Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 30, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 30, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-06-30T11:00:00-04:00 2022-06-30T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 30, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95207 95207-21788993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 30, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing

Open for registration!

June 20-30, 2022
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
M-F

This course will focus on semi-structured, or in-depth, interviewing, with a brief introduction to other qualitative methods, including observation. Semi-structured interviewing is often most helpful in understanding complex social processes. We will examine the goals, assumptions, process, and uses of interviewing and compare these methods to other related qualitative and quantitative methods in order to develop research designs appropriate to research goals. The course will cover all aspects of interviewing, including how to decide who to interview, how to ask good interview questions, and how to conduct successful interviews. Students will conduct interviews, and discuss the process and outcome of those interviews. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology, particularly through discussion of some of the critiques of these methods.

Course Hour: 1.5

Instructor: Nancy Riley

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:20:57 -0400 2022-06-30T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-30T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 1, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 1, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-01T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 1, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 1, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-01T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 5, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-05T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-05T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 5, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-05T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-05T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Introduction to Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 5, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95254 95254-21789069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 5-14, 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
T & Th

This course will begin to empower students with an understanding of the importance and basic tenets of rigorous questionnaire design, as well as practice designing an appropriate instrument for a real world problem. Students will watch course videos independently, and work on a questionnaire for a topic of their choosing. Four live online meetings (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30 PM EST) will take a workshop format where students will ask questions, share their own questionnaires in progress, and give feedback to classmates.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Jessica Broome

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:54 -0400 2022-07-05T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-05T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 6, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-06T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 6, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-06T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 7, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-07T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-07T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 7, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-07T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-07T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Introduction to Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 7, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95254 95254-21789071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 5-14, 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
T & Th

This course will begin to empower students with an understanding of the importance and basic tenets of rigorous questionnaire design, as well as practice designing an appropriate instrument for a real world problem. Students will watch course videos independently, and work on a questionnaire for a topic of their choosing. Four live online meetings (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30 PM EST) will take a workshop format where students will ask questions, share their own questionnaires in progress, and give feedback to classmates.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Jessica Broome

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:54 -0400 2022-07-07T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-07T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 8, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-08T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-08T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 11, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-11T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-11T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 11, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-11T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-11T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 12, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-12T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 12, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-12T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 12, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-12T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Introduction to Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 12, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95254 95254-21789076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 5-14, 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
T & Th

This course will begin to empower students with an understanding of the importance and basic tenets of rigorous questionnaire design, as well as practice designing an appropriate instrument for a real world problem. Students will watch course videos independently, and work on a questionnaire for a topic of their choosing. Four live online meetings (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30 PM EST) will take a workshop format where students will ask questions, share their own questionnaires in progress, and give feedback to classmates.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Jessica Broome

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:54 -0400 2022-07-12T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 13, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-13T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 13, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-13T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 14, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-14T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Introduction to Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 14, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95254 95254-21789078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 5-14, 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
T & Th

This course will begin to empower students with an understanding of the importance and basic tenets of rigorous questionnaire design, as well as practice designing an appropriate instrument for a real world problem. Students will watch course videos independently, and work on a questionnaire for a topic of their choosing. Four live online meetings (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30 PM EST) will take a workshop format where students will ask questions, share their own questionnaires in progress, and give feedback to classmates.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Jessica Broome

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:54 -0400 2022-07-14T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-18T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-18T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-18T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-19T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-19T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-19T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-19T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-19T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Summer Off-Campus Housing Fair (July 19, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95553 95553-21790113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Beyond the Diag

This is an opportunity for students to learn more about the off-campus housing options available in the Ann Arbor area. Come to our event to meet with housing providers, hear about their properties and communities, and maybe snag some great swag and giveaways!

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Fair / Festival Fri, 10 Jun 2022 16:51:33 -0400 2022-07-19T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Beyond the Diag Fair / Festival Housing Fair
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-20T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-20T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-20T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 21, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-21T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 21, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
PHYSICS GRADUATE SUMMER SYMPOSIUM (PGSS) | Learn to Design: From Optimization to Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning (July 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96096 96096-21791916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Designing physical structures and devices to achieve desirable performance is an important study in many disciplines, including physics and engineering. However, the design process is non-trivial because of the large design spaces as well as the non-unique optimal design. Usually, the design process requires an iterative trial-and-error process conducted by human experts through extensive simulations or experiments, which wastes much time and effort. The recent development of computer science has reshaped this research domain. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of these design methods, with a special focus on designing optical and photonic structures and devices. In this talk, I will briefly discuss three parts: 1) Traditional optimization methods; 2) Deep learning methods that use the neural networks as function approximators to speed up the evaluations and guide for optimization; 3) Reinforcement learning methods that can efficiently extrapolate in the design space and provide new design thoughts. One specific example will be discussed in each part.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:44:43 -0400 2022-07-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Conference / Symposium West Hall
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 22, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-22T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 25, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-25T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 25, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-25T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 25, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 26, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-26T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 26, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 27, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-27T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 27, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 28, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 28, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-28T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-28T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 28, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 28, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-28T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 29, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 29, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-29T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 29, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 29, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Feedback Control of Highly Dynamic 3D Bipedal Locomotion (August 10, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96529 96529-21792624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Chair: Jessy Grizzle

Abstract:
Bipedal robots have the potential to free humans from tedious or dangerous tasks. Compared to robots in other forms, a bipedal robot has similar morphology to humans and thus can work in almost all spaces where humans work and requires little to none facility modifications. However, while many other robots are deployed in real life and are beginning to have an impact, bipedal robots are hardly seen outside of labs due to stability issues. Bipeds are inherently unstable due to their morphology. A bipedal system is nonlinear, high dimensional, hybrid, and underactuated, which poses great challenges to controller design. This thesis will therefore focus on developing control methods for biped locomotion.

First, we discuss a controller for a Cassie Robot designed with gait-library methods. The full 20 DoF dynamic model of Cassie and optimization are used to design seven gaits for walking in place, forward, and backward, while meeting key physical constraints. Moreover, we show how to practically implement these gaits on the robot.

Next, we focus on studying the dynamics of bipedal robots. We established connections between various approximate pendulum models that are commonly used for heuristic controller design and those that are more common in the feedback control literature where formal stability guarantees are the norm. We clarify commonalities and differences in the two perspectives for using low-dimensional models. In the process of doing so, we argue that models based on angular momentum about the contact point provide more accurate representations of robot state than models based on linear velocity. Specifically, we show that an approximate (pendulum or zero dynamics) model parameterized by angular momentum provides better predictions for a physical robot (e.g., legs with mass) than does a related approximate model parameterized in terms of linear velocity. We call the pendulum model parameterized by angular momentum ALIP.

Finally, we discuss general mechanisms in bipedal balance, explain why foot placement is the most effective method, and select it as our major method to stabilize a bipedal gait. We focus on regulating angular momentum about the contact point with the ALIP model. We implement a one-step-ahead angular-momentum-based walking controller on Cassie, a 3D robot, and demonstrate high agility and robustness in experiments. We also design a running controller with the same methodology and demonstrated the results in simulation and experiments.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:07:45 -0400 2022-08-10T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-10T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Robotics Lecture / Discussion Cassie robot walking on wave field
Physics Graduate Summer Symposium (PGSS) | Coherent Imaging Spectroscopy of van-der-Waals materials (August 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96843 96843-21793394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have received considerable attention in the past decade for their optoelectronic applications in photovoltaics, lasers, and quantum information. In the monolayer limit, these materials exhibit extraordinary properties, including efficient light-matter coupling, ultrafast charge transfer, long-lived interlayer bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) which are stable at room temperature, and many-body excitonic interactions. In this talk, I will present how multi-dimensional coherent spectroscopy (MDCS) allows us to study coherent and incoherent coupling between excitons in TMD heterostructures. I will further show how the development of a novel lock-in amplifier allows us to combine MDCS with imaging and study the changes of key sample properties for quantum information applications across TMD monolayers and heterostructures. Lastly, the talk will cover how to accelerate nonlinear imaging techniques to implement them in fabrication settings with experimental results supporting the advantage of four-wave mixing-based imaging over conventional material characterization techniques.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 15 Aug 2022 08:56:44 -0400 2022-08-18T12:00:00-04:00 2022-08-18T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium West Hall
Party in the Park (September 4, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95340 95340-21789195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 4, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Beyond the Diag

Join us at Burns Park, for a gathering to welcome off-campus students to U-M and Ann Arbor. This event takes place in the off-campus community, and is open for all students. There will be food, music, games, prizes, and opportunities to learn more about on-campus organizations and resources. Hope to see you there!

There will be a dedicated shuttle bus between theNCRB (North Campus Recreational Building) and Burns Park throughout the event, with the first shuttle departing the NCRB at 12:30pm. For more details about the shuttle bus, click on the link below.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Aug 2022 06:22:34 -0400 2022-09-04T13:00:00-04:00 2022-09-04T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Beyond the Diag Social / Informal Gathering Party in the Park
ChE Historic Free Bagel Wednesday (September 7, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97364 97364-21794449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 9:30am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Historic Free Bagel Wednesday is a bagel and coffee hour hosted by the Chemical Engineering Graduate Society (ChEGS) and is held every other Wednesday. The event was part of the original ChEGS charter and is now one of many social events run by ChEGS throughout the year.

The event is open to all chemical engineering graduate students, faculty, post-docs, and staff.

To help reduce waste, if you have one, please plan to bring your own mug or reusable coffee cup.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:56:44 -0400 2022-09-07T09:30:00-04:00 2022-09-07T10:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering An image of text that reads "Historic Free Bagel Wednesday"
41st Thomas Francis Jr. Memorial Lecture (September 8, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97560 97560-21794714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 10:00am
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Epidemiology

'Respiratory Vaccines in Pandemic Times'

- Expert Panel (10AM)
- Student Speaker Competition (1:40)
- Keynote Lecture (3pm)
- Reception honoring Dr. Monto's career following the lecture

Francis Lecturer: (Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, MBE, FMEDSci)
Panelists: (Scott Hensley, PhD; Arnold Monto, MD; Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, IDSA, FACP)

To RSVP for any of the events visit:
https://sph.umich.edu/epid/thomas_francis_memorial_lecture.html

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Epidemiology and the Michigan Center for Respiratory Virus Research and Response

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:53:38 -0400 2022-09-08T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T17:30:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Epidemiology Conference / Symposium Lecture and Symposium Flyer
How to Flourish: Academic Wellness (September 8, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98051 98051-21796469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join Trotter Multicultural Center, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the LEAD Scholars Program to explore the many dimensions of wellness through the lens of personal and social identities. Using a wellness model from University Health Service, our events discuss the importance of holistic well-being in interactive programs facilitated by experts from on and off campus. During the sessions, we will hear from campus partners as they share tools, resources, and knowledge that may support our well-being.

In particular, this session consists in an inspirational discussion on how to make the most out of your experience. Our guests will share tips, tools and resources available on campus that can support your success!

Boxed Meal will be provided.

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Well-being Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:20:02 -0400 2022-09-08T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T11:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Well-being Speakers
Write-Together (September 9, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97717 97717-21795000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:12:33 -0400 2022-09-09T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Write-Together Flyer
What are PRONOUNS - Welcome picnic for international grad students in engineering (September 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97217 97217-21794152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Join us on North Campus to learn PRONOUNS, play activities, win prizes, make new friends and enjoy a free lunch!

Are you ready for the new semester? We prepared a welcome picnic for you. Each participant will receive some swag and a free lunch! By attending this event, you will know more about Pronouns and meet new people. Please come to join us and share the event with your friends.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:27:40 -0400 2022-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T13:30:00-04:00 Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Pronoun Event
SPRING AWAKENING AUDITIONS! (September 11, 2022 11:59pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96527 96527-21792623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 11, 2022 11:59pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for *SPRING AWAKENING* at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by Sunday, September 11. Callbacks will be held Tuesday, September 13 and Wednesday, September 14. Our performances will be December 2-4 in the Arthur Miller Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Thu, 04 Aug 2022 23:46:26 -0400 2022-09-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Spring Awakening Auditions!
No Straight Lines: Peculiar Pasts and Crooked Futures (September 13, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95228 95228-21797001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Department of History

Geoff Eley’s work has fundamentally reframed key questions in the field of German history and lastingly shaped the discipline of history. His work spans centuries and reaches across oceans. The questions he has asked are both pointed and of universal relevance. His contributions witnessed and shaped the many “turns” the discipline of history itself has made. His list of publications spans more pages than the average reading list for preliminary examinations in the field of German history. If one counts the presentations he has given at workshops and conferences one would assume he has lived three lives. As the organizers of this symposium in his honor, we suggest that the work of Geoff Eley deliberately evades “capture.” Instead of pounding a signpost into the ground and leaving his mark, Geoff has built bridges between fields and made waves within them, touching innumerable lives and minds in the process. To ride the waves and travel across these bridges by bringing together some of the many scholars, colleagues, students, and friends that have learned with and from Geoff is the purpose of this symposium.

No Straight Lines celebrates Geoff Eley’s impressive career, the breadth, range and importance of his scholarship, his spirit as a teacher, mentor and colleague, and his life-long commitment to justice, within and beyond the academy. Starting out as a scholar of German nationalism and the German political right and reframing the “peculiarities” of that history as an emerging young scholar, Geoff Eley’s work bore the imprint of comparative history, of thinking with concepts and theories rather than applying them, of pushing against boundaries that confine “acceptable” ways of thinking about the past, which he is currently putting into practice again by writing a comprehensive history of 20th Century Europe. Throughout his career, he has traced and critically reflected on how historical thinking has itself changed as a result of historical processes. No Straight Lines seeks to take stock of and celebrate the extent to which Geoff Eley’s work has in fact been indispensable to the intellectual shifts he has so skillfully traced and succinctly explained.

Besides celebrating the breadth and impact of Geoff Eley’s scholarship, No Straight Lines seeks to remind us all of the many ways in which his work was never just theoretical but was always connected with and energized by thinkers, writers, scholars, and students, and in turn, supported and touched so many of them in lasting ways. In this regard the Saturday dinner is as crucial a part of this symposium, as is the discussion of Eley’s scholarly footprint. That footprint was never purely abstract; nor was it only intellectual. Rather it continues to invigorate the many friendships and collaborations he has built and sustained over his career. This symposium brings us together to honor the experience of learning from and with Geoff Eley.

Find more information and the conference schedule here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eley/

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:38:41 -0400 2022-09-13T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-13T11:00:00-04:00 Department of History Conference / Symposium Gina and Geoff Eley
Futures in Research, Science, and Teaching - General meeting (September 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96044 96044-21791846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

General meetings take place every other Tuesday from September 13 to December 6th. Events include:

September 13th: Pathways in Research (Graduate student/Faculty panel)
September 27th: Mixer (food provided)
October 11th: Poster design and presentation
October 25th: Applying to graduate school - application components and essay writing advice
November 8th: Finding paid summer and post-baccalaureate research opportunities
November 22nd: Faculty talk
December 6th: Mixer

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:26:57 -0400 2022-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Meeting Event flyer detailing date, time, and location: September 13th at 4 pm, BSB 1010
Positive Links Speaker Series (September 14, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97755 97755-21795057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Quinetta Roberson
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information

Event Link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/what-inclusive-leaders-do-differently/

About the Positive Links Speaker Series:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the Event:
As workplaces have become increasingly disconnected, individuals have a stronger need for a sense of connection and community. They want to work in environments in which they can be their authentic selves and are valued for their contributions. Leaders are expected to build these types of environments, but to do so in a moment when their plates are already full.

This talk will explore the how of inclusive leadership. Based on her body of research and advisory work with organizations, Quinetta will offer strategies for developing an inclusive mindset and practicing leadership behaviors for creating more inclusive work environments. By incorporating inclusive leadership into daily activities and interactions, we can foster workplaces in which everyone feels enabled to be their best selves.

About Roberson:
Quinetta M. Roberson, PhD is the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Management and Psychology at Michigan State University. Prior to her current position, she was an Endowed Chair at Villanova University and a tenured professor at Cornell University. She has been a visiting scholar at universities on six continents and has more than 20 years of global experience in teaching courses, facilitating workshops, and advising organizations on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Dr. Roberson has published over 40 scholarly journal articles and book chapters, edited a Handbook of Diversity in the Workplace (2013), and is a two-time TEDx speaker. Her research and consulting work focus on developing organizational capability and enhancing effectiveness through diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is informed by her work experiences, having worked as a financial analyst and small business consultant prior to obtaining her doctorate. She earned her PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of Maryland and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Finance.

Host:
Gretchen Spreitzer, Faculty Advisory Board, Center for Positive Organizations; Associate Dean for Engaged Learning & Professional Development, Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Management and Organizations

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2022-23 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Aug 2022 15:57:46 -0400 2022-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Quinetta Roberson
Sanger Leadership Center Info Session (September 14, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96479 96479-21792571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Sanger Leadership Center

LEARN TO LEAD AND REFLECT THIS YEAR!

Join our staff and student leaders to learn which opportunities you can get involved in this year at the Sanger Leadership Center to advance your leadership skills and deepen your personal growth. Whether you end up in the boardroom at Michigan Stadium, on a personal journey to learn about your values and purpose, or with a group of like-minded peers practicing the art of storytelling, all of our programs are designed to help you learn through action and reflection.

SANGER LEADERSHIP CENTER INFO SESSION
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 | 4:30-5:30 PM

Blau Colloquium (5th Floor Blau Hall)
at the Ross School of Business
700 East University Avenue
No RSVP necessary.

You'll have the opportunity to:
• Meet with Sanger staff and current students
• Learn which programs are right for you
• Mingle with other students from Ross and across U-M
• Enter to win Sanger swag
• Enjoy light refreshments

We’ll feature the following programs:
• LDRx (Leader Experience)
• Leading Inclusive Teams
• Leadership Crisis Challenge
• Leadership Dialogues
• Legacy Lab
• Michigan Ross Leader Endorsement
• Ross Leaders Academy
• Story Lab

Questions? Contact us at rossleaders@umich.edu or message us on one of our social media platforms.

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Presentation Fri, 05 Aug 2022 15:24:36 -0400 2022-09-14T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-14T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Sanger Leadership Center Presentation Sanger sticker
How to Flourish: Academic Wellness (September 14, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98051 98051-21795532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join Trotter Multicultural Center, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the LEAD Scholars Program to explore the many dimensions of wellness through the lens of personal and social identities. Using a wellness model from University Health Service, our events discuss the importance of holistic well-being in interactive programs facilitated by experts from on and off campus. During the sessions, we will hear from campus partners as they share tools, resources, and knowledge that may support our well-being.

In particular, this session consists in an inspirational discussion on how to make the most out of your experience. Our guests will share tips, tools and resources available on campus that can support your success!

Boxed Meal will be provided.

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Well-being Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:20:02 -0400 2022-09-14T18:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T19:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Well-being Speakers
ChE SEMINAR: "Development and Deployment of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs): Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO2 as Humanity’s Moonshot for the 21st Century" (September 15, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97823 97823-21795200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 1:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 28
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

The ChE seminar series features guest speakers. U-M ChE faculty and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.

