Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 7th Annual Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD Lecture (June 3, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95013 95013-21788268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 3, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Omenn Lecture

Talk Title: Biomedical Data Science: The Hope, Hype, and Promise

Abstract: Data science was introduced as a “new” profession in the early 1960s, yet the Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was not established until 2018. Artificial intelligence (AI) traces its roots to at least the 1950s, with its first application as an expert system in medicine in the early 1970s. Yet, the NIH Working Group on AI was not established until 2018 as well, with their first report issued in 2019. This is not to say that these topics have been neglected over the past half-century, but it begs the question of why have they only now come to the forefront of biomedicine? We have seen multiple AI booms and busts, each of which has caused massive hype, dream crushing failures, and notable advancements (some more flashy than others) along the way. This talk is not intended to be a history lesson, but it will provide some context for how we got to where we are and what this says about where biomedical research and healthcare seems to be heading. I will further provide insight into how various innovations in computation, policy, and industry have pushed the field forward and where recently established programs to expand AI activities, such as AIM-AHEAD and Bridge2AI, may push the biomedical research community over the next decade. To ground this presentation, I will provide examples of how AI and data science more generally have driven activities at the All of Us Research Program and the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center.

Short Bio: Bradley Malin is the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is the Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He founded and co-directs the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center, as well as the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings (GetPreCiSe), the latter of which is an NIH Center of Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research. Since 2007, he has chaired the Committee on Access, Privacy, and Security (CAPS) for the NIH-sponsored All of Us Research Program and, in 2021, he became one of the founding PIs of the NIH Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD). He serves on various governmental advisory bodies, including the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Medicine (CDC). He was honored as a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) . He received a B.S. in Biological Sciences, M.S. in Machine Learning, M.Phil. in Public Policy and Management, and Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 May 2022 12:03:12 -0400 2022-06-03T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Omenn Lecture Lecture / Discussion Bradley Malin, PhD
7th Annual Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD Lecture (June 3, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95013 95013-21789263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 3, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Omenn Lecture

Talk Title: Biomedical Data Science: The Hope, Hype, and Promise

Abstract: Data science was introduced as a “new” profession in the early 1960s, yet the Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was not established until 2018. Artificial intelligence (AI) traces its roots to at least the 1950s, with its first application as an expert system in medicine in the early 1970s. Yet, the NIH Working Group on AI was not established until 2018 as well, with their first report issued in 2019. This is not to say that these topics have been neglected over the past half-century, but it begs the question of why have they only now come to the forefront of biomedicine? We have seen multiple AI booms and busts, each of which has caused massive hype, dream crushing failures, and notable advancements (some more flashy than others) along the way. This talk is not intended to be a history lesson, but it will provide some context for how we got to where we are and what this says about where biomedical research and healthcare seems to be heading. I will further provide insight into how various innovations in computation, policy, and industry have pushed the field forward and where recently established programs to expand AI activities, such as AIM-AHEAD and Bridge2AI, may push the biomedical research community over the next decade. To ground this presentation, I will provide examples of how AI and data science more generally have driven activities at the All of Us Research Program and the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center.

Short Bio: Bradley Malin is the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is the Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He founded and co-directs the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center, as well as the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings (GetPreCiSe), the latter of which is an NIH Center of Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research. Since 2007, he has chaired the Committee on Access, Privacy, and Security (CAPS) for the NIH-sponsored All of Us Research Program and, in 2021, he became one of the founding PIs of the NIH Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD). He serves on various governmental advisory bodies, including the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Medicine (CDC). He was honored as a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) . He received a B.S. in Biological Sciences, M.S. in Machine Learning, M.Phil. in Public Policy and Management, and Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 May 2022 12:03:12 -0400 2022-06-03T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Omenn Lecture Lecture / Discussion Bradley Malin, PhD
Roland “Red” Hiss Lecture and Medical Education Scholars Program Research Symposium (June 7, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94775 94775-21766997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Please join us on June 7, 2022, from 2:30-5:00pm for the Department of Learning Health Sciences’ Annual Roland “Red” Hiss Event. This event honors the life and work of Dr. Red Hiss and celebrates the accomplishments of Scholars in the Medical Education Scholars Program.

2:30-3:30: MESP Research Symposium
3:30-5:00: Hiss Lecture

The 2022 Roland “Red” Hiss Lecture will be given by Louito Edje, MD, MHPE, Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

Dr. Edje is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, where she was President of the medical school student body. She began her path to medicine at age 16 when she pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology at Michigan State University. In 2012, Dr. Edje was selected as the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians’ Family Physician of The Year. She is currently the Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where she oversees the education of over 700 residents and fellows. Dr. Edje holds dual appointments as a professor in the Department of Medical Education and the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She is also a board-certified family physician practicing at UC Health and is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Edje was recently elected to the American Medical Association's (AMA) Council on Medical Education. She is actively speaking globally on viruses, variants and vaccine hesitancy via multiple media platforms as a Moderna trial participant.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 May 2022 09:51:30 -0400 2022-06-07T14:30:00-04:00 2022-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Research Symposium, June 7th
Modeling Autonomous Vehicle's Lane Change Decision-Making in Weaving Sections of Freeway Ramps (June 16, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95251 95251-21789065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 16, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

To date, no systems can recommend when lane changes should be engaged in weaving sections of limited length to ensure that traffic stays safely and smoothly separated. In this presentation, Dr. Lin will describe the naturalistic driving data mining and modeling for the driver’s lane change decision-making in freeway weaving sections. The models were further tested in automated driving with computer simulation and demonstrated in the environment of augmented reality at Mcity. This study could provide valuable insights for developing AV lane change features.

More about this research: https://myumi.ch/j26wj

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About the speakers:
Dr. Brian Lin earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Dr. Lin has 11 years of experience in automotive human factors research at UMTRI after his Ph.D. His current research is focused on mining naturalistic driving data using statistical and machine-learning methods, driver-assist-system evaluation, driver performance and behavior assessment, and driver distraction and workload mitigation. His most recent work includes human driver’s lane-change maneuvers, drivers’ decisions at intersections, and passengers’ motion discomfort in moving vehicles. Dr. Lin has much experience in conducting experiments to evaluate advanced automotive systems, including auto-braking, lane departure, driver-state monitoring, electronic head units, car-following and curve-assist systems on L2 automation, and lane-change and intersection assist on L3 automation on public roads, test tracks, or simulation. He is familiar with the methods to investigate driver distraction, workload, and human-machine interaction with in-vehicle technologies and safety features. He serves as a peer reviewer for Applied Ergonomics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, Transportation Research Part F, and Transportation Research Record.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 May 2022 12:57:30 -0400 2022-06-16T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-16T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Promotional Image for the CCAT Research Review with Brian Lin. It features Brian's headshot and a photo of highway traffic.
LHS Collaboratory (June 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95245 95245-21789057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

"Restructuring health systems for learning: Building equity into the Learning Health System"
Learn more about ELSI-LHS (Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Learning Health Systems). The session will be moderated by, Jody E. Platt, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences.

Speaker:
Lauren A. Taylor, PhD, MDiv, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Population Health
Division of Medical Ethics
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 May 2022 00:20:49 -0400 2022-06-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
Dept. of Neurology Grand Rounds Presented by Dr. Joanna Mattis (July 20, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96097 96097-21791923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 11:00am
Location: Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Organized By: Michigan Neuroscience Institute

Plan to attend this Wednesday’s Grand Rounds presentation by Dr. Joanna Mattis, MNI Affiliate Faculty and Assistant Professor of Neurology.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Jul 2022 11:06:09 -0400 2022-07-20T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Frankel Cardiovascular Center Michigan Neuroscience Institute Lecture / Discussion
Certifiable Autonomous Systems Through Online Verification — CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series (July 21, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95889 95889-21791378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Engineers and computer scientists are currently developing autonomous systems whose entire set of behaviors in future, untested situations is unknown. For instance, how can a designer foresee all situations that an autonomous vehicle will face? Keeping in mind that many autonomous systems are safety-critical or operation-critical, it is irresponsible to deploy such systems without testing all possible situations---this, however, seems impossible since even the most important possible situations are often unmanageably many. This presentation proposes a paradigm shift that will make it possible to guarantee safety in unforeseeable situations (under mild model assumptions): Instead of verifying the correctness of a system before deployment, we propose online verification, a new verification paradigm where a system continuously checks the correctness of its next action by itself in its current environment (and only in it) in a just-in-time manner. The usefulness of this method will be demonstrated primarily for autonomous driving and robotics.

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About the speaker: Matthias Althoff received a diploma in Mechatronics and Information Technology from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2005. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing./Univ. Tokio Martin Buss in 2010. From 2010 - 2012 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, with a joint appointment in electrical engineering and the Robotics Institute. He joined the Computer Science Department at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, in 2012 as Assistant Professor for Automation Systems. Since 2013 Matthias Althoff is a Professor in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich.

His research interests include the design and analysis of cyber-physical systems, formal verification of continuous and hybrid systems, reachability analysis, planning algorithms, and robust and fault-tolerant control. The main applications of his research are automated vehicles, robotics, and power systems.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:30:53 -0400 2022-07-21T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Matthias Althoff. It features the presentation title 'Certifiable Autonomous Systems Through Online Verification', Professor Althoff's headshot, and an image of an Autonomous Vehicle.
ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit (August 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96324 96324-21792269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for the two day ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit on Tuesday, August 9, and Wednesday, August 10, Noon–5 p.m. each day. This hybrid event will be at 1010 Weiser Hall and open to all U-M staff and faculty. Explore new and existing educational technology tools available at U-M and take advantage of this opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues from across the university. Lunch, swag, and sessions will be provided for in-person attendees and online participants will join via Kaltura’s new Events Platform site, which we are piloting for this summit.

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Please register separately for each day of the summit you would like to attend. In-person attendees need to register by end of the day, August 4, to ensure they will receive lunch on the day of the event.

Tuesday, August 9 MiVideo Summit Registration
- https://mivideo.events.kaltura.com/register
Wednesday, August 10 Canvas/Instructional Technology Summit Registration
- https://teachingandlearning.events.kaltura.com/register

Visit the ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit website for more information and an agenda summary. We will be offering lunch and light refreshments. We ask that you register for each day’s event so we can get an accurate count of the food order.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:53:51 -0400 2022-08-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-08-09T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Information and Technology Services (ITS) Conference / Symposium ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit Banner
ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit (August 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96324 96324-21792270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for the two day ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit on Tuesday, August 9, and Wednesday, August 10, Noon–5 p.m. each day. This hybrid event will be at 1010 Weiser Hall and open to all U-M staff and faculty. Explore new and existing educational technology tools available at U-M and take advantage of this opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues from across the university. Lunch, swag, and sessions will be provided for in-person attendees and online participants will join via Kaltura’s new Events Platform site, which we are piloting for this summit.

REGISTER
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Please register separately for each day of the summit you would like to attend. In-person attendees need to register by end of the day, August 4, to ensure they will receive lunch on the day of the event.

Tuesday, August 9 MiVideo Summit Registration
- https://mivideo.events.kaltura.com/register
Wednesday, August 10 Canvas/Instructional Technology Summit Registration
- https://teachingandlearning.events.kaltura.com/register

Visit the ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit website for more information and an agenda summary. We will be offering lunch and light refreshments. We ask that you register for each day’s event so we can get an accurate count of the food order.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:53:51 -0400 2022-08-10T12:00:00-04:00 2022-08-10T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Information and Technology Services (ITS) Conference / Symposium ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit Banner
Traffic Signal Control via Decentralized Decomposition Approaches (August 24, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96271 96271-21792217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Traffic congestion is a global pressing issue that can be mitigated via effective traffic signal control schemes. In this presentation, based on a cell transmission model, the team from the University of Michigan coordinated the control of traffic signals at multiple intersections to maximize vehicle throughput on corridors or road networks under uncertain traffic demand and vehicle turning. They formulated a two-stage, stochastic mixed-integer linear program using finite samples of the uncertain parameter, and combined Benders decomposition with the alternating direction method of multipliers to develop spatially-temporally distributed algorithms for optimizing the problem. They then tested instances of traffic signal control on corridors and grid networks, based on synthetic and real-world traffic data. The results show that

1. considering traffic uncertainty can significantly improve the signal control quality and
2. decentralized decomposition approaches can quickly find high-quality signal plans for multiple intersections in complex road networks, and fully utilize the computation and communication technologies in smart-transportation infrastructures.
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About the speaker: Siqian Shen is an Associate Professor and Richard Wilson Faculty Scholar in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. She also serves as the Associate Director at the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE). She obtained a B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in 2007 and Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2011. Her theoretical research interests are in integer programming, stochastic/robust optimization, and network optimization. Applications include optimization and risk analysis of energy, healthcare, cloud computing, and transportation systems. She is a recipient of the IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Faculty Award, and Department of Energy (DoE) Early Career Award.

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Presentation Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:31:10 -0400 2022-08-24T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-24T14:00:00-04:00 Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Decorative Image for the CCAT Research Review with Dr. Siqian Shen. It includes a picture of a traffic control light, the presentation title "Traffic Signal Control Via Decentralized Decomposition Approaches", and a headshot of the Professor.
CSEAS Lecture Series. Living with the Mekong: Archaeological Perspectives and Alternative Futures (September 2, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97503 97503-21794655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 2, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The Mekong River is Southeast Asia’s longest drainage system, and more than 60 million people today rely on the Mekong River to support farming, fishing, and other livelihoods. Watering the region’s rice bowl and serving as a biodiversity hotspot, the Mekong is also a contested space whose existence is now threatened by both human and natural forces. A complex web of international agreements and a fully-functioning multi-country Mekong River Commission have not prevented the construction of six hydroelectric dams in China, with more than ten major dams in the planning stage for Laos and Cambodia, and dozens more on its tributaries. These dams, and increasingly unpredictable rainfall, have already impacted Mekong River communities downstream, and the future promises to be even more bleak. What was life like before the dams? How did the Mekong River ecology shape the everyday life of its communities in the premodern world? What were some unexpected consequences of these practices, and how did communities and the state manage these problems? Archaeological research in Cambodia offers insights on major turning points in how Khmers managed the art of living with their Mekong River: the Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian worlds.

Dr. Miriam Stark (BA, U Michigan, MA & Ph.D., University of Arizona) is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and Director of the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She has worked in Cambodia since 1996 and her last decade of publications examine urbanization, ceramic production and distribution, and power relations in premodern Cambodia. Stark’s archaeological research program integrates research with capacity-building in collaboration with Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and its various units, involving nearly 100 students, interns, and archaeological professionals since launching her first field-based project in the country. She is currently a Fulbright Senior Specialist, Honorary Research Associate with the University of Sydney, editorial board member for 13 journals, and a member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (US Department of State).

Register at http://myumi.ch/48Pnn

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:43:53 -0400 2022-09-02T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-02T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Miriam Stark (BA, U Michigan, MA & Ph.D., University of Arizona) is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and Director of the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies
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
Muslims of the Heartland: How Ottoman Syrians Made a Home in the American Midwest (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96757 96757-21793267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Arab American author Edward E. Curtis IV is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis. The author or editor of fourteen books about Black, Muslim, and Arab American history and life, he has received major fellowships and grants from Carnegie, Fulbright, Luce, Mellon, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:59:34 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
CSEAS Lecture Series. Welfare Politics in Cambodia: An Examination of the National Ageing Policy 2017-2030 (September 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97506 97506-21794659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This talk explores the Cambodian government’s approach to maintain peace and stability in Cambodia through an examination of the Cambodian National Ageing Policy (NAP) 2017-2030. The NAP made an important case study as it is one of the forefront social welfare policies that the Cambodian government implemented along with the National Social Protection Policy Framework (NSPPF) 2016-2025 following a
contested election in 2013. The tracing of the country’s political development in the post-conflict period (1990-present) helps inform the analysis on the Cambodian government’s policy choice toward the vulnerable population such as the old age. The implementation of the NAP can be viewed as a positive step toward creating an inclusive society where no one is left behind. However, I argue that the NAP should be seen first as an apparatus development strategy to reaffirm the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) ruling legitimacy and popularity by proving the ability of an authoritarian ruler to care for the population. Using empirical data collected from my field research attest to my argument on how the Cambodian government incorporates ageing policy as an instrument to strengthen its ruling power, thus, the stability of the regime. By critically assessing the ageing policy’s implementing progress and impact outcomes, this study uncovers the differences between how this social welfare policy serves and benefits the Cambodian government and the ageing population.

Register at: http://myumi.ch/5W2NA

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:44:11 -0400 2022-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Soksamphoas Im, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Khmer Studies
Flash Talk | An Example of Mobility: The Epigraphic Record of Migration from Hadrumetum to Lambaesis (September 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96630 96630-21792956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The work of Jean-Marie Lassère in Roman North Africa has provided a foundation for understanding where and when people were moving across the region in the 1st–3rd centuries CE using several hundred epigraphic examples. In this talk, I closely examine one case of four inscriptions from Lambaesis where people claimed to be from Hadrumetum and integrate them into an understanding of the road system of the area to demonstrate not just where people were moving, but how they were moving across the landscape. This one case study sets the foundation for a wider study of the epigraphic record and the road system across Roman North Africa that fits into more modern trends of mobility and migration studies.

Kelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by Kelsey curators, staff members, researchers, and graduate students talking about their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Flash Talks are free and open to all visitors. They take place at noon on the first Friday of every month.

Join us via Zoom at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96551052011
Meeting ID: 965 5105 2011
Passcode: Kelsey

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Aug 2022 09:43:17 -0400 2022-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual aerial view of Lambaesis
Smith Lecture - Collin Ward, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (September 9, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96043 96043-21791864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Photochemical oxidation (photo-oxidation) of crude oil spilled at sea has been studied for over half a century. However, prior to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, photo-oxidation was widely considered a secondary weathering process that impacted a small fraction of spilled oil. Accordingly, photo-oxidation was not included in oil spill fate and trajectory models and response operations. In this talk, I’ll describe several key findings related to the rates, pathways, controls, and impacts of crude oil photo-oxidation in the aftermath of the DWH spill. These findings have collectively changed the perspective of photochemical weathering in the oil spill sciences, leading to its inclusion in oil spill models and increased consideration during response operations. I’ll also share my perspective on the many reasons why it took a devastating environmental disaster to make such progress. Finally, I’ll discuss the role sunlight may play during future oil spills, including spills in colder, high-latitude waters where risks are increasing as a consequence of global climate change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:36:49 -0400 2022-09-09T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-09T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
MIPSE Seminar | Turbulence and Transport Research Beyond the Burning Plasma Era (September 14, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97908 97908-21795308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
The prospect of near-term fusion electricity opens new doors for university-based plasma physics research. Even after the grand societal challenge of putting fusion on the grid is achieved, research addressing grand intellectual challenges in plasma transport will remain vibrant. University groups will engage with sponsors and collaborators including not only governments and national labs around the world, but also private companies and utilities. In this talk I present side-by-side examples of recent research results on turbulence and transport measurements, as well as predictive simulation and modeling, carried out by researchers at MIT in support of both the nascent fusion industry and the established fission industry. I will share my perspective, as an academic department head, on the future of fusion research in universities as we move through and beyond the era of burning plasmas.

About the Speaker:
Anne E. White is the head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at MIT and MIT School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering. She received her PhD in experimental plasma physics in 2008 from UCLA and was a DOE Fusion Energy Sciences ORISE post-doctoral fellow before becoming an assistant professor at MIT in 2009. White performs fusion energy research at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at MIT and in involved in research collaborations at tokamaks in the US and around the world. Prof. White is active in the fusion community, is a member of American Physical Society and American Nuclear Society, and has served on the executive committees and program committees of many workshops and conferences. She currently serves on the US DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC). She has won numerous awards for her research, teaching and service to MIT and to the fusion community, and is an APS Fellow.

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for information about in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2223.php.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:13:50 -0400 2022-09-14T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-14T14:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Anne White
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
Using Annoto with Video Content (September 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98158 98158-21795658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP

Canvas Workshop

Workshop Agenda: * Background * Product Overview * In-Video discussion widget * Insights Dashboard * Kaltura & Canvas Support * Product Demonstration * Hands-on experience * Customer Use Cases * Value proposition and Key Impacts * Q&A

- Annoto is available as free trial tool for Fall 2022.
- Annoto provides in-video discussion tools in Canvas and is used within MiVideo/Kaltura.
Watch a two-minute video demo of Annoto. [https://youtu.be/1T9EZi7KJcc]
- Annoto enables your course participants to add time-based annotations as an overlay to any video content, turning passive video watching into an active and collaborative learning experience, while providing you actionable insights on the students and the video content delivered.
- Annoto covers all your different use cases when using video content and is used for student assignments, skills development, collaborative learning, guided watching, peer review, and many more.

Level: Beginner
Trainer: Gili Cohen

The ITS Teaching Online Technique Training Workshops are available to help you prepare for teaching online, in person, hybrid, or HyFlex.

Find detailed training information on this and additional workshops, including on-demand recordings, on the ITS Training website: https://its.umich.edu/training/canvas

Join all ITS training sessions in this series via the following Zoom URL for all workshops: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96810579762

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Sep 2022 16:46:11 -0400 2022-09-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Using Annoto with Video Content
Smith Lecture - Kiefer Forsch, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (September 16, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98387 98387-21796590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The crust’s fourth most abundant element, iron, barely sticks around in the surface ocean. Yet even small pulses of this essential micronutrient support blooms of phytoplankton and vibrant food webs and fisheries. Where does this iron come from, what happens to it once deposited in the ocean, and what are the consequences for the biogeochemical cycles of macronutrients (N, P, Si) and carbon? In this talk, I explore the sources, sinks, and cycling of iron in disparate productive coastal regions of the ocean. I will discuss research where I have examined the effects of insufficient iron supply on diatom communities within zones of upwelling. I will then pivot to discuss ongoing and future research exploring potential signatures of iron transformation by microbes overcoming challenges of ocean anemia and speculate on what this means for glacial weathering inputs to high latitudes.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Sep 2022 10:30:21 -0400 2022-09-16T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-16T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Trevor Noah Engineering-Only Fireside Chat (September 16, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98949 98949-21797388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Engineering Honors & Engagement Programs

Join Trevor Noah for a Michigan Engineering-only private conversation where he'll discuss his book Born a Crime. This event is free for Michigan Engineering students, faculty, and staff only—but you must register in advance to participate.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Sep 2022 10:04:20 -0400 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T18:30:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium Engineering Honors & Engagement Programs Lecture / Discussion Trevor Noah on a blue background
CPOD Seminar Talk: Brian Capell, MD, PhD, (UPenn) Chromatin at the nexus of epithelial development, differentiation, and cancer (September 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98510 98510-21796732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design with UM-Skin Biology and Disease Resource based Center presents:

Brian Capell, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Chromatin at the nexus of epithelial development, differentiation, and cancer
In-Person: BSRB ABC Seminar Rooms
Zoom Meeting Option ID: 932 944 30678

Faculty Host: Rajesh Rao, MD
Leonard G. Miller Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:52:11 -0400 2022-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Capell
DCMB Weekly Seminar (September 21, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98815 98815-21797218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
The intersect between the life sciences (cells, tissues, organs) and engineered materials (polymers, biomacromolecules, semiconductors) is crucial for a wide range of medical and biotechnological applications. Hence, the precise control of biotic/abiotic interfaces has been one of the main obstacles of past decades. The Lahann Lab designs polymers for a range of different medical applications. In particular, we have developed a class of protein nanoparticles for targeting of glioblastoma. In addition, I will summarize our efforts related to sheet-like 3D organoid systems and will address recent advances with morphologically designed interfaces.

Research Interests:
Designer surfaces, advanced polymers, biomimetic materials, microfluidic devices, engineered microenvironments, nano-scale self-assembly.

Joerg Lahann’s research is broadly related to surface engineering with strong ties to biomedical engineering and nanotechnology. His research on reversibly switching surfaces was featured in an article in Science (J. Lahann, et al., A Reversibly Switching Surface, January 17, 2003, 299, 371-374.) These “smart surfaces” can reversibly switch properties in response to an external stimulus. To demonstrate these findings, a surface design was developed that can be changed from water-attracting to water-repelling with the application of a weak electric field. Designed as a switch, single-layered molecular-level machines are aligned on a surface using self-assembly and then are flipped between defined microscopic states. This type of surface design may offer a new paradigm for interfacial engineering as it amplifies reversible conformational transitions at a molecular level to macroscopic changes in surface properties without altering the chemical identity of the surface.

Joerg has also developed a novel class of polymers with potential for biomimetic and spatially directed surface engineering. This “reactive coating” technology uses chemical vapor deposition (CVD) polymerization to deposit a wide range of chemical signatures on various substrate materials. Its simplicity in providing chemically reactive groups and its applicability to three-dimensional geometries (e.g., for microfluidics) enables the exact tailoring of surface properties and the preparation of biologically relevant microenvironments. Reactive coatings are compatible with soft lithographic processes, allowing for patterning of proteins, DNA, cytokines, and mammalian cells.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:36:52 -0400 2022-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion (Protein pattern deposited on a polymer surface, artistic rendering, credit: Bahar Dadfar)
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
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
Postdoc Appreciation Week – Special Presentations (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98318 98318-21796492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Felicia Miranda, DDS, MS, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Orthodontics
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Mentor: Lucia Cevidanes

Amanda Rodriguez, DDS, MS
Research Fellow & PiMA Program Assistant Director
Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Mentors: Drs. Hsun-Liang Chan, DDS, MS and
Oliver Kripfgans, PhD

Hiroki Ueharu, Ph.D.
Department of Biologic & Materials Sciences and Prosthodontics, University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Mentor: Dr. Yuji Mishina

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Presentation Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:20:48 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation Postdoc Appreciation Week – Special Presentations
American Democracy in Peril (September 22, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96650 96650-21793013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Featuring Hon. J. Michael Luttig with introduction by Professor Richard Friedman

Join in person in Jeffries Hall 1225 or via Zoom webinar at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/93360607078

Hon. J. Michael Luttig served for nearly fifteen years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Among other positions, he has also served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel and as General Counsel to The Boeing Company. The open letter circulated by Vice President Pence on January 6, 2021, quoted Judge Luttig’s assertion that “[t]he only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the Electoral College votes as they have been cast,” and not “to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by rejecting certain votes or otherwise.” On June 16, 2022, Judge Luttig testified before the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, to the effect that President Trump and his allies had “instigated” a war on democracy. He was also one of the authors of LOST NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election, issued in July 2022.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:21:24 -0400 2022-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture - Eileen Evans, CSU Northridge (September 23, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98900 98900-21797328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America is capable of producing magnitude ~9 earthquakes, likely often accompanied by tsunamis. An outstanding question in this region, as in most subduction zones, is the degree and spatial extent of strain accumulation, which will eventually release as an earthquake, on the subduction megathrust. Geodetic observations, including those from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), including the Global Positioning System (GPS), may be used to image the strain actively accumulating on a fault before an earthquake ultimately occurs. Technology combining GNSS and underwater acoustic ranging (GNSS-A) is now capable of making centimeter-level horizontal geodetic observations on the seafloor. GNSS-A enables previously inaccessible observations to better image seismogenic portions of the Cascadia subduction zone. Because seafloor geodetic instruments, and the time and logistics associated with observations, can be cost-prohibitive, it is important to identify where deploying seafloor geodetic instruments will provide information that cannot be obtained through a similar investment in onshore geodetic networks. Here we leverage the concept of information entropy to 1) quantify the relative information provided by expanding GNSS observation networks offshore Oregon and Washington and 2) identify optimal locations for a network of seafloor geodetic instruments. The information gained by new observations, and their optimal locations, depends on the expected uncertainties on the seafloor velocity observations, modeling assumptions, and the modeling objectives.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:11:51 -0400 2022-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
PBBs in Michigan: Empowering an Exposed Community (September 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98897 98897-21797325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Featuring Bonnie Havlicek, RN (Co-Chair PBB Advisory Board) and Michele Marcus, PhD, MPH (Professor, Departments of Epidemiology, Environmental Health & Pediatrics, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Emory University). Moderated by Amy Schulz, PhD (M-LEEaD CEC Core Leader, UM SPH).

