Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. NERS Colloquia Series: The Thermal-Hydraulics Modeling and Simulation Tools and Developments at the INL (December 2, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96993 96993-21793656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract:
As the Department of Energy lead laboratory for nuclear energy research and development, Idaho National Laboratory is preparing modeling and simulation tools to support both the existing nuclear fleet and advanced reactor designs. Dr. Marshall will present some of the thermal hydraulics challenges facing nuclear reactors and the INL research activities to provide modeling solutions for these challenges. Discussion topics will include PWR fuel rod ballooning, dynamic flow induced vibration, oxide layer growth, steam ingress for high temperature gas reactors, thermal striping with liquid sodium, and molten salt corrosion.

Bio:
Dr. Marshall is the engineering manager for the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Thermal Fluid Systems Methods and Analysis Department. His department develops software for and performs modeling and simulation analyses in support of existing and advanced reactor designs. Dr. Marshall is also a Principal Investigator for the U.S. High Performance Research Reactor program with responsibilities of managing (1) irradiation experiments that support the conversion of Massachusetts Institute Technology Reactor and National Bureau of Standards Reactor from highly enriched uranium to low enriched uranium plate fuel and (2) fluid surface interaction model development at the INL. Dr. Marshall’s background is thermal hydraulics and he has nuclear engineering research experience at INL and commercial experience at General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy. He has a Ph.D in nuclear engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Dec 2022 10:49:59 -0500 2022-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion NERS Fall 2022 Colloquia Series
VR / AR Student Project Exhibition (EECS 498) (December 8, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101626 101626-21801596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

Experience socially-impactful VR / AR apps made by Michigan students at the EECS 498 XR Exhibition! Join us December 9th in the first-floor Duderstadt VizStudio.

Learn more about the new "Extended Reality and Society" capstone / MDE course at bit.ly/umich_xr

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Exhibition Sun, 27 Nov 2022 19:56:07 -0500 2022-12-08T19:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T21:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition EECS 498 Student VR / AR Showcase!
Complex Systems Presents the Annual Nobel Symposium (December 9, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101838 101838-21802540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 9, 2022 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

This event will be held at PALMER COMMONS FORUM HALL

Walking Directions: https://palmercommons.umich.edu/article/walking-directions

***THIS WILL BE AN IN PERSON EVENT ONLY***
A limited recording will be available after the event.

During this, 'Nobel Week', join us to learn about the Six Nobel Prizes on the eve of the Laureates receiving their actual awards in Oslo and Helsinki.

Coffee and snacks will be served for both the morning and afternoon sessions.

Registration not required. Free and open to the public.

This popular annual event features six UM faculty experts in each of the six prize fields, each presenting on one of the prizes. Each will present for approximately 35 minutes and then will take some questions. There is a morning session and an afternoon session with a midday break. Come to one talk, come to them all!

SCHEDULE

10:00 AM WELCOME REMARKS
Marisa Eisenberg, Director, Complex Systems

10:05 AM PHYSICS
Speaker: Alex Burgers - Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (ECE), and Applied Physics

10:50 AM Chemistry
Speaker: Joerg Lahann - Director of the Biointerfaces Institute. Wolfgang Pauli Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering.

11:35 AM Physiology or Medicine
Speaker - Jeff Kidd - Michigan Medicine, Professor of Human Genetics, and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics

12:20 PM Lunch break 12:20-1:30pm (on own)

1:30 PM Economics
John Leahy - Allen Sinai Professor of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

2:15 PM Literature
Speaker: David Caron - Professor of French and Women’s and Gender Studies.

3:00 PM Peace
Speaker: Geneviève Zubrzycki - Director, Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia; Center for European Studies; Professor, Sociology

3:45 PM Closing remarks

3:50 PM End

For information on prize winners, and 'Nobel Week' activites, please click the Nobel Prize link below. Other information on the Nobel Prizes can be found on the website nobelprize.org

PUBLIC PARKING - closest is the Forest Avenue Parking Structure at 650 S Forest Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

UM BLUE PARKING - across the road from Weiser Hall at 500 Church Street (and also Forest Avenue Parking Structure)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:03:05 -0500 2022-12-09T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T15:50:00-05:00 Palmer Commons The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Conference / Symposium Nobel poster with illustration of Nobel Prize winners.
Human-Centered Design to Improve Inclusiveness of CAVs for Older Adults (December 9, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101398 101398-21801301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 9, 2022 10:30am
Location: Transportation Research Institute
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), in a project sponsored by the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT), is helping engineering students explore issues of older adult accessibility, acceptability, and other aspects of inclusion related to CAVs through classroom discussions and implementation of a class project.

In this poster session, project researchers and Michigan Engineering students will present findings from the project on how human-centered design principles can be used to address the needs and preferences of older adults in the design of CAVs. Hors d'oeuvres from The Produce Station will be served. Space is limited so secure your spot today.

CAVs hold promise for reducing traffic crashes and maintaining mobility among older adults. However, challenges remain in ensuring that CAVs are accessible, acceptable, and otherwise inclusive for older adults. Using a framework of experiential learning (exploring, engaging, reflecting, and communicating), students in a human-centered design course taught by Dr. Feng Zhou engaged in a classroom project to identify potential solutions for making CAVs more responsive to older adult needs and preferences. Students and researchers from the larger project will share their findings with CCAT members, UMTRI and other University faculty, staff, students, and industry representatives.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:26:21 -0500 2022-12-09T10:30:00-05:00 2022-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 Transportation Research Institute Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Promotional Image for the CCAT Student Poster Session. It features a picture of a lecture hall, the U-M Transportation Research Institute, and the CCAT logo.
UM + EMU Student Games Showcase (December 9, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100845 100845-21800429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 9, 2022 7:00pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

[Hybrid In-Person / Online Showcase!]

In Person : Beyster Building Atrium
Online : 494Showcase.com

Experience 15+ new student-made video games at the UM + EMU Student Games Showcase! Interact with the student developers, learn more about Michigan and EMU's game development programs, and vote for your favorite games!

Learn more about EECS 494 and the EMU SAG program at www.eecs494.com and https://www.emich.edu/cot/vbe/programs/sag/curriculum.php respectively.

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Exhibition Sat, 29 Oct 2022 18:07:42 -0400 2022-12-09T19:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T22:00:00-05:00 BBB EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition University of Michigan Student Game Showcase
Listening Session with ARC Director Brock Palen (Dec. 14) (December 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100866 100866-21800455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Brock Palen would like to hear from you. Are ARC services meeting your needs? What is not working well for you? Is something technical impeding your ability to do your research? Do you like Turbo Research Storage, the HPC web interface Open OnDemand, or the no-cost allocations offered by the U-M Research Computing Package?

This is an open, virtual, drop-in office hour. All are welcome.

Can’t make the Dec. 14 session? There's another one on Dec. 16 - https://events.umich.edu/event/100868

How to join the Dec. 14 Listening Session via Zoom
ID: 91451008889
‪(US) +1 301-715-8592‬
‪(CA) +1 778-907-2071‬
91451008889@zoomcrc.com
Meeting host: brockp@umich.edu

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91451008889

Joining instructions -https://applications.zoom.us/addon/invitation/detail?meetingUuid=Yd6MckrLR6qPUTm5WOCbcw%3D%3D&signature=7753aec0479b2fdc59b96e0344852951ebc6c62f409bc58a389b471fc36e3b5c&v=1

Prefer to send an email?
Contact Brock Palen at brockp@umich.edu or reach out to ARC at arc-support@umich.edu.

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Meeting Fri, 04 Nov 2022 08:12:07 -0400 2022-12-14T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-14T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting
Listening Session with ARC Director Brock Palen (Dec. 16) (December 16, 2022 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100868 100868-21800458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 16, 2022 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Brock Palen would like to hear from you. Are ARC services meeting your needs? What is not working well for you? Is something technical impeding your ability to do your research? Do you like Turbo Research Storage, the HPC web interface Open OnDemand, or the no-cost allocations offered by the U-M Research Computing Package?

This is an open, virtual, drop-in office hour. All are welcome.

How to join the Dec. 16 Listening Session via Zoom
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92727272942
ID: 92727272942
‪(CA) +1 647-558-0588‬
‪(US) +1 689-278-1000‬
92727272942@zoomcrc.com

Meeting host: brockp@umich.edu

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92727272942

Joining instructions -https://applications.zoom.us/addon/invitation/detail?meetingUuid=%2BgiWYqLESKelrRuvs9nnuQ%3D%3D&signature=822a64bd6369afc2059ec8e31c7a1d60eedb961e124c27a6b8d83cbb2481082b&v=1

Prefer to send an email?
Contact Brock Palen at brockp@umich.edu or reach out to ARC at arc-support@umich.edu.

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Meeting Fri, 04 Nov 2022 08:14:39 -0400 2022-12-16T11:30:00-05:00 2022-12-16T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (January 3, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21804976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-01-03T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-03T11:00:00-05:00 Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (January 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21800265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-01-13T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
Educating Ethical Engineers (January 24, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103233 103233-21806517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In today’s society, the need to graduate engineers who are conscious of their ethical and professional responsibilities is more important than ever. This is especially difficult given the current media environment that publicizes reports of algorithmic bias, drone-based surveillance, and emissions falsification (among other issues) but provides few positive role models for students. While engineering programs have made significant strides to incorporate ethics instruction into the engineering curriculum, there is little evidence about which approaches best prepare students to address the ethical challenges they will face in the workforce. In this session, Dr. Finelli will present research about the state of undergraduate ethics instruction and it’s long term impact, propose a new approach to ethics instruction, and offer two course-based approaches to better educate ethical engineers.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:25:15 -0500 2023-01-24T10:30:00-05:00 2023-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Cynthia Finelli
Educating Ethical Engineers (January 24, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103233 103233-21806518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In today’s society, the need to graduate engineers who are conscious of their ethical and professional responsibilities is more important than ever. This is especially difficult given the current media environment that publicizes reports of algorithmic bias, drone-based surveillance, and emissions falsification (among other issues) but provides few positive role models for students. While engineering programs have made significant strides to incorporate ethics instruction into the engineering curriculum, there is little evidence about which approaches best prepare students to address the ethical challenges they will face in the workforce. In this session, Dr. Finelli will present research about the state of undergraduate ethics instruction and it’s long term impact, propose a new approach to ethics instruction, and offer two course-based approaches to better educate ethical engineers.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:25:15 -0500 2023-01-24T10:30:00-05:00 2023-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Cynthia Finelli
Declare ECE (January 25, 2023 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103498 103498-21807353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 11:30am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan invites all undeclared CoE students to attend Declare ECE! This workshop is intended to help current, undeclared CoE students learn more about ECE and possibly consider either EE or CE as a major before registering for Fall 2023 courses.

Electrical and computer engineering is at the heart of modern technology and innovation, including computers, cars, robotics, energy and more. ECE will provide the skills you need to CHANGE THE WORLD and GET A JOB!!!

Scheduled Activities at Event:

– Opening presentation from Professor P.C. Ku, Associate Chair of ECE Undergraduate Affairs

– Presentation on available events and activities for ECE students

– Panel of current ECE students

– Learn about EECS 200 that offers hands-on design, build, and test opportunities

– Learn about Major Design Experience (MDE) options

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Presentation Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:27:52 -0500 2023-01-25T11:30:00-05:00 2023-01-25T12:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering Presentation Declare ECE 2023
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (January 27, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21800266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
Fireside chat with Dr. Ruba Borno (January 31, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103466 103466-21807237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Ruba Borno is a recipient of the ECE Rising Star Alumni Award.

Join a conversation with Ruba Borno, Vice President, WW Channels & Alliances at Amazon Web Services (AWS) regarding her insights as a leader in the tech industry. This fireside chat will be moderated by Dr. Ravi Pendse, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, University of Michigan. Attendees are encouraged to sign up to attend and submit questions in advance!

Bio

Ruba Borno is the Vice President, Worldwide Channels & Alliances for Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. Central to the success of AWS and its customers, Ruba leads the AWS Partner Organization (APO), a global team responsible for recruiting, enabling, buying and selling with over 100,000 companies in more than 150 countries, within the AWS Partner Network (APN). APO is customer-obsessed, providing the most innovative programs and services to its diverse partner community of Global System Integrators (SIs), Regional and National SIs, Solutions Providers, Distributors, Data Providers, Service Providers, Consulting Partners, and Independent Software Vendors to build and scale their businesses. She is also responsible for AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange, helping customers move quickly and responsibly to the cloud by making it easy to find, subscribe, and govern third-party software, data, and professional services.

Prior to joining AWS, Ruba held several leadership positions over the course of her six-year tenure with Cisco, a leader in IP-based networking technologies: Vice President, Growth Initiatives and Chief of Staff to the CEO (2015-2018); Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Managed Services (2018-2020); and SVP and General Manager of Cisco’s Global Customer Experience (CX) Centers (2020-2021), where she led a team of 18,000 engineers to deliver Cisco’s full services portfolio including technical, professional and managed services, as well as customer success, and supply chain and logistics.

Before that, Ruba was a principal with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and a leader in BCG’s Technology, Media, & Telecommunications, and People & Organization practices. She is also a member of The Forum of Young Global Leaders, an organization that seeks to drive public-private cooperation in the global public interest in alignment with the World Economic Forum.

Ruba holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where she was an Intel Ph.D. fellow at the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems. She has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Ruba has served on the Board of Directors at Experian since 2018.

Zoom webinar information

https://umich.zoom.us/j/96681494984
Passcode: 525837

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:48:09 -0500 2023-01-31T14:00:00-05:00 2023-01-31T14:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Electrical and Computer Engineering Livestream / Virtual speaker headshot
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (February 3, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21800267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 3, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
2023 Software Seminar Series: FDA Regulation of Clinical Decision Support Software & Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) (February 7, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101793 101793-21802358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Innovation Partnerships

Tuesday, February 7, 2023
4:00–5:15pm

Join us for discussion and insights on FDA Regulation of Clinical Decision Support Software & Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML).

Featured Speakers:

Pamela Forrest, Partner at Covington & Burling LLP

Christina Kuhn, Associate at Covington & Burling LLP

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Presentation Tue, 03 Jan 2023 16:25:15 -0500 2023-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-07T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Innovation Partnerships Presentation Photo of computer on desk with code on screen.
Privacy@Michigan: Child Safety in the Smart Home (February 8, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104342 104342-21808844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

The adoption of home devices connected to the internet is growing and so are concerns about child physical and digital safety and privacy in the smart home. The U-M community is invited to join us on Zoom for a presentation and Q&A with Kaiwen Sun, U-M School of Information Ph.D. student, as she explores the discrepancies between marketing depictions and device features, and discusses considerations for keeping children safe in the smart home.

Kaiwen Sun’s research focuses on the intersection of children’s privacy and safety and understanding parents’ perceptions and behaviors around privacy and safety in the context of smart home technologies.