TITLE:
"Development and Deployment of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs): Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO2 as Humanity’s Moonshot for the 21st Century"

ABSTRACT:
Worldwide energy demand is projected to grow strongly in the coming decades. Even with unprecedented growth rates in the development of renewable energy technologies such as solar, wind and bioenergy, the world will continue to rely on fossil fuels as the predominant energy source for at least the next decade. Simultaneously, due to decades of inaction, current climate models as well as the recent IPCC AR6 Climate Change Report state that limiting warming to <2°C will require large scale deployment of negative emissions technologies (NETs). NETs, which remove CO2 from the atmosphere, are projected to be needed at a scale of 10 Gt/y by 2060, yet today, virtually none have been deployed. NETs may be natural or technological, with one of the most scalable technological approaches being the direct capture of CO2 from the air, or “direct air capture” (DAC). Because of the ultra-dilute nature of air, the separation of CO2 from this mixture presents a significant engineering challenge.

In this lecture, I will describe the design and synthesis, characterization and application of supported amine materials that we have developed as cornerstones of new technologies for the removal of CO2 from ultra-dilute (air) gas streams. These chemisorbents efficiently remove CO2 from simulated flue gas streams, and the CO2 capacities are enhanced by the presence of water, unlike the case of physisorbents such as zeolites. We will describe the development of these materials, how they integrate into scalable DAC technologies, as well as their key physicochemical structure-property relationships. DAC technologies offer an interesting case study for the parallel design of materials, unit operations, and processes in chemical engineering. Contemporary challenges in DAC will be discussed.

BIO:
Professor Jones is the John F. Brock III School Chair and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. After earning a BSE in Chemical Engineering from Michigan and MS & PhDs from Caltech, he joined Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor in 2000. There he rose through the faculty ranks to his current position as School Chair, including service as Associate Vice President for Research from 2013-2019, and a period as Interim Executive Vice-President for Research in 2018.

Dr. Jones leads a research group that works on materials, catalysis and adsorption. He is known for his extensive and pioneering work on materials that extract CO2 from ultra-dilute mixtures such as ambient air, which are key components of direct air capture (DAC) technologies. He served on the National Academies Consensus Study on Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration in 2017-2018, focusing on DAC.

He also has produced an extensive body of work in catalysis. Dr. Jones was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal, ACS Catalysis, and is Vice-President of both the North American Catalysis Society and the International Adsorption Society. He was tapped in 2020 to launch the new open access American Chemical Society journal, JACS Au. (Read as Jacks Gold)

Jones’ work in both catalysis and CO2 separation has been recognized with awards from numerous organizations including the ACS, ASEE, AIChE and the North American Catalysis Society. Georgia Tech has recognized Jones as the Institute’s Outstanding Faculty Research Author (2011), for Research Program Development (2012) and for Research Innovation (2021). In 2022, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:25:53 -0400 2022-09-15T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-15T14:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 28 Chemical Engineering Workshop / Seminar U-M ChE logo, a photo of Chris Jones and text that reads "Seminar"
Write-Together (September 16, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97717 97717-21795001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:12:33 -0400 2022-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Write-Together Flyer
FAM Fridays (September 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98376 98376-21796574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

This series will celebrate culture through Food, Art, & Music each 2nd Friday of the month. Our first event will be Friday, September 16th from 12-1:30 PM on the outside lawn of Trotter Multicultural Center. Where we will have a guest painting instructor, U-M student Victor Garcia. Come relax, have fun, and build community with us! Painting supplies and food will be available.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:31:01 -0400 2022-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T13:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Workshop / Seminar FAM Fridays Flyer
A WISE Night In: Graduate and Professional Students (September 16, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97831 97831-21795215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Those that are good at weaving their network have a strong sense of self and understand their individual needs. They are able to find and connect with others. They also have skills and behaviors that allow them to utilize positive relationships and navigate ones where conflict appears.

A WISE Night In is all about cultivating and sustaining positive relationships. Each WISE Night In event is themed to meet the social and professional network needs of STEM students.

The theme for this event is Graduate and Professional students in STEM. We invite ALL graduate students to come and join us. Eat food, Play games, and meet new people.

To reserve your spot, RSVP by September 9th. Space is limited.
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58534

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:37:43 -0400 2022-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Social / Informal Gathering The image is a long horizontal rectangle. The Women in Science and Engineering is displayed on the top two-thirds with a maize block M in the upper left. The bottom third of the rectangle has individually colored hexagons.
Ross Leaders Academy (RLA) (September 18, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96255 96255-21792183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 18, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Sanger Leadership Center

The Ross Leaders Academy (RLA) is the Sanger Leadership Center’s premier leadership development community for select students across campus. During the year-long program, you’ll make leadership development a primary focus of your Michigan experience. You’ll learn from a diverse set of peers, receive group and 1:1 coaching, and engage with 30+ years of powerful research advanced by the University of Michigan’s innovative faculty. You’ll emerge RLA more confident, more insightful, and with a vision to fuel your emerging career.

RLA kicks off in the fall with an exciting event and wraps up in the spring with a closing celebration. The program is open to all University of Michigan graduate students and undergraduate juniors and seniors.

RLA is made possible with generous support from the Deloitte Foundation, which is committed to enabling transformational learning experiences like RLA.

2022-2023 APPLICATION WINDOW: 8/26-9/18

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Other Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:22:35 -0400 2022-09-18T00:00:00-04:00 2022-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 Sanger Leadership Center Other RLA Logo
Natural Language Processing Workshop Series (September 19, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97509 97509-21794662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 19, 2022 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Written text contains a wealth of information that can be turned into research data to study almost every aspect of human behavior, human health and our society. However, converting text to usable data requires an understanding of standard techniques from the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). MIDAS and the AI Lab are jointly organizing a monthly series of NLP workshops during the Fall 2022 semester. The first installment is on Sept. 19, and the second installment is on Oct. 10. Each session does not directly depend upon information from previous sessions.

In the first workshop of the series, we will provide a broad overview of NLP and introduce basic concepts used in NLP, including keyword counting, sentiment classification, and topic modeling. Additional topics include how NLP can be used, what the data look like, what (social science) questions could be answered using NLP, and more.

The second session, on Oct 10, is titled "What's in Text Data?"
Written text contains rich information about human knowledge, opinions, and communication styles, but how do we extract insight about all this from the data? In this second workshop in the series, we will first introduce Jupyter notebooks, a popular platform for performing data science research. Then we will discuss how to choose a dataset for your research question, extract your own dataset from social media sites like Reddit and Twitter, and convert the raw text data to a usable format. We will then explore several methods to extract information and gain insight from text data, including named entity recognition and sentiment analysis.

Register Here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7k0uvPClqJnyWAMlWBZWb3h1imP4rnbClkvoyQ6Mq7dh8Ow/viewform

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:29:49 -0400 2022-09-19T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar NLP Workshop
Science of Thriving Accelerator (September 20, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98137 98137-21795638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the Thriving Accelerator Workshops:
A Thriving Accelerator is an immersive workshop from the Center for Positive Organizations about a topic in the science of thriving. After completing a workshop, students will be able to immediately implement their learnings to create lasting personal and organizational impact.

In the Science of Thriving Accelerator, you will:
- Understand the indicators of a thriving organization (and the indicators of the opposite).
- Learn how to unlock greater potential organizationally and individually through the science of thriving.
- Discover why the science of thriving matters to you as a student – and why it is one of the most important things you can understand and implement as a business leader.

Instructor:
Sarah Kurtz McKinnon, Senior Associate Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation at the Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Open to all University of Michigan students. Free registration required.

For information about all of the Thriving Accelerator workshops being offered, visit: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/learning-programs/thriving-accelerator/

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Sep 2022 16:03:29 -0400 2022-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T18:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Science of Thriving Accelerator
ChE Historic Free Bagel Wednesday (September 21, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97364 97364-21794450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 9:30am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Historic Free Bagel Wednesday is a bagel and coffee hour hosted by the Chemical Engineering Graduate Society (ChEGS) and is held every other Wednesday. The event was part of the original ChEGS charter and is now one of many social events run by ChEGS throughout the year.

The event is open to all chemical engineering graduate students, faculty, post-docs, and staff.

To help reduce waste, if you have one, please plan to bring your own mug or reusable coffee cup.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:56:44 -0400 2022-09-21T09:30:00-04:00 2022-09-21T10:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering An image of text that reads "Historic Free Bagel Wednesday"
Flourish - Financial Wellness (September 21, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98783 98783-21797174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join Trotter Multicultural Center, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the LEAD Scholars Program to explore the many dimensions of wellness through the lens of personal and social identities. Using a wellness model from University Health Service, our events discuss the importance of holistic well-being in interactive programs facilitated by experts from on and off campus. During the sessions, we will hear from campus partners as they share tools, resources, and knowledge that may support our well-being.

On Wednesday, September 21st from 6-7:30pm Trotter Multicultural Center will host its second Flourish event of the semester! We will be in conversation with Mark Muzenberger, a financial education manager, as we discuss money values and how to make financial decisions that work for you! A boxed meal will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:51:19 -0400 2022-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T19:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Workshop / Seminar Image of Flourish Financial Wellness poster.
ChE Graduate Symposium (September 22, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96365 96365-21792358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

The annual University of Michigan Chemical Engineering Graduate Symposium brings together graduate students, faculty, and industry representatives to discuss the innovative research conducted by our department and recognize some exceptional students in our department, with awards given for service, teaching, research, and outstanding oral and poster presentations.

This event is open to U-M faculty, students, sponsors, job recruiters.

For more information contact Kody Whisnant (kgwhis@umich.edu) and Jessica Ma (jqma@umich.edu).

Student participants can use the posted link (to the right) to submit abstracts.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 08 Aug 2022 09:22:11 -0400 2022-09-22T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Chemical Engineering Conference / Symposium Text "ChE Graduate Symposium" with UofM Chemical Engineering Logo
LHS Collaboratory (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96027 96027-21791723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

LHS Collaboratory Kickoff Poster Session Showcasing LHS Work at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:55:57 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
ChE SEMINAR: "Interfacial Friction of Soft Materials" (September 22, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96112 96112-21791931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 1:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

The ChE seminar series features guest speakers. U-M ChE faculty and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.

TITLE:
Interfacial friction of soft materials

ABSTRACT:
The need to engineer interfacial friction is increasingly important in technologies as diverse as soft robotics and consumer products. The first part of the talk focuses on the role of particle roughness in the rheology, structure, and dynamics of dense colloidal suspensions. Rough colloids at maximum packing, unlike hard sphere systems, retain strong rheological memory and shear thickening properties that could be leveraged to create impact resistant soft materials. We analyze these unusual rheological phenomena using direct visualization from confocal rheometry, glass transition and hydrodynamic models, and the reduced mobility of interlocked particles. The second part of the talk focuses on our group's recent work on bioinspired soft materials. We investigate the effect of material chemistry as well as pattern geometry on the sliding friction of elastomer and hydrogel surfaces separated by very thin fluid layers. Using a semi-analytical lubrication and elasticity model that accounts for the compression and bending of patterns, it is possible to accurately predict the interfacial friction experienced by humans and robot fingers sliding across wet textured materials. Our long-term vision is to create new frontiers in haptic science through the physico-chemical design of colloidal and polymeric materials

BIO:
Lilian Hsiao is an assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2014. She received the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for her work with Michael Solomon on the microstructure of colloidal suspensions in flowing systems. Her postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Patrick Doyle was on colloidal nanoemulsions and 3D printing. She started her tenure-track position at NC State in 2016. Her group is recognized for advancing the fields of suspension rheology and soft haptic materials, most recently through the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, ACS Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Soft Matter, NSF CAREER award, and AAAS Mason Award

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Presentation Tue, 02 Aug 2022 08:24:12 -0400 2022-09-22T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T14:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Chemical Engineering Presentation Picture of Lilian Hsiao with text "Seminar"
Departmental Seminar (899): Frank Curtis (September 22, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96923 96923-21793572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Speaker: Frank Curtis, Professor at Lehigh University

Title: "Deterministically Constrained Stochastic Optimization"

Abstract: Curtis will present the recent work by his research group on the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms for solving continuous nonlinear optimization problems that involve a stochastic objective function and deterministic constraints. The talk will focus on sequential quadratic optimization (commonly known as SQP) methods for cases when the constraints are defined by nonlinear systems of equations and inequalities. These methods are applicable for solving various types of problems, such as for training machine learning (e.g., deep learning) models with constraints. His work focuses on the "fully stochastic" regime in which only stochastic gradient estimates are employed, for which we have derived convergence-in-expectation results and worst-case iteration complexity bounds that are on par with stochastic gradient methods for the unconstrained setting. Curtis will also discuss the various extensions that his group is exploring.

Bio: Frank E. Curtis is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University. Prior to joining Lehigh, he received his bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary, received his master's and doctoral degrees from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Science at Northwestern University, and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. His research focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of numerical methods for solving large-scale nonlinear optimization problems. He received an Early Career Award from the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program of the U.S. Department of Energy, and has had other funded projects with the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy. He received, along with Leon Bottou (Facebook AI Research) and Jorge Nocedal (Northwestern), the 2021 SIAM/MOS Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization. He was awarded, with James V. Burke (U. of Washington), Adrian Lewis (Cornell), and Michael Overton (NYU), the 2018 INFORMS Computing Society Prize. He and team members Daniel Molzahn (Georgia Tech), Andreas Waechter (Northwestern), Ermin Wei (Northwestern), and Elizabeth Wong (UC San Diego) were awarded second place in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition in 2020. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Mathematical Programming, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematics of Operations Research, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, and Mathematical Programming Computation. He previously served as the Vice Chair for Nonlinear Programming for the INFORMS Optimization Society and is currently very active in professional societies and groups related to mathematical optimization, including INFORMS, the Mathematics Optimization Society, and the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization.

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend. There will be a reception to follow the seminar in the IOE commons from 4 -5 p.m

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 19 Sep 2022 11:55:34 -0400 2022-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Hacker binary attack code. Made with Canon 5d Mark III and analog vintage lens, Leica APO Macro Elmarit-R 2.8 100mm (Year: 1993)
Nineteenth Century Forum Welcome Back Event (September 22, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98234 98234-21795761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Join the NCF for our first meeting of the year! Welcome new members, meet up with old friends and colleagues, and learn about our planned programming for the 22-23 year!
This event will be hybrid. We will meet in-person in Angell Hall Room 3241, and will have Zoom set up for virtual attendees.
Snacks will be provided for those who attend in-person.

Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/95422923438

Meeting ID: 954 2292 3438
Passcode: 832247

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Meeting Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:27:47 -0400 2022-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Meeting
Write-Together (September 23, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97717 97717-21795002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:12:33 -0400 2022-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Write-Together Flyer
My Journey in electrifying the world’s most popular truck (September 23, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98392 98392-21796600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Linda Zhang is the 2022 ECE Alumni Merit Award Recipient.

Linda Zhang, chief program engineer for the F-150 Lightning, Ford’s first electric truck, will talk about her experience leading the team behind this game-changing vehicle, including the challenges and successes of shifting America’s perception of what an EV can be.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:02:30 -0400 2022-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Chrysler Center
Futures in Research, Science, and Teaching - General meeting (September 27, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96044 96044-21791847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

General meetings take place every other Tuesday from September 13 to December 6th. Events include:

September 13th: Pathways in Research (Graduate student/Faculty panel)
September 27th: Mixer (food provided)
October 11th: Poster design and presentation
October 25th: Applying to graduate school - application components and essay writing advice
November 8th: Finding paid summer and post-baccalaureate research opportunities
November 22nd: Faculty talk
December 6th: Mixer

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:26:57 -0400 2022-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Meeting Event flyer detailing date, time, and location: September 13th at 4 pm, BSB 1010
Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing (September 27, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98759 98759-21797150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

In this hands-on workshop, we will focus on a very important element in most academic job applications: the teaching statement. We will consider the criteria that review committees use in evaluating these statements, and we will assess examples of successful submissions in order to consider what makes for effective content, structure, and language. The workshop will include time for writing and revising an initial draft.

Presenter: Simone Sessolo, Sweetland Center for Writing

Please register at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/7941

Rackham / Sweetland Workshops, co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School and held in the Fall and Winter terms, cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in various aspects of writing.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:15:55 -0400 2022-09-27T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Workshop flyer
Women in ENTRepreneurship (September 28, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98760 98760-21797151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

Join us for an evening featuring a panel of four or five of our many fierce and determined female fellowship students as they talk about their entrepreneurial paths at U-M and how the fellowship programs, the Entrepreneurs Leadership Program and TechLab at Mcity, were the needed advantage for making them stand out among the crowd. Following the panel, will have an interactive consulting session with fellowship women working on cool ventures/projects.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:04:50 -0400 2022-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Entrepreneurship Social / Informal Gathering Women in ENTRepreneurship
Flourish - Emotional Wellness (September 28, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99302 99302-21797849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join Trotter Multicultural Center, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the LEAD Scholars Program to explore the many dimensions of wellness through the lens of personal and social identities. Using a wellness model from University Health Service, our events discuss the importance of holistic well-being in interactive programs facilitated by experts from on and off campus. During the sessions, we will hear from campus partners as they share tools, resources, and knowledge that may support our well-being.

Our final Flourish event will take place on Wednesday, October 4th from 6-7:30 PM. Join psychology interns Zubin Devitre and Joe Rizzo, and assistant director of CAPS Jamye Banks for a discussion on how to take care of yourself mentally. A boxed meal will be provided. We hope to see you there!

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Well-being Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:16:03 -0400 2022-09-28T18:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T19:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Well-being A flyer with information about Flourish Emotional Wellness event
Flourish - Spiritual Wellness (September 28, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98784 98784-21797175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join Trotter Multicultural Center, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the LEAD Scholars Program to explore the many dimensions of wellness through the lens of personal and social identities. Using a wellness model from University Health Service, our events discuss the importance of holistic well-being in interactive programs facilitated by experts from on and off campus. During the sessions, we will hear from campus partners as they share tools, resources, and knowledge that may support our well-being.

Our third Flourish event of the semester will be taking place Wednesday, September 28 from 6-7:30pm. Brennan McBeth, a program manager at the Trotter Multicultural Center, will be leading a discussion on the intersection of identity and spirituality. A boxed meal will be provided. We hope to see you there!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:52:04 -0400 2022-09-28T18:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T19:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Workshop / Seminar Flourish Spiritual Wellness poster
Alum Connection with Sommer Albert: Grad School and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome (September 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97453 97453-21794593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Are you interested in graduate school but feel a bit lost about standardized testing, applications, and which programs to even apply for? Join Sommer Albert, an LSA alum (’20 Psychology and Gender & Health) who has gone through the grad application process and recently completed her Master of Social Work degree at University of Washington. Sommer will walk us through how her experiences in LSA, the Residential College, Campus Day Leaders, and various research roles afforded her critical opportunities to feel confident to apply! She is excited to answer your questions and curiosities about her experiences and provide space to one, combat imposter syndrome and two, discuss in-depth the idea of the “right fit” for graduate school.


About Sommer:

Sommer is a recent graduate of the MSW program at the University of Washington. Her chosen specialization, Community Centered Integrative Practice, allowed her to develop the direct practice skills needed to become a Licensed Social Worker but also sharpen her community organizing, grant writing, and critical empowerment skills. Since graduation, she has been working as an educator for a Children Defense Fund Freedom School site in Seattle, Washington. She is responsible for creating and facilitating daily empowerment-based reading curriculum, weekly art enrichments, and assisting with restorative justice practices at the elementary school. Sommer is extremely passionate about community mental health, behavioral health interventions for children, youth, and teens, and the need for community-based interventions and prevention education in underserved communities.