Registration required for Zoom webinar https://bit.ly/3Le7hby

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:26:51 -0400 2022-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar Residents & Researchers Tuesday Talks
Heberle Award & Lecture (September 28, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92330 92330-21690193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join us virtually for Professor Cheng's lecture, “Against Use: Asian American Masculinity and the Telos of Utilitarianism.”

What does a concept like “Ornamentalism” have to teach us about Asian American masculinity? Does Asian American masculinity, normally excluded from the realm of aesthetic consideration, have anything to do with ornamentality at all? This talk explores the tension between beauty and ugliness, between usefulness and uselessness, embedded in and provoked by the ornament for the specter of Asiatic masculinity.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:35:55 -0400 2022-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Professor Cheng
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (September 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
10th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration - Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (September 29, 2022 1:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98793 98793-21797190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:15pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Omenn Lecture

On September 29, 2022, the University of Michigan Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (DCMB) will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a symposium and in-person gathering.

The event will be introduced by James Woolliscroft, M.D., Lyle C. Roll Professor of Medicine, and former dean of the Medical School. Department faculty members will present about their research, and two distinguished alumni –Erin Shellman, Ph.D., Head of Data at Gingko Bioworks, and Dan Rhodes, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO at Strata Oncology – will talk about their respective careers.

At 4:00 p.m., Holden Thorp, Ph.D., editor-in-chief, Science Family of Journals will give the 8th Annual G. Omenn Lecture: "Data Science and Medicine in the Age of Open Data, Open Code, and Open Access: From Protein Structure Prediction to COVID Origins"

A poster session will close the afternoon. For more information and registration, visit our website.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:17:20 -0400 2022-09-29T13:15:00-04:00 2022-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Omenn Lecture Lecture / Discussion DCMB 10th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration
Using Traffic Signals to Decongest Cities May Be Simpler Than We Thought (September 29, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97794 97794-21795141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Transportation Research Institute
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

This presentation focuses on two well-known means of re-timing ordinary traffic signals to mitigate city-street traffic congestion. The first entails synchronizing green times on 4-way (i.e., all-directional) street grids. The second involves re-timing the signals that reside along cordon lines, to meter vehicle inflows during the morning rush. We show that, in both cases, simple strategies can perform remarkably well. The lecture will offer next steps toward real-world implementation.

To synchronize green times, Professor Cassidy's team use common phase durations for all signals on a grid, rather than optimize each signal’s timing plan to suit local conditions. This simple idea enables them to exploit features of perfectly orthogonal grids to synchronize all signals on the grid in two orthogonal (e.g., northbound, and westbound) travel directions. As a result, drivers headed toward clustered workplaces in the morning rush, and away from those workplaces in the evening, can enjoy exceptionally good signal progression over their entire trips, even when their paths entail two directions. One synchronization mode is used for undersaturated conditions when queues dissipate during green times; another is used when conditions become oversaturated with long residual queues; and the team's strategy toggles promptly between these two synchronization modes, as measurable conditions on the grid change over time. Simulations of numerous scenarios indicate that our simple, adaptive strategy dramatically outperforms other synchronization schemes, including complicated ones and those viewed as gold standards. Importantly, the presentation also shows that their strategy can be easily modified to perform well on irregular, real-world street grids.

As regards cordon metering, they fill a gaping hole in the literature by providing logical and easy-to-follow rules on how exactly to place cordons around clustered workplaces. Simulations show that the simple rules hold for varying congestion levels and regional configurations, and that following the rules can be impactful, especially when cities become severely congested.

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About the speaker: Michael Cassidy is the Robert Horonjeff Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a doctorate in Civil Engineering (majoring in Transportation Engineering) from Berkeley; served for nearly 4 years as an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1994. He is currently an associate editor of the journal Transportation Research Part B. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee for the International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory; a former Director of the University Transportation Center for federal region 9; and a Vice Chair in Berkeley’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. His research interests focus on transportation planning and management, particularly in the areas of highway traffic, public mass transit and multi-modal systems.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:53 -0400 2022-09-29T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T14:30:00-04:00 Transportation Research Institute Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Lecture / Discussion Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Michael Cassidy. It features the presentation title 'Using Traffic Signals to Decongest Cities May Be Simpler Than We Thought', Professor Cassidy's headshot, and an aerial photograph of an intersection.
Smith Lecture - Athena Eyster, University of Wisconsin-Madison (September 30, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99105 99105-21797580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Oxygen is crucial for life on Earth today, with oxygen’s first major rise ~2.4-2.0 billion years ago during the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) argued to have been a turning point for planetary habitability. Furthermore, the subsequent trajectories of atmospheric and marine oxygen after this initial rise are critical for clarifying linkages between oxygenation and the evolution of complex life. Importantly, massive iron formations have long been recognized as uniquely sensitive to marine oxygen levels and so form critical archives of early Earth’s oceans. Yet their relationship to marine oxygenation is complicated by uncertainties in the triggers for deposition, which are particularly striking when examining massive iron deposits after the GOE. To help address these issues, I present new geologic and geochronologic results from the Ironwood Iron Formation and Emperor Volcanics near Lake Superior. Synthesis of these new regional constraints with a revised compilation of existing data creates a global perspective that allows critical assessment of the marine conditions that trigger post-GOE massive iron deposition and the factors influencing the trajectory of marine oxygen.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:07:47 -0400 2022-09-30T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-30T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
2022 Frank E. Richart/Richard Woods Distinguished Lecture (October 3, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99066 99066-21797518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 3, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Prof. Lisa Alvarez-Cohen will be the lecturer for CEE’s 2022 Richart/Woods Distinguished Lecture on Monday, October 3. The event will be held in the LEC Johnson Rooms from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., followed by a reception in Masco Commons.

Prof. Alvarez-Cohen is the Vice Provost for Academic Planning and the Fred and Claire Sauer Professor of Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley. Faculty and Postdocs should remind students they are welcomed to attend the lecture and reception.

Biology of emerging contaminants - do they really eventually emerge?

ABSTRACT
Societal demand for new products promotes the production and release of new chemicals. Additionally, population growth and climate change has produced increased demand on water resources, resulting in greater reliance on direct and indirect water reuse. Advances in analytical chemistry enables us to detect environmental contaminants with increasing sensitivity, allowing us to discover new families of emerging contaminants that threaten our water resources. Understanding the biotransformation potential of emerging contaminants has been a challenge that’s been greatly assisted recently by means of molecular tools. This talk will describe lessons-learned and research aimed at discovering the biodegradation potential and pathways for a variety of important “emerging contaminants," including MTBE, I,4-dioxane, NDMA, PBDEs and aqueous film forming foams (AFFF).

SPEAKER BIO
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen is the Vice Provost for Academic Planning, the Fred and Claire Sauer Professor of Environmental Engineering, and the past-Chair of the Faculty Senate at UC Berkeley. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Harvard University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and Science from Stanford University.

Her research areas include biotransformation and fate of environmental water contaminants, environmental microbiology and ecology, bioremediation, biological wastewater nutrient removal, and application of molecular and isotopic techniques for studying environmental microbial communities. She has coauthored the textbook Environmental Engineering Science. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She has won a number of awards including the China 1,000 Talents National Award, the ASCE Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award, the W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Engineering Teaching Excellence, and the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:14:04 -0400 2022-10-03T15:30:00-04:00 2022-10-03T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Civil and Environmental Engineering Lecture / Discussion Prof. Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
CSEAS Lecture Series. The Filipino Subjunctive: A Transpacific Counterhistory of Filipinization (October 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97508 97508-21794663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

After wars of counterinsurgency are waged on the colonial front, they march into the colonized self. Few places exemplify this more than the Philippines, the United States’ first overseas colony, a plentiful source of American migrant labor, and the site of one of America’s most brutal but unacknowledged 20th-century genocidal campaigns. Direct American occupation had supposedly come to an end under the aegis of Filipinization: the systematic appropriation of native leadership into American colonial occupation and counterinsurgency. But, I argue, that Filipinization also informed the everyday conduct and political imaginations of those outside of structures of power, namely, migrant workers across the Pacific.

In this talk, I suggest that American counterinsurgency did not end after direct colonial rule but informed how people across the Pacific imagined how the future citizens of a soon-to-be independent Philippine nation might behave. This provisional subject—what I am calling the Filipino subjunctive emerges from these transnational imaginaries, in and out of the purview of elite projects of state formation. Through the creative labors of everyday life, these thinkers asked: What would it look like to be Filipino, subjects of a nation yet to come? And who would pay the price for such a national community to come into existence?

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Adrian De Leon is an award-winning writer and public historian in Los Angeles. He is an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a host for *PBS Digital Studios* and the Center for Asian American Media. His first academic book, *Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America* (forthcoming, University of North Carolina Press), retells the longue durée of U.S. empire and early Philippine migration through the native peoples of Northern Luzon. He is at work on two scholarly projects: *The Philippines for Filipinos: A Conditional History of a Commonwealth* (under contract, University of Washington Press), which follows non-elite migrant nationalisms in the shadow of American counterinsurgency; and A*fter Homeland: A Return in Four Movements*, a short book on return migrations and the contemporary articulation of “homelands” in the Philippines and around the world. His academic and creative work has been featured in venues such as *Los Angeles Times*, N*ational Geographic*, *VICE*, *Rolling Stone*, and *ABC Nightline*.


Register at: http://myumi.ch/Z6ERZ

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Oct 2022 10:20:38 -0400 2022-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Adrian de Leon, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
The Interplay of Maternal Diet with Environmental Exposures in Pregnancy (October 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99286 99286-21797811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Registration required https://bit.ly/3Lzeh39

Rita Strakovsky, PhD, RD is an Assistant Professor of Maternal Nutrition and Toxicology in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Michigan State University.

Dr. Strakovsky's research focuses on various modifiable lifestyle and environmental factors that can be targeted to protect maternal and child health.

She has worked extensively in rodent pregnancy models to study the effects of maternal diet or exposure to environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on the epigenetic regulation of energy metabolism in offspring. Driven by findings from these studies, my current research in human populations uses molecular epidemiology and biostatistics techniques to address several questions related to the health of mom and her developing fetus during pregnancy:
* Does exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in pregnancy impact maternal hormone levels and how does that impact fetal development via dysregulation of fetal fatty acid supply? (supported by K99/R00 award from NIEHS).
* Does exposure to phthalates in pregnancy impact maternal long-term cardiometabolic health, and does hormonal disruption mediate this relationship? (supported by R01 award from NIEHS).
* Do mixtures of dietary micronutrients impact length of gestation, and does diet quality or exposure to environmental chemicals modify this relationship? (supported by Administrative Supplement from NIH Office of Dietary Supplements).
* How does maternal obesity and adiposity impact biomarkers of reproductive endpoints in newborns, and does this differ in male vs. female babies? (supported by R03 award from NICHD).
* Is perinatal obesity associated with maternal mitochondrial epigenetic disruption and is that related to newborn weight or gestational age at birth? (supported by pilot grant from Michigan Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes cohort (ECHO))

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:17:41 -0400 2022-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-04T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Oct 4 Interplay of Maternal Diet with Environmental Exposures in Pregnancy (Rita Strakovsky)
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.
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 5, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99751 99751-21798643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Accurately predicting the onset of disease is a major challenge in clinical medicine because the genesis of diseases is generally a complex and dynamic process. Wearable sensor technologies provide an unprecedented opportunity to collect physiological data at orders of magnitude higher high time-resolution than conventional clinical practice. This provides unprecedented opportunities for investigating the dynamics of disease processes and may usher in a new era of real-time, personalized medicine. We have proposed the potential of real-time, continuously measured physiological data as a non-invasive, “digital biomarker” approach for detecting the earliest stages in transition to a disease state. In this talk, I will describe an example of our interdisciplinary team’s work on this topic that uses the early detection and possible prediction of febrile (i.e., fever-associated) adverse events in cancer events as an important application.

Clinical Interests
Prostate Cancer, General Oncology, Biomarkers in Oncology
Research Interests
• Biology of circulating, extracellular nucleic acids and translational applications
• Developing next generation approaches for early detection and monitoring of cancer
• Bioinformatics and computational biology, high-throughput sequencing
• New technologies to enable cancer detection and monitoring

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:21:48 -0400 2022-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Muneesh Tewari, MD, PhD
Deciphering mechanisms of organismal phosphate regulation (October 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98813 98813-21797217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Doctor of Philosophy in Biology, September 2007-June 2014
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Honors Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology, September 2002-June 2006
POSITIONS AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2021-Present Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Dentistry
2022-Present Faculty Member, Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Michigan
2019-2021 Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
2017-2019 Research Fellow, Endocrine Unit, Lab of Dr. Michael Mannstadt, MGH, Boston, MA
2015-2017 Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Lab of Dr. Erin O’Shea,

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2007-2014 Graduate Research Fellow, Department of Biology, Lab of Dr. Laurie Boyer, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2006 Research Assistant, Department of Orthobiology, Lab of Dr. Mary Murphy,

National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

2005-2006 Undergraduate Research Fellow, Department of Genome Sciences, Lab of Dr. Leo Pallanck,

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2003-2005 Undergraduate Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Lab of Dr. Brian Kennedy,

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS
2021 University of Michigan Biological Sciences Scholar, Ann Arbor, MI
2019 Most Outstanding Poster, Bisphosphonates 50th Anniversary Meeting
2018 Endocrine Fellows Foundation Forum Travel Grant, Fellows Forum on Metabolic Bone Disease
2018 AIMM-ASBMR John Haddad Young Investigator Fellow
2017 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Young Investigator Travel Grant Award,
2019 MIT Vertex Scholar, Cambridge, MA
2007 MIT Presidential Scholar
2006 University of Washington Herschel and Caryl Roman Undergraduate Science Scholar
2006 University of Washington Mary Gates Research Scholar
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Current
NIH/NIAMS K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award,
K99 period: August 2019-Sept 2021, R00 period: Feb 2022-Jan 2025
Title: Deciphering mechanisms of nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates, R00 funding: $249,000/year for 3 years

Previous
2018-2019 NIH T32 Training Grant Trainee, 2018-2019, Endocrinology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
2017 American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2017
PUBLICATIONS
Bondeson, D.P., Paolella, B.R., Asfaw, A., Rothberg, M., Skipper, T., Mesa, G., Gonzalez, A., Surface, L.E., Ito, K.,
Kazachkova, M., Colgan, W.N., Warren, A., Dempster, J., Krill-Burger, J., Ericsson, M., Tang, A., Fung, I., Chambers,
E.S., Abdusamad, M., Dumont, N., Doench, J.G., Piccioni, F., Root, D.R., Boehm, J., Hahn, W.C, Mannstadt, M.,
McFarland, J.M., Vazquez, F., Golub, T.R., (2022) Phosphate dysregulation via the XPR1:KIDINS220 protein
complex is a therapeutic vulnerability in ovarian cancer., Nature Cancer, 6:681-695

Surface,L.E., Burrow, D.T., Li, J., Park, J., Kumar, S., Lyu, C., Song, N., Yu, Z., Rajagopal, A., Bae, Y., Lee, B.H.,
Mumm, S., Gu, C., Baker, J.C., Mohseni, M., Sum, M., Huskey, M., Duan, S., Bijanki, V.N., Civitelli, R., Gardner,
M.J., McAndrew, C.M., Ricci, W.M., Gurnett, C.A., Diemer, K., Wan, F., Costantino, C.L., Shannon, K.M., Raje, N.,
Dodson, T.B., Haber, D.A., Carette, J.E., Varadarajan, M., Brummelkamp, T.R., Birsoy, K., Sabatini, D.M., Haller, G.,
Peterson, T.R., (2020) ATRAID regulates the action of nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates on bone. Science
Translational Medicine, 12:544, eaav9166
Yu, Z., Surface, L.E., Park, C.Y., Horlbeck, M.A., Wyant, G.A., Abu-Remaileh, M., Peterson, T.R., Sabatini, D.M.,
Weissman, J.S., O’Shea, E.K., (2018) Identification of a transporter complex responsible for the cytosolic entry of
nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates. Elife 7:e36620
Surface, L.E.*, Fields, P.F*, Subramanian, V., Behmer, R., Udeshi, N., Peach, S.E., Carr, S.A., Jaffe, J.D., Boyer, L.A.
(2016) H2A.Z.1 monoubiquitylation antagonizes BRD2 to maintain poised chromatin in ESCs. Cell Reports, 14, 1142-
1155. *equal contribution
Subramanian, V., Mazumder, A., Surface, L.E., Butty, V.L., Fields, P.A., Alwan, A., Torrey, L., Thai, K.K., Levine,
S.S., Bathe, M., Boyer, L.A. (2013) H2A.Z acidic patch couples chromatin dynamics to regulation of gene expression
programs during ESC differentiation. PLoS Genetics, 9, e1003725
Klattenhoff, C*., Sheuermann, J.C.*, Surface, L.E., Bradley, R.K., Fields, P., Steinhauser, M.L., Ding, H., Butty, V.L.,

Torrey, L., Haas S., Abo, R., Tabebordbar, M., Lee, R.T., Burge, C.B., Boyer, L.A. (2013) Braveheart, a long non-
coding RNA required for cardiovascular lineage commitment. Cell 152, 1-14. *equal contribution

Surface, L.E.*, Thornton, S.R.*, Boyer, L.A. (2010) Polycomb group proteins set the stage for early lineage
commitment. Cell Stem Cell 7, 288-298. *equal contribution
Lockshon, D., Surface L.E., Kerr, E.O., Kaeberlein, M., Kennedy, B.K. (2007). The sensitivity of yeast mutants to
oleic acid implicates the peroxisome and other processes in membrane function. Genetics 175, 77-91.
SERVICE & OUTREACH EXPERIENCE
Member, American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, Early Stage Investigator Committee, 2022-Present
Member, Oral Health Sciences PhD Program Committee University of Michigan, 2022-Present
Abstract Reviewer, American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, Annual Meeting, 2020-Present
Workshop Committee Member, Center for Skeletal Research, 2019-2021
-Plan instructional workshops for the Boston-area skeletal research community.
Grant Reviewer, Seeding Labs (Non-profit science development organization), Boston, MA, 2016-Present
-Review grant applications for instrument access grants provided to laboratories in developing countries
-Contributed to data analysis of existing grants
Mentor, Science Club for Girls, Roxbury, MA, 2015-2019
-Led middle school girls from diverse backgrounds in weekly science clubs on Saturdays to engage them with
science and technology
Postdoc Liason Committee, Harvard Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2015-2017
-Served on a committee that advocates for issues relevant for postdocs and beyond. Advocated for the
department to consider a preprint server policy, and bringing in a more diverse set of scientists for talks.
Science Fair Judge, Quincy High School, Quincy, MA, 2010-2021
-Judged the science fair of a diverse high school near Boston, and spoke with attendees about my own career
path through science.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:20:30 -0400 2022-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Lauren Surface, PhD
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (October 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
Van Vlack Lectureship: "Materials Design and Discovery" (October 6, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99840 99840-21798785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 4:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Materials Science and Engineering

Materials Science & Engineering is hosting its 2022 Van Vlack Lectureship with speaker Susan Sinnottt, a materials computational expert. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Abstract:
A driving force for research is the discovery and design of new materials to improve existing technologies or enable new applications. Material modeling methods are now widely applied in pursuit of this objective. This presentation will review the evolution of some common material modeling methods and their integration with cutting-edge experimental techniques. Illustrative applications will be discussed within the context of layered or two-dimensional materials and porous aromatic framework materials. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the future outlook of materials modeling within the context of material design and discovery.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:34:19 -0400 2022-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Materials Science and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Prof. Susan Sinnott, 2022 Van Vlack Lecturer
[CANCELED] Flash Talk (October 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97213 97213-21794144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join us as we speak with Kelsey Museum Curator Janet Richards and Conservator, Suzanne Davis from the field in Abydos, an ancient Egyptian royal cemetery site.

Kelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by Kelsey curators, staff members, researchers, and graduate students talking about their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Flash Talks are free and open to all visitors. They take place at noon on the first Friday of every month.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:23:13 -0400 2022-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Abydos Excavation Site
In Deep Water: The Role of Municipal Debt in Environmental Crises and Racial Disparities (October 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97569 97569-21794761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Friday, October 7 at noon
School of Social Work, ECC 1840

Dr. Louise Seamster is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies at the University of Iowa, and a Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. She studies race and economic inequality, particularly in cities, and writes about racial politics and urban development, emergency financial management, debt, and the myth of racial progress. One line of her research examines racial disparities in debt and debt markets, including “predatory inclusion” in student debt, and the different meaning of debt for black and white families. She has published in Contexts, Sociological Theory, Du Bois Review, Social Currents, Environment, and Planning A: Society and Space, and Ethnic and Racial Studies.

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 11:19:29 -0400 2022-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Linguistics Colloquium (October 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96064 96064-21797563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Ashwini Deo is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin. She will present, "Coordinated on the context: Discourse salience, exclusivity, mirativity, precisification, and intensification in Marathi"

ABSTRACT
Several Indo-Aryan languages, including Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, and Marathi contain a discourse clitic whose uses overlap with those of English particles like exclusives only/just, intensifiers really/totally, precisifiers right/exactly/absolutely, anaphoric indeed/that very, and scalar additive even without corresponding perfectly to any of them. In this talk, I offer an analysis of the varied and seemingly disparate uses of this particle, focusing on the Marathi variant -ts. I claim that =ts conventionally signals that interlocutors are in mutual agreement that the proposition denoted by the prejacent is uniquely salient among alternatives in the current question. That is, =ts conveys that the proposition expressed by the prejacent offers a schelling point (or focal point) for the interlocutors to coordinate on. Most effects associated with =ts are shown to arise as a consequence of pragmatic reasoning about the position of the prejacent with respect to the contextually given ordering on the current question. In addition to offering a unified analysis for Marathi =ts and its functional cognates in Indo-Aryan, this new perspective can open the door to a better understanding of why exclusivity, mirativity, precisification, and intensification might cluster together in languages. In closing, I consider the implications of =ts’s meaning for a crosslinguistic picture of the lexicalization of some discourse-managing functions.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Sep 2022 14:40:19 -0400 2022-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Ashwini Deo
Charles Correa International Lecture: Christian Benimana, "The architecture of Health." (October 11, 2022 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99180 99180-21797670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 11:30am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The architecture of Health.

Design of places, products, and systems, make visible the invisibility of contagions, and of relationships, that affect our, individual, community, and planetary health. Good architecture practice must/need to activate the change necessary for architecture and design processes to extend beyond aesthetics and include consideration of the invisible; values, philosophies, histories, politics, labor, legislation, energy, desire, and agency, to respond to climate change and other structures of injustice.

Architecture and Health are inseparable, from the direct design of hospitals and places for healing to the strategic design of infrastructures and city planning, architecture affects the physical and mental health of individuals and communities [2]. There is a disconnection from expectation to delivery because the design of healthy environments is often obstructed by deep-rooted bias and structural problems embedded in the practices and methods of architecture that continue to be propagated in the architectural curriculum.

How can architecture practice support the rethinking of the conditioning of health in design?
What is the role of architectural research and education in challenging how society and practice understand the environment, planetary ecology, community, and individual health?


Christian Benimana joined MASS Design Group as a Global Health Corps Design Fellow in 2010. Today, Christian works as one of the firm's Senior Principals and Managing Directors and is Director of the African Design Centre, a field-based apprenticeship that is set to empower leaders who will design a more equitable, just, and sustainable world. At MASS, he serves as an operational and administrative leader, while also spearheading design/build projects, large and small, and development initiatives. Christian’s significant portfolio includes the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture, the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and African Leadership University in Rwanda as well as the Regional Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering and e-Health and Nyarugenge District Hospital.

He has extensive knowledge of the architectural industry in Rwanda, and East Africa at large and served as the Secretary-General of the East Africa Institute of Architects. Christian was recognized as one of the 2017 Quartz Africa Innovators and has been named among 10 architects and designers that are championing Afrofuturism. He has authored articles and book chapters including Re-Thinking the Future of African Cities in The African Perspective Magazine and Creating Design Leaders: The African Design Centre in Public Interest Design Education Guidebook. Before joining MASS, he worked with LongiLat Architecture and Research in Shanghai assisting with the Porsche Center in Shanghai and the Netherlands Pavilion at the 2010 International Expo. Christian holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) of Tongji University in Shanghai, China, and his goal is to develop the next generation of African designers with socially-focused design principles.

The Charles Correa International Lecture Fund was established in 2016 in honor and memory of renowned Indian architect and activist Charles Correa (B.Arch.’53). The fund endows an annual lecture at Taubman College by an international practitioner engaged with global architecture to promote the expansion of cultural understanding through design.

This lecture will be presented in person at the Art & Architecture Building and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_slANdM0AQF6jL0c56oTk5g

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:49:07 -0400 2022-10-11T11:30:00-04:00 2022-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion 2022 Charles Correa International Lecture
Charles Correa International Lecture: Christian Benimana, "The architecture of Health." (October 11, 2022 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99180 99180-21798766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The architecture of Health.

Design of places, products, and systems, make visible the invisibility of contagions, and of relationships, that affect our, individual, community, and planetary health. Good architecture practice must/need to activate the change necessary for architecture and design processes to extend beyond aesthetics and include consideration of the invisible; values, philosophies, histories, politics, labor, legislation, energy, desire, and agency, to respond to climate change and other structures of injustice.

Architecture and Health are inseparable, from the direct design of hospitals and places for healing to the strategic design of infrastructures and city planning, architecture affects the physical and mental health of individuals and communities [2]. There is a disconnection from expectation to delivery because the design of healthy environments is often obstructed by deep-rooted bias and structural problems embedded in the practices and methods of architecture that continue to be propagated in the architectural curriculum.

How can architecture practice support the rethinking of the conditioning of health in design?
What is the role of architectural research and education in challenging how society and practice understand the environment, planetary ecology, community, and individual health?


Christian Benimana joined MASS Design Group as a Global Health Corps Design Fellow in 2010. Today, Christian works as one of the firm's Senior Principals and Managing Directors and is Director of the African Design Centre, a field-based apprenticeship that is set to empower leaders who will design a more equitable, just, and sustainable world. At MASS, he serves as an operational and administrative leader, while also spearheading design/build projects, large and small, and development initiatives. Christian’s significant portfolio includes the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture, the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and African Leadership University in Rwanda as well as the Regional Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering and e-Health and Nyarugenge District Hospital.

He has extensive knowledge of the architectural industry in Rwanda, and East Africa at large and served as the Secretary-General of the East Africa Institute of Architects. Christian was recognized as one of the 2017 Quartz Africa Innovators and has been named among 10 architects and designers that are championing Afrofuturism. He has authored articles and book chapters including Re-Thinking the Future of African Cities in The African Perspective Magazine and Creating Design Leaders: The African Design Centre in Public Interest Design Education Guidebook. Before joining MASS, he worked with LongiLat Architecture and Research in Shanghai assisting with the Porsche Center in Shanghai and the Netherlands Pavilion at the 2010 International Expo. Christian holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) of Tongji University in Shanghai, China, and his goal is to develop the next generation of African designers with socially-focused design principles.

The Charles Correa International Lecture Fund was established in 2016 in honor and memory of renowned Indian architect and activist Charles Correa (B.Arch.’53). The fund endows an annual lecture at Taubman College by an international practitioner engaged with global architecture to promote the expansion of cultural understanding through design.

This lecture will be presented in person at the Art & Architecture Building and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_slANdM0AQF6jL0c56oTk5g

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:49:07 -0400 2022-10-11T11:30:00-04:00 2022-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion 2022 Charles Correa International Lecture
Water and Public Health: Inequity and Affordability (October 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99252 99252-21797776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

With Monica-Lewis Patrick (We the People of Detroit), Mary Grant (Food & Water Watch) and Dr. Marcela González Rivas (University of Pittsburgh). Amy Schulz (M-LEEaD CEC Core Leader, UM SPH) will moderate.