This event is open to the U-M community (umich login required) and will be especially relevant to parents, grandparents, guardians, and others who interact with children in their homes.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99704278354?pwd=ejJzL2NDNDhPVHkwM3pobHUxVXREdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Feb 2023 10:08:51 -0500 2023-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Livestream / Virtual Privacy at Michigan - Child Safety in the Smart Home Presentation and Q and A
Taking Actions Toward Educational Change in Engineering Education (February 10, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104157 104157-21808511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

As engineering education scholars and engineering educators, many of us pursue educational change and innovation through our research, teaching, service, and leadership activities. In this pursuit, we take intentional and strategic actions towards educational change and innovation goals that matter to us, whether that is reimagining graduate admissions to be a more equitable and inclusive process or redesigning how students are introduced to the ideas of heat and temperature in a foundational engineering course. Our actions towards these goals represent our professional agency towards educational change.

The focus of this talk will be to explore the question of How might we empower and enable faculty to engage in educational change at their institutions? To support this exploration, I will introduce a contextualized theory for professional agency towards educational change that was developed based on a longitudinal and collaborative qualitative study of six early career engineering education scholars. The theory has since been used to examine the actions and experiences of engineering instructional faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Using both studies as examples, we will consider our own experiences pursuing change efforts through this lens and begin to imagine how we might further promote this type of professional agency within our communities.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:48:22 -0500 2023-02-10T10:30:00-05:00 2023-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (February 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21800268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
The Pandora's Box of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) (February 15, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103578 103578-21807510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Transportation Research Institute
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Professor Cummings will detail lessons learned in her recent role as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Senior Safety Advisor, including an examination of the use (or lack thereof) of systems engineering principles, the need for formalized safety cultures, and what technology and policy mitigations are needed to advance autonomous vehicle (AV) applications.
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About the speaker: Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the U.S. Navy’s first female fighter pilots. She is a Professor in the George Mason University Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science departments. She is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellow, and recently served as the senior safety advisor to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Her research interests include embedded artificial intelligence in safety-critical systems, assured autonomy, human-systems engineering, and the ethical and social impact of technology.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:00:10 -0500 2023-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2023-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 Transportation Research Institute Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Lecture / Discussion Promotional Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings. It features their headshot, the presentation title: "The Pandora's Box of Autonomous Vehicle's (AVs)", and an aerial photograph of cars driving.
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (February 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21800269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
LHS Collaboratory Joint Session with UM School of Dentistry (February 21, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102701 102701-21805007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

“The Future is Data Analytics: Many Challenges, Many Opportunities”

Keynote Speaker:

Lawrence A. Tabak, DDS, PhD
Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Register in advance via Zoom Webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GyKMMpgVQHu2ezvxaJfZEA#/registration

12:00 pm-1:15 pm ET (Keynote)

1:30 pm-2:15 pm ET (Breakout rooms)

The keynote presentation (12:00 pm-1:15 pm ET) will be followed by breakout rooms (1:30 pm-2:15 pm ET) on topics presented by the UM faculty and guests.

Opening Remarks:
Laurey McCauley, DDS, MS, PHD

Breakout room #1: Data Integration and Sharing: Opportunities in Entrepreneurship and Research

Wenyuan Shi, PhD
Presentation: Building the Eco-system to Support Disruptive Technologies in Dentistry

Christopher Balaban, DMD, MSC, FACD
Presentation: Entrepreneurship and AI/LHS in Dentistry

Breakout room # 2 Data Integration and Sharing in/out of the Clinic: New Medical and Dental technologies and LHS methods to optimize care

Alexandre F. M. DaSilva, DDS, DMedSc
Presentation: Integrating and Sharing Dental and Medical Data in a Diverse Ecosystem – The Learning Health Systems Perspective

Muhammad F. Walji, PhD
Presentation: BigMouth: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Sharing EHR Data in Dentistry

Breakout room #3: Data Integration and Sharing in Imaging and Pharmacogenetics

Lucia Cevidanes, DDS, MS, PhD
Presentation: Innovations in Multimodal Imaging Data Integration and Sharing

Amy Pasternak, PharmD
Presentation: Integrating Pharmacogenomics into Daily Practice

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:22:37 -0500 2023-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory logo
Online EV/Mobility Scholars Program Info Session (February 21, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104992 104992-21810545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EV/Mobility Scholars Program

Learn more about the EV/Mobility Scholars Program, which will connect engineering students with scholarships, resume/interview prep, and participating companies
Students must be:
• Engineering undergraduate
• Interested in a career in EV/mobility industry
• Willing to participate in career events with participating employers

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:28:39 -0500 2023-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location EV/Mobility Scholars Program Careers / Jobs Michigan: Your Career Charging Station with State of Michigan outline and Michigan Engineering Logo
Engineering – The Joy of Journey (February 23, 2023 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105042 105042-21810635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chris Rutledge is the 2023 Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lectureship award winner.

Engineers today require a more comprehensive skill set and a broader personal network than ever before. The world’s problems are complex, and engineers must understand how these issues intersect to develop effective solutions. Creating a foundational toolset is paramount to addressing these problems. Additionally, the ability to communicate to both a technical audience and to non-technical decision makers are the keys to successful achievement of objectives. This talk will also trace a journey from rural East Texas to Distinguished Engineer at one of the biggest telecommunications companies in the world.

Bio
Christopher Rutledge is a Distinguished Engineer at Verizon and holds numerous patents in next generation communications technology. His philosophy is that all problems are eagerly waiting to be solved. With a BS in Electrical Engineering from Prairie View, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan, and rich experiences across both public and private sectors, he has honed his ability to provide solutions in the midst of concurrent crises while embracing the accompanying chaos. He is currently responsible for the development of a Device Management platform that has, in 5 years, grown from 6 Verizon Business customers to well over 260,000, including over a half-million students learning remotely during the pandemic.

Christopher comes from a family of teachers dating back to reconstruction in the Great State of Texas and is the proud father of two Wolverines. Being a Track Parent, he still employs Statics & Dynamics while strength training young athletes at his home in New Jersey.

Zoom information will be shared via email. Contact Ann Stals for more information.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:48:03 -0500 2023-02-23T15:30:00-05:00 2023-02-23T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion headshot of speaker
Online EV/Mobility Scholars Program Info Session (February 23, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104992 104992-21810546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EV/Mobility Scholars Program

Learn more about the EV/Mobility Scholars Program, which will connect engineering students with scholarships, resume/interview prep, and participating companies
Students must be:
• Engineering undergraduate
• Interested in a career in EV/mobility industry
• Willing to participate in career events with participating employers

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:28:39 -0500 2023-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 2023-02-23T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location EV/Mobility Scholars Program Careers / Jobs Michigan: Your Career Charging Station with State of Michigan outline and Michigan Engineering Logo
MIDAS Data and AI in Society Forum: Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom (February 24, 2023 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104347 104347-21808848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2023 1:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

If the headlines are to be believed, higher education is about to face its biggest disruption in history. But will artificial intelligence tools really “end higher education as we know it,” “revolutionize the classroom,” or something else?
Join us to explore the role of AI in the classroom at this exciting panel event.

Cosponsored by LSA and the Michigan AI Laboratory.

Read more and register to attend on the event webpage: https://midas.umich.edu/classroom-ai-forum/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:28:56 -0500 2023-02-24T13:30:00-05:00 2023-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Lecture / Discussion AI-generated image of a classroom
Developing Teacher Empathy – A Journey of Three Engineering Faculty Members Implementing Empathetic Actions in their Classroom (March 7, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105424 105424-21811742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 10:30am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In higher education, teacher empathy is a term that refers to the empathetic skills of teachers and has been researched since the 1980s. Multiple studies in fields such as medicine, nursing and psychology have shown that teacher empathy has reduced teacher burnout, improved teacher satisfaction and student performance. Within engineering education, there is increased research on empathy in recent years, but primarily aimed at introducing and improving empathetic skills of engineering students. There is very little research on teacher empathy within engineering education. In my current study, I explored the potential changes in perception of teacher empathy among three engineering faculty members as they utilized empathetic actions while teaching a second-year engineering course. I also explored the motivations and challenges that could arise in teacher empathy implementation. The outcome of this study could be used by faculty development programs, department heads and university deans to expand the implementation of teacher empathy within a college or university.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:19:05 -0500 2023-03-07T10:30:00-05:00 2023-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Bala Vignesh Sundaram
EV/Mobility Scholars Program Resume and Interview Prep Workshop (March 8, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104993 104993-21810573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: EV/Mobility Scholars Program

ECRC Introduction to Resume Writing Workshop
You will learn about the best practices for resume design, different types of resume section headings, and best practices for writing bullet points and highlighting non-technical transferable skills. There will be time at the end of the workshop to ask questions.

ECRC Interview Preparation Workshop
We will discuss common types of interviews for engineering students, how to prepare for different interview modalities (recorded, virtual, or in-person), and strategies for managing behavioral interview questions. There will be time at the end of the workshop to ask questions.

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:34:08 -0500 2023-03-08T15:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons EV/Mobility Scholars Program Careers / Jobs Michigan: Your Career Charging Station with State of Michigan outline and Michigan Engineering Logo
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (March 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21800270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
Student/Employer In-Person Networking Event (March 14, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105495 105495-21811960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: EV/Mobility Scholars Program

Attend this first of two networking events for students and employers to get to know one another.
Representatives from the program's participating employers will be present to discuss their companies, job opportunities, and provide advice on career paths.
See participating companies here: https://myumi.ch/n77g3

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:09:47 -0500 2023-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons EV/Mobility Scholars Program Careers / Jobs Michigan: Your Career Charging Station with State of Michigan outline and Michigan Engineering Logo
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (March 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21800271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
Starting With Self, Then Towards Others: How Students Engage With Empathy in Community-Based Learning (March 21, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106180 106180-21813895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

This seminar contributes to a recent movement in engineering education, calling attention to fostering more engineering students to develop social awareness to solve complex problems in the real world. As many engineering problems raised in a community can be related to addressing social issues, community-based learning (CBL) has become a way to educate more empathic engineers. However, there is an ethical consideration in CBL as the outcome of student learning can impact a real-world community partner. Therefore, it is critical to understand how students engage with empathy in CBL to commit to the community’s needs authentically before implementation.

In this seminar, I will share some qualitative findings from my dissertation study focusing on how students shift between the roles of “self” and “others” in the process of engaging with empathy in CBL. I also investigated different types of opportunities to expose students to empathy in CBL, such as structural opportunities (how the CBL activity is organized), social opportunities (how students are guided to work with others), and reflective opportunities (how students think about what they have learned). The seminar concludes with practical recommendations for engineering educators to understand how to support students to engage with empathy in community-based learning contexts.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:46:25 -0400 2023-03-21T10:30:00-04:00 2023-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Linjue (Jade) Wang
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar Series (March 22, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105990 105990-21813376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract is forthcoming.

Bio:
As the Vice President of R&D - Biologics, Dr. Lakmal Jayasinghe oversees all biological research and development projects at Oxford Nanopore. Lakmal joined ONT in 2006 after finishing his PhD in chemical biology in the University of Oxford. During his PhD in the Hagan Bayley group, Lakmal has studied different nanopores and has gained a wealth of knowledge in engineering nanopores using genetic and chemical approaches. His responsibilities at ONT include improving the readout signal of ONT platforms by upgrading its current nanopore reader and motor, as well as discovering new versions of nanopores, motors and chemistries to suit various ONT applications including protein sequencing. Lakmal also works with many academic collaborators across the world to ensure that Oxford Nanopore uses the best possible biological components and chemistries in its platforms.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:29:41 -0500 2023-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Dr. Lakmal Jayasinghe, VP – R&D Biologics at Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc, UK
LHS Collaboratory (March 23, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105035 105035-21810617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Speaker:
Thomas R. Campion, Jr., Ph.D., FACMI, FAMIA
Chief Research Informatics Officer
Associate Professor of Research in Population Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medicine

Clinical and translational investigators need patient data, especially from electronic health record (EHR) systems, to conduct research, but optimal approaches are unknown. This talk explores an approach for supporting different types of investigators and study designs by matching investigators with informatics tools and services.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:51:27 -0500 2023-03-23T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (March 24, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21800272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
Cybersecurity and Risk Management: From Data to Policy (March 29, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106356 106356-21814122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

A reception will immediately follow the talk.

With increasingly frequent and evermore costly data breaches and other cyber incidents, effectively assessing, quantifying, and managing cyber risks has become crucial for organizations large and small. Many key challenges we face are rooted in unique characteristics of this type of risk, from a fast-changing threat landscape that brings unforeseen forms of attacks, to the fact that cyber risks are heavily interdependent among organizations. I will take a look at how this field has evolved over the past decade and describe my research group’s work within this context, in particular, the use of data and supervised learning tools to quantify cyber risk at an organization level, and the use of cyber insurance as a policy mechanism to incentivize better risk control.

Bio:

Mingyan Liu is a leading expert in optimal resource allocation, performance modeling, sequential decision and learning theory, game theory and incentive mechanisms, all within the context of large-scale networked systems and with applications to cyber risk quantification.

Technologies she developed in the cybersecurity space have been successfully transitioned. She co-founded the start-up company, QuadMetrics, Inc., commercializing predictive data analytics her team developed for cyber risk quantification that resulted in the first global enterprise cybersecurity ratings system; it was acquired by the analytics software company Fair Isaac (FICO) in 2016. This technology has been used for enterprise risk management, vendor management, cyber insurance underwriting, and most recently, in augmenting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings.

Prof. Liu joined the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in September 2000, as an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She has been the Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of ECE since 2018. She is the recipient of the 2002 NSF CAREER Award, the University of Michigan Elizabeth C. Crosby Research Award in 2003 and 2014, the 2010 EECS Department Outstanding Achievement Award, the 2015 CoE Excellence in Education Award, the 2017 CoE Excellence in Service Award, and the 2018 Distinguished University Innovator Award. She has received a number of Best Paper Awards and has served on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, and ACM Trans. Sensor Networks. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.

Prof. Liu received an MS degree in Systems Engineering and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1997 and 2000, respectively.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Mar 2023 10:07:59 -0400 2023-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (March 31, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21800273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
U-M AI in Science and Engineering Day (April 3, 2023 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104375 104375-21808976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 8:45am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

At this colloquium, visiting and local scholars, as well as the MIDAS Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science and Engineering Fellows, will share their expertise about the implementation of AI in Science and Engineering.

The goal of this session is to enable more faculty and other researchers to adopt AI methods in their research.
All are welcome to attend.
Registration in advance is strongly recommended - Register at https://forms.gle/WUcCwUy1eghBBDAH8

Speakers:
Sara Beery: MIT EECS’ Faculty of AI and Decision Making, MIT CSAIL, and Visiting Researcher at Google
Yang Chen: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Research Assistant Professor for MIDAS, University of Michigan
Jeffrey Fessler: William L. Root Collegiate Professor of EECS, College of Engineering, University of Michigan
Daniel Forger: Robert W and Lynn H Browne Professor of Science, Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Research Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School
Jay Lee: Clark Distinguished Professor and Director of Industrial AI Center, University of Maryland
Venkat Raman: Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan College of Engineering.