You should attend this session if you are:
-A U-M LSA student in any year
-Exploring majors and academic interests in mental health, social work, psychology, sociology, or liberal arts
-Considering applying to graduate school, especially an MSW
-Interested in learning how to fund your graduate program

What you gain by attending:
-Make a connection with an LSA alum ready to support you
-Develop questions to ask yourself about what you want in a graduate program
-Get tips and tricks about applications and funding searches
-Find ways to combat imposter syndrome

RSVP NOW to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Sairah Husain at sairah@umich.edu or 734-763-4674 so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:48:19 -0400 2022-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Sommer Albert Headshot
Colloquium -- Datatopia: The Future of Scientific Discovery Through a Data Lens (September 29, 2022 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97511 97511-21794665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Registration is not required for this free public event.

Data science is advancing scientific discovery in multiple ways, from protein folding to galaxy formation. Furthermore, it evidences the social mechanisms within scientific institutions more apt for innovation. To what extent, then, can data science elicit a radical restructuring of scientific practice? Can we harness its full potential?

In this colloquium we will explore the promises data science has for scientific inquiry while also taking a critical view on the processes of science-making and data extraction, analysis and implementation. Join us to engage with the data science of science and the science of data science through workshops and an afternoon of talks by guest speakers.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:04:40 -0400 2022-09-29T12:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T17:15:00-04:00 Michigan Union Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium ""
ChE SEMINAR: "Bioengineering beyond cells to enable a fair and sustainable 21st bio-century" (September 29, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96470 96470-21792562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

The ChE seminar series features guest speakers. U-M ChE faculty and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.

ABSTRACT:
Synthetic biology (SB) is one of the most promising fields of research for the 21st century. SB offers powerful new ways to improve human health, build the global economy, manufacture sustainable materials, and address climate change. However, current access to SB-enabled breakthroughs is unequal, largely due to bottlenecks in infrastructure and education. Here, I describe our efforts to re-think the way we engineer biology using cell-free systems to address these bottlenecks. We show how the ability to readily store, distribute, and activate low-cost, freeze-dried cell-free systems by simply adding water has opened new opportunities for on-demand biomanufacturing of vaccines for global health, point-of-care diagnostics for environmental safety, and education for SB literacy and citizenship. By integrating cell-free systems with artificial intelligence (AI), we also show the ability to accelerate the production of carbon-negative platform chemicals. Looking forward, advances in engineering tools and new knowledge underpinning the fundamental science of living matter will ensure that SB helps solve humanity’s most pressing challenges.

BIO:
Michael Jewett is the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the Center for Synthetic Biology at Northwestern University. Dr. Jewett received his PhD in 2005 at Stanford University, completed postdoctoral studies at the Center for Microbial Biotechnology in Denmark and the Harvard Medical School, and was a guest professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). He is the recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and a Finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, among others. He is the co-founder of SwiftScale Biologics, Stemloop, Inc., Pearl Bio, Design Pharmaceuticals, and Gauntlet Bio. Jewett is a Fellow of AIMBE, AAAS, and NAI.

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Presentation Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:36:53 -0400 2022-09-29T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Chemical Engineering Presentation picture of Michael Jewett with text "Seminar"
No Straight Lines: Peculiar Pasts and Crooked Futures (September 29, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95228 95228-21789021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of History

Geoff Eley’s work has fundamentally reframed key questions in the field of German history and lastingly shaped the discipline of history. His work spans centuries and reaches across oceans. The questions he has asked are both pointed and of universal relevance. His contributions witnessed and shaped the many “turns” the discipline of history itself has made. His list of publications spans more pages than the average reading list for preliminary examinations in the field of German history. If one counts the presentations he has given at workshops and conferences one would assume he has lived three lives. As the organizers of this symposium in his honor, we suggest that the work of Geoff Eley deliberately evades “capture.” Instead of pounding a signpost into the ground and leaving his mark, Geoff has built bridges between fields and made waves within them, touching innumerable lives and minds in the process. To ride the waves and travel across these bridges by bringing together some of the many scholars, colleagues, students, and friends that have learned with and from Geoff is the purpose of this symposium.

No Straight Lines celebrates Geoff Eley’s impressive career, the breadth, range and importance of his scholarship, his spirit as a teacher, mentor and colleague, and his life-long commitment to justice, within and beyond the academy. Starting out as a scholar of German nationalism and the German political right and reframing the “peculiarities” of that history as an emerging young scholar, Geoff Eley’s work bore the imprint of comparative history, of thinking with concepts and theories rather than applying them, of pushing against boundaries that confine “acceptable” ways of thinking about the past, which he is currently putting into practice again by writing a comprehensive history of 20th Century Europe. Throughout his career, he has traced and critically reflected on how historical thinking has itself changed as a result of historical processes. No Straight Lines seeks to take stock of and celebrate the extent to which Geoff Eley’s work has in fact been indispensable to the intellectual shifts he has so skillfully traced and succinctly explained.

Besides celebrating the breadth and impact of Geoff Eley’s scholarship, No Straight Lines seeks to remind us all of the many ways in which his work was never just theoretical but was always connected with and energized by thinkers, writers, scholars, and students, and in turn, supported and touched so many of them in lasting ways. In this regard the Saturday dinner is as crucial a part of this symposium, as is the discussion of Eley’s scholarly footprint. That footprint was never purely abstract; nor was it only intellectual. Rather it continues to invigorate the many friendships and collaborations he has built and sustained over his career. This symposium brings us together to honor the experience of learning from and with Geoff Eley.

Find more information and the conference schedule here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eley/

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:38:41 -0400 2022-09-29T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of History Conference / Symposium Gina and Geoff Eley
Environmental and Climate Justice Conference (September 30, 2022 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98083 98083-21795572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 8:45am
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

During previous Environmental Law and Policy Program (ELPP) conferences, we have featured panel discussions on climate change as part of broader conversations about environmental law and policy. With climate change accelerating and the window for climate change mitigation and adaptation narrowing, this year we will devote the program to how the legal system can promote meaningful action on climate change and environmental sustainability efforts.

See full details and the conference schedule at:
https://michigan.law.umich.edu/environmental-and-climate-justice-conference

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 06 Sep 2022 08:53:56 -0400 2022-09-30T08:45:00-04:00 2022-09-30T16:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Conference / Symposium
Innovation-Corps Workshop (September 30, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98202 98202-21795712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

This free online workshop will help you explore the commercial viability of your innovation idea. You will learn a process to systematically test key assumptions about your idea and the customer problems it might solve better than current alternatives. This is the critical first step toward commercial success for any venture.
**Learn, practice, and hone your innovation skills.**
**Improve the odds for commercial success.**
**Expand your network of like-minded peers, instructors, investors, customers, and mentors.**

Learn more and apply: https://www.greatlakesicorps.org/event/fall-2022-university-of-michigan-i-corps/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Sep 2022 09:25:17 -0400 2022-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Entrepreneurship Workshop / Seminar I-Corps Flyer
No Straight Lines: Peculiar Pasts and Crooked Futures (September 30, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95228 95228-21789022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Department of History

Geoff Eley’s work has fundamentally reframed key questions in the field of German history and lastingly shaped the discipline of history. His work spans centuries and reaches across oceans. The questions he has asked are both pointed and of universal relevance. His contributions witnessed and shaped the many “turns” the discipline of history itself has made. His list of publications spans more pages than the average reading list for preliminary examinations in the field of German history. If one counts the presentations he has given at workshops and conferences one would assume he has lived three lives. As the organizers of this symposium in his honor, we suggest that the work of Geoff Eley deliberately evades “capture.” Instead of pounding a signpost into the ground and leaving his mark, Geoff has built bridges between fields and made waves within them, touching innumerable lives and minds in the process. To ride the waves and travel across these bridges by bringing together some of the many scholars, colleagues, students, and friends that have learned with and from Geoff is the purpose of this symposium.

No Straight Lines celebrates Geoff Eley’s impressive career, the breadth, range and importance of his scholarship, his spirit as a teacher, mentor and colleague, and his life-long commitment to justice, within and beyond the academy. Starting out as a scholar of German nationalism and the German political right and reframing the “peculiarities” of that history as an emerging young scholar, Geoff Eley’s work bore the imprint of comparative history, of thinking with concepts and theories rather than applying them, of pushing against boundaries that confine “acceptable” ways of thinking about the past, which he is currently putting into practice again by writing a comprehensive history of 20th Century Europe. Throughout his career, he has traced and critically reflected on how historical thinking has itself changed as a result of historical processes. No Straight Lines seeks to take stock of and celebrate the extent to which Geoff Eley’s work has in fact been indispensable to the intellectual shifts he has so skillfully traced and succinctly explained.

Besides celebrating the breadth and impact of Geoff Eley’s scholarship, No Straight Lines seeks to remind us all of the many ways in which his work was never just theoretical but was always connected with and energized by thinkers, writers, scholars, and students, and in turn, supported and touched so many of them in lasting ways. In this regard the Saturday dinner is as crucial a part of this symposium, as is the discussion of Eley’s scholarly footprint. That footprint was never purely abstract; nor was it only intellectual. Rather it continues to invigorate the many friendships and collaborations he has built and sustained over his career. This symposium brings us together to honor the experience of learning from and with Geoff Eley.

Find more information and the conference schedule here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eley/

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:38:41 -0400 2022-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T19:30:00-04:00 Department of History Conference / Symposium Gina and Geoff Eley
Write-Together (September 30, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97717 97717-21795003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:12:33 -0400 2022-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Write-Together Flyer
No Straight Lines: Peculiar Pasts and Crooked Futures (October 1, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95228 95228-21789028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 1, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Department of History

Geoff Eley’s work has fundamentally reframed key questions in the field of German history and lastingly shaped the discipline of history. His work spans centuries and reaches across oceans. The questions he has asked are both pointed and of universal relevance. His contributions witnessed and shaped the many “turns” the discipline of history itself has made. His list of publications spans more pages than the average reading list for preliminary examinations in the field of German history. If one counts the presentations he has given at workshops and conferences one would assume he has lived three lives. As the organizers of this symposium in his honor, we suggest that the work of Geoff Eley deliberately evades “capture.” Instead of pounding a signpost into the ground and leaving his mark, Geoff has built bridges between fields and made waves within them, touching innumerable lives and minds in the process. To ride the waves and travel across these bridges by bringing together some of the many scholars, colleagues, students, and friends that have learned with and from Geoff is the purpose of this symposium.

No Straight Lines celebrates Geoff Eley’s impressive career, the breadth, range and importance of his scholarship, his spirit as a teacher, mentor and colleague, and his life-long commitment to justice, within and beyond the academy. Starting out as a scholar of German nationalism and the German political right and reframing the “peculiarities” of that history as an emerging young scholar, Geoff Eley’s work bore the imprint of comparative history, of thinking with concepts and theories rather than applying them, of pushing against boundaries that confine “acceptable” ways of thinking about the past, which he is currently putting into practice again by writing a comprehensive history of 20th Century Europe. Throughout his career, he has traced and critically reflected on how historical thinking has itself changed as a result of historical processes. No Straight Lines seeks to take stock of and celebrate the extent to which Geoff Eley’s work has in fact been indispensable to the intellectual shifts he has so skillfully traced and succinctly explained.

Besides celebrating the breadth and impact of Geoff Eley’s scholarship, No Straight Lines seeks to remind us all of the many ways in which his work was never just theoretical but was always connected with and energized by thinkers, writers, scholars, and students, and in turn, supported and touched so many of them in lasting ways. In this regard the Saturday dinner is as crucial a part of this symposium, as is the discussion of Eley’s scholarly footprint. That footprint was never purely abstract; nor was it only intellectual. Rather it continues to invigorate the many friendships and collaborations he has built and sustained over his career. This symposium brings us together to honor the experience of learning from and with Geoff Eley.

Find more information and the conference schedule here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eley/

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:38:41 -0400 2022-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-01T17:30:00-04:00 Department of History Conference / Symposium Gina and Geoff Eley
Story Lab Kickoff (October 3, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99428 99428-21798190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 3, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Sanger Leadership Center

ABOUT
Story Lab develops executive-level presence and communication skills through storytelling workshops and events. To be an effective leader — at work, in the community, or in your personal life — you must be able to communicate with impact. Often this means telling stories that are meaningful to you and others, and doing so in the rich language and expressive style of a seasoned storyteller. If you can craft and deliver an effective story, you will be better able to convey your value to recruiters, inspire and motivate classmates and colleagues, and influence your audience. At Story Lab, you’ll find an immersive experience and an opportunity to hone your skills in a safe and supportive environment.

DATE
Oct 3 | 5:00-6:30 PM @ Tauber Colloquium
Hear powerful and inspiring stories from past participants.
RSVP required.

PARTICIPANT REQUIREMENTS
Open to all.

Visit our webpage to learn more!

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Presentation Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:53:49 -0400 2022-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 2022-10-03T18:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Sanger Leadership Center Presentation Story Lab
ChE Historic Free Bagel Wednesday (October 5, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97364 97364-21794451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 9:30am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Historic Free Bagel Wednesday is a bagel and coffee hour hosted by the Chemical Engineering Graduate Society (ChEGS) and is held every other Wednesday. The event was part of the original ChEGS charter and is now one of many social events run by ChEGS throughout the year.

The event is open to all chemical engineering graduate students, faculty, post-docs, and staff.

To help reduce waste, if you have one, please plan to bring your own mug or reusable coffee cup.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:56:44 -0400 2022-10-05T09:30:00-04:00 2022-10-05T10:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering An image of text that reads "Historic Free Bagel Wednesday"
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Should surveys produce more contextual features? Comparing contextual features by alternative definitions of neighborhoods (October 5, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98386 98386-21796589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
October 5, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 pm

Should surveys produce more contextual features? Comparing contextual features by alternative definitions of neighborhoods.

Shiyu Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Before arriving at Michigan, she received master's degrees in immigration study, sociology and data science, and a bachelor's degree in psychology. Shiyu's dissertation focuses on the effect of adaptive survey design on estimates. She is also interested in collecting and using neighborhood features as auxiliary variables.

An important methodological challenge in studying neighborhood effects is how to geographically define “neighborhoods” and create contextual features to characterize the areas. In quantitative research that uses survey data, contextual features are commonly defined by census geographies like census tracts and block groups. However, the literature has called for expanding the definition of neighborhoods beyond census boundaries and exploring contextual features in geographic areas more relevant to the studied individuals.
In this research, we compare social and built environment features of neighborhoods based on three geographic definitions (i.e., census tracts, residential buffers, and respondent-informed neighborhoods). We evaluate how the alternatively defined measures influence the detected associations between contextual features and health outcomes. Our findings suggest that the neighborhood definition matters. Therefore, other than simply offering linkages to census boundaries based on participants’ geocoded location, surveys may enrich the data and support further research by producing and releasing case-specific contextual features.

Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS)
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS). Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:43:15 -0400 2022-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Should surveys produce more contextual features? Comparing contextual features by alternative definitions of neighborhoods.
MS / PhD Open House (October 5, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98232 98232-21795760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Explore programs in drug discovery, delivery, and optimization.

Learn about our PhD programs in:
Medicinal Chemistry
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Clinical Pharmacy Translational Science

and our MS program in Integrated Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The event will include overview presentations regarding each program as well as a poster session featuring research presentations by our graduate students.

The MS/PhD Open House will be hosted in both in-person and virtual formats. We hope that you will make plans to attend!

If you have any questions, please contact Cherie Dotson at crdotson@umich.edu

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Reception / Open House Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:17:55 -0400 2022-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons U-M College of Pharmacy Reception / Open House Text: advance your education.
GRIN ProfDev Event (October 5, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99717 99717-21798574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

Join us on October 5 at Rackham Building (West Conference Room) at 6 PM. to learn what opportunities the university can provide to advance your degree and CV.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Oct 2022 08:05:13 -0400 2022-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Graduate Rackham International Workshop / Seminar Poster
ChE SEMINAR: “The Catalytic Science of Making Up and Breaking Up Dinitrogen” (October 6, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96108 96108-21791930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 1:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 32
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

The ChE seminar series features guest speakers. U-M ChE faculty and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.

ABSTRACT:
The catalytic chemistry of nitrogen is inextricably linked with mankind’s use of energy. Large scale nitrogen fixation (N2 → NH3) revolutionized the production of fertilizer, enabled the population explosion of the 20th century, and now consumes several percent of the world’s energy annually production. NOx reduction (NOx → N2) is integral to reducing the adverse impacts of transportation on urban air quality and health. These and other technologies all depend at their heart on heterogeneous catalysis. In this presentation I will discuss the insights gained by applying molecular-level models and concepts to nitrogen catalytic chemistry. Examples will be drawn from our work on the selective catalytic reduction of NOx in Cu-exchanged zeolites, a problem that has led us to rethink the factors that govern reactivity in zeolites, from NO and NH3 oxidation, problems that have caused us to revisit how we model reactions at metal surfaces, and from N2 reduction, where we are exploring the potential to bypass the constraints presented by common catalysts by combining with a non-thermal plasma.

BIO:
Bill Schneider’s expertise is in chemical applications of density functional theory (DFT) simulations. After receiving his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the Ohio State University, he began his professional career in the Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory working on a variety of problems related to the environmental impacts of automobile emissions. At Ford he developed an interest in the catalytic chemistry of NOx for diesel emissions control, and he has published extensively on the chemistry and mechanisms of NOx decomposition, selective catalytic reduction, trapping, and oxidation catalysis. In 2004 he joined the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering faculty at the University of Notre Dame as an Associate Professor. At Notre Dame he has continued his research into the theory and molecular simulation of heterogeneous catalysis, with particular emphasis on reaction environment effects on catalytic materials and their implications for mechanism and reactivity. He was named the H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Chair in 2016 and Dorini Family Chair and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2020. He has co-authored more than 185 papers and book chapters, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Executive Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry.

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Presentation Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:01:04 -0400 2022-10-06T13:30:00-04:00 2022-10-06T14:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 32 Chemical Engineering Presentation Picture of William Schneider with text "Seminar"
Positive Links Speaker Series (October 6, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97759 97759-21795098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Laura Huang
Thursday, October 6, 2022
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information

Event link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/turning-adversity-into-advantage-finding-your-competitive-edge/

About the Positive Links Speaker Series:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the Event:
Having an edge is about gaining an advantage, but it goes beyond just advantage. It’s about recognizing that others will have their own perceptions about us, right or wrong. When you recognize the power in those perceptions and flip them in your favor, you create an edge—and your hard work works harder for you.

Join Laura Huang, acclaimed business professor at Harvard University and author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, as she discusses with Julia Lee Cunningham how to use everything to your advantage, even your perceived flaws and the systemic biases that hold you back. Laura shares how to harness the very stereotypes and qualities that seem like shortcomings and reframe them as assets that work in your favor. And by doing so, you will find and create your own unique edge.

About Huang:
Laura Huang is a professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Laura’s research examines interpersonal relationships and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the workplace. She is the creator and co-founder of Project EMplify, an initiative dedicated to addressing inequality and disadvantage through personal empowerment.

Her award-winning research has been featured in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Nature, and she was named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants, and to the Thinkers 50 Radar list as one of the leading management thinkers in the world.

Previously, she held positions in investment banking, consulting, and management, for organizations such as Standard Chartered Bank, IBM Global Services, and Johnson & Johnson. Laura holds an MS and BSE in electrical engineering, both from Duke University, an MBA from INSEAD, and a PhD from the University of California, Irvine. Her first book is entitled EDGE: Turning Adversity into Advantage.

