs the local physics of the problem; and front-capturing stabilization to regularize solutions in high Pe number flows. The efficacy of these formulations was investigated for both idealized and patient-specific geometries.



Next, a flexible arbitrary reaction-advection-diffusion (ARAD) interface was implemented that enables prototyping nonlinear biochemical models of thrombin generation. After verifying the ARAD interface, the performance was compared against the original hardcoded FORTRAN implementation for speed and accuracy using a 4-scalar nonlinear reaction model of thrombosis. Three different biochemical models of thrombin generation were investigated in idealized geometries. Finally, we implemented the 18 scalar model in both idealized and patient-specific geometries to determine the effects of complex 3D hemodynamics on thrombin generation.



The computational framework for thrombosis initiation presented in this work has three key features: i) non-Newtonian hemodynamics; ii) a stabilized numerical framework for scalar RAD problems; and iii) a method to rapidly prototype custom reaction models using Python with negligible associated computational expense.

Chair: Prof. Alberto C. Figueroa

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:16:10 -0500 2020-12-15T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Regulation of oogenesis by nuclear receptor signaling (December 16, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79432 79432-20325780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

CDB Virtual Seminar:
We are pleased to welcome Lesley N. Weaver, Ph.D. to present during a virtual seminar on December 16, 2020, from 9:30am -10:30 am!

Hosted by: Pierre Coulombe, Ph.D. on behalf of the DEI committee

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:34:32 -0500 2020-12-16T09:30:00-05:00 2020-12-16T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Livestream / Virtual Lesley N. Weaver, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University
HET Brown Bag | Looking forward to new Physics with FASER (December 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79760 79760-20486020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Physics searches and measurements at high-energy collider experiments traditionally focus on the high-pT region. However, if particles are light and weakly-coupled, this focus may be completely misguided: light particles are typically highly collimated around the beam line, allowing sensitive searches with small detectors, and even extremely weakly-coupled particles may be produced in large numbers there. The recently approved FASER experiment will use the opportunity and extend the LHC's physic potential by searching for long-lived particles and studying neutrino interactions at TeV energies. In this talk, I will present the physics potential of FASER for new physics searches, neutrino physics, QCD as well as cosmic ray and cosmic neutrino measurement, aiming to stimulate a fruitful discussion with my audience.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:19:12 -0500 2020-12-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
“Transcriptional regulation of human epidermal tissue regeneration” (December 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79362 79362-20282624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design and the University of Michigan Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Center are pleased to present Xiaomin Bao, PhD, as part of the 2020 Virtual Seminar Series!

Dr. Bao is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biosciences at Northwestern University.

The talk is entitled, "Transcriptional Regulation of Human Epidermal Tissue Regeneration".

The talk is co-hosted by the University of Michigan Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Center.

If you are not an UM-SBDRC member and would like to attend this seminar, please register by emailing Carmel McKeon at cmmckeon@med.umich.edu.

UM-SBDRC members do not need to register. Members will be sent a calendar invite with the Zoom meting information.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:54:50 -0500 2020-12-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the Event
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (December 17, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 17, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-12-17T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (December 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-12-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-21T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (December 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2020-12-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-22T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
PhD Defense: Jared Scott (December 22, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79866 79866-20509634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Zoom. The link will be placed below.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/97604985906?pwd=N1Y1UXEvNXMxdjlnVkpjUFZHQkRhdz09

Epilepsy is a debilitating neurological disorder characterized by recurrent spontaneous seizures. While seizures themselves adversely affect physiological function for short time periods relative to normal brain states, their cumulative impact can significantly decrease patient quality of life in myriad ways. For many, anti-epileptic drugs are effective first-line therapies. One third of all patients do not respond to chemical intervention, however, and require invasive resective surgery to remove epileptic tissue. While this is still the most effective last-line treatment, many patients with ‘refractory’ epilepsy still experience seizures afterward, while some are not even surgical candidates. Thus, a significant portion of patients lack further recourse to manage their seizures – which additionally impacts their quality of life.



High-frequency oscillations (HFOs) are a recently discovered electrical biomarker with significant clinical potential in refractory human epilepsy. As a spatial biomarker, HFOs occur more frequently in epileptic tissue, and surgical removal of areas with high HFO rates can result in improved outcomes. There is also limited preliminary evidence that HFOs change prior to seizures, though it is currently unknown if HFOs function as temporal biomarkers of epilepsy and imminent seizure onset. No such temporal biomarker has ever been identified, though if it were to exist, it could be exploited in online seizure prediction algorithms. If these algorithms were clinically implemented in implantable neuromodulatory devices, improvements to quality of life for refractory epilepsy patients might be possible. Thus, the overall aim of this work is to investigate HFOs as potential temporal biomarkers of seizures and epilepsy, and further to determine whether their time-varying properties can be exploited in seizure prediction.



In the first study we explore population-level evidence for the existence of this temporal effect in a large clinical cohort with refractory epilepsy. Using sophisticated automated HFO detection and big-data processing techniques, a continuous measure of HFO rates was developed to explore gradual changes in HFO rates prior to seizures, which were analyzed in aggregate to assess their stereotypical response. These methods resulted in the identification of a subset of patients in whom HFOs from epileptic tissue gradually increased before seizures.



In the second study, we use machine learning techniques to investigate temporal changes in HFO rates within individuals, and to assess their potential usefulness in patient-specific seizure prediction. Here, we identified a subset of patients whose predictive models sufficiently differentiated the preictal (before seizure) state better than random chance.



In the third study, we extend our prediction framework to include the signal properties of HFOs. We explore their ability to improve the identification of preictal periods, and additionally translate their predictive models into a proof-of-concept seizure warning system. For some patients, positive results from this demonstration show that seizure prediction using HFOs could be possible.



These studies overall provide convincing evidence that HFOs can change in measurable ways prior to seizure start. While this effect was not significant in some individuals, for many it enabled seizures to be predicted above random chance. Due to data limitations in overall recording duration and number of seizures captured, these findings require further validation with much larger high-density intracranial EEG datasets. Still, they provide a preliminary framework for the eventual use of HFOs in patient-specific seizure prediction with the potential to improve the lives of those with refractory epilepsy.

Chair: Dr. William Stacey

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:13:29 -0500 2020-12-22T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-22T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
PhD Defense: Tianrui Luo (December 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79858 79858-20509623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Zoom. The link will be placed below.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/92217348735

Excitation pulse design and image reconstruction are two important topics in MR research for enabling faster imaging. On the pulse design side, selective excitations that confine signals to be within a small region-of-interest (ROI) instead of the full imaging field-of-view (FOV) can be used to reduce sampling density in the k-space, which is a direct outcome of the change in the underlying Nyquist sampling rate. On the reconstruction side, besides improving imaging algorithms’ ability to restore images from less data, another objective is to reduce the reconstruction time, particularly for dynamic imaging applications.



This dissertation focuses on these two perspectives: The first part is devoted to the excitation pulse design. Specifically, we derived and developed a computationally efficient auto-differentiable Bloch-simulator and its explicit Bloch simulation Jacobian operations. This simulator can yield numerical derivatives with respect to pulse RF and gradient waveforms given arbitrary subdifferentiable excitation objective functions. We successfully applied this pulse design approach for jointly designing RF and gradient waveforms for 3D spatially tailored large-tip excitation objectives.



