Social / Informal Gathering:Club Night
2016-11-05 22:00 - 2016-11-06 02:00 (America/Detroit) | Necto Nightclub
All proceeds from this club night will be donated to charity. Come out, bring friends, and have fun with us! Ticket sales will be 10/31 to 11/4.

Community Service:Blood Battle
2016-11-06 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-08 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-09 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-10 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-11 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-12 00:00 - 23:59 | The University of Michigan Campus
It's the 35th Annual Blood Battle competition against OSU! Donate blood at 45 blood drives all across campus from October 30th - November 23rd to help save lives and beat that school down south. Go to redcrossblood.org with the sponsor code 'goblue' to make your appointment! All presenting donors will receive a Red Cross t-shirt, a BOGO Chipotle coupon, a coupon for a bagel with cream cheese with a drink purchase at Bruegger's Bagels, other restaurant coupons, and be entered to win prizes. Any questions? Email blooddrivesunited@umich.edu.

Other:Classic City Classic
2016-11-06 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 00:00 | Athens, Georgia
Tournament in Athens, Georgia

Sporting Event:Cornell Tournament
2016-11-06 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-08 00:00 | Cornell University
The team travels to Cornell University for our second tournament of the year.

Sporting Event:Kennedy Cup
2016-11-06 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 00:00 | Annapolis, Maryland
Big boat regatta at Navy

Other:MCRHL Regular Season Event #2
2016-11-06 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 00:00 | Sports Plus
The UMRHC travels to Cincinnati, Ohio for the second weekend of games in the regular season of the MCRHL.

Other:NCAA Womens Triathlon Championship
2016-11-06 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 00:00 | South Shore Harbor Marina New Orleans, LA
NCAA emerging elite triathlon national championships in New Orleans, LA.

Community Service:Permaculture Build!!
2016-11-06 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 00:00 | Condon Crow House
Join us for our preparation of the permaculture site before the winter. Learn about permaculture, rain gardens (swales, basins and berms), bee keeping, vermiculture, and the rest of our mission. Sat and Sun, 9-4, with a volunteer appreciation event Sat evening.

Other:Shootout
2016-11-06 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 00:00 | Axton, VA
West Virginia.... mountain mama.... take me home..... country roads!

Community Service:Slauson Tutoring
2016-11-06 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-08 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-09 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-10 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-11 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Slauson Middle School
STEM Society collaborates with Slauson Middle School for tutoring opportunities where University of Michigan club members are transported to Slauson (5 min car ride, or 15 min bus ride). The tutoring opportunities take place on a weekly basis with a schedule made available to all members via a google doc. The tutoring consists of helping students with any homework questions that they are struggling with, and course material that they need additional practice with. This is a wonderful opportunity to work with an amazing group of kids who are driven and making a conscious effort to improve academically.There are a range of tutoring opportunities available including in-class math help, special needs help, 1-on-1 tutoring, and mass support after-school tutoring. Tutoring session are available for sign-up:Monday: 7:30am - 3:30pmTuesday: 7:30am - 5pmWednesday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThursday: 7:30am - 5pmFriday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThe amount of involvement can vary from week to week depending on your personal schedule, and there is no long-term commitment. As a Wolverine you are in a unique position to be able to influence the next generation in a very positive way. Start giving back to the community today, and strengthening the education of our youth.

Sporting Event:UMASS Showcase
2016-11-06 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 00:00 | Mullins Center Community Ice Rink
GO BLUE!

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Annual UMHS Employee Art Exhibition
2016-11-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-12 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - SouthLobby, Floor 1
Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) UMHS community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the voting ballots and box provided on site. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Austria: Gelatin Silver Prints
2016-11-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-12 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — North Lobby, Floor 1.
Howard Bond, who studied with Ansel Adams, made the photographs in this exhibition during multiple trips to Austria with a 4”x 5” film camera, resulting in gelatin silver prints. The time period was 1976-1978, near the beginning of his career as a full time fine art photographer, after having been a Senior Research Associate in the U-M School of Public Health. Bond, whose photographs are in the collections of more than 30 museums in the United States and Europe, has had over 60 one-man and 40 group exhibitions. The recipient of a Michigan Council for the Arts Creative Artist Grant, he has published 2 books and 23 limited edition portfolios of prints.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Avian Vessels: Mixed Media Sculpture
2016-11-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-12 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - North Lobby, Floor 1
Cincinnati based sculptor Karen Heyl has been professionally sculpting stone since 1984. She is best known for bas-relief limestone sculptures, but in 2011 she developed an interest in sculpting clay using a similar relief carving technique. Out of this came an artistic exploration and refinement of birds using ceramic vessels as the starting point. Whimsical additions such as tails and beaks give each bird an individual personality. Each bird is perched on an individually carved limestone base to enhance the unique qualities that each bird displays. Heyl’s affinity for nature extends from her art to her love of gardening and the occasional golf game.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Beauty Speaks: Acrylic on Canvas
2016-11-06 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-07 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-08 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-09 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-10 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-11 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
Saginaw based artist Susie M. McColgan captures the glorious beauty of flowers and peaceful landscapes in her large scale paintings. She is inspired by lush colors and nature's beauty, and she masterfully creates inspirational lighting to emanate warmth, peacefulness and positive strength. Following in her grandfather and parents footsteps, McColgan attended the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, graduating with a BFA in '81. McColgan's works are represented in galleries throughout Michigan and are included in many private and corporate collections.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Divided Images: Fiber
2016-11-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-12 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Jill Ault is an Ann Arbor studio artist working in fiber, primarily quilts, with a BFA degree in painting from Eastern Michigan University. Her quilts are constructed of multiple copies of an image: a photograph, a graphic design or a painting. She digitally prints variations of the image on fabric and divides the copies into many small squares (no two alike). When she carefully reassembles and sews together the squares, parts of the image seem to move across and down the surface of the quilt. Ault exhibits nationally at fiber and quilt shows, such as Quilt National in Athens, Ohio and Fiberart International in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Piecing It Back Together: Mixed Media
2016-11-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2016-11-12 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Candra Boggs is an art teacher and two-dimensional mixed media artist. She has been actively working as a traveling artist and teacher for over twelve years. Her work is constructed from her original two-dimensional drawings, paintings, prints and photography. She cuts the 2-D works into a variety of shapes and then collages them back into quilt-like mosaics. Boggs loves Michigan and has been vacationing and participating in art shows for over ten years in the great state. Up most mornings before 5:00 am, she works in the studio with the birds and the morning light, all before waking three small children.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer
2016-11-06 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-07 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-08 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-09 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-10 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-11 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000), for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States, a founder of the profession, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates, her New York–based studio, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances, glassware, and pieces in silver, plastics, wrought iron and wood.

Careers / Jobs:Morgan Stanley's Richard B. Fisher Scholarship Program
2016-11-06 08:00 - 10:00 | New York, NY 10036, USA
Morgan Stanley is made up of many talents and perspectives. This diversity is what makes us unique. What you are interested in and how you approach the world will determine your individual path at Morgan Stanley.We strive to build an organization that is diverse in experience and background while reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. One way we demonstrate this commitment is through the Morgan Stanley Richard B. Fisher Scholarship Program which is an integral part of our diversity recruiting efforts helping to attract Black, Hispanic, Native American, and LGBT college juniors and sophomores.

If selected as a Scholar, you will receive a $15,000 scholarship for exceptional academic achievement and a summer internship with Morgan Stanley. We encourage students of all majors and disciplines to apply.

Morgan Stanley Campus Recruiting would like to invite your undergraduate sophomores and juniors to apply to our Richard B. Fisher Scholarship Program for Black, Hispanic, Native American and LGBT students.

Please note that there will be three application deadlines (June 26th, October 2nd, and November 6th) however students should select only one. We have provided separate links for sophomores and juniors.

Class of 2018: https://morganstanley.tal.net/vx/brand-0/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/1/opp/2858-2017-Richard-B-Fischer-Scholarship-Juniors/en-GB
Class of 2019: https://morganstanley.tal.net/vx/brand-0/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/1/opp/2859-2017-Richard-B-Fischer-Scholarship-Sophomores/en-GB

Exhibition:Sinking City, Between Civilization and the Deep Blue Sea
2016-11-06 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-07 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-08 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-09 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-10 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-11 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-12 08:00 - 17:00 | School of Social Work Building - International Institute Gallery
Jakarta, Indonesia has a serious problem with flooding. The city is literally sinking while also experiencing climate change related sea-level rise. Add to that the yearly heavy rainfall the city sees from the Southeast Asian monsoon and a population that has swelled beyond ten million due to rapid urbanization, and it’s easy to see why Jakarta’s infrastructure is experiencing significant strain. Jakarta isn’t an isolated example of this perfect storm. It represents the future difficulty that coastal cities all over the world are likely to face.

Understanding that lessons learned in Jakarta can have a global impact, University of Michigan alumus Frank Sedlar set out to help with flood mitigation in Jakarta. Frank earned his master of science degree from Michigan Engineering and also studied the Indonesian language while at the university. Photojournalist and filmmaker Marcin Szczepanski and writer Ben Logan from Michigan Engineering chronicled Frank’s experience while in Jakarta working on modern solutions to Jakarta’s growing problem.

Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, October 21 at 5 PM at the International Institute Gallery. Refreshments will be served.

Exhibition:The Florence Flood, November 1966
2016-11-06 08:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 08:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-08 08:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-09 08:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-10 08:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-11 08:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-12 08:00 - 23:59 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor Hatcher
This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the muddy waters were those in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Book conservators from the United States and Western Europe were called in to help with the recovery efforts. The exhibit features a British team, headed by Peter Waters, which created a washing-drying-mending-rebinding system to deal with tens of thousands of books damaged by the disaster.

The two most important outcomes of the tragedy are the professional training of library conservators and the establishment of disaster preparedness and response programs.

Learn more and register for the symposium, The Flood in Florence, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, happening November 3-4, 2016. https://www.lib.umich.edu/flood-florence-1966-fifty-year-retrospective

Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75
2016-11-06 08:30 - 19:00, 2016-11-07 08:30 - 19:00, 2016-11-08 08:30 - 19:00, 2016-11-09 08:30 - 19:00, 2016-11-10 08:30 - 19:00, 2016-11-11 08:30 - 19:00, 2016-11-12 08:30 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

Exhibition:EXHIBITION ON VIEW: MARLENE IMIRZIAN, "CONCEPTS FOR ARCHITECTURE"
2016-11-06 09:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-07 09:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-08 09:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-09 09:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-10 09:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-11 09:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-12 09:00 - 17:00 | Art and Architecture Building - College Gallery
Marlene Imirzian is principal of Marlene Imirzian & Associates Architects, a regional practice with offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Escondido, California. She received her Master of Architecture degree from the University of Michigan. She creates finely considered and inventive buildings from concepts of architectural beauty, excitement, and purpose. Her work is known for its design excellence, project performance, and integration of sustainable design.
Exhibition opening Friday, October 21 at 5pm in the College Gallery, followed by Marlene Imirzian's Distinguished Alumna lecture at 6pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium.

Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural
2016-11-06 09:00 - 18:00, 2016-11-07 09:00 - 18:00, 2016-11-08 09:00 - 18:00, 2016-11-09 09:00 - 18:00, 2016-11-10 09:00 - 18:00, 2016-11-11 09:00 - 18:00, 2016-11-12 09:00 - 18:00 | Art and Architecture Building
Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page.
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)

Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

Exhibition:Foreshadowing - Endangered and Threatened Plant Species
2016-11-06 10:00 - 16:30, 2016-11-07 10:00 - 16:30, 2016-11-08 10:00 - 16:30, 2016-11-09 10:00 - 16:30, 2016-11-10 10:00 - 16:30, 2016-11-11 10:00 - 16:30, 2016-11-12 10:00 - 16:30 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
A unique exhibit of botanical portraits that illuminates native and invasive plant species in a different light. Local artist and photographer Jane Kramer spent weeks exploring Michigan’s nature preserves and botanical gardens---including Matthaei---taking pictures of the shadows cast by native plant species. The shadow images were then transferred to handmade paper created from invasive plant species. For Kramer the shadows speak to the fragility of threatened plants and their struggle to survive in a changing environment that includes invasive species. The coupling of shadow and paper underscores the complex relationship between invasive and endangered plant species. Free admission. Open Wednesdays until 8 pm.

Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight
2016-11-06 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture, density, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research, material studies, and art experiments, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.

The most important element in her formal vocabulary is light, not only as a “material” in its own right, but also as a condition. Varying in strength, form, and duration, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions, installations, and photographs, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments, with unseen geographies, untold histories, and secret identities.

Newell, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum.

Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art
2016-11-06 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-07 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-08 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-09 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-11 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-12 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Other:League game vs Ferris State
2016-11-06 11:00 - 14:00 | Ralph Ewigleben Ice Arena
Away at Ewigleben Ice Arena

Exhibition:Scientist Spotlight
2016-11-06 11:00 - 18:00 | Ruthven Museums Building
Visit with University of Michigan scientists and participate in activities related to their research! U-M scientists will be stationed on the second floor of the Museum with unique interactive activities focusing on their own current work. These scientists are Science Communication Fellows with the Museum’s Portal to the Public program which is designed to bring researchers and public audiences together in face-to-face interactions.
This event is free and open to the public.

Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement
2016-11-06 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-07 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-08 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-09 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-11 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-12 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

Exhibition:The Bristle Mammoth Exhibit Opening Weekend
2016-11-06 11:00 - 18:00 | Ruthven Museums Building
Visitors will be able to touch one of the Bristle Mammoth’s bones, see some of the evidence for human activity at this site (such as removing edible tissues from parts of the carcass), and explore how the Bristle Mammoth’s bones, teeth and tusks will help scientists understand how these animals lived and why they went extinct.

The Bristle Mammoth will be on display beginning Saturday, November 5, 2016. The U-M Museum of Natural History will have extended hours for the opening weekend: Saturday 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM and Sunday 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM.

The opening weekend will include special programs, donor events and hands-on activities to celebrate the new exhibit.

Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask
2016-11-06 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-07 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-08 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-09 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-11 11:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-12 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created, used, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey, spanning a hundred years, three continents, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.
Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely, and in great detail, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.

Other:2016 CWPA Nationals
2016-11-06 12:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-07 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-08 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-09 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-10 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-11 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Rolfs Aquatic Center
2016 CWPA Nationals

Performance:Gypsy Pond Music XVIII
2016-11-06 12:00 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Pond
Gypsy Pond Music is an annual installation by Professor Stephen Rush and the Digital Music Ensemble, creating a sonic space out of the pond adjacent to the Earl V. Moore Building. Magical, elusive, fun for young and old--the piece makes use of high-end technologies inspired by ancient labyrinthian myths, and encourages participants to interpret natural spaces in an artistic way.

All Ages Welcome (rain or shine)!

Workshop / Seminar:Final Cut Pro X – An Introduction
2016-11-06 13:00 - 14:30 | Modern Languages Building - ISS Media Center Mac Classroom, 2001-B
In this introductory hands-on workshop, you will learn how to:
- Edit video with Final Cut Pro X
- Import and organize your footage
- Use editing tools for added precision
- Export footage to sharable formats
- Transfer your work between computers

No prior experience with Final Cut is necessary. If you are new to video editing, we strongly suggest that you attend one of our iMovie workshops prior to attending this workshop.

If you are unable to attend one of our sessions – we have video versions of our workshops!
Premiere Pro CC – https://vimeo.com/album/4118072
Final Cut Pro X – https://vimeo.com/album/4123227
iMovie – https://vimeo.com/album/4118403

Register for this workshop at
http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=fcpx&submit=Search

Other:Jump Start Grants - DEADLINE
2016-11-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Off Campus Location
The Provost-funded CFE Jump Start Grant Program provides financial support to undergraduate and graduate students to help them achieve their entrepreneurial ambitions and develop their skills and ideas. These grants give you the extra support you need to get your venture up and running, including funding for prototyping, legal, and travel needs, and additional mentorship and resources from the CFE.

The grants available are:

- Prototype Development Grants: $1,500 limit per team. For students building a prototype of their entrepreneurial product.
- Legal Services Grants: $1,000 limit per team. For students seeking legal counsel related to starting a business (e.g. incorporation, filing a patent, freedom to operate, etc.).
- Travel Grants: $250 per member domestic (continental), $500 per member international (non-continental).

To learn more, visit: http://cfe.umich.edu/jump-start-grants/

Workshop / Seminar:WISE Pre-Hackathon Workshop for High School Girls
2016-11-06 13:00 - 16:00 | Undergraduate Science Building - 2244
Registration is required: https://goo.gl/forms/4lcXHqjqN3w90DmO2

No prior experience is necessary.

The goal of the workshop is to introduce girls to hackathons, and provide an opportunity for them to work on coding together. We will focus on HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

The workshop is limited to high school students, though we may offer another one for middle school students next semester. For any student unable to attend, we recommend Kahn Academy and/or Code Academy and free resources for learning to code.

Note: The registration site will close when the workshop is filled.

Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk
2016-11-06 13:30 - 14:15, 2016-11-06 15:30 - 16:15, 2016-11-12 11:30 - 12:15, 2016-11-12 13:30 - 14:15, 2016-11-12 15:30 - 16:15 | Ruthven Museums Building
Bright stars, constellations, and planets in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects.

SATURDAYS at 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
SUNDAYS at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
December 27– December 30 shows at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

The U-M Museum of Natural History will be closed on December 24, 25, 26, 31 and January 1.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Michigan Wonderland Gems & Jewels
2016-11-06 14:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-07 14:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-08 14:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-09 14:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-10 14:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-11 14:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-12 14:00 - 15:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Main Corridor, Floor 2
Betsy Lehndorff’s jewelry is influenced by her life in Hubbard Lake in northeastern Michigan. Using her stone cutting and silversmithing skills, she takes on six subjects that impact her isolated world: water, winter, plants, critters, rocks and the heavens. Her work, often representational and sometimes narrative, challenges the idea of jewelry as a status symbol. Lehndorff was born and raised in Ann Arbor, and lived in Colorado until 2012. She is a granddaughter of renowned architect Albert Kahn (Hill Auditorium and the “Old Main” U-M Hospital) and daughter of Dr. Edgar A. Kahn, who headed the neurosurgery department at the U-M Hospital in the 1960s.

Other:Guided Tour Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art
2016-11-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Museum of Art
Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were
admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a
publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage which
could act as substitutes for a theater experience. Join a tour with UMMA docents of
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan
Museum of Art and discover these dramatic prints by major artists that include off- or
backstage portrayals, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death
portraits of especially famous actors.

Performance:The Importance of Being Earnest
2016-11-06 14:00 | Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Come back later for more information.

Presentation:MarsQuest
2016-11-06 14:30 - 15:15, 2016-11-12 14:30 - 15:15 | Ruthven Museums Building
MarsQuest is a chronicle tracing our centuries-long cultural and scientific fascination with the planet Mars. Set in a theatrical style "three-act" form with an epilogue, it weaves a satisfying narrative of what Mars means to humanity.

SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS at 2:30 p.m.
Planetarium prices are $5 for adults, seniors, & children.

Workshop / Seminar:CIUM Taiji (Tai Chi) Workshop
2016-11-06 15:00 | Michigan Union - Pendleton Room
(Registration Closed) The workshop will teach the 24 forms of Taiji (太极) that enables beginners, old and young, to concentrate on and appreciate the essential principles of Taiji of effortless movement, relaxation and awareness of the mind and body as one.

The CIUM Taiji Workshop (10 classes) will be offered again in the fall 2016 semester! Please note that the fall workshop is open to the U-M affiliates only at this time (U-M students, faculty, and staff). Visit our website for the registration information. www.confucius.umich.edu.

Cost: Free
Location: Pendleton Room, Michigan Union, 530 S. State Street
Capacity: 25 people

Fall 2016 workshop schedule:
Sunday, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. | October 2 – December 11, 2016 (subject to change)
*No class on November 13.

Performance:Guest Recital: Charles Metz, harpsichord
2016-11-06 15:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
The recital will feature works by William Byrd, John Dowland, Thomas Tallis and others, performed on a restored anonymous harpsichord from 1600 and an exquisite copy of a Ruckers harpsichord from 1640. Made possible by the generous support of the Stearns Collection.

Performance:University and Campus Bands Concert
2016-11-06 15:00 | Hill Auditorium
Enjoy an afternoon of traditional concert band music from a range of musical periods from Renaissance to modern. Works by alumni composers Joel Puckett and James Nissen will be performed.

Film Screening:American Romanian Film Festival Presents: Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (Moartea lui Ipu, 1972; Sergiu Nicolaescu, Drama, English Subtitles, 96 min)
2016-11-06 15:30 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
This program is free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served.
During World War II, just before the events of August 23, 1944, a German soldier is found
murdered in a Romanian village. The dead soldier's superior threatens the villagers to
hand over the perpetrator by morning or face reprisals.
This film screening is part of the American Romanian Festival. Additional film screenings
and programs at UMMA include:
The Miracle of Tekir (Miracolul din Tekir, 2015, Ruxandra Zenide, Drama, English
Subtitles, 90 min) on November 6 at 5:30 p.m. Film Screening and Talk Back with
Director Tudor Giurgiu on November 13 at 3:30 p.m.
Why me? (De ce eu?, 2015; Tudor Giurgiu, Drama, English Subtitles, 125 min) on
November 13 at 5:30 p.m.