Zoom webinar registration required
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1kLh0_GGQmWFdM3I0DhG6Q&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1664288912093677&usg=AOvVaw0B81Oj7JvacmxDJP94mbxI

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:48:30 -0400 2022-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Residents & Researchers Tuesday Talks
EMERSE Meeting Series (October 11, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98192 98192-21795695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Speaker:
Mark Beno, MSM
Executive Director, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology,
School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

The Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE) was installed at University Hospitals of Cleveland (UH) in 2021 by the Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology (CICB), a collaboration between Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and UH.  At present, EMERSE contains indexed medical notes from 2018 through present for over 1.7 million UH patients.  This presentation will discuss the strategies we employed to successfully install EMERSE, the lessons-learned in rolling out EMERSE to research and operational teams, some research success stories since EMERSE adoption, and the additional tools we have developed as add-ons to the EMERSE application that we use internally for tracking EMERSE metrics and plan to share with the broader EMERSE community.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Sep 2022 23:35:08 -0400 2022-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion EMERSE logo
CPOD Seminar Talk: Alex Hughes, PhD (UPenn)"Interpreting geometric rules of early kidney formation for synthetic morphogenesis" (October 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98601 98601-21796958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 4:00 pm
Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design presents:

Alex Hughes, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania

Seminar entitled: "Interpreting geometric rules of early kidney formation for synthetic morphogenesis"

In-Person: BSRB ABC Seminar Rooms
Zoom Meeting Option ID: 932 944 30678

Faculty Host: Claudia Loebel, MD PhD, Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:04:22 -0400 2022-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Hughes
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
Department Colloquium | Graduate Student Showcase (October 12, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99908 99908-21798868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Nora Sherman (U-M Physics)

A Multi-Messenger Search for H0 Using Optical Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Events

Measurements of the Hubble Constant (H0) – a parameter that helps illustrate the expanding behavior of the universe – differ vastly, particularly between those using early- versus late-universe data. To help relieve this tension, the Dark Energy Survey Gravitational Wave group (DESGW) seeks to perform a standard siren measurement of H0 by identifying electromagnetic counterparts to compact binary mergers. Together with the GW data from detections by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Collaboration (LVK), this information allows us to make an H0 measurement independent of traditional methods. In this talk, I will detail DESGW’s pursuit of this measurement, including our tools for observation and analysis, recent key results, ongoing studies critical to the project, and our preparation for the next LVK observing run.

Torben Purz (U-M Physics)

Imaging of Dynamic Exciton Interactions and Coupling in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are regarded as a possible material platform for quantum information science, photovoltaics, and related device applications. However, many experimental results on TMDs are only realized at specific spots on the sample, presenting a challenge to the scalability of these applications. Here, we demonstrate multi-dimensional coherent imaging spectroscopy on TMD monolayer and heterostructure samples. This technique enables us to shed light on the spatial dynamics of various material parameters—including dephasing, inhomogeneity, and strain, as well as coherent exciton coupling and charge transfer. We demonstrate that dephasing and inhomogeneity are very sensitive to residual strain in state-of-the-art TMD monolayer samples. At the same time, the coherent coupling strength and charge transfer remain robust across large areas of the heterostructure sample. Our findings strengthen the case for heterostructure TMDs as a next-generation material platform for device applications and introduce a powerful tool in multi-dimensional coherent imaging spectroscopy for material characterization.

Aidan Herderschee (U-M Physics)

The Space of Supersymmetric Theories

I will review how causality non-trivially bounds the space of quantum field theories, focusing in particular on maximally supersymmetric theories in four dimensions. I will then discuss some geometric properties of this space and how to efficiently calculate bounds using linear programming. Finally, I will use some results from string theory to motivate novel conjectures.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:23:50 -0400 2022-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar West Hall
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
MIPSE Seminar | Extreme Plasma Astrophysics (October 12, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97910 97910-21795309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Exotic relativistic astrophysical objects like neutron stars and black holes are surrounded by plasmas with extreme physical conditions that are very different from those in more familiar, traditional heliospheric and laboratory plasma environments. The rich, non-traditional physics of these extreme astrophysical plasmas features special and general relativity, pair-plasma composition, strong interaction of the plasma with high-energy photons, and, in the most extreme cases, QED processes like pair production. Understanding how these “exotic” effects modify fundamental collective plasma processes — waves, instabilities, magnetic reconnection, shocks, turbulence — is the scope of Extreme Plasma Astrophysics. I will review the recent impressive progress in exploring this exciting new frontier of modern physics, motivated by spectacular astrophysical discoveries and enabled by recent computational advances like the development of novel kinetic plasma codes incorporating radiation and pair-creation effects, in combination with vigorous, theoretical efforts. Examples will include new breakthroughs in our understanding of radiative magnetic reconnection and turbulence, with applications to accreting black holes and neutron star magnetospheres. I will also outline the future directions of this burgeoning field, including prospects for laboratory studies.

About the Speaker:
Dmitri Uzdensky is a Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He received his undergraduate degree in 1993 at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and his PhD in 1998 at Princeton University’s Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics. After postdoctoral appointments at the University of Chicago (1998-2001) and at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara (2001-2004), he returned to Princeton as an Associate Research Scholar (2004-2009) and then joined the Physics faculty at the University of Colorado in 2009. Prof. Uzdensky’s research interests lie mostly in theoretical plasma astrophysics, with a focus on collective plasma processes, such as magnetic reconnection, in extreme relativistic plasmas around black holes and neutron stars.

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for information about in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2223.php.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:51:09 -0400 2022-10-12T15:30:00-04:00 2022-10-12T16:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Dmitri Uzdensky
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 12, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99377 99377-21797973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Our current understanding of how genes are regulated is akin to solving a jigsaw puzzle. Many factors governing gene expression have been identified, and researchers have collected a wide variety of related datasets. However, how these "parts" are pieced together to function as a whole remains unclear. In this talk, I will discuss our research to develop and apply state-of-the-art machine learning methods to genomics datasets to attempt to put together the pieces from the data. I will cover our work using deep learning architecture that captures the data's underlying structure to integrate datasets and connect them to gene expression via the prediction task. We also interpret the prediction results and tie them back to contributing factors to develop potential hypotheses related to gene regulation. I will then move from bulk data to the single-cell data domain and discuss methods to perform unsupervised integration of different types of single-cell experiments. This talk aims to highlight our research direction's potential to reveal the important gene regulatory mechanisms in characterizing cell types and diseases from the collected data.

Bio:

Ritambhara Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department and a faculty member of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology at Brown University. Her research lab works at the intersection of machine learning and biology. Prior to joining Brown, Singh was a post-doctoral researcher in the Noble Lab at the University of Washington. She completed her Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of Virginia with Dr. Yanjun Qi as her advisor. Her research has involved developing machine learning algorithms for the analysis of biological data as well as applying deep learning models to novel biological and biomedical applications. She recently received the NHGRI Genomic Innovator Award for developing deep learning methods to integrate and model genomics datasets. URL: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/rsingh47

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Sep 2022 09:32:07 -0400 2022-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Ritambhara Singh, Asst. Professor (Brown University)
Glucose metabolism in bone biology and diabetic osteopenia (October 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98788 98788-21797183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

I have been studying skeletal development and homeostasis for over 25 years. I am interested in understanding the molecular and metabolic regulation of skeletal cell types both in the embryo and in adults under normal or pathological conditions. The work has led to new insights into the metabolic features of chondrocytes, osteoblasts and osteoclasts. Studies of Hh, Wnt, Bmp and Notch signaling have uncovered metabolic reprogramming as a common link for developmental signals to regulate the fate and activity of skeletal cells. In a separate line of work, we have sought to elucidate the molecular identify and regulation of mesenchymal stem and progenitor cells in bone. This pursuit has led to the discovery of Gli1+ mesenchymal progenitors as the main source for osteoblasts in growing bones (Shi et al., 2017, Nat Commun., PMC
5725597). More recently, we have demonstrated a critical role for the Gli1+ progenitors in mediating the bone
anabolic role of teriparatide, the main bone anabolic therapy for osteoporosis (Shi et al, 2021, Cell Rep, in
press). The current proposal extends our work on mesenchymal progenitors and builds on the discovery of a
potential adipo-osteoprogenitor in the adult bone marrow. Completion of the proposed study is expected to
uncover the role of the newly discovered progenitors in bone homeostasis, skeletal aging and diabetic
osteopenia.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:48:26 -0400 2022-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Fanxin Long, PhD William W. Smith Endowed Chair in Pediatric Genomic Research The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Professor of Orthopedic Surgery University of Pennsylvania
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (October 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
IISS Lecture Series. *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean* (October 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100129 100129-21799245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Aliyah Khan's book on Islam in the Caribbean, *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean* (Rutgers University Press 2020), is the first scholarly monograph focusing on the literature and culture of enslaved African Muslims and indentured South Asian Indian Muslims in the Americas. Professor Khan’s work appears in publications including *GLQ*, the *Caribbean Review of Gender Studies,* *Caribbean Quarterly,* the *Journal of West Indian Literature*, *Pree: Caribbean Writing,* and *Guernica*. Her interviews on the Caribbean and U.S. Islam, and on Muslim films, art, literature, and music have appeared on and in *National Public Radio,* the *Washington Post*, *Religion News*, American Muslim Today, The Polis Project, the Black Agenda Report, *Sapelo Square*, and Chicago’s *Radio Islam*, among other venues.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:01:30 -0400 2022-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T17:15:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion IISS Lecture Series. *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean*
Pursuing Justice in the Prosecutor’s Office: Racial and Economic Equity in a Stratified Community (October 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97572 97572-21794764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Friday, October 14 at noon
School of Social Work, ECC 1840

Eli Savit serves as the elected Prosecuting Attorney for Washtenaw County. His 4-year term began on January 1st, 2021. He formerly served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was a civil-rights and public-interest attorney, and started his career as a public-school teacher. Most recently, Eli served as the City of Detroit’s senior legal counsel, where he led criminal-justice reform work for Michigan’s largest city. Eli continues to teach at the University of Michigan as a Lecturer with the Law School.

Victoria Burton-Harris serves as the Chief Assistant Prosecutor for Washtenaw County. She was appointed to this position January 1st, 2021 by Prosecutor Eli Savit. In 2014, she opened a private firm in the heart of downtown Detroit specializing in family law and criminal defense at the state and federal trial court level. Her passion for justice and equality has led to her involvement with several grassroots organizations as a legal adviser. She also serves on various boards and committees. Burton-Harris currently sits on the Coalition for Police Transparency & Accountability, National Conference of Black Lawyers, the Board of Directors for the National Lawyers Guild Michigan chapter and the Board of Directors for Covenant House Michigan, a youth homeless shelter where she developed a mentoring program for residents. Burton-Harris teaches at the University of Michigan as a Lecturer with the Law School.

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.

Sponsored by Michigan Law and the Empirical Legal Studies Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:57:29 -0400 2022-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Health Equity Leadership Series (October 19, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100137 100137-21799257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

Join us as we welcome Dr. Patricia D'Antonio and Dr. Dominique Tobbell for the Health Equity Leadership Series, hosted by the Office of Health Equity and Inclusion at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.

The goal of the Health Equity Leadership Series is to bring together members of the UM community to engage in critical thinking, learning, and dialogue about topics in health equity. Each month we welcome scholars and organizational leaders who are looking seriously at questions around health equity within Nursing and healthcare to share their expertise. Following the speaker's presentation, audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions for our speakers.

On October 19th, Drs. D'Antonio and Tobbell will be discussing their recent report "Racism in Nursing," co-authored on behalf of the American Nurses Association and National Commission to Address Nursing.

At the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. D'Antonio is the Carol E. Ware Professor in Mental Health Nursing, Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of History in Nursing, and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

At the University of Virginia, Dr. Tobbell is Professor and Director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry and Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing.

All UM students, faculty, staff, and alumni are welcome. Please register (see right) to access the Zoom link and passcode.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:56:13 -0400 2022-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Lecture / Discussion UMSN Health Equity Leadership Series Logo
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/
2022 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Finding Cosmic Inflation (October 19, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96471 96471-21792563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

This event is hybrid and, therefore, live-streamed. The lecture will be available at 4:00 pm on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=galZmVFEcm0.

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) gives a photographic image of the Universe when it was still an “infant,” and its detailed measurements have given us a wealth of information, such as the composition and history of the Universe. The CMB research told us a remarkable story: the structure we see in our Universe, such as galaxies, stars, planets, and eventually ourselves, originated from tiny quantum fluctuations in the period of early Universe called “cosmic inflation.” But is this picture true? In this lecture, I will review the physics of CMB and key results from recent experiments and discuss future prospects for the quest to find out about our origins.

Learn more about Professor Komatsu and the Ta-You Wu event here: https://lsa.umich.edu/physics/news-events/special-lectures/ta-you-wu-lecture.html

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Oct 2022 09:39:43 -0400 2022-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Eiichiro Komatsu
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 19, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99817 99817-21798751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) successfully identified more than a hundred genomic regions that contribute to schizophrenia risk. However, extracting biological mechanisms from GWAS is a challenge, because the majority of common risk variants reside in noncoding regions of the genome. In this talk, I will outline how high-resolution 3D maps of chromatin contacts in the human brain permit large-scale annotation of non-coding variants. In particular, I will introduce a novel platform that my lab has developed, Hi-C-coupled MAGMA (H-MAGMA), that annotates GWAS by incorporating chromatin interaction profiles from human brain tissue. While H-MAGMA identified neurobiologically relevant target genes for psychiatric disorders, application of H-MAGMA to schizophrenia GWAS identified thousands of genes to be associated with schizophrenia, necessitating the need for refining variants. To this end, we performed a massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) on schizophrenia risk variants, from which we detected 440 variants with allelic regulatory activity. Characterization of these functional regulatory variants provided previously unknown regulatory principles of schizophrenia.

Short bio:
Hyejung Won is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Neuroscience Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her B.S. and Ph.D. in Biology from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where she conducted research revealing the underlying mechanism of neurodevelopmental conditions using genetically modified mice under the supervision of Dr. Eunjoon Kim. She then joined Dr. Dan Geschwind’s group at UCLA, where she established Hi-C, a genome-wide chromosome conformation capture technology, and generated chromatin interaction profiles from the developing and adult human brain. Her lab leverages the genomics approach to bridge the gap between genetic risk factors and neurobiological mechanisms by mapping genetic variants of unknown function to the genes that they regulate, and identifying how dysfunctional gene regulation contributes to disease pathogenesis. Hyejung is the recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, HHMI Gilliam Fellowship, NIH Pathway to Independence Award, and a NARSAD Young Investigator Award. She is also an active participant of the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) and PsychENCODE consortia.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:40:56 -0400 2022-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Hyejung Won, PhD
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD AND SUPREME LITERACY (October 19, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99874 99874-21798818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Elijah Muhammad and Supreme Literacy situates the Nation of Islam
leader within academic discourse by exploring his teachings on "Knowledge of Self" as a definition of literacy in its broadest applications.

Dr. Muhammad is a teacher, lecturer and columnist whose research interests include urban and cultural literacies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:36:55 -0400 2022-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
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
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (October 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
Rock, Paper, Scissors: The oral microbiome at the intersection of genotypic, anthropogenic and systemic factors (October 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99963 99963-21798941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

As a dual-trained periodontist and microbial ecologist, I use my clinical skills and training in ‘-omics’ research to investigate the myriad ways in which the human microbiome can be harnessed to promote health. I firmly believe that oral health and systemic diseases are intricately connected, and that global health can only be achieved when physicians and dentists collaborate to identify at-risk individuals and deliver integrated care.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Oct 2022 10:59:44 -0400 2022-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Purnima Kumar, DDS, PhD
Endowed Professorship Recognition (October 20, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99094 99094-21797565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

On Thursday, October 20 at 3:00 p.m., the College of Engineering will honor Professor Vineet R. Kamat for his appointment to an endowed professorship. Please join Professor Kamat and Dean Alec D. Gallimore, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, for the lecture and ceremony. Professor Kamat will be installed as the John L. Tishman Family Professor of Construction Management and Sustainability and will present a lecture titled “The Role of Construction Automation and Robotics in Sustainable Development." A reception will follow.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:09:22 -0400 2022-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Civil and Environmental Engineering Presentation Prof. Vineet Kamat
The Clements Bookworm: Fundraising has a history you can tell through Objects with Amanda Moniz (October 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98038 98038-21795507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We know the names of major givers in American history. We recognize the power of the everyday philanthropists who have shaped and reshaped the nation. But we have largely overlooked the stories of people who have done the hard work of raising money for charitable causes from the colonial era to today. Yet fundraising has a history and Amanda Moniz is working to tell it as she builds the Smithsonian’s new philanthropy collection.

Amanda B. Moniz, Ph.D., is the David M. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She curates a long-term exhibit, Giving in America, and is building the Smithsonian's collection of objects telling stories about Americans' historical experiences of giving, fundraising, and working in and using charitable institutions. Her book, From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism, was awarded ARNOVA’S inaugural Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize. She is currently working on a biography of Isabella Graham, an immigrant widow who transformed philanthropy in early national New York, and is grateful to the Clements Library for supporting research in its collections about Graham. Moniz received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan in 2008, and during graduate school, she worked at the Clements as a curatorial assistant in the Manuscript Division.

This episode of the Clements Bookworm is generously sponsored by Kristin Cabral ‘88, Member of the Clements Library Associates Board.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:41:19 -0400 2022-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Amanda Moniz.
Politics, Policy, and Poverty: Medical Debt and Other Financial Reforms (October 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97573 97573-21794766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Friday, October 21 at noon
School of Social Work, ECC 1840

Representative Rashida Tlaib is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Michigan’s 13th congressional district since 2019. The district includes the western half of Detroit, along with several of its western suburbs and much of the Downriver area. A member of the Democratic Party, Tlaib represented the 6th and 12th districts of the Michigan House of Representatives before her election to Congress. After serving, she worked at Sugar Law Center, a Detroit nonprofit that provides free legal representation for workers. In Congress, Tlaib is tackling one of the most significant drivers of poverty in our country – medical debt. With eight million Americans pushed into poverty due to medical expenses in 2018, Tlaib introduced The Consumer Protection for Medical Debt Collections Act (H.R. 2537), which would prohibit the collection of medical debt for two years, as well as debt from “medically necessary” procedures being included on one’s credit report. It passed the House in 2021 as part of a Comprehensive Debt Collection Act.

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 Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:34:41 -0400 2022-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Fall Preview Mini-Symposium - Sydney Gable, Yiruo Xu & Dongyuan Zhou, University of Michigan (October 21, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100400 100400-21799707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

A fifteen minute presentation will be given by each student on research they have been working on.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:53:25 -0400 2022-10-21T15:30:00-04:00 2022-10-21T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
2022 Environmental Statistics Day [Keynote, Panel Discussion & Lightning Talks] (October 24, 2022 9:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99876 99876-21798821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 24, 2022 9:45am
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

On Monday, October 24 please join us (in-person or on Zoom) for the 2022 Environmental Statistics Day. Keynote speaker is Corwin Zigler, PhD (Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Statistics & Data Sciences, Univ of TX, Austin). Dr. Zigler will present **Causal Inference in Air Quality Regulation: an Overview and Topics in Statistical Methodology**. A Panel Discussion follows the keynote with Dr. Zigler and School of Public Health faculty Roderick Little (Biostats), Tim Dvonch (EHS) and Sara Adar (Epid). The event concludes with lunch and Lightning Talks by current Biostats students and postdocs.

Registration required
In-person https://forms.gle/rgRZS1aFGdG4dAog9
Virtual on Zoom https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oEcKXLxBSCSxTgI3_4G4Zg#/registration

Schedule
9:45-10:00 am | Arrival & Refreshments (1680 SPH I)
10:00-10:50 am | Keynote (1680 SPH I + Zoom)
10:50-11:30 am | Panel Discussion (1680 SPH I + Zoom)
11:30-11:40 am | Break
11:40 am-1:00 pm | Lunch & Student/Postdoc Lightning Talks (1680 SPH I + Zoom)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:31:57 -0400 2022-10-24T09:45:00-04:00 2022-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Conference / Symposium Oct 24 Environmental Statistics Day (Keynote - Corwin Zigler, Univ of TX)
IOE 813 Seminar: Laura Ely, Jeremy Segal, Advaidh Venkat, and Mark Van Sumeren (October 24, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100453 100453-21799952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 24, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

An engineering student team at the University of Michigan partnered with Michigan Medicine and the Bellwether League Foundation to improve the hospital’s supply chain during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The team analyzed troves of data using Python and Tableau to create meaningful tools for Michigan Medicine.

This project, in collaboration with Michigan Medicine, aims to analyze and suggest strategic supplier partnerships to the University of Michigan Hospital. Michigan Medicine currently partners with over 975 manufacturers and 425 vendors to purchase and store medical supplies for over 200 different product categories. This vendor performance analysis serves to strengthen the Michigan Medicine supply chain recovery and support a new, resilient approach to reviewing purchase order delays and arrivals. Ultimately, this will optimize standards for performance and existing supply chain contracts to help strengthen future contract negotiations.

Michigan Medicine collaborators provided the CHEPS team with data for all purchase orders from December 2021 to January 2022. With over 100 data fields in the dataset, the first step was to determine which data fields were relevant to our study. Using Python, we then created Sankey diagrams to show product flow from manufacturers to vendors to Michigan Medicine for each category, as well as their associated on-time fill rates. This illustrated the differences between direct and distributed supply chains. Finally, to sustain the value the analysis could provide, a Tableau dashboard was created, highlighting strong and weak supplier performances.

Clear differences emerged between direct vs. distributed supply chain. In direct supply, the items are shipped directly from the manufacturer to Michigan Medicine. In the distributed model, items are sent from the manufacturer to third‐party distributor then to Michigan Medicine. This approach has shown to be beneficial for Michigan Medicine. Additionally, we determined that there are many categories of Michigan Medicine items that are supplied by 12+ manufacturers. Consolidation of suppliers improves on‐time and full delivery performance. Rationalizing and optimizing the supply base also minimizes product variation and delivery delays, ultimately improving patient safety.

Michigan Medicine’s experience, like others during COVID, highlighted the criticality of supplier on‐time performance. At least three additional flaws emerged, with far broader implications. First, sourcing and contracting practices must elevate on‐time performance measures in supplier selection and remediation efforts. Second, providers must redouble their efforts to tighten supply formularies, strengthen strategic supplier partnerships, and rationalize the number of unique SKUs. Lastly, the industry must revisit the bifurcated direct supply vs. distribution model. The stark difference in performance between the direct and distributed channels emphasize the importance of reliable and efficient distribution practices, especially during periods of supply chain volatility.

The seminar series “Providing Better Healthcare through Systems Engineering” is presented by the U‐M Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS): Our mission is to improve the safety and quality of healthcare delivery through a
multi‐disciplinary, systems‐engineering approach.

For the Zoom link and password, and to be added to the weekly e‐mail for the series, please RSVP or contact genehkim@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:18:55 -0400 2022-10-24T16:30:00-04:00 2022-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Laura Ely, Jeremy Segal, Advaidh Venkat, and Mark Van Sumeren
Virtual Surgery and Q/A session with Rush Orthopedics (October 25, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100457 100457-21799960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 8:30am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join us for a live virtual surgery stream (Q&A) with Dr. Verma. This virtual surgery will consist of an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair with sub-acromial decompression.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:48:49 -0400 2022-10-25T08:30:00-04:00 2022-10-25T22:30:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Lecture / Discussion LSA Building
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
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
MIPSE Seminar | Trying to Build Better Mousetraps: From Hollow Cathodes to a Plasma Density “Standard Candle” (October 26, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99156 99156-21797641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
In this talk we discuss work at the Naval Research Laboratory in the Spacecraft Engineering and Plasma Physics Divisions on hollow cathodes and time-resolved plasma diagnostics. We begin with development of the plasma impedance probe, or PIP. Langmuir probes measure plasma properties by sweeping a voltage across a plasma-wetted electrode and recording the collected current. The Langmuir probe is widely used, yet the accuracy of its density measurement often have error estimates of ~10-20%, and often quote only statistical error. When asked how well that statistical cloud matches the truth, the goalposts might be moved to plus or minus a factor of two! While we use NIST-traceable standards for many quantities, there is sadly no standard plasma density “candle”. Meanwhile, in our development of thermionic hollow cathodes we see huge variance in estimates of anomalous electron transport “collision” frequencies due to assumptions we make to infer them from measurable plasma parameters. We will discuss ways to address both problems in the context of development of the PIP, a shift from Langmuir probes towards timing-based mechanisms to query the plasma frequency itself. We extended the PIP from a static low-density (106 cm-3) diagnostic to >100 kHz measurement of plasma densities up to 1010 cm-3, and begun work on tomographic inversion of plasma density within a PIP array. We describe our plans to generate a plasma density “standard candle” for absolute calibration of PIP density measurements, and discuss our first data directly querying the total effective electron collision frequency in a hollow cathode plasma.

About the Speaker:
Dr. McDonald is an Aerospace Engineer in the Spacecraft Engineering Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). He received his PhD from the U. of Michigan in Applied Physics in 2011, and joined NRL in 2012. NRL is home to several hundred MS and PhD scientists and engineers focusing on space science, engineering and plasma physics, and Dr. McDonald leads a research group in the Spacecraft Propulsion section, working closely with NRL’s Plasma Physics Division. His research interests include hollow cathodes (thermionic and RF-based) electron emission physics; propulsion technologies including Hall, gridded ion, ECR and MPD thrusters; plasma diagnostic development with a focus on high-speed measurements; and application of plasma sources to hypersonic environment simulation. In addition to supporting several full time staff working in these areas, Dr. McDonald is committed to mentoring the next generation of researchers by hosting undergraduate and graduate level summer interns and 1-2 postdocs at NRL each year. Please contact him (michael.mcdonald@nrl.navy.mil) if you are interested!

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for information about in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2223.php.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 12:58:16 -0400 2022-10-26T15:30:00-04:00 2022-10-26T16:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Michael McDonald
16th Annual Prechter Lecture featuring former WNBA star Chamique Holdsclaw (October 26, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97590 97590-21794785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Department of Psychiatry

The Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program presents the 16th Annual Prechter Lecture.

This year's Prechter Lecture will feature keynote speaker Chamique Holdsclaw, former WNBA star and mental health advocate. Chamique will give a talk about Mind/Game: The lifelong pursuit of order after a bipolar disorder diagnosis. Chamique will touch on her mental health struggles throughout her life and how she has become committed to help others accept and seek help for their mental health and well being. She will also speak about the stigma around mental health in the black and brown communities and in sport. The talk will be followed by a panel discussion highlighting the Prechter Program's research projects.

*We are pleased to present:
-Keynote speaker Chamique Holdsclaw, former WNBA star
-One-on-one interview with Chamique Holdsclaw and NAMI Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Ken Duckworth
-Panel discussion about research into bipolar disorder, moderated by Melvin McInnis, M.D., director of the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program
-Reception following the panel discussion with light refreshments

This event funded by a generous gift from Donald & Mary Kosch

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:28:23 -0400 2022-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-26T21:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Department of Psychiatry Lecture / Discussion Keynote speaker Chamique Holdsclaw
Forging a Career at the Heart of the Climate Challenge: Perspectives from the Front Lines (October 26, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99803 99803-21798727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Net Impact Undergrad

Join Net Impact Undergrad and our co-sponsors in welcoming Gerry Anderson (MBA/MPP ‘88), former Chairman and CEO of DTE Energy. Anderson will be speaking about his journey from being a driven undergrad engineer to becoming a highly influential leader in sustainability as the CEO of DTE Energy. This will include his early desire to make a difference in the environment, his MPP and MBA experience at Ross, consulting at McKinsey, working with the Obama administration, leading DTE to embrace renewables, and more. Under his leadership, DTE Energy committed to addressing the climate crisis through large-scale investments in renewable energy, retiring coal-fired generation, and driving for net zero emissions. Anderson chaired the Edison Electric Institute, the U.S. energy industry association, and played a significant role in the clean power plan negotiations under the Obama administration. He is deeply passionate about building Michigan’s economy and continues his environmental action in retirement.