The auto-differentiable pulse design method can yield superior 3D spatially tailored excitation profiles that are useful for inner volume (IV) imaging. We propose and develop a novel steady-state IV imaging strategy which suppresses aliasing by saturating the outer volume (OV) magnetizations via a 3D tailored OV excitation pulse that is followed by a signal crusher gradient. This method substantially suppresses the unwanted OV aliasing for common steady-state imaging sequences.



The second part focuses on non-iterative image reconstruction. In dynamic imaging (e.g., fMRI), where a time series is to be reconstructed, such algorithms may offer savings in overall reconstruction time. We extend the conventional GRAPPA algorithm to work efficiently for general non-Cartesian acquisitions. It attains reconstruction quality that can rival classical iterative imaging methods such as conjugate gradient SENSE and SPIRiT.



In summary, this dissertation has proposed and developed multiple methods for accelerating MR imaging, from pulse design to reconstruction. While devoted to neuroimaging, the proposed methods are general and should also be useful for other applications.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:29:18 -0500 2020-12-22T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-22T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 4, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 4, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-04T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-04T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-05T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-05T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 7, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 7, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-07T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 11, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 11, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-12T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
MIDAS & Owkin Federated Learning in Biomedical Research Workshop (January 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80139 80139-20566722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Objective: Cultivating research collaboration, joint grants and connecting the UM researchers to the right organisations. Supports Owkin expansion of our presence in North America and facilitates collaborations with PIs at UM. A great introduction to what Owkin does to UM.

Introduction Owkin & Scientific Overview of the Sessions — Patrick Sin-Chan, Partnerships Manager – Owkin
Session 1: Methodology and Data Science
Learning From Others Without Sacrificing Privacy: Application of Federated Machine Learning to Mobile Health Data
Presenter: Ambuj Tewari, Associate Professor, Statistics
Privacy Preserving Federated Learning Platform: from Design to Deployment in Real World Use Cases
Presenter: Camille Marini
Accelerating Machine Learning with Multi-Armed Bandit
Barzan Mozafari, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Siloed Federated Learning for Multi-Centric Histopathology Datasets
Presenter: Mathieu Andreux
20 mins Panel Discussion (MIDAS Moderator- Kayvan Najarian, Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics)
Session 2: Biotech/medical
Covid-19 Severity Analysis with CT Scans and Machine Learning
Presenter: Simon Jégou
Linking Single-cell Molecular States with Phenotypes Using Machine Learning
Presenter: Josh Welch, Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
HE2RNA: a Deep Learning Model to Predict RNA-Seq Expression of Tumors from Whole Slide Images
Presenter: Alberto Romagnoni
Using Large-scale Pharmacogenomic Databases to Predict Drug Effectiveness
Presenter: Johann Gagnon-Bartsch, Assistant Professor, Statistics
20 mins Panel discussion (Owkin Moderator: Patrick Sin-Chan)

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:36:31 -0500 2021-01-14T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-14T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Okwin
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 14, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 14, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-14T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
PhD Defense: Charles Park (January 15, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80413 80413-20719667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 15, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held remotely via Zoom. The link will be placed below.

Zoom: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/97318374664?pwd=YTB4dzNTVXdRZDZQcGR1dVRLZi9JUT09

With the recent progress in technologies, analyzing detailed cellular interactions that constitute the immune system have become possible, and many more biological and engineering tools became within reach for precise investigation and modulation of immune responses. As a result, immunotherapies, such as anti-PD-1 antibody and chimeric antigen receptor T cells, have revolutionized cancer immunotherapy, while genome sequencing and nanotechnology allowed for the rapid development of various vaccines in response to the recent outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019. Here, first discussed is modulation of the immune responses using biomaterials, such as silica- or lipid-based nanoparticles and immunomodulating agents for cancer immunotherapy. My approach for immune modulation was to deliver vaccine or pattern recognition receptor-stimulating drugs using nanoparticles to enhance the activation of antigen presenting cells at the innate immune response stage, which leads to stronger adaptive immune responses. In addition, induction of a stronger chemokine gradient to recruit more T cells to tumor from the blood circulation was investigated. In the next study, use of lipid-based nanoparticle to formulate vaccines against infectious diseases, such as human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), is introduced. Nanoparticle-mediated vaccine delivery increases the amount of antigen reaching lymph nodes to interact with immune cells. Also, co-delivery of adjuvants further induces stronger adaptive immune responses. Meanwhile, it is critical to preserve the epitope conformation when protein antigens are used for vaccine formulation, in order to induce functional neutralizing antibodies. The aim of the study was to co-load a subunit protein and an adjuvant into lipid-based nanoparticles while maintaining the structural intactness and induce enhanced antibody responses when vaccinated to animals. Overall, immune modulation strategies are introduced in therapeutic or prophylactic settings, where innate and adaptive immune responses were enhanced using biomaterials-based treatments.

Chair: Dr. James J. Moon

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Jan 2021 08:23:34 -0500 2021-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 2021-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
U-M Health Sciences 2021 MLK Keynote (January 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79757 79757-20484063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Bodies represent the sites of socially constructed differences and power relations. As such, the personal is political, and bodies are subject to political interpretations. Body politics based on racial (and/or ethnic) ascriptions (along with other intersecting elements such as sex, gender, sexuality, age, social class, ability, etc.) have adversely affected the overall health and wellness of bodies of Color in general, and Black bodies in particular - impacting their abilities, opportunities, access (inclusion/exclusion), care/treatment, and the overall nature of their lived experiences. Consequently, racialed body politics have contributed to an array of health disparities being more pronounced in communities of Color. However, movement offers a variety of health benefits and is therefore, a source of empowerment for racially politicized bodies.

This event will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Monique Butler, U-M Kinesiology alumna and Chief Medical Officer for HCA Healthcare North Florida Division. She will address the theme "Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics and Movement Towards Racial Empowerment."

This event is sponsored by the U-M Health Sciences units and hosted by the School of Kinesiology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Jan 2021 16:27:06 -0500 2021-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Lecture / Discussion U-M Health Sciences 2021 MLK Keynote - Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics and Movement Towards Racial Empowerment - with Dr. Monique Butler, MD
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 18, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-18T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Neutrino Oscillations: Where we are, where we’re going (January 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80667 80667-20769661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In the last several decades, neutrino oscillations have gone from an experimental anomaly to robust evidence for beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. While much has been learned since the first experiments, several aspects of oscillations remain unknown, including the degree to which CP is violated in the lepton sector. In this talk, I will explore our current knowledge of neutrino oscillations, and discuss how the next generation of experiments can further enlighten us. These upcoming experiments have the ability to test “standard” and BSM neutrino oscillation hypotheses, as well as a multitude of non-neutrino BSM physics scenarios.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:04:36 -0500 2021-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Department Colloquium | Moiré Superlattices: A New Hubbard Model simulator? (January 20, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80613 80613-20763720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Department Colloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/GkgBm

The Hubbard model, first formulated by physicist John Hubbard in the 1960s, is a simple theoretical model of interacting quantum particles in a lattice. The model is thought to capture the essential physics of high-temperature superconductors, magnetic insulators, and other complex emergent quantum many-body ground states. Although the Hubbard model is greatly simplified as a representation of most real materials, it has nevertheless proved difficult to solve accurately except in the one-dimensional case. Physical realization of the Hubbard model in two or three dimensions, which can act as quantum simulators, therefore have a vital role to play in solving the strong-correlation puzzle. In this talk, I will discuss a potential experimental realization of the two-dimensional triangular lattice Hubbard model in angle-aligned heterobilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides, which form moiré superlattices because of the difference in lattice constant between the two semiconductors.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:15:27 -0500 2021-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LHS Collaboratory (January 21, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80293 80293-20688136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

The LHS Collaboratory presents Rachel Richesson, PhD, MPH, MS, FACMI, Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan in a virtual event on 1/21/2021 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm ET.