The Festival will also present concerts and educational activities with composer Cornel
Ţăranu. For more information about The American Romanian Festival and these events,
please visit americanromanianfestival.org.
The American Romanian Film Festival is co-sponsored by the U-M Department of
Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Romanian Film Centre in Bucharest, Romania,
and UMMA.

Performance:UMGASS Benefit Concert 'Turn Back the Clock!'
2016-11-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Zion Lutheran Church
On Sunday, November 6th, 2016 at 6:00 pm, UMGASS will present a special benefit concert, 'Turn Back the Clock' celebrating the upcoming 70th Anniversary of the Society on the day we 'fall back' to Eastern Standard Time. The concert will be held at the Zion Lutheran Church, 1501 W. Liberty Street in Ann Arbor. There is no admission fee.Many of our most memorable alumni from past shows will sing Gilbert & Sullivan standards from their signature roles over the years, as well as other favorites from their personal repertoire. Performers will include Mitchell Gillett, Richard Harper, Thomas Petiet, Alan Wineman, David Andrews, and Lori Gould (Director of our December 2016 production of The Sorcerer). Other talented performers from our most recent shows, including Adina Triolo, Christopher Kendall, and Lee Vahlsing, will perform, along with leading members of our current cast. Additional activities – like a silent auction of donated items – are being arranged, and best of all we will invite you, the audience, to sing along with us on some great G&S choral numbers! Piano virtuoso Stefano Flavoni, Music Director for The Sorcerer, will accompany all the singers on a magical history tour of UMGASS’s greatest moments. So grab your phone, your mouse, your pen, or your chisel, and mark down the evening of November 6th, 2016 as ‘booked!’ Then, don’t forget to change your clocks, and we’ll see you there!

Meeting:Peer Led Support Group Meetings
2016-11-06 19:00 - 20:30, 2016-11-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Michigan Union - SAPAC Office Rm 1551
SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

Other:Restore
2016-11-06 19:00 - 20:30, 2016-11-08 18:30 - 20:00, 2016-11-10 19:30 - 21:00 | St. Mary Student Parish
Restore is a new undergraduate faith sharing group with a focus on building a faith community with real friendships and authentic conversation while discussing the upcoming Sunday readings.It consists of a drop-in, open group format. There are three days that we offer, with the same content on each day so come when you are free!

Performance:Gonzalo Bergara Quartet
2016-11-06 19:30 | Off Campus Location
The all-acoustic Gonzalo Bergara Quartet plays a modern variant of 1930’s Django Reinhardt–inspired gypsy jazz. Composer and lead guitarist Gonzalo Bergara mixes a cascade of arpeggios with the sounds of Paris and his native Argentina. His first CD, "Porteña Soledad," was Editor’s Pick in Guitar Player, and Vintage Guitar called it a "masterpiece." The Gonzalo Bergara Quartet consists of Gonzalo Bergara on lead guitar, Jeffrey Radaich on rhythm guitar, Leah Zeger on violin, and Brian Netzley on upright bass. The music is heavily influenced by Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France, as well as the traditional jazz and music of Bergara's true home, Buenos Aires. "Gonzalo Bergara’s music exists in a way that very little music does," says one writer. "He has lavished such care on every phrase, built each arrangement with such lapidary precision and pared away anything extraneous, the music becomes sculpture. It has weight, density, gravity. This is serious ... and deeply moving.

Other:Game of Thrones Season 1 Episode 3
2016-11-06 20:00 - 21:15 | Chem 1300
Watch Season 1 Episode 3 of Game of Thrones with fellow wolverines. Event is located in CHEM 1300 8pm this Sunday

Social / Informal Gathering:optiMize Milestone Reviews #1
2016-11-07 00:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
Monthly Milestone Reviews bring together Challenge teams and local mentors in a supportive small group setting. Instead of only pitching what's going great, we delve into the challenges we're facing. Everyone at the table commits to share openly and give honest, caring feedback to help each other find a positive way forward.

Exhibition:Documenting Detroit - A Monts Hall Photo Exhibition
2016-11-07 09:00 - 16:30, 2016-11-08 09:00 - 16:30, 2016-11-09 09:00 - 16:30, 2016-11-10 09:00 - 16:30, 2016-11-11 09:00 - 16:30, 2016-11-12 09:00 - 16:30 | Detroit Center - Monts Hall
Documenting Detroit is a collection of photographs taken by students from the College for Creative Studies during the 1970s and 1980s. Under the guidance of Detroit photographer and photography instructor Bill Rauhauser, students turned the urban landscape into works of art.

This exhibition offers a select sample of a vast collection that includes nearly 1,250 photographs of Detroit, from churches to construction sites, grocery stores to warehouses, hospitals to schools, and many others. The collection also provides a snapshot of visual symbols of Detroit during 20th century, including the Michigan Central Train Station, the J. L. Hudson’s Department Store on Woodward Avenue, construction of the Renaissance Center and Joe Louis Arena, and the abandonment of Poletown and the Warehouse District. Photographs also document everyday Detroit, such as favorite restaurants (Jacoby’s, Astoria Bakery, Pegasus Taverna, Circa 1890 Saloon, and Sweetwater Tavern), families on Belle Isle, and vendors at Eastern Market.

You can search the entire Documenting Detroit collection and develop your own primary source sets by visiting: http://detroiths.pastperfect-online.comand search for “Documenting Detroit.” The current exhibit is available during regular Detroit Center hours, now through November 30, 2016.

Lecture / Discussion:Drug Discovery Seminar: "Discovery of selective Orexin-2 antagonists for the treatment of Primary Insomnia"
2016-11-07 09:00 - 10:00 | Life Sciences Institute - Library - Room 3040
Orexins (OX), also known as hypocretins, are the common names given to a pair of excitatory neuropeptides called OX-A and OX-B (also termed hypocretin-1 and hypocretin-2) derived from the common precursor prepro-OX that are exclusively produced by hypothalamic neurons. OX-producing neurons project widely to key areas of the brain and are predominantly involved in the control of wakefulness and also in the regulation of food intake, reward, addictive behaviors and stress. The OX neuropeptides mediate their effect by stimulating two distinct G-protein coupled receptors, orexin-1 (OX1R) and orexin-2 (OX2R) that are co-located or selectively located in specific brain areas suggesting differentiated roles. As such, orexin receptor antagonists have been pursued by numerous laboratories as potential sleep promoting agents and several groups have demonstrated that blockade of the orexin-1 and orexin-2 receptors by dual OR1R/OR2R antagonists promotes sleep both in rats and in humans. Our research efforts have focused on the discovery of selective OR2R antagonists, selective OR1R antagonists, and the characterization of the sleep promoting effects of selective blockade of either the orexin-2 receptor or the orexin-1 receptor. Pre-clinical studies have shown that selective orexin-2 receptor antagonists are effective sleep promoting agents, indicating that selective antagonism of the orexin-2 receptor is sufficient to promote sleep. Additional studies have shown that an orexin-1 receptor antagonist, when dosed alone, has no significant effect on sleep parameters in rat and in fact can attenuate the sleep promoting effects of a selective orexin-2 antagonist when dosed together with an orexin-2 antagonist. These data led us to develop selective orexin-2 receptor antagonists as sleep promoting agents. Towards that end, we now present the medicinal chemistry efforts and the pre-clinical characterization of a series of novel selective orexin-2 receptor antagonists that led to the discovery of JNJ-42847922 along with human pharmacokinetic data and safety data from Phase 1 clinical trials in healthy volunteers.

Class / Instruction:British Women in India 1615-1947
2016-11-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
You will learn about the experiences of British women (the Memsahibs) who lived in India in the Raj era that ended in 1947. It will cover topics such as their efforts to join their husbands – or to get one.

This class is partly based on instructor Joan Gaughan’s book, ‘Incumberances’: British Women in India 1615-1856. You are not required to obtain the book. This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Mondays, from November 7 through November 28.

Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun
2016-11-07 10:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-08 10:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-09 10:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-10 10:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-11 10:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event "Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun.

Class / Instruction:The “Wanderers”: Russian Paintings in their Political and Religious Context
2016-11-07 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
The three-session course will present late 19th-century paintings by Repin and Surikov, in chronological order, including the background of each and opportunity for discussion.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for 90 minutes each on Mondays, November 7, 14 and 21 and will be led by instructor Linda Speck who holds degrees in music (A.B., Duke University) and Musicology (M.A. and Ph.D., University of Michigan).

Lecture / Discussion:Veterans Week - Korean War Veterans Panel
2016-11-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Michigan Union - Pond Room
Called the “Forgotten War” the Korean War was in between WWII and Vietnam. The Korean War lasted from 1950 to 1954. It claimed over 1.2 million civilian and military casualties. Come hear Korean War veterans talk about their experiences and how the Korean War has shaped their lives.

Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Talk: Russell Thomas
2016-11-07 11:30 - 13:00 | EXCEL Lab (1279) Earl V. Moore Building 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Join EXCEL for a discussion and Q&A with tenor, Russell Thomas.

Performance:EXCEL Talk: Russell Thomas
2016-11-07 11:30 - 13:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - EXCEL Lab
Tenor Russell Thomas has forged a successful career performing with the top orchestras and opera companies in the world. In this intimate discussion and Q&A, Russell will talk about the initial steps in his career, his life touring, and answer questions from SMTD students. FREE cookies and coffee will be served. This talk is presented in partnership with Arts Enterprise.

Presentation:Bonderman Info Session (CGIS Office)
2016-11-07 12:00 - 12:30, 2016-11-07 12:30 - 13:00 | Angell Hall - CGIS Office, G155
The Bonderman Fellowship offers graduating LSA seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations. Bonderman Fellows engage with cultures, people, and areas of the world with which they are not familiar, providing them the opportunity to develop entirely new perspectives.

UM is one of only two schools—along with the University of Washington—to offer the Bonderman award. David Bonderman traveled internationally as a Sheldon Fellow after graduating from Harvard Law School in the 1960s, and that experience shaped the rest of his life. He created the Bonderman Travel Fellowship in 1995 to provide students with a similar opportunity. Fellows make their own travel itineraries and, because this is meant to be an individual experience, cannot engage in formal study at a foreign university, conduct formal research, or travel with a guest or organized group.

Pizza and other refreshments will be served at all Bonderman info sessions.

The Bonderman info sessions in the CGIS office are back-to-back sessions without additional time for questions after the allotted 30 minutes.

Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS Colloquium Series. Trans-imperial History and the North-South Divide
2016-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
Through the lens of Ottoman history, I will argue for the necessity of understanding history across imperial (and national) boundaries in order to dislodge the firmly entrenched conceptual North-South divide. It is crucial that we understand how the all-but-accepted assumptions of a standard North-South relations (ruler/ruled, colonizer/colonized, South-to-North migration. etc) grew out of a specific historical moment during the age of High Imperialism and was later emphasized through the telling of history from a European imperial perspective. Exploring an alternative narrative, would allow us to better understand how global policies (from refugee policies, to the focus of the international criminal court) could reshaped through a dismantling of a Euro-centric historical narrative.

Mostafa Minawi is an assistant professor of history at Cornell University and the director of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at Cornell University. His research explores late Ottoman historical through a trans-imperial lens. He also works on bringing awareness to plight of the 60 million displaced people across the globe, by focusing on what North American educational institutions can do to help university-ready refugees in the Middle East and Africa.

** For CMENAS students only **
1:30-2 pm — CMENAS students workshop/discussion with the lecturer/professor.

Careers / Jobs:Group Debrief Session
2016-11-07 12:00 - 12:30, 2016-11-08 16:00 - 16:30 | Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Immersion Group Debrief Sessions are for our students that attended the Quicken Loans Immersion on the previous Friday. These 30 minute meetings are for students to reflect on their experience and share some insights.

Workshop / Seminar:Mathematical Biology
2016-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | West Hall - 335
Extracellular recordings of electric potential remain a popular tool for investigations of brain activity on all scales in animals and humans, from single cells (spikes) to systems studied with depth electrodes (LFP, SEEG), subdural recordings (ECoG), and on the scalp (EEG). They are relatively easy to record but difficult to interpret: since electric field is long range one can observe neural activity several millimeters from its source. As a consequence, every recording reflects activity of many cells, populations and regions, depending on which level we focus. One way to overcome this problem is to reconstruct the distribution of current sources (CSD) underlying the measurement.

We recently proposed a kernel-based method of CSD estimation from multiple extracellular recordings from arbitrarily placed probes (i.e. not necessarily on a grid) which we called kernel Current Source Density method (kCSD). In my presentation, I will present the recent advances of this method, latest software implementations, and explain why it works. I will also show two recent developments, skCSD (single cell kCSD) and kESI (kernel Electrophysiological Source Imaging). skCSD assumes that we know which part of the recorded signal comes from a given cell and we have access to the morphology of the cell. This could be achieved by patching a cell, driving it externally while recording the potential on a multielectrode array, injecting a dye, and reconstructing the morphology. In this case we know that the sources must be located on the cell and this information can be successfully used in source estimation. In kESI we consider simultaneous recordings with subdural ECoG (strip and grid electrodes) and with depth electrodes (SEEG). Such recordings are taken on some epileptic patients prepared for surgical removal of epileptogenic zone. When MR scan of the patient head is taken and the positions of the electrodes are known as well as the brainâ€™s shape, the idea of kCSD can be applied to constrain the possible distribution of sources facilitating localization of the foci.
Speaker(s): Daniel Wojcik (Nencki Institute for Experimental Biology, Warsaw)

Workshop / Seminar:Quantitative Biology Seminar | Source Reconstruction from Extracellular Potentials: From Single Cells to the Whole Brains
2016-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | West Hall - 335
Extracellular recordings of electric potential remain a popular tool for investigations of brain activity on all scales in animals and humans, from single cells (spikes) to systems studied with depth electrodes (LFP, SEEG), subdural recordings (ECoG), and on the scalp (EEG). They are relatively easy to record but difficult to interpret: since electric field is long range one can observe neural activity several millimeters from its source. As a consequence, every recording reflects activity of many cells, populations and regions, depending on which level we focus. One way to overcome this problem is to reconstruct the distribution of current sources (CSD) underlying the measurement.

We recently proposed a kernel-based method of CSD estimation from multiple extracellular recordings from arbitrarily placed probes (i.e. not necessarily on a grid) which we called kernel Current Source Density method (kCSD). In my presentation, I will present the recent advances of this method, latest software implementations, and explain why it works. I will also show two recent developments, skCSD (single cell kCSD) and kESI (kernel Electrophysiological Source Imaging). skCSD assumes that we know which part of the recorded signal comes from a given cell and we have access to the morphology of the cell. This could be achieved by patching a cell, driving it externally while recording the potential on a multielectrode array, injecting a dye, and reconstructing the morphology. In this case we know that the sources must be located on the cell and this information can be successfully used in source estimation. In kESI we consider simultaneous recordings with subdural ECoG (strip and grid electrodes) and with depth electrodes (SEEG). Such recordings are taken on some epileptic patients prepared for surgical removal of epileptogenic zone. When MR scan of the patient head is taken and the positions of the electrodes are known as well as the brain’s shape, the idea of kCSD can be applied to constrain the possible distribution of sources facilitating localization of the foci.

Careers / Jobs:Ross School of Business: Magnify Immersion Program Info Table
2016-11-07 12:00 - 14:00 | East Hall - Psychology Atrium
Spring Term 2017: Magnify Immersion Program - Apply Today!
Study positive practices to strengthen workplace culture and discover your best self through Magnify. Magnify is an academic and action learning program that applies Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) principles and practices. You'll earn 6 credits of classroom work and gain on-site business experience with our organizational partners. Submit your application by our Early Decision Deadline on January 20, 2017. Learn more + Apply (all majors welcome): positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/magnify.

Presentation:Sacred Objects/Diag Burial Project public opening
2016-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Diag - Central Campus
Artist Mary Mattingly’s project "Sacred Objects" attempts to portray rituals associated with consumption and discard. This anthropology of objects considers questions about everyday life, and how our daily rhythms are dependent on purchase, use, and inevitable waste. How do we understand the passage of time? How do we interpret permanence and ephemerally what endures and for how long? And what constitutes value?

The artist will work with students to package a group of objects collected by them into a sculptural form. The work will be buried on the Diag, still viewable through a custom made acrylic box that serves as a crypt-like container.

The burial pays homage to the layered life of each object, including all the beings that have participated in creating them. It symbolically honors the land, the individuals and the groups that were altered through the making of each object and the earth itself. It serves to commemorate the comings and goings of students on campus, their vast and varied imprints, what they cultivate, and what they leave behind..

"Objects Unveiled: Boxing, Rolling, Stretching, and Cutting," an exhibition in the Institute for the Humanities gallery will include photographs and text about the groupings of objects.

Exhibition:Digital Destiny
2016-11-07 13:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-08 13:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-09 13:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-10 13:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Haven Hall - G648 (Ground floor)
Digital Destiny presents 20 sculptures in metal and found materials created over the past five years by the Cameroonian artist Dieudonne Fokou. Fokou experiments continuously with new media, as he explores different modes of creation in the plastic arts. His work is nourished by themes of justice and the search for peace and liberty, as well as by his travels, problems inherent to his society as well as his hopes and dreams for a better world.

Workshop / Seminar:Fitting General Linear and Mixed-Effects (Multilevel) Models in SPSS
2016-11-07 13:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-09 13:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Modern Languages Building - 2001A
This three-half-days’ workshop is designed to provide experienced SPSS users with hands-on exposure to more advanced modeling techniques in SPSS, using IBM SPSS for Windows. The workshop will cover the following topics at a moderate pace: General Linear Models, Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Linear Mixed (Multilevel) Models, and Generalized Linear Mixed Models. Participants will be able to work in small groups or individually on practice exercises, and there will also be time for an open discussion of participant issues with fitting models in SPSS.

Careers / Jobs:Sales Career Track: Office Hours with Aaron Pattison from Power Home Remodeling
2016-11-07 13:00 - 16:00 | University Career Center office University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Aaron Pattison is the newly appointed Regional Director of Talent Acquisition for Power Home Remodeling, the recently voted Top Workplace for Millennials by Fortune Magazine. Aaron started working for Power outof their Washington D.C office two years after graduating from the University of Southern California as an outside sales representative. Aaron was repeatedly recognized as one of their top salesman of over 500 representatives nationwide and was promoted to the role of "Sales Mentor” leading a teamof eight eventually moving to Michigan to help open Power’s Southfield office. Aaron’s passion for Power comes from his interest in environmental sustainability and consultative sales as Power is the largest “Green” remodeling company in the U.S. In his opinion sales is easy if you believe in theproduct, the cause, and the platform.

To schedule an appointment click “Join Event” (lower left navigation bar), not on Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/33030, and follow these steps:

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- Under Category select Office Hours/Consultations
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- Under Staff Preference: Sales Career Track:Aaron Pattison

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statement

Performance:Carillon Recital
2016-11-07 13:30 - 14:00, 2016-11-08 13:30 - 14:00, 2016-11-09 13:30 - 14:00, 2016-11-10 13:30 - 14:00, 2016-11-11 13:30 - 14:00 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Tower is open to the public during regular recitals, played Monday through Friday (except academic holidays) by staff and students on the 60-bell Lurie Carillon. Take the elevator to the third floor to see the carillonist performing, and visit the second floor to see the largest bells.

Workshop / Seminar:Psychology Accelerated Master's Degree Program Info Session
2016-11-07 14:00 - 15:00 | East Hall - 3021
-Are you a jr./sr. interested in pursuing research with a mentor in the Department of Psychology?
-Are you interested in extending your training, and investigating specializations for graduate study?
-Are you considering doctoral programs, but need more courses and research training before applying?

Lecture / Discussion:Veterans Week - WWII Veteran Panel
2016-11-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Michigan Union - Pond Room
The WWII generation, known as the “Greatest Generation” fought the Axis powers in WWII in far flung corners of the world from Africa to Europe to the Pacific. Please plan to attend this panel of WWII veterans who will relate their time in the service during a very different time.

Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Rehabilitating History: A Reconsideration of the Treatment of Disability in Chinese History and Its Implications Today
2016-11-07 15:00 - 16:00 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
Accounts of the treatment of persons with disabilities over the course of China’s long history are almost all unreservedly bleak. Without gainsaying the great challenges that persons with disabilities faced historically in China (and every other society), this talk contends that there are at least five important threads – in philosophy, imperial policy, law, social practice, and self-help by persons with disabilities – that suggest a more nuanced portrayal is warranted. This is important both for our understanding of the Chinese past and to address arguments, both from within and beyond the PRC, about the limits of what is possible in contemporary Chinese society.

William Alford is the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he also serves as the Director of East Asian Legal Studies and the Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability.