Take the Edge Quiz to see how well positioned you are to create your edge. Sign up to receive Laura’s monthly newsletter with her research-backed advice on how to gain and sharpen your edge.

Host:
Julia Lee Cunningham, Faculty Co-Director, Center for Positive Organizations; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2022-23 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Aug 2022 16:11:09 -0400 2022-10-06T14:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Laura Huang
The Ways of Water: Art, Activism, and Ecologies Symposium - Day 1 (October 7, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99436 99436-21798204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 9:30am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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This symposium brings together a diverse group of practitioners, including artists, designers, activists, scholars, scientists, policy analysts, urban planners, and thinkers to discuss what may well be the most important issue of our time: access to clean water and the fight for environmental justice. Held in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Stamps Gallery and building on themes present in the UMMA exhibition  and Stamps Gallery’s LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts, The Ways of Water symposium continues to unravel the story of water, its critical role, and the way it connects us all. 

Diverse practitioners have been invited in order to underscore the need for a multiplicity of voices needed to confront these issues. The Ways of Water symposium brings together perspectives of artists, activists, community members alongside those of scientists and policy makers. 

Day 1: Friday, October 7, 9:30 am – 8 pm Morning Sessions at Stamps Gallery, 201 South Division Street, Ann Arbor MI 

9:30 am: Welcome Remarks / Stamps Gallery

Welcome Remarks / Stamps Gallery & UMMA, Srimoyee Mitra & Jennifer Friess Opening Remarks by Carlos Francisco Jackson, Dean of Stamps School of Art and Design

10:00 am: Session 1 — Running Water: Contextualizing Current Understandings of Water Panelists: Bonnie Devine, Osman Khan, Kate Levy, and Morgan P. Vickers Moderator: Perrin Selcer The opening session, Running Water, considers how narratives about water shape the role that water plays in our lives. Beginning with the question : How have our approaches to water and the dynamics of access contributed to our current relationship with water, panelists will explore how narratives, relationships, and experiences with water are affected by or have affected water use, policies, and infrastructure.

11:45 am: Exhibition tour: Flint Is Family In Three Acts, led by Stamps Gallery Director Srimoyee Mitra

Afternoon & Evening Sessions at University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), 525 South State Street

2:00 – 3:00 pm: Virtual Keynote — Winona LaDuke Location: UMMA, Helmut Stern Auditorium (Lower Level) Come watch the virtual keynote with fellow symposium participants streamed live at the Helmut Stern Auditorium. You can also watch this virtual keynote online.   Winona LaDuke Winona LaDuke is an economist, environmental activist, author, hemp farmer, and former two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate. LaDuke is known worldwide for her thoughts and lectures on climate justice and renewable energy and as an advocate protecting Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. She was named to the first Forbes ​“50 over 50 Women of Impact” list in 2021 and has been recognized by Time magazine, with the Thomas Merton Award and Reebok Human Rights Award, and was named the Woman of the Year by Ms. magazine in 1998. LaDuke is the author of several books, including, most recently, To Be a Water Protector: Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers. A Harvard University graduate with a degree in rural economic development, she devotes much of her time to farming on the White Earth reservation in Minnesota. LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg.

3:30 – 5:00 pm: Session 2 — Intervention and Innovation in Water Infrastructure and Justice Movements Location: UMMA, Helmut Stern Auditorium (lower level) Panelists: Alice Jennings, Lisa Lapeyro, Senghor Reid, and Joe Trumpey

This panel features more recent interventions and innovations that have been developed, proposed, and enacted in a shifting water landscape. It examines how artwork, design, community actions (including protest, advocacy, and the development of new organizations), and recent court cases and new laws actively shape our use of and access (or lack thereof) to water. 

5:00 pm: Session 3 — Connections Across the Watershed Location: UMMA, Lizzie & Jonathan Tisch Apse (1st floor)

5:00 pm: Reception and refreshments with Performance by The Sister Tour

6:30 pm: Exhibition tour of Watershed, led by UMMA curator Jennifer Friess and featuring exhibition artists Kate Levy, Doug Fogelson, Shanna Merola, Bonnie Devine, Rozalinda Borcilă, and Senghor Reid.



  Symposium events are free and open to all. Please contact Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Stamps Gallery at jenjkhan@​umich.​edu for additional information or with questions.

 

The Ways of Water: Art, Activism, and Ecologies symposium is co-presented by Stamps Gallery and UMMA in partnership with UMMNH and the University of Michigan Library. It is co-sponsored by U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens and U-M Joseph A. Labadie Collection and supported by the U-M Office of the Vice President for Research and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. 

 


Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Susan and Richard Gutow, and the U-M Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, Graham Sustainability Institute, and the Department of English Language and Literature. Special thanks to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin.  

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Other Fri, 07 Oct 2022 12:16:43 -0400 2022-10-07T09:30:00-04:00 2022-10-07T12:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Write-Together (October 7, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97717 97717-21795004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:12:33 -0400 2022-10-07T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Write-Together Flyer
Virtual Keynote: Winona LaDuke, The Ways of Water: Art, Activism, and Ecologies Symposium (October 7, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99437 99437-21798205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR5qMyhiFlo.

Winona LaDuke is an economist, environmental activist, author, hemp farmer, and former two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate.

LaDuke is known worldwide for her thoughts and lectures on climate justice and renewable energy and as an advocate protecting Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. She was named to the first Forbes ​“50 over 50 Women of Impact” list in 2021 and has been recognized by Time magazine, with the Thomas Merton Award and Reebok Human Rights Award, and was named the Woman of the Year by Ms. magazine in 1998. LaDuke is the author of several books, including, most recently, To Be a Water Protector: Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers. A Harvard University graduate with a degree in rural economic development, she devotes much of her time to farming on the White Earth reservation in Minnesota. LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg.



Winona LaDuke is the keynote speaker for The Ways of Water: Art, Activism, and Ecologies Symposium, a 2-day symposium that brings together a diverse group of practitioners, including artists, designers, activists, scholars, scientists, policy analysts, urban planners, students, and thinkers to discuss what may well be the most important issue of our time: access to clean water and the fight for environmental justice.

Held in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art and Stamps Gallery and building on themes present in the UMMA exhibition Watershed and Stamps Gallery’s LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts, The Ways of Water symposium continues to unravel the story of water, its critical role, and the way it connects us all. 

After the keynote, join us for an in-person panel discussion followed by a reception.

3:30 – 5:00 pm: Panel Discussion — Intervention and Innovation in Water Infrastructure and Justice Movements Panelists: Alice Jennings, Lisa Lapeyro, Senghor Reid, and Joe Trumpey

This panel features more recent interventions and innovations that have been developed, proposed, and enacted in a shifting water landscape. It examines how artwork, design, community actions (including protest, advocacy, and the development of new organizations), and recent court cases and new laws actively shape our use of and access (or lack thereof) to water. 

5:00 pm:  Connections Across the Watershed - A reception with a Performance by The Sister Tour and artist-led tour of the UMMA exhibition Watershed.

 

Symposium events are free and open to all. Keynote, additional panelists and complete symposium schedule to be announced. Please contact Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Stamps Gallery at jenjkhan@​umich.​edu for additional information or with questions.

This program is co-presented by Stamps Gallery and UMMA in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History and the University of Michigan Library. Additional support provided by the U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, the U-M Joseph A. Labadie Collection, and the Office of the Vice President for Research

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Susan and Richard Gutow, and the U-M Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, Graham Sustainability Institute, and the Department of English Language and Literature. Special thanks to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin.  

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Other Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:16:44 -0400 2022-10-07T14:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Natural Language Processing Workshop Series (October 10, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97509 97509-21794843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 10, 2022 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Written text contains a wealth of information that can be turned into research data to study almost every aspect of human behavior, human health and our society. However, converting text to usable data requires an understanding of standard techniques from the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). MIDAS and the AI Lab are jointly organizing a monthly series of NLP workshops during the Fall 2022 semester. The first installment is on Sept. 19, and the second installment is on Oct. 10. Each session does not directly depend upon information from previous sessions.

In the first workshop of the series, we will provide a broad overview of NLP and introduce basic concepts used in NLP, including keyword counting, sentiment classification, and topic modeling. Additional topics include how NLP can be used, what the data look like, what (social science) questions could be answered using NLP, and more.

The second session, on Oct 10, is titled "What's in Text Data?"
Written text contains rich information about human knowledge, opinions, and communication styles, but how do we extract insight about all this from the data? In this second workshop in the series, we will first introduce Jupyter notebooks, a popular platform for performing data science research. Then we will discuss how to choose a dataset for your research question, extract your own dataset from social media sites like Reddit and Twitter, and convert the raw text data to a usable format. We will then explore several methods to extract information and gain insight from text data, including named entity recognition and sentiment analysis.

Register Here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7k0uvPClqJnyWAMlWBZWb3h1imP4rnbClkvoyQ6Mq7dh8Ow/viewform

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:29:49 -0400 2022-10-10T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar NLP Workshop
The Walter J. Weber, Jr. Distinguished Lecture — Menachem Elimelech, Yale University (October 11, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98041 98041-21795509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 1:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 32
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

This lecture series brings one of the world’s foremost experts in environmental engineering and science to campus each year to share the results of their work and their vision for the future.

This seminar is made possible through the endowment to the University by the 1996 Athalie Richardson Irvine Clark Prize awarded to Professor Walter J. Weber, Jr. by the National Water Research Institute for Outstanding Accomplishments in Water Science and Technology.

TITLE:
"Next-Generation Desalination and Water Purification Membranes: Where Are We Now?"

ABSTRACT:
Water scarcity is one of the greatest global crises of our time. Increasing water supply beyond what is available from the hydrological cycle can be achieved by seawater desalination and wastewater reuse. Highly effective, low-cost, robust membrane-based technologies for desalination and wastewater reuse are needed, with minimal impact on the environment. However, progress in current state-of-the-art water purification membranes has been limited. This presentation will critically discuss and evaluate recent research efforts in the past 15 years to (i) lower energy consumption for water desalination by improving membrane water permeability, (ii) reduce the cost of water desalination via increased water-salt selectivity, and (iii) enhance membrane ion selectivity for applications at the water-energy nexus. The presentation will focus on the emerging area of ion selectivity where high precision ion separation is desired. We will highlight how insights from nanofluidics and ion-selective biological channels establish the basis for a new class of membranes with ion-ion selectivity. A few examples will be provided to elucidate the mechanisms of ion transport and selectivity in membranes with sub-nanometer pores. The presentation will conclude with a discussion on research directions and critical challenges for developing ion-selective membranes.


BIO:
Menachem Elimelech is the Sterling Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. His research focuses on membrane-based technologies at the water-energy nexus, materials for next-generation desalination and water purification membranes, and environmental applications of nanomaterials. Professor Elimelech was the recipient of numerous awards in recognition of his research contributions. Notable among these awards are the 2005 Clarke Prize for excellence in water research; election to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2006; Eni Prize for ‘Protection of the Environment’ in 2015; and election to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017. Professor Elimelech is also a Highly Cited Researcher in two categories (Chemistry and Environment/Ecology). Professor Elimelech has advised 43 PhD students and 37 postdoctoral researchers, many of whom hold leading positions in academia and industry. In recognition of his excellence in teaching and mentoring, he received the W.M. Keck Foundation Engineering Teaching Excellence Award in 1994, the Yale University Graduate Mentoring Award in 2004, and the Yale University Postdoctoral Mentoring Prize in 2012.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:10:25 -0400 2022-10-11T13:30:00-04:00 2022-10-11T14:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 32 Chemical Engineering Workshop / Seminar U-M ChE logo and photo of Menachem Elimelech
Futures in Research, Science, and Teaching - General meeting (October 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96044 96044-21791848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

General meetings take place every other Tuesday from September 13 to December 6th. Events include:

September 13th: Pathways in Research (Graduate student/Faculty panel)
September 27th: Mixer (food provided)
October 11th: Poster design and presentation
October 25th: Applying to graduate school - application components and essay writing advice
November 8th: Finding paid summer and post-baccalaureate research opportunities
November 22nd: Faculty talk
December 6th: Mixer

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:26:57 -0400 2022-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Meeting Event flyer detailing date, time, and location: September 13th at 4 pm, BSB 1010
Poster Design Workshop (October 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99872 99872-21798816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

A short presentation on STEM poster design, followed by researchers and graduate students sharing personal examples. Topics will included formatting, narrating your research story, and designing a poster that works equally well presented or read on its own.

RSVP: https://forms.gle/DVGvnsSXhtCEBeWy6

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Oct 2022 13:46:21 -0400 2022-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar FIRST Logo
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series: Democracy & Debate (October 11, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99462 99462-21798230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series is a student-centered program that promotes civic engagement throughout U-M by inviting speakers from the political and public service sectors of national and international note.

Join us on Tuesday, October 11th from 5:30-7pm for our first TDLS event! This session features panelists who will discuss the importance of democracy and debate and provide insights on how their social identities inform their participation in democratic processes. Food will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:10:39 -0400 2022-10-11T17:30:00-04:00 2022-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion TDLS Flyer
The Body, Politics, and STEM: Examining Post-Roe Impacts on You (October 11, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99731 99731-21798590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

In light of the recent decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs. Wade, join us for a panel discussion event to explore the implications of this decision on the STEM community.

Presented by the STEM Trifecta, a collaborative comprising the Women in Science and Engineering Residence Program (WISE RP), the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program, and the College of Engineering’s Office of Culture, Community and Equity (OCCE). The STEM Trifecta was established to elevate the overlapping goals and outcomes of each respective unit, while creating new initiatives and outreach to support minoritized communities pursuing science, engineering, technology and mathematics at the University of Michigan and beyond.

In particular, we want to create a safe space for students to learn about the science, policy, and real-world impact of this decision–at the personal level as college undergraduate and graduate students–but also as emerging STEM professionals. We hope to create space for understanding, and empower individual and collective action to discover how one can use their spheres of influence to effect change. Finally, we are hoping to positively promote the benefits of voting, and you will be able to register to vote during the event.


Featured panelists:

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: U-M Alum, Ford Adjunct Faculty, MD/MPH

Mrs. Nicole Wells Stallworth: Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan

Dr. Lisa Kane-Low: U-M Nursing Faculty, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the School of Nursing, Certified Nurse Midwife


Light refreshments will be provided. Livestream also available on Zoom.
Please register on Sessions for either the in person or online option.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:41:43 -0400 2022-10-11T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T20:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Lecture / Discussion The Body, Politics, and STEM: Examining Post-Roe Impacts on You
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Evaluating Pre-Election Polling Estimates using a New Measure of Non-Ignorable Selection Bias (October 12, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98434 98434-21796653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
October 12, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm

Brady T. West is a Research Professor in the Survey Methodology Program, located within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (U-M) campus. He earned his PhD from the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science in 2011. Before that, he received an MA in Applied Statistics from the U-M Statistics Department in 2002, being recognized as an Outstanding First-year Applied Masters student, and a BS in Statistics with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction from the U-M Statistics Department in 2001. His current research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, selection bias in surveys, responsive/adaptive survey design, interviewer effects, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of a book comparing different statistical software packages in terms of their mixed-effects modeling procedures (Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software, Third Edition, Chapman Hall/CRC Press, 2022), and he is a co-author of a second book entitled Applied Survey Data Analysis (with Steven Heeringa and Pat Berglund), the second edition of which was published by CRC Press in June 2017. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2022.

Among the numerous explanations that have been offered for recent errors in pre-election polls, selection bias due to non-ignorable partisan nonresponse bias, where the probability of responding to a poll is a function of the candidate preference that a poll is attempting to measure (even after conditioning on other relevant covariates used for weighting adjustments), has received relatively less focus in the academic literature. Under this type of selection mechanism, estimates of candidate preferences based on individual or aggregated polls may be subject to significant bias, even after standard weighting adjustments. Until recently, methods for measuring and adjusting for this type of non-ignorable selection bias have been unavailable. Fortunately, recent developments in the methodological literature have provided political researchers with easy-to-use measures of non-ignorable selection bias. In this study, we apply a new measure that has been developed specifically for estimated proportions to this challenging problem. We analyze data from 18 different pre-election polls: nine different telephone polls conducted in eight different states prior to the U.S. Presidential election in 2020, and nine different pre-election polls conducted either online or via telephone in Great Britain prior to the 2015 General Election. We rigorously evaluate the ability of this new measure to detect and adjust for selection bias in estimates of the proportion of likely voters that will vote for a specific candidate, using official outcomes from each election as benchmarks and alternative data sources for estimating key characteristics of the likely voter populations in each context.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:50:22 -0400 2022-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Evaluating Pre-Election Polling Estimates using a New Measure of Non-Ignorable Selection Bias
Information Session Webinar- Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) (October 12, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98336 98336-21796508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Wednesday, October 12, 2002
3:00 - 4:00pm
Registration is required.

Please join us October 12, 2022 to learn about the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. The speaker will be Dr. Brady West.

Advance registration is required, https://bit.ly/3d3upwR

The Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) offers graduate degrees that combine ideas and techniques for producing and analyzing data about humans and our society. Joint us to launch your career in this exciting and rewarding field in which scientists interpret the world through data.

The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Presentation Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:38:06 -0400 2022-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Presentation MPSDS Informational Session Webinar
Unpacking Environmental Racism (October 12, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98296 98296-21796457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

What is environmental racism? Why are certain neighborhoods not taken care of while others are? What gets attention in the media and what does not?

All of these questions and more will be explored during our first Kaleidoscope conversation on Environmental Racism and its impact. Join us for a conversation on how race and ethnicity impacts environmental experiences and choices.

Dinner will be provided!

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Kaleidoscope conversations will provide an opportunity for students to come together for a conversation with their peers and get the chance to dive beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and to explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. In these conversations we will explore how the identities you hold shape your experience of the world and your understanding of social issues.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Sep 2022 08:49:28 -0400 2022-10-12T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T19:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion a colorful flier with event details
Innovation-Corps Workshop (October 14, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98202 98202-21795713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

This free online workshop will help you explore the commercial viability of your innovation idea. You will learn a process to systematically test key assumptions about your idea and the customer problems it might solve better than current alternatives. This is the critical first step toward commercial success for any venture.
**Learn, practice, and hone your innovation skills.**
**Improve the odds for commercial success.**
**Expand your network of like-minded peers, instructors, investors, customers, and mentors.**

Learn more and apply: https://www.greatlakesicorps.org/event/fall-2022-university-of-michigan-i-corps/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Sep 2022 09:25:17 -0400 2022-10-14T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Entrepreneurship Workshop / Seminar I-Corps Flyer
Write-Together (October 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97717 97717-21795005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:12:33 -0400 2022-10-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Write-Together Flyer
A WISE Night In: All STEM Students (October 14, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98797 98797-21797196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Those that are good at weaving their network have a strong sense of self and understand their individual needs. They are able to find and connect with others. They also have skills and behaviors that allow them to utilize positive relationships and navigate ones where conflict appears.

A WISE Night In is all about cultivating and sustaining positive relationships. Each WISE Night In event is themed to meet the social and professional network needs of STEM students.

The theme for this event is ALL students in STEM. We invite ALL STEM students to come and join us. Eat food, Play games, and meet new people.