This event will include a one-hour talk and Q&A, followed by a networking session where light snacks and refreshments will be provided. The event is free and open to the public. The first 100 attendees will receive a $5 Vertex Coffee Roasters gift card!

Please register here: https://qrco.de/NI-10-26

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Oct 2022 11:24:27 -0400 2022-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 2022-10-26T20:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Net Impact Undergrad Lecture / Discussion Event Promotional Flyer
Immunity at the oral mucosal barrier surface (October 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99907 99907-21798867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

My research has been focused on oral mucosal immunity with an emphasis on aberrant inflammatory conditions of
the oral cavity. Over the past decade I have established an independent research program at the NIH aimed at
understanding the molecular and cellular basis of oral immunity in health and in the common inflammatory disease,
periodontitis. In health, the oral immune system maintains a delicate balance with a rich and diverse community of
oral commensals, performing immune surveillance while preventing inflammation. Understanding mechanisms
involved in susceptibility and pathogenesis of periodontitis is not only critical for understanding the disease itself,
but may provide insights into shared mechanisms involved in inflammatory diseases. In periodontitis, the
microbiome is considered a key disease trigger, but it is also well documented that disease occurs and progresses
more rapidly in susceptible individuals. Our studies are focused on host/microbe interactions preserving health and
mediating inflammatory disease in the oral cavity. Ultimately, we aim to define key pathways involved in
susceptibility and progression of aggressive forms of periodontitis with the goal of identifying therapeutic targets.
Our program implements a bench to bedside approach for the study of periodontal immunity and is particularly
focused on the regulation of Th17 immunity in health and periodontitis. Our studies leverage the diverse strengths
of the NIH intramural environment and interrogate mechanisms involved in human oral immunity through the study
of patients with monogenic immune disorders, supplemented by relevant animal models and novel immunologic
techniques for the study of tissue immunity.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:23:15 -0400 2022-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Livestream / Virtual Niki M. Moutsopoulos, DDS, PhD Chief, Oral Immunity and Infection Unit National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research National Institutes of Health
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (October 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
An Introduction to Responsive Survey Design (October 27, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100180 100180-21799313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This presentation will introduce the essential concepts of responsive and adaptive survey design, which are state-of-the-art survey design techniques for increasing the efficiency of data collection. After introducing the basic concepts of responsive survey design (RSD) and adaptive survey design (ASD), several case studies will be presented, illustrating how the use of these techniques has increased the efficiency (in terms of cost and quality of estimates) for studies employing a variety of data collection modes. Examples will range from major national studies to small local studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:08:08 -0400 2022-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion Webinar: James Wagner, An Introduction to Responsive Survey Design
In Pursuit of Human Endurance Limits (October 27, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100013 100013-21798991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 7:00pm
Location: School of Kinesiology Building
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

The U-M Exercise & Sport Science Initiative (ESSI) invites you to

IN PURSUIT OF HUMAN ENDURANCE LIMITS
with
BRAD WILKINS, PHD
Founder, Nike+ Sport Performance Lab
Lead, Nike Breaking2 Scientific Team

Thursday, October 27
7:00-8:30pm ET
Kinesiology Building, Room 2500
(830 N. University Ave.)
and via Zoom

Dr. Brad Wilkins is a leading expert in exercise and sport physiology. His passion lies in dissecting the physiological limits of human performance, then removing the barriers that constrain our true human potential. Over 25 years of scientific exploration, Wilkins has examined questions related to thermoregulation, cardiovascular control mechanisms, the influence of environment on exercise performance, the impact of interventions on performance outcomes, and the bioenergetic factors constraining endurance performance. This work has led to 40+ published manuscripts and patents.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:53:44 -0400 2022-10-27T19:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T20:30:00-04:00 School of Kinesiology Building School of Kinesiology Lecture / Discussion U-M Exercise & Sport Science Initiative: In Pursuit of Human Endurance Limits
Biodiversity, Coffee Production, and Dignified Livelihoods Under a Globalized Economy (October 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97576 97576-21794771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Friday, October 28 at noon
School of Social Work, ECC 1840

Dr. Ivette Perfecto is the James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice at the School for Environment And Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on biodiversity and arthropod-mediated ecosystem services in rural and urban agriculture. Her lab conducts agroecological research in Latin America and North America, focusing on the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity and the relationship between biodiversity, ecosystem function, and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. She is the co-author of four books: Breakfast of Biodiversity, Nature’s Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation and Food Sovereignty, Coffee Agroecology, and Ecological Complexity and Agroecology. In 2022 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

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 11:20:56 -0400 2022-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Smith Lecture - Hannah Blatchford, Eastern Michigan University (October 28, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99106 99106-21797581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Western Gneiss Region (WGR) of Norway is one of Earth’s largest ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic terranes. Within the WGR, thermobarometric studies delineate peak pressures and temperature resulting from Caledonian continental subduction, structural studies highlight multistage deformation associated with exhumation, and geo/thermochronology investigations show that exhumation-related deformation is associated with Caledonian titanite growth or recrystallization of inherited grains. However, an unresolved question concerns the relationship between deformation, pressure-temperature conditions, and the variable Caledonian U-Pb titanite dates recovered from areas of the WGR. Can the range of Caledonian U-Pb titanite dates be related to different steps along the exhumation path? The northern coast of Otrøya in the deepest-exposed (Nordøyane) UHP domain of the WGR has abundant outcrop evidence for syn-exhumation deformation in variably-retrogressed and -deformed eclogites and gneisses. Tetravalent cation thermobarometry, outcrop-scale mapping, and U-Pb geo/thermochronology indicate fabric formation in retrogressed eclogite at ~825°C and ~2.0 GPa at ~402 Ma, followed by ~392 Ma titanite growth associated with partial melting of eclogite at ~740 °C and ~1.3 GPa. Subsequently, ~382–375 Ma dates from zircon, monazite, and titanite correspond to recrystallization due to constrictional strain at ~ 740°C and ~1.0 GPa. Younger, more localized deformation followed at temperatures <600°C. The results explain the variable Caledonian U-Pb titanite dates reported in the WGR and highlight the power of trace elements to identify geologically significant titanite (re)crystallization events in apparently nondispersed U-Pb datasets. The results support a two-stage exhumation history for the WGR.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:08:01 -0400 2022-10-28T15:30:00-04:00 2022-10-28T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Saturday Morning Physics | From Nobel Prize Research to the Breakthrough Technologies Transforming our Lives (October 29, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99186 99186-21797679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 29, 2022 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

New developments in technology have revolutionized the way we live, from smartphones and devices to the internet, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, clean energy, big data, and much more. These inventions have one thing in common: they originate from key discoveries in physics made decades earlier in research driven by curiosity. In this lecture, I will invite you to share your ranking of the most important technological developments of the new millennium, and I will explain which Nobel prize in physics made each of these innovations possible, how we continue to explore these physics questions today, and how current research may transform our lives in the future. To conclude, I will share my pick of the most important recent technology breakthrough and track its origin to the historical debate about the foundation of quantum physics: Einstein vs. the Copenhagen interpretation of whether or not God plays dice.

Lecture and Q&A, live-streamed on: TBA

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:46:15 -0400 2022-10-29T10:30:00-04:00 2022-10-29T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Illustration of novel quantum states with exotic topological structures
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series, Fall 2022 (October 31, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99824 99824-21798760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 31, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Classical Studies

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The Jerome Lectures are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. Scheduled for Fall 2022, in the forty-ninth year of the lecture series, Amy Richlin, Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at UCLA will be delivering four lectures on the theme of "Dirty Words: The Selective Survival of Latin Erotica."

Amy Richlin works on Roman society and culture, especially women’s history, Roman comedy and satire, and the history of sexuality. Her most recent book, Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy, won the Goodwin Award from the Society for Classical Studies. Her Jerome Lectures spring from her career-long fascination with the simultaneous radical difference and deep continuities between ancient and modern sex/gender systems.

All lectures will take place in a hybrid format at 4:00 PM. In person: on the 2nd Floor of the Michigan League. Virtually: live-streamed via LSA ITS


- Monday, October 31st - How Pederasty Got Lost

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa103122.html

Summary: after a brief history of how the history of ancient sexuality started to be written in the 1970s, this lecture presents an overview of pederastic texts in classical Latin and the co-implication of Roman pederasty with slavery. This continues into “retrosexuality” as writers in the 100s CE produce poetry that is explicitly grounded in earlier poetry. Then three main questions: how did this discourse survive the transformation of Western Europe into Christendom? What does this discourse tell about the transformation of the ancient sex/gender system? Why is it important to us?

Further reading: Boswell, John. 1980. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


- Wednesday, November 2nd - Sidonius Apollinaris in Visigothic Gaul: Love Among the Ruins

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110222.html

Summary: this lecture focuses on a great transitional figure of the 400s CE. A super-rich aristocrat who lived in an enormous villa in southern Gaul, Sidonius survived the Visigothic takeover and became bishop of Clermont. In his voluminous poems and letters he attests to his fear that traditional Latin literature will disappear, producing an account in which pederastic love is visible as an erasure – although Sidonius does turn a queer eye on the Visigoth Theodoric.

Further reading: Kelly, Gavin, and Joop van Waarden, eds. 2020. The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.


- Friday, November 4th - Jerome’s Captive Slave-Woman and the Latin Canon

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110422.html

Summary: one of the main reasons classical Latin survived is that Church fathers like St. Jerome could not bear to abandon the curriculum they were trained in. But in the Middle Ages Jerome’s reading list meant different things to the monks that copied texts over and to those who set Church policy on sexual behavior. Now pederasty was a sin, although the heaviest blame fell, surprisingly, on the youngest boys. Yet the 1100s saw the rise of several monkish poets who wrote pederastic poetry. After a late-medieval backlash, the Italian Renaissance found teachers editing even the Carmina Priapea as a project with their students.

Further reading: Elliott, Dyan. 2020. The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gaisser, Julia Haig. 1993. Catullus and his Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2006. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. New York: Routledge.


- Monday, November 7th - Curriculum Reform and Expurgation in the 1700s and 1800s

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110722.html

Summary: grammar schools in the 1600s, following the tradition stretching back to Jerome, taught mainly Greek and Latin, including satire (often unexpurgated). An editor of the X-rated Greek pederastic poet Strato in 1764 claims that all students have access to Catullus, Martial, Petronius, and the Priapea. Yet this aspect of education troubled the puritanical, who not unreasonably asked why Christian schools should be teaching about sins and gods. A survey of schoolbooks and curricula shows that conflicting systems continued to coexist. Today we are more likely to teach Catullus and Petronius to undergraduates than the Victorians were; should we teach them whole?

Further reading: Watson, Foster. 1908. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:38:57 -0400 2022-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion cover image, Saint Jerome in a Woman's Dress
Wildfire Smoke Exposure & Adverse Health Outcomes (beyond the lungs) (November 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100090 100090-21799194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Registration required https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_73IVXGJ3Sc2VzkFePQpFww

Dr. Luke Montrose (Colorado State Univ) is an environmental toxicologist with research interests in public health, epigenetics, and chronic illness, particularly as it relates to vulnerable and understudied populations. The Montrose Lab leverages expertise in epigenetics, community research, and exposure assessment to better understand the molecular basis of toxicant-induced disease risk throughout the life course. Dr. Montrose’s research portfolio reflects his passion for studying human health through multiple lenses, ranging from community health to molecular biology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:23:56 -0400 2022-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Nov 1 Luke Montrose "Wildfire Smoke Exposure & Adverse Health Outcomes"
PhD Research Talk: Mohammad Zhalechian (November 1, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100768 100768-21800333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Seminar Abstract:
The rapid growth of information and accessibility to big data provide a unique opportunity to shift toward data-driven decision-making. These real-time paradigms (i) adaptively learn a model that predicts a user-specific outcome for each available decision (prediction) and (ii) harness this model to make data-driven decisions for subsequent users (prescription).

Although there have been tremendous advances in data-driven decision-making, such advances often cannot be applied to operations management problems because of their complexity. This brings forward several challenges and opportunities. In this talk, I discuss two challenges in healthcare and service operations: the need for joint learning and decision-making under limited resources and delayed feedback. I then introduce a data-driven predictive and prescriptive framework with provable performance guarantee to solve a hospital's care unit assignment problem. The effectiveness of this framework is illustrated using hospital system data.

I will end the talk by discussing my broader research agenda on dealing with other practical and societal challenges that arise in developing data-driven decision-making frameworks.


Presenter Bio:
Mohammad Zhalechian is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research focuses on data-driven analytics to solve a wide range of problems in healthcare and service operations. He has collaborated closely with hospitals, clinics, and government agencies. Mohammad earned his Ph.D. in Operations Research in Aug 2022 at the University of Michigan, where he was advised by Prof. Mark Van Oyen. He is the recipient of awards, including second place in the 2020 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Best Paper Award, finalist in the 2020 INFORMS Seth Bonder Scholarship of Health Applications Society, and winner of the 2021 IOE Richard C. Wilson Best Student Paper Award. His research work has also received multiple recognitions in the best paper competitions from MSOM, POMS, and HAS communities.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:21:32 -0400 2022-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Mohammad Zhalechian
Sonya Belaya & Laura Sofía Pérez in Conversation (November 1, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100823 100823-21800392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

East Quad 1807
Tuesday, November 1 | 6:00-7:30 PM
Open to all.

A conversation with Sonya Belaya and Laura Sofía Pérez discussing their practices and most recent collaboration, "Cognitive Distortions, Ancestral Patterns".

This work will be performed at the Duderstadt Video Studio on Thursday, November 3 at 8pm. You can view this work in-person or via live stream:
https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance/news-events/all-events.detail.html/99930-21798902.html

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:05:35 -0400 2022-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T19:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Sonya Belaya
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
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics -- Weekly Seminar (November 2, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100730 100730-21800294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Graph representation learning leverages knowledge, geometry, and structure to develop powerful machine learning methods. First, I will introduce Shepherd, a graph neural network for personalized diagnosis of patients with rare genetic diseases. Diagnostic delay is pervasive in patients with rare genetic conditions. It can lead to numerous problems, including redundant testing and unnecessary procedures, delays in obtaining disease-appropriate management and therapies, and even irreversible disease progression. Shepherd uses knowledge-guided geometric deep learning to gather information from different parts of a knowledge graph and logically connect a patient's clinical-genomic information to the region in the knowledge graph relevant to diagnosis. Evaluation of patients from the Undiagnosed Diseases Network shows that Shepherd accurately identifies causal disease genes, finds other patients with the same causal gene and disease, and provides interpretable characterizations of novel diseases. Second, I will describe applications of graph neural networks in drug discovery. These are available through Therapeutics Data Commons (https://tdcommons.ai), an initiative to access and evaluate AI capability across therapeutic modalities and stages of drug discovery. The Commons supports the development of machine learning methods, with a strong bent towards developing the foundations for which methods are most suitable for drug discovery and why.

Short Bio:
Marinka Zitnik (https://zitniklab.hms.harvard.edu) is an Assistant Professor at Harvard University with appointments in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harvard Data Science. Dr. Zitnik has published extensively in top ML venues and leading scientific journals. She has organized conferences and workshops in graph representation learning, drug discovery, and precision medicine at leading conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ISMB, AAAI, WWW), where she is also on the organizing committees. She is an ELLIS Scholar in the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Society and a member of the Science Working Group at NASA Space Biology. Her research won paper and research awards from the International Society for Computational Biology, Bayer Early Excellence in Science, Amazon Faculty Research, Roche Alliance with Distinguished Scientists, Rising Star Award in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Next Generation in Biomedicine Recognition, being the only young scientist with such recognition in both EECS and Biomedicine. She co-founded Therapeutics Data Commons and also AI for Science community initiative. https://zitniklab.hms.harvard.edu/zitnik-bio170.txt

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:15:31 -0400 2022-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Marinka Zitnik, PhD (Assistant Prof. of Biomedical Informatics at HMS)
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series, Fall 2022 (November 2, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99824 99824-21798761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Classical Studies

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The Jerome Lectures are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. Scheduled for Fall 2022, in the forty-ninth year of the lecture series, Amy Richlin, Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at UCLA will be delivering four lectures on the theme of "Dirty Words: The Selective Survival of Latin Erotica."

Amy Richlin works on Roman society and culture, especially women’s history, Roman comedy and satire, and the history of sexuality. Her most recent book, Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy, won the Goodwin Award from the Society for Classical Studies. Her Jerome Lectures spring from her career-long fascination with the simultaneous radical difference and deep continuities between ancient and modern sex/gender systems.

All lectures will take place in a hybrid format at 4:00 PM. In person: on the 2nd Floor of the Michigan League. Virtually: live-streamed via LSA ITS


- Monday, October 31st - How Pederasty Got Lost

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa103122.html

Summary: after a brief history of how the history of ancient sexuality started to be written in the 1970s, this lecture presents an overview of pederastic texts in classical Latin and the co-implication of Roman pederasty with slavery. This continues into “retrosexuality” as writers in the 100s CE produce poetry that is explicitly grounded in earlier poetry. Then three main questions: how did this discourse survive the transformation of Western Europe into Christendom? What does this discourse tell about the transformation of the ancient sex/gender system? Why is it important to us?

Further reading: Boswell, John. 1980. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


- Wednesday, November 2nd - Sidonius Apollinaris in Visigothic Gaul: Love Among the Ruins

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110222.html

Summary: this lecture focuses on a great transitional figure of the 400s CE. A super-rich aristocrat who lived in an enormous villa in southern Gaul, Sidonius survived the Visigothic takeover and became bishop of Clermont. In his voluminous poems and letters he attests to his fear that traditional Latin literature will disappear, producing an account in which pederastic love is visible as an erasure – although Sidonius does turn a queer eye on the Visigoth Theodoric.

Further reading: Kelly, Gavin, and Joop van Waarden, eds. 2020. The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.


- Friday, November 4th - Jerome’s Captive Slave-Woman and the Latin Canon

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110422.html

Summary: one of the main reasons classical Latin survived is that Church fathers like St. Jerome could not bear to abandon the curriculum they were trained in. But in the Middle Ages Jerome’s reading list meant different things to the monks that copied texts over and to those who set Church policy on sexual behavior. Now pederasty was a sin, although the heaviest blame fell, surprisingly, on the youngest boys. Yet the 1100s saw the rise of several monkish poets who wrote pederastic poetry. After a late-medieval backlash, the Italian Renaissance found teachers editing even the Carmina Priapea as a project with their students.

Further reading: Elliott, Dyan. 2020. The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gaisser, Julia Haig. 1993. Catullus and his Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2006. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. New York: Routledge.


- Monday, November 7th - Curriculum Reform and Expurgation in the 1700s and 1800s

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110722.html

Summary: grammar schools in the 1600s, following the tradition stretching back to Jerome, taught mainly Greek and Latin, including satire (often unexpurgated). An editor of the X-rated Greek pederastic poet Strato in 1764 claims that all students have access to Catullus, Martial, Petronius, and the Priapea. Yet this aspect of education troubled the puritanical, who not unreasonably asked why Christian schools should be teaching about sins and gods. A survey of schoolbooks and curricula shows that conflicting systems continued to coexist. Today we are more likely to teach Catullus and Petronius to undergraduates than the Victorians were; should we teach them whole?

Further reading: Watson, Foster. 1908. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:38:57 -0400 2022-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion cover image, Saint Jerome in a Woman's Dress
Neural Architecture Exhibition & Symposium (November 2, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99553 99553-21798328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The Neural Architecture Symposium at Taubman College presents itself as an opportunity to survey the emerging field of Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, and to reflect on the implications of a world increasingly entangled in questions of the agency, culture, and ethics of AI. This rapidly developing field of architectural inquiry is ripe for a rigorous interrogation. Almost daily, new practices emerge that focus on the incredible opportunities that an expanded human mind through AI offer for the discipline of architecture. At the same time, AI is observed with suspicion in regards to potentially displacing entire practices out of the field. The symposium oscillates between those poles of tension, in order to inform the public audience, and the discipline, about the status quo and the vision of this paradigm-changing new ecology of design.

AI is quite a generalist term, used to describe several varying approaches. In Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence is defined as the study of Intelligent Agents, which includes any device that perceives its environment and that takes actions to maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. In general, the term Artificial Intelligence is applied when a machine mimics cognitive functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as learning and problem-solving. The prevailing trajectory of this line of inquiry is preoccupated with aspects of optimization, such as ideas of optimizing floorplans, material consumption, and time schedules of construction sites – which cover the tamed problems of disciplinary considerations. At the same time, it interrogates the wicked problem in the production of architecture – creativity, intuition, and sensibility. This opens ontological questions about the nature of creativity, its role in the inception of architectural projects, and the methods to evaluate this. This symposium and exhibition would be among the first of its kind, framing this problem in this particular way. Can an AI create a novel sensibility (?) -and if so: can we as humans perceive and understand it? This is one of a set of questions that the event is set out to examine and explicate through the format of the symposium. This symposium serves as a launch pad for the examination of an emergent field of technology that is currently profoundly changing multiple levels of society, economy and culture demonstrated through the use in the discipline of architecture.

The topic is presented through a series of lenses: design projects, speculations, theoretical considerations, and scientific insight. This combination allows for an insightful, but entertaining symposium, about a very pressing affair in architecture and society at large. The stunning visual quality of the projects and proposed architecture studios in combination with the voice of science and theory allow for a deep interrogation of current development in architecture. This symposium and exhibition will provide insights into posthuman design methodologies operating in a world shifting away from an anthropocentric universe. We consider that, in the foreseen future, humans will continue using the machine as their tool, not the other way around.

The first genuinely 21st-century Architecture design method

Taubman College is perceived as a pioneer within this novel area of inquiry in the architecture discipline – an area that will affect every aspect of the discipline. Not only the theory but also the practice, the construction, and the use of architecture. It is possibly the first genuinely 21st-century Architecture development, as it will change the way architecture is conceived, designed, and built on a massive scale. Posing questions about authorship, the nature of ingenuity, of imagination, and creativity the proposition discusses a posthuman world operating within this frame of considerations.

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence

A particular goal of this Symposium is to demystify Artificial Intelligence for the population of the architecture community as much as for the public at large. The term AI evokes dark pictures of dominance, control, and surveillance triggered through movie productions such as Terminator, The Matrix, and Ex Machina. Nothing could be farther away from the truth. The bigger danger these days are data abuse and bias in datasets. Both of which form part of a conversation within the program of the Symposium. For one the ethical questions of operating AI’s within the architecture discipline. Questions that are discussed in interdisciplinary panels consisting of architects, computer scientists,s and roboticists.

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Lev Manovich
"Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Study of Culture"
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Taubman College Commons

Exhibition Opening Reception
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Liberty Research Annex

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Symposium Sessions
9:00am - 6:00pm
Taubman College Commons

Session 1: An Introduction into our world through the eyes of artificial intelligence
Session 2: Do Machines dream of architecture?
Session 3: Neural Architecture – A paradigm shift in architecture design
Session 4: Roundtable: The emergence of a posthuman design ecology

Detailed session descriptions and schedules can be viewed at neural-architecture.org

This symposium will be presented in person at the Art & Architecture Building and on Zoom. Webinar registration is required at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OU20BaOQRxGmoRMgjnLL0w

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:20:26 -0400 2022-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T18:30:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Neural Architecture Symposium
Neural Architecture Exhibition & Symposium (November 2, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99553 99553-21798329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The Neural Architecture Symposium at Taubman College presents itself as an opportunity to survey the emerging field of Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, and to reflect on the implications of a world increasingly entangled in questions of the agency, culture, and ethics of AI. This rapidly developing field of architectural inquiry is ripe for a rigorous interrogation. Almost daily, new practices emerge that focus on the incredible opportunities that an expanded human mind through AI offer for the discipline of architecture. At the same time, AI is observed with suspicion in regards to potentially displacing entire practices out of the field. The symposium oscillates between those poles of tension, in order to inform the public audience, and the discipline, about the status quo and the vision of this paradigm-changing new ecology of design.

AI is quite a generalist term, used to describe several varying approaches. In Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence is defined as the study of Intelligent Agents, which includes any device that perceives its environment and that takes actions to maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. In general, the term Artificial Intelligence is applied when a machine mimics cognitive functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as learning and problem-solving. The prevailing trajectory of this line of inquiry is preoccupated with aspects of optimization, such as ideas of optimizing floorplans, material consumption, and time schedules of construction sites – which cover the tamed problems of disciplinary considerations. At the same time, it interrogates the wicked problem in the production of architecture – creativity, intuition, and sensibility. This opens ontological questions about the nature of creativity, its role in the inception of architectural projects, and the methods to evaluate this. This symposium and exhibition would be among the first of its kind, framing this problem in this particular way. Can an AI create a novel sensibility (?) -and if so: can we as humans perceive and understand it? This is one of a set of questions that the event is set out to examine and explicate through the format of the symposium. This symposium serves as a launch pad for the examination of an emergent field of technology that is currently profoundly changing multiple levels of society, economy and culture demonstrated through the use in the discipline of architecture.

The topic is presented through a series of lenses: design projects, speculations, theoretical considerations, and scientific insight. This combination allows for an insightful, but entertaining symposium, about a very pressing affair in architecture and society at large. The stunning visual quality of the projects and proposed architecture studios in combination with the voice of science and theory allow for a deep interrogation of current development in architecture. This symposium and exhibition will provide insights into posthuman design methodologies operating in a world shifting away from an anthropocentric universe. We consider that, in the foreseen future, humans will continue using the machine as their tool, not the other way around.

The first genuinely 21st-century Architecture design method

Taubman College is perceived as a pioneer within this novel area of inquiry in the architecture discipline – an area that will affect every aspect of the discipline. Not only the theory but also the practice, the construction, and the use of architecture. It is possibly the first genuinely 21st-century Architecture development, as it will change the way architecture is conceived, designed, and built on a massive scale. Posing questions about authorship, the nature of ingenuity, of imagination, and creativity the proposition discusses a posthuman world operating within this frame of considerations.

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence

A particular goal of this Symposium is to demystify Artificial Intelligence for the population of the architecture community as much as for the public at large. The term AI evokes dark pictures of dominance, control, and surveillance triggered through movie productions such as Terminator, The Matrix, and Ex Machina. Nothing could be farther away from the truth. The bigger danger these days are data abuse and bias in datasets. Both of which form part of a conversation within the program of the Symposium. For one the ethical questions of operating AI’s within the architecture discipline. Questions that are discussed in interdisciplinary panels consisting of architects, computer scientists,s and roboticists.

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Lev Manovich
"Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Study of Culture"
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Taubman College Commons

Exhibition Opening Reception
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Liberty Research Annex

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Symposium Sessions
9:00am - 6:00pm
Taubman College Commons

Session 1: An Introduction into our world through the eyes of artificial intelligence
Session 2: Do Machines dream of architecture?
Session 3: Neural Architecture – A paradigm shift in architecture design
Session 4: Roundtable: The emergence of a posthuman design ecology

Detailed session descriptions and schedules can be viewed at neural-architecture.org

This symposium will be presented in person at the Art & Architecture Building and on Zoom. Webinar registration is required at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OU20BaOQRxGmoRMgjnLL0w

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:20:26 -0400 2022-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Neural Architecture Symposium
Neural Architecture Exhibition & Symposium (November 3, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99553 99553-21798330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The Neural Architecture Symposium at Taubman College presents itself as an opportunity to survey the emerging field of Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, and to reflect on the implications of a world increasingly entangled in questions of the agency, culture, and ethics of AI. This rapidly developing field of architectural inquiry is ripe for a rigorous interrogation. Almost daily, new practices emerge that focus on the incredible opportunities that an expanded human mind through AI offer for the discipline of architecture. At the same time, AI is observed with suspicion in regards to potentially displacing entire practices out of the field. The symposium oscillates between those poles of tension, in order to inform the public audience, and the discipline, about the status quo and the vision of this paradigm-changing new ecology of design.