Event page, talk abstracts, and more details: https://midas.umich.edu/ai-in-science/ai-in-science-day-2023/

Visit the MIDAS Colloquia Series webpage (midas.umich.edu/colloquia-series/) for information about this series of events.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:28:50 -0400 2023-04-03T08:45:00-04:00 2023-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium MIDAS AI in Science Day
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (April 7, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21800274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
Launching the Webb Telescope: Managing Global Teams In Turbulent Times (April 10, 2023 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106630 106630-21814594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2023 3:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

When Greg Robinson took over the leadership of the James Webb Space Telescope, it was years behind schedule, billions over budget, tarnished by engineering failures and waning stakeholder confidence. The trouble didn’t end there. COVID, hurricanes, and other obstacles soon stood in the way of success. Still, Robinson managed to bring together 20,000 people in 29 countries and 14 U.S. states to not only turn the program around, but nearly double its efficiency. In this inspiring talk, highlighted by breathtaking images from Webb, Robinson shares how trust, communication and effective leadership can bring teams together from across the globe to overcome obstacles and achieve your organization’s moonshot.

BIO

Best-known as the turnaround leader of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), 33-year NASA veteran Gregory Robinson is credited with transforming a program that was billions over budget and years behind schedule into one of NASA’s greatest achievements of the 21st century. Robinson’s renowned leadership skills and soft-spoken management and communication style have earned him numerous awards and honors, including being named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022 (alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky) and receiving the TIME100 Impact Award, which credited Robinson’s leadership on Webb as bringing us closer to understanding the universe.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:48:42 -0400 2023-04-10T15:30:00-04:00 2023-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion speaker headshot
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (April 12, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107182 107182-21815596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

From the initial genetic patterning to the assembly of the whole embryo, how ordered structures form has always been a fundamental question in developmental biology. The recent advances in imaging technologies are now providing us with direct visual access to the development of whole organisms in unprecedented detail. However, it is clear that to make the best use of this complex data, we need the help of computer algorithms that can mine it for biologically relevant information, summarize and then visualize it for us. The first project I will present focuses on the mechanisms driving the development of diverse 3D bone morphologies in mice. There, we developed algorithms to analyze micro-CT images to deconstruct the final morphology of each bone into the contributions made by remodeling of mineralized tissue vs. the cartilaginous growth plates. This allowed us to demonstrate the central role of the growth plate in 3D bone morphogenesis in normal and pathological development. The second project aims to understand how different cell activities contribute to large-scale morphogenetic movements. To this end, we generated the first whole embryo single-cell atlas of morphogenetic activity underlying gastrulation in the fruit fly, then used these maps to derive a statistical model associating cell shape changes and rearrangements to body axis elongation.

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

Areas of Interest:

My lab focuses on understanding how cells organize to form various tissue morphologies during normal and pathological development. We use two model systems to achieve this: the musculoskeletal system in mice and whole embryo development in fruit flies. Our approach centers on the development of cutting-edge bioimage informatics and data science algorithms to analyze the dynamics and the underlying patterns in developing tissues through 3D and 4D (3D+time) fluorescence images.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Apr 2023 09:15:53 -0400 2023-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Student/Employer In-Person Networking Event (April 12, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105496 105496-21811961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Mcity
Organized By: EV/Mobility Scholars Program

Attend this event to network with representatives from the program's participating employers* who will be present to discuss their companies, job opportunities, and provide advice on career paths.
This event will be held in the Mcity Test Facility with a tour of the facility and its assets provided.
*Participating companies, more info found here: https://myumi.ch/n77g3

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:18:15 -0500 2023-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-12T18:00:00-04:00 Mcity EV/Mobility Scholars Program Careers / Jobs Michigan: Your Career Charging Station with State of Michigan outline and Michigan Engineering Logo
ASC UMAPS Colloquium Series. Cyber Security, Infrastructures of Green Governance and Child Health in Africa (April 13, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105444 105444-21811854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

Grace Njoki Maina (Kenya), “Re-thinking Complementarity in Leadership; The Place and Role of Women in Indigenous Systems of Governance”
Grace Njoki Maina is a tutorial fellow at KCA University, Kenya. She earned her Bachelor of Education and MA in history from Kenyatta University and is currently pursuing her PhD at Makerere University. She has worked in various research settings within universities and the NGO sphere. At U-M, she will work with David Temin (Political Science, LSA) on a project titled “Women in traditional governance of Kenya: Agikuyu women ‘Ndundu cia Aaka.”
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Daniel Ramotsoela (South Africa), “Verifiable Computation for Data-Oblivious Sequestered Encryption Applications”
Daniel Ramotsoela is a senior lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research interests include cyber security and machine learning, focusing on Internet of Things applications and cyber-physical systems. His research project at U-M, titled “A Framework for Intrusion Detection in Industrial Control Systems,” will focus on the development of a framework for host-based intrusion detection in industrial control systems. His U-M host is Todd Austin (College of Engineering).
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Meseret Azene (Ethiopia), “Epidemiology of diarrhea among children with diarrhea aged 6-59 months attending Health Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”
Meseret Azene lectures at the Center for Food Science and Nutrition, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. She received her BSc in pharmacology and MSc in food science, both from Addis Ababa University, where she is currently pursuing her PhD. Her research interests focus mainly on the nexus between nutrition and infection/non-communicable diseases. While at Michigan, she will work with Joseph Eisenberg (School of Public Health) on a project titled “Epidemiology of diarrhea among children of 6-59 months in community and hospital settings in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.”
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Bosena Yirga (Ethiopia), ”The Governance of Green Infrastructure Planning and Management in Hawassa, Ethiopia”
Bosena Yirga is a lecturer in the Department of Urban Sociology at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. She also completed a BA in sociology and an MA in social anthropology from Addis Ababa University, and is currently pursuing his PhD study in urban and regional development at the same institution. Her research interests include green infrastructure planning and management, urban poverty, governance approaches, and forest management. At Michigan, she will work on her project titled “Governance approaches for green infrastructure planning and management in selected Ethiopian urban areas” with U-M host Larissa Larsen (School of Urban and Regional Planning).

Register in advance at https://myumi.ch/p7d6X

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:19:11 -0500 2023-04-13T14:00:00-04:00 2023-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion UMAPS Winter 2023 Cohort, group 3 presentation
Dean Gallimore's End of Year Address and Q&A (April 13, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107179 107179-21815593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 5:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Black Students in Aerospace

Black Students in Aerospace (BSA), the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and the Latinos/Hispanics United in Aerospace (LUNA) organizations are hosting an end-of-semester talk with the outgoing Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, Dr. Alec Gallimore, on Thursday, April 13th from 6-7 PM in GG Brown Room 2505. This talk will consist of an address by Dean Gallimore, followed by a moderated question and answer session with live audience questions at the end, if time permits. The event focuses on the personal and career experiences of the Dean, his perspectives on how the Black engineering experience at the university can be improved by the College of Engineering’s DEI strategic plan, how student organizations can be better supported and uplifted, and more.

Please fill out the attached RSVP form to register for the event and submit any questions to be asked in the moderated Q&A portion (questions accepted until Thursday, April 6th at 12 PM). Refreshments will be served at 5:30PM, and the event will begin promptly at 6PM. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/hsj8EWhGjhsUpB1R9

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Presentation Thu, 06 Apr 2023 01:45:44 -0400 2023-04-13T17:30:00-04:00 2023-04-13T19:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Black Students in Aerospace Presentation Flyer with event details and description
NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series (April 14, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100707 100707-21800275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For more details, follow the "NERS Colloquia" link to the right. **

Friday, January 6, 2023
CANCELED

Friday, January 13, 2023
Electron Accelerators
Speaker: Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, January 20, 2023
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Applications of Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Takuji Kanemura, Michigan State University

Friday, January 27, 2023
Topic TBA
Speaker: Ling Jian Meng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 3, 2023
Why and How Lightbridge is Developing Advanced Nuclear Fuel
Speaker: Seth Grae, Lightbridge Corporation

Friday, February 10, 2023
Modern Multiscale Kinetic Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Speaker: Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Friday, February 17, 2023
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Status and Challenges
Speaker: Gerhard Strydom, Idaho National Laboratory

Friday, March 10, 2023
2022 COP Conference Panel
Speaker: Anil Bansal, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion—The November 2022 COP (UN Climate Change) Conference

Friday, March 17, 2023
Speaker: Peter Hotvedt, UM, NERS
Panel Discussion—Student Social Media Presence at the 2022 IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Panel

Friday, March 24, 2023
Fuel Design and Developments from a Vendor’s Perspective
Speaker: Jacki Stevens, Framatome

Friday, March 31, 2023
Development of Understandable Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Methods in Physical Sciences
Speaker: Professor Y Z, NERS, U-M

Friday, April 7, 2023
Richard K. Osborn Lecture
Speaker: Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Friday, April 14, 2023
Ethical Applications of AI in International Safeguards
Speaker: Chantell Murphy, Y-12 National Security Complex

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:57:23 -0400 2023-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Winter 2023 Colloquia Series
VR / AR Student Project Exhibition (EECS 498) (April 17, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107122 107122-21815369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

Experience socially-impactful VR / AR apps made by Michigan students at the EECS 498 XR Exhibition! Join us December 9th in the first-floor Duderstadt VizStudio.

Learn more about the new "Extended Reality and Society" capstone / MDE course at https://bit.ly/umich_xr

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Apr 2023 02:21:47 -0400 2023-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T22:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition Students exhibit VR and AR projects
UM + EMU Student Games Showcase (April 18, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107121 107121-21815368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 7:00pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

[Hybrid In-Person / Online Showcase!]

In Person : Beyster Building Atrium
Online : https://494Showcase.com

Experience 15+ new student-made video games at the UM + EMU Student Games Showcase! Interact with the student developers, learn more about Michigan and EMU's game development programs, and vote for your favorite games!

Learn more about EECS 494 and the EMU SAG program at https://www.eecs494.com and https://www.emich.edu/cot/vbe/programs/sag/curriculum.php respectively.
Learn more about michigan game development : https://MichiganGameStudios.com
Learn more about IGDA Ann Arbor : https://www.meetup.com/a2-game-designers/

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:58:39 -0400 2023-04-18T19:00:00-04:00 2023-04-18T22:00:00-04:00 BBB EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition students exhibit their game development / XR projects!
Affordance-grounded Robot Perception and Manipulation in Adversarial, Translucent, and Cluttered Environments (May 11, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107874 107874-21818330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 11, 2023 10:30am
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Chair: Chad Jenkins

Abstract:
Robots in the future need to work in natural scenarios and finish a variety of tasks without much supervision from humans. To achieve this goal, we want the robots to perform perception and action robustly and adaptively in unstructured environments. For example, robots are expected to correctly perceive objects in unseen cases, such as dark environments, heavy clutters or transparent materials. Besides, they should learn skills that are transferable across novel objects in categories rather than fixed on known instances. In this dissertation, we focus on the problem of perceiving and manipulating various objects in complex adversarial environments. Specifically, we explore on three aspects including robustness to adversarial environments, synergistic perception and action, and scalable data-driven perception pipelines for customized settings.

First, we explore the possibility to achieve robustness for object pose estimation algorithms against environmental changes, like object occlusions and lighting changes. We contribute a two-stage approach GRIP that combines both the discriminative power of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and robustness in probabilistic generative inference. Our results indicate that GRIP has better accuracy through comparison with end-to-end pose estimation baselines, and efficacy in a grocery packing task in the dark scene.

Second, we focus on how to generalize object representation to category-level with grounded affordance for task execution. We propose the Affordance Coordinate Frame (ACF) representation that enables direct connection between perception and executable action. Along with that, an object part category-level scene perception pipeline is contributed to estimate ACFs in cluttered environments on novel objects. Our pipeline outperforms state-of-the-art methods for object detection, as well as category-level pose estimation for object parts. We further demonstrate the applicability of ACF to robot manipulation tasks like grasping, pouring and stirring.

Third, we contribute an annotation pipeline that enables large-scale dataset creation and benchmarking on transparent objects. The proposed ProgressLabeller pipeline has a multi-view annotation interface that allows fast and accurate pose annotation on RGB-D video streams. ProgressLabeller is proved to generate more accurate annotations in object pose estimation and grasping experiments. Using ProgressLabeller, we contributed ClearPose as the first large-scale RGB-D transparent object dataset with various adversarial conditions such as lighting changes, object clutters. ClearPose is made to support benchmarking of data-driven approaches on depth completion, object pose estimation and robotic manipulation. Then, we built an object pose estimation based manipulation framework, TransNet, for daily transparent objects. The system aims to generalize the pose estimation to unseen novel objects defined in several categories like wine cups and bottles. We finally demonstrate the efficacy of the system with robotic pick-and-place and pouring tasks, paving the way for more complex manipulations such as table-setting and drink serving.

Zoom password: 217944

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Presentation Sat, 29 Apr 2023 09:28:06 -0400 2023-05-11T10:30:00-04:00 2023-05-11T12:30:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Michigan Robotics Presentation Robot perception of glasses on a table
From Theory to Practice: Building Ethical and Trustworthy AI (May 16, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106881 106881-21814961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Every day, whether we realize it or not, we are constantly surrounded by AI technology. From self-driving cars, to facial recognition software, fraud prevention models, recommender systems, ChatGPT, etc., AI is rapidly transforming our lives. But do we fully comprehend the real range of potential ethical implications related to its use and regulation? This event will stimulate ideas and investigation into that question by bringing together academics, leaders and scientists in the private sector and policy regulation areas, to share their knowledge and discuss ethical challenges and trends in AI regulation, along with cutting-edge theory and implementation of ethical and transparent AI models. The event is free and open to all who develop AI methods, are current or future users of AI, or are curious about how AI will shape research and our society.

Organizers: as a facilitator of the development and application of data science (DS) and AI techniques for the broad U-M data science community, MIDAS is also imbued with the mission of promoting ethical research. In fact, one of the five research pillars that MIDAS supports is ‘Responsible Research’, focused on enhancing the scientific and societal impact of DS and AI, which takes place especially through fomenting the discussion and expansion of the Ethical AI field. On the other hand, as a prominent player in the private sector, Rocket Companies constantly strive for learning and applying responsible cutting-edge tools in AI. Joined with a common interest in the Ethical AI field, MIDAS and Rocket Companies are inviting you to share your views and learn together about breakthroughs and pressing issues regarding ethical AI.