To reserve your spot, RSVP by December 1. Space is limited.
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58975

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:57:38 -0400 2022-10-14T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Social / Informal Gathering yellow background with event title
IOE Michigan Night at INFORMS (October 17, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99452 99452-21798220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 17, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Join the University of Michigan Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering for food and drinks after a day of networking at INFORMS.

Monday, October 17, 2022 | 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Taxman CityWay
310 South Delaware Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204

Hors d'oeuvres provided. Open bar 6 - 8 pm and cash bar 8 - 9 pm.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:07:49 -0400 2022-10-17T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-17T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Reception / Open House Taxman Cityway
ChE Historic Free Bagel Wednesday (October 19, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97364 97364-21794452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 9:30am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Historic Free Bagel Wednesday is a bagel and coffee hour hosted by the Chemical Engineering Graduate Society (ChEGS) and is held every other Wednesday. The event was part of the original ChEGS charter and is now one of many social events run by ChEGS throughout the year.

The event is open to all chemical engineering graduate students, faculty, post-docs, and staff.

To help reduce waste, if you have one, please plan to bring your own mug or reusable coffee cup.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:56:44 -0400 2022-10-19T09:30:00-04:00 2022-10-19T10:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering An image of text that reads "Historic Free Bagel Wednesday"
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - How to Draw a Nationally-Representative Sample: Updating and Reassessing Monitoring the Future's Sampling Procedures (October 19, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98438 98438-21796659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
October 19, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 pm EDT

Professor Richard Miech is Principal Investigator of Monitoring the Future, which since 1975 has drawn annual, nationally-representative samples of adolescents and tracked trends in adolescent drug use. His work focuses on trends in substance use, with an emphasis on disentangling how these trends vary by age, historical period, and birth cohort membership.

The national estimates of drug use from Monitoring the Future (MTF) serve as a gold standard in the field and are a key source of information for research, U.S. policymakers, and nonprofit organizations that seek to reduce teen drug use. For sample selection MTF uses a multistage, random sampling procedure that consists of (1) selection of a specific geographic areas, (2) selection of one or more high schools in each area, and (3) selection of students within each school. MTF has recently begun a revisit and overhaul of its sampling procedures, which were developed more than three decades ago. In this talk Professor Miech discusses this overhaul, including sampling challenges and issues that have arisen over the years, as well as opportunities to streamline and improve MTF sampling with new technology.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:51:08 -0400 2022-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer for https://www.src.isr.umich.edu/people/richard-miech/
LHS Collaboratory (October 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96028 96028-21791725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Speakers:
Alex John London, PhD
Professor of Ethics and Philosophy
Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
Explainability Is Not the Solution to Structural Challenges to AI in Medicine

Explainability is often treated as a necessary condition for ethical applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in Medicine. In this brief talk I survey some of the structural challenges facing the development and deployment of effective AI systems in health care to illustrate some of the limitations to explainability in addressing these challenges. This talk builds on prior work (London 2019, 2022) to illustrate how ambitions for AI in health care likely require significant changes to key aspects of health systems.

Melissa McCradden, PhD, MHSc
Director of AI in Medicine
The Hospital for Sick Children
On the Inextricability of Explainability from Ethics: Explainable AI does not Ethical AI Make

Explainability is embedded into a plethora of legal, professional, and regulatory guidelines as it is often presumed that an ethical use of AI will require explainable algorithms. There is considerable controversy, however, as to whether post hoc explanations are computationally reliable, their value for decision-making, and the relational implications of their use in shared decision-making. This talk will explore the literature across these domains and argue that while post hoc explainability may be a reasonable technical goal, it should not be offered status as a moral standard by which AI use is judged to be ‘ethical.’

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 01 Oct 2022 17:10:43 -0400 2022-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory logo
North Campus Housing Fair (October 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99558 99558-21798340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Beyond the Diag

The fall housing fair events offer students a great opportunity to learn more about off-campus housing options in and around Ann Arbor. Students can meet with housing providers, hear about special offers and giveaways, and also learn more about various programs that provide support and resources to students who live off-campus.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:46:56 -0400 2022-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Beyond the Diag Fair / Festival Housing Fair
ChE SEMINAR: “Soft Microfluidic Analysis Systems for the Skin” (October 20, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98207 98207-21795723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 1:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

The ChE seminar series features guest speakers. U-M ChE faculty and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.

TITLE:
Soft Microfluidic Analysis Systems for the Skin

ABSTRACT:
Recent advances in materials science, chemical engineering and mechanics design establish the foundations for high performance classes of microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technologies that have physical properties matched those of the human skin. The resulting devices can integrate with the surface of the skin in a water-tight yet physically imperceptible fashion, to provide real-time measurements of sweat rate and total sweat loss, along with continuous, clinical-quality biochemical information on physiological status using a combination of colorimetric and electrochemical techniques. This talk summarizes the key ideas and presents application examples in sports performance, worker safety, medical diagnostics and nutritional monitoring.

BIO:
Professor John A. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff and then served as Director of the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department from 1997 to 2002. He then spent thirteen years on the faculty at University of Illinois, most recently as the Swanlund Chair Professor and Director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. In the Fall of 2016, he joined Northwestern University where he is Director of the recently endowed Querrey-Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Sep 2022 10:57:03 -0400 2022-10-20T13:30:00-04:00 2022-10-20T14:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Workshop / Seminar Alt text: U-M ChE logo, a photo of John Rogers and text that reads "Seminar"
Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing (October 20, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98761 98761-21797152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Writing in graduate school calls on students to work in a variety of new genres and challenges writers to expand on their skills as communicators. This workshop will help early graduate student writers identify critical practices and strategies to enhance their writing and build an effective approach to graduate writing. We’ll talk about becoming more strategic readers and examine patterns of inquiry across disciplines moving from the practice of asking good questions to the importance of topic construction. We will also talk about the variety of communication forms graduate writing can take. The workshop will conclude by examining our writing routines and finding ways to expand our own writing process to succeed in graduate school.

Presenter: Cat Cassel, Sweetland Center for Writing

Please register at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/7941

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:08:42 -0400 2022-10-20T14:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T15:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Workshop flyer
From analog to digital and back again (October 25, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99287 99287-21797812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Modern life depends on digital devices, but our world is analog. Without conversion between analog and digital, there would be no communication, sensing, and computing. Defying expectations, analog to digital converter circuits (ADCs) improved in energy efficiency by more than three orders of magnitude over 20 years. These improvements paved the way for smart prostheses for Parkinson’s disease, high-bandwidth wireless connectivity, digital radar, and accurate speech recognition in noisy environments. Recently analog circuits aided by analog to digital conversion are upending computing. Eighty years after the dawn of digital computing, analog computing may power the explosive growth in artificial intelligence.

BIO
Michael P. Flynn received the Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1995. From 1988 to 1991, he was with the National Microelectronics Research Centre in Cork, Ireland. He was with National Semiconductor in Santa Clara, CA, from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Member of Technical Staff with Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX. During the four-year period from 1997 to 2001, he was with Parthus Technologies, Cork, Ireland. Dr. Flynn joined the University of Michigan in 2001, and is currently Professor and the Fawwaz T Ulaby Collegiate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His technical interests are in RF circuits, data conversion, biomedical systems and analog computing.

Michael Flynn is a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow. He received 2020 Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award and the 2016 University of Michigan Faculty Achievement Award. He is a recipient of the 2020 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award. Flynn received the 2011 Education Excellence Award and the 2010 College of Engineering Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award from the College from Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received the 2005-2006 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He received the NSF Early Career Award in 2004.

Dr. Flynn was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits from 2013 to 2016. He is a former Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. He served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC) and of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. He served on Technical Program Committees of the International Solid State Circuits (ISSSC), the Symposium on VLSI Circuits, the European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) and the Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (ASSCC). He was sub-committee chair for data conversion at ISSCC from 2018 to 2022.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:24:07 -0400 2022-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 2022-10-25T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion speaker headshot
Futures in Research, Science, and Teaching - General meeting (October 25, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96044 96044-21791849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

General meetings take place every other Tuesday from September 13 to December 6th. Events include:

September 13th: Pathways in Research (Graduate student/Faculty panel)
September 27th: Mixer (food provided)
October 11th: Poster design and presentation
October 25th: Applying to graduate school - application components and essay writing advice
November 8th: Finding paid summer and post-baccalaureate research opportunities
November 22nd: Faculty talk
December 6th: Mixer

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:26:57 -0400 2022-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Meeting Event flyer detailing date, time, and location: September 13th at 4 pm, BSB 1010
Relationship Accelerator (October 25, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98733 98733-21797121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the Thriving Accelerator Workshops:
A Thriving Accelerator is an immersive workshop from the Center for Positive Organizations about a topic in the science of thriving. After completing a workshop, students will be able to immediately implement their learnings to create lasting personal and organizational impact.

In the Relationship Accelerator, you will:
-Gain a foundation for new ways of seeing, understanding, and acting to build connections with others.
-Learn to take stock of your relational landscape and become more skillful and intentional in its navigation.
-Leave with new practices to help you tap into wellsprings of capability, strength, and resilience.

Instructor:
Sarah Kurtz McKinnon, Senior Associate Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation at the Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Open to all University of Michigan students. Free registration required.

For information about all of the Thriving Accelerator workshops being offered, visit: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/learning-programs/thriving-accelerator/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Sep 2022 08:32:01 -0400 2022-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Relationship Accelerator
Writing Personal and Academic Statements (October 25, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100505 100505-21800018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

Bioscience postdocs and grad students will give a presentation on what to include/avoid and how to frame your story while writing academic and personal statements for research-based grad programs (and others). There will be a chance after for anyone interested in workshopping their statement drafts in small groups.

RSVP: https://forms.gle/43KP9utUYjCknofm8

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Oct 2022 12:54:49 -0400 2022-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar FIRST Logo
Renew, Replenish, Restore (October 25, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100383 100383-21799688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Many of us are feeling the weight of supporting social change on campus and beyond. What can we do to replenish, restore, and renew our joy as we continue to encounter and address the challenges of injustice? The Replenish, Restore, Renew series by examining ways to cultivate joy. Attendees will participate in hands-on activities and have the opportunity to shape future opportunities within the series.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:20:11 -0400 2022-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 2022-10-25T19:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Workshop / Seminar Renew, Replenish, Restore
Integrative Systems + Design Open House (October 26, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100064 100064-21799047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 11:00am
Location: School of Information North
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Join us for the 2022 Integrative Systems + Design (ISD) Open House on Wednesday, October 26 at 11-12:30 PM. You will get to talk with our graduate coordinators, program directors and faculty, as well as current students. This is a great opportunity to visit the University of Michigan’s North Campus where the ISD lives and get to learn more about the opportunities within our six unique graduate degree programs.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 11 Oct 2022 07:31:04 -0400 2022-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-26T12:30:00-04:00 School of Information North Integrative Systems + Design Reception / Open House Open House
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Would electoral research show different findings if we replaced probability face-to-face surveys with other types of surveys? (October 26, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99079 99079-21797546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
October 26, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 pm

Would electoral research show different findings if we replaced probability face-to-face surveys with nonprobability online surveys?

Hannah Bucher is a PhD student in survey research at the University of Mannheim and a research associate at GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences at the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES). Her research focuses on (non)probability online surveys.

As respondents of nonprobability online surveys are self-selected, it is often questioned whether results are comparable with those of probability face-to-face surveys. In this paper, I compare a nonprobability online survey and a probability face-to-face survey by the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) in terms of estimation of benchmark statistics; distributions in 80 variables covering measures of political attitudes and behavior; and differences in results of multivariate analyses through a multimodel comparison with individual-level voter turnout as the dependent variable. The probability face-to-face survey performs slightly better in estimating characteristics with external benchmarks. There are substantial differences in numerous variables and their associations in multivariate models. Thus, switching from a probability face-to-face survey to a nonprobability online survey affects empirical findings on individual-level voter turnout and the conclusions drawn therefrom.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

SISRT
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:35:50 -0400 2022-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer
Graduate Studies in Computational & Data Sciences Information Session (October 26, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100680 100680-21800224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

The educational programs represented are:
- PhD in Scientific Computing (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Computational Neuroscience (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Data Science (MIDAS)

These programs are open to all U-M graduate students with an interest in scientific computing or data science. These methodologies can have a wide range of applications - current and past students have come from a variety of home departments including Aerospace Engineering, Applied Physics, Biostatistics, Biomedical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Infrastructures & Learning Systems, Information, Industrial & Operations Engineering, Kinesiology, Linguistics, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Math, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, Neuroscience, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Environment and Sustainability, Sociology and Statistics.

If you have any questions about these programs or about the information session, please reach out to MICDE (micde-contact@umich.edu) or MIDAS (midas-contact@umich.edu).

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Presentation Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:46:55 -0400 2022-10-26T13:30:00-04:00 2022-10-26T14:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Presentation MICDE/MIDAS Information Session - PhD in Scientific Computing (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Computational Neuroscience (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Data Science (MIDAS)
The History of Jewish Friendship, 1650-1950 (October 26, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99555 99555-21798335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Is there a “Jewish” cultural model of friendship? How did it change over time? Could the study of Jewish friendships shed new light on the Jewish past? 13 scholars will gather together to present their research on Jewish amical practices, sociability, intimacy, familiarity and spiritual friendship.

The event is co-organized by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, with the support of the International Institute.

Conference Schedule:
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
16:30 | Greetings
Maya Barzilai (University of Michigan)
Shachar Pinsker and Shai Zamir (University of Michigan)
16:45-18:30 | Early Modern Friendships
Chair: Ryan Szpiech (University of Michigan)
Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago): “The Sultan’s Best Friend Forever: Early Modern Jewish Constructions”
Bernard Cooperman (University of Maryland): “Rhetorics of Friendship and Family in Traditional Jewish Society”
Shai Zamir (University of Michigan): “Friendship as a Rhetorical Strategy among Portuguese New Christians”

Thursday, October 27, 2022
9:00 | Coffee
9:15-11:00 | Mediterranean Friendships
Chair: Helmut Puff (University of Michigan)
Federica Francesconi (University at Albany, SUNY): ״Single Jewish Women in Early Modern Venice and their Global Networks: Belonging, Friendship, and Circulation of Objects״ 
Lawrence Fine (Mount Holyoke College): “Spiritual Friendship and Intentional Kabbalistic Fellowships in the Early Modern Period”
Francesca Bregoli (Queens College of the City University of New York): “‘Cursed be that Money that Ruins and Breaks our Friendship’: Epistolary Constructions of Merchant Friendship in the 18th-century Mediterranean”

12:00 | Lunch

12:20-14:20 | American Friendships
Greetings: John Carson (University of Michigan)
Chair: Rachel Rafael Neis (University of Michigan)
Steven Green (University of California, Santa Cruz): "A Necessary Friendship?: Jewish Relations between Themselves and non-Jews on North Dakota Homesteads"
Rachel B. Gross (San Francisco State University) and Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University): “Sufferings of the Soul: The Friendship of Mary Antin and Jessie Sampter” 
Maggie Carlton (University of Michigan): “Mistaken, Forbidden, & Severed Friendships in Interwar Detroit”

15:30-17:45 | Modern Friendships
Chair: Jeffrey Veidlinger (University of Michigan)
Gabriel Mordoch (University of Michigan): "Stanley Bendana and Jacob Perlman: A Sephardic-Ashkenazi encounter in Victor Perera's The Conversion (1970)"
Mostafa Hussein (University of Michigan): "Friendship in Trying Times: On Jewish-Arab Relations in Mandate Palestine"
Ruth Behar (University of Michigan): “El Grupo: Friendship Among Cuban Jewish Immigrants”  
Shachar Pinsker (University of Michigan): “Coffee, Sociability, and Conversation: Coffeehouses and Modern Jewish Friendship”

Illustration by Rutu Modan: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/what-cafes-did-for-liberalism

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 24 Oct 2022 10:57:00 -0400 2022-10-26T16:30:00-04:00 2022-10-26T18:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Illustration by Rutu Modan
The History of Jewish Friendship, 1650-1950 (October 27, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99555 99555-21798336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Is there a “Jewish” cultural model of friendship? How did it change over time? Could the study of Jewish friendships shed new light on the Jewish past? 13 scholars will gather together to present their research on Jewish amical practices, sociability, intimacy, familiarity and spiritual friendship.

The event is co-organized by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, with the support of the International Institute.

Conference Schedule:
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
16:30 | Greetings
Maya Barzilai (University of Michigan)
Shachar Pinsker and Shai Zamir (University of Michigan)
16:45-18:30 | Early Modern Friendships
Chair: Ryan Szpiech (University of Michigan)
Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago): “The Sultan’s Best Friend Forever: Early Modern Jewish Constructions”
Bernard Cooperman (University of Maryland): “Rhetorics of Friendship and Family in Traditional Jewish Society”
Shai Zamir (University of Michigan): “Friendship as a Rhetorical Strategy among Portuguese New Christians”

Thursday, October 27, 2022
9:00 | Coffee
9:15-11:00 | Mediterranean Friendships
Chair: Helmut Puff (University of Michigan)
Federica Francesconi (University at Albany, SUNY): ״Single Jewish Women in Early Modern Venice and their Global Networks: Belonging, Friendship, and Circulation of Objects״ 
Lawrence Fine (Mount Holyoke College): “Spiritual Friendship and Intentional Kabbalistic Fellowships in the Early Modern Period”
Francesca Bregoli (Queens College of the City University of New York): “‘Cursed be that Money that Ruins and Breaks our Friendship’: Epistolary Constructions of Merchant Friendship in the 18th-century Mediterranean”

12:00 | Lunch

12:20-14:20 | American Friendships
Greetings: John Carson (University of Michigan)
Chair: Rachel Rafael Neis (University of Michigan)
Steven Green (University of California, Santa Cruz): "A Necessary Friendship?: Jewish Relations between Themselves and non-Jews on North Dakota Homesteads"
Rachel B. Gross (San Francisco State University) and Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University): “Sufferings of the Soul: The Friendship of Mary Antin and Jessie Sampter” 
Maggie Carlton (University of Michigan): “Mistaken, Forbidden, & Severed Friendships in Interwar Detroit”

15:30-17:45 | Modern Friendships
Chair: Jeffrey Veidlinger (University of Michigan)
Gabriel Mordoch (University of Michigan): "Stanley Bendana and Jacob Perlman: A Sephardic-Ashkenazi encounter in Victor Perera's The Conversion (1970)"
Mostafa Hussein (University of Michigan): "Friendship in Trying Times: On Jewish-Arab Relations in Mandate Palestine"
Ruth Behar (University of Michigan): “El Grupo: Friendship Among Cuban Jewish Immigrants”  
Shachar Pinsker (University of Michigan): “Coffee, Sociability, and Conversation: Coffeehouses and Modern Jewish Friendship”

Illustration by Rutu Modan: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/what-cafes-did-for-liberalism

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 24 Oct 2022 10:57:00 -0400 2022-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Illustration by Rutu Modan
ChE SEMINAR: “Bioinspired Thermodynamics of Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervates” (October 27, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96114 96114-21791934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 1:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 32
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

The ChE seminar series features guest speakers. U-M ChE faculty and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.

ABSTRACT:
Charged polymers known as polyelectrolytes have been studied for decades, however understanding their physical properties remains a persistent challenge for polymer scientists. This difficulty stems from the intricate interplay between length scales spanning as much as 3-4 orders of magnitude, which has stymied our understanding of a truly important class of polymers; polyelectrolytes are widely used in applications ranging from food additives to paints, and most biopolymers (proteins, DNA, polysaccharides) are also polyelectrolytes.