AI is quite a generalist term, used to describe several varying approaches. In Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence is defined as the study of Intelligent Agents, which includes any device that perceives its environment and that takes actions to maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. In general, the term Artificial Intelligence is applied when a machine mimics cognitive functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as learning and problem-solving. The prevailing trajectory of this line of inquiry is preoccupated with aspects of optimization, such as ideas of optimizing floorplans, material consumption, and time schedules of construction sites – which cover the tamed problems of disciplinary considerations. At the same time, it interrogates the wicked problem in the production of architecture – creativity, intuition, and sensibility. This opens ontological questions about the nature of creativity, its role in the inception of architectural projects, and the methods to evaluate this. This symposium and exhibition would be among the first of its kind, framing this problem in this particular way. Can an AI create a novel sensibility (?) -and if so: can we as humans perceive and understand it? This is one of a set of questions that the event is set out to examine and explicate through the format of the symposium. This symposium serves as a launch pad for the examination of an emergent field of technology that is currently profoundly changing multiple levels of society, economy and culture demonstrated through the use in the discipline of architecture.

The topic is presented through a series of lenses: design projects, speculations, theoretical considerations, and scientific insight. This combination allows for an insightful, but entertaining symposium, about a very pressing affair in architecture and society at large. The stunning visual quality of the projects and proposed architecture studios in combination with the voice of science and theory allow for a deep interrogation of current development in architecture. This symposium and exhibition will provide insights into posthuman design methodologies operating in a world shifting away from an anthropocentric universe. We consider that, in the foreseen future, humans will continue using the machine as their tool, not the other way around.

The first genuinely 21st-century Architecture design method

Taubman College is perceived as a pioneer within this novel area of inquiry in the architecture discipline – an area that will affect every aspect of the discipline. Not only the theory but also the practice, the construction, and the use of architecture. It is possibly the first genuinely 21st-century Architecture development, as it will change the way architecture is conceived, designed, and built on a massive scale. Posing questions about authorship, the nature of ingenuity, of imagination, and creativity the proposition discusses a posthuman world operating within this frame of considerations.

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence

A particular goal of this Symposium is to demystify Artificial Intelligence for the population of the architecture community as much as for the public at large. The term AI evokes dark pictures of dominance, control, and surveillance triggered through movie productions such as Terminator, The Matrix, and Ex Machina. Nothing could be farther away from the truth. The bigger danger these days are data abuse and bias in datasets. Both of which form part of a conversation within the program of the Symposium. For one the ethical questions of operating AI’s within the architecture discipline. Questions that are discussed in interdisciplinary panels consisting of architects, computer scientists,s and roboticists.

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Lev Manovich
"Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Study of Culture"
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Taubman College Commons

Exhibition Opening Reception
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Liberty Research Annex

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Symposium Sessions
9:00am - 6:00pm
Taubman College Commons

Session 1: An Introduction into our world through the eyes of artificial intelligence
Session 2: Do Machines dream of architecture?
Session 3: Neural Architecture – A paradigm shift in architecture design
Session 4: Roundtable: The emergence of a posthuman design ecology

Detailed session descriptions and schedules can be viewed at neural-architecture.org

This symposium will be presented in person at the Art & Architecture Building and on Zoom. Webinar registration is required at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OU20BaOQRxGmoRMgjnLL0w

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:20:26 -0400 2022-11-03T09:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T18:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Neural Architecture Symposium
Neural Architecture Exhibition & Symposium (November 3, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99553 99553-21798331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The Neural Architecture Symposium at Taubman College presents itself as an opportunity to survey the emerging field of Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, and to reflect on the implications of a world increasingly entangled in questions of the agency, culture, and ethics of AI. This rapidly developing field of architectural inquiry is ripe for a rigorous interrogation. Almost daily, new practices emerge that focus on the incredible opportunities that an expanded human mind through AI offer for the discipline of architecture. At the same time, AI is observed with suspicion in regards to potentially displacing entire practices out of the field. The symposium oscillates between those poles of tension, in order to inform the public audience, and the discipline, about the status quo and the vision of this paradigm-changing new ecology of design.

AI is quite a generalist term, used to describe several varying approaches. In Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence is defined as the study of Intelligent Agents, which includes any device that perceives its environment and that takes actions to maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. In general, the term Artificial Intelligence is applied when a machine mimics cognitive functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as learning and problem-solving. The prevailing trajectory of this line of inquiry is preoccupated with aspects of optimization, such as ideas of optimizing floorplans, material consumption, and time schedules of construction sites – which cover the tamed problems of disciplinary considerations. At the same time, it interrogates the wicked problem in the production of architecture – creativity, intuition, and sensibility. This opens ontological questions about the nature of creativity, its role in the inception of architectural projects, and the methods to evaluate this. This symposium and exhibition would be among the first of its kind, framing this problem in this particular way. Can an AI create a novel sensibility (?) -and if so: can we as humans perceive and understand it? This is one of a set of questions that the event is set out to examine and explicate through the format of the symposium. This symposium serves as a launch pad for the examination of an emergent field of technology that is currently profoundly changing multiple levels of society, economy and culture demonstrated through the use in the discipline of architecture.

The topic is presented through a series of lenses: design projects, speculations, theoretical considerations, and scientific insight. This combination allows for an insightful, but entertaining symposium, about a very pressing affair in architecture and society at large. The stunning visual quality of the projects and proposed architecture studios in combination with the voice of science and theory allow for a deep interrogation of current development in architecture. This symposium and exhibition will provide insights into posthuman design methodologies operating in a world shifting away from an anthropocentric universe. We consider that, in the foreseen future, humans will continue using the machine as their tool, not the other way around.

The first genuinely 21st-century Architecture design method

Taubman College is perceived as a pioneer within this novel area of inquiry in the architecture discipline – an area that will affect every aspect of the discipline. Not only the theory but also the practice, the construction, and the use of architecture. It is possibly the first genuinely 21st-century Architecture development, as it will change the way architecture is conceived, designed, and built on a massive scale. Posing questions about authorship, the nature of ingenuity, of imagination, and creativity the proposition discusses a posthuman world operating within this frame of considerations.

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence

A particular goal of this Symposium is to demystify Artificial Intelligence for the population of the architecture community as much as for the public at large. The term AI evokes dark pictures of dominance, control, and surveillance triggered through movie productions such as Terminator, The Matrix, and Ex Machina. Nothing could be farther away from the truth. The bigger danger these days are data abuse and bias in datasets. Both of which form part of a conversation within the program of the Symposium. For one the ethical questions of operating AI’s within the architecture discipline. Questions that are discussed in interdisciplinary panels consisting of architects, computer scientists,s and roboticists.

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Lev Manovich
"Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Study of Culture"
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Taubman College Commons

Exhibition Opening Reception
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Liberty Research Annex

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Symposium Sessions
9:00am - 6:00pm
Taubman College Commons

Session 1: An Introduction into our world through the eyes of artificial intelligence
Session 2: Do Machines dream of architecture?
Session 3: Neural Architecture – A paradigm shift in architecture design
Session 4: Roundtable: The emergence of a posthuman design ecology

Detailed session descriptions and schedules can be viewed at neural-architecture.org

This symposium will be presented in person at the Art & Architecture Building and on Zoom. Webinar registration is required at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OU20BaOQRxGmoRMgjnLL0w

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:20:26 -0400 2022-11-03T09:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Neural Architecture Symposium
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (November 3, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
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
CSEAS Lecture Series. Beyond Center and Periphery: Locating Southeast Asia in the Muslim World (November 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97570 97570-21794762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This talk explores the relationship between religion and spatiality through a study of the emergence of transoceanic religious geography that links Southeast Asia and South Arabia. This geographic imaginary links two regions commonly regarded as “peripheral” in the study of Islam and Islamic history. Muslims from these so-called “peripheral” regions, however, have for long presented their respective homelands as spatial realizations of Islamic cosmology and as privileged sites for moral education and ethical becoming. Tracing how this transoceanic religious geography came about allows us to rethink established center-periphery models that have continued to shape our understanding of the history and geography of Islam. Instead of a Muslim world made up of unchanging centers and peripheries, the talk uncovers the existence of competing for religious geographies, shifting centers of Islam, and forms of devotional mobility with multiple directionalities. Understanding how a “peripheral” region like Southeast Asia becomes religiously central to people elsewhere (South Arabia and the Swahili coast of Africa, for example), in turn, helps us to think about comparable processes that have sustained the religious significance of other regions.

Ismail Fajrie Alatas is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the Department of History at New York University. His primary research interest is in Islam in the Indian Ocean world particularly, the historical and contemporary connections between Southeast Asia and South Arabia. Professor Alatas' work examines the intersections of religious authority, social formation, mobility, semiotics and communicative practice with a focus on Islamic Law, Sufism, and the Hadrami diaspora in Indonesia. He received his PhD in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan, his MA from National University of Singapore, and his BA from the University of Melbourne.

Register at: http://myumi.ch/qA48G

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:55:01 -0400 2022-11-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Ismail Fajrie Alatas, Assistant Professor, New York University
Lost Boys, Invisible Men: Policy Feedback After Marijuana Legalization (November 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97584 97584-21794776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Friday, November 4 at noon
School of Social Work, ECC 1840

Dr. Nyron N. Crawford is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and a faculty fellow in the Public Policy Lab (PPL) at Temple University. His research, teaching, and practice engages psychological science to explore law and policy, especially as they relate to the racial dynamics of public problems, policy design, and policy feedback at sub-national levels of government. Crawford’s writing has been published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Perspectives on Politics, Urban Affairs Review, Public Integrity, Politico Magazine and The Washington Post.

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 11:21:09 -0400 2022-11-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Smith Lecture - Victor Tsai, Brown University (November 4, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99107 99107-21797582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Why do earthquakes damage buildings? Many buildings are damaged most heavily by high-frequency ground motion rather than longer period shaking. Despite the importance of these high-frequency ground motions, most frictional models for earthquakes generally underpredict how strong they are, even when heterogeneous friction and realistic roughness are accounted for. In this talk, I discuss the role of complex fault zones in generating high-frequency ground motions, with a focus on the potential role of collisions of structures as they attempt to slide past each other during an earthquake. Interestingly, the ground motion from collisions depends mostly on the size and shape of the structures and does not depend on the magnitude of stresses within the Earth and thus gives a very different interpretation of what causes the most damaging ground motions. When incorporated with standard frictional models, the collision model explains various observations that are otherwise difficult to explain, including why stress drops sometimes are not observed to be magnitude invariant, why fault zones with more complexity have stronger ground motions, and why high-frequency radiation patterns are more isotropic than can be explained by scattering.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:39:37 -0400 2022-11-04T15:30:00-04:00 2022-11-04T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Linguistics Colloquium (November 4, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96065 96065-21800217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

T. Daniel Seely is a Professor of Linguistics at Eastern Michigan University.

Join us in person in East Hall room 4448 or virtually on Zoom.

TITLE
On the History and Current Form of Merge

ABSTRACT
This discussion explores the history, form, and function of the most fundamental operation of the narrow syntax, Merge. The question we'll focus on is this: What 'should' Merge do, what 'should' Merge not do; and, most importantly, why?

By way of background, we give a brief history of structure building devices, from PS rules (graph-theoretic and linear-order-encoding) to successive stages in the development of Merge--from its introduction in Bare Phrase Structure (Chomsky 1994/95) to its formulation in Problems of Projection (Chomsky 2013, 2015, see also Epstein, Kitahara, Seely 2015, Collins and Seely to appear)) and to its recent characterization (Chomsky 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), Epstein, Kitahara, Seely (2018, 2020, 2022).

Next, we trace the "maximize minimal merge" program (Epstein, Kitahara, and Seely 2018, 2022): The idea is to maximize the effects of Merge while minimizing its form, positing internal to the narrow syntax as little as possible beyond simplest Merge, striving ultimately for the thesis “3rd Factor + Interfaces + Recursion = Language,” as initially articulated in Chomsky 2007.

With this background, our primary goal is to explore Chomsky's recent thinking on Merge, from a series of lectures and papers, and ultimately trace conclusions of a forthcoming paper “Merge” by N. Chomsky, R. Berwick, S. Fong, M.A.C. Huybregts, H. Kitahara, A. McInnerney, T.D. Seely, Y. Sugimoto, in R. Freidin (ed) Elements, Cambridge.

Chomsky’s recent work suggests that what we thought was simplest Merge (unifying external and internal merge) is in fact inexplicit in crucial respects, and a revision is proposed that reconceives Merge as an operation that applies to the workspace WS, thereby allowing the monitoring of computational resources. Explored are the 3rd
factor (non-linguistic) principles that constrain Merge, its empirical consequences, challenges, and prospects for future research.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:43:24 -0400 2022-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion T. Daniel Seely
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series, Fall 2022 (November 4, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99824 99824-21798762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Classical Studies

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The Jerome Lectures are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. Scheduled for Fall 2022, in the forty-ninth year of the lecture series, Amy Richlin, Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at UCLA will be delivering four lectures on the theme of "Dirty Words: The Selective Survival of Latin Erotica."

Amy Richlin works on Roman society and culture, especially women’s history, Roman comedy and satire, and the history of sexuality. Her most recent book, Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy, won the Goodwin Award from the Society for Classical Studies. Her Jerome Lectures spring from her career-long fascination with the simultaneous radical difference and deep continuities between ancient and modern sex/gender systems.

All lectures will take place in a hybrid format at 4:00 PM. In person: on the 2nd Floor of the Michigan League. Virtually: live-streamed via LSA ITS


- Monday, October 31st - How Pederasty Got Lost

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa103122.html

Summary: after a brief history of how the history of ancient sexuality started to be written in the 1970s, this lecture presents an overview of pederastic texts in classical Latin and the co-implication of Roman pederasty with slavery. This continues into “retrosexuality” as writers in the 100s CE produce poetry that is explicitly grounded in earlier poetry. Then three main questions: how did this discourse survive the transformation of Western Europe into Christendom? What does this discourse tell about the transformation of the ancient sex/gender system? Why is it important to us?

Further reading: Boswell, John. 1980. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


- Wednesday, November 2nd - Sidonius Apollinaris in Visigothic Gaul: Love Among the Ruins

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110222.html

Summary: this lecture focuses on a great transitional figure of the 400s CE. A super-rich aristocrat who lived in an enormous villa in southern Gaul, Sidonius survived the Visigothic takeover and became bishop of Clermont. In his voluminous poems and letters he attests to his fear that traditional Latin literature will disappear, producing an account in which pederastic love is visible as an erasure – although Sidonius does turn a queer eye on the Visigoth Theodoric.

Further reading: Kelly, Gavin, and Joop van Waarden, eds. 2020. The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.


- Friday, November 4th - Jerome’s Captive Slave-Woman and the Latin Canon

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110422.html

Summary: one of the main reasons classical Latin survived is that Church fathers like St. Jerome could not bear to abandon the curriculum they were trained in. But in the Middle Ages Jerome’s reading list meant different things to the monks that copied texts over and to those who set Church policy on sexual behavior. Now pederasty was a sin, although the heaviest blame fell, surprisingly, on the youngest boys. Yet the 1100s saw the rise of several monkish poets who wrote pederastic poetry. After a late-medieval backlash, the Italian Renaissance found teachers editing even the Carmina Priapea as a project with their students.

Further reading: Elliott, Dyan. 2020. The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gaisser, Julia Haig. 1993. Catullus and his Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2006. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. New York: Routledge.


- Monday, November 7th - Curriculum Reform and Expurgation in the 1700s and 1800s

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110722.html

Summary: grammar schools in the 1600s, following the tradition stretching back to Jerome, taught mainly Greek and Latin, including satire (often unexpurgated). An editor of the X-rated Greek pederastic poet Strato in 1764 claims that all students have access to Catullus, Martial, Petronius, and the Priapea. Yet this aspect of education troubled the puritanical, who not unreasonably asked why Christian schools should be teaching about sins and gods. A survey of schoolbooks and curricula shows that conflicting systems continued to coexist. Today we are more likely to teach Catullus and Petronius to undergraduates than the Victorians were; should we teach them whole?

Further reading: Watson, Foster. 1908. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:38:57 -0400 2022-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion cover image, Saint Jerome in a Woman's Dress
Saturday Morning Physics | The Heart of Darkness (November 5, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99198 99198-21797694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 5, 2022 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In 2017, humanity, for the first time, peered into true darkness. Black holes are objects defined by their immense gravitational fields, so large that not even light can escape. In this talk, I will take you on the journey undertaken by a worldwide collaboration to image a black hole for the first time and tell you about the discoveries awaiting the coming generations.

This talk will be live in ROOMS 170 & 182 Weiser Hall. You can also watch the talk/Q&A, live, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpMfqdRwMkU

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:25:33 -0400 2022-11-05T10:30:00-04:00 2022-11-05T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. (EHT Collaboration)
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
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series, Fall 2022 (November 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99824 99824-21798763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Classical Studies

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The Jerome Lectures are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. Scheduled for Fall 2022, in the forty-ninth year of the lecture series, Amy Richlin, Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at UCLA will be delivering four lectures on the theme of "Dirty Words: The Selective Survival of Latin Erotica."

Amy Richlin works on Roman society and culture, especially women’s history, Roman comedy and satire, and the history of sexuality. Her most recent book, Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy, won the Goodwin Award from the Society for Classical Studies. Her Jerome Lectures spring from her career-long fascination with the simultaneous radical difference and deep continuities between ancient and modern sex/gender systems.

All lectures will take place in a hybrid format at 4:00 PM. In person: on the 2nd Floor of the Michigan League. Virtually: live-streamed via LSA ITS


- Monday, October 31st - How Pederasty Got Lost

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa103122.html

Summary: after a brief history of how the history of ancient sexuality started to be written in the 1970s, this lecture presents an overview of pederastic texts in classical Latin and the co-implication of Roman pederasty with slavery. This continues into “retrosexuality” as writers in the 100s CE produce poetry that is explicitly grounded in earlier poetry. Then three main questions: how did this discourse survive the transformation of Western Europe into Christendom? What does this discourse tell about the transformation of the ancient sex/gender system? Why is it important to us?

Further reading: Boswell, John. 1980. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


- Wednesday, November 2nd - Sidonius Apollinaris in Visigothic Gaul: Love Among the Ruins

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110222.html

Summary: this lecture focuses on a great transitional figure of the 400s CE. A super-rich aristocrat who lived in an enormous villa in southern Gaul, Sidonius survived the Visigothic takeover and became bishop of Clermont. In his voluminous poems and letters he attests to his fear that traditional Latin literature will disappear, producing an account in which pederastic love is visible as an erasure – although Sidonius does turn a queer eye on the Visigoth Theodoric.

Further reading: Kelly, Gavin, and Joop van Waarden, eds. 2020. The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.


- Friday, November 4th - Jerome’s Captive Slave-Woman and the Latin Canon

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110422.html

Summary: one of the main reasons classical Latin survived is that Church fathers like St. Jerome could not bear to abandon the curriculum they were trained in. But in the Middle Ages Jerome’s reading list meant different things to the monks that copied texts over and to those who set Church policy on sexual behavior. Now pederasty was a sin, although the heaviest blame fell, surprisingly, on the youngest boys. Yet the 1100s saw the rise of several monkish poets who wrote pederastic poetry. After a late-medieval backlash, the Italian Renaissance found teachers editing even the Carmina Priapea as a project with their students.

Further reading: Elliott, Dyan. 2020. The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gaisser, Julia Haig. 1993. Catullus and his Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2006. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. New York: Routledge.


- Monday, November 7th - Curriculum Reform and Expurgation in the 1700s and 1800s

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110722.html

Summary: grammar schools in the 1600s, following the tradition stretching back to Jerome, taught mainly Greek and Latin, including satire (often unexpurgated). An editor of the X-rated Greek pederastic poet Strato in 1764 claims that all students have access to Catullus, Martial, Petronius, and the Priapea. Yet this aspect of education troubled the puritanical, who not unreasonably asked why Christian schools should be teaching about sins and gods. A survey of schoolbooks and curricula shows that conflicting systems continued to coexist. Today we are more likely to teach Catullus and Petronius to undergraduates than the Victorians were; should we teach them whole?

Further reading: Watson, Foster. 1908. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:38:57 -0400 2022-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion cover image, Saint Jerome in a Woman's Dress
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
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
DCMB / CCMB Seminar (November 9, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101047 101047-21800725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title:
From variants to functions for coronary artery disease: Systematic Perturb-seq links GWAS loci to disease programs in endothelial cells

Abstract:
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have discovered >200 associations for coronary artery disease (CAD), each of which could point to genes and pathways that influence disease risk. It is thought that a fraction of these CAD risk loci influences the functions of endothelial cells, and that genes in multiple GWAS loci might act together in certain pathways. Yet, identifying these genes and pathways has proven challenging: each GWAS locus can have 2-20 candidate genes, a gene may participate in one or more pathways in a given cell type, and it remains unclear which genes and pathways would be likely to influence disease risk. I will present our work to address this challenge by developing a Variant-to-Gene-to-Program (V2G2P) framework to study the role of endothelial cells in coronary artery disease, involving building a Variant-to-Gene map with ABC and a Gene-to-Program map with systematic Perturb-seq. Our study nominates new genes that likely influence risk for CAD, identifies convergence of CAD risk loci into certain gene programs in endothelial cells, and demonstrates a generalizable strategy to catalog gene programs to connect disease variants to functions.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:17:51 -0400 2022-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Jesse Engreitz, PhD (Asst. Prof., Dept. of Genetics, Stanford)
IISS Lecture. The Metaphysics of Creativity: Imagination in Sufism, from the Qurʾān into Ibn al-ʿArabī (November 9, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100915 100915-21800503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

What is the importance of metaphysics in building the foundations for "sacred" creativity in Islam? Given the centrality of the light of the Prophet and his primordial reality, can one say that Islam has its own Muhammadology?

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:42:43 -0400 2022-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 2022-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Ali Hussein, Professor of Arabic at the University of Michigan
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
A Neural Control Circuit for Coughing (November 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98877 98877-21797292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

A Neural Control Circuit for Coughing
Winner of Dr. Dominic D. Dziewiatkowski Award in 2022

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Oct 2022 09:24:01 -0400 2022-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Noam Gannot, Oral Health Sciences PhD Candidate, Li Lab University of Michigan School of Dentistry
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (November 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
The Heart of the Cheetah: Entrepreneurship and Prosperity in Africa (November 10, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100135 100135-21799254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

THE 2022 RALPH J. GERSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURER EXPLORES HOW REFORMING SMALL-BUSINESS PROCESSES IN AFRICA WILL BOOST THE CONTINENT’S ECONOMY

Magatte Wade, entrepreneur, author and advocate for African dignity and prosperity through business growth, will deliver the Ralph J. Gerson Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Nov. 10. The discussion will be broadcast via Zoom. (Register here to join the event).

Wade’s talk, “The Heart of the Cheetah: Entrepreneurship and Prosperity in Africa,” will focus on the power of business growth and importance of business-friendly infrastructure, which she sees as critical to innovation and economic flourishing on the continent. As an entrepreneur from Senegal, Wade has decried a lack of business infrastructure and subsequent unemployment as key reasons why many Africans risk their lives to migrate to other countries.

The Ralph J. Gerson Distinguished Lecture gathers the community around the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan to celebrate and promote ways businesses can positively impact social challenges. Its transformative speakers bring unique perspectives on economic development, new considerations around innovative business models and informed evaluations of emerging markets.

Wade joins the series’ two past lecturers — Nobel Prize-winning Economist Sir Angus Deaton and Kevin Lobo, Chairman and CEO of Stryker Corp. — in her work highlighting economic acceleration through business tools.

“Magatte Wade is an outspoken advocate for the benefits that profitable businesses bring to an economy,” said WDI President Paul Clyde. “She is a successful entrepreneur who understands the value and importance of business in the development of an economy. Considering WDI’s mission of equipping economic decision makers in emerging countries with the tools of commercial success, it’s hard to think of a stronger advocate with a more relevant background than Wade.”

Wade was named one of Forbes’ “20 Youngest Power Women in Africa,” a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum at Davos, and a “Leading Woman in Wellness” award-winner with the Global Wellness Summit. She’s the Director of the Atlas Network’s Center for Africa Prosperity, a member of the Board of Directors of Conscious Capitalism Inc., and a member of the Advisory Board of the Whole Planet Foundation with Whole Foods Market.

As a TED Global Africa Fellow, her TED Talk, titled “Why it’s so hard to start a business in Africa — and how to change it,” has nearly 650,000 views. In her talk, Wade draws a clear and definitive thread between poverty reduction and business creation — asserting that the solution to poverty is making it easier for small businesses to start, run and thrive. In it, she describes how she came to this conclusion: “I have this attitude in life. Something is wrong, find a way to fix it. That’s why I start the businesses that I start, usually consumer brands, that have embedded in them the very best of my African culture.”

Wade describes what it’s like for her to run these businesses in Senegal, navigating the complicated and problematic laws and processes. “It’s like swimming through molasses,” she said. Knowing the impact these stifling rules have on business growth, Wade advocates for easing these restrictions and creating systems that promote private economic development. Not only does changing these laws make a major difference in business success, she explained, but shining a light on them can shift the outlook Africans have about their own capabilities and potential.

Her new book, “The Heart of the Cheetah,” will be released soon.

Register to watch Wade’s speech live on Zoom at 7 p.m. Nov. 10.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:12:29 -0400 2022-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Join us for speaker Magatte Wade on Nov 10
The Color of Power: The Evolving Relationship Between Race, Skin Color and American Politics (November 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97587 97587-21794781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Friday, November 11 at noon
School of Social Work, ECC 1840

Dr. Mara Cecilia Ostfeld serves as the Associate Faculty Director of Poverty Solutions, an Assistant Research Scientist in the Ford School of Public Policy and a faculty lead at the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study. She is an expert in survey research and the analysis of public opinion, with a particular focus on the relationship between race, gender, media and political attitudes. Her recent book (co-authored with Nicole Yadon), Skin Color, Power and Politics in America, explores the historical significance of skin color in America, both within and between ethnoracial groups, as well as its evolving relationship with political identities. During national elections, Mara also works as an analyst at NBC and Telemundo.

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 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:42:05 -0400 2022-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Smith Lecture - Carlie Pietsch, San Jose State University (November 11, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99108 99108-21797583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The shallow shelf sediments of the U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain record the geochemical, sedimentological, and paleontological record of multiple Cenozoic climatic events. The end-Cretaceous mass extinction (KPg) (66 Mya) and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) (~55.9Mya) each perturbed the global carbon cycle and left evidence of their biological impacts in the fossil record of the shallow shelf biota. At the KPg, a bolide impact led to a 30 year “nuclear winter” causing the extinction of primary producers disturbing the biological pump that connects surface ocean primary productivity to the deep sea. It took 1.8 My for carbon cycling to return to pre-extinction export levels and ~4 million years until diversity, size, and other disparate ecological traits were re-evolved in the open-ocean fauna. At the PETM, just 10 million years later, a 5 to 8°C hyperthermal warming event altered terrestrial weathering and resulted in migrations, extinctions, and originations in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Our understanding of the biologic impact of the KPg mass extinction and PETM are focused on deep-sea cores and terrestrial vertebrate records while high-resolution records of shallow shelf marine invertebrate fauna (mollusks, echinoderms, etc) remain understudied.

We use fossil deposits from the U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain that bracket the KPg and PETM events to compare the effects of carbon cycle perturbation on invertebrate species richness, proportional extinction and origination, ecological composition, shell size, growth rate, and inferred metabolic energy requirements. Across the KPg boundary, we see preliminary support for an increase in fossil assemblage energy, the result of ecological escalation (increased proportion of actively-mobile species) and a simultaneous increase in shell size. We interpret this increase in metabolic energy as a signal of increased primary productivity in the water column leading to more food availability to support an active shelf ecosystem in the post-extinction ecosystem. The significantly larger body volume of post-KPg molluscs could be due to selection against small species observed at mass extinction events. The extinction trigger and mechanism for KPg mass extinction are not an analog for modern climate change but can still provide insight into how long it takes the Earth System to recover from a major carbon cycle disturbance.