Professor Richesson's talk, "Data Standards and Learning Health Systems –Challenges and Opportunities," will be followed by an audience Q&A. Questions are also encouraged prior to the event.

Please send questions to LHSCollaboratory-info@umich.edu.

Registration in advance at: https://umich-health.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HytRsYwITc6oOGRj0F_MOA

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 02 Jan 2021 10:24:08 -0500 2021-01-21T11:30:00-05:00 2021-01-21T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory logo
EEB Virtual Seminar: Planning for connected and resilient landscapes using past ecosystem dynamics (January 21, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80091 80091-20556869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

To establish the most effective conservation strategies, we must understand the ecological dynamics of the systems that we are trying to conserve. But we do not know the extent to which plants and animals shift their ranges in response to changing climates. Using the fossil pollen and mammal records, we explore how rapidly biomes transition in response to changing climates and to what extent human impacts prevent species from tracking their preferred climate. We have found that plants and animals will need to traverse broad landscapes at unprecedented rates to track climate as it changes, and I have identified strategic regions to target for facilitating this connectivity. However, we also have found that not all species exhibit the same human tolerance or climate fidelity (i.e., some species’ ranges are less affected by climate than others). My lab and I found that 67% of mammals have shifted their climatic niche, mostly in the last 500 years. Interestingly many small mammals have actually expanded their climatic niches into agricultural and urban landscapes, suggesting that humans facilitate their survival. Whereas most large mammals have been extirpated from human-impacted landscapes. We are now working to identify the climate fidelity that plant and animal taxa have exhibited over the last 20,000 years. Our goal is to identify the types of species whose climate tracking we must prioritize as we identify efficient and effective connectivity strategies.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:25:55 -0500 2021-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Ecosystem graphic - McGuire
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 21, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Webinar: Collaborative Science in a Virtual World (Part 2): What Did We Learn in 2020? (January 21, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80505 80505-20730285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Collaborative science involves working closely with partners at every stage - from conceptualizing a new project, to conducting the research, to refining tools to best meet a management need. In May 2020, hoping to start a dialogue around virtual engagement for collaborative science, we held a webinar to reflect on the ways in which collaborative science practices have been impacted by COVID-19.

Now, as we look ahead to 2021, we’re pausing a moment to reflect on what we learned over the course of 2020 and how our practices have changed in response to the pandemic. This webinar will feature preliminary findings from a 2020 survey of collaborative research grantees, first-hand commentary on how collaborative practices have evolved, and speculation about what these lessons mean for the future of collaborative work. The discussion will build on panelists’ comments to further tease out the implications of these new practices for future collaborative science work, and how these lessons can be applied to coastal science within and beyond the NERRS.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:40:18 -0500 2021-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Livestream / Virtual
BME 500 Seminar - Xiaoning Jiang (January 21, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80996 80996-20830794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Blue Jeans. The link will be placed below.

Blue Jeans Link: https://bluejeans.com/628109990

Xiaoning Jiang, Ph.D.

North Carolina State University

Seminar Abstract:

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the number one cause of death and the search for more effective diagnosis and treatment techniques has been of a great interest. Ultrasound present a great potential in imaging and therapy for CVD. In this talk, small aperture transducers were designed, fabricated and tested for advanced intravascular ultrasound imaging (IVUS) and effective and safe intravenous sonothrombolysis. In specific, we investigated high frequency (40-60 MHz) micromachined piezoelectric composite transducers and arrays with broad bandwidth (-6 dB fraction bandwidth ~ 80%) for intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging. Dual frequency transducers and arrays (6.5 MHz/30 MHz, 3 MHz/30 MHz) were also successfully demonstrated for contrast enhanced intravascular superharmonic imaging (or acoustic angiography) toward detection of plaque vulnerability. For the case of intravascular thrombolysis, small aperture (diameter &lt;2 mm) sub-MHz forward-looking transducers were successfully developed with peak-negative-pressure of &gt; 1.5 MPa. Significantly enhanced thrombolysis rate was observed by using microbubbles and nanodroplets in in-vitro tests. Other transducer techniques such as optical fiber laser ultrasound transducers were also investigated for intravenous sonothrombolysis. These new findings suggest that small aperture ultrasound transducers are increasingly important in advancing intravascular ultrasound imaging, intravenous therapy, minimal invasive diagnosis and therapy, and image guided drug delivery and surgery.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:42:47 -0500 2021-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
HET Seminar | Physics potential of high energy muon collider (January 22, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80527 80527-20736170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Seminar Link : http://myumi.ch/O4P7E

Momentum has been accumulating to consider high energy muon collider as a future high energy collider possibility, especially on the US soil. Muon collider has unique physics cases, both as a Higgs factory as well as a high energy lepton collider. In this talk, I will review the overall physics pictures for muon colliders and discuss these unique physics cases. In particular, I will show a recent study where we rethink about WIMP DM and their testability at colliders. We show that through the new signature and channels proposed by us, we can draw some conclusive statements about WIMP DM, which can serve as a physics driver case for high energy muon colliders.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:12:48 -0500 2021-01-22T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
RNA Seminar featuring: Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (January 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75826 75826-19613920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

KEYWORDS: molecular mechanisms, RNA, ribosome, biochemistry, cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography

ABSTRACT: All RNAs in eukaryotic cells are eventually degraded. The RNA exosome is a conserved macromolecular machine that degrades a vast number and variety of RNAs. Exosome-mediated RNA degradation leads to the complete elimination of nuclear and cytoplasmic transcripts in turnover and quality control pathways, and to the partial trimming of RNA precursors in nuclear processing pathways. How the exosome combines specificity and versatility to either eliminate or process RNAs has been a long-standing question.

ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IjnWw1UcRkW8zcDeuAM2tQ

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:08:44 -0500 2021-01-25T09:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Social Exposure Infectious Diseases: Zika, Covid-19 and the Context of Fertility (January 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80200 80200-20596101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

Abstract: Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world. Brazil is also the country most affected by the recent Zika epidemic and is an epicenter of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. In this talk, I will introduce DeCodE, funded by NICHD, and the first panel survey on fertility and reproductive health in Brazil, tracking women’s childbearing intentions, desires and outcomes during the Zika and Covid-19 public health emergencies. Combining analysis from in-depth interviews and baseline survey data collected in April-September 2020, this talk will uncover women’s social and reproductive vulnerabilities during the pandemic. Results show that inequities are exacerbated and that women socially exposed to Zika during the epidemic intend to postpone and forego childbearing. Overall findings suggest that there are clear spillover effects across successive novel infectious disease emergencies that are relevant in every country Zika and Covid-19 have touched.

Bio: Letícia Marteleto is a social scientist with expertise in social demography, social stratification and reproductive health. Marteleto’s scholarship examines inequalities in fertility, reproductive processes and educational attainment, among others. Marteleto’s research has been funded by several foundations. She is currently the PI of DeCodE, funded by NICHD, and the first panel survey on reproductive health in Brazil, tracking women’s fertility desires, intentions and outcomes during the Zika and Covid-19 public health crises. Marteleto’s work has appeared in flagship journals in sociology, demography and other disciplines, such as Demography, Population and Development Review and Social Forces. Professor Marteleto holds a PhD in Sociology from The University of Michigan and is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.


Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:51:37 -0500 2021-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Brown Bag seminar
EEB student evaluation seminar: Testing evolutionary hypotheses using human genomes and phenomes (January 25, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80821 80821-20793351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Siliang presents his preliminary seminar

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:46:02 -0500 2021-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual A graph that shows the relationship between fitness/health-related traits and mating distance
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 25, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Gomberg - Juli Feigon (January 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69824 69824-17433851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Chembio

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Other Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:15:14 -0400 2021-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Chemistry Other
HEP-Astro Seminar | New Perspectives on Segmented Crystal Calorimeters for Future e+e- Higgs Factories (January 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80560 80560-20740173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Crystal calorimeters have a long history of pushing the frontier on high-resolution electromagnetic (EM) calorimetry for photons and electrons and exploiting the technological advancements in the field can represent an excellent tool to tackle the challenge of precision physics at future e+e- Higgs factories.

I will discuss in this seminar major innovations in collider detector performance that can be achieved with crystal calorimetry when longitudinal segmentation and dual-readout capabilities are combined with a new high EM resolution approach to Particle Flow in multi-jet events, such as e+e+→HZ events in all-hadronic final-states at Higgs factories. In particular, I will discuss a new technique for pre-processing π0 momenta through combinatoric di-photon pairing in advance of applying jet algorithms which significantly reduces π0 photon splitting across jets in multi-jet events and lead to an improvement of the correct photon-to-jet assignment efficiency by a factor of about 3 when the EM resolution is improved from 15 to 3%/√E.

I will then present the design and optimization of a highly segmented crystal detector concept that achieves the required energy resolution of 3%/√E, and a time resolution better than 30 ps providing exceptional particle identification capabilities and discuss how the implementation of dual-readout on crystals permits to achieve a resolution better than 30%/√E for neutral hadrons. The cost-effective design presented demonstrates how the integration of crystal calorimetry into future Higgs factory collider detectors can open new perspectives by yielding the highest level of combined EM and neutral hadron resolution in the PFA paradigm.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:15:31 -0500 2021-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-26T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Environmental Health Priorities in Southeast Michigan (January 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80220 80220-20601996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The Integrated Health Sciences Core (IHSC) of M-LEEaD kicks off the first in a series on community engaged research with a presentation by the Community Engagement Core (CEC) and its Stakeholder Advocacy Board (SAB). Members of the CEC and SAB will share an overview of environmental health priorities in Southeast Michigan, ongoing efforts to address them, and new opportunities for M-LEEaD affiliated researchers. This "Meet and Learn" will focus on the purpose and objective of the CEC and how these relate to the NIEHS core objectives. Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Dec 2020 10:12:52 -0500 2021-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Jan 26 Environmental Priorities in SE Michigan
"How (and why) the jerboa got its long legs" (January 26, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80742 80742-20783433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are proud to present seminar series: "Variations in Biology" featuring seminar guest Kimberly Cooper, PhD.

Dr. Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at the Cell and Developmental Biology Department at the University of California San Diego.

The talk is entitled, "How (and why) the jerboa got its long legs".

Faculty Host: Ben Allen, PhD, Associate Professor Cell and Developmental Biology

Trainee Host: Hannah Schrader, Ben Allen Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Jan 2021 06:19:37 -0500 2021-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the Event
MIPSE Seminar | Journey to the Sun (January 27, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80221 80221-20601997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The seminar is free and open to the public.
To request the Zoom link, please send an email to:
mipse-central@umich.edu

Abstract:
NASA Heliophysics research studies a vast system stretching from the Sun to Earth to far beyond the edge of the planets. Studying this system – much of it driven by the Sun’s constant outpouring of solar wind – not only helps us understand fundamental information about how the universe works, but also helps protect our technology and astronauts in space. NASA seeks knowledge of near-Earth space, because, when extreme, space weather can interfere with our communications, satellites and power grids. The study of the Sun and space can also teach us more about how stars contribute to the habitability of planets through-out the universe.

Mapping out this interconnected system requires a holistic study of the Sun’s influence on space, Earth and other planets. NASA has a fleet of spacecraft strategically placed throughout our heliosphere – from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the farthest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system, and all helping us untangle the effects of the star we live with.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Dec 2020 11:28:38 -0500 2021-01-27T15:30:00-05:00 2021-01-27T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Nicola Fox
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Seminar (January 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80722 80722-20777538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Massively parallel single-cell and single-nucleus RNA sequencing (sc/snRNA-seq) has opened the way to systematic tissue atlases in health and disease, but as the scale of data generation is growing, so is the need for computational pipelines for scaled analysis. We developed Cumulus, the first comprehensive cloud-based framework, to address the big data challenge arising from sc/snRNA-seq analysis. Cumulus combines the power of cloud computing with improvements in algorithm and implementation to achieve high scalability, low cost, user-friendliness and integrated support for a comprehensive set of features. We benchmark Cumulus on the Human Cell Atlas Census of Immune Cells dataset of bone marrow cells and show that it substantially improves efficiency over conventional frameworks, while maintaining or improving the quality of results, enabling large-scale studies.

In recent years, biologists have found that sc/snRNA-seq alone is not enough to reveal the full picture of how cells function and coordinate with each other in a complex tissue. They begin to couple sc/snRNA-seq with other common data modalities, such as single-cell ATAC-seq (scATAC-seq), single-cell Immune Repertoire sequencing (scIR-seq), spatial transcriptomics and mass cytometry. This data coupling is called single-cell multimodal omics. As it is becoming a new common practice, new analysis needs emerge along with two major computational challenges: big data challenge and integration challenge. The big data challenge requires us to develop scalable computational infrastructure and algorithms to deal with the ever-growing large datasets produced from the community. The integration challenge requires us to design new algorithms to enable holistic integration of heterogeneous data from different modalities. In the last part of my talk, I will discuss my team’s efforts and plans to develop Cumulus as an integrated data analysis framework for scaled single-cell multimodal omics.

Single-cell multimodal omics has the potential to provide a more comprehensive characterization of complex multicellular systems than the sum of its parts. As the datasets produced from the community keep growing substantially, the enhanced Cumulus will continue playing an important role in the effort to build atlases of complex tissues and organs at higher cellular resolution, and in leveraging them to understand the human body in health and disease.

Short bio: Dr. Bo Li is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, the director of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Center for Immunology Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, and an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His research focuses on large-scale single-cell and single-nucleus genomics data analysis. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from UW-Madison and completed two postdoctoral trainings with Dr. Lior Pachter at UC Berkeley and Dr. Aviv Regev at Broad Institute. He is best known for developing RSEM, an impactful RNA-seq transcript quantification software. RSEM is cited 9,384 times (Google Scholar) and adopted by several big consortia such as TCGA, ENCODE, GTEx and TOPMed.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:32:34 -0500 2021-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Bo Li, PhD (Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA)
Science Success Series | Growth and Grit: Developing a Mindset for Success (January 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80591 80591-20759748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

What if your ability to succeed in your classes was determined in part before you even stepped into the classroom? What is the one quality you need to overcome adversity academically and in life? This workshop will detail the research of Dr. Carol Dweck and her groundbreaking work on the concept of mindset. Students will learn how to abandon a debilitating fixed mindset in favor of a growth mindset, leading to success in areas they once considered too difficult. The workshop will also introduce students to the research of Dr. Angela Duckworth, and how a growth mindset can lead to the development of grit, an essential characteristic to overcoming our fear of failure.