However, the complexity of charged polymers can be harnessed for molecular-level materials design. Inspired by sequence-specific behaviors in biomolecular condensates, intracellular structures that assemble in part by electrostatic interactions, we study phase separation phenomena in sequence-defined polyelectrolytes. We are specifically interested in a class of polyelectrolyte materials known as complex coacervates, which are aqueous solutions of oppositely-charged macromolecules and salt that can exhibit associative phase separation. We pursue an integrated computational and theoretical study, in collaboration with experimentalists, to demonstrate that coacervates are highly sensitive to the precise patterning of charges and other chemical and physical aspects of their environment. We elucidate the key molecular features that play a large role in coacervate thermodynamics. Building upon these insights, we demonstrate how coacervate phase behavior and assembly can be strongly tuned via specific charge sequences, pH, and macroion structure. Ultimately, our goal is to establish molecular-level design rules to facilitate the tailored creation of materials based on complex coacervation that can both illuminate self-assembly phenomena found in nature, and find utility across a wide range of real-world applications.

BIO:
Charles Sing is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his BS and MS in polymer science from Case Western Reserve University in 2008, and his PhD in materials science from MIT in 2012. Prior to starting at Illinois in 2014, Charles was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. His research interests are broadly in the areas of computational and theoretical polymer physics; current projects focus on molecular and sequence properties of polyelectrolyte solutions, out-of-equilibrium rheology of semidilute polymers, polymers with nonlinear architectures, and charge and penetrant transport in polymers solutions and networks. He was recognized with an NSF CAREER Award in 2017, and was selected as one of AIChE’s ’35 Under 35’ and an ACS PMSE Young Investigator in 2020.

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Presentation Tue, 02 Aug 2022 08:25:01 -0400 2022-10-27T13:30:00-04:00 2022-10-27T14:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 32 Chemical Engineering Presentation Picture of Charles Sing with text "Seminar"
Innovation-Corps Workshop (October 28, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98202 98202-21795714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

This free online workshop will help you explore the commercial viability of your innovation idea. You will learn a process to systematically test key assumptions about your idea and the customer problems it might solve better than current alternatives. This is the critical first step toward commercial success for any venture.
**Learn, practice, and hone your innovation skills.**
**Improve the odds for commercial success.**
**Expand your network of like-minded peers, instructors, investors, customers, and mentors.**

Learn more and apply: https://www.greatlakesicorps.org/event/fall-2022-university-of-michigan-i-corps/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Sep 2022 09:25:17 -0400 2022-10-28T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Entrepreneurship Workshop / Seminar I-Corps Flyer
Write-Together (October 28, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97717 97717-21795007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:12:33 -0400 2022-10-28T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Write-Together Flyer
ChE Historic Free Bagel Wednesday (November 2, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97364 97364-21794453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 9:30am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Historic Free Bagel Wednesday is a bagel and coffee hour hosted by the Chemical Engineering Graduate Society (ChEGS) and is held every other Wednesday. The event was part of the original ChEGS charter and is now one of many social events run by ChEGS throughout the year.

The event is open to all chemical engineering graduate students, faculty, post-docs, and staff.

To help reduce waste, if you have one, please plan to bring your own mug or reusable coffee cup.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:56:44 -0400 2022-11-02T09:30:00-04:00 2022-11-02T10:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering An image of text that reads "Historic Free Bagel Wednesday"
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - A Multivariate Stopping Rule for Survey Data Collection (November 2, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98854 98854-21797269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
November 2, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 EDT

Xinyu Zhang
A Multivariate Stopping Rule for Survey Data Collection

Bio
Xinyu Zhang is a PhD candidate studying survey and data science at the University of Michigan. He is primarily interested in responsive survey designs, survey nonresponse, and machine learning techniques. His dissertation topic is using models to inform responsive survey designs.

Abstract
Surveys are experiencing declining response rates. With more and more effort expended to combat these declining response rates, the cost of large-scale surveys has continued to rise. Recent technological developments in survey data collection have allowed the survey designer to make near-real-time intervention decisions. Stopping rules are one of the interventions often considered to improve the efficiency of data collection. Stopping some cases essentially reallocates effort from stopped cases to others, but most previously proposed stopping rules have only considered single estimates. In multipurpose surveys, there may be data quality objectives that must be met for multiple estimates with constraints on costs. We introduce a stopping rule that accounts for the cost and the quality of one or more estimates. The proposed stopping rule is illustrated via simulation using data from the Health and Retirement Study.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

SISRT
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:40:59 -0400 2022-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer
Graduate Studies in Computational & Data Sciences Information Session (November 2, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100680 100680-21800225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 1:30pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

The educational programs represented are:
- PhD in Scientific Computing (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Computational Neuroscience (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Data Science (MIDAS)

These programs are open to all U-M graduate students with an interest in scientific computing or data science. These methodologies can have a wide range of applications - current and past students have come from a variety of home departments including Aerospace Engineering, Applied Physics, Biostatistics, Biomedical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Infrastructures & Learning Systems, Information, Industrial & Operations Engineering, Kinesiology, Linguistics, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Math, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, Neuroscience, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Environment and Sustainability, Sociology and Statistics.

If you have any questions about these programs or about the information session, please reach out to MICDE (micde-contact@umich.edu) or MIDAS (midas-contact@umich.edu).

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Presentation Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:46:55 -0400 2022-11-02T13:30:00-04:00 2022-11-02T14:30:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Presentation MICDE/MIDAS Information Session - PhD in Scientific Computing (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Computational Neuroscience (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Data Science (MIDAS)
POV: College Students of Color (November 2, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100184 100184-21799373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

What is it like being a BIPOC student at a predominantly white university? What experiences have you had, both negative and positive, as you navigate these institutions? What support and resources are necessary for your continued success and wellbeing?

Join us for an open conversation surrounding what it's like to be a BIPOC college student, and what support is needed.

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Kaleidoscope conversations will provide an opportunity for students to come together for a conversation with their peers and get the chance to dive beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and to explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. In these conversations we will explore how the identities you hold shape your experience of the world and your understanding of social issues.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:53:46 -0400 2022-11-02T18:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T19:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Colorful flier with event details
ChE Seminar: "Redefining, repurposing, and reprogramming post-translational modification enzymes" (November 3, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100706 100706-21800263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

The ChE seminar series features guest speakers. U-M ChE faculty and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.

ABSTRACT:
The ability to introduce a chemo- and regioselective post-translational modification (PTM) into a protein is foundational to our understanding of health and disease and is at the center of most chemical biology, synthetic biology, biotechnological and biomedical advances. The Denard Lab aims to redefine, repurpose, and reprogram enzymes that catalyze PTMs (PTM-enzymes), with a focus on proteases and protein ligases. We think of reprogramming a PTM-enzyme in three ways: through protein engineering to modify its biochemical properties, by functional interactions with a selective ligand, through substrate engineering and profiling. To achieve these goals, we have developed several high-throughput functional screens.

In this talk, I will first present our current results on engineering the specificity of a human protease towards new targets, using a high throughput directed evolution platform called YESS 2.0. Our long-term goal is to engineer proteases capable of degrading aggregated proteins. Such engineered enzymes could serve as modalities to investigate and treat protein aggregation diseases (synucleopathies, transthyretin amyloidosis). In early results, we have isolated neurosin variants with switched specificity capable of cleaving peptide substrates found in alpha-synuclein. These variants exhibit reduced activity towards a consensus sequence found in protease activatable receptors. Second, I will share our recent advancements in developing a high-throughput platform to discover protein-based modulators that can reprogram a PTM-enzyme. Our platform is designed to isolate protein-based binders, including nanobodies, antibodies, ScFvs, that can inhibit, activate, or change the substrate specificity of an enzyme. Our results have established this platform as a high-throughput discovery for protease inhibitory nanobodies. Lastly, we developed a platform to comprehensively profile the substrate specificity of sortases. Using Streptococcus pyogenes sortase A as a model, we show that extending the sortase substrate beyond the P1’ residue enhances sortase-mediated ligation kinetics. Most importantly, this comprehensive profiling reveals several non-canonical sortase substrates, some of which exhibit higher ligation kinetics compared to known sortase substrates.

BIO:
Dr. Denard received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University. He then moved to the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he obtained his PhD under the tutelage of Prof. Huimin Zhao. As a Dow Chemical fellow, his PhD thesis centered on developing cooperative one-pot chemoenzymatic reactions. Dr. Denard later completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Prof. Brent Iverson at the University of Texas at Austin establishing high-throughput platforms for engineering the substrate specificity of proteases to enable their use as protein therapeutics. Dr. Denard joined the University of Florida Chemical Engineering department as an Assistant Professor in January 2022. His research focuses on protein engineering for therapeutic and synthetic biology applications, with a focus on reprogramming PTM-enzymes. For these ongoing efforts, the Denard lab received the NIH MIRA award in September 2022

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Presentation Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:19:06 -0400 2022-11-03T13:30:00-04:00 2022-11-03T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Chemical Engineering Presentation Alt text: U-M ChE logo, a photo of Carl Denard and text that reads "Seminar"
Wilbert Steffy Lectureship with Jeff Wu (November 3, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99593 99593-21798375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Wilbert Steffy Lectureship was established in 2003 to honor one of Industrial and Operations Engineering’s early distinguished faculty, Wilbert Steffy. Jeff Wu, the Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor in the H. Milton School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, is our distinguished speaker this year.

Lurie Engineering Center (Johnson Rooms)
Thursday, November 3, 3 - 4 pm ET
Reception to follow with hors d'oeuvres.

Speaker Bio: C. F. Jeff Wu is Professor and Coca Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. He was elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2004), and a Member (Academician) of Academia Sinica (2000). A Fellow of American Society for Quality, of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, of INFORMS, and of American Statistical Association. He received the COPSS Presidents’ Award in 1987, COPSS Fisher Lecture Award in 2011, Deming Lecture in 2012. He has won other awards, including the Shewhart Medal (2008), the Pan Wenyuan Technology Award (2008), Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award and Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award both at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2020. He was the 1998 Mahalanobis Memorial Lecturer at the Indian Statistical Institutes, received the inaugural Akaike Memorial Lecture Award in 2016 sponsored by the Japan Statistical Society and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, the 2017 Box Medal from ENBIS, and an honorary doctor degree at the University of Waterloo.

He has published more than 190 research articles. He has supervised 51 Ph.D.'s, out of which more than half are teaching in major research departments in statistics/engineering/business in US/Canada/Asia/Europe. Among them, there are 24 Fellows of ASA, IMS, ASQ, IAQ, and IIE, four are editors of major statistics journals, and one is a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada (FRSC). He co-authors with Mike Hamada the book "Experiments: Planning, Analysis, and Optimization" (Wiley, 3rd ed. 2021) and with R. Mukerjee the book “A Modern Theory of Factorial Designs” (Springer, 2006).

Abstract: Most “learning” in big data is driven by the data alone. Some people may believe this is sufficient because of the sheer data size. If the physical world is involved, this approach is often insufficient. In this talk I will give a recent study to illustrate how physics and data are used jointly to learn about the “truth” of the physical world. It also serves as an example of engineering analytics, which in itself has many forms and meanings. In an attempt to understand the turbulence behavior of an injector, a new design methodology is needed which combines engineering physics, computer simulations and statistical modeling. There are two key challenges: the simulation of high-fidelity spatial-temporal flows (using the Navier-Stokes equations) is computationally expensive, and the analysis and modeling of this data requires physical insights and statistical tools. A surrogate model is presented for efficient flow prediction in injectors with varying geometries, devices commonly used in many engineering applications. The novelty lies in incorporating properties of the fluid flow as simplifying model assumptions, which allows for quick emulation in practical turnaround times, and also reveals interesting flow physics which can guide further investigations.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:48:59 -0400 2022-11-03T15:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Jeff Wu, 2022 Wilbert Steffy Distinguished Speaker
Write-Together (November 4, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97717 97717-21795008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:12:33 -0400 2022-11-04T10:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Write-Together Flyer
WSN Drop-In Support Group (November 4, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100946 100946-21800582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wolverine Support Network

Give & receive support during this 1-hour peer-led support group. Led by trained peer facilitators, WSN Drop-In Group gives you the chance to try out a WSN group without commitment. Show up once or every week to receive support for your mental health & day-to-day lives in a community of folks with various identities and experiences. This group is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at U-M.

ZOOM LINK: tinyurl.com/wsndropingroup

The remaining drop-in group times for the Fall 2022 semester are as follows:
- Friday, November 4 from 4-5 pm
- Sunday, November 13 from 2-3 pm
- Sunday, November 20 from 2-3 pm
- Friday, December 2 from 4-5 pm
- Sunday, December 11 from 2-3 pm

Wolverine Support Network (WSN) is a student organization that empowers University of Michigan students to create an inclusive community and support each other’s identity, mental well-being, and day-to-day lives through peer support programming & mental health advocacy. If you have any questions about Drop-In Group, our weekly peer support groups, or WSN in general, feel free to browse our website at umichwsn.org or reach out to wsndirectors@umich.edu.

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Well-being Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:03:00 -0400 2022-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Wolverine Support Network Well-being WSN Drop-In Group
2022 Michigan AI Symposium (November 5, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100397 100397-21799703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 5, 2022 9:00am
Location: BBB
Organized By: Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Join us for a day of AI: research talks, posters, demos, and plenty of networking opportunities.

Our symposium aims to bring together participants from both academia and industry who are interested in the foundations or real-life applications of artificial intelligence.

The symposium takes place on North Campus, in the Bob and Betty Beyster building (room 1670 and Tishman Hall).

Free and open to the general public. Registration required, see the event website.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:34:55 -0400 2022-11-05T09:00:00-04:00 2022-11-05T17:00:00-04:00 BBB Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Conference / Symposium AI and Accessibility Symposium
Self-Care Sunday (November 6, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100974 100974-21800621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 6, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Wolverine Support Network

Join Wolverine Support Network for our Self-Care Sunday event on Sunday, November 6 from 1-2 pm in Mason Hall Room G437. We'll decorate cookies, sip hot cocoa, and do guided journaling (please bring your own journal if possible). Free & open to the entire U-M community!

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Well-being Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:14:46 -0400 2022-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2022-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall Wolverine Support Network Well-being WSN Self-Care Sunday Advertisement
Positive Links Speaker Series (November 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98646 98646-21797012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Scott E. Page
Monday, November 7, 2022
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. ET
Free and open to the public

In-Person, Robertson Auditorium, Michigan Ross Campus, Ross Building, 701 Tappan, Ann Arbor

Event Link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/creating-wise-crowds-how-positive-culture-and-fair-process-can-prevent-madness/

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:
Evidence demonstrates both the Wisdom of Crowds (Collective Intelligence) and the Madness of Crowds (Group Think) in collective forecasts. Forecasts underpin most decisions; good decisions, therefore, require good forecasts. In this talk, Scott Page discusses the phenomena of wise and mad crowds in the context of forecasts, demonstrates the logic of how diversity can produce accurate collective forecasts (the wisdom of crowds), and the necessity of (1) a positive culture where people feel comfortable sharing ideas, clarifying logic, and facts and (2) a process that facilitates collective knowledge production for both good decisions and acceptance of those decisions. Scott concludes with a discussion of differing perspectives on using technology to enable anonymous participation.

About Page:
Scott E. Page’s research focuses on the function of diversity in complex social systems, the potential for collective intelligence, and the design of institutions for meeting the challenges of a complex world.

A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, Scott was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011, and in 2019, he was awarded a Distinguished University Professorship from the University of Michigan, the university’s highest academic honor. He is a member of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute.

He is the author of more than one hundred research papers in a variety of fields including: game theory, economics, political theory, formal political science, sociology, psychology, philosophy, physics, public health, geography, computer science, and management. In 2021, he helped to launch and now edits the Journal of Collective Intelligence.

His fifth book, The Model Thinker, was published by Basic Books in November 2018, and has been an Amazon Best Seller in more than ten categories and is being translated into five languages. His previous books include, the Axios award winning, The Diversity Bonus, published in September 2017 with Princeton University Press and the Mellon Foundation, The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (2008), and Complex Adaptive Social Systems (2009).

Scott has filmed two video series for The Great Courses and his online course Model Thinking has attracted over a million participants. A frequent public speaker, Scott has presented to the CIA, NASA, Bloomberg, Google, Boeing, the IMF, Genentech, Gilead, and AT Kearney. Scott has also been a featured speaker at The New York Times New Work Summit, Google Re:Work, The World Economic Forum – Davos, and The Aspen Ideas Festival. Scott has consulted with the Federal Reserve System, the White House office of Personnel, Yahoo! Ford, DARPA, Procter and Gamble, BlackRock, and AB InBev.

A native of Yankee Springs Michigan, Scott holds a BA in mathematics from The University of Michigan, and MA from The University of Wisconsin, and an MS and PhD in managerial economics and decision sciences from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. Scott lives in Ann Arbor, MI, with his wife, University of Michigan political science professor Jenna Bednar and their dogs Oda and Hildy. Their two sons, Orrie (20) and Cooper (18) attend college at MIT and the School of the Art Institute.

Host:
Julia Lee Cunningham, Faculty Co-Director, Center for Positive Organizations; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2022-23 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:29:52 -0400 2022-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Scott Page
LHS Collaboratory (November 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96029 96029-21791726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

LHS Collaboratory November Session

Speaker:

Kadija Ferryman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

In this talk, Professor Ferryman will discuss the merits and challenges of conducting health equity reviews of artificial intelligence (AI) tools used in health and medicine. The talk will examine how interdisciplinary approaches from the social sciences, bioethics and humanities, and computational fields can be involved in the development of concepts, methods, frameworks, and guidelines for understanding and governing digital health tools.

Dr. Kadija Ferryman is a cultural anthropologist who studies the social, cultural, and ethical implications of health information technologies. Specifically, her research examines how genomics, digital medical records, artificial intelligence, and other technologies impact racial disparities in health. As a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York, she led the Fairness in Precision Medicine research study, which examines the potential for bias and discrimination in predictive precision medicine.

She earned a BA in Anthropology from Yale University, and a PhD in Anthropology from The New School for Social Research. Before completing her PhD, she was a policy researcher at the Urban Institute where she studied how housing and neighborhoods impact well-being, specifically the effects of public housing redevelopment on children, families, and older adults.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 06 Oct 2022 17:39:25 -0400 2022-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory logo
Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing (November 8, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98762 98762-21797153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

This workshop will provide an overview of how to revise a course or conference paper for publication. We will start with a review of useful publishing resources, and move through exercises to redefine your argument, identify a target journal, and design a writing schedule to achieve your publication goals. Students should bring a course or conference paper to work with during the workshop.

Presenter: April Conway, Sweetland Center for Writing

Please register at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/7941

Rackham / Sweetland Workshops, co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School and held in the Fall and Winter terms, cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in various aspects of writing.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:22:28 -0400 2022-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T15:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Workshop flyer
PhD Research Talk: Jundi Liu (November 8, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101008 101008-21800665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Over the past decade, autonomous systems have greatly improved how people live and work. However, realizing the full potential of these technologies is only possible if people establish appropriate trust in them. Therefore, prospective systems are expected to sense and respond to users' trust changes and ideally adapt to trust-aware design considerations. I will present my recent work on developing trust-aware customized adaptive systems in vehicle automation using Interactive Reinforcement Learning. We first designed an online driving simulator study to collect human trust dynamics while interacting with vehicle automation. After analyzing trust evolution characteristics, I modeled the trust as a dynamic system using the State Space (SS) model. Then, I proposed an Interactive Reinforcement Learning algorithm to integrate the previously designed trust models into the Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) framework. As a result, the optimal policies recovered by the proposed algorithm can capture the driver preferences of different driving styles from large-scale naturalistic driving data and trust dynamics while interacting with the autonomous systems. Our proposed framework has implications for the design of future human-aware high-fidelity autonomous systems. I will conclude the talk with an overview of how our current work moves toward this future.