Professor Alford has served as a consultant to the U.S. government, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, foreign governments, law firms, nongovernmental organizations, and corporations, and has been a dispute resolution panelist under the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement. He has met with current and previous presidents of China and Taiwan, and is one of a small number of foreign law specialists to have delivered an address at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party.

Professor Alford is the founding Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability which provides pro bono services on issues of disability in China, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam and several other nations. He served from 2005 to 2014 on the board of directors of Special Olympics International (which serves individuals with intellectual disabilities in more than 180 nations) chairing its Research and Policy Committee and serving on its Executive Committee. In 2008, Special Olympics honored him for his work for persons with intellectual disabilities in China.

Other:LSA Opportunity Hub Office Hours
2016-11-07 15:00 - 16:00, 2016-11-08 15:00 - 16:00, 2016-11-09 15:00 - 16:00, 2016-11-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2016-11-11 11:00 - 12:00 | LSA Building - 1100
Drop in (no appointment needed!) to the LSA Opportunity Hub's office hours to talk about opportunities in the US and abroad.

Class / Instruction:Russia Unriddled...
2016-11-07 15:15 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Have you ever so enjoyed an OLLI Lecture Series that you wanted to discuss the topics in a smaller group? Now you can pursue the topics presented in the Russia Unriddled Lecture Series in greater depth and/or explore a broader set of Russia-related topics!

Participants will choose the focus of the course and may research and present related topics. Video clips from the lecture se¬ries and other supplemental materials will be available.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for one hour and 45 minutes on Mondays November 7 and 21, 2016, December 12, 2016 and January 9, 2017. The sessions will be led by instructor Karen Bantel who has held faculty positions at U of M’s Ross School of Business and at Wayne State University.

Lecture / Discussion:Bach Fugue Analysis Lecture: Kevin Korsyn
2016-11-07 15:30 - 16:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Room 2026
Part of the Well-Tempered Clavier Project: Three Lectures and One Performance featuring Profs. Joseph Gascho, Kevin Korsyn, and Wayne Petty; and Prof. Gascho's harpsichord studio.

Workshop / Seminar:Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE)
2016-11-07 15:30 - 17:00 | North Quad - 3100 (Ehrlicher Room)
Abstract:
This paper presents a novel mechanism under which diversity affects performance even if it has no direct impact on payoffs. Diversity matters because it influences the degree of strategic uncertainty that players face. We model this by incorporating the dual process account of Theory of Mind into the standard game-theoretic framework. Whether diversity is a cost or a benefit depends on whether the primary concern is to avoid mis-coordination or to break out of an inefficient Nash equilibrium.

Workshop / Seminar:Complex Analysis, Dynamics and Geometry
2016-11-07 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 3096
I'll describe a combinatorial/geometric construction which I call the plaid model, on account of its resemblance to the weave in a plaid shirt. For each rational number the model produces a union of embedded polygonal surfaces in a cube. I will explain how you recover the dynamics of outer billiards on kites when you slice the model in one direction and how you recover some of Pat Hooper's Truchet tiling system when you slice the model 2 other directions. The model is a kind of marriage of these two seemingly unrelated dynamical systems, and has a rich structure in its own right. I'll show off the main results with plenty of color computer demos. Speaker(s): Rich Schwartz (Brown University)

Lecture / Discussion:EEB Special Seminar: The one-two punch: megafauna extinction, climate change, and biotic interactions at the macro scale
2016-11-07 16:00 - 17:00 | Dana Natural Resources Building - 1040
Climate has long been recognized as a deterministic factor in shaping species ranges and assemblages, but there is a growing appreciation for the role of ecological interactions in modulating how species respond to climate change. Given this, it's troubling that we know so little about 1) the degree to which biotic interactions shape contemporary distribution patterns, 2) how interactions themselves are likely to change due to climate change or extinction, and 3) whether those interactions will help or hinder a species' ability to track its climatic niche through space and time. In this talk, I'll discuss three case studies from the recent geologic record that shed light on the causes of climate-driven extinction, and the impacts of extinction on plant community dynamics and distributions at the macroecological scale.

Workshop / Seminar:Geometry & Physics
2016-11-07 16:00 - 18:00 | East Hall - 4096
In 2007, a quantum theory for quasi-homogeneous polynomial singularities was developed by Fan, Jarvis, and Ruan, based on ideas of Witten, and now called FJRW theory. It should be seen as the counterpart of Gromov-Witten (GW) theory for hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces via the so-called Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau (LG/CY) correspondence.
In 2003, Lee established a K-theoretic version of GW theory. However, some aspects of GW theory, such as mirror symmetry, were still missing until last year. Indeed, Givental gave in 2015 a refined version called permutation equivariant GW K-theory, and proved some mirror symmetry statements in this new context, e.g. for the quintic hypersurface in P^4.
In this talk, I will describe a joint work with Valentin Tonita and Yongbin Ruan, in which we define a K-theoretic version of FJRW theory and we study its permutation equivariant part. I will focus on the quintic polynomial and explain how to prove mirror symmetry and the LG/CY correspondence. Speaker(s): Jeremy Guere (Berlin)

Workshop / Seminar:HEP-Astro Seminar | Search for Heavy Vector-like Quarks in pp Collisions at sqrt{s}=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
2016-11-07 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 335
Unlike Standard Model quarks, vector-like quarks are non-chiral with symmetric right- and left-handed couplings. Vector-like quarks are the simplest colored fermion extra generation currently allowed by data and many new physics scenarios predict their existence. The decay of vector-like quarks to Standard Model particles, via Yukawa interactions, results in rich final states consisting of many hadronic and leptonic boosted objects. This seminar will summarize searches for vector-like quarks in the 1-lepton final state based on 14.7 /fb of pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 13 TeV recorded in 2015 and early 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

Workshop / Seminar:Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory
2016-11-07 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 1866
This is a continuation of last week's talk: The relation between (standard) orthogonal polynomials and random matrix theory is, by now, somewhat classical. In rough terms, we can express the partition function (and many other related quantities) of random matrix models in terms of orthogonal polynomials, so that asymptotic questions in random matrix theory can be immediately translated to the asymptotic theory of orthogonal polynomials. A natural generalization of standard orthogonality on the real line is provided by non-Hermitian orthogonality, where the standard bona fide inner product is replaced by orthogonality with respect to a non-Hermitian bilinear form, typically expressed in terms of contour integrals in the complex plane. Although the direct connection to random matrix theory is lost, the formal partition function associated to the model is meaningful to enumeration problems of graphs in compact Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus. Hence the asymptotic theory of these non-Hermitian orthogonal polynomials is still of interest. However, due to the analytic character of the integrands defining the orthogonality there is a lot of freedom in the choice of contour of integration for the orthogonality, and consequently classical potential-theoretic techniques have to be suitably adapted and improved in combination with more recent Riemann-Hilbert methods. In the first part of our talk, we will survey some old and not-so-old results on the asymptotic theory of these non-Hermitian orthogonal polynomials, focusing on how their asymptotics can be extracted with the aid of the S-curves. This first part is partially based on joint work with Arno Kuijlaars (KU Leuven - Belgium). But this story is not yet over! Another generalization of standard or- thogonality is provided by the multiple orthogonality, where the conditions of orthogonality are split into two (or more) measures. This generalization is again physically meaningful: many random matrix models (and also random path models) can be described in terms of such multiple orthogonal polynomials. However, the asymptotic analysis of such polynomials has so far been restricted to situations involving symmetries in the model. So in the second part of our talk we plan to discuss some more recent developments towards removing such symmetry constraints. This is an ongoing project with Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein (Universidad de Almeria - Spain), and as such the whole picture is not yet complete. At any rate we will talk about how the S-contour business can be generalized to this situation, and how a salad of critical measures and quadratic differentials comes to the table. Speaker(s): Guilherme Silva (University of Michigan)

Workshop / Seminar:Public Finance
2016-11-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Lorch Hall - 301
Abstract and paper not yet available.

Workshop / Seminar:Student Combinatorics Seminar
2016-11-07 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 3866
Come hear a collection of short, informal talks by Michigan grad students about their research or whatever is on their mind. This is a great opportunity to see what your colleagues are up to, and should be a lot of fun. Speaker(s): Combinatorics Students (University of Michigan)

Workshop / Seminar:Student Combinatorics Seminar
2016-11-07 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 3866
TBA

Workshop / Seminar:Group, Lie and Number Theory
2016-11-07 16:10 - 17:30 | East Hall - 4088
In arithmetic topology, one aims to build analogies between 3-manifolds and spectra of number rings. A recent contribution in this direction was made by Minhyong Kim, by defining the arithmetic Chern-Simons functional. This provides, in the least, a large set of invariants for a number field. We will provide a Galois theoretic interpretation of some of these invariants, and also compute some of them. This is joint work with H. Chung, M. Kim, J. Park, and H. Yoo.
Speaker(s): Dohyeong Kim (University of Michigan)

Workshop / Seminar:Group, Lie and Number Theory
2016-11-07 16:10 - 17:30 | East Hall - 4088

Lecture / Discussion:Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series
2016-11-07 16:10 - 17:30 | 202 S. Thayer - 2022 Thayer
Sixteenth-century Europe and North Africa witnessed parallel processes of heightened religious enthusiasm: invoking divine grace and claiming non-mediated communication with God, visionaries, prophets, and saints of both societies sought a religious and political transformation of their communities. Through an analysis of trial records of the Spanish Inquisition, this talk examines the spiritual career of a young Morisco prophet in sixteenth-century Toledo, Spain. It pays attention to the spiritual transformation of the boy from Christian visionary, to Muslim saint, and finally his promised prophethood as “God’s envoy” (enviado de Alá) The boy’s visions of heaven and hell, and his journey to Mecca accompanied by the angel Gabriel not only shed light on the tensions between forced assimilation and the desire to preserve religious and cultural forms, but ultimately it forced us to reexamine the boundaries of Islamic studies in the Middle Period.

Careers / Jobs:Resume 101
2016-11-07 17:00 - 18:00 | Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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This workshop is co-sponsored by the American Advertising Federation of Michigan student organization.

Will your resume convince an employer or graduate school that YOU are the right candidate? Get that resume in tip-top shape by joining this interactive resume session! During this session we give you a chance to put on the employer hatto understand what makes a resume great. You will leave this session with a “better bullet” using the bullet plus model and a resume reviewed by one of your peers!

This session is an interactive workshop, so you are expected to prepare by carefully watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJVk4Nsok8&feature=youtu.be . These pieces will not be covered in the workshop. You are expected to bring a physical copy of your resume to this workshop.

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this eventthen please go to umich.joinhandshake.com, locate the event, and then click the 'Join Event' button.