Keynote presentations:

"Recognizing and Eliminating Harmful Biases in AI for Healthcare" with Jenna Wiens, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

“Evaluation and Values in Machine Learning and NLP” with Dallas Card, Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan

"AI policy in US and EU" with Merve Hickok, President @ Center for AI & Digital Policy


For full schedule, please visit: https://midas.umich.edu/building-ethical-ai/

Sponsored by:
Rocket Companies, Inc.
Ethics, Society, and Computing

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 16 May 2023 13:34:29 -0400 2023-05-16T09:00:00-04:00 2023-05-16T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium AI generated image, DALL-E
EECS Juneteenth Celebration (June 16, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108777 108777-21820380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 16, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Join the fourth annual EECS Juneteenth Celebration
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97138270916 (Passcode: 696957)

The EECS Juneteenth Celebration will take place virtually and will include:

A welcome address by Michigan Lieutenant Governor and EECS alumnus Garlin Gilchrist
A performance of Lift Every Voice and Sing, the Black National Anthem
A reading of the history of Juneteenth
A reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
A panel discussion on the importance of empowering and uplifting our Michigan communities, especially through STEM, as our goal is to train people-first engineers who inspire the next generation of problem-solvers.
Closing remarks by the EECS department chairs

Attendees will hear from the following panelists:

Madeline Miller, Doctoral Student, School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), University of Michigan

Leon Pryor (BS EE 1997) , Senior Game Producer, Meta

David Tarver (BSE MSE EE ’75 ’76), Entrepreneur, educator, and community organizer

Madeline Walker Miller is the Founder and CEO of NexTiles, a Detroit-based textile recycling company that converts textile waste into building insulation. Her professional background focuses on reducing textile waste and its harmful impacts to our natural environment. Her company specializes in creating secondary uses for textiles and engaging more Detroiters in creating circular economy solutions. She is an alumna of Spelman College and earned a master’s degree in Coastal Zone Management from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

Madeline’s passion lies in empowering young Black people and people of color to embrace environmentally sustainable behaviors. She is a PhD student at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), studying in the Urban Energy Justice Lab. In her spare time, she enjoys family outings and playing with her boxer, Maximus. Learn more about Madeline here.

Leon Pryor (BS EE 1997) is a Detroit-based technology professional. After graduating from Michigan, Leon joined Microsoft, where he helped launch the Xbox and Xbox 360 game consoles and dozens of games from Electronic Arts, Microsoft Game Studios, Disney, and Lucasarts. Leon is currently a Senior Video Game Producer for META’s(Facebook) reality lab group, building games for Augmented and Virtual Reality headsets. Outside work, Leon is a passionate advocate for STEM enrichment in Detroit, Michigan, where he co-founded the Motor City Alliance: A non-profit organization that supports over 100 robotics teams in Detroit in after-school programs, summer camps, and FIRST Robotics competitions. Leon is also the coach of two FIRST Robotics teams: FIRST Robotics Challenge team 8280 K9.0 Robotics from the School at Marygrove and FIRST Tech Challenge team 14010 TechnoPhoenix from the Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies school. Team TechnoPhoenix recently made history as the first Detroit Public school to qualify for the World Championships. Additionally, Leon was recognized as the Michigan State FIRST Robotics Coach of the Year and was runner-up for the award at the World Championships in Houston, TX.

David Tarver (BSE MSE EE) is a successful entrepreneur and educator who has focused on community service for the past two decades. After several years at Bell Labs, David launched Telecom Analysis Systems, Inc., a high-tech telecommunications instrumentation business. He sold that company twelve years later for $30 million and then, working as Group President for the buyer, built a telecommunications business with a market value in excess of $2 billion.

His community service activities include founding the Red Bank Education and Development Initiative (RBEDI), a community-based not-for-profit organization that catalyzed dramatic improvements in academic performance and opportunities for children in Red Bank, NJ. In 2014, he founded the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative, which facilitates the creation of sustainable business solutions to important urban problems. He has served as a lecturer in the Center for Entrepreneurship since 2012, and during the 2015-2016 academic year, he launched a new course entitled “Urban Entrepreneurship.”

Tarver’s book, “Proving Ground: A Memoir,” details his entrepreneurial journey from childhood dream to international success.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Jun 2023 08:32:06 -0400 2023-06-16T12:00:00-04:00 2023-06-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion
The Design and Implementation of the Illinois Express Quantum Metropolitan Area Network (June 22, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108778 108778-21820381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 22, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Arbor Lakes
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join Information and Technology Services (ITS) in welcoming Joaquin Chung to campus for a presentation on Quantum Networking, cutting-edge research, and one of the future technologies in campus network computing. This will be a very technical presentation geared for researchers and technologists.

Chung is a research scientist at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory who is working on the Illinois Express Quantum Metropolitan Area Network (IE QMAN). The IE QMAN is a functioning test bed that supports the transmission of quantum network traffic over existing dark fiber networks. This talk will describe details around the network control and physics involved in quantum data transmission.

Special Invitation:
Joaquin Chung will be available to chat with U-M researchers Thursday and Friday mornings during his time in Ann Arbor. If you would like to schedule a meeting with him, email T. Charles Yun (tcyun@umich.edu) to schedule an appointment.

Joaquin Chung is a postdoctoral appointee at the Data Science and Learning Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He received both his B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering (2007) and his M.Sc. in Communication Systems Engineering with Emphasis in Data Networks (2013) from University of Panama, Panama. He received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Henry Owen and Dr. Russ Clark at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in December 2017. He is a Fulbright alumni, an IEEE member, and an ACM member. His research interests include software-defined networking, software-defined exchanges, cyber-infrastructure orchestration, edge computing, network security, and quantum communication networks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:50:23 -0400 2023-06-22T14:00:00-04:00 2023-06-22T15:00:00-04:00 Arbor Lakes Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Joaquin Chung, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
MIDAS Annual welcome-back social and faculty research pitch (September 6, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109817 109817-21823037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) invites you to kick off the new academic year with us at our annual Welcome-back Social and Faculty Research Pitch. Come and talk with MIDAS affiliate faculty members and others in the U-M data science and AI research community, hear research collaboration opportunities, find out upcoming research and training activities at MIDAS, and discuss how MIDAS can work with you!

For more information and list of speakers, please visit our event page: https://midas.umich.edu/welcome-back-social-and-faculty-research-pitch/

Registration: https://forms.gle/fATqaGoV8tKjjAcY8


Scheduled presentations:
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Stacy Rosenbaum, Assistant Professor, Anthropology.
Research area: Evolutionary causes and consequences of social behavior.

Anne Draelos, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics.
Research area: Real-time machine learning for adaptive neuroscience applications.

Minji Kim, Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics.
Research area: Computational 3D genomics.

Cam McLeman, Associate Professor, Mathematics and Applied Sciences.
Research area: Graph-Based Methods, Machine Learning, Mathematical and Statistical Modeling, Networks, Statistics.

Runzi Wang, Assistant Professor, Environment and Sustainability.
Research area: Built environment, landscape architecture, machine learning, stormwater management, stream water quality, urban hydrology.


3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Yan Chen, Professor, Information.
Research area: Causal inference, data science for social good, experiment design.

Hui Jiang, Professor, Biostatistics.
Research area: Bioinformatics, computational statistics, machine learning, optimization, statistical genomics.

Sean Johnson, Assistant Professor, Astronomy.
Research area: Galaxy evolution, quasars, the circumgalactic medium, the intergalactic medium.

Liang Zhao, Associated research scientist, Climate and Space Science and Engineering.
Research area: Solar wind plasma, heliophysics.

Stella Yu – Professor, Computer Science and Engineering.
Research area: Representation learning with minimal supervision.

Nishil Talati, Assistant Research Scientist, Computer Science and Engineering.
Research area: Hardware-software co-design for efficient and secure data analytics.


3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Wei Hu, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering.
Research area: Deep Learning, Representation Learning, machine learning, optimization, theory.

Max Z. Li, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Industrial and Operations Engineering.
Research area: Design, management, and optimization of air transportation systems.

Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering.
Research area: AI for social impact.

Liang Qi, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering.
Research area: Atomistic simulations, computational materials science, machine learning.

Hui Deng, Professor, Physics.
Research area: Deep learning for nanophotonics applications.

Shai Revzen, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Research area: Biologically Inspired Robotics and Dynamical Systems.

P.C. Ku, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Research area: Optoelectronic devices.

Majdi Radaideh, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences.
Research area: Autonomous Control, Nuclear Reactor Design, Physics-informed Machine Learning, Uncertainty quantification, optimization.

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Presentation Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:31:43 -0400 2023-09-06T14:30:00-04:00 2023-09-06T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation MIDAS Annual welcome-back social and faculty research pitch cover image
NERS Colloquium: Creating the 21st Century National Laboratory (September 8, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108515 108515-21819882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

***Note: This Colloquium is in the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building, Room 1109***

Abstract
The Department of Energy’s national laboratory system was created in the wake of the Manhattan Project to create institutions that would steward advanced science and technology in the national interest. Today this comprises a system of 17 national laboratories that range from single-purpose science and applied energy laboratories to multi-purpose science and national security laboratories. Together these institutions are a critical element of U.S. leadership in S&T and an essential bridge between academia and industry. This talk will draw on examples from LLNL to highlight how we are working today to shape the environment and culture at the labs to meet the challenges of the 21st century, from energy and climate to emerging and disruptive technology to national security.

Bio
Kimberly S. Budil is the director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she leads a workforce of approximately 8,400 employees and manages an annual operating budget of $3 billion. As director, she sets the strategic vision for the Laboratory and is responsible for the successful execution of programs and operations to enhance national security through application of cutting edge science and technology and to maintain an outstanding and diverse workforce.

She leads the development and implementation of the Laboratory’s scientific vision, goals and objectives, and engages with the senior leadership of the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, and other federal agencies, as well as senior leaders across government, academia and the private sector. She serves on several boards and participates in numerous professional and community outreach activities.

Budil holds a Ph.D. in engineering and applied science from the University of California, Davis, and a B.S. in physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Budil holds a Ph.D. in engineering and applied science from the University of California, Davis, and a B.S. in physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2023 08:45:17 -0400 2023-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Kimberly S. Budil, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Director
Burns & McDonnell - Corporate Information Session (September 11, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111785 111785-21827571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: ALL Engineering Majors

Positions: Full-time, Intern, Co-op
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
No citizenship requirements
Resumes collected: Yes

Burns & McDonnell is an engineering design, construction, and consulting firm founded in 1898. We design and build the tangible and intangible, everything you see (and don't see) that helps our cities thrive.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:25:32 -0400 2023-09-11T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-11T18:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Burns & McDonnell
Walbridge - Corporate Information Session (September 11, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111786 111786-21827572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial and Operations Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Positions: Full-time, Intern
Degrees: Bachelors
US Citizenship or Permanent Resident
Resumes collected: Yes

Walbridge is an Engineering News-Record “Top 50” U.S. construction company with offices located across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Founded in Detroit in 1916, Walbridge serves clients in a broad range of markets, including automotive, manufacturing, industrial process, aviation, commercial, mission critical, water/wastewater, and energy. The company also self-performs concrete placement, rigging and transportation of equipment, and facility management. Walbridge employs 1,500 employees who are committed to sustainable construction and maintaining injury-free workplaces. Environmental Health and Safety have recognized us as one of “America’s Safest Companies.”

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:29:14 -0400 2023-09-11T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-11T18:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Walbridge
CMTA Energy Solutions - Corporate Information Session (September 11, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111787 111787-21827573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Positions: Full-time, Intern, Co-op
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
US Citizenship
Collecting resumes: Yes

Join us to discuss green career opportunities focused on energy efficiency and sustainability at CMTA Energy Solutions. Tips for succeeding at the career fair will also be discussed. Food will be provided!

CMTA, Inc. is a national leader in high performing, sustainable design in the Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) field. Our Energy Solutions division leverages our design expertise to provide K-12, higher education, and local government clients with projects that upgrade their facilities to make them more sustainable, while generating energy savings.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:32:50 -0400 2023-09-11T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-11T19:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs CMTA Energy Solutions
Raytheon - Corporate Information Session (September 11, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111808 111808-21827594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Industrial and Operations Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Positions: Full-time, Intern, Co-op
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters
US Citizenship
Resumes collected: Yes

Join the Raytheon Technologies team to learn about the various opportunities available!

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises four industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense. Its 180,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company was formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:36:36 -0400 2023-09-11T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-11T19:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Raytheon Technologies
Online EV/Mobility Scholars Program Info Session (September 12, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111569 111569-21827258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EV/Mobility Scholars Program

Learn more about the MEDC funded EV & Mobility Scholars Program, which connects engineering students interested in EV/mobility careers with scholarships, speakers sessions, and networking with participating companies.
Students must be:
• Engineering undergraduate
• Interested in a career in EV/mobility space with Michigan-based companies
• Willing to participate in career events with participating employers

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:15:54 -0400 2023-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-12T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location EV/Mobility Scholars Program Careers / Jobs MEDC EV Scholars Logo
U-M Transportation Research Institute and Mcity Student Open House (September 12, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112096 112096-21828434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Transportation Research Institute
Organized By: University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

Join the UMTRI and Mcity Student Open House, scheduled for September 12th from 4:00 - 6:00 PM. Food, giveaways, and tours of the two facilities will be provided.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:40:55 -0400 2023-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-12T18:30:00-04:00 Transportation Research Institute University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute Reception / Open House Exterior of the U-M Transportation Research Institute
DraftKings Inc. - Corporate Information Session (September 12, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111810 111810-21827596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: Computer Science, Data Science

Positions: Full-time, Intern, Co-op
Degrees: Bachelors
No citizenship requirements
Resumes collected: Yes

This event includes an overview of DraftKings as an organization; high level explanation of our products and offerings followed by an in depth "tech talk" by one of our software engineers! They will talk in detail on our technology and tech stack, the projects and challenges our engineers face and we will also discuss they type of work you would do as an intern & entry level software engineer!

DraftKings Inc. is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company created to fuel the competitive spirit of sports fans with products that range across daily fantasy, regulated gaming and digital media. Headquartered in Boston, and launched in 2012, DraftKings is the only U.S.-based vertically integrated sports betting operator. DraftKings is a multi-channel provider of sports betting and gaming technologies, powering sports and gaming entertainment for operators in 17 countries.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:42:44 -0400 2023-09-12T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-12T19:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs DraftKings Inc.
KLA - Corporate Information Session (September 12, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111811 111811-21827597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: All Engineering Majors

Positions: Full-time, Intern
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
No citizenship requirements
Resumes collected: Yes

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays.