Presenter Bio:

Jundi Liu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, working with Prof. Xi Jessie Yang. He graduated from the University of Washington (UW) in September 2022 with a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, working with Prof. Linda Boyle and Prof. Ashis Banerjee on trust-aware customized vehicle automation. Jundi received his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2016 and his M.S. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from UW in 2018. Jundi's research interest is to improve human-autonomy interaction through understanding and modeling human trust and to develop trust-aware adaptive systems to support human users in complex decision-making tasks. His research aims to create a holistic framework that enables human-aware high-fidelity autonomous systems.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:45:16 -0400 2022-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Jundi Liu
Futures in Research, Science, and Teaching - General meeting (November 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96044 96044-21791850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

General meetings take place every other Tuesday from September 13 to December 6th. Events include:

September 13th: Pathways in Research (Graduate student/Faculty panel)
September 27th: Mixer (food provided)
October 11th: Poster design and presentation
October 25th: Applying to graduate school - application components and essay writing advice
November 8th: Finding paid summer and post-baccalaureate research opportunities
November 22nd: Faculty talk
December 6th: Mixer

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:26:57 -0400 2022-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Meeting Event flyer detailing date, time, and location: September 13th at 4 pm, BSB 1010
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Accounting for Non-ignorable Sampling and Nonresponse in Statistical Matching (November 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100348 100348-21799633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
November 9, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 EST

Accounting for Non-ignorable Sampling and Nonresponse in Statistical Matching

Danny Pfeffermann retired as the National Statistician and Director General of Israel's CBS. He is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton. His main research areas are: Analytic inference from complex sample surveys; Seasonal adjustment and trend estimation; Small area estimation; Inference under informative sampling and nonresponse and more recently; Mode effects and Proxy surveys.

Professor Pfeffermann published about 80 articles in leading statistical journals and co-edited the two-volume handbook on Sample Surveys. He is Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and recipient of several international awards.

Abstract
Data for statistical analysis is often available from different samples, with each sample containing measurements on only some of the variables of interest. Statistical matching attempts to generate a fused database containing matched measurements on all the target variables. In this article, we consider the use of statistical matching when the samples are drawn by informative sampling designs and are subject to not missing at random nonresponse. The problem with ignoring the sampling process and nonresponse is that the distribution of the data observed for the responding units can be very different from the distribution holding for the population data, which may distort the inference process and result in a matched database that misrepresents the joint distribution in the population. Our proposed methodology employs the empirical likelihood approach and is shown to perform well in a simulation experiment and when applied to real sample data.

**Joint paper with Daniela Marella, to appear in International Statistical Review

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

SISRT
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:18:24 -0400 2022-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer for Accounting for Non-ignorable Sampling and Nonresponse in Statistical Matching
Information Session Webinar- Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) (November 10, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100543 100543-21800056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Thursday, November 10, 2022
9:30 - 10:30am (EST)
Registration is required, https://tinyurl.com/422xdvdp

Please join us to learn about the University of Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science.

The Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) offers graduate degrees that combine ideas and techniques for producing and analyzing data about humans and our society. Join us to launch your career in this exciting and rewarding field in which scientists interpret the world through data.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:06:53 -0400 2022-11-10T09:30:00-05:00 2022-11-10T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion MPSDS Informational Session Webinar
ChE GRAD STUDENTS' CHOICE SEMINAR: “Designing catalysts and chemical processes for global sustainability” (November 10, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101128 101128-21800823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 1:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

The ChE seminar series features guest speakers. U-M ChE faculty and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.


ABSTRACT:
Our modern world relies upon chemical transformations that benefit the lives of billions. These transformations can be found across many sectors, including transportation, heating and cooling, electricity, food production, and manufacturing, among many others. To date, fossil resources have provided the majority of the energy demanded by the global economy, and thanks to human ingenuity over decades (and centuries) we have been able to develop large-scale chemical processes that can make use of the fossil resources to provide for many across the globe in a cost-effective manner. However, there are many challenges to the current paradigm, as (1) modern processes are generally not sustainable, and (2) while they provide for billions, there are billions of others who have minimal access to the modern energy system.

This talk will describe efforts envisioned for a future paradigm, particularly on the development of new catalysts and new processes that can make use of renewable resources in the production, storage, and utilization of important molecular products. Examples include hydrogen (H2) production from water and CO2 conversion to carbon-based fuels and chemicals. A key focus will be on the fundamental design and development of catalyst systems that can execute desired chemical transformations with high activity, selectivity, and durability, plus the integration of such catalysts into devices that can achieve high-performance, paving the path ahead for new, sustainable technologies.

BIO:
Thomas Francisco Jaramillo is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University and of Photon Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He serves as Director of the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, a joint partnership between Stanford and SLAC. Prof. Jaramillo's research efforts are aimed at developing catalyst materials and new processes to improve sustainability in the energy and chemical sectors. A key emphasis is engineering catalyst materials at the nano- and atomic-scale to induce desired properties, and then on designing and developing new technologies that employ them. Examples include solar- and wind-powered processes to convert water, N2, and CO2 into valuable molecular products such as hydrogen (H2), ammonia-based fertilizers, and carbon-based products (e.g. fuels, plastics) for use in transportation, agriculture, energy storage, and in the chemical industry, among others. The overarching theme is the development of cost-effective, clean energy technologies that can benefit society and provide for economic growth in a sustainable manner.

Prof. Jaramillo has authored over 200 publications in the peer-reviewed literature in these areas, and has earned a number of honors and awards for his efforts. Honors include the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis (2021) from the North American Catalysis Society, the Resonate Award (2014) from the Resnick Institute, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE, 2011), the U.S. Dept. of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Program Research & Development Award (2011), the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2011), and the Mohr-Davidow Ventures (MDV) Innovator Award (2009). Prof. Jaramillo is on the annual list of Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics, ranking in the top 1% by citations (2018-present).

Professor Jaramillo is from Carolina, Puerto Rico, earning a BS in chemical engineering at Stanford University and MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He then pursued post-doctoral research as the Hans Christian Ørsted Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark, Department of Physics, prior to joining the Stanford faculty.

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Presentation Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:10:36 -0500 2022-11-10T13:30:00-05:00 2022-11-10T14:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Presentation Alt text: U-M ChE logo, a photo of Thomas F. Jaramillo and text that reads "Seminar"
Leadership Dialogues: Robin Washington (November 10, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99752 99752-21798644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Sanger Leadership Center

The Leadership Dialogues speaker series is a fireside chat-style event featuring accomplished industry, political and non-profit leaders discussing the latest ideas in organizational research and ongoing practice with U-M faculty.

What does it take to lead and inspire others at the intersection of science and business?

Robin Washington, BBA ’84, board member of Alphabet, Salesforce, and Honeywell, and former chief financial officer of Gilead, joins Professor Yesim Orhun to talk about leading as a woman in complex environments. Washington, who ranked sixth on The Wall Street Journal’s 2014 list of Top Performing CFOs, has also been named one of Treasury & Risk’s 30 Outstanding Women in Finance, and Black Enterprise's 75 Most Powerful Women in Business.

Washington will describe her journey from an undergraduate student at Michigan to various roles in finance, leading up to her experience as a CFO and corporate board member. Along the way, she has lifted and inspired numerous women and underrepresented individuals. Professor Orhun, whose research explores gender disparity in business and experimentation in leadership behaviors, will explore how scholarship relates to Washington’s vision and practice of leadership. Join us for an engaging talk from leaders in both industry and research.

Select students will have the opportunity to meet Robin at a small, private event from 4 to 4:25 PM. The application is included on the registration form.

PARTICIPANT REQUIREMENTS
Open to all.

SCHEDULE
Nov 10, 4:30-5:30 PM in the Robertson Auditorium. A catered reception will follow.

RSVP required.

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Presentation Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:57:30 -0400 2022-11-10T16:30:00-05:00 2022-11-10T17:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Sanger Leadership Center Presentation Robin Washington
Innovation-Corps Workshop (November 11, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98202 98202-21795715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

This free online workshop will help you explore the commercial viability of your innovation idea. You will learn a process to systematically test key assumptions about your idea and the customer problems it might solve better than current alternatives. This is the critical first step toward commercial success for any venture.
**Learn, practice, and hone your innovation skills.**
**Improve the odds for commercial success.**
**Expand your network of like-minded peers, instructors, investors, customers, and mentors.**

Learn more and apply: https://www.greatlakesicorps.org/event/fall-2022-university-of-michigan-i-corps/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Sep 2022 09:25:17 -0400 2022-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Entrepreneurship Workshop / Seminar I-Corps Flyer
Free Fragel Friday & Coffee (November 11, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101154 101154-21800883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 9:30am
Location: The Grove
Organized By: connect@michiganengineering

FREE yummy fragels and hot coffee this Friday. The Office of Undergraduate Education will be handing out free fragels near the Bearclaw coffee truck Friday, November 11 from 9:30 am - 11:00 am on the Gerstacker Grove. This special Fragel Friday is brought to you by KLA Corporation. So stop by and say hi!

While supplies last!

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Social / Informal Gathering Sun, 13 Nov 2022 10:31:11 -0500 2022-11-11T09:30:00-05:00 2022-11-11T11:00:00-05:00 The Grove connect@michiganengineering Social / Informal Gathering Fragels
Write-Together (November 11, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97717 97717-21795009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:12:33 -0400 2022-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Write-Together Flyer
Feel Good Fridays at UMMA (November 11, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98767 98767-21797158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No advance registration required..

It’s Finally Friday and You Deserve To Feel Good

Open late with something to discover around every corner – join your neighbors at Feel Good Friday and experience the restorative power of a fun Friday night surrounded by art, music, and culture. 

Free and open to the public. 

November is Feel Good Frybread This month’s Feel Good Friday is a collaboration between the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs’ Native American Heritage Month Committee, U-M’s Native American Student Association, and UMMA.

Featuring: 

Globally recognized dancer and activist Notorious Cree. James Jones is Nehiyaw (Cree) from Tall Cree First Nation in Treaty 8 Territory in Northern Alberta, Canada. Known as Notorious Cree across Instagram and TikTok, James uses his voice to educate and spread awareness on the issues impacting Indigenous communities across the globe. As a traditional hoop and powwow dancer, performance artist, youth workshop facilitator and public speaker, James inspires future generations by reclaiming his culture and encouraging others to do the same. Notable performances include the 2010 Winter Olympics, 2014 and 2022 Juno awards, 2015 Pan Am Games, Coachella and was a previous contestant on SYTYCD Canada.

celebrates northern Michigan’s Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. This powerful collection of paintings and texts—shines a light on the story of the Burt Lake Band and centers Indigenous people.

All Galleries open!

SAVE THE DATE: the next UMMA Feel Good Friday will be February 10, 2023

Feel Good Frybread is organized by the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs’ Native American Heritage Month Committee, the Native American Student Association and UMMA with support from the U-M Rackham Graduate School, Arts Initiative, the Center for World Performance Studies, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and the U-M and Ann Arbor District Libraries.

Media sponsor: Michigan Radio  

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.

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Performance Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:16:26 -0500 2022-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T22:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
WSN Drop-In Support Group (November 13, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100946 100946-21800584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 13, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wolverine Support Network

Give & receive support during this 1-hour peer-led support group. Led by trained peer facilitators, WSN Drop-In Group gives you the chance to try out a WSN group without commitment. Show up once or every week to receive support for your mental health & day-to-day lives in a community of folks with various identities and experiences. This group is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at U-M.

ZOOM LINK: tinyurl.com/wsndropingroup

The remaining drop-in group times for the Fall 2022 semester are as follows:
- Friday, November 4 from 4-5 pm
- Sunday, November 13 from 2-3 pm
- Sunday, November 20 from 2-3 pm
- Friday, December 2 from 4-5 pm
- Sunday, December 11 from 2-3 pm

Wolverine Support Network (WSN) is a student organization that empowers University of Michigan students to create an inclusive community and support each other’s identity, mental well-being, and day-to-day lives through peer support programming & mental health advocacy. If you have any questions about Drop-In Group, our weekly peer support groups, or WSN in general, feel free to browse our website at umichwsn.org or reach out to wsndirectors@umich.edu.

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Well-being Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:03:00 -0400 2022-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 2022-11-13T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Wolverine Support Network Well-being WSN Drop-In Group
Trotter Housing Founding Day Celebration (November 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101002 101002-21800658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

On November 15, 1971, Trotter House, a Black Student Cultural Center, opened its doors for the first time. We want to extend our community the invitation to celebrate with us the founding of the original Trotter House, and the legacy of Black Student Activism that has led us to where we are today!

Can’t wait to see students, staff, and faculty there!

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Reception / Open House Thu, 03 Nov 2022 08:23:53 -0400 2022-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Reception / Open House images of Trotter Multicultural Center with event details
PhD Researach Talk: Daniel Otero-Leon (November 15, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101202 101202-21800935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Preventing chronic diseases is an essential aspect of medical care. Physicians monitor patients' risk factors and prescribe necessary medication to aim toward better health outcomes, which means that all patients achieve their health potential while accounting for socially and demographic diverse patient populations. Monitoring too frequently may be unnecessary and costly; however, monitoring the patient infrequently means the patient may forgo needed treatment and experience adverse events related to the disease. To accomplish the optimal monitoring policy, we develop models that: (1) Estimate the patient disease progression and (2) Define policies to prevent chronic diseases using sequential decision-making models. We estimate these stochastic models based on longitudinal observational data from electronic health records for a large cohort of patients seen in the national U.S. Veterans Affairs health system. As a result, these models facilitate clinical interventions for cardiovascular diseases, as they help identify high-risk patients. Also, healthcare providers can now rely on additional tools to decide how to manage chronic diseases accurately across demographic subgroups. I will end the talk by discussing how I will build upon this body of work to address healthcare opportunities for improvement.

Presenter Bio:
Daniel F. Otero-Leon is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at the University of Michigan and is co-advised by Dr. Brian Denton and Dr. Mariel Lavieri of IOE. His research interests are generally in operations research and, more specifically, in stochastic models and stochastic dynamic programming with applications to service systems, including health systems and revenue management. His dissertation research is in the area of data-driven models for improving decision-making in the context of cardiovascular disease, with the help of clinical collaborators at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. His work seeks to develop new frameworks that aim for health equity by considering patients' health disparities in disease prevention policies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Nov 2022 10:18:08 -0500 2022-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Daniel Otero-Leon
The John H. Mitchell Critical Conversations Symposium (November 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99842 99842-21798788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

Please join us for a conversation about the ways in which cinema and television have grappled with challenging social and political issues regarding migration, class, race, and gender.

Featuring Filmmaker and John H. Mitchell Visiting Professor in Media Entertainment NANCY SAVOCA

In conversation with
Actor/Writer PASCALE ARMAND
Writer/Director STEPHANIE OSUNA-HERNANDEZ
Comedian/Writer MAYSOON ZAYID

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:49:34 -0400 2022-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Department of Film, Television, and Media Conference / Symposium Symposium Promo
Strengths Accelerator (November 15, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98734 98734-21797122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the Thriving Accelerator Workshops:
A Thriving Accelerator is an immersive workshop from the Center for Positive Organizations about a topic in the science of thriving. After completing a workshop, students will be able to immediately implement their learnings to create lasting personal and organizational impact.

In the Strengths Accelerator, you will:
-Deepen your own awareness of your strengths.
-Learn how to deploy a strengths-based approach in school, recruiting, and life.
-Understand and practice how to recognize and elevate strengths in other people and within organizations.

Instructor:
Sarah Kurtz McKinnon, Senior Associate Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation at the Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Open to all University of Michigan students. Free registration required.

For information about all of the Thriving Accelerator workshops being offered, visit: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/learning-programs/thriving-accelerator/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Sep 2022 08:34:35 -0400 2022-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T18:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Strengths Accelerator
ChE Historic Free Bagel Wednesday (November 16, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97364 97364-21794454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 9:30am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Historic Free Bagel Wednesday is a bagel and coffee hour hosted by the Chemical Engineering Graduate Society (ChEGS) and is held every other Wednesday. The event was part of the original ChEGS charter and is now one of many social events run by ChEGS throughout the year.

The event is open to all chemical engineering graduate students, faculty, post-docs, and staff.

To help reduce waste, if you have one, please plan to bring your own mug or reusable coffee cup.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:56:44 -0400 2022-11-16T09:30:00-05:00 2022-11-16T10:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering An image of text that reads "Historic Free Bagel Wednesday"
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Utility of Commercial Data for Sampling Population Subgroups: A Case of Health and Retirement Study (November 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101145 101145-21800872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
November 16, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 EST

Sunghee Lee is a Research Associate Professor at Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. Her research focuses on sampling and measurement issues with hard-to-survey population subgroups as well as racial, ethnic, and linguistic minorities.

Chendi Zhao is a Research Assistant and first-year Ph.D. student in the Program in Survey and Data Science

Anqi Liu is a master’s student in MPSDS at the University of Michigan. She works closely with Dr. Sunghee Lee on the Health and Retirement Study sampling.

Abstract
A standard approach for targeting population subgroups in household surveys is to sample general population and then to screen for eligible households. This becomes increasingly costly as the subgroup accounts for a small proportion of the population, which is the case for the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). HRS is a population-based longitudinal study of adults ages 50 and older in the U.S. and maintains its representativeness by adding a new age cohort every 6 years. In 2016, HRS targeted those born between 1960 and 1965 with an additional goal of oversampling racial/ethnic minorities. This group is less than 10% of the population. In order to increase the efficiency of screening, HRS had traditionally used probability proportionate size sampling in its area-probability sample with the age-eligible population size as a measure of size as well as stratification based on the race/ethnicity distribution of area sampling units. For 2016, HRS sampling additionally used stratification at the address level by enhancing the population of addresses in the sample areas with commercial data. This study examines the utility of commercial data for increasing efficiency with a focus on its availability and accuracy by analyzing a dataset that combines sampling frame data, screening data, main survey data as well as external data from the American Community Survey.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

SISRT
The Annual Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:46:54 -0500 2022-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
MICDE Ph.D. Student Seminar: Khoi Dang (November 17, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101405 101405-21801309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Topic: *Parallel Heat-bath Configuration Interaction*

The heat-bath configuration interaction (HBCI) method is a deterministic wave function method that approaches the full CI limit at greatly reduced cost. HBCI consists of two parts: the generation of a variational wave function, followed by a perturbative correction. This work introduces a parallel implementation that is highly scalable and overcomes the memory bottleneck of perturbation theory. The implementation demonstrates 83% parallel efficiency for the perturbative step on 32 nodes.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Nov 2022 12:13:37 -0500 2022-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-17T16:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Presentation MICDE Ph.D. Seminar Series: Khoi Dang
Write-Together (November 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97717 97717-21795010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:12:33 -0400 2022-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Write-Together Flyer
Ensuring that Postsecondary Credentials Pay Off for Low-Income Students (November 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97588 97588-21794782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Friday, November 18 at noon
School of Social Work, ECC 1840

Norma Rey-Alicea is the Executive Director and co-founder of NextGen Talent (NGT). NGT’s innovative web-based tools and training services empower low-income students and their counselors to identify postsecondary programs and career paths with strong labor market payoffs. Norma has dedicated her career to the development of new educational models and career advancement solutions to close the opportunity gap for low-income students of all backgrounds, with a focus on Latinx, Black, Native American, and immigrant students. She is a proud Guarani native & Latina from Jamaica Plain. She has an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as well as a BA in Government from Harvard University.