Register at: myumi.ch/DEDPD

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:23:23 -0500 2021-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar growth and grit
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Adventures in Non-Supersymmetric String Theory (January 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81150 81150-20858312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

It has long been known that there exist strings with supersymmetry on the world sheet, but not in spacetime. These include the well-known Type 0 strings, as well as a series of seven heterotic strings, all of which are obtained by imposing unconventional GSO projections. Besides these classic examples, relatively little is known about the full space of non-SUSY theories. One of the reasons why non-SUSY strings have remained understudied is the fact that nearly all of them have closed string tachyons, and hence do not admit ten-dimensional flat space as a stable vacuum. The goal of this talk is two-fold. First, using recent advances in condensed matter theory, we will reinterpret GSO projections in terms of topological phases of matter, thereby providing a framework for the classification of non-SUSY strings. Having done so, we will show that for all non-SUSY theories in which a tachyon exists, it can be condensed to give a (meta)stable lower-dimensional vacuum. In many cases, these stable vacua will be two-dimensional string theories already known in the literature.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Feb 2021 10:22:43 -0500 2021-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (January 28, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-01-28T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
BME 500 Seminar: Aaron Morris, Ph.D. (January 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81261 81261-20879893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Zoom. The link will be posted below.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/94405051853

Seminar Abstract:

My research program, the Precision Immune Microenvironment (PIM) Lab, will create a minimally invasive toolset for monitoring immune responses within tissues. In my research seminar I will begin by briefly discussing the work I performed with Dr. Themis Kyriakides as a PhD student at Yale - strategies to manipulate the early stages of the foreign body response (FBR) to implanted materials. I will next discuss my work as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan with Dr. Lonnie Shea. I focus on harnessing the chronic phase of the FBR, as a tool to monitor the immune system. I use biomaterial-based immunological niches to provide insights into the phenotype of innate immune cells that control disease activity. Cells harvested from these niches exhibit differential gene expression sufficient to monitor disease dynamics and to gauge the effectiveness of treatment. I will then discuss work developing sensors for secreted proteins to non-invasively measure protein expression in vivo via luminescence and FRET. I will conclude my talk with a brief discussion of my planned research
program that aims to leverage my materials and immune engineering experience to harness bio-responsive materials as translatable tools for real-time monitoring of tissue immunity.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:39:22 -0500 2021-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing (January 29, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78494 78494-20452221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

This workshop will focus on the personal statement for fellowships applications and will provide participants an opportunity to bring examples of their statements and get feedback from their peers. Registration is required and will be limited to 20 participants. Register at https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/sweetland-rackham-workshops.html after December 4th.

Presented by Larissa Sano, Sweetland Center for Writing

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:52:10 -0500 2021-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T09:00:00-05:00 Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar
First ever EEB trivia night (January 29, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81283 81283-20879922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Players must have a UM uniqname or be in the household with someone with a UM uniqname. Check your email for the Zoom link and password.

The family edition from 7 - 8 p.m. will focus on questions that children 6-16 may know the answers to. The general play edition from 8 - 9 p.m. is open to families, but the questions may be less accessible to children.

You can sign up as a team or as an individual. We will form teams from individuals. Teams can plan to use a break-out room or be in the same household.

It is fine to sign up with one team (e.g., your family) for the family edition and another team (e.g., your lab) for the general play. If you do this, please sign up twice.

If a TEAM is signing up, it is okay if only the team captain fills in the form, but, then, only the team captain will receive the rules and reminders.

Sign up!
If possible, sign up by January 28: https://forms.gle/rBwknB8NKHna6DBs6

If you cannot sign up, let us know when you join the meeting and we will figure out a good team for you (use the chat).

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:11:57 -0500 2021-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Laptop with Zoom screen, multiple faces
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (February 1, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-02-01T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
HEP-Astro Seminar | LHC Opportunities in Long-Lived Signatures From Hidden Sectors (February 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80906 80906-20818982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

The LHC bears great potential in seeking hidden sector particles in the GeV to TeV scales, such as a high-quality QCD axion, glueballs, and heavy neutrinos. In this talk, I will present my recent studies on how to probe these hidden sector particles through novel features of long-lived particles.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:15:40 -0500 2021-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
RNA Seminar featuring: Jeff Twiss, MD, PhD, SmartState Chair in Childhood Neurotherapeutics, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina (February 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75813 75813-19608028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rss4i-7WTwyf8m8ogCPXEQ

Abstract: Neurons are extremely polarized cells with axonal and dendritic processes extending 100 to 1000 fold longer or more than the cell body diameter. Our lab has been interested in how axons grow to such great distances and how they respond to injury. mRNAs are transported into axons, with their localized translation providing the axon with autonomy to respond to different stimuli by modifying their local proteome. Transport, translation, and stability of axonal mRNAs is driven by interactions with RNA binding proteins and different signaling cascades. I will focus on recent work that gives insight into how specificity of these mechanisms is driven for different cohorts of axonal mRNAs.

Keywords - Neuron, Axon, RNA transport, Translational regulation

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:13:00 -0500 2021-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Jeff Twiss, University of South Carolina
Abstracts Due for 2021 Health Professions Education Day (February 2, 2021 1:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80496 80496-20730277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 1:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Interprofessional Education

Join in the annual #UMHPEDAY, a virtual event to inspire future & current health professionals across @UMich to research, network & collaborate. Faculty, students, researchers and practitioners can submit poster abstracts by Feb. 2.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:09:19 -0500 2021-02-02T01:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Interprofessional Education Conference / Symposium Submit HPE Day abstracts by Feb. 2
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (February 2, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar Series (February 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81571 81571-20927558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Understanding intra-tumour heterogeneity (ITH), in particular identifying the presence of subclonal populations of cancer cells that may respond differently to treatments, is key to support precision medicine approaches. Capturing ITH from genomic measures raises however a number of computational challenges. In this talk I will present CloneSig, a method to infer ITH from "bulk" genomic data, in particular whole-exome sequencing data, and capture changes in mutational processes active in different subclones. I will then discuss the promises of single-cell genomics and some challenges it raises, in particular to transform raw count data into useful representations, integrate heterogeneous modalities, and learn gene regulation.

Short bio: Jean-Philippe Vert has been a research scientist at Google Brain in Paris and adjunct researcher at PSL University Mines ParisTech since 2018. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and holds a PhD in mathematics from Paris University. He was research professor and the founding director of the Centre for Computational Biology at Mines ParisTech from 2006 to 2018, team leader at the Curie Institute on computational biology of cancer (2008-2018), visiting scholar at UC Berkeley (2015-2016), and professor at the department of mathematics of Ecole normale supérieure in Paris (2016-2018).
His research interest concerns the development of statistical and machine learning methods, particularly to model complex, high-dimensional and structured data, with an application focus on computational biology, genomics and precision medicine. His recent contributions include new methods to embed structured data such as strings, graphs or permutations to vector spaces, regularization techniques to learn from limited amounts of data, and computationally efficient techniques for pattern detection and feature selection.
He is also working on several medical applications in cancer research, including quantifying and modeling cancer heterogeneity, predicting response to therapy, and modeling the genome and epigenome of cancer cells at the single-cell level.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:12:04 -0500 2021-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Jean-Philippe Vert, PhD (Research Scientist at Google Brain in Paris, Adjunct Researcher at PSL University Mines ParisTech)
Science Success Series | Make It Stick: Research-Based Learning Strategies You Need to Know (February 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80585 80585-20759746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

The study and learning strategies students often bring to college are often insufficient to help them succeed at the university level. Particularly in challenging STEM courses, students can't simply memorize or cram their way to a good grade. This workshop will focus on the popular learning strategies to avoid, as well as the top three strategies you don't know but are shown by research to be the most effective for long-term learning.