In contrast, across the boundary of the PETM hyperthermal event we observe little impact of the extreme warming event on shell size, functional ecology, or diversity of shallow marine mollusk communities. Limited extinction selectivity for mollusc shell size and contradictory trends in growth rates do not support a directional response of shelf faunas to this extreme warning event. The PETM severely underestimates projections for modern climate change; our anthropogenic input of carbon is happening 10x faster than most models of PETM carbon cycle perturbation. Our results of limited impact on shelf ecology therefore only represents a best-case scenario for predicting how shallow shelf faunas might respond to present-day climate change.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Nov 2022 17:26:16 -0400 2022-11-11T15:30:00-05:00 2022-11-11T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Linguistics Colloquium (November 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96066 96066-21791884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Pilar Prieto is an ICREA Research Professor at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalunya. Her research focuses on the communicative role of prosody and gesture in language, as well as their significance in language development and second language learning. She serves as associate editor of the journals Language and Speech and Frontiers in Communication. She is currently coediting a special issue of Language and Cognition on Multimodal Prosody and organizing the 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium MMSYM, April 27-28 2023, Barcelona.

This event is hybrid, join us via Zoom or in East Hall 4448

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How the prosody in our hands and body can help us enhance second language pronunciation learning
Pilar Prieto (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

ABSTRACT
When we speak, we frequently use rhythmic hand gestures which are coordinated with prosodically prominent parts of speech (e.g., beat gestures). As most of the research on the benefits of gesture in the second language classroom has focused on the effects of representational gestures (e.g., for the acquisition of vocabulary), little is known about the potential beneficial effects of beats and other embodied prosodic movements on the learning of L2 pronunciation. In this talk I will discuss the results of several experiments carried out in our research group that deal with how beat gestures and other embodied rhythmic and melodic movements facilitate the learning of second language pronunciation. Experiments 1 and 2 will assess the potential benefits of observing and performing beat gestures on L2 pronunciation learning by intermediate Catalan learners of English. Experiments 3 and 4 will analyze the benefits of performing hand-clapping on L2 pronunciation learning at initial stages of L2 acquisition of French by Catalan and Chinese native speakers. Experiments 5 and 6 will assess the effects of the use of melodic and rhythmic hand movements on the learning of both suprasegmental and segmental information by English and French language learners. Widening the scope of this investigation, Experiment 7 will assess the boosting effects of an embodied music-based rhythmic and melodic training which does not involve speech in the foreign language for English pronunciation learning. Based on the positive findings from these experiments, I will discuss the results of a recent study testing the idea that embodied narrative-based natural classroom interventions have the potential to be used as strong scaffolding mechanisms for speech production. I will finally suggest that a more active, context-based multimodal approach to teaching pronunciation could be successfully applied to both language teaching and speech treatment contexts.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Oct 2022 08:30:19 -0400 2022-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Pilar Prieto
Saturday Morning Physics | Battery Management System: Engineering a Guardian Angel for Lithium-Ion Batteries (November 12, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99199 99199-21797696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 12, 2022 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

From the Rosetta-Philae spacecraft landing three billion miles away from Earth to the daily commute of an electric vehicle, the battery management system (BMS) has been critical for protecting the pack, minimizing aging, accounting for cell-to-cell variability, and monitoring battery degradation in real-time from field data. Accurate predictions of degradation and lifetime of lithium-ion batteries are essential for reliability, safety, and key to cost-effectiveness and life-cycle emissions. The ultimate BMS task is the detection of the onset of venting, the prediction of imminent thermal runaway, which helps manage the risk of explosions and fires from failing batteries.

This talk will be live in ROOMS 170 & 182 Weiser Hall. You can also watch the talk/Q&A, live, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz0l5TJk-LE

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:30:10 -0400 2022-11-12T10:30:00-05:00 2022-11-12T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion The challenge and opportunity of battery lifetime prediction
Biofabrication Strategies for the Regeneration of Cartilage and Bone (November 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100632 100632-21800164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Professor in Biofabrication and Regenerative Medicine
Head of Research, Department of Orthopedics, University Medical Center Utrecht
Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Presentation Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:22:01 -0400 2022-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation Jos Malda, PhD
Air Pollution Research to Inform Public Health Policy and Action (November 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101171 101171-21800901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Registration required https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J2fljsMPSiupd7iQ07_Idg

Sara Adar is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the human health effects of air pollution, with a growing interest in studying intervention strategies to reduce exposures and improve health. Dr. Adar's research contributions have been recognized with awards from the American Heart Association, the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, and the National Institutes of Environmental Health Science. Her teaching was recognized by an Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Previously, Dr. Adar has served as an expert panelist for the EPA in setting their National Ambient Air Quality Standards and an elected member of the executive council of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Currently, she is an associate editor at Environmental Health Perspectives and a member of the Health Effects Institute Review Committee. In her free time, Sara loves to travel and spend time outdoors with her family.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Nov 2022 12:59:40 -0500 2022-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Sara Adar "Air Pollution Research to Inform Public Health Policy and Action" 11/15/2022
Distinguished University Professorships Lecture Series (November 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100187 100187-21799321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Ruthven Administration Building
Organized By: University and Development Events

Sponsored by the President, Provost and Rackham Dean’s Office, this event features three Distinguished University Professors speaking on their professional and scholarly experiences. Each concise lecture will be followed by a brief Q & A.

Program:
“Singularities” by Karen Smith (William Fulton Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts)

“Life and Taxes” by Joel Slemrod (David Bradford Distinguished University Professor of Economics, Department of Economics; Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy,Stephen M. Ross School of Business)

“Managing Microbiomes in Urban Water Systems” by Lutgarde Raskin (Vernon L. Snoeyink Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering, Altarum/ERIM Russell O'Neal Professor of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,College of Engineering)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:15:02 -0500 2022-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Administration Building University and Development Events Lecture / Discussion DUP Event Information
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
MIPSE Seminar | Unraveling Implosion Physics in Inertial Confinement Fusion: Direct-drive Simulations, Experiments, and Physics-informed Data Science (November 16, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97915 97915-21795314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Direct-drive Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) implosions can potentially provide high fusion yield and gain. These implosions are performed at the 60-beam, ~30-kJ OMEGA laser at the U. of Rochester. The nominally identical beams implode a cryogenic layer of deuterium-tritium fuel enclosed in a polymeric shell. In this talk, I will describe the physics and status of these implosions. Design and interpretation of OMEGA cryogenic implosions are performed using integrated radiation-hydrodynamic codes that include the physics of laser plasma interactions, heat conduction, radiation transport, and material properties. However, differences in experimental signatures compared with models indicate that these codes have limited quantitative predictability. Predictive modeling requires targeted experiments to improve physics models in integrated codes with an emphasis on diagnostics. Targeted platforms including solid spheres, planar foils, and cones embedded in shells are used to validate laser drive models, shock propagation etc. An alternate approach based on semi-empirical data science has helped identify experimental fusion yield dependencies on parameters that may not be captured a-priori in simulations and has improved implosion performance. I will also discuss the path forward for direct-drive ICF implosions, including extrapolations for the prediction of gain and required improvements in physics understanding.

About the Speaker:
Radha is a Distinguished Scientist at the U. of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics, LLE. Her research focuses on understanding the physics of plasmas. She models the behavior of high temperature plasmas with the goal of developing predictive simulations for fusion experiments. Her work was the first that helped experimentally identify the role of hydrodynamic instability in ICF implosions. She has been instrumental in identifying nuclear astrophysics related questions and initiating experiments to address them using high-power lasers. Radha has led research at the National Ignition Facility to study various aspects of direct-drive. Previously, Radha led the Integrated Modeling Group and was Chair of the High-Performance Computing Group at LLE. She has served on several national panels and committees reviewing ICF, including as an advisor to the Under Secretary of Energy for Science. Radha also leads a group of women at LLE called the Women in Science and Engineering at Rochester or WISER. Radha is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is the recipient of the Leadership Award for fusion energy from Fusion Power Associates. She has a Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from the California Institute of Technology.

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for information about in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2223.php.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 11:32:42 -0400 2022-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 2022-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Radha Bahukutumbi
"Disability in Higher Education" (November 17, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100311 100311-21799589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 17, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Materials Science and Engineering

You're invited to this special virtual seminar that will highlight the plight of those with disabilities in higher education and discuss what may be done to develop different disability imaginary of the future. Register at https://bit.ly/3S8gFiQ

Abstract
From statistics we know that disclosure rates amongst postgraduate research students in higher education are much lower than in the general population or amongst undergraduate students, and that academic staff are even less likely to disclose needs. However, there is no evidence that invisible disabilities are less prevalent in higher education.

In this presentation, Nicole will draw on her extensive research to highlight the plight of those with disabilities, chronic illnesses and/or neurodivergences in higher education. She will commence with an introduction to the definitional difficulties of "disability" as a term, before exploring some of the issues individuals encounter. She will then present her concept of looking at disclosure as a cost-benefit analysis to gradually ease delegates into what may be done to develop a somewhat different disability imaginary of the future.

Bio
Dr. Nicole Brown is Director of Social Research & Practice and Education Ltd and Associate Professor at University College London. Nicole's creative and research work relate to physical and material representations of experiences, the generation of knowledge and use of metaphors to express what is difficult to express, and more generally, research methods and approaches to explore identity and body work. Her books include Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education, Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education, Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods, and Making the Most of Your Research Journal. Her next book is Photovoice, Reimagined. Nicole's creative nonfiction has been published in the Journal of Participatory Research Methods, So Fi Zine and The AutoEthnographer. She tweets as @ncjbrown and @AbleismAcademia

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:40:02 -0400 2022-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Materials Science and Engineering Workshop / Seminar Dr. Nicole Brown
Epidemiology Seminar Series (November 17, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101231 101231-21801084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 17, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Epidemiology

You Cannot Be Healthy without oral health"
Speaker: Wenche Borgnakke, DDS, PhD, MPH
Thursday, November 17 at noon in SPH II M1020
RSVP at https://forms.gle/nTsoFoRZB4VtWwYk6

Attendees will get an impression of how widespread oral diseases are in the US and globally. They will appreciate how important a role good oral health plays for proper mastication and other oral functions like smiling, acceptable appearance, feeling of self-worth, social well-being, and quality of life. The audience will also hear scientific evidence for the two-way relationships between oral and general health will be summarized along with a description of the underlying mechanisms in order to make it clear why "you cannot be healthy without oral health."

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:34:25 -0500 2022-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Public Health II Epidemiology Lecture / Discussion Wenche Borgnakke
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (November 17, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 17, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
Sir Alex Halliday to give special lecture (November 17, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100975 100975-21800623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

We are very excited to have our past faculty colleague Prof. Alex Halliday visiting the University of Michigan on Thursday, Nov. 17th. He is currently the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School.

When Alex was at Michigan (1986-1998), he performed the first isotopic measurements that constrained the timing of Earth’s core formation and made the link to the giant impact event that formed our Moon. In 2000, he coined the term “Theia” for the Mars-sized impactor that struck the Earth early in its history. Alex has continued his research into Earth’s origins and will be giving a talk on this subject on Thursday, Nov. 17th at 4:00 p.m. in 1400 Chemistry Building. It is entitled, “New uncertainties around Earth’s origins”.

Alex has received numerous honors and awards in recognition of his scientific contributions. These include the Bowen Award and Hess Medal from the American Geophysical Union, the Urey Medal of the European Association of Geochemistry, among others. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Alex is a superb speaker and has a compelling scientific story to tell – please encourage all of the graduate students, postdocs and research scientists in your group (irrespective of your sub-fields) to come to his talk!

ALSO: Alex will be hosting a round-table Q&A (refreshments will be provided) on the Climate School at Columbia University. For everyone in your research group (and students in your classes) who are interested in climate-related research and initiatives, please attend! All are welcome! It will be held in Room 2540 from 2:00-3:15 p.m. in North University Building.

Thanks to all for spreading the word (and for making every effort to attend his lecture)!!!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:27:48 -0500 2022-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion Alex Halliday will give a lecture on November 17 at 4pm.
The Clements Bookworm: Author Conversation with Michael Witgen (November 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100123 100123-21799242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. development in the Old Northwest. But, as Michael Witgen demonstrates, the credit for Native persistence rested with the Anishannabeg themselves. Outnumbering white settlers well into the nineteenth century, they leveraged their political savvy to advance a dual citizenship that enabled mixed-race tribal members to lay claim to a place in U.S. civil society.

Part of Native American Heritage Month at U-M: https://mesa.umich.edu/native-american-heritage

Free, registration required at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:25:08 -0400 2022-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Bookcover
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
Smith Lecture - Julia Kelson, University of Michigan (November 18, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99109 99109-21797584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Soil carbonates are widely used in paleoclimate studies because their stable isotopes record a valuable, ground-level perspective of environmental conditions including moisture availability, temperatures, concentrations of CO2, and overlying vegetation. Despite their importance as an archive and decades of study, we do not understand how soil carbonates form. This uncertainty clouds our ability to use soil carbonates to quantitatively constrain temperature and water fluxes in ancient soils. In this talk, I will discuss ongoing research conducted at the University of Michigan that seeks to fill in this knowledge gap by studying modern soil carbonates and soil water in the Western US. We are using two innovative stable isotope techniques, clumped and triple oxygen isotopes, to constrain the environmental factors that drive carbonate formation in dryland soils.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:47:58 -0500 2022-11-18T15:30:00-05:00 2022-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
WSN Mental Health Speaker Series (November 18, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100958 100958-21800603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Wolverine Support Network

Join us at Wolverine Support Network’s Speaker Series, where students, faculty, and staff will share their experiences with vulnerability and perseverance in order to destigmatize conversations about mental health on campus. Our goal is to bring together mental health advocates in the University of Michigan community to recognize the strength and resilience of those within. This event will take place on November 18 from 7-9 pm in Angell Hall Auditorium A. Whether you come for one or all of our talks, we would love to have you!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 21:46:47 -0400 2022-11-18T19:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Wolverine Support Network Lecture / Discussion WSN Speaker Series Advertisement
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (November 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-24T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
Graduate Student Capstone Presentations (November 29, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101172 101172-21800902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

November 29, 7:00-9:30pm
Space 2435, North Quad
105 S. State Street (corner of State St. & Washington St.)
Light reception to follow

Nolan Ehlers, MM in Percussion Performance

*Afro Cuban Expression: Santería, Music, and Community*
Nolan Ehlers will be presenting on Santería, folkloric Afro Cuban music, and his experience studying in Cuba and New York City. Those interested in religious studies and Cuban culture may find this presentation particularly engaging.

Godfrey Lubuulwa, MM in Improvisation and Music Education

*Ugandan Traditional Music in Fusion with Jazz: A Case Study of Music Pedagogies in Baxmba Waves Band*
The fusion of Jazz with Ugandan traditional music, a case study of pedagogies in Baxmba Waves band. I examine how the learning approaches in Baxmba Waves Band can find space in the Ugandan music curriculum.

Njeri Rutherford, MFA in Dance

*Where are all the Black People?: Movement in the African Diaspora*
This lecture demonstration will examine Black Dance performance in Afro Cuban and American cultures.

If you require accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777 or cwps.information@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Presentation Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:00:17 -0500 2022-11-29T19:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T21:30:00-05:00 North Quad Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Graduate Capstone Presentations
MIPSE Seminar | Critical Developmental Challenges and Potential Advancement Paths for Megawatt-Scale Nuclear Electric Propulsion Systems (November 30, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97917 97917-21795316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Megawatt-class nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) systems for human missions require the development and maturation of a range of technologies. Many of the critical subsystems are relatively immature and present significant technological challenges when considering the requirements that must be met to realize a feasible spacecraft design. A large challenge for any nuclear system, but especially for one at the megawatt scale, is the capability to perform ground testing at relevant scales and power levels to mature each subsystem. These tests must also support modeling and simulation activities to demonstrate understanding of the important and controlling physical phenomena in the system and to aid in the prediction of lifetime capability for a full-duration mission. NASA’s Space Nuclear Propulsion project is pursuing a strategy that uses a building-block approach, maturing technologies for a 1 MWe block under the assumption that a future high-power NEP mission will have requirements that can be met either through straightforward scaling of this building block to the levels required or using multiple blocks to meet the overall power needs. This seminar will discuss the challenges of developing an in-space MWe-scale nuclear power source and an accompanying very large plasma propulsion system and present some potential advancement paths to pursue in this endeavor.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Kurt Polzin is Chief Engineer for Space Nuclear Propulsion at NASA’s George C. Mar-shall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, AL. He received his B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engr. from The Ohio State University in 1999 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engr. from Princeton University in 2006. Dr. Polzin joined the Propulsion Research and Development Lab. at NASA-MSFC in 2004 as a propulsion research engineer. Prior, he was the Space Systems Team lead for the Advanced Concepts Office performing conceptual spacecraft system and mission design and analysis. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where he has taught in Physics and Mechanical & Aerospace Engr. He has co-authored over 100 technical publications on the testing and modeling of electric and space nuclear propulsion systems and components and is lead author of the monograph Circuit Modeling of Inductively-Coupled Pulsed Accelerators. Dr. Polzin is a Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), in which he also serves on the Electric Propulsion Technical Committee and as the South-eastern US Regional Director.

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for information about in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2223.php.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 11:31:48 -0400 2022-11-30T15:30:00-05:00 2022-11-30T16:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Kurt Polzin
DCMB Seminar - Presenter: Luca Pinello (Assoc. Prof. at MGH and HMS) (November 30, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101444 101444-21801349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

CRISPR genome editing technologies and single-cell assays have opened new opportunities to study cellular systems and gene regulation at an unprecedented level of detail.

In this talk, I will first present computational methods we have developed to uncover and dissect regulatory elements using CRISPR genome editing technologies. I will also discuss challenges associated with using CRISPR technologies related to designing perturbations and quantifying editing outcomes.

I will then cover our work in modeling data from current single-cell assays, discussing methods to uncover development trajectories, recover RNA-velocity with uncertainty, and create interpretable regulatory maps from multi-omics data using graph embedding techniques.

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

Short bio:
Luca Pinello is a computational biologist and leader in developing computational methods for functional genomics, genome editing and single cell technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Palermo, Italy. He is currently an Associate Pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He is also part of the MGH Center for Cancer Research and an Associate Member of the BROAD Institute of MIT and Harvard. He has developed several foundational computational tools in the field of genome editing for the design (CRISPRme, CRISPRitz, PrimeDesign), quantification (CRISPResso 1 and 2), and analyses of coding and non-coding tiling screens (CRISPRO, CRISPR-SURF). He was awarded one of the first NIH R35 Genomic Innovator Awards, a prestigious grant supporting highly innovative researchers working on important problems in genomics.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:07:59 -0500 2022-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
LHS Collaboratory (December 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99641 99641-21798493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

"A Double-Edged Sword”: Genetic Data Sharing and Implications for the Learning Health System

Thursday, December 1, 2022

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET

Great Lakes Room, Palmer Commons, 4th floor

100 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI

Speaker:
Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBioethics
Interim Co-Director, Center for Bioethics & Social Sciences in Medicine Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of Michigan Medical School

In contrast to the laborious and expensive process of generating genetic datasets de novo, academic genetic researchers are increasingly using large and inexpensive “secondary” research datasets held by government, consortia, and industry for their work. Choosing between different kinds of data providers is about more than just convenience, however, it can also have important implications for the kind of science advanced and to which communities it will generalize. This talk will explore the factors driving researchers to select certain datasets for their work as well as their experiences sharing to, as well as using, shared data resources. As researchers wait for the new National Institutes of Health’s “Policy for Data Management and Sharing” to go into effect in January 2023, this talk will explore who ultimately carries the burden of increasing data sharing requirements

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:30:26 -0500 2022-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T13:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
Limb synovial joint development and morphogenesis: progress and mysteries (December 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101471 101471-21801382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Studies in my lab focus on mechanisms regulating limb synovial joint formation, skeletal development and growth plate function and involving signaling proteins, cell surface receptors and co-receptors and transcription factors. Data and insights from these basic research projects are used to decipher the pathogenesis of congenital pediatric musculoskeletal disorders and identify possible therapeutic remedies.
Disorders under active study at present are Hereditary Multiple Exostoses (HME), Achondroplasia and Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP). This basic-translational-clinical strategy is proving fruitful as one drug identified in my lab for the treatment of FOP was recently approved in Canada, with approval in the US expected soon. I am the Director of Pediatric Orthopaedic Research here at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and have served in this position since 2011. I am also the Associate Director of the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Diseases (PCMD) at U Penn that has over 15 faculty members and maintains 3 Research Cores, serving a large biomedical research community at our two adjacent Institutions and surrounding Universities and Research Institutes.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Nov 2022 08:34:44 -0500 2022-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Maurizio Pacifici, PhD Director of Orthopaedic Research Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (December 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
On the Trail of an Ice Age Mastodon (December 1, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101219 101219-21800951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

A public reception will precede the lecture in the museum atrium and lobby beginning at 6:00 p.m. The museum is located in the Biological Sciences Building.

Join Daniel C. Fisher, Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, U-M Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Curator, U-M Museum of Paleontology, for the 22nd annual William R. Farrand Memorial Lecture, presented by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History.

Focusing on the life of the Buesching mastodon, represented by the large cast skeleton displayed in the atrium of the U-M Museum of Natural History, On the Trail of an Ice Age Mastodon will reveal the story of one male’s struggles and victories, from adolescence to the mating-season battle that ultimately claimed his life.

Paleontologists seeking to understand the lives of extinct animals often make do with scant clues gleaned from an animal’s skeleton, from its circumstances of preservation, and from its time of death. Reconstructing lost ecosystems is always a challenge, but sometimes we get lucky. At its best, the fossil record provides clear snapshots, or even motion sequences from the past, such as footprints showing how an animal moved. On a larger scale, we can now read records of growth and behavior archived in the mineralized layers of mastodon tusks, allowing us to follow a single animal for years, across entire landscapes. For the first time, we identify seasonal migratory behavior that may have been key to meeting the challenges of reproduction near the end of the Ice Age.

This event will be live-streamed. Visit: https://lsa.umich.edu/ummnh/visitors/things-to-do/farrand-lecture.html

The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly value inclusion and access for all. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Brea Haywood at breahay@umich.edu if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:55:03 -0500 2022-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T20:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion University of Michigan paleontologist Dr. Daniel Fisher with a cast skeleton of the Buesching mastodon on display at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History in Ann Arbor. Photo credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography.
CSEAS Lecture Series. Making Life in the Aftermath of War in Lao PDR (December 2, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97582 97582-21794775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Lecture Summary: After the end of the US wars in Southeast Asia, Laos faded from historical and contemporary interest. Eighty million unexploded bombs remain in the soil, from more than 270 million bombs dropped in Laos over a period of nine years (1964‐1973). People in Laos have taken creative, critical, and sometimes deadly measures to extricate themselves from the large quantities of war metal embedded throughout the country. Some have recycled, melted, and transformed war metals into commodities for consumption, while others have collected and displayed empty bomb casings in their homes and businesses as a record of the US air war in Laos. Bringing together the relationship between war and the environment, this talk examines how cluster bomb metals are circulated and consumed, and how such actions shape life-making practices in the war’s aftermath.

Davorn Sisavath is assistant professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She received her PhD in Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego, and has received several awards, including the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship and the UC Human Rights Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in Radical History Review, Journal of Transnational American Studies, Anthropological Quarterly, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Register at http://myumi.ch/pZ48k

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:43:15 -0400 2022-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Davorn Sisavath, Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton
Collegiate Professorship Ceremony for Xiuli Chao (December 2, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99906 99906-21798865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The College of Engineering will honor Professor Xiuli Chao for his appointment as the Ralph L. Disney Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering. Please join Professor Chao and Dean Alec D. Gallimore, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, for the lecture and ceremony.

Professor Chao will present a lecture titled “Supply Chain Optimization in Action" A reception will follow.

Friday, December 2, 2022 | 3:30 - 4:30 pm ET
Lurie Engineering Center
1221 Beal Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Johnson Rooms (3rd Floor)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:42:24 -0400 2022-12-02T15:30:00-05:00 2022-12-02T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Xiuli Chao
Smith Lecture - Graham Slater, University of Chicago (December 2, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99110 99110-21797585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Morphology often relates to ecology in a well-defined manner, enabling prediction of ecological roles for taxa that lack direct observations, such a fossils. Diet is a particularly important component of a species' ecology. However, in order to predict diet it must first be codified, and establishing metrics that effectively summarize dietary variability without excessive information loss remains challenging. I will show how a dietary-item relative importance coding scheme can be used to derive multivariate dietary classifications for a sample of extant carnivoran mammals, and then used Bayesian multilevel modeling to assess whether that these scores can be predicted from a set of dental metrics, using body size as a covariate. There is no ``one size fits all'' model for predicting dietary item importance but model-averaged estimates perform especially well. I will show how models derived from living taxa can be used to provide novel insights into the dietary ecology of a few extinct carnivoran species. Significantly, this approach need not be limited to diet as an ecological trait of interest, to these phenotypic traits, or to carnivorans. Rather, this framework serves as a general approach to predicting multivariate ecology from phenotypic traits.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:09:15 -0500 2022-12-02T15:30:00-05:00 2022-12-02T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
The Fording Tiger: Two Painting Colophons by Yang Weizhen in the Lo Chia-Lun Collection of Chinese Calligraphy, lecture and Q&A with Dr. Amy McNair (December 2, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100988 100988-21800644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRU8qbd_Wq4.

Earlier this year, UMMA received a transformative gift of more than 70 works of important and influential Chinese calligraphy. The Lo Chia-Lun Calligraphy Collection adds an impressive breadth of works to an already stellar collection of Chinese paintings and ceramics at UMMA. To mark the occasion, UMMA and the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies are delighted to present this important lecture with Chinese Art Historian, Dr. Amy McNair. McNair will discuss works in the collection by the famous Yuan-dynasty poet, Yang Weizhen (1296-1370), and highlight the importance of the Lo Chia-Lun Collection in the future studies of Chinese calligraphy. These works are colophons (a publisher's emblem or imprint) to one or two lost paintings, called The Fording Tiger, and are superb examples of his intentionally eccentric, awkward style of writing. The “fording tiger” image comes from the story of the Han-dynasty official Liu Kun (d. 57 CE), whose reputation for good government was so powerful that when he arrived to govern Hongnong (modern Sanmenxia, Henan), the local man-eating tigers swam across the Yellow River rather than face him. Yang was instrumental in establishing the importance of colophons on paintings and reviving the practice of yuefu poetry in the 14th century, making these two colophons containing yuefu poems highly significant works. 

Prior to the keynote, we are delighted to offer a rare opportunity to see works from the Lo Chia-Lun collection in UMMA’s object study rooms. You must register for a study room session. Please register for only one time slot. Capacity is extremely limited.

Both study sessions are currently full. You can register for the waitlist below. 

Waitlist for 4:30 p.m. Study Session 2

More about Dr. Amy McNair Amy McNair is a Professor of Chinese Art History at the University of Kansas and Editor-in-chief of the Asian art history journal Artibus Asiae. Her research interests are Chinese calligraphy and painting, and Chinese Buddhist sculpture. Her 1998 book on the Tang-dynasty calligrapher Yan Zhenqing was recently translated into Chinese as 中正之笔——颜真卿书法与宋代文人政治 (The Righteous Pen—Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and the Song Dynasty Literati Politics). Her latest book, The Stigma of the Painting Master: Liang Shicheng and The Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings, will appear in 2023, published by Harvard Asia Center Publications.

Please join us after Dr. McNair’s talk for refreshments in the UMMA Apse.  

This workshop is made possible by the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Department of History of Art, and the Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur Endowment for Chinese Art. The Lo Chia-Lun Calligraphy Collection at UMMA is the gift of Jiu-Fong Lo Chang and Kuei-sheng Chang. 