Meeting:WISE - AADL Girls Who Code Club
2016-11-07 17:00 - 20:30 | Off Campus Location
Closed to WISE Ann Arbor District Library Girls Who Code Club members.
To be included on the wait list for next year, please email umwise@umich.edu and include your request, your daughter's name, age, grade, school and best email to contact in August. (GWC club is for girls in grades 6-12)

Lecture / Discussion:WCED Lecture. Ukraine: The Next Stage of Transition
2016-11-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Ukrainians overwhelmingly voted 25 years ago for freedom and independence, to break from the tyrannical past of communism and the Soviet Union. Natalie Jaresko will review how Ukraine has become stronger or weaker since independence, and look at efforts to rebuild society, the economy, institutions, rules, regulations, and systems. Focusing on developments in the past two years, during which Ukrainians have fought to retain their valuable freedom and independence, she will look at how the horrendous war to defend territorial integrity and the values of Ukrainian people has affected the transition process. Drawing on her experience as Finance Minister, Jaresko will explore what can be done to hasten this transition, asking how Ukraine can cement the progress of the past while defending itself in a hybrid war and avoiding the risks of populism. She will offer suggestions for urgent steps that need to be taken to turn Ukraine's opportunity and potential into competitive realities.

Natalie A. Jaresko has enjoyed a distinguished international career in public service and private industry. As Ukraine’s Finance Minister from December 2014 to April 2016, she served at a particularly critical moment when the post-revolutionary state was rocked by deep recession and war on part of its territory. During her tenure she led the successful negotiation of the largest IMF program in the institution’s history, as well as a complex debt restructuring. Her government’s success in restoring macroeconomic stability enabled the creation of a broad international financial coalition to support Ukraine’s transition. She led the reduction of public spending, cutting the deficit by more than 75% to 2.1% of GDP in 2015. She also advanced tax reform resulting in an almost 50% reduction in payroll tax, eliminated tax privileges which favored vested interests, implemented a transparent e-data system placing all treasury transactions online in real time, and initiated corporate governance reform in state-owned banks.

Previously, she spent two decades creating a platform for private equity investment in the region, working as co-founder and CEO of Horizon Capital, a fund with over $600 million under management, and as president and CEO of Western NIS Enterprise Fund. Jaresko began her career in public service in the United States, serving in the State Department from 1989-92, then as Economic Section Chief of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine from 1992-95. She currently serves as Trustee Board Chair for Aspen Institute Kyiv and is a member of the WEF Global Agenda Council on the Future of Financing and Capital.

Abstracts reflect the views of our speakers, which may be varied. We expect a lively discussion.

Exercise / Fitness:Bichini Bia Congo Dance Class
2016-11-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Trotter Multicultural Center
As part of our Health & Wellness initiative, Trotter offers FREE hour long fitness classes twice a week. Join us every Monday from 6:00-7:00pm for Bichini Bia Congo Dance Class taught by the University of Michigan's own Professor Biza Sompa.

Careers / Jobs:Give 'Em What They Want: Career Competencies all Employers are Looking For and How to Get Them
2016-11-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
**This is a closed session for student staff in Residence Life**

Employers are looking for recent graduates with these 7 Career Readiness Competencies. Give ‘em what they want! Come dive in with The UniversityCareer Center as we talk about what the competencies are, how to talk about your areas of strength, and how to build up your areas of growth! All participants must watch this video before the session: https://careercenter.umich.edu/career-readiness

Careers / Jobs:PSIP Meeting #2
2016-11-07 18:00 - 20:00 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Closed meeting for PSIP cohort only

Other:Study Room Booked
2016-11-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Mason Hall
We have a room booked form 6-7 PM in Mason Hall! Room 3330

Other:What to do with your Summers
2016-11-07 18:30 - 20:00 | Earl Lewis Room (3rd Floor), Rackham Graduate School
Join us for a panel of upperclassmen and pharmacy student mentors to talk about all the exciting things you can do with your summers. Hear from people who have worked in industry, worked as technicians, volunteered, worked at pharmacy schools, and more! You will be able to hear about the things people have done and then ask questions and talk with people one-on-one as well. This event is open to everyone, whether you’re in the mentor program or not.2 points for attendance.

Performance:Department of Voice Student Recital
2016-11-07 18:45 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Join voice students as they perform songs of healing and reconciliation in the aftermath of the Presidential election.

This concert marks the first time the Voice Departmental Recital will be live-streamed, so those who cannot attend in person are invited to use the following link to experience the concert remotely: http://www.music.umich.edu/live-stream

Lecture / Discussion:Frankel Speaker Series: "Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet"
2016-11-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheater
As America confronts a new, intensely contested Supreme Court vacancy, there is no justice who can teach us more about our current constitutional debates than Louis D. Brandeis. Brandeis waited 125 days between his nomination and his confirmation a hundred years ago on June 1, 1916, and his confirmation battle was the most contentious in Supreme Court history. Once he joined the Court, Brandeis wrote some of the most influential opinions on issues we are still grappling with today, including privacy, free speech, and excesses of corporate and federal power. He was also the first Jewish justice, the leader of the American Zionist Movement, a powerful advocate for the role of education in democracy, and a jurist whose emphasis on facts transformed the way the Court does business.

Jeffrey Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress “to disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a non-partisan basis.” Rosen is also a professor at The George Washington University Law School, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He is a highly regarded journalist whose essays and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the 10 best magazine journalists in America and a reviewer for the Los Angeles Times called him “the nation’s most widely read and influential legal commentator.” He received the 2012 Golden Pen Award from the Legal Writing Institute for his “extraordinary contribution to the cause of better legal writing.” Rosen is the author of The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America; The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America; The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age; and The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America. He is co-editor, with Ben Wittes, of Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School.

Sponsored by Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Ann Arbor Jewish Community Center and Ann Arbor District Library.

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

Reception / Open House:Viewing Night at the Detroit Observatory
2016-11-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Detroit Observatory
If it's warmer than 40ºF, drier than 80%, and clear enough to see stars, the dome at the Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor will be open to the public. Don't miss a rare opportunity to look through a 19th century telescope.
This 19th century telescope is in a 19th century building, and you must be able to climb stairs to reach the dome.
Check the website or Facebook page after 5 PM if there's any doubt about the weather.

Performance:Patty Griffin
2016-11-07 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Patty Griffin's songs are beautiful, intense, and challenging. A Maine native and a Boston coffeehouse sensation, Patty headed south to Austin, and her work combines Southern roots sounds and Northeastern poetry. Her elegant lyrics, bluesy alto vocals, and melodic guitar style aim directly at the deepest emotions of her listeners, and top artists on the country and acoustic side—like Emmylou Harris and even Kelly Clarkson—keep close tabs on what she's up to. Emmylou says, "I would go anywhere, any time, to hear Patty Griffin sing her extraordinary songs." Patty can rock a bit, she can sing straight gospel (and win a Best Traditional Gospel Grammy for it), she can do the sparest and most minimal kind of folk singer-songwriter performance. But what really distinguishes Patty Griffin is a body of deeply poetic songs, personal in unexpected ways, that can stand with the output of anyone else in the business. Patty's latest is called "Servant of Love," and it's rooted in the mysteries of the natural world, the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, and human relationships to nature, society, and time. As the album travels through different musical terrains—folk and blues, rock and jazz, ancient sounds and modern—a spare, organic quality persists. It's profound stuff, from a songwriter who has the chops to pull it off. Kentucky-born singer-songwriter Joan Shelley, who was recently featured on NPR's "Fresh Air" and has been compared to Sandy Denny and Vashti Bunyan, opens the show.

Other:Meeting
2016-11-07 21:00 - 22:00 | Mason Hall
Meeting in Mason Hall room 3411

Social / Informal Gathering:Election Breakfast
2016-11-08 07:00 - 11:00 | South Quad - and all dining halls
Enjoy a special election breakfast at any dining hall on November 8th before you go and vote!

Lecture / Discussion:Veterans Week - Vietnam War Veteran Panel
2016-11-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Michigan Union - Pond
This is a chance to hear Vietnam Veterans talk about their experiences during that controversial war and how they were treated when they returned home. Their remarkable stories of service, sacrifice and perseverance will change how you look at Vietnam and the men and women who served there.

Well-being:Weekly Drop-in Meditation/Gentle Yoga Sessions
2016-11-08 10:00 - 10:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Room 2038
Open to all U-M students, faculty and staff. No mats required.

Questions? E-mail Paola Savvidou (savvidou@umich.edu)
Wellness Coordinator, School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Workshop / Seminar:From spike trains to mice behavior: point processes in neurobiology
2016-11-08 11:30 - 13:00 | West Hall - 411
Neurons, the main information processing cells in the nervous system, are complex analog computers which encode incoming information in sequences of point events called action potentials or spikes. To understand how the brain computes we must first develop a precise language to speak about these spike trains. It is generally accepted that such language is provided by the theory of point processes. Interestingly, this theory is also useful in the description of behavior of mice cohorts studied in modern intelligent cages, such as the IntelliCage, which allows for multiple mice to be kept together to study the social aspects of their behavior in an environment that is essentially human-free. In my lecture I will briefly discuss these two remote levels of animal functioning illustrating them with some results of specific experiments. I will then show how increasing mathematical precision of the description of the studied phenomena may lead to biologically interesting results.

Workshop / Seminar:Health, History, Demography & Development (H2D2)
2016-11-08 11:30 - 13:00 | Lorch Hall - 201
Abstract:
This paper estimates the value of a common form of political connections for firms from a policy shock in China. In October 2013, the central government announced a new policy prohibiting former government officials from working in firms. Firms previously having former government officials as independent directors were affected. There are two main findings in this paper. First, the affected firms had on average a -10 pp buy-and-hold-abnormal-return (BHAR) in 6 to 12 months following the policy shock, which can be attributed to a loss of political connections. Due to the favorable features of the policy shock, this political connection value estimation has a cleaner interpretation and has greater potential to be generalized. Second, the policy effects exhibit considerable heterogeneity, which suggests firms count on political connections to different degrees. There is some suggestive evidence connecting the value of political connection for a firm to its certain characteristics.