The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and in 2019 we invested 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:45:58 -0400 2023-09-12T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-12T19:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs KLA
Boeing - Corporate Information Session (September 13, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111812 111812-21827598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: All Engineering Majors

Positions: Full-time, Intern
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
US Citizenship or Permanent Resident
Resumes collected: Yes

As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing’s diverse team is committed to innovating for the future, leading with sustainability, and cultivating a culture based on the company’s core values of safety, quality and integrity.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:48:42 -0400 2023-09-13T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-13T18:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Boeing
Deloitte Consulting - Corporate Information Session (September 13, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111814 111814-21827600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Register here: https://rsvp.deloitte.com/eventlisting/Eventdetail?jobId=156901

Majors: ALL Engineering Majors

Positions: Full-time, Intern
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
US Citizenship or Permanent Resident
Resumes collected: Yes

Deloitte consultants offer global experience and local knowledge to help organizations succeed in any public or private business environment. With more insightful business perspectives, we help focus strengths, push capabilities, and innovate for the future.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 08 Sep 2023 16:14:33 -0400 2023-09-13T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-13T19:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Deloitte
Veeva Systems - Corporate Information Session (September 13, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111815 111815-21827601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: All Engineering Majors, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial and Operations Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Positions: Full-time
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters
US Citizenship or Permanent Resident
Resumes collected: Yes

At Veeva, we build and implement enterprise cloud technology that powers the biggest names in the pharmaceutical, biotech, consumer goods, and chemical & cosmetics industries. Our customers make vaccines, life-saving medicines, and life-enhancing products that make a difference in everyday lives. Since 2007, our technology has transformed these industries, enabling them to get critical products and services to market faster.

We are hiring for any of our five development programs: Engineering Development Program (EDP), Analytics Development Program (ADP), Business Consulting Development Program (BCDP), Consultant Development Program (CDP), and Sales Development Program (SDP)

If you’re interested in avoiding the herd and trying something different, join our diverse group - we’ve got career opportunities for you!

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:57:52 -0400 2023-09-13T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-13T19:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Veeva
Celebrate Invention (September 14, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108937 108937-21820610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Innovation Partnerships

Celebrate University of Michigan inventors and the growing impact of U-M innovations at Innovation Partnerships’ annual Celebrate Invention!

You won’t want to miss this year’s event featuring demonstrations from promising U-M startups, networking opportunities, panel discussions featuring prominent inventors and alumni and the presentation of the Distinguished University Innovator of the Year Award.

Thursday, September 14, 2023
3:00–6:00 pm
Michigan Union, 2nd Floor
530 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Part of Ann Arbor SPARK's a2Tech360, Celebrate Invention is free and open to the public. Register today at https://myumi.ch/73Rd2

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Reception / Open House Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:54:50 -0400 2023-09-14T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-14T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Innovation Partnerships Reception / Open House Image of the Celebrate Invention logo on a blue background.
Accenture - Corporate Information Session (September 14, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111816 111816-21827602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: ALL Engineering Majors

Positions: Intern
Degrees: Bachelors
US Citizenship required
Resumes collected: Yes

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, SONG, Technology, Industry X, and Operations services — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 700,000+ people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:00:36 -0400 2023-09-14T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-14T18:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Accenture
Generative AI: Diffusion Models for Scientific Machine Learning (September 15, 2023 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109818 109818-21823042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 8:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

About: Recently, diffusion models have emerged as a powerful new family of deep generative models with record-breaking performance in many applications, including image generation, audio synthesis, inverse problem solving, and many scientific disciplines. However, despite their impressive results, they also encounter numerous challenges and constraints that inhibit their practical implementation in many scientific pursuits. Therefore, this MIDAS symposium will serve as a timely platform where experts and researchers from both methodology and application research fields will explore the latest progress and developments in generative AI and diffusion models, and delve into the application of these models in scientific and medical fields, which will become a prime venue for idea exchange and fostering research partnerships in this emerging field.

*Please note that photography will be in use during this event. If you do not wish to have your photo published, please pick up a red lanyard during check-in.

For list of speakers and schedule, please visit our event page: https://midas.umich.edu/gen-ai-diffusion-models

Registration: https://forms.gle/APwTeyrphkpsYT5F8

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:36:31 -0400 2023-09-15T08:30:00-04:00 2023-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium Generative AI: Diffusion Models for Scientific Machine Learning cover image
Mammotome - Corporate Information Session (September 19, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112081 112081-21828408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 5:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Positions: Intern, Co-op
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters
No citizenship requirements
Resumes collected: Yes

Tech talk / panel discussion where students can ask questions about types of careers, divisions, technology, and individual career paths.

Mammotome is a medical device company -- breast biopsy devices and accessories.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:07:44 -0400 2023-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-19T19:00:00-04:00 BBB Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Mammotome
iXperience - Corporate Information Session (September 19, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112087 112087-21828414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: All Engineering Majors, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Operations Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Positions: Intern
Degrees: Bachelors
No citizenship requirements
Resumes collected: Yes

iXperience is an immersive summer study and internship program that provides enriching 6-week, for-credit courses in captivating locations such as Lisbon, Cape Town, or even from the comfort of your own home.
At iX, we are committed to empowering students with a lifelong learning mindset, recognizing that education should evolve alongside ever-changing educational paths and interests. Our mission is to craft immersive learning experiences that not only enhance professional development but also prioritize students' growth and cultural immersion, ensuring they are equipped for success at every stage of their educational journey.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:25:58 -0400 2023-09-19T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs iXperience
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (September 20, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111904 111904-21827870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Large datasets of single-cell gene expression and cellular morphology provide an exciting opportunity to learn predictive models of cellular properties. Replicating the remarkable successes of generative AI models for vision and language in the cellular domain would be highly significant for biomedical science. In this talk, I will present three examples of how generative AI can predict key properties of cells, including their dynamics during differentiation, their responses to perturbation, and their morphological shapes.

Short bio:
Joshua Welch is an Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina in 2017 and performed postdoctoral research at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT before starting at the University of Michigan in 2018. His team develops computational approaches for single-cell and spatial transcriptomic data analysis with applications to stem cell reprogramming and neuroscience. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2023 10:03:47 -0400 2023-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Intel - Corporate Information Session (September 20, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112083 112083-21828411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Positions: Full-time, Intern
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
US Citizenship or Permanent Resident
Resumes collected: No

Information session with SWE to share opportunities at Intel and share process to apply. We do not connect resumes, but can review and discuss in our session.

At Intel, we innovate, we inspire, and we lead by bringing people together from across the globe, united in pushing the boundaries of technology.

To us, those boundaries are opportunities.
Opportunities to show what we’re capable of.
Opportunities to develop life-altering breakthroughs.
Opportunities for us to shine, to keep learning, and to further our careers.

It’s these opportunities that attract people like us. Because people like us believe our work can change the world.

From the challenging and rewarding work, to the supportive benefits and programs, to the inclusive, welcoming environment, Intel is committed to helping every one of us learn, grow and thrive at work and beyond. Because that's how we solve the most complex problems to improve the lives of every single person on the planet.​

That’s what drives us.
That’s what sets us apart.
That’s what makes us Intel.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:13:28 -0400 2023-09-20T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Intel
Roblox - Corporate Information Session (September 20, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112412 112412-21828892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 5:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

RSVP HERE: https://www.gem.com/form?formID=56539510-fb19-4e0f-8f66-c970a11199e2

Majors: Computer Science (all engineering majors welcome to attend)

Reach out to swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:58:23 -0400 2023-09-20T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-20T18:30:00-04:00 BBB Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Roblox
Mentoring From a Blank Slate: A Challenge for Multidisciplinarity (September 21, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112726 112726-21829468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

This seminar is Hybrid (Presentation Room 1180, Duderstadt Center and via Zoom).

Abstract: Science and engineering are increasingly multidisciplinary. Many researchers encounter career challenges when adopting methods from fields outside their formal training. For example, faculty who shift disciplines need to acquire new skills while fulfilling their mentoring responsibilities to students who join them in the new field. We used collaborative autoethnography to study a tripartite mentoring relationship between an experienced engineering education researcher and two novice education researchers who have backgrounds in engineering—a biomedical engineering faculty member and graduate student. Using data from written reflections and interviews, we explored the role of instrumental and psychosocial supports in our mentoring relationship. We noted how elements of cognitive apprenticeship such as scaffolding and gradual fading of instrumental supports helped novices learn qualitative research skills that differed drastically from their biomedical engineering research expertise. While our mentoring relationship was overall very positive, it has included many moments of miscommunication and misunderstanding. We draw on Lent and Lopez’s idea of relation-inferred self-efficacy to explain some of these missed opportunities for communication and understanding. Our initial mentoring model failed to consider how challenging it is for mentees to make the paradigm shift from technical engineering to social science research and how that would affect a faculty member’s ability to mentor students in a new field. Our experiences have implications for expanding research capacity because they raise practical and conceptual issues for experienced and novice researchers to consider as they form mentoring relationships.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:56:54 -0400 2023-09-21T14:30:00-04:00 2023-09-21T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Paul Jensen
Mentoring From a Blank Slate: A Challenge for Multidisciplinarity (September 21, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112726 112726-21829469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

This seminar is Hybrid (Presentation Room 1180, Duderstadt Center and via Zoom).

Abstract: Science and engineering are increasingly multidisciplinary. Many researchers encounter career challenges when adopting methods from fields outside their formal training. For example, faculty who shift disciplines need to acquire new skills while fulfilling their mentoring responsibilities to students who join them in the new field. We used collaborative autoethnography to study a tripartite mentoring relationship between an experienced engineering education researcher and two novice education researchers who have backgrounds in engineering—a biomedical engineering faculty member and graduate student. Using data from written reflections and interviews, we explored the role of instrumental and psychosocial supports in our mentoring relationship. We noted how elements of cognitive apprenticeship such as scaffolding and gradual fading of instrumental supports helped novices learn qualitative research skills that differed drastically from their biomedical engineering research expertise. While our mentoring relationship was overall very positive, it has included many moments of miscommunication and misunderstanding. We draw on Lent and Lopez’s idea of relation-inferred self-efficacy to explain some of these missed opportunities for communication and understanding. Our initial mentoring model failed to consider how challenging it is for mentees to make the paradigm shift from technical engineering to social science research and how that would affect a faculty member’s ability to mentor students in a new field. Our experiences have implications for expanding research capacity because they raise practical and conceptual issues for experienced and novice researchers to consider as they form mentoring relationships.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:56:54 -0400 2023-09-21T14:30:00-04:00 2023-09-21T15:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Paul Jensen
Online Michigander EV & Mobility Scholars Program Info Session (September 21, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111571 111571-21827259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EV/Mobility Scholars Program

Learn more about the MEDC funded EV & Mobility Scholars Program, which connects engineering students interested in EV/mobility careers with scholarships, speakers sessions, and networking with participating companies.
Students must be:
• Engineering undergraduate
• Interested in a career in EV/mobility space with Michigan-based companies
• Willing to participate in career events with participating employers

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:57:17 -0400 2023-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location EV/Mobility Scholars Program Careers / Jobs MEDC EV Scholars Logo
Warner Bros. Discovery - Corporate Information Session (September 21, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112085 112085-21828412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science

Positions: Intern, Co-op
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters
US Citizenship or Permanent Resident
Resumes collected: Yes

Warner Bros. Discovery is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates and distributes the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content and brands across television, film and streaming.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:17:58 -0400 2023-09-21T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-21T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Warner Bros. Discovery
Student/Employer In-Person Networking Event at Mcity (September 27, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111574 111574-21827267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Mcity
Organized By: EV/Mobility Scholars Program

This event is open to EV & Mobility Scholars Program participants to network with representatives from the program's participating employers who will be present to discuss their companies, job opportunities, and provide advice on career paths.
This event will be held in the Mcity Test Facility with a tour of the facility and its assets provided.
*Please see program application, list of employers, and more info here: https://myumi.ch/n77g3

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:14:15 -0400 2023-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Mcity EV/Mobility Scholars Program Careers / Jobs MEDC EV Scholars Logo
+Tech Literacy Download: Creating Value with Python (September 27, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111465 111465-21827153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Business+Tech at Michigan Ross

Ever wondered how Python can bring your business ideas to life? Join us for an insightful session where U-M Ross School of Business Assistant Professor Lennart Baardman will guide you through the world of Python and its business applications.

Python might seem complex, but fear not – this session is designed to make it accessible to everyone. Discover the basics of Python, its role in business contexts, and how it can be a game-changer in tech projects. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a business student, or someone keen on enhancing your tech skills, this session has something to offer.

Session Categories: Tech Tools, Product Management

~~Dinner Provided | Bring Your Laptop~~

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 03 Sep 2023 11:48:03 -0400 2023-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T18:30:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Business+Tech at Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Virtual and in-person sessions run from 9/17 - 10/4
MDP Project Fair (September 27, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112384 112384-21828856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

The Multidisciplinary Design Program offers a variety of multiple-semester project experiences where first-year undergraduate through professional master’s students earn course credit while gaining real-world experience. Recruitment occurs every fall with a common application due October 8 for Faculty Research and Industry Sponsored Teams. 33 teams, 1 common application!

Attend either or both occurrences of our MDP Project Fair in the Duderstadt Center for an opportunity to meet with Industry Sponsor mentors and Faculty, and learn more about all of the projects and teams recruiting for 2024 projects.

– Attire is casual
– Check out 2024 MDP project options on our website in advance
– Bring copies of your resume!
– Students may attend either/both Project Fair events

This event also takes place September 27 in the evening and September 28 during the day. Same event, same projects represented, different date and time.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:36:42 -0400 2023-09-27T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-27T20:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Multidisciplinary Design Program Fair / Festival Teal image of several hands working on a set of wires and pipes. Text reads "Experience. Innovation. Teams." in navy and teal.
MDP Project Fair (September 28, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112384 112384-21828857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

The Multidisciplinary Design Program offers a variety of multiple-semester project experiences where first-year undergraduate through professional master’s students earn course credit while gaining real-world experience. Recruitment occurs every fall with a common application due October 8 for Faculty Research and Industry Sponsored Teams. 33 teams, 1 common application!

Attend either or both occurrences of our MDP Project Fair in the Duderstadt Center for an opportunity to meet with Industry Sponsor mentors and Faculty, and learn more about all of the projects and teams recruiting for 2024 projects.

– Attire is casual
– Check out 2024 MDP project options on our website in advance
– Bring copies of your resume!
– Students may attend either/both Project Fair events

This event also takes place September 27 in the evening and September 28 during the day. Same event, same projects represented, different date and time.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:36:42 -0400 2023-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Multidisciplinary Design Program Fair / Festival Teal image of several hands working on a set of wires and pipes. Text reads "Experience. Innovation. Teams." in navy and teal.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 2, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-02T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
DPR Construction - Corporate Information Session (October 2, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112080 112080-21828407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: ALL Engineering Majors, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Positions: Full-time, Intern, Co-op
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
US Citizenship or Permanent Resident
Resumes collected: Yes

This will be a company info session where our representatives will give a presentation about our company (45 minutes to an hour) and welcome any questions from the audience. We will also be conducting on-campus interviews over the following two days.

DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor and construction manager specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology/mission critical, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Ranked among the top 50 general contractors in the country since 1997, DPR executes every project with relentless accountability, whether it is a multi-million-dollar new construction or a conference room renovation.

Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success. DPR has ranked for five consecutive years on FORTUNE's “100 Best Companies to Work For” list: in 2010 at #57, in 2011 at #22, in 2012 at #13, in 2013 at #15, and in 2014 at #10.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:06:08 -0400 2023-10-02T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-02T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs DPR Construction
Texas Instruments - Corporate Information Session (October 3, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113201 113201-21830495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: All Engineering Majors, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Positions: Full-time, Intern
Degrees: Bachelors
US Citizenship required
Resumes collected: Yes

TI is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, tests and sells analog and embedded processing chips. Come learn more about TI's Sales and Applications Engineering roles, which include internships, rotation programs, and full-time opportunities.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:50:48 -0400 2023-10-03T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-03T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Texas Instruments
Artist Talk and Reception (October 4, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110764 110764-21825498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Join us in the Lane Hall Exhibit Space (first floor) on Wednesday 10/4 to celebrate Sarah Buckius’ innovative exhibition !!!techn010ffspring!!! Refreshments, community, and conversation will be available starting at 4pm. At 5pm the artist will give a talk on the exhibition, its origins, and her process in Lane Hall 2239. There will be time for Q&A.

About the exhibit:
Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is an exhibition where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.

Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.

About the Artist:
Sarah Buckius is an artist, educator, and engineer who lives in Santa Cruz, California. Originally from the midwest (Champaign, IL), she holds an M.F.A. from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her creative work, which incorporates digital media (video, photography, collage, animation) and performance, has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Through her work, she weaves "Intertwined HerStories" that originate from the cross-section of *-gender-*-technology-*-lens-based-media-*-the human body-*-caregiving-*. She works in the space of absurdity that emerges at the point of disconnect between the seemingly coded / structured / ordered / production-based space of technology and the messy / complex / idiosyncratic space of humanity and is interested in uncovering the ways in which working with and creating technology illuminates humanness, including gender biases. With an underlying goal of supporting DEI in STEM fields, her work illuminates the ingenuity of diverse groups of people.

“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.

This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Arts Council Santa Cruz County.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:42:38 -0400 2023-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Reception / Open House Text reads: Sarah Buckius !!!techn010ffspring!!! Artist Talk & Reception
Creating Computing Education Beyond Engineering (October 5, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113163 113163-21830171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

The term “computer science” was invented as something that should be taught to everyone in order to facilitate learning other subjects and to reduce the danger of having a powerful new technology controlled by only a few. Computing education has not become the democratizing force imagined in the 1960’s. Today, computer science has a narrow definition and is mostly about getting a high-paying technology job. If we want to reach the original and more general goal, we have to change how we teach computing and support alternative end-points for computing education. In this talk, I review the history of “computer science” and its earlier purpose. I describe and demonstrate new kinds of languages, approaches, and courses that broaden accessibility to computing education.

This seminar is HYBRID (in-person and via Zoom). Refreshments will be provided if you join us in-person.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Sep 2023 10:22:07 -0400 2023-10-05T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Mark Guzdial
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Interactive Performance: “If (x = Robot), Then (y = Move fast and break things); In the (z = Self-Cleaning House); of (n = Coherent Nonsense); While (m = Being Mechanical Turk);” (October 6, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112152 112152-21828516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This interactive performance stems from artist Sarah Buckius’s Arts & Resistance exhibit !!!techn010ffspring!!!, which is on view in Lane Hall during Fall semester.

Bringing together her perspectives as an artist, mechanical engineer, and mother, Buckius developed a female-coded-robot-persona who is a bit of a provocateur, an inventor of absurd mischievous interactions with the live audience that weave together historical and present day techno-science-fact-fiction gender-based references in a tangled mesh of video, sound, animation, and code-based instructions. The piece investigates female-coded personae of robots, code-based work of mechanical turks, the invention of the “self-cleaning house” and Silicon Valley’s motto to “move fast and break things”. Audience members interact with coded-game-like instructions that direct them to interact with her robot personae to execute mechanical turk-like tasks.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Arts Council Santa Cruz County.

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Performance Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:22:25 -0400 2023-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Institute for Research on Women and Gender Performance Text reads: Sarah Buckius !!!techn010ffspring!!! Interactive Performance
Friday Night AI: “Generative AI for Teaching and Learning: An Opportunity or a Threat?” (October 6, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111379 111379-21826917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Join us for a panel discussion about Generative AI for Teaching & Learning. This event is free & open to the public. Please register at the link provided.

If done right, Generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT or BARD have the potential to revolutionize the teaching and learning process. But what does “done right” even mean? Join us on a discussion with students, teachers, and experts in generative AI, to discuss the opportunities and challenges of this new AI technologies. Can they help students with better and more diverse learning experiences? Or can they help educators create more effective, personalized educational opportunities? Education-wise, are we on the path to “idiocracy” or is this a chance for us to become even better and more educated than we’ve ever been?

About the speakers:

Kevyn Collins-Thompson is an Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, where he is also Director of the Masters in Applied Data Science program. His research explores algorithms and systems for optimally connecting people with information, particularly at the intersection of AI and education. His research has been applied to real-world systems ranging from intelligent systems that help children with their literacy skills, to Web search engines that help people learn more effectively. He received his Ph.D. from the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and B.Math from the University of Waterloo. Before joining the University of Michigan he was a researcher at Microsoft Research. His work has been recognized with honors that include several ACM best paper awards, the Coursera Outstanding Educator Award, and selection as a Distinguished Member of the ACM for outstanding scientific contributions to computing.

Zara M. Burzo is a freshman at Skyline Highschool in Ann Arbor. She enjoys reading, writing, traveling, learning languages, tennis, and chess. Her first encounter with coding was learning binary at the age of 5 in the sand at a beach in Mexico. Zara has taken coding classes and also helped teach them — she is also currently taking AP Computer Science Principles at Skyline.

Cait Hayward is the Director of Research & Analytics at the University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation. Her team is responsible for leading and facilitating translational research across the Center, with a particular eye towards investigating novel pedagogies, and exploring how educational technology can be used to advance equitable student success. Cait received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan School of Information, specializing in learning analytics, gameful pedagogy, and educational technologies. She is also the co-founder of GradeCraft, a gameful learning management system.  

Andrew Lee is a 5th year PhD student at the University of Michigan. His research spans interpreting language models to applying them for health care services, in particular for the mental health domain. During his PhD, he has collaborated with multiple industrial labs (Microsoft Research, Meta AI). Prior to starting his PhD, he let the AI R&D team at a local startup in Ann Arbor (Clinc), where he worked on building conversational agents for financial institutions.

Moderator: Rada Mihalcea is the Janice M. Jenkins Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research interests are in computational linguistics, with a focus on lexical semantics, multilingual natural language processing, and computational social sciences. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of the Journals of Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluations, Natural Language Engineering, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. She was a program co-chair for EMNLP 2009 and ACL 2011, and a general chair for NAACL 2015 and *SEM 2019. She is an ACM Fellow, a AAAI Fellow, and served as ACL President (2018-2022 Vice/Past). She is the recipient of a Sarah Goddard Power award (2019) for her contributions to diversity in science, and the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers awarded by President Obama (2009).

The Friday Night AI event series is organized by Michigan AI (the Artificial Intelligence Lab at University of Michigan, EECS CSE) and covers accessible and popular questions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

Designed for general audiences, these events aim to create an educational environment for the public while highlighting the research and perspectives of AI experts and their collaborators. The public has the opportunity to ask questions and interact with experts in AI who discuss their work in non-technical terms.

These events are free and open to the public. Moderator: Prof. Rada Mihalcea.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:52:12 -0400 2023-10-06T18:30:00-04:00 2023-10-06T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Workshop / Seminar Friday Night AI Robot
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 9, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-09T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-09T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Ally Bank - Corporate Information Session (October 10, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113602 113602-21831207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

[VIRTUAL ONLY]

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science

Positions: Full time, Intern
Degrees: Bachelors
US Citizenship or Permanent Resident
Resumes collected: Yes

This will be an information session to engage and help students learn more about Ally and Internship/Early Talent Opportunities. We’re a leading financial services company—and a top 25 U.S. financial holding company—offering award-winning online banking, financing, lending and wealth management services. But the Ally experience is something so much bigger: we also offer many opportunities for you to learn, grow, and give back, while building a career you love.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:21:34 -0400 2023-10-10T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Ally
Department of Defense - Coporate Information Session (October 10, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113601 113601-21831206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Hybrid event -- join with Teams link!

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Industrial and Operations Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Positions: Full-time, intern
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
US Citizenship required
Resumes collected: No

DCSA is seeking up to 119 interns for summer 2024 across a wide variety of position categories, including multiple engineering disciplines. We are also prepared to discuss opportunities for those about to graduate.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:22:05 -0400 2023-10-10T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 11, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112279 112279-21828743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Signaling-regulated transcription factors (TFs) orchestrate the developmental and differentiation trajectories of cells and their activation states. Understanding TF activities at the single-cell level represents a formidable challenge. Single-cell multi-omics technologies now measure different modalities such as RNA, surface proteins, and chromatin states. Moreover, emerging spatial technologies offer highly multiplex profiling of RNAs and proteins, while preserving the spatial context of the tissue. Consequently, there is a tremendous need for computational methods to integrate these measurements and infer the underlying cell type- and state-specific transcriptional programs. In this talk, I will present our computational frameworks for delineating context-specific regulatory programs based on single-cell omics and spatial transcriptomics datasets. These frameworks have the potential to fill a significant gap in knowledge by defining cell context-specific regulators driving cellular identity, as well as discovering new targets and approaches for advancing therapy.

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

Short Bio:
Hatice Ülkü Osmanbeyoğlu joined University of Pittsburgh in December 2018 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a member of Hillman's Cancer Biology Program. She is also affiliated with the Intelligent System Program in the School of Computing and Information, the Bioengineering in the School of Medicine and the Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. Hatice has a BS in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University (2004, Summa Cum Laude), MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (2006), MS in Bioengineering from University of Pittsburgh (2009) and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from University of Pittsburgh (2012). She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Christina Leslie Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her multidisciplinary research utilizes novel machine learning techniques and multi-omics and imaging technologies to extract therapeutical and biological insight for the purpose of precision medicine. She is a recipient of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Postdoctoral Research Award, NIH NCI Pathway to Independence Award, the Innovation in Cancer Informatics Award and Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (R35).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:33:58 -0400 2023-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
MongoDB - Corporate Information Session (October 12, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113604 113604-21831210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

[VIRTUAL ONLY]

Come network with recruiters and learn more about professional development in a casual environment! Anyone is welcome to attend.

Majors: Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science

Positions: Intern
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters
No citizenship requirements
Resumes collected: Yes

Headquartered in New York, MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, our developer data platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for today’s wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:25:52 -0400 2023-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-12T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs MongoDB
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 13, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-13T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 16, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-16T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-16T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Michigan AI Symposium | Responsible AI (October 17, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111389 111389-21826984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 9:00am
Location: BBB
Organized By: Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

As artificial intelligence continues to evolve and become more powerful, researchers must begin to explore its responsible development and use. The 6th annual Michigan AI Symposium will be dedicated to discussing Responsible AI. Speakers and panelists from both academia and industry will present the latest AI research and discuss topics surrounding fairness, inclusivity, interpretability, transparency, reliability, privacy, safety, and security in both the development and applications of AI.

The event is free & open to the public. Please register if you plan to attend.

This event is sponsored at the Silver level by LG AI Research, and at the Bronze level by Voxel51, Jane Street, and KLA

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:35:47 -0400 2023-10-17T09:00:00-04:00 2023-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 BBB Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Conference / Symposium Responsible AI Symposium sponsored by KLA, Jane Street, and Voxel51
LHS Collaboratory (October 18, 2023 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/112750 112750-21829504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 11:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Speaker:
Ewout W. Steyerberg, PhD
Professor of Clinical Biostatistics & Medical Decision Making, Chair, Dept of Biomedical Data Sciences
Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands

Clinical prediction models aim to predict a person’s risk of an outcome (e.g. complications, mortality) given their observed characteristics (1). Risk predictions are traditionally derived from regression models. Artificial Intelligence, and specifically Machine Learning methods, are gaining interest to develop predictive algorithms. Predictions from classic models or AI algorithms need to be reliable to provide valid support for tasks such as shared decision making and whether a person should initiate a particular treatment.
The aim of this talk is to review recent developments in prediction model development and validation. Illustrations will be provided from different medical applications. Trustworthiness will be discussed in relation to the statistical aspects -such as sample size and the exceptionality of patients-, model uncertainty, and heterogeneity between contexts of practical application.

References
1. Steyerberg EW. Clinical Prediction Models: A Practical Approach to Development, Validation, and Updating. 2nd ed. Springer International Publishing; 2019. (Statistics for Biology and Health). Available from: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030163983

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:08:38 -0400 2023-10-18T11:30:00-04:00 2023-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
Weekly DCMB/CCMB Seminar Series (October 18, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113695 113695-21831467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Core regulatory transcription factors (CR TFs) orchestrate the placement of super enhancers (SEs) to activate transcription of cell-identity specifying gene networks and are critical in promoting cancer. We defined the core regulatory circuitry of fusion positive rhabdomyosarcoma (FP-RMS, a cancer of childhood) in primary tumors and cell lines, which includes PAX3-FOXO1 (P3F), MYOD1, SOX8, MYCN and others. To find chemical probes able to selectively inhibit CR TF transcription, we screened the Structural Genomics Consortium epigenetic probe set by RNA-seq. We found that chemical probes along the acetylation-axis, and not the methylation-axis, are able to cause selective disruption of CR TF transcription. Inhibitors of HDACs (acetylation erasers), BRD4 (acetylation readers) and CBP/p300 (acetylation writers) were all able to selectively halt CR TF transcription.
For HDACs, this raised a conundrum: why would too much histone acetylation, an active chromatin mark, stop transcription at CR TFs? ChIP-seq showed that CR TFs build SEs that have the largest quantities of histone acetylation and the enzymes that write acetylation (i.e., p300), yet paradoxically also harbor the highest amounts of the opposing histone deacetylases (HDACs). To investigate the architectural effects of disabling HDACs and causing hyper acetylation, we developed Absolute Quantification of Architecture (AQuA) HiChIP, revealing erosion of native SE contacts at CR TFs, and extensive aberrant contacts. This did not cause an elongation defect, but rather removed RNA Pol2 from core regulatory genetic elements and eliminated RNA-Pol2 phase condensates in 20 minutes. We further dissected the contribution of HDAC isoforms using a set of HDAC selective inhibitors, finding HDAC1/2/3 are co-essential to CR transcription.
Using HAT inhibitors/degraders, we discovered a profound dependence on CBP/p300 for clustering of Pol2 loops that connect P3F to its target genes. In the absence of CBP/p300, Pol2 long range enhancer loops collapse, Pol2 accumulates in CpG islands and fails to exit the gene body. These results reveal a potential novel axis for therapeutic interference with P3F in FP-RMS and clarify the molecular relationship of P3F and CBP/p300 in sustaining active Pol2 clusters essential for oncogenic transcription.
In multiple contexts, we propose Pol2 Un-Loading Ratio (PULR) as a new key metric to quantify and explain the drug induced defects in CR TF transcription. Overall, our data reveals a SE-specific need for balancing histone acetylation states to maintain SE architecture, Pol2 clustering in 3D, and CR TF transcription.