Register at: myumi.ch/885DK

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:24:23 -0500 2021-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-03T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar make it stick
HET Brown Bag | The black hole spectrum in (super)gravity (February 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81152 81152-20858314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The talk will focus on the spectrum of near-extremal black holes in gravity and near-BPS black holes in supergravity. For concreteness, we will study cases in asymptotically four-dimensional flat space and three-dimensional Anti-de Sitter. This will be done by analyzing quantum effects near the horizon captured by an emergent Jackiw-Teitelboim mode at low temperatures. This will allow us to systematically study questions such as the extremal degeneracy and the size of the gap in the black hole spectrum, which can be compared to some string theory constructions.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:49:08 -0500 2021-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Oral Health Sciences Semianr (February 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81685 81685-20943434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

YUYING XIE, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering; Department of Statistics and Probability
Michigan State University

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Presentation Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:08:29 -0500 2021-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation Yuying Xie
EEB Virtual Seminar: Mapping biochemical drivers of phenotypic change (February 4, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80092 80092-20556870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Survival in changing environments requires the acquisition of new heritable traits. However, mechanisms that safeguard the fidelity of DNA replication often limit raw material available to fuel such novelty. Our research centers on an intriguing resolution to this paradox: intrinsic links between the folding of biological polymers and virtually every trait in an organism provide multiple avenues through which environmental stress can impact evolution, disease, and development. Stress-regulated molecular chaperones of protein folding such as Hsp90, can broadly influence whether genetic variants can produce new phenotypes. We have identified other proteins, including a protein chaperone of RNA folding, that act in a conceptually similar fashion, ‘buffering’ the consequences of accumulating mutations. Other work focuses on the 30% of eukaryotic proteins that do not adopt a single fixed structure. Many mutations associated with metazoan innovation and human diseases occur within such intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). Yet the function of this ‘dark matter’ of the proteome is largely unknown. We recently found that IDPs involved in gene control can commonly adopt self-templating conformations – molecular ‘memories’ heritable over long biological timescales. This echoes the paradigm-shifting biology of prion proteins. But the ~50 we discovered frequently drive adaptive gains-of-function and do not form amyloid. Most remarkably, their self-templating capacity is often conserved from yeast to humans, leading us to propose that protein-based ‘molecular memories’ might commonly drive new interpretations of the genetic code. In addition to illuminating a new form of epigenetics ‘beyond the chromosome,’ understanding the difference between physiological and pathological protein aggregation has important implications for many intractable human pathologies.
Join us on Zoom

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Jan 2021 13:58:41 -0500 2021-02-04T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Dan Jarosz genetic variation_image
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (February 4, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-02-04T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
BME 500 Seminar: Maria Coronel (February 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81382 81382-20889813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

BME Faculty Candidate
Maria Coronel, Ph.D.
Georgia Institute of Technology

Seminar Abstract:
Two major challenges to the translation of cellular-based tissue-engineered therapies are the lack of adequate oxygen support post-implantation and the need for systemic immunosuppression to halt the strong inflammatory and immunological response of the host. As such, strategies that aim at addressing oxygen demand, and local immunological responses can be highly beneficial in the translation of these therapies. In this seminar, I will focus on two biomaterial strategies to create a more favorable transplant niche for pancreatic islet transplantation. The first half will describe an in-situ oxygen-releasing biomaterial fabricated through the incorporation of solid peroxides in a silicone polymer. The implementation of this localized, controlled and sustained oxygen-generator mitigates the activation of detrimental hypoxia-induced pathways in islets and enhances the potency of extrahepatic 3D islet- loaded devices in a diabetic animal model. In the second part, I will focus on engineering synthetic biomaterials for the delivery of immunomodulatory signals for transplant acceptance. Biomaterial carriers fabricated with polyethylene glycol microgels are used to deliver immunomodulatory signals to regulate the local microenvironment and prevent allograft rejection in a clinically relevant pre-clinical transplant model. The use of synthetic materials as an off-the-shelf platform, without the need for manipulating the biological cell product, improves the clinical translatability of this engineered approach. Designing safer, responsive biomaterials to boost the delivery of targeted therapeutics will significantly reinvigorate interventional cell-based tissue-engineered therapies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:14:27 -0500 2021-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
AIAA Winter Mass Meeting (February 4, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81559 81559-20927549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Join us for our Mass Meeting this Thursday, February 4 at 7 PM as we present an overview of our org and bring everyone up to speed as to what to expect this semester as a member of AIAA! We'll briefly go over our plan, have a bite together (all attendees will be reimbursed $5 on Venmo), and then, we'll finish off the night with a game of Aerospace Kahoot! The winner gets a $15 Amazon gift card, so come PREPARED!!!

Please fill out this Google form if you are interested in becoming a member of our branch:
https://forms.gle/3a4f4qHd1E4Ta67t7

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:09:28 -0500 2021-02-04T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Rally / Mass Meeting meeting flyer
Microbiota Coordinates Diurnal Rhythms, Intestinal Innate Immunity w/ Host Circadian Clock (February 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80105 80105-20558837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Morgan DeSantis
Abstract: Environmental light cycles entrain circadian feeding behaviors in animals that produce rhythms in exposure to foodborne bacteria. It remains unclear whether there are corresponding immunological rhythms that anticipate this microbial exposure. Here, we show that the intestinal microbiota generates diurnal rhythms in innate immunity that synchronize with host feeding rhythms. Rhythmic expression of select antimicrobial proteins was driven by daily rhythms in epithelial attachment by segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB), a member of the mouse intestinal microbiota. Rhythmic SFB attachment was driven by the circadian clock through control of host feeding rhythms. Mechanistically, rhythmic SFB attachment activated an immunological circuit involving type 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3). This circuit triggered oscillations in epithelial STAT3 expression that produced rhythmic antimicrobial protein expression and caused resistance to intestinal bacterial infection to vary across the day-night cycle. Thus, host feeding rhythms are synchronized with rhythms in intestinal innate immunity that anticipate exogenous microbial exposure.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:53:39 -0500 2021-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar John Brooks
Life in Graduate School | "Understanding Taxes" (February 5, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81539 81539-20911626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Virtual Seminar Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93968565401 passcode: "physics"


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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:15:44 -0500 2021-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
HET Seminar | Information Transfer with a Gravitating Bath (February 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81406 81406-20893764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Seminar Link: http://myumi.ch/O4P7E

Recent progress in our understanding of black hole evaporation
has mostly occurred in the context of black holes coupled to an
external, non-gravitating bath. In order to compare and contrast to what
happens to black holes in asymptotically flat space it is imperative to
understand whether the non-gravitating bath is just some external
spectator or actively changes the physics in this system. Equivalently,
one can wonder to what extent the results generalize to the case of a
gravitating bath. We use Randall-Sundrum braneworlds, and their
holographic interpretation, to answer this important question.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:01:56 -0500 2021-02-05T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
SAS Virtual Open House (February 5, 2021 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81380 81380-20889812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Astronomical Society

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program).