The talks, which are free and open to the public, will also be livestreamed on YouTube. U-M students can participate in the series as a one-credit course - look for it as SWK 503 section 001.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:21:50 -0400 2022-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Sneak Peek (November 18, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101236 101236-21801095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The Future of German Studies: Get a taste of graduate school and learn about graduate-level work in German Studies at the University of Michigan by attending our event via zoom. You'll learn the state of the field of German Studies and further explore possible research interests.

Please register for the event here: https://forms.gle/iwvy5qiN2ETyxaqR8

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Presentation Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:26:09 -0500 2022-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Presentation Sneak Peek
WISE Night In: Student Caregivers (November 18, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100095 100095-21799204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

A WISE Night In is all about cultivating and sustaining positive relationships. Each WISE Night In event is themed to meet the social and professional network needs of STEM students. The theme for this event is STEM students that are in caregiving roles (e.g. parents, guardians, supporting other family members). We invite ALL undergraduate and graduate students to come and join us. Eat food, Play games, and meet new people.

To reserve your spot, RSVP by November 16. Space is limited. https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/59185

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:36:19 -0400 2022-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Social / Informal Gathering woman graduating and holding a baby and stethoscope in the shape of a heart
WSN Drop-In Support Group (November 20, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100946 100946-21800585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 20, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wolverine Support Network

Give & receive support during this 1-hour peer-led support group. Led by trained peer facilitators, WSN Drop-In Group gives you the chance to try out a WSN group without commitment. Show up once or every week to receive support for your mental health & day-to-day lives in a community of folks with various identities and experiences. This group is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at U-M.

ZOOM LINK: tinyurl.com/wsndropingroup

The remaining drop-in group times for the Fall 2022 semester are as follows:
- Friday, November 4 from 4-5 pm
- Sunday, November 13 from 2-3 pm
- Sunday, November 20 from 2-3 pm
- Friday, December 2 from 4-5 pm
- Sunday, December 11 from 2-3 pm

Wolverine Support Network (WSN) is a student organization that empowers University of Michigan students to create an inclusive community and support each other’s identity, mental well-being, and day-to-day lives through peer support programming & mental health advocacy. If you have any questions about Drop-In Group, our weekly peer support groups, or WSN in general, feel free to browse our website at umichwsn.org or reach out to wsndirectors@umich.edu.

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Well-being Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:03:00 -0400 2022-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 2022-11-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Wolverine Support Network Well-being WSN Drop-In Group
A WISE Night In: Students Changing Majors/Fields in STEM (November 21, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100096 100096-21799205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 21, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

A WISE Night In is all about cultivating and sustaining positive relationships. Each WISE Night In event is themed to meet the social and professional network needs of STEM students. The theme for this event is students that are looking to change majors, fields, or focus areas within STEM. We invite ALL undergraduate and graduate students to come and join us. Eat food, Play games, and meet new people.

To reserve your spot, RSVP by November 19. Space is limited.
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58992

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:10:46 -0400 2022-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 2022-11-21T20:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Social / Informal Gathering photos depicting STEM fields such as biology, physiology, chemistry, math, and engineering
PhD Researach Talk: Rohan Ghuge (November 22, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101458 101458-21801368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Combinatorial optimization captures many natural decision-making problems such as matching, load balancing, assortment optimization, network design, and submodular optimization. In this talk, I will focus on combinatorial problems under uncertainty; specifically when we only have partial knowledge about the input. Solutions to such problems are sequential decision processes that make decisions one by one “adaptively” (depending on prior observations). While such adaptive solutions achieve the best objective, the inherently sequential nature makes them undesirable in many applications. My current research seeks to answer the following: how well can solutions with only a few adaptive rounds approximate fully-adaptive solutions? In this talk, I will formally define the model, and discuss techniques used to answer this question for the stochastic submodular cover problem, which captures problems in domains like sensor placement, medical diagnosis, active learning, and hypothesis testing. I will also state limited adaptivity results that I have obtained for the stochastic score classification and dueling bandits problems. I will conclude the talk with some future work and open problems.

Presenter Bio:
Rohan Ghuge is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at the University of Michigan where he is advised by Dr. Viswanath Nagarajan. His research interests are in optimization under uncertainty, specifically in stochastic combinatorial optimization. His dissertation research explores the role of adaptivity in stochastic combinatorial optimization. He has also worked on designing algorithms for problems arising in domains like assortment optimization, network design and online learning.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:03:32 -0500 2022-11-22T15:00:00-05:00 2022-11-22T16:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Rohan Ghuge
Futures in Research, Science, and Teaching - General meeting (November 22, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96044 96044-21791851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

General meetings take place every other Tuesday from September 13 to December 6th. Events include:

September 13th: Pathways in Research (Graduate student/Faculty panel)
September 27th: Mixer (food provided)
October 11th: Poster design and presentation
October 25th: Applying to graduate school - application components and essay writing advice
November 8th: Finding paid summer and post-baccalaureate research opportunities
November 22nd: Faculty talk
December 6th: Mixer

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:26:57 -0400 2022-11-22T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Meeting Event flyer detailing date, time, and location: September 13th at 4 pm, BSB 1010
Professor Career Path (November 22, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101249 101249-21801109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

This seminar will cover the career path of STEM professors beginning with undergraduate research. Professor Monica Dus of the MCDB department will share her experiences starting in undergrad research, through earning a PhD, working as a post-doctoral researcher, and eventually starting her own research lab at the University of Michigan. Prof. Dus studies nutrigenomics, which looks at how genes interact with our diet to shape neural plasticity and feeding behavior.

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJe8DfFZVUeqqguF_u_tNBzZwlU-nj6il4-TkwjVgRXBEfug/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:25:15 -0500 2022-11-22T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar FIRST Logo
Ph.D. Research Talk: Haoming Shen (November 29, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101667 101667-21802201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Abstract: In many real-world applications, decision makers usually need to make better decisions without the precise knowledge of the uncertainty. With limited amount of data, distributionally robust chance-constrained optimization (DRC) becomes a powerful tool for decision making because it alleviates the ambiguity in distribution by protecting the optimal solution against a family of candidate distributions, and thus generalizes better when previously unseen samples arise. However, DRC models are usually very hard to solve in general. Therefore, in this talk, I will seek to answer the following two questions: (1) how can we solve DRCs more efficiently, and (2) when are DRCs convex and/or tractable? For DRCs with a covering structure, which arise frequently in facility location, scheduling, production planning, and vehicle routing, we establish their NP-hardness, propose a two-stage reformulation and derive two families of strong valid inequalities. For general DRCs, we uncover a set of sufficient conditions under which DRCs produce a convex feasible region and design efficient algorithms for solving such convex DRCs. I will demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed solution approaches in multiple real-world applications including the emergency medical facility location problem, optimal power flow problem, and planning of charging stations for battery electric buses.

Bio: Haoming Shen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he is advised by Prof. Ruiwei Jiang. His research focuses on data-driven optimization under uncertainty with applications to robotics, power grids, and transportation systems, and has been awarded the honorable mention award in 2022 INFORMS Optimization Society Best Student Paper Competition.

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Presentation Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:39:32 -0500 2022-11-29T15:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
ChE Historic Free Bagel Wednesday (November 30, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97364 97364-21794455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 9:30am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Historic Free Bagel Wednesday is a bagel and coffee hour hosted by the Chemical Engineering Graduate Society (ChEGS) and is held every other Wednesday. The event was part of the original ChEGS charter and is now one of many social events run by ChEGS throughout the year.

The event is open to all chemical engineering graduate students, faculty, post-docs, and staff.

To help reduce waste, if you have one, please plan to bring your own mug or reusable coffee cup.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:56:44 -0400 2022-11-30T09:30:00-05:00 2022-11-30T10:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering An image of text that reads "Historic Free Bagel Wednesday"
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Effect of Branching Middle Responses in Dichotomous Polar Scales in Web Surveys (November 30, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101568 101568-21801526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
November 30, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 EST

Effect of Branching Middle Responses in Dichotomous Polar Scales in Web Surveys

In telephone surveys, 11 to 49% of respondents would select a middle alternative when it is offered although they would not volunteer it if it were not mentioned in dichotomous bipolar questions. Furthermore, offering a middle option led to differences in response effects that are related to respondent characteristics, including social desirability bias and satisficing effects. While a question form that branches middle responses has been shown to have a lower validity compared to offered form in telephone surveys, potentially, branched question form can motivate respondents to spend extra time and effort in giving a response in the absence of an interviewer. Therefore, differences in validity and reliability of responses to branched question form compared to offered form is a research interest in general population web surveys. This study tests the validity and the reliability to branched question form in a general population survey using a randomized experiment. The branched question form did not change validity and reliability of responses and reduced the satisficing behavior based on the proxies compared to the offered form.

Z. Tuba Suzer Gurtekin is an Assistant Research Scientist within the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. She is the scientific leader of the Surveys of Consumers, which conducts monthly national surveys of American households to understand consumer expectations and how those expectations impact their spending and saving behavior. Her research experience has included development of alternative sample, methodology and questionnaire designs, data collection and analysis methods for a general population in parallel survey modes. In addition to her work through the Surveys of Consumers, she also currently serves on the Board of Associate Editors of CDC’s Preventing Chronic Disease Journal. 608.82She teaches survey sampling and survey methodology in University of Michigan’s Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis Program (OJOC CRDSA).

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

SISRT
June 5 – July 28, 2023

The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques is a teaching program of the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. It is located on the central campus of the University of Michigan at 426 Thompson Street in Ann Arbor. The summer courses are select offerings from the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science, and can be used to pursue a doctorate, master of science and a certificate in survey methodology.

All 2023 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format with the exception of the Sampling Program for Survey Statisticians. Payment of Summer Scholar and workshop fees must be made in full before you will be officially registered for class. Fees are based on total “course hours” (assigned to each course as shown in the section on description of courses and on the 2023 course schedule) although no formal academic credit is actually earned.

Our courses this summer will be offered primarily by two-way, live video through a platform that supports lectures and group work. In some cases, courses are offered in a flipped format in which lectures are video recorded for students to watch on-demand and then meet with their instructor by two-way live video to discuss the lectures, readings, and problem sets. All classes are scheduled in Eastern Standard Time Zone.

We have been offering courses in remote formats for many years through our connection with the graduate programs at the Universities of Michigan and Maryland which share all courses by live classroom-to-classroom video. In the COVID era, our transition to entirely remote instruction has been straightforward and brought the students’ experience very close to that of a place-based classroom.

We understand that some participants were looking forward to visiting Ann Arbor, networking and participating in social activities. As an alternative, we are planning several virtual social and networking activities in which participants will meet informally (by live video) with their instructors and just with each other in small groups to discuss various topics, some related to courses and some not. This will give participants a chance get to know each other as well as instructors outside the “classroom.” We’re excited to work with you as we learn how to best connect with each other remotely.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:25:54 -0500 2022-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Corner Office Speaker Series (November 30, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101632 101632-21801618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Yaffe Digital Media Initiative

Please join Michigan Ross - Marketing Professors Marcus Collins and John Branch with Yaffe Digital Media Initiative as they welcome Spotify Global Head of Music Marketing Justin Norman. During this event they will discuss Justin's career, the future of marketing, the next chapter of music, and what’s going to be required of tomorrow’s marketing leaders. The event will be held in Blau 1590, Wednesday 11/30 from 7-8pm.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:08:16 -0500 2022-11-30T19:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T20:00:00-05:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Yaffe Digital Media Initiative Lecture / Discussion Corner Office Speaker Series - Spotify
Ph.D. Defense: Valerie Washington (December 1, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101519 101519-21801472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

CHAIRS: Seth Guikema and Joi-Lynn Mondisa

TITLE OF DISSERTATION: Examining the Influence of Natural Hazards on Human Behavior

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Presentation Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:23:22 -0500 2022-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation Valerie Washington
ChE SEMINAR: "Molecular Engineering to Turn Immunity On and Off" (December 1, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101462 101462-21801371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 1:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 32
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

The ChE seminar series features guest speakers. U-M ChE faculty and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.

ABSTRACT:
The immune system exists in a delicate balance of mounting active, effector responses to fight infection from invading pathogens and to kill mutated cells, while existing in an active state of tolerance to the non-self contents of the gut and on the skin and to self proteins throughout the body. Dysfunction can lead to susceptibility to infection and cancer on the one hand, and to allergy and autoimmunity on the other. We are developing immunotherapies to tip this balance one way or the other – for example engineering cytokines to create an immune response against mutated self in cancer, or engineering cytokines create tolerogenic environments and engineering antigen delivery systems to inverse vaccinate against an autoimmune disease to re-establish immunological tolerance to self.


BIO:
Jeffrey Hubbell is Eugene Bell Professor in Tissue Engineering at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering of the University of Chicago. Previous to moving to Chicago, he was on the faculty of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL, where he served as Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Dean of the School of Life Sciences), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and University of Zurich, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas in Austin. He holds a BS from Kansas State University and a PhD from Rice University, both degrees being in chemical engineering. He was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2010, the National Academy of Inventors in 2014, the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.

Hubbell uses biomaterials and protein engineering approaches to investigate topics in regenerative medicine and immunotherapeutics. In regenerative medicine, he focuses on biomaterial matrices that mimic the extracellular matrix and on growth factor - extracellular matrix interactions, working in a variety of animal models of regenerative medicine. In immunotherapeutics, he focuses on nanomaterials in vaccines that target lymphoid-resident antigen presenting cells and on protein engineering approaches to deliver antigen to the spleen and liver for inverse vaccines to induce tolerance to protein drugs and in autoimmunity. His interests are both basic and translational, having founded or co-founded six biomedical companies based on his technology, namely Focal, in Boston, acquired by Genzyme; Kuros Biosciences, in Zurich, in the domain of regenerative medicine; Anokion and Kanyos Bio, in Boston, both in the domain of immunological tolerance; Clostra Bio, in Chicago, in the domain of food allergy, founded together in with Prof. Cathryn Nagler at the University of Chicago; Arrow Immune, in the domain of cancer immunotherapy, founded together with Jun Ishihara at Imperial College London and Melody Swartz at the University of Chicago; and HeioThera, in the domain of autoimmunity and inflammation, founded together with Jun Ishihara at Imperial College London.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:45:43 -0500 2022-12-01T13:30:00-05:00 2022-12-01T14:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 32 Chemical Engineering Workshop / Seminar Alt text: U-M ChE logo, a photo of Jeff Hubbell and text that reads "Seminar"
MICDE Ph.D. Student Seminar: Meichen Liu (December 1, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101407 101407-21801311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Topic: *Influence of shear wave velocity heterogeneity on SH-wave reverberation imaging of the mantle transition zone*

We use the top-side shear wave reflection Ssds as a probe for mapping the depths of the mantle transition zone (MTZ) beneath the contiguous US. Using a common-reflection point (CRP) mapping approach, we observe that the MTZ are about 40–50 km deeper beneath the western United States than the central-eastern United States if based on the 1-D Earth wave velocity model (Preliminary Reference Earth Model). However, the east-to-west deepening of the MTZ disappears in the CRP image if we account for 3-D shear wave velocity variations in the mantle according to global tomography. In addition, from spectral-element method synthetics, we find that ray theory overpredicts the traveltime delays of the reverberations. Undulations of the MTZ are underestimated when their wavelengths are smaller than the Fresnel zones of the wave reverberations in the MTZ. Therefore, modelling of layering in the upper mantle must be based on 3-D reference structures and accurate calculations of reverberation traveltimes.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Nov 2022 12:12:58 -0500 2022-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T16:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Presentation MICDE Ph.D. Seminar Series: Meichen Liu
Women in STEM Happy Hour for Grad Students (December 1, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101554 101554-21801509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Join Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) grad students on Thursday, December 1 to get to know other grad students and destress before finals! Free appetizers provided and cash bar available. Space is limited and registration is required.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:24:30 -0500 2022-12-01T18:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Social / Informal Gathering illustration of two women with drinks
ELI Student to Student Event: Gingerbread House Decorating (December 1, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101402 101402-21801305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Celebrate the coming winter season with other U-M international students with an evening of decorating gingerbread houses and pizza! Gingerbread houses are mini-models of homes made of cookies and candy that are decorated in 'fairy tale' style in a common American and European winter holiday tradition. Participants of this event will break into small teams and work together to assemble and decorate a gingerbread house, and the team that creates the best house wins a prize! Meet new people, show off your creativity, and have some fun! Supplies will be provided to registered participants. This event will be held in person.

Sign up here: https://myumi.ch/RWMNd

ELI “Student to Student” events are fun, interactive virtual offerings planned and led by U-M students to help U-M international students meet people and make connections. They include activities to relieve stress, increase social connectedness, and help you learn about US and Michigan culture—while practicing English!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 23 Nov 2022 13:45:30 -0500 2022-12-01T18:30:00-05:00 2022-12-01T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Social / Informal Gathering Gingerbread House and Cookie
Write-Together (December 2, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97717 97717-21795012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:12:33 -0400 2022-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Write-Together Flyer
Soul Glow: Mending the Spirit (December 2, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101348 101348-21801250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join us at the Trotter Multicultural Center for an evening of Blanket Making, cookies, and intentional conversation about how we find and maintain joy during what can sometimes be a very stressful season.

Come make a blanket for yourself, OR make a blanket or two that will be donated to those in our community who are in need.

We hope to see you there!

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The Soul Glow Series looks at the sacred beliefs and practices that bring us joy and inspire creativity, as well as informs our approach to justice and equity work. This series will aim to provide opportunities for students to experience joy and community with one another, as well as spaces where students can begin to imagine what a better future and world looks like.

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WSN Drop-In Support Group (December 2, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100946 100946-21800586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wolverine Support Network

Give & receive support during this 1-hour peer-led support group. Led by trained peer facilitators, WSN Drop-In Group gives you the chance to try out a WSN group without commitment. Show up once or every week to receive support for your mental health & day-to-day lives in a community of folks with various identities and experiences. This group is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at U-M.

ZOOM LINK: tinyurl.com/wsndropingroup

The remaining drop-in group times for the Fall 2022 semester are as follows:
- Friday, November 4 from 4-5 pm
- Sunday, November 13 from 2-3 pm
- Sunday, November 20 from 2-3 pm
- Friday, December 2 from 4-5 pm
- Sunday, December 11 from 2-3 pm

Wolverine Support Network (WSN) is a student organization that empowers University of Michigan students to create an inclusive community and support each other’s identity, mental well-being, and day-to-day lives through peer support programming & mental health advocacy. If you have any questions about Drop-In Group, our weekly peer support groups, or WSN in general, feel free to browse our website at umichwsn.org or reach out to wsndirectors@umich.edu.

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Well-being Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:03:00 -0400 2022-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Wolverine Support Network Well-being WSN Drop-In Group