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

Short bio:
Dr. Berkley Gryder is a chemist who retrained as a molecular biologist and computer scientist. He is passionate about understanding how cancer cells control their genes, and developing new chemical strategies to stop cancer cell’s addiction to gene transcription. Along the way, he has proposed paradigm shifts and surprises that are explaining old conundrums. Recognizing that the “right” answer to a tough question is often out of reach with current tools, Dr. Gryder is always innovating techniques with an ultra-high level of spatial and temporal precision to study gene control/epigenetics.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Oct 2023 11:53:28 -0400 2023-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 20, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 23, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-23T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-23T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Ampere Computing - Corporate Information Session (October 24, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114145 114145-21832394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Majors: Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Calling ECE, EE, CE, and CS students looking for 2024 internships and full time roles post graduation in the following areas: Architects, Logic Designers, Design Verification Engineers, Physical Design Engineers, as well as SW engineers who enjoy working at the low level of the stack. Be part of the small start up company feel of innovators focused on designing optimal microprocessors for the cloud with environmental impact top of mind.

Ampere was founded six years ago with a purpose: Be the group of innovators that redefines the way we power the modern cloud sustainably, by providing the highest performance Cloud Native Processors (CNP) that buck the trend of the power-hungry chips inside data centers today.

Positions: Full-time, Intern
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
No citizenship requirements
Resumes collected: Yes

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:46:50 -0500 2023-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Ampere
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar Series (October 25, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114343 114343-21832754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Methodological breakthroughs over the past decades have repeatedly revolutionized genomic and proteomic profiling of human tumors. Using RNA sequencing and mass-spectrometry it has now become possible quantify the transcriptional and translational outputs of thousands of tumor samples. These data provide a link between cellular phenotypes and their molecular underpinnings, such as mutations. In the context of cancer, this link represents an opportunity to dissect the complexity and heterogeneity of tumors and to discover new biomarkers or therapeutic strategies. The National Cancer Institute's Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) was established to accelerate the understanding of the molecular basis of cancer through the application of large-scale proteome and genome analysis, or proteogenomics. In my talk I will review the rationale, methodology and translational impact of proteogenomic profiling of cancer, and detail the contributions of the University of Michigan Proteogenomic Data Analysis Center towards efforts to unravel the genetic and phenotypic complexity of multiple common and rare human cancers.




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


Short Bio:
Marcin Cieslik is an assistant professor in the Departments of Pathology and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan. His lab's research aims to further the discovery, understanding, and clinical translation of genomic underpinnings of cancer. His research group specializes in the development of computational and statistical methods for the analysis of large-scale sequencing data to understand genomic and proteomic mechanisms related to cancer. Currently, their research focuses on discovering genetic and regulatory mechanisms of cancer immune evasion and understanding oncogenic mechanisms through integrative analyses of cancers genomes and proteomes.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:42:43 -0400 2023-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
University of Southern California - Viterbi School of Engineering Information Session (October 25, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114146 114146-21832395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Majors: Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Operations Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Astronautical Engineering

Positions: Full-time
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters
No citizenship requirements
Resumes collected: No

Intended Audience: The session is aimed primarily at engineering and computer science students interested in Master’s and PhD programs in engineering and computer science. However, those interested in finance may be interested in our MS in Financial Engineering; our Astronautical Engineering department actively recruits physics students, those with an interest in data science who have taken at least a statistics course may be interested in one of our many MS in Data Science programs.

Description: Interested in graduate programs in engineering or CS? Please come to our information session. The university of Southern California’s graduate engineering/CS program is consistently well ranked with 13 PhD programs and over 60 Master’s programs. Our MS programs cover a wide range of specializations including: Dynamics & Control, Biomedical Data Analytics, Transportation Engineering and Quantum Information Science.

The session will begin with “Why Grad School?” A short, non-school specific presentation that covers why a student might want to consider grad school, the differences between types of graduate programs, what factors to consider and how to prepare for grad school. This is followed by a presentation on the graduate school opportunities in engineering and CS at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering.


Topics:

- Overview of Los Angeles, USC and the Viterbi School of Engineering
- Master’s & PhD programs
- Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Application Process
- Funding & Tuition
- Career Opportunities
- Q&A

All attendees have the opportunity to request a $90 application fee waiver.

Located in Los Angeles, a global center for arts, technology and international trade, the University of Southern California is a leading private research university. With a diverse student body and extensive opportunities for interdisciplinary study and research, USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering has an international reputation for excellence and is consistently top-ranked in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. We have MS and PhD programs in Computer Science and Materials Science, and in the following engineering disciplines: Aerospace, Astronautical, Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Industrial & Systems, Mechanical, and Petroleum. We also have MS programs in Data Science, Engineering Management, Financial Engineering, and Green Technologies. Among our newest Master’s programs are ones in Quantum Data Science, Advance Design & Construction Technology (Civil Eng.), Applied Physics and Biomedical Data Analytics.

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:41:07 -0400 2023-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-25T18:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs USC Viterbi
Arduino Workshop (October 25, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114180 114180-21832440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

Excited to meet ya! My name is Faizan and I will be introducing the basics of electronics, how an arduino works, basic communication, and programming through 30 minute workshops.

Hopefully, this will be a super engaging, interactive and practical experience into the world of microcontrollers and how you can make your projects come to life!

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN! I would like to gain insights into your background, availability, and where your interests lie!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:10:21 -0400 2023-10-25T18:30:00-04:00 2023-10-25T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Workshop / Seminar Poster for Event
A Program of Research to Advance Science and Engineering Education: A Success Story (October 26, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113940 113940-21831946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Research in STEM education (especially engineering education) has grown exponentially in the last decade. In our quest to find the best evidence to teach and learn STEM concepts, Dr. Adesope has worked with colleagues from around the country and especially the WSU’s Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture to advance a strong program of research that has resulted in about 165 publications and 15 grant-funded projects as PI/co-PI mostly from the National Science Foundation. In this presentation, Dr. Adesope will provide summaries of these STEM projects (mostly engineering and computer science education projects) and some key highlights of their major discoveries and advancements of research in engineering and computer science education. He will conclude his presentation with current efforts to provide evidence-based practices in engineering education through the editorial work with the Journal of Engineering Education.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:25:09 -0400 2023-10-26T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-26T14:45:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Olusola (Sola) Adesope
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 27, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
The Inherent Tension between Managerial and Professional Knowledge (October 27, 2023 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114361 114361-21832791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Professional workers, especially in health care and education, are among the least happy, most burnt-out categories of workers. This should be surprising, given that what they do is inherently meaningful, and that the content of their work is interesting and engages skills that most people find intrinsically rewarding to exercise. I argue that the discontent of so many professionals is likely due to their increasing proletarianization. As professionals become increasingly submerged as employees in large organizations, often operated on a for-profit basis, they suffer losses of professional autonomy. The organizations they work for operate on a managerial logic that disdains and suppresses the kinds of local, personal, practical knowledge that professionals cultivate and need to exercise to do their jobs well. I explore the contrasts between the kind of knowledge managers use to pursue organizational goals and the kind of knowledge professionals use in their everyday interactions with patients, students, and clients, to explain the pervasive burnout of professionals in large organizations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:34:54 -0400 2023-10-27T13:30:00-04:00 2023-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Elizabeth Anderson
EER Prospective Student Open House (October 30, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114235 114235-21832538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

We are excited to invite all interested students to attend an open house to learn about the UM's graduate program in Engineering Education Research (EER). UM's EER program represents a unique, interdisciplinary model: EER Ph.D. students (who enjoy a full funding package) and M.S. students are part of a college-wide program, while several tenure-line EER faculty are embedded within the traditional engineering departments. The integrated nature of the program allows the EER faculty and their research groups to be well-integrated with the traditional engineering disciplines, and it provides students a better opportunity to engage in innovative research and make scholarly contributions to the engineering education community. More information about the program is available at our EER website (https://eer.engin.umich.edu/)

Students from all institutions are invited to attend (a Zoom link will be emailed prior to the program). Participants will hear about the EER graduate program, meet faculty who are recruiting students for AY 2024-25, and learn about career opportunities as a UM graduate in this field. Application fee waivers will be provided to those who attend.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:30:38 -0400 2023-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Reception / Open House Engineering Education Research
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 30, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-30T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (November 1, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113421 113421-21830984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
You have designed experiments and collected a lot of data that may reveal certain attributes of interest. Now you ask: How many basic patterns are there? What are typical patterns, and what are outliers? How to connect them to your attributes of interest? What if you don’t know what you are looking for? I will present a series of work in computer vision as well as applications that involve unsupervised learning of visual concepts, unsupervised instance selection, unsupervised learning of data-driven prototypicality, and predictive learning cross data modalities.

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

Short Bio:
Stella Yu received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied robotics at the Robotics Institute and vision science at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Before she joined the University of Michigan faculty in Fall 2022, she had been the Director of Vision Group at the International Computer Science Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, and on the faculty of Computer Science, Vision Science, Cognitive and Brain Sciences at UC Berkeley. Dr. Yu is interested not only in understanding visual perception from multiple perspectives, but also in using computer vision and machine learning to automate and exceed human expertise in practical applications.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 03 Oct 2023 11:44:20 -0400 2023-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 2023-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Arduino Workshop (November 1, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114180 114180-21832441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

Excited to meet ya! My name is Faizan and I will be introducing the basics of electronics, how an arduino works, basic communication, and programming through 30 minute workshops.

Hopefully, this will be a super engaging, interactive and practical experience into the world of microcontrollers and how you can make your projects come to life!

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN! I would like to gain insights into your background, availability, and where your interests lie!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:10:21 -0400 2023-11-01T18:30:00-04:00 2023-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Workshop / Seminar Poster for Event
Accidental Entrepreneurship: My Journey Using Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Solve Global Problems (November 2, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114831 114831-21833671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

This is the third talk as a part of the ECE Future Careers Alumni Speaker Series.

About the speaker:

Danny is the CEO and Co-founder of SkySpecs, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan with offices in The Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, UK, India, and Austria. SkySpecs was founded in 2012 and has grown to over 250 employees worldwide. SkySpecs’ mission is to simplify renewable energy asset management through software automation, robotics, and tech enabled services to help wind farm owners around the world maximize the life and output of their assets. SkySpecs is the world leader in automated blade asset management with almost 200,000 turbines inspected in the last 7 years. Danny has led fundraising efforts, raising over $120m over 6 rounds from Seed through Private Equity. Danny has also led the acquisition efforts of three companies in the last two years, expanding SkySpecs’ expertise, geographic position, and product portfolio. Danny is a two-time graduate of the University of Michigan with a BSE and MSE in Aerospace Engineering. He is a Techstars alum (2015), a Forbes’ “30 under 30” award recipient (2016), Endeavor Entrepreneur since 2017, Detroit Crain’s “40 under 40” award recipient, and a EY Entrepreneur of the Year Regional Winner (Michigan, 2023).

What is the ECE Future Careers Alumni Speaker Series?

The ECE Future Careers Alumni Speaker Series is designed to help U of M undergraduate students answer the question: what can I do with an EE or CE degree? There are several facets within ECE and our hope is a series like this will provide some clarity and guidance to our undergraduate students as they begin to think about their future plans. Free food will be provided!

This series is organized by the ECE Student Educational Experience (SEE) Committee.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Nov 2023 15:58:17 -0400 2023-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 2023-11-02T18:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 3, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-03T11:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 6, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-06T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Various Aspects of Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction — CCAT Research Review (November 7, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113781 113781-21831672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Transportation Research Institute
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

We are all pedestrians at some point in our daily lives. Whether it is walking to work or strolling through a park, pedestrian safety should be a vital concern. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 7,388 pedestrians were killed and more than 60,000 were injured in 2021. As automated vehicle technology proliferates, the safety of all road users must be at the forefront.

This talk, led by Professor Sridhar Lakshmanan, will focus on a variety of enabling technologies for vehicle-pedestrian interactions such as Automated Pedestrian Proxies, Prediction of Vehicle Conflicts, and Use of Projection Light to Increase Pedestrian Safety. In particular, Professor Lakshmanan will highlight his xBOT platform which behaves and is perceived as a free-moving pedestrian, scooter, bicycle, motorbike, or full-sized vehicle to test the safety performance of AV systems.
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About the speaker: Sridhar Lakshmanan is an Educator, Researcher, Mentor and Entrepreneur. He is on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Michigan – Dearborn. His expertise lies in intelligent systems: autonomous-connected vehicles, robots, intelligent transportation systems, and smart cities. He was won many awards for his work at the University. His publications on automotive radar won the 2001 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Vehicular Electronics Society, on semi-truck platooning won the 2019 GVSETS Conference Best Paper Award from NDIA, and on lightweight transport robot the 2021 GVSETS Conference Best Paper Award from NDIA. He has served as a Project Director and Principal Investigator on a number of grants and contracts from various U.S. Government agencies: Defense, Transportation, Energy, and NSF; Defense Contractors: SAIC and General Dynamics; and Commercial Automotive Companies: Ford, GM, Delphi/Aptiv, ZF, Hella, Osram, and GAA. Sridhar has been a mentor and advisor to more than ten startups. Finally, Sridhar’s estimates on transmission and distribution assets have been used in the City of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy filings in federal courts, and he has been instrumental in the system-wide LED replacements of the City of Detroit’s and City of Memphis’ streetlights. Sridhar got his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst in 1991.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:41:23 -0400 2023-11-07T13:00:00-05:00 2023-11-07T14:00:00-05:00 Transportation Research Institute Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Banner for CCAT Research Review with Sridhar Lakshmanan. It features their headshot and the title of their lecture.
Meta - Women in Tech Career Panel (November 7, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114837 114837-21833675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Meta - Women in Tech Career Panel

Meta (formerly known as Facebook) builds technologies that help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.