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Presentation Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:04:53 -0500 2021-02-05T21:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Astronomical Society Presentation SAS Virtual Open House Flier
Elucidating the cellular entry mechanism of DNA tumor viruses (February 8, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80408 80408-20719586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2021 CDB Virtual Seminar:
We are pleased to welcome Chelsey Spriggs, Ph.D. to present during a virtual seminar on February 8, 2021

Hosted by: Pierre Coulombe

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:44:28 -0500 2021-02-08T09:30:00-05:00 2021-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Livestream / Virtual Chelsey Spriggs, Ph.D. Research Fellow Department of Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan Medical School
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (February 8, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
HEP-Astro Seminar | The Pursuit of Neutrino CP Violation With the T2K Experiment: Challenges and Prospects (February 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81590 81590-20929542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

After a decade of operation, the T2K Collaboration published in 2020 in Nature very exciting results showing the strongest constraint yet on the parameter that governs the breaking of the symmetry between matter and antimatter using neutrino oscillations. T2K has studied how beams of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos transition into electron neutrinos and electron antineutrinos, respectively. The parameter governing the matter/antimatter symmetry breaking in neutrino oscillation, called δcp phase, can take a value from -180º to 180º. For the first time, T2K has disfavoured almost half of the possible values at the 99.7% confidence level. This outstanding result is starting to reveal a basic property of neutrinos that have not been measured until now. This is an important step on the way to knowing whether or not neutrinos and antineutrinos behave differently. In the quest of CP violation there are many challenges that compromise the performance of the T2K experiment. I will discuss the challenges and describe the possible solutions selected by the experiment to overcome these limitations.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:15:46 -0500 2021-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Recycling Where2Throw Training (February 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81371 81371-20889804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Planet Blue Student Leaders

Ever find yourself unsure of what can and can’t be recycled? You’re invited to a short 30 Minute Recycling Where2Throw Training hosted by Planet Blue Student Leaders! Join us for an evening of recycling myth-busting and training as we answer your most common recycling questions!

Register at: https://tinyurl.com/Where2Throw

Forgot to register? No worries! Join us at this zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91436170946

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:45:39 -0500 2021-02-08T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Planet Blue Student Leaders Workshop / Seminar Green recycling symbol on a light blue background.
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (February 9, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality & Health in Detroit (February 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81709 81709-20943461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

With Amy Schulz (HBHE UM SPH), Stuart Batterman (EHS UM SPH), and Angela Reyes (Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation) speaking on "Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality & Health in Detroit".

ZOOM LINK: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96155698295

Organized by the Community Engagement Core & Integrated Health Sciences Core of M-LEEaD (Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease)

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:27:30 -0500 2021-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Livestream / Virtual Feb 9 Air Quality & Health in Detroit
MIPSE Seminar | Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas, the FESAC Long Range Planning Report (February 10, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81665 81665-20941450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The seminar is free and open to the public.
To request the Zoom link, please send an email to:
mipse-central@umich.edu

Abstract:
A long-range plan for DOE Fusion Energy Sciences has been created to accelerate the development of fusion energy and advance plasma science. This plan is based on substantial input from the re-search community, which conveyed a wealth of creative ideas and its passion to accelerate fusion energy development and advance plasma science over an intensive two-year process. The FESAC Long Range Planning Report provides a decade-long vision for the field of fusion energy and plasma science, presenting a path to a promising future of new scientific discoveries, industrial applications, and ultimately the delivery of fusion energy.

About the Speaker:
Troy Carter is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prof. Carter is the Director of the Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF), a collaborative research facility for plasma science supported by DOE and NSF. He is also the Director of the Plasma Science at Technology Institute (PSTI) at UCLA. His research focuses on experimental studies of fundamental processes in magnetized plasmas and is motivated by current issues in magnetic confinement fusion energy research and in space and astrophysical plasmas including magnetic reconnection, turbulence and transport in magnetized plasmas, and the nonlinear physics of Alfvén waves. He was a co-recipient of the 2002 APS DPP Excellence in Plasma Physics Research Award and is a Fellow of the APS. Prof. Carter received BS degrees in Physics and Nuclear Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1995 and a PhD in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University in 2001.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Feb 2021 10:23:51 -0500 2021-02-10T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-10T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Troy Carter
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar (February 10, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81413 81413-20893777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: The increasing omics data and advanced AI technology present a great opportunity for novel biomarker-driven cancer therapies. My talk will cover two parts. First, I will introduce DrBioRight, a natural language-oriented and AI-driven analytic platform for omic data analysis. This platform allows users to perform analysis directly through human languages and it improves the performance through adaptive learning. Armed with NLP and AI technologies, this analytic will maximize the utility of omics data and lead to a new paradigm for biomedical research. Second, I will discuss our recent work on enhancer RNAs. We show that the eRNAs provide explanatory power for cancer phenotypes beyond that provided by mRNA expression through resolving intratumoral heterogeneity with enhancer cell-type specificity. Our study provides a high-resolution map of eRNA loci through which enhancer activities can be quantified by RNA-seq, enabling a broad range of biomedical investigations.

Bio: Dr. Liang is a Barnhart Family Distinguished Professor in Targeted Therapies and the Deputy Chair of Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is also a professor in the Department of Systems Biology. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Peking University (China) in 2001 and Ph.D. in quantitative and computational biology from Princeton University (NJ, USA) in 2006. Dr. Liang then finished his postdoctoral training in evolutionary and computational genomics at the University of Chicago. He joined MD Anderson Cancer Center as Assistant Professor and started his own group in 2009.
At MD Anderson, Dr. Liang’s group focuses on bioinformatics tool development, integrated cancer genomic analysis, regulatory RNA regulation/modification, and cancer systems biology. His systematic studies on enhancer regulation, RNA editing, functional proteomics, sex effects, and driver mutations in cancer have generated profound impacts on the biomedical research community and attracted wide attention such as The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. The bioinformatics tools his group developed (such as TCPA, TANRIC, FASMIC, DrBioRight) collectively have >110,000 active users worldwide. Since 2010, he has published >140 papers total citation >25,000 times), including 41 corresponding-author papers in top journals such as Cell, Cancer Cell, Nature Genetics, Nature Biotechnology, and Nature Methods.
Dr. Liang has taken leadership roles in large cancer consortium projects, including chair of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) PanCanAtlas working groups, one co-leader of International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) Pan-Cancer Whole Genome Analysis Project, and one co-chair of NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) QC working group. He won several awards including MD Anderson R. Lee Clark Fellow Award (2014), the University of Texas System STARS Award (2015), MD Anderson Faculty Scholar Award (2018), and AACR Team Science Award (2020). He is an elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:33:05 -0500 2021-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Han Liang, PhD Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Professor, Department of Systems Biology Barnhart Family Distinguished Professor in Targeted Therapies The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Supersymmetry and Computation (February 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81151 81151-20949383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will discuss various aspects of the interplay between supersymmetry and the theory of classical and quantum computation. I will first introduce basic elements of computational complexity theory and show that the Witten index problem is #P-complete and thus intractable. I will then discuss the role of supersymmetry in defining a special subclass of quantum algorithms and describe the "quantum Witten machine," a quantum algorithm for the generalized Witten index.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:21:29 -0500 2021-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Oral Health Sciences Seminar Series (February 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81688 81688-20943436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Lola Eniola-Adefeso, Ph.D.
University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Chemical Engineering
Vice-Chair for Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Miller Faculty Scholar
Director, Cell Adhesion and Drug Delivery Lab
Associate Director, NIH Cellular Biotechnology Training Grant
University of Michigan

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Presentation Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:25:38 -0500 2021-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation Lola Eniola-Adefeso, Ph.D.
UM Clinical Simulation Center Brown Bag Discussion (February 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81701 81701-20943455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Dr. Putnam will present a talk on "Novel use for Scenario Simulation: Real Life Resiliency."