Lecture / Discussion:Town Hall Celebrity Lecture/Luncheon Series
2016-11-08 11:30 - 13:30 | Michigan Union - Ballroom
Marc Lapadula is a playwright, screenwriter, film producer, and university lecturer. His stage plays have been produced in the U.S. and in England. He produced Angel Passing, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won, among other awards, the grand prize at WorldFest Houston. Marc has taught screenwriting, playwriting, and film analysis at Johns Hopkins, the University of Pennsylvania (his alma mater), Columbia University, and Yale University. He led the Screenwriting Series at the Smithsonian Institution. Marc studied Irish and English Drama at Oxford University, received his MA from the University of East Anglia in England, and earned an MFA in playwriting from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Workshop / Seminar:Data Cleaning with R (A2DataDive Bootcamp)
2016-11-08 12:00 - 13:00 | North Quad - 2185
R (Statistical Analysis)
Tuesday, November 8, 12-1 pm in NQ 2185

In this session, we will explore a “cookbook” of “recipes” for common data cleaning and wrangling tasks, specifically geared toward preparing your client’s raw data for the data dive. We will specifically focus on using R/RStudio and a variety of common R libraries to execute recipes for merging datasets, cleaning and rearranging text fields, pivoting/reshaping data, summarizing by groups, handling categorical data, creating indicator variables, scaling quantitative variables, and other tasks requested in the pre-bootcamp survey. If we have time, we will also look at some quick, useful exploratory data analysis tools in R.

If you are attending this session, please share what your needs are by filling out this 30-second survey: https://goo.gl/forms/pnRpvzzLByAjJQPt1. Please also download RStudio before the session. https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

Lecture / Discussion:Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar
2016-11-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall
Dr. Scott Williams, Senior Investigator and Deputy Chief of the Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Lab at NIH/NIEHS, will present a seminar titled: "Novel Mechanisms for Resolution of Topoisomerase DNA-Protein Crosslinks." on Tuesday November 8, 2016 at 12:00 noon in North Lecture Hall, MS II.

Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Can China Reform? Economic Reform Policy Under Xi Jinping
2016-11-08 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
Xi Jinping came to power with an ambitious reform agenda, but a series of reverses in 2015-16 have thrown this agenda into disarray. Which of these factors are most important in explaining this outcome: Xi’s commitment to reform objectives; China’s political system; or the nature of China’s economic challenges?

Barry Naughton is Professor at the University of California, San Diego specializing in the Chinese economy and economic policy. He spent fall 2012 and 2013 as a visiting scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, following closely the economic initiatives of the then-new Xi Jinping Administration. He has consulted extensively for the World Bank, as well as for corporate clients. Dr. Naughton’s comprehensive study, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth in 2007 (MIT Press) has been translated into Chinese and Korean. His first book, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1995) won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. Naughton publishes extensively in top economics and social science journals. He also publishes regular quarterly analyses of China’s economic policy-making online at China Leadership Monitor. Naughton’s most recent book, co-edited with Kellee Tsai, is State Capitalism, Institutional Adaptation and the Chinese Miracle, published by Cambridge University Press, 2015. Naughton received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1986, and was named the So Kuanlok Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) of the University of California at San Diego in 1998.

Workshop / Seminar:Political Economic Workshop (PEW)
2016-11-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Haven Hall - 5670
Held in the Eldersveld Room

Lecture / Discussion:Andreas Gailus Lecture, "Forms of Life"
2016-11-08 12:30 - 14:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities, Osterman Common Room
The notion of “life” has become a focal point of study and dispute in diverse fields, from political theory to ethics, and from animal studies to aesthetics. Gailus’ work engages these contemporary debates by way of an historical detour. It explores the rich discourse of life in German literature, philosophy and politics from the a late 18th to the mid-20th century, analyzing, in particular, its sustained attention to questions of form and formation. Part historical study, part philosophical essay, the work seeks to develop a vocabulary that helps us articulate the many lives—biological and biographical, political and psychical, aesthetic and ethical—that we live and are.

Andreas Gailus is associate professor, Germanic languages and literatures, and a 2015-16 fellow at the Institute for the Humanities.

Class / Instruction:The Story of the Human Body
2016-11-08 13:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
This study group will read and discuss Daniel E. Lieberman's lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. Lieberman argues that the jumble of adaptations in our stone-age bodies and advancements in the modern world have created a paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease. Please read the first two chapters for the first class. Marlin Ristenbatt is a retired electrical engineer and science enthusiast. This class for adults over 50 meets Tuesdays through December 6th.
https://olli-umich.org/olli/index.php/member/ctlg/viewEventDetails/863

Other:UMSI Design Clinic
2016-11-08 13:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
At the Design Clinic, we provide design advice and services to local start-ups, non-profits, and cultural institutions. Our committed group of students work with clients directly to conduct user research and testing, create wireframes for websites and mobile applications, and to provide recommendations for process and workflow design. Our students are available for consultations by appointment at our Help Desk hours.

The Design Clinic follows an apprenticeship model that focuses on hands-on-learning, and mentoring. Students are assigned a role based on their level of experience, and work in teams to support and learn from each other, while receiving support and guidance from Design Clinic staff, and alumni mentors.

For questions about the Design Clinic, please contact us at designclinic@umich.edu

Schedule an appointment here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nstaONMm_JEA1FTw5-UZj6mh6lpaEiaOG5JPVtzBCeg/viewform?edit_requested=true

Fair / Festival:Major Minor Meet Up Session
2016-11-08 13:30 - 15:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100
Associate Chair, Professor Anthony Mora and Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Tammy Zill, will be at the Major/Minor Meet Up Session in Hatcher Graduate Library, Room 100 on Tuesday, November 8th from 1:30PM-3:30PM showing off our new keyboard tattoos and American Culture Winter 2017 courses.

Stop by and say hello! And pick up your very own AC keyboard tattoos!

Presentation:Major/Minor Meetup
2016-11-08 13:30 - 15:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery
Discover stimulating classes! Explore majors and minors! Find post-graduation opportunities! Talk with advisors and faculty about the following majors, minors, and other opportunities:

Majors:
Afroamerican and African Studies
American Culture
Ancient Greek
Biochemistry
Biology
Biomolecular Science
Cellular and Molecular Biology
CMB:BME
Chemical Science
Chemistry
Classical Archaeology
Classical Civilization
Classical Languages and Literatures
Communication Studies
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
French
General Biology
Interdisciplinary Chemical Sciences
Italian
Latin
Latina Studies
Microbiology
Modern Greek
Music
Neuroscience
Organizational Studies
Plant Biology
Public Policy (Ford School)
Romance Languages and Literatures
Screen Arts and Cultures (Screenwriting submajor)
Spanish

Minors:
Afroamerican and African Studies
American Culture
Ancient Greek
Arab and Muslim American Studies
Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies
Biochemistry
Biology
Community Action and Social Change
Chemical Measurement
Chemical Physics
Chemistry
Classical Archaeology
Classical Civilization
Digital Studies
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
French
Global Media Studies
Italian
Latin
Latina Studies
Modern Greek
Music
Native American Studies
Plant Biology
Polymer Chemistry
Portugese
Spanish
Urban Studies
Writing (Sweetland Center for Writing)

Other Opportunities:
LSA Opportunity Hub
Semester in Detroit

Workshop / Seminar:EXCEL Trainings
2016-11-08 13:40 | Dance Building - Faculty Lounge
Led by Jonathan Kuuskoski

Have a project that needs some funding support? Interested in the EXCEL micro grants but have questions on how to make your proposal stand out? EXCEL can help you! In this session we will cover basic aspects of the grant-writing process, and provide tips on how to optimize your prose and craft the best possible EXCEL funding proposal.

Offered conveniently for Dance students in the Faculty Lounge, first floor of the Dance Building.

Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Trainings: How to Craft Your Best EXCEL Funding Proposal
2016-11-08 13:40 - 14:40 | 3501 Dance Building, 1310 N University Ct, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Have a project that needs some funding support? Interested in the EXCEL micro grants but have questions on how to make your proposal stand out? EXCEL can help you! In this session we will cover basic aspects of the grant-writing process, and provide tips on how to optimize your prose and craft the best possible EXCEL funding proposal. Offered conveniently forDance students in the Faculty Lounge, first floor of the Dance Building.

Lecture / Discussion:Veterans Week - U-M Student Veteran Panel
2016-11-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Michigan Union - Pond Room
Student Veterans studying at the University of Michigan will discuss their time in service and their transition to college. We will have both graduate and undergraduate students on the panel.

Workshop / Seminar:Economic History
2016-11-08 14:30 - 16:00 | Lorch Hall - 201

Presentation:Scholarships and Financial Aid for Transfer Students, How to Find These
2016-11-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Angell Hall - G243
Looking for money for tuition, off-campus research, community service or study abroad? Doug Fletcher from the LSA Scholarship Office, Darlene Nichols from UM Library, and Sarah Krueger from the Office of Financial Aid will introduce the resources available for searching for grants, fellowships and scholarships. Note, that UM Libraries have resources specifically for international students.

Please bring a laptop, if possible.

Workshop / Seminar:Student Commutative Algebra
2016-11-08 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 3096
TBA Speaker(s): Francesca Gandini (University of Michigan)

Workshop / Seminar:Student Geometry/Topology
2016-11-08 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 3866
Factorization homology is a way of constructing invariants manifolds. Whereas homology gives invariants that are additive (like the Euler characteristic), factorization homology gives invariants that are multiplicative (like the exponential of the Euler characteristic).

We will talk about the analogy between homology and factorization homology, and give examples for one and two dimensional manifolds of factorization homology theories. Our main example will be the space of configurations of points in a manifold.
Speaker(s): Phil Tosteson (UM)

Presentation:European Union Summer Program Info Session
2016-11-08 15:30 - 16:00 | Angell Hall - CGIS Office, G155
On US election day, learn about this fantastic opportunity to explore the European political system. Study the EU’s effectiveness in achieving its various regional and global objectives—including its role in international conflicts and humanitarian crises—on the European Union Summer Program in Brussels and Leuven

You will consider whether the EU has the ability to rival or replace the US as the main voice of Western democratic values. Eligibility for the program includes the satisfactory completion of a course in either comparative or international politics or equivalent background.

Experience firsthand in the heart of Europe how the EU functions and the impact this organization has on the world. A major component of this experience is a series of visits to prestigious headquarters—the EU Parliament, Commission, Council, and External Action Service; NATO; and the US, Russian, and Turkish missions to the EU. You will also visit important NGOs, including Human Rights Watch and International Crisis Group. The program fee also includes a day trip to Paris and a visit to the French National Assembly.

Stephen Brooks—the on-site faculty leader and a past participant—will be on hand to answer questions.

Lecture / Discussion:"Religious Doubt and the Internet among Ultra-Orthodox Jews in New York"
2016-11-08 16:00 - 17:30 | 202 S. Thayer - 2022 Thayer
This presentation explores an ongoing “crisis of faith” among ultra-Orthodox Jews in New York that was blamed on the Internet. In a shift from the 1990s, rabbinic leadership has turned to interiority, integrating theological concepts into a therapeutic framework to combat religious doubt. Analyzing a rally against the Internet and the emergence of religious therapy, this presentation shows how current leadership has been protecting and treating hearts, minds and souls in their struggle to claim ultra-Orthodox authenticity.