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Other Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:18:49 -0500 2022-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Reexamining Environmental Epigenetics in Epidemiology: The Case of DNA Methylation & Hydroxymethylation (December 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101251 101251-21801110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Registration required https://bit.ly/3UBVsiW

An environmental toxicologist, epidemiologist, and M-LEEaD scientist, Rebeka (Bek) Petroff, PhD is currently a postdoc in the EHS Dept., School of Public Health, University of Michigan. She's interested in research and science communication at the intersection of environmental public health and its connections with epigenetics, toxicology, and big data.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:53:37 -0500 2022-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-06T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Dec 6 Bek Petroff "Reexamining Environmental Epigenetics in Epidemiology"
Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series (December 7, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101913 101913-21802921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Neuroscience Institute

Join MNI on Thursday, December 16, at 1:00 p.m. EST as we host the Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar!

Hosted by MNI Co-Director Hank Paulson, M.D., Ph.D., attendees will hear scientific presentations at 1:00 p.m. from U-M Postdoctoral Fellow Marina Silveira, Ph.D., and Neuroscience Graduate Program Student Cristina Maria Rios.

A panel discussion will follow the presentations at 1:30 p.m. and will be led by Keith Duncan, Ph.D., U-M Associate Professor (Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery) and Faculty Mentor for the U-M Neuroscience Graduate Program. The panel discussion is titled "Stacked Mentorship: Models and Practice' and will feature three panelists, including U-M Assistant Professor Michael Roberts, Ph.D., (Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Molecular & Integrative Physiology), U-M Neuroscience Graduate Program Student Jenn Jaime, and U-M Postdoctoral Fellow Pilar Rivero-Rios, Ph.D.

Spread the word - all are welcome to attend!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Dec 2022 10:45:51 -0500 2022-12-07T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 Michigan Neuroscience Institute Lecture / Discussion U-M Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series
PERFORMANCE TALKS (December 7, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101395 101395-21801298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 5:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Wednesday, December 7
5:00-6:30 PM
1405 East Quad
701 E. University Ave.
Free and open to the public

A female duo that creates musical performances, *I Broke the Vase* (Eva Matsigkou, Nefeli Sani) make small rituals that are linked to their music, but also to their spiritual and bodily pursuits. They apply processes, such as deep listening, sound exploration, free improvisation, phonetic expression, speech, composition, site-specific projects and anything else that can contribute to the desired result, trying to overcome the barriers of censorship and musical and/or social stereotypes. They use instruments, objects, microphones, electronics, voices, recordings and loops.

From Athens, Greece, *I Broke the Vase* will visit the University of Michigan as part of a visiting artist/scholars residency supported by the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

CWPS Performance Talks is a series of events in collaboration with local arts presenters, which aims to bring performers to campus to foster intellectual exchange between students, faculty and practitioners, as a means of illuminating global perspectives on performance practice.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:21:27 -0500 2022-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 2022-12-07T18:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion I Broke the Vase
Neuroscience Faculty Candidates' Research Symposia (December 8, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101548 101548-21802556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan Neuroscience Institute

The U-M Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology (MCDB) is recruiting for two faculty positions at the Assistant Professor level or above, depending on the candidates. As part of the recruitment process, MCDB would like to invite the Michigan Neuroscience community to take part in this process.

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Presentation Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:34:21 -0500 2022-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan Neuroscience Institute Presentation Itinerary
Invasion in Oral Cancer: A recurring theme (December 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101516 101516-21801469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Oral Health Sciences PhD Candidate, D'Silva Lab
DDS Candidate, Class of 2026
University of Michigan School of Dentistry

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Nov 2022 08:55:41 -0500 2022-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Erika Danella Oral Health Sciences PhD Candidate, D'Silva Lab DDS Candidate, Class of 2026 University of Michigan School of Dentistry
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (December 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
Human-Centered Design to Improve Inclusiveness of CAVs for Older Adults (December 9, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101398 101398-21801301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 9, 2022 10:30am
Location: Transportation Research Institute
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

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

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:26:21 -0500 2022-12-09T10:30:00-05:00 2022-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 Transportation Research Institute Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Promotional Image for the CCAT Student Poster Session. It features a picture of a lecture hall, the U-M Transportation Research Institute, and the CCAT logo.
Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquium (December 9, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96067 96067-21791885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 9, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Join us in person or virtually on Zoom. https://umich.zoom.us/j/91533804345

Tzu-Yun Tung
TITLE
Expectations modulate retrieval interference during ellipsis resolution

ABSTRACT
Memory operations during language comprehension are subject to interference: retrieval is harder when items are linguistically similar to each other. We test how such interference effects might be modulated by linguistic expectations. Theories differ in how these factors might interact; we consider three possibilities: (i) predictability determines the need for retrieval, (ii) predictability affects cue-preference during retrieval, or (iii) noisy memory representations affect next-word predictions. We first demonstrate that expectations for a target word modulate retrieval interference in Mandarin noun-phrase ellipsis in an electroencephalography (EEG) experiment. This result obtains in globally ungrammatical sentences – termed “facilitatory interference.” Such a pattern is inconsistent with theories that focus only on the need for retrieval. To tease apart cue-preferences from noisy-memory representations, we operationalize the latter using a Transformer neural network language model. Confronting that model with our stimuli does reveal an interference effect, consistent with prior work, but does not show an interaction between interference and predictability which contrasts with the EEG results. Together, these data are most consistent with the hypothesis that the predictability of target items affects cue-preferences during retrieval.


Dominique A. Canning
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An Intersectional Approach to Black Queer Language & Identity Performance

ABSTRACT
This talk furthers our understanding of how Black queer people use language to perform and create their identities. The intersection of Blackness and queerness is one that requires us to examine the ways race, gender, and sexual orientation influence a person’s lived experience. Following an intersectional approach, I argue that a Black queer person does not experience the world as either a Black person or a queer person, but uniquely as a Black queer person. To understand the role of language in Black queer life and experience, it is necessary to challenge strict boundaries between linguistic categories and social identities, while also considering the ways linguistic performance may be used as a tool of power and resistance.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:59:13 -0500 2022-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Saturday Morning Physics | Fluid Instabilities: Stars, Bars, and Fusion (December 10, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99201 99201-21797698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 10, 2022 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Fluids are constantly mixing in our everyday lives. Some examples are oil and vinegar or coffee and cream. While we often don't think too much about how these fluids mix, they can have profound consequences in material ejecta in the Universe, fusion energy, and at your local pub. This talk will give a fundamental description of fluid mixing, discuss examples found in nature and engineering, and describe the effects mixing can have.

This talk will be live in ROOMS 170 & 182 Weiser Hall. You can also watch the talk/Q&A, live, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLXmkQUwlg

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:08:19 -0400 2022-12-10T10:30:00-05:00 2022-12-10T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Figure Credit: Adrianna Angulo
The Matricellular Protein Mindin Drives Fibrogenesis in a Mouse Model of Scleroderma (December 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101986 101986-21803136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Medical Science Research Building 2
Organized By: U-M Skin Biology & Diseases Resourced-based Center

The UM-SBDRC is pleased to welcome Professor Colin Jamora, Ph.D. from IFOM-inSTEM Joint Research Laboratory Centre for Inflammation and Tissue Homeostasis, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in Bangalore, India.

Dr. Jamora is presenting his research entitled, "The Matricellular Protein Mindin Drives Fibrogenesis in a Mouse Model of Scleroderma" on Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 11 a.m. in Medical Science Building II WLH-3697 & on Zoom.

To learn more about his research and to register (required), please follow this link:

https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/skin-biology-diseases-resource-based-center/events/202212/colin-jamora-phd

For those attending in-person, lunch from Panera will be provided.
Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:16:43 -0500 2022-12-15T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-15T12:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Research Building 2 U-M Skin Biology & Diseases Resourced-based Center Conference / Symposium Professor Colin Jamora, Ph.D.
The Clements Bookworm: Exploring Tooth Worm and Tooth Fairy Folklore (December 16, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100132 100132-21799251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 16, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this 50th episode of The Clements Bookworm, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry curator, Tamara Barnes discusses two enchanting characters associated with teeth – the Tooth Fairy and the Tooth Worm. Surprising and delightful beliefs from all over the world will be explored including ancient tales and modern-day superstitions. The Bookworm will meet the Tooth Worm, the mythical culprit who was believed to cause dental caries, and which was selected by student vote to be explored in a new exhibit.

Barnes will include an overview of the Museum’s mission including how it uses objects and images to make the history of oral health more relevant. A new exhibit, Teeth Transformations, explores the myriad ways people alter our teeth in order to express themselves.

Free, registration required at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:23:32 -0500 2022-12-16T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-16T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Exploring Tooth Worm and Tooth Fairy Folklore
Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series (December 16, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101913 101913-21802920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 16, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Neuroscience Institute

Join MNI on Thursday, December 16, at 1:00 p.m. EST as we host the Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar!

Hosted by MNI Co-Director Hank Paulson, M.D., Ph.D., attendees will hear scientific presentations at 1:00 p.m. from U-M Postdoctoral Fellow Marina Silveira, Ph.D., and Neuroscience Graduate Program Student Cristina Maria Rios.

A panel discussion will follow the presentations at 1:30 p.m. and will be led by Keith Duncan, Ph.D., U-M Associate Professor (Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery) and Faculty Mentor for the U-M Neuroscience Graduate Program. The panel discussion is titled "Stacked Mentorship: Models and Practice' and will feature three panelists, including U-M Assistant Professor Michael Roberts, Ph.D., (Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Molecular & Integrative Physiology), U-M Neuroscience Graduate Program Student Jenn Jaime, and U-M Postdoctoral Fellow Pilar Rivero-Rios, Ph.D.

Spread the word - all are welcome to attend!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Dec 2022 10:45:51 -0500 2022-12-16T13:00:00-05:00 2022-12-16T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Neuroscience Institute Lecture / Discussion U-M Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series
Oral Health Sciences Seminar Series (January 12, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102846 102846-21805235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Oral Health Sciences Seminar Series Title:
Adverse Childhood Experiences Impact Tooth Emergence and Development

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:28:05 -0500 2023-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Workshop / Seminar Erin Ealba Bumann, DDS, PhD, MS Assistant Professor Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Dentistry
Fast Lecture | Pre-Roman Funerary Archaeology (January 12, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103261 103261-21806693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This lecture will be presented by Dr. Josipa Mandić and Dr. Cesare Vita, who will deliver a public lecture about their research on pre-Roman funerary archaeology. By presenting the cemeteries of Buccino and San Brancato, two sites of the ancient region of Lucania (modern Basilicata) in central southern Italy, they will analyze changes in indigenous and Lucanian burial practices and grave goods between the 7th and 3rd centuries BCE.

FAST, or the Field Archaeology Series on Thursdays, is usually hosted in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, but for the time being FAST will be held elsewhere, due to space restrictions. The lecture will occur in the Classics Library (2175 Angell Hall). Light refreshments and food will be provided before the lecture, beginning at 5:30 pm. This event will be held in a hybrid setting, and can accessed remotely by the following link or meeting ID:

https://umich.zoom.us/j/96745180200
Meeting ID: 967 4518 0200

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:30:33 -0500 2023-01-12T18:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T19:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion A mounted Lucani warrior, fresco from a tomb of Paestum, Italy, c. 360 BC
33rd Annual MLK Health Sciences Lecture (January 16, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103042 103042-21805754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: U-M School of Dentistry

The School of Dentistry and the MLK Health Sciences Committee invite you to attend the 2023 MLK Health Sciences Lecture, entitled: (R)EVOLUTION from Segregation to Elevation: The Quest for Health Equity

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:05:08 -0500 2023-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 2023-01-16T14:30:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute U-M School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion 33rd Annual MLK Health Sciences Lecture
Developmental Programming: preconceptional & gestational exposure of sheep to a real-life environmental chemical mixture alters maternal metabolome in a fetal sex-specific manner (January 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102859 102859-21805251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Dr. Soundara Viveka Thangaraj (Viveka) is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Vasantha Padmanabhan in the Department of Pediatric-Endocrinology at the University of Michigan.

She received her PhD in Genomics and Oncology, from the University of Madras, India. Her research centers around the developmental programming effects of pre-natal exposure to environmental chemicals, on long-term metabolic health of the offspring, using omic tools.

In the current research, she has utilized a translationally relevant, real-life, low-dose, chronic chemical exposure model, in which sheep are exposed to biosolids which is a source of real-life mixture of environmental chemicals.

Zoom Webinar REGISTRATION REQUIRED
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qHPonycDRiCuITOGjD-06w

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Jan 2023 12:01:25 -0500 2023-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-17T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion 01/17/2023 Environmental Research Webinar "Developmental Programming: preconceptional & gestational exposure of sheep to a real-life environmental chemical mixture alters maternal metabolome in a fetal sex-specific manner"
LHS Collaboratory (January 19, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99642 99642-21798494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

LHS Collaboratory January Session

An interview and discussion with Professor Osagie K. Obasogie, JD, PhD.
Haas Distinguished Chair
Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of California, Berkeley

Interviewers:

Azia Harris-Martin
Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems PhD Student
University of Michigan
Manager of Transformation, Optum PacWest

Salomé Viljoen
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School

Osagie K. Obasogie is the Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law with a joint appointment in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health. He received his B.A. in Sociology and Political Science (with distinction in both majors) from Yale University, his J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a fellow with the National Science Foundation. Obasogie’s scholarly interests include Constitutional law, policing and police use of force, sociology of law, bioethics, race and inequality in law and medicine, and reproductive and genetic technologies.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:03:28 -0500 2023-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
Making Michigan: Dr. Bethany Hughes on Native Americans at U-M (January 19, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102925 102925-21805370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

The University of Michigan has a complicated history with Native American communities, which were vital to its very existence. Join us for a discussion with Bethany Hughes, assistant professor of American Culture, on the historic and ongoing activism of Native American students. The talk will examine the founding of the Native American Student Association, the work to compel the University to recognize the promise of education made to Native Americans in the 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs (including a critical lawsuit brought by a U-M football player), and the decades-long work to bring to light the racial stereotyping and misuse of Native American symbols by the Michigamua student organization.

* You can attend this event in person at the Detroit Observatory or virtually. *

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:35:50 -0500 2023-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T21:00:00-05:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Graphic of the event title, speaker name, and image of the speaker.
The Clements Bookworm: Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th Century America (January 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103077 103077-21806077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Bookworm is happy to welcome the instructor and several students to the program where they will be in the conversation as they discuss the inspiration and work which generated the student-curated exhibit.

The exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

Registration required:http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:28:55 -0500 2023-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion The Clements Bookworm
CSEAS Lecture Series. Western Cultures as Thailand’s Strategy for Independence (January 20, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102842 102842-21805226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In the nineteenth century, the second wave of western imperialism hit Southeast Asia. Unable to resist western military forces, Southeast Asia had to surrender to the power of the West. Only one country, Thailand, survived and is proclaimed on the history pages as the sole country in Southeast Asia that survived Western colonization. How Thailand escaped the unbeatable force of the west was always a discussion in many areas of Southeast Asian Studies. One of the key strategies that many scholars discussed was the reformation of cultures through westernization. The upper class of Siamese society employed western cultures, especially in the performing arts, to transform their traditions as equivalent to the standards of the west. The strength of the nation was presented with these reformed cultures that were the work of East-West innovation by Siamese noblemen. This lecture will clarify how Siamese society had enculturated western cultures prior to the nineteenth century, along with the nineteenth-century accelerated modernization in the performing arts through westernization to stop the colonization by the West.

Speaker Bio
Jittapim (Nan) Yamprai is a musicologist and ethnomusicologist with research specialization in the music of Southeast Asia, cross-cultural interaction in the music of East and West in Thailand, music, and diplomacy of the Siamese and French in the seventeenth century, Music in the Ayutthaya, music, and politics, and the music and culture of the Burmese refugees in the United States. She received her doctoral degree in music history and literature from the University of Northern Colorado and two master’s degrees—ethnomusicology from Mahidol University, Thailand, and information and library science from the University of North Texas.

Her writings include the establishment of western music in Thailand, sacred music in the catholic church of Thailand, Southeast Asian musical materials for contemporary compositions, Franco-Siamese music diplomacy in the seventeenth century, etc. Jittapim was an associate professor at the University of Northern Colorado, teaching in music, Asian studies, and anthropology departments. She works as the artistic director of the Greeley Multi-Cultural Festival and co-artistic director of Beethoven in the Rockies Concert Series. Currently, she is working in International Education at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/P1yWg


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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Jan 2023 13:32:55 -0500 2023-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Jittapim Yamprai, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 23, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98661 98661-21797037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Ranjay Gulati
Monday, January 23, 2023
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information

Event link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/achieve-the-extraordinary-unlock-the-true-power-of-purpose/

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:
A revolutionary approach to business exists, one that delivers game-changing results for both organizations and society alike: the serious and deep pursuit of purpose. When organizations practice deep purpose, furthering their “reason for being,” it can revolutionize how they do business and deliver impressive performance benefits that reward customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, and communities.

Join us for a conversation with Ranjay Gulati, Harvard Business School Professor and author of Deep Purpose, hosted by Robert E. Quinn to learn why organizations need to embed purpose much more deeply than they currently do, treating it as a radically new operating system. They’ll discuss ways to conceive of and relate to purpose and how to execute it. You’ll learn how you can use the power of purpose to unlock hidden potential in yourself and your organization.

About Gulati:
Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Until recently, he chaired the Advanced Management Program, the flagship senior leader executive program, at the school. Professor Gulati studies how “resilient” organizations—those that prosper both in good times and bad—drive growth and profitability. His work bridges strategy (establishing clear strategic pillars for growth), organizational design (reimagining purposeful and collaborative organizational systems), and leadership (fostering inspired, courageous, and caring execution).

Professor Gulati was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite. The Economist, Financial Times, and the Economist Intelligence Unit have listed him as among the top handful of business school scholars whose work is most relevant to management practice. His research has been published in leading academic journals of business, the Harvard Business Review, and a range of other outlets. He is the author of a number of books. He has been a frequent guest on CNBC and other media outlets.

Professor Gulati advises and speaks to corporations large and small around the globe. He also frequently leads small-group workshops focused on helping leadership teams of high-growth companies enhance the growth trajectory of their businesses. Some of his representative speaking and consulting clients include: Abbott Laboratories, Adidas, Aetna, Allergan, Bank of America, Bank of China, Baxter, Berkshire Partners, Blackrock, Boston Scientific, Bristol Myers Squibb, Brown Brothers Harriman, Caterpillar, Credit Suisse, Expedia, Ford, GE, General Mills, Google, Henkel, Hitachi, Honda, Hospira, IBM, Iron Mountain, Kellogg Company, KeyBank, KPMG, LaFarge, Lockheed Martin, Merck, MetLife, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Novartis, Ochsner, P&G, Qualcomm, Sanofi, SAP, Target, Temasek, Unilever, and Vertex. He has served on the advisory boards of several entrepreneurial ventures and has appeared as an expert witness in business litigations.

Professor Gulati holds a PhD from Harvard University, a Master’s Degree in Management from M.I.T. 's Sloan School of Management, and two Bachelor’s Degrees, in Computer Science and Economics, from Washington State University and St. Stephens College, New Delhi, respectively. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Host:
Robert E. Quinn, Co-Founder and Faculty Advisory Board, Center for Positive Organizations; Professor Emeritus 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 Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:09:50 -0500 2023-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Ranjay Gulati
Implicit Bias (January 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96263 96263-21801373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

In this session, participants will learn to:

Examine your own background and identities and how these identities shape our experiences and perspectives
Discuss how the brain functions, and relate how unconscious bias is a natural function of the human mind
Identify patterns of unconscious bias that influence decision-making processes
Confront internal biases and practice conscious awareness
Review strategies to create transformational change in the workplace

You will benefit by:

Raising self-awareness, sparking conversation with others and initiating new actions
Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

Audience:
This session is open to all LSA employees. It is recommended that participants complete this course before enrolling in the Microaggression Session. External guests may request to join as space allows.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:49:37 -0400 2023-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar We're better when we're united
ME Seminar Series (January 24, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103857 103857-21808008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

Adventures in Cell Herding: Engineering and Control of Multi-agent Cellular Swarms

Presented by
Daniel Cohen
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University

Room 2505 GG Brown
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
4:30 p.m.
ME Seminar Zoom link
Passcode 309714
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Abstract
We are working to accomplish for cells something akin to what a shepherd and sheepdogs bring to flocks of sheep: control over large-scale collective cellular motion. As coordinated cellular motion is foundational to many forms of multicellular life, being able to ‘herd’ or program large-scale cell migration raises exciting possibilities for accelerated healing, tissue engineering, and novel biomaterials. We treat tissues as living, multi-agent systems allowing us to combine approaches from disparate fields—control theory, active matter mechanics, tissue engineering, and materials—both to better understand the rules of cellular crowds and to build new tools to ‘herd’ large-scale cell behaviors. One approach we use is guided self-assembly of tissues, where we establish precise initial conditions and let the tissues develop spontaneously. Here, we combine machine learning, biomechanical modeling, and tissue micropatterning to: characterize the rules of collective migration within tissues of different types; connect cell-cell mechanics to large-scale collective dynamics; and build complex ‘tissue tessellations’ through precise control of healing boundaries between tissues. In contrast to self-assembly, we are also developing tools that allow for true, interactive control of tissue growth and form at the multicellular level. Here, we use a unique bioelectric cue—electrotaxis—to literally program large-scale collective cell migration, enabled by our ‘SCHEEPDOG’ bioreactor. In this case, ionic currents manipulate cellular signaling allowing control of both cell direction and speed, allowing us to: accelerate the ‘healing’ of gap injuries with in vitro tissues; investigate how cell-cell interaction mechanics modulate ‘controllability’; and manipulate the growth of 3D tissues and organoids.

Bio
Daniel Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University and a founding member of the new Princeton Bioengineering Institute (PBI). He trained first in Mechanical Engineering at Princeton, followed by a joint Ph.D. in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley/UCSF, the Physiology Course at the MBL at Woods Hole, and as a Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellow at Stanford University. He started his lab at Princeton in 2018, where his work has been awarded an NIH Early Career MIRA award and an NSF CAREER award. His works span dinosaur and organismal mechanics, tissue engineering, biomaterials, and bio-electromechanics. Outside the laboratory, he is heavily engaged in science communication, running both theatrical performances for the public and the yearly, week-long Lab Tales workshop at Princeton to train researchers in the hidden histories and human stories behind modern scientific research.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:37:17 -0500 2023-01-24T16:30:00-05:00 2023-01-24T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Dan Cohen, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, will give a talk on work he is doing to accomplish for cells something akin to what a shepherd and sheepdogs bring to flocks of sheep: control over large-scale collective cellular motion.
2023 Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture: Philippe Block, "Disrupting Concrete Construction: digital, sustainable and circular" (January 24, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103977 103977-21808178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Disrupting Concrete Construction: digital, sustainable and circular

Concrete does not want to be a beam; it wants to be an arch. Unreinforced concrete can be considered an artificial stone, so the natural geometries for this material happy in compression follow the same structural principles that have kept Gothic cathedrals standing for centuries. It allows significantly reducing the amount of material needed but also building with lesser emitting materials. Recent developments in computational design, engineering, and construction-scale digital fabrication allow the introduction of concrete as a truly sustainable solution for spanning structures such as floor “slabs” or footbridges. This talk will introduce how we can disrupt concrete construction, providing solutions that are lightweight, low in embodied emissions, and use construction demolition waste. Designing for circularity, a discrete masonry logic is introduced, enabling dry-assembled prefab, demountable and reusable or easily recyclable at the end of its life. Lastly, we will go beyond an academic exercise to propose economically competitive innovations available at scale and globally. Sounds too good to be true?

Philippe Block is professor at the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA) at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Block Research Group (BRG) with Dr. Tom Van Mele and is Head of the Institute. Philippe is also the Director of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Digital Fabrication. He studied architecture and structural engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2009. Philippe and Tom apply their research into practice providing innovation in (computational) design, engineering, fabrication, and construction of sustainable, circular, and economical structures, addressing climate change by significantly reducing embodied emissions, utilizing fewer single-use resources, and minimizing construction waste.

Following the motto “strength through geometry” and the principles of traditional unreinforced masonry construction, the BRG translates this knowledge into projects such as the unreinforced stone Armadillo Vault, the thin, flexibly formed concrete shells of the NEST HiLo and KnitCandela, the 3D-concrete-printed masonry bridge Striatus, and the Rippmann Floor System (RFS), a lightweight and ultra-low-embodied floor system.

This memorial lecture was established to recognize John Dinkeloo's extraordinary contributions to architecture and commemorate excellence in architectural design. This annual lecture celebrates those designers whose work combines design excellence with structural ingenuity.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:01:47 -0500 2023-01-24T18:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion 2023 Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture: Philippe Block
UM-SBDRC presents Professor Emily Bernstein from Icahn School of Medicine (January 26, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103913 103913-21808083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Skin Biology & Diseases Resourced-based Center

The UM-SBDRC is pleased to welcome Professor Emily Bernstein, Ph.D. from the departments of Oncological Sciences and Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Bernstein will be presenting her research entitled, “Remodeling Chromatin in Cancer" at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 26, 2023 on Zoom (only virtual). To learn more about her research and to register (required), please follow this link:

https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/skin-biology-diseases-resource-based-center/events/202301/emily-bernstein-phd

After you register, the Zoom information needed to attend will be sent to your email.

Looking forward to seeing you at this event!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:55:39 -0500 2023-01-26T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Skin Biology & Diseases Resourced-based Center Lecture / Discussion
Oral Heath Sciences Seminar Series (January 26, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103076 103076-21806075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Title: "Regulation of Innate Immunity and Wound Healing in the Periodontium"

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:24:17 -0500 2023-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 2023-01-26T14:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Workshop / Seminar Dr. Ann Decker, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
Civil Rights in the 21st Century (January 26, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102338 102338-21803885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Previous centuries have been characterized by human trafficking, colonialism, and global warfare. The 21st century has thus far witnessed mass incarceration, illegal detentions, voter suppression, gun violence, and a crackdown on civil liberties. Similar to past eras, grassroot movements are being led by Black and Indigenous communities to advocate for justice.

As we navigate the social and political landscape of a dynamic world, where do questions of privacy, personal freedoms, and the impacts of globalization intersect? How do we build a comprehensive human rights framework that encompasses a diverse global community?

*There is a one (1) ticket limit per person, per order.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:15:05 -0500 2023-01-26T19:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Lecture / Discussion Omar Suleiman
Using Community-based Participatory Research to Address Immigrant Latinx Workers’ Health & Safety (January 31, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103316 103316-21807018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

ZOOM registration required https://bit.ly/3QwERw5
Please join us on Zoom (12-12:50 pm) for a Residents & Researchers 'Tuesday Talks at 12' webinar on environment, health and community.

Featuring Sherry Baron (Barry Commoner Center for Health & the Environment, Queens College, City Univ of NY), Isabel Cuervo (Barry Commoner Center for Health & the Environment, Queens College, City Univ of NY) and Deysi Flores (Make the Road, New York). Moderated by Amy Schulz (School of Public Health, Univ of Michigan).