Stressful and realistic simulation scenarios are common, and considered beneficial for learners.

We used an Operating Room case-gone-wrong to examine the impact of stress and the emotional impact of clinical practice. Our project used physicians, clinical psychologist and an educational specialist to deliver a semi-structured debrief to residents. We evaluated their experience.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:51:03 -0500 2021-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion
EEB Virtual Seminar: Utility of invasive species in a novel ecosystem: pest control in coffee farms (February 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80442 80442-20722019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Join us on Zoom

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:44:46 -0500 2021-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Coffee farm interaction web among major species, including people harvesting coffee. Image of seminar speaker, Ivette Perfecto
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (February 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
BME 500 Seminar: Gloria Kim (February 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81383 81383-20889814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Seminar Abstract:

The major problems in the current therapy for oncologic diseases include its inability to selectively target specific tumor cells in the surrounding tissues that make it hard for the drugs and treatment to reach the tumor cells. Despite the significant progress in the discovery of surface markers, targeting ligands, and biomaterial carriers, very few nanoparticle drugs are truly tumor-specific after intravenous injection and their targeting is still not fully reliable, which results in a wide distribution of nanoparticles throughout the body and increases the chance of adverse side effects. To overcome such limitations, my graduate research implemented immune cells as living targeting and delivery vehicles that deliver therapeutic biodegradable photoluminescent polymer (BPLP)-based nanoparticles to two tumor models, melanoma and glioblastoma. This system takes advantage of the inherent targeting and penetrating capabilities of immune cells into the tumor target and the fluorescent properties of BPLP nanoparticles for in vivo imaging. Our platform technology allows assembling various types of nanoparticles, drugs, imaging agents, and immune cells as a treatment for different diseases in the future. The second part of the seminar introduces how the immune cells can also be genetically engineered for cancer immunotherapy in vivo. Even with huge success in the development of CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells for B-cell hematological malignancies, we still face major challenges in expanding adoptive cell transfer for solid tumors. To expand this adoptive cell therapy, finding the right targets for solid tumors that are tumor- and tumor microenvironment-specific is the foremost important step. During my postdoctoral work, we have found an epitope within the collagen alpha-3(VI) (COL6A3) gene, which can be used as a biomarker to target stromal cells associated with multiple solid tumors. COL6A3-specific TCRs were isolated and one of these TCRs was affinity enhanced so that the T cells expressing TCR variants that preserved COL6A3 specificity and endowed both CD4 and CD8 T cells with augmented effector functions were able to specifically eliminate tumors in vivo that expressed similar amount of peptide-human leukocyte antigen (pHLA) as primary tumor specimens with favorable safety profile with no detectable off-target reactivity. These preclinical findings serve as the basis and rationale to initiate clinical trials using COL6A3-specific TCRs to target an array of solid tumors. As a principal investigator, my lab will first focus on merging immunology, synthetic biology, genetic engineering, material science, and biomedical engineering to develop and evaluate the next generation T cell-based therapies that target and kill solid tumors with enhanced specificity, reduced toxicity, and the ability to overcome tumor-associated immunosuppression.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Feb 2021 16:15:40 -0500 2021-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Innovations in Relating Real Life Exposures to Chemicals and Chemical Mixtures to Health Outcomes (February 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79684 79684-20454248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Tentative Symposium Schedule

1:00-1:05 - Introduction
1:05-1:30 - Dr. Andreas Kortenkamp, Brunel University: “Male reproductive health – a bad cocktail of endocrine disruptors”
1:30-1:55 - Dr. Jodi Flaws, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “Applying real life phthalate mixtures from an Illinois pregnancy cohort to toxicological models”
1:55-2:20 - Dr. Laura Vandenberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst: “The mammary gland is a sensitive organ: lessons learned from fracking chemical mixtures”
2:00-2:55 - Dr. Paul Fowler, University of Aberdeen: “Exposure to the complex mixture of environmental chemicals found in human biosolids”
2:55-3:20 - Dr. Jyotsna Jagai, University of Illinois at Chicago: “Cumulative environmental quality and diabetes rates and control”
3:20-3.35 - Questions
3:35-4:00 - Panel Discussion, featuring: Dr. Jennifer McPartland, Environmental Defense Fund, Dr. Natalie Sampson, University of Michigan, Dr. Zorimar Rivera-Núñez, Rutgers University

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:15:50 -0500 2021-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar FLYER_20210212_Symposium
HET Seminar | Looking for new physics in the neutrino sector (February 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81548 81548-20925390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Seminar Link: http://myumi.ch/O4P7E

I will briefly review the motivation for the existence of new physics
in the neutrino sector and I will describe a few different ways of
looking for such new physics.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:34:11 -0500 2021-02-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
SAS Virtual Open House (February 12, 2021 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81380 81380-20889807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Astronomical Society

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program).

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Presentation Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:04:53 -0500 2021-02-12T21:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Astronomical Society Presentation SAS Virtual Open House Flier
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (February 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
HEP-Astro | Latest Developments in Higgs Physics (February 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81620 81620-20935491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Eight years after the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC, we are still trying to unwrap all its secrets. It has become a valuable tool in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. I will discuss current "hot topics" in Higgs physics, with a focus on experimental aspects. Examples are the search for rare decays, the analysis of the CP structure of the Higgs boson, and the Higgs boson as part of an effective field theory. Search highlights include invisible decays of the Higgs boson, as well as Dihiggs production. I will try to touch upon some theoretical aspects as well.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:15:57 -0500 2021-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
RNA Seminar featuring: Karla Neugebauer, Yale University School of Medicine (February 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78295 78295-20004839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aZggyZ0yQcSPcJrsHloXjQ

ABSTRACT: My lab is interested in the coordination between transcription, RNA processing and nuclear organization that governs gene expression. We have established experimental systems in budding yeast, zebrafish embryos, and mammalian tissue culture cells to explore transcription and splicing regulation in a variety of biological contexts and with a diversity of tools, from imaging to genome-wide approaches. Our observations have provided novel insights into transcription and splicing mechanisms as well as principles of cellular organization that facilitate efficient gene expression. In this talk, I will be discussing rapid co-transcriptional splicing during erythropoiesis and how Cajal bodies assemble to ensure a steady supply of spliceosomal components.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:32:41 -0500 2021-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Prof. Karla Neugebauer, Ph.D.
Recycling Where2Throw Training (February 15, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81371 81371-20889805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Planet Blue Student Leaders

Ever find yourself unsure of what can and can’t be recycled? You’re invited to a short 30 Minute Recycling Where2Throw Training hosted by Planet Blue Student Leaders! Join us for an evening of recycling myth-busting and training as we answer your most common recycling questions!

Register at: https://tinyurl.com/Where2Throw

Forgot to register? No worries! Join us at this zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91436170946

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:45:39 -0500 2021-02-15T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Planet Blue Student Leaders Workshop / Seminar Green recycling symbol on a light blue background.
TBA (February 16, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74031 74031-18493759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Chembio
Xin Zhang (Penn State University)

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Other Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:15:10 -0500 2021-02-16T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T00:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Chemistry Other