Majors: Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Industrial and Operations Engineering

Positions: Full-time, Intern
Degrees: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
No citizenship requirements
Resumes collected: Yes

Email swe.car.pub@umich.edu with any questions!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:54:51 -0400 2023-11-07T18:30:00-05:00 2023-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Meta
Weekly DCMB / CCMB Seminar (November 8, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114080 114080-21832309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title:
Mapping and modulating intercellular signaling in engineered neuromuscular tissues

Abstract:
Human beings and other biological creatures navigate unpredictable and dynamic environments by combining compliant mechanical actuators (skeletal muscle) with neural control and sensory feedback. Abiotic actuators, by contrast, have yet to match their biological counterparts in their ability to autonomously sense and adapt their form and function to changing environments. We have shown that engineered skeletal muscle actuators, controlled by neuronal networks, can generate force and power functional behaviors such as walking and pumping in a range of untethered robots. These muscle-powered robots are dynamically responsive to biochemical and mechanical stimuli and are capable of complex functional behaviors like exercise-mediated strengthening and healing in response to damage. Our lab uses engineered bioactuators as a platform to understand assembly and remodeling in neuromuscular tissues in physiological and pathological states, restore mobility after disease and damage, and power soft robots. This talk will cover the advantages, challenges, and future directions of understanding and manipulating the mechanics of biological motor control.

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

Short Bio:
Ritu Raman, PhD is the d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Her lab is centered on engineering adaptive living materials for applications in medicine and machines. Prof. Raman has received several recognitions for scientific innovation, including the NSF CAREER Award, the DoD Army Young Investigator Award, and being named a Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences. She has also been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 lists, and is the author of the MIT Press book Biofabrication. She is passionate about increasing diversity in STEM and has championed many initiatives to empower women in science, including being named a AAAS IF/THEN ambassador and founding the Women in Innovation and STEM Database at MIT (WISDM). Prof. Raman received her BS from Cornell University and her PhD as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed her postdoctoral research with Prof. Robert Langer at MIT, funded by a L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Fellowship from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:00:51 -0400 2023-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Arduino Workshop (November 8, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114180 114180-21832442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

Excited to meet ya! My name is Faizan and I will be introducing the basics of electronics, how an arduino works, basic communication, and programming through 30 minute workshops.

Hopefully, this will be a super engaging, interactive and practical experience into the world of microcontrollers and how you can make your projects come to life!

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN! I would like to gain insights into your background, availability, and where your interests lie!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:10:21 -0400 2023-11-08T18:30:00-05:00 2023-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Workshop / Seminar Poster for Event
International Perspectives on Teamwork in Engineering Education (November 9, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114745 114745-21833411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Teamwork or collaboration skills are integral to contemporary engineering practice and are highly valued in academic and industry settings. ABET also considers vital teamwork skills as one key student learning outcome for accreditation and evaluation of engineering education. Research shows that student learning outcomes are highly affected by faculty beliefs about teaching and learning. Effective professional development programs for faculty need to understand their beliefs as these beliefs shape their teaching practices. As engineering practice and engineering education are becoming increasingly globalized, we need to take a more culturally relevant approach to understand how key competencies such as teamwork are culturally constructed and how the development of faculty beliefs is affected by broader cultural factors. In this seminar, Yi will introduce some of her educational background and research experiences to provide an international lens to understand teamwork in engineering education. She will then present a systematic review of the existing Chinese literature on how Chinese faculty conceptualize teamwork in the classroom. In conclusion, she will also talk about some parts of her dissertation, how faculty in the US develop their teaching beliefs about teamwork.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:50:47 -0400 2023-11-09T14:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Yi Cao
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 10, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
NERS Colloquium: Computational Fluid Dynamics in Support of Nuclear Safety and Regulation (November 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108523 108523-21819890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been around for many decades and is used in almost all industries where fluids are in motion. These techniques, however, are not as widely used at the NRC for reactor licensing calculations. Several factors are at play that will likely result in an increase in the use of CFD techniques. Reactor vendors are using CFD in the design of new reactors, computer capacity increases have made the analyses more practical, and recent engineering graduates are familiar with the approach. The ability to predict complex flow behavior in almost any geometry gives CFD the potential to add insights for certain safety analyses that are not realizable with the traditional reactor system codes. Challenges, observations, and lessons learned from 25 years of working with CFD techniques at the NRC are discussed along with considerations for the future.  

Dr. Christopher Boyd is a senior level advisor for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) within the Office of Research at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). His focus is on CFD analyses and benchmarking efforts aimed at understanding safety issues and reducing uncertainty with the overall goal of improving regulatory effectiveness at the NRC. Prior to working for the NRC, he worked as a wind tunnel project engineer focused on measurement techniques and calibration issues in high speed wind tunnels at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in White Oak, Maryland. Dr. Boyd received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1996 with academic research interests in turbulence, modelling, and heat transfer.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Nov 2023 11:35:40 -0500 2023-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Christopher Boyd
U-M Data Science & AI Summit 2023 (November 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107908 107908-21818384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

The U-M Data Science and AI Summit is the largest annual data science and AI event on campus. This event brings together the U-M data science and AI research community and their external collaborators to build research vision and collaboration. It also showcases the breadth and depth of U-M data science and AI research, from theory and methodology development to the transformative use of data and AI to address scientific and societal challenges in all domains. The event is free for all attendees (U-M faculty, staff, and trainees, as well as industry, government and community members).

To view full Summit schedule, please visit the event webpage at https://midas.umich.edu/midas-summit-2023/.

Keynotes:

Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Director, Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign, Data Science Institute at Brown University; Professor of Data Science and Computer Science, Brown University - Key player for the White House Blueprint of an AI Bill of Rights

Julianne Dalcanton, Director, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute - The origina and evolution of galaxies

Emre Kiciman, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research - A New Frontier at the Intersection of Causality and LLMs

Summit Sessions:
A panel discussion on: Federal priorities and opportunities in data science and AI
Panelists:
- Laura Biven, Data Science Technical Lead, Office of Data Science Strategy, National Institutes of Health
- Michael Molnar, Director, Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Hector Muñoz-Avila, Program Director and Cluster Lead, the Information Integration and Informatics Program, National Science Foundation
- Alvaro Velasquez, Program Manager, Information Innovation Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Research vision talks by University of Michigan faculty researchers

The Propelling Original Data Science grant awardees showcase

Poster session, lightning talks, and awards

University of Michigan data science and AI organizations showcase

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:06:45 -0400 2023-11-13T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-13T19:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium Data Science and AI Summit 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 13, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
U-M Data Science & AI Summit 2023 (November 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107908 107908-21818387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

The U-M Data Science and AI Summit is the largest annual data science and AI event on campus. This event brings together the U-M data science and AI research community and their external collaborators to build research vision and collaboration. It also showcases the breadth and depth of U-M data science and AI research, from theory and methodology development to the transformative use of data and AI to address scientific and societal challenges in all domains. The event is free for all attendees (U-M faculty, staff, and trainees, as well as industry, government and community members).

To view full Summit schedule, please visit the event webpage at https://midas.umich.edu/midas-summit-2023/.

Keynotes:

Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Director, Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign, Data Science Institute at Brown University; Professor of Data Science and Computer Science, Brown University - Key player for the White House Blueprint of an AI Bill of Rights

Julianne Dalcanton, Director, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute - The origina and evolution of galaxies

Emre Kiciman, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research - A New Frontier at the Intersection of Causality and LLMs

Summit Sessions:
A panel discussion on: Federal priorities and opportunities in data science and AI
Panelists:
- Laura Biven, Data Science Technical Lead, Office of Data Science Strategy, National Institutes of Health
- Michael Molnar, Director, Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Hector Muñoz-Avila, Program Director and Cluster Lead, the Information Integration and Informatics Program, National Science Foundation
- Alvaro Velasquez, Program Manager, Information Innovation Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Research vision talks by University of Michigan faculty researchers

The Propelling Original Data Science grant awardees showcase

Poster session, lightning talks, and awards

University of Michigan data science and AI organizations showcase

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:06:45 -0400 2023-11-14T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T19:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium Data Science and AI Summit 2023
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (November 15, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115073 115073-21834012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title:

The evolutionary history, selection, and machine learning-based detection of archaic introgressed variants

Abstract:

The discovery of Denisovans is one of the most exciting findings in human evolution in the past decade. The striking similarity between sequences of the high-altitude adaptation gene EPAS1 in Denisovans and modern Tibetans suggested adaptive introgression. However, the time and geographic ranges where the adaptive introgression happened remain unknown. This talk consists of three studies that are related to archaic adaptive introgression. First, I show that the ancestors of Tibetans experienced two pulses of Denisovan introgression, and the positive selection on EPAS1 did not start until after the Last Glacial Maximum. Second, I show that most commonly-used statistical methods for detecting adaptive introgression fail to consider a confounder from recessive deleterious mutations on the genome, which can inflate their false positive rates especially in conserved genomic regions with low recombination rates. Lastly, I introduce MaLAdapt – a machine learning method for detecting genome-wide adaptive introgression, which reveals novel knowledge of how genomic variants from archaic humans facilitated modern human adaptations in worldwide populations.

Short Bio:

Dr. Xinjun Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan, and an affiliated faculty member at CCMB and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The Zhang Lab focuses on developing computational methods to address a series of questions related to how admixture and other population genetic processes shaped human genetic diversity. Dr. Zhang received her BS in Biology from Beijing Normal University, and PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology from UC Davis. She completed her postdoctoral trainings at UCLA with Dr. Kirk Lohmueller (funded by a NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award) and at UC Merced with Dr. Emilia Huerta-Sanchez.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:29:53 -0500 2023-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Xinjun Zhang, PhD (Dept. of Human Genetics, UMMS)
Arduino Workshop (November 15, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114180 114180-21832443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

Excited to meet ya! My name is Faizan and I will be introducing the basics of electronics, how an arduino works, basic communication, and programming through 30 minute workshops.

Hopefully, this will be a super engaging, interactive and practical experience into the world of microcontrollers and how you can make your projects come to life!

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN! I would like to gain insights into your background, availability, and where your interests lie!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:10:21 -0400 2023-11-15T18:30:00-05:00 2023-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Workshop / Seminar Poster for Event
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 17, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 20, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-20T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-20T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 24, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 24, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-24T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 27, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-27T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-27T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Leveraging Tissue-Microwave Interactions for Future Applications in Smart Medicine and Smart Agriculture (November 28, 2023 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115555 115555-21835009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Innovations that leverage the interactions of electromagnetic waves with human and plant tissue are at the heart of an array of both diagnostic and therapeutic applications in medicine, and short-range remote sensing applications in agriculture. In this talk, I will highlight the multi-physics wave-matter interactions between electromagnetic – and related thermal and acoustic – energies and biological tissues, along with two recent advances in microwave technologies, namely microwave theranostics for image-guide thermal ablation of tumors and backscatter-based microwave sensing of cranberry crop yield, that have the potential to transform smart medicine and smart agriculture of the future.

Bio

Susan C. Hagness received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northwestern University. She is the Philip D. Reed Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She previously served as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering and has held a variety of advisory board appointments and leadership roles within the IEEE, the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science, the ASEE Engineering Research Council, and ECEDHA. She has co-authored more than 110 journal papers, eight book chapters, and two editions (with Allen Taflove) of a widely adopted textbook on the finite-difference time-domain method in computational electromagnetics. Recognitions for her holistic approach to teaching and mentoring and for her research in computational and experimental applied electromagnetics include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2000), IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Achievement Award (2004), URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal (2005), IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Paper Award (2007), IEEE Education Society Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award (2007), Physics in Medicine and Biology Citations Prize (2011), UW-Madison Women Faculty Mentoring Program Slesinger Award for Excellence in Mentoring (2017), and College of Engineering awards for excellence in teaching (2014), research (2018), and equity and diversity efforts (2021). She is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, AIMBE, and NAI.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:55:48 -0500 2023-11-28T15:30:00-05:00 2023-11-28T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Susan Hagness
Weekly DCMB / CCMB Seminar featuring Xiaojie Qiu (incoming Assist. Prof. at Stanford) (November 29, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115262 115262-21834337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Single-cell RNA-seq, together with RNA velocity and metabolic labeling, reveals cellular states and transitions at unprecedented resolution. Fully exploiting these data, however, requires kinetic models capable of unveiling governing regulatory functions. In the first part of my talk, I will introduce an analytical framework dynamo (https://github.com/aristoteleo/dynamo-release) and highlight dynamo's power to overcome fundamental limitations of conventional splicing-based RNA velocity analyses to enable accurate velocity estimations on a metabolically labeled human hematopoiesis scRNA-seq dataset. Furthermore, differential geometry analyses reveal mechanisms driving early megakaryocyte appearance and elucidate asymmetrical regulation within the PU.1-GATA1 circuit. Leveraging the least-action-path method, dynamo accurately predicts drivers of numerous hematopoietic transitions. Finally, in silico perturbations predict cell-fate diversions induced by gene perturbations. Dynamo, thus, represents an important step in advancing quantitative and predictive theories of cell-state transitions. Cells do not live in a vacuum, but in a milieu defined by cell–cell communication that can be quantified via recent advances in spatial transcriptomics. In my second section of my talk, I will talk about Spateo, a general framework for quantitative spatiotemporal modeling of single-cell resolution spatial transcriptomics. Spateo develops a comprehensive framework of cell-cell interaction to reveal spatial effects of niche factors and cell type-specific ligand-receptor interactions. Furthermore, Spateo reconstructs 3D models of whole embryos, and performs 3D morphometric analyses. Lastly, Spateo introduces the concept of "morphometric vector field" of cell migrations and integrates spatial differential geometry to unveil regulatory programs underlying various organogenesis patterns of Drosophila and mouse. Thus, Spateo enables the study of the ecology of organs at a molecular level in 3D space, beyond isolated single cells. Moving forward, my lab will try to integrate advances in machine learning and advances in genomics to learn spatially and temporally resolved models of cell fate transition at whole mouse embryo level in 3D space.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:51:30 -0500 2023-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Carnegie Mellon Master's of Science in Computational Finance (November 30, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115235 115235-21834227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 6:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Finance and Mathematics Society

Learn about Carnegie Mellon's highly-ranked Master's of Science in Computational Finance. Hear from the director of admissions about the program and general graduate school admissions tips. This program is great for those interested in quantitative finance from an academic and professional standpoint.

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Presentation Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:06:13 -0500 2023-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T19:30:00-05:00 West Hall Michigan Finance and Mathematics Society Presentation Program image
Michigan Quantum Technology Club (QuantUM) (December 1, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114871 114871-21833718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prof. Zheshen Zhang is the first invited speaker to the speaker series hosted by QuantUM, the new undergraduate Michigan Quantum Technology Club. Prof. Zhang's research encompasses both the theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum information science, aiming to enable new sensing, data processing, communication, and networking capabilities. The event is open to anyone interested in learning more about quantum information science, and will feature a presentation by Prof. Zhang followed by a Q&A session for students to ask about the presentation, Prof. Zhang's research, and the field as a whole.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:13:16 -0500 2023-12-01T18:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Zheshen Zhang