Recordings of previous webinars in the series can be viewed at https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mleead.umich.edu/Video.php&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1673977514528131&usg=AOvVaw2wZZ1JKlOsDtcxD7N0jzZL

Organized by the Community Engagement Core (CEC) and the Integrated Health Sciences Core (IHSC) of the Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center (M-LEEaD).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:53:30 -0500 2023-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-31T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Using Community-based Participatory Research to Address Immigrant Latinx Workers’ Health & Safety
ME Seminar Series (January 31, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103863 103863-21808014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

Biophysical Transitions and Unified Dynamics of Periodically Driven (synchronous) and Self-excited (asynchronous) Flapping Flight in Insects and Robots

Presented by
Simon Sponberg
Dunn Family Associate Professor in the School of Physics
and the School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology

Room 1200 EECS
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
3:00 PM
ME Seminar Zoom link
Passcode 309714
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Abstract
The ability to move is a trait of all animals. Yet how do animals, including ourselves, get around in this complex and uncertain world with an ease and agility we find hard to recreate in engineered systems? A particular frontier is centimeter scale locomotion, especially flapping flight. Flapping flight is considered a key evolutionary innovation that led to one of the most explosive radiation events where insects diversified to many forms and ecologies. Underlying these behaviors are compositions of immensely complex physiological subsystems (brains, muscles, bodies), yet what often emerges through evolutionary timescales and environmental interactions is a functional performance that can (sometimes) afford simple analysis on the scale of behavior. In this talk, I will use the agile flight of insects to show how an organismal physics approach can give insights into this emergent, functional simplicity. I will show how insects operate as resonant mechanical systems to power flight but do not necessarily operate at their resonant frequency because of consequences for control. We will explore how insects have evolved two different strategies for powering this resonant flight system using muscles that either provide periodic oscillatory forcing or use a stretch-responsive property to set up self-excited limit cycles. While these two strategies have been known for some time, we find that they can be unified in a single dynamic systems framework that shows how major evolutionary transitions reflect transitions in dynamics. We embody this framework in a dynamically scaled robophysical flapper, where kinematics emerge from mechanics and actuation. We can then test the broad parameter space for flapping flight. We find that these two dynamics regimes are separated by a classic entrainment boundary but also bridged by a region of parameter space enabling smooth transitions between the two flight modes. Finally, we realize this biophysical model in the first at-scale flapping robot that can achieve self-excited oscillations and transition between the two flight modes.

Bio
Simon Sponberg is Dunn Family Associate Professor in the School of Physics and the School of Biological Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He received his B.A. in physics and biology from Lewis &amp; Clark College and his Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. Afterward, Simon conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Washington before joining the faculty at Georgia Tech. He and his group (the Agile Systems Lab) has been exploring how neurons precisely orchestrate motor activity at the millisecond scale, how the versatility of muscle arises from the physics of billions of organized tiny molecular motors, how agile flight is powered and controlled at the centimeter scale and how flowers blow in the wind (and what that does to the pollinators around them). His interdisciplinary approach has been supported by three NSF directorates, including a CAREER award in the physics of living systems. He now leads an Air Force Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), bringing together neuroscientists and engineers from five universities to understand how the brains of organisms achieve fast, flexible perception and decision-making in complex sensory environments. He has been the recipient of a Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Neuroethology, a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in the Neurosciences, and a Hertz Fellow.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:36:36 -0500 2023-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 2023-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Mechanical Engineering Lecture / Discussion The ability to move is a trait of all animals. Yet how do animals, including ourselves, get around in this complex and uncertain world with an ease and agility we find hard to recreate in engineered systems?
UM-SBDRC Speaker Series Presents Professor Nicole Ward from Vanderbilt University (February 2, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103944 103944-21808140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 11:00am
Location: Medical Science Research Building 2
Organized By: U-M Skin Biology & Diseases Resourced-based Center

The UM-SBDRC is pleased to welcome Professor Nicole Ward, Ph.D. from the department of Dermatology at Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Ward will be presenting her research entitled, "Mouse models of skin disease in 2040: is there a future?" at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 2, 2023 in Med Sci 2 WLH-3697 and on Zoom. In-person lunches will be provided.

To learn more about her research and to register (required), please follow this link:

https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/skin-biology-diseases-resource-based-center/events/202302/nicole-l-ward-phd


After you register, the Zoom information needed to attend virtually will be sent to your email.

Looking forward to seeing you at this event!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:43:13 -0500 2023-02-02T11:00:00-05:00 2023-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Research Building 2 U-M Skin Biology & Diseases Resourced-based Center Lecture / Discussion
CSEAS Lecture Series. Refugee Youth Agency in Flux: Active and Passive Waiting in Transit Country Indonesia (February 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102843 102843-21805230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

*Lecture co-sponsored by the Association of Asian Studies*

For more than two decades, Indonesia has been a transit spot for asylum seekers from Central Asia, South Asia, East Africa, and Southeast Asia while irregularly en route to Australia. Following Australia’s controversial ‘stop the boats’ policy, thousands of refugees, including the young population, must wait longer in Indonesia to get their refugee status processed by UNHCR and to have a chance to resettle in a third country. As a non-signatory state to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Indonesia has a limited legal framework to protect the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, which causes grave precarious conditions for them. Nevertheless, arbitrariness in Indonesia’s legal framework and its flexibility in handling refugees surprisingly has provided a certain level of “informal protection” and opportunities for young refugees to make maneuvers in the fluid arenas. As they wait, the young people also plan, anticipate, negotiate, hustle, play, and rest. This talk will focus on the dynamics of refugee youths’ agency-in-waiting. Professor Masardi explores how young refugees exercise passive and active waiting and what contributing factors catalyze or impede the distribution of their agency.

Speaker Bio
Realisa D Masardi is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She is the awardee of the prestigious 2022 Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies. Currently, Professor Masardi is completing her postdoc program at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Professor Masardi has been working on the issues of children and young people in several migrants/refugees communities in Southeast Asia, focusing on their identities, access to rights, and agency, particularly on their everyday survival movements. She received her PhD in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her dissertation focuses on the social navigation of independent young refugees from diverse countries facing precarities during transit in Indonesia.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/29V6E

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:04:39 -0500 2023-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Realisa Masardi, Universitas Gadjah Mada and University of Michigan
32nd Annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom (February 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103267 103267-21806716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Faculty Senate

The annual lecture is named for three U-M faculty members—Chandler Davis, Clement Markert, and Mark Nickerson—who in 1954 were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. All invoked constitutional rights and refused to answer questions about their political associations. The three were suspended from the University with subsequent hearings and committee actions resulting in the reinstatement of Markert, an assistant professor who eventually gained tenure, and the dismissal of Davis, an instructor, and Nickerson, a tenured associate professor.

Monday, February 6, 2023
4 pm – 5:30 pm

University of Michigan Law School
Honigman Auditorium
100 Hutchins Hall
625 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:28:12 -0500 2023-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Faculty Senate Lecture / Discussion Jamelle Bouie
2023 Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture: Philippe Block, "Disrupting Concrete Construction: digital, sustainable and circular" (February 6, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103977 103977-21808177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 6, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Disrupting Concrete Construction: digital, sustainable and circular

Concrete does not want to be a beam; it wants to be an arch. Unreinforced concrete can be considered an artificial stone, so the natural geometries for this material happy in compression follow the same structural principles that have kept Gothic cathedrals standing for centuries. It allows significantly reducing the amount of material needed but also building with lesser emitting materials. Recent developments in computational design, engineering, and construction-scale digital fabrication allow the introduction of concrete as a truly sustainable solution for spanning structures such as floor “slabs” or footbridges. This talk will introduce how we can disrupt concrete construction, providing solutions that are lightweight, low in embodied emissions, and use construction demolition waste. Designing for circularity, a discrete masonry logic is introduced, enabling dry-assembled prefab, demountable and reusable or easily recyclable at the end of its life. Lastly, we will go beyond an academic exercise to propose economically competitive innovations available at scale and globally. Sounds too good to be true?

Philippe Block is professor at the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA) at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Block Research Group (BRG) with Dr. Tom Van Mele and is Head of the Institute. Philippe is also the Director of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Digital Fabrication. He studied architecture and structural engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2009. Philippe and Tom apply their research into practice providing innovation in (computational) design, engineering, fabrication, and construction of sustainable, circular, and economical structures, addressing climate change by significantly reducing embodied emissions, utilizing fewer single-use resources, and minimizing construction waste.

Following the motto “strength through geometry” and the principles of traditional unreinforced masonry construction, the BRG translates this knowledge into projects such as the unreinforced stone Armadillo Vault, the thin, flexibly formed concrete shells of the NEST HiLo and KnitCandela, the 3D-concrete-printed masonry bridge Striatus, and the Rippmann Floor System (RFS), a lightweight and ultra-low-embodied floor system.

This memorial lecture was established to recognize John Dinkeloo's extraordinary contributions to architecture and commemorate excellence in architectural design. This annual lecture celebrates those designers whose work combines design excellence with structural ingenuity.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:01:47 -0500 2023-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-06T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion 2023 Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture: Philippe Block
Privacy@Michigan: Child Safety in the Smart Home (February 8, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104342 104342-21808844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Feb 2023 10:08:51 -0500 2023-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Livestream / Virtual Privacy at Michigan - Child Safety in the Smart Home Presentation and Q and A
Weekly DCMB Seminar with Refreshments (February 8, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103257 103257-21806685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Most disease associated genomic variants have relatively modest effects on target gene expression in reporter or CRISPR perturbation assays. In addition, enhancer disruption in vivo often has surprisingly weak phenotypic consequences. I will present machine learning (ML) methods (gkm-SVM and DNN) which we use to learn the complex transcription factor combinations that control enhancer activity and cell fate. I will then use these methods to develop a quantitative model for enhancer activity which shows that while promoter knockdown has robust effects on target gene expression, individual enhancer knockdown is often weaker and affects temporal transition dynamics, but not the final steady state. This model provides an explanation of the paradox of how enhancer variation can be strongly associated with disease risk while having individually weak effects, by showing in detail how gene regulatory networks control developmentally important and disease relevant cell state transitions and cancer.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:44:58 -0500 2023-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Michael A. Beer, Ph.D., M.A.
The Microaggression Session (February 9, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96265 96265-21801384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental slights. They can be overt, subtle or unintentional, and lead to significant consequences.

In this session, participants will:

Learn about "microaggressions" and other concepts relevant to this topic
Obtain an understanding of the social and psychological impacts of microaggressions
Engage in activities and dialogue to unveil microaggressions within the workplace
Validate experiences with microaggressions
Identify and discuss techniques to combat microaggressions, as a bystander or as a recipient

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA employees. It is recommended that participants complete a course on Implicit Bias before taking this session. External guests may request to join as space allows.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:49:02 -0400 2023-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T12:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar We're better when we're united
Oral Health Sciences Seminar Series (February 9, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102889 102889-21805297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Oral Health Sciences Seminar Series Title:
The aging innate immune response: Implications for periodontal disease and bone regeneration

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:14:38 -0500 2023-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Workshop / Seminar Daniel Clark, DDS, MS, PhD_Assistant Professor Department of Periodontics and Preventive Dentistry_University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine
2023 Robertson Lecture (February 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103734 103734-21807706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbxVSrZ3IwU

Cydney K. Seigerman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Integrative Conservation & Anthropology program at the University of Georgia, where they work with Dr. Don Nelson and are a member of the Human Environmental Change Lab (HECL). Cydney is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and a research scholar at the Cearense Meteorological and Water Resources Foundation (Funceme) in Ceará, Brazil.

Cydney's research incorporates methods from the critical social sciences, natural sciences, and theatre/performance studies to explore human-technology-environment relations. Their dissertation work explores how socionatural (i.e., interrelated sociopolitical, environmental, and technological) processes shape and are shaped by the lived experience of water insecurity in Ceará, northeast Brazil.

Before pursuing their Ph.D., Cydney studied chemistry and Spanish language and literature at the University of Michigan, graduating from the Residential College and Honors College. They then relocated to Madrid, Spain, where they served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, studied acting at the theater school La Lavandería, and ran competitively.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Feb 2023 14:14:07 -0500 2023-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion C. Seigerman
FAST Lecture | The River and the Rock: Early Rome Environmental Settings (February 9, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104167 104167-21808550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Laura Motta is an archaeologist specialized in people-environment interactions in the Mediterranean during the later prehistory and early historical periods. Her research focuses on the investigation of social complexity in early cities through food redistribution patterns, agricultural practices and landscape modifications, and she is currently involved in projects in Italy, Romania and Egypt. She is the co-director of the Bioarchaeology Lab at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the director of Environmental Archaeology for the Gabii Project. Since 2022 she is the UofM PI for the AGROS Project.

FAST, or the Field Archaeology Series on Thursdays, is usually hosted in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, but for the time being FAST will be held elsewhere, due to space restrictions. The lecture will occur in the Classics Library (2175 Angell Hall). Light refreshments and food will be provided before the lecture, beginning at 5:30 pm. This event will be held in a hybrid setting, and can accessed remotely by the following link or meeting ID:

https://umich.zoom.us/j/99003527904
Meeting ID: 990 0352 7904

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:40:56 -0500 2023-02-09T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T19:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Dr. Laura Motta
CSEAS Lecture Series. Massacre in Myanmar: How two reporters uncovered a Rohingya mass grave—and the price they paid for it (February 10, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102879 102879-21805278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In August 2017, the Myanmar military launched a massive offensive against Rohingya Muslims living in the country’s northwest, killing thousands of people, burning hundreds of villages, and pushing more than 700,000 Rohingya across the border to Bangladesh. The Aung San Suu Kyi government declined to condemn the offensive. Many ministers claimed the Rohingya burned their own homes and returned to their “homeland” of Bangladesh. The officials declared the area off limits to the press, but two Myanmar journalists with the Reuters news agency, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, kept reporting. They uncovered a mass grave with ten Rohingya men and boys, complete with before and after pictures of the execution and first-person, on-the-record testimonies by the perpetrators.

The Pulitzer-prize-winning investigation, carried out by Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-rakhine-events), and their colleagues, for the first time described the inner workings of what the US government called, the genocide of the Rohingya. It also presented the Suu Kyi government with incontrovertible evidence of crimes committed by the military, resulting in the prosecution of several soldiers and officers. The military pulled out all the stops to prevent the publication of the story: It entrapped the journalists in an elaborate sting operation, and a Myanmar court later sentenced them to seven years in jail, of which they served about 18 months before receiving a presidential amnesty. The case underscored the enduring power of the army in a nominally civilian administration of Aung San Suu Kyi. The simmering tension boiled over when the staunchly anti-Rohingya commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing staged a coup d’état in February 2021, reversing years of democratic reforms.

Speaker Bio
Antoni Slodkowski is the Tokyo correspondent for the *Financial Times*, where he covers the biggest business stories in the world’s third-largest economy, a position he assumed this year after working as the deputy bureau chief at Reuters in Tokyo. In that role, Slodkowski led the bureau’s politics and general news team and its coverage of the Olympics and the pandemic. He returned to Japan after four years in Myanmar, where his team covered the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya. During that reporting, two of his colleagues, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were arrested and imprisoned in an effort to stop the publication of a story exposing a massacre of ten Rohingya men. That and other stories won the team the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. A native of Poland, Slodkowski is a graduate of the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/G1m9n
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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:05:26 -0500 2023-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Antoni Slodkowski, Financial Times; Reuters
The Pandora's Box of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) (February 15, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103578 103578-21807510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Transportation Research Institute
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:00:10 -0500 2023-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2023-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 Transportation Research Institute Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Lecture / Discussion Promotional Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings. It features their headshot, the presentation title: "The Pandora's Box of Autonomous Vehicle's (AVs)", and an aerial photograph of cars driving.
Amali Tower, 2023 Weerasinghe Lecture (February 15, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104026 104026-21808287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP HERE: https://www.cew.umich.edu/events/2023-weerasinghe-lecture-with-amali-tower

Join us for Amali Tower’s keynote lecture: “Global Governance Frameworks are Out of Step with Climate Change and the Dynamics of Displacement.”

The first in a year-long Advocacy, Activism, & Storytelling series presented by CEW+.

When: February 15 from 4-6pm
Where: 10th Floor of Weiser Hall (Room 1010)

Keynote to be followed by a Q & A session (4-5pm) and meet & greet reception (5-6pm light refreshments provided).

RSVP HERE: https://www.cew.umich.edu/events/2023-weerasinghe-lecture-with-amali-tower

Amali Tower is the founder and executive director of Climate Refugees. She has extensive global experience in refugee protection, refugee resettlement and in forced migration and displacement contexts, having worked globally for numerous NGOs, the UN Refugee Agency and the US Refugee Admissions Program. Years of interviewing refugees fleeing conflict afforded her the chance to hear their stories of also fleeing climate change. Through this, Climate Refugees was born. She has conducted country and regional case studies and research in climate-induced displacement contexts, including in urban and camp settings. Her research on climate, conflict and displacement in the Lake Chad Basin in Africa’s Sahel was presented as evidence of loss and damage at COP 26 in Glasgow. Amali serves displaced populations as an experienced defender and her clients as a partner and advisor. She developed her work ethic, world views and deep commitment to forcibly displaced populations through a lived experience of instability, and as an immigrant and migrant. She’s born of that education, life in multiple countries, and also those at Columbia University, where she has a Master of International Affairs focused in Human Rights from the School of International and Public Affairs, and a BA in International Development Studies from UCLA. She resides in New York City.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:59:29 -0500 2023-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-15T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Amali Tower
Research Day 2023 (February 16, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103074 103074-21806074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2023 10:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Research Day 02/16/2023

Poster and Exhibit Session 1 (MI League 2nd Floor)
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Keynote Presentation - Nisha J D'Silva, BDS, MSD, PhD - Donald A Kerr Endowed Collegiate Professor of Oral Pathology, Professor of Dentistry, Department of Oral Medicine/Pathology and Oncology, School of Dentistry and Professor of Pathology, Medical School

1:00 pm - 12:00 pm

Poster and Exhibit Session 2 (MI League 2nd Floor)
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:13:57 -0500 2023-02-16T10:30:00-05:00 2023-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Office of Research School of Dentistry Exhibition Research Day 2023
Department of Communication & Media IDEAs Lecture with Dr. Catherine Knight Steele (February 16, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104068 104068-21808359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2023 2:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Communication and Media

atherine Knight Steele is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland - College Park and was the Founding Director of the African American Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum). She now directs the Black Communication and Technology lab (BCaT) as a part of the Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, & Optimism Network funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. and the Digital Studies in Art & Humanities graduate certificate at the University of Maryland.

Her research focuses on race, gender, and media, with a specific emphasis on Black culture and discourse in new media. She examines representations of marginalized communities in the media and how groups resist oppression and practice joy using online technology to create spaces of community.

She is the author of Doing Black Digital Humanities with Radical Intentionality (forthcoming May 2023, Routledge) and Digital Black Feminism (NYU Press 2021), which examines the relationship between Black women and technology as a centuries-long gendered and racial project in the U.S and was the 2022 winner of the Association of Internet Research Nancy Baym Book Award and Diamond Anniversary Book Award for the National Communication Association.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2023 09:56:27 -0500 2023-02-16T14:30:00-05:00 2023-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 North Quad Communication and Media Lecture / Discussion North Quad
The Clements Bookworm: Early African American Women Writers and Their Libraries (February 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104783 104783-21810255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Author of “Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century”, Associate Professor of English and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky, and long-time researcher Dr. Nazera Wright is working on her second book titled “African American Women Writers and their Libraries”. Wright explores Frances E. W. Harper, who extended her private library to other African American Women to grant them access to literature and research that they wouldn’t have otherwise had access to. Wright's new book uncovers the radical and transgressive practices that black women writers engaged in to gain access to research libraries at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 10 Feb 2023 11:31:21 -0500 2023-02-17T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Nazera Wright along side with her book "Black Girlhood"
Privacy@Michigan Keynote: Privacy, Power, & Platforms (February 17, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104323 104323-21808823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Register to join the 2023 Privacy@Michigan keynote with Dr. Kirsten Martin on Friday, February 17 at 11 a.m.

Dr. Kirsten Martin for a Privacy@Michigan keynote presentation on privacy expectations on online platforms. Standard approaches to privacy assume individuals relinquish privacy expectations when online or have focused on individuals in relation to a single company. Platforms, such as social media, marketplaces, search engines, etc, are unique in having duties beyond a standard company while also having access to the data of millions of individuals. Dr. Martin will discuss how we need to think about platforms, particularly powerful platforms, as having an obligation to respect the privacy of their users and what that obligation actually entails. Dr. Martin is a University of Michigan College of Engineering alumna.

Dr. Florian Schaub, Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering, will facilitate Q&A time after the keynote presentation.

This hybrid event will be hosted in person in Forum Hall, on the fourth floor of Palmer Commons, and livestreamed on the Privacy@Michigan events page [https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/privacy-at-michigan/privacy-day-2023/Keynote-Dr-Martin]

Refreshments will be available just prior to the event.

Event Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoH_8y6kGaki_obU0hPoMPFCJ3SRHkg6bKb0GTRX0GkGGX6g/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2023 12:36:14 -0500 2023-02-17T11:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T12:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Privacy at Michigan Keynote address by Dr. Kirsten Martin; 11 a.m. February 17
Eldersveld Lecture (February 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103755 103755-21807772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Now happening on Zoom.

Email polisci@umich.edu for the Login details!

When Sam Eldersveld died, he gave money to the department to be used to honor faculty and graduate students (in alternating years) for their research accomplishments. Every other year the Department's Executive Committee chooses a faculty member to receive the Eldersveld Prize. This year's recipient is Kenneth Lowande.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Feb 2023 10:13:56 -0500 2023-02-17T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion
The Inclusive Research Matters Seminar Series (February 20, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104488 104488-21809139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Matt Diemer, University of Michigan

The emerging Critical Quantitative (CQ) perspective is anchored by five guiding principles (i.e., foundation, goals, parity, subjectivity, and self-reflexivity) to mitigate racism and advance social justice. Within this broader methodological perspective, sound measurement is foundational to the quantitative enterprise. Despite the problematic history of measurement, it can be repurposed for critical and equitable ends. MIMIC (Multiple Indicator and MultIple Causes) models are a measurement strategy to simply and efficiently test whether a measure means the same thing and can be measured in the same way across groups (e.g., racial/ethnic and/or gender). This talk considers the affordances and limitations of MIMICs for critical quantitative methods, by detecting and mitigating racial, ethnic, gendered, and other forms of bias in items and in measures.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:30:44 -0500 2023-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Critical Quantitative Methodology: Advanced Measurement Modeling to Identify and Remediate Racial (and other forms of) Bias. Matt Diemer Professor, School of Education; Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Faculty Associate, Institute for Social Research University of Michigan. Thursday, February 20 2023. Noon ET. ISR-Thompson room 1430
Ann Arbor's First Orthodox Priest (February 20, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104727 104727-21810022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Classical Studies

Who was the first Orthodox Priest of Ann Arbor, and what can we learn from his life story today? This talk will follow the twists and turns in the life of Father Agathangelos, the first Greek-Orthodox priest to serve the spiritual needs of Ann Arbor nearly a century ago, and reflect on its broader meanings for Greek Orthodoxy in America.

Father Agathangelos was born and raised in Ottoman Cappadocia (central Anatolia) at the end of the nineteenth century, but his life was upended with the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923 (whose centennial we honor this year). The Exchange was at the time an unprecedented act of ethnic cleansing: The Republic of Turkey stripped nearly one and a half million indigenous Anatolian Christians of their citizenship and uprooted them to Greece, which in turn stripped Greek citizenship from nearly half a million indigenous Muslims of Greece and uprooted them to Turkey. This Compulsory Exchange upended the lives of nearly two million souls and set an international precedent for partition and forced population movements in later decades.

This talk will follow the refugee life and migrations of Father Agathangelos -- who, in addition to being a priest, was also a poet, a novelist, and an iconographer -- through his artwork and the traces he left behind. His first and only fluent language was Turkish, which he wrote in the Greek alphabet, known as "Karamanlidika Turkish." His poetry and his art reflect the rich cultural confluence of Anatolia before the Exchange, and it was this culture that he carried with him into refugeehood and his later migration to the United States. What can his life tell us about the enumenical breadth and cultural riches of Greek Orthodoxy in America? You are all warmly invited to join in this lecture and to share your own perspectives in an open-forum Q&A afterward.

William Stroebel is an Assistant Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature in the departments of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on recovering the refugee literatures displaced by the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923. The lecture will be accompanied with refreshments and a reception after the Q&A.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Feb 2023 11:57:31 -0500 2023-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion St. Nicholas Icon
Advancing Environmental Health and Justice: A Call for Assessment and Oversight of Health Care Waste (February 21, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104385 104385-21808988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

ZOOM registration required https://bit.ly/3WuZkDc
Please join us on Zoom (12-12:50 pm) for a Residents & Researchers 'Tuesday Talks at 12' webinar on environment, health and community.

Featuring Panelists: Vincent Martin (V Martin Environmental Justice LLC, Detroit), Omega Wilson (West End Revitalization Assoc., NC) and Denise Patel (NYC human rights and environmental activist). Moderated by Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan, Dearborn).

Recordings of previous webinars in the series can be viewed at https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mleead.umich.edu/Video.php&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1673977514528131&usg=AOvVaw2wZZ1JKlOsDtcxD7N0jzZL

Organized by the Community Engagement Core (CEC) and the Integrated Health Sciences Core (IHSC) of the Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center (M-LEEaD).

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:12:56 -0500 2023-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-21T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Livestream / Virtual Residents & Researchers Tuesday Talks
LHS Collaboratory Joint Session with UM School of Dentistry (February 21, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102701 102701-21805007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

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

Keynote Speaker:

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

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

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

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

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

Opening Remarks:
Laurey McCauley, DDS, MS, PHD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amy Pasternak, PharmD
Presentation: Integrating Pharmacogenomics into Daily Practice

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:22:37 -0500 2023-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory logo
CWPS Faculty Lecture with Bethany Hughes (February 21, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103893 103893-21808063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Bethany Hughes, Assistant Professor in Native American Studies & Department of American Culture and CWPS 2022 Faculty Fellow will share about their collaborative research project titled Performing Indigenous Networks.

Hughes' research project seeks to understand Indigenous networks of cultural production as active processes and interconnected sets of relationships and resources that influence the possibilities and practices of Indigenous artists. It is motivated by the question, "How do Indigenous creatives produce work while navigating the constraints of existing networks of production and forge new networks in the process?" In this talk Hughes will explore the process and practices mutually developed between the artists and scholars of the team. Attending to the ways communication, goals, skills, investments, and commitments align and misalign she will articulate the process the team is undertaking and the challenges inherent in building an equitable, ethical, and reciprocal research project.

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Presentation Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:14:03 -0500 2023-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-21T19:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Bethany Hughes
CANCELLED Racial Equity in Washtenaw count and the Role of Reparations (February 23, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104877 104877-21810387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Epidemiology

Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series
Thursday, February 23 at 12pm (Cancelled)

Racial Equity in Washtenaw count and the Role of Reparations
Speaker: Alize Asberry Payne, Washtenaw County Racial Equity Officer

We hope to reschedule for a date in the near future

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:50:22 -0500 2023-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 Public Health II Epidemiology Livestream / Virtual Epid Seminar Series 2/23 Alize Asberry Payne
Oral Health Sciences Seminar Series (February 23, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103551 103551-21807463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Seminar Title: "The Non-coding Genome: Sequence, Form, and Function"

Sudha Rajderkar, BDS, MS, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:37:08 -0500 2023-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Workshop / Seminar Sudha Rajderkar, BDS, MS, PhD _ Postdoctoral Fellow Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Making the Most of your Presentation (February 23, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104528 104528-21809562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Presentation description: Strong presentation skills are a key to success for researchers and other professionals alike, yet many speakers are at a loss to tackle the task. Systematic as they usually are in their work, they go at it intuitively or haphazardly, with much good will but seldom with an effective outcome. This lecture proposes a systematic way to prepare and deliver an oral presentation: it covers structure, slides, and delivery, as well as stage fright.

As an engineer (Louvain) and Ph.D. in applied physics (Stanford), Jean-luc Doumont is acclaimed worldwide for his no-nonsense approach, his highly applicable, often life-changing recommendations on a wide range of topics, and Trees, maps, and theorems, his book about “effective communication for rational minds.” For additional information, visit www.principiae.be.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2023 08:58:42 -0500 2023-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2023-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Dr. Jean-luc Doumont
Engineering – The Joy of Journey (February 23, 2023 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105042 105042-21810635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:48:03 -0500 2023-02-23T15:30:00-05:00 2023-02-23T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion headshot of speaker