Ayala Fader received her PhD from New York University and is currently Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Women’s Studies Program at Fordham University. She is the author of the award-winning book Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn (Princeton 2009) and has published numerous articles on Yiddish-English bilingualism and socialization, New Age Jewish spirituality, Occupy Judaism, sex abuse, and changing notions of media and faith. Her articles have appeared in American Anthropologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Contemporary Jewry, The Immanent Frame, The Revealer, and Anthropological Quarterly, among others. Fader has received many fellowships in support of her work, most recently from the National Science Foundation (2014-2016) for her current book, Double Life: Faith, Doubt and the Internet among Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Princeton).

Image courtesy of Tony Allen-Mills

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

Workshop / Seminar:CM-AMO Seminar | Orthogonality Catastrophes in Quantum Electrodynamics
2016-11-08 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 335
The insertion of a small polarizable particle in an arbitrarily large optical cavity significantly alters the quantum-mechanical state of the electromagnetic field in that the photon ground state of the empty cavity and that of the cavity with the particle become mutually orthogonal and, thus, cannot be connected adiabatically in the infinite limit. The photon problem can be mapped exactly onto that of a many-body system of fermions, which is known to exhibit an orthogonality catastrophe when a finite-range local potential is introduced. We predict that the motion of polarizable objects inside a cavity, no matter how slow, as well as their addition and removal from the cavity, will generate a macroscopic, diverging number of low-energy photons. The significance of these results in regard to the quantum measurement problem and the dynamical Casimir effect are also discussed.

Workshop / Seminar:Colloquium Series
2016-11-08 16:10 - 17:00 | East Hall - 1360
Abstract: In this talk we introduce some geometric rigidity problems that ask if you can determine a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary from measurements taken from the outside. The problems includes the boundary rigidity problem: Can you determine the metric inside if you know the distances (measured through the inside) between all pairs of boundary points? The lens rigidity problem: Can you determine the metric if you know how each entering geodesic exits and how long it takes to exit? We will present some counterexamples and some theorems as well as mention some relations to other problems and potential applications. Speaker(s): Christopher Croke (University of Pennsylvania)

Social / Informal Gathering:CenterSpace: Bi, Pan, Fluid
2016-11-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Michigan Union - Spectrum Center
CenterSpace provides a weekly drop-in space for different communities within queer & trans life at the University of Michigan. Tuesday CenterSpace creates space for bi, pan and fluid folks, and those who are questioning or of similar identities, to gain support from one another while building a community of collective resources. There will be a CenterSpace host each evening who identifies within the community being centered, as well as light refreshments. All students are welcome to join us for one or many meetings throughout the Fall 16 semester!

Other:NeoPapalis Volunteer Network Fundraiser
2016-11-08 17:00 - 23:45 | NeoPapalis
We know college students like pizza.So why not stop on by NeoPapalis and help support U-M organizations in the process? Simply say you're with Volunteer Network when ordering or write "Volunteer Network" in the comments section if ordering online.Yummy Pizza + Great Friends + Late Nights = Priceless

Social / Informal Gathering:Twigs Comfort Food Dinner
2016-11-08 17:00 - 20:00 | Oxford Housing
Come to Twigs Dining Hall on November 8th for dinner and enjoy all of your favorite comfort foods. Selections include chicken tenders, mashed potatoes, gravy, Texas brisket, and a macaroni and cheese bar!

Workshop / Seminar:Student Algebraic Geometry
2016-11-08 17:10 - 18:00 | East Hall - 4096
The Hilbert Scheme parameterizes closed subschemes of projective space. In this talk, we will discuss the geometry of the Hilbert Scheme. Our starting point will be the following result of Hartshorne: the Hilbert Scheme of subschemes of P^n with fixed Hilbert polynomial is connected. We will move on to discuss pathological properties of this scheme. Speaker(s): Harold Blum (UM)

Lecture / Discussion:Biased Free Policing: Achievable Police Practice Reforms
2016-11-08 17:45 - 19:00 | LSA Building - RM 4154
Jerry L. Clayton has served as Washtenaw County Sheriff since January 1, 2009. Prior to being elected, he served twenty years with the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office in a variety of capacities, from Corrections Officer to SWAT Team Commander. He has also worked in the private sector as a partner and Vice President of Lamberth Consulting, LLC, a company providing statistical analysis and training to address racial profiling and biased law enforcement. He has been a certified criminal justice trainer and instructor for more than sixteen years, specializing, among other things, in preventing racial profiling.

Careers / Jobs:Career Crawl: Exploring Exciting and Meaningful Careers Paths
2016-11-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Are you unsure about your career interests?

Would you like to know what employers are looking for in student employees?

Are you having a hard time connecting to employers or networking?

If you answeredyes to any of these questions, then the University Career Center has the perfect event for you!

The University Career Center will be hosting a Career Crawl next Tuesday November 8th, 2016 at 6pm - 8pm, and the event will be located here at the University Career Center (Student Activities Building, 3rd Floor).

The event is open to everyone, though it says that's it's designated for CSP students.

Please find the blurb below for theevent, and the link to register.

Through Career Crawl, you will havethe chance to learn about careers within non-profit, healthcare, and other career fields in a small and intimate setting. Here is a list of employers attending:
DaVita (Healthcare)
DocNetwork (Healthcare/Technology)
Quicken Loans (Finance/Sales/HR and more)
City Year (Nonprofit)
Wanderlark (Entrepreneurship)
Village MD (Healthcare)
Come and explore, and have your questions and curiosities answered.

This event will be a great opportunity for you to learn how to better prepare yourself on how to look for a job/internship, how to structure your resume and cover letter, and explorevarious career fields!

Note: This event’s information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to umich.joinhandshake.com, locate the event, and then click the 'Join Event’ button.

Meeting:PCAP Editing Team Meeting
2016-11-08 18:00 - 20:00 | East Quadrangle - 1807 East Quad
Join the editing team that produces the Prison Creative Arts Project's Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing. Contact Phil Christman (chrip@umich.edu) with questions or to RSVP.

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity of Michigan's incarcerated writers. The review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers - writing that comes from the heart, and that is unique, well-crafted, and lively.

Other:THE DEAD MUSHROOM PIZZA KINGDOM SOCIETY
2016-11-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Angell Hall
He stared angrily at the ceiling. Sixty-four, he thought. Sixty-four lousy visits and here I am again, and what has it gotten me? Why am I even here? He remembered how it started, how he had begun with so much hope, with dreams of a healthier future. Why isn’t this working? I’ve done all the homework, I’ve taken all the meds, and it’s been months since I’ve seen him...why am I still so depressed?He started to count the tiles on the ceiling. Who am I kidding? There’s two hundred seventy-eight. There have been two hundred seventy-eight every time and there will always be two hundred seventy-eight! He paused, now trying to think of a scenario in which there would be a different number of tiles on the ceiling than before. Hm, maybe it wouldn’t hurt to count agai-“Luigi!”“Waaaaa!”“If you want to get better, you’re going to have to focus!” His doctor was starting to dread these grueling appointments almost as much as Luigi was. “Now repeat our saying again.”“My name is Luigi, and I always wear green. I'm just as relevant as Mario, and I too make people happy. And there’s…um…”“…and there’s no one I’d rather be than me,” the doctor finished. This was going to take a lot more time… Come gather behind the fondly familiar walls of our own dear Angell Hall as we discuss the jolliest topic of all: one's self-image. I hope to see you this Tuesday, Nov. 8, at 6pm in one of the open Angell Hall auditoriums (just follow the sweet smell of FREE PIZZA, twice as savory as pizza with price). Please leave a guarantee of your presence by RSVPing with a meme concerning Mario, Luigi, or any other part of the Mushroom Kingdom.

Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Trainings: How to Craft Your Best EXCEL Funding Proposal
2016-11-08 18:30 - 19:30 | 2044 Earl V. Moore Building 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Have a project that needs some funding support? Interested in the EXCEL micro grants but have questions on how to make your proposal stand out? EXCEL can help you! In this session we will cover basic aspects of the grant-writing process, and provide tips on how to optimize your prose and craft the best possible EXCEL funding proposal. Open to all interested students, and hosted in a convenient location next to the Student Commons in the Earl V Moore Building.

Lecture / Discussion:Honey Labeling and Michigan Cottage Food Laws
2016-11-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Clay Ottoni, president of the South East Michigan Beekeepers Association, discusses this timely topic. Also, UMBees member and grad student Austin Martin talks about honeybee pathogens and diseases. Free. Presented by Ann Arbor Backyard Beekeepers.

Meeting:SLE Board Meeting
2016-11-08 19:30 - 20:30 | Oxford Housing - Seeley Lounge
Oxford residents are invited to join the SLE Board to plan sustainability activities, speakers, trips, social events, projects and more. Make SLE what you want it to be!

Lecture / Discussion:Issues & Ale: Election night viewing party
2016-11-08 20:00 - 23:00 | Off Campus Location
Join the conversation on Twitter: #fordschoolvotes

About the Event:

Political junkies, unite! Join Michigan Radio and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy for a night of fun and politics at our Election Night Viewing Party. You can watch the election results roll in on the big screen while "Stateside" host Cynthia Canty and a panel of political pundits handicap the races and analyze the results from across the nation. Win prizes playing political trivia too!

Admission is free but we suggest getting there early to get a good seat.

Other:2016 Election Results Watch
2016-11-08 20:30 - 23:00 | Michigan Union - Rogel Ballroom
Get a healthy dose of democratic engagement by joining your peers at our non-partisan debate and results watching parties for the 2016 Election, co-hosted with the Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service Learning.

Doors at 8:30pm. Snacks will be provided!!

Reminder: The Michigan voter registration deadline is October 11th! Students can register to vote at umich.turbovote.org. For more information on voter registration and engaging in the democratic process, check out https://ginsberg.umich.edu/democratic-engagement.

Lecture / Discussion:The Musical Mind
2016-11-08 21:10 - 22:30 | Wolverine Room - Michigan Union
Join us next Tuesday for our next event, The Musical Mind. We will be discussing topics like: The relationship between music, cognition, and emotion, music as a language, machine-produced computational models of music, and many more! If you're into music, cognitive science, or you're just looking to get in on a creative and fun discussion, come hang out! As always, we will have yummy food for everyone, so make sure to RSVP by either scanning the QR code on the event picture, or by going to this link https://goo.gl/forms/envwUWcVE3yNWYnE3! Hope to see you all there :)

Workshop / Seminar:Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)
2016-11-09 08:30 - 10:00 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240
Abstract:
Public School Districts across the country are setting ambitious student performance goals, but quite often the types of actions they undertake to reach them aren't nearly as ambitious. As part of my role at Education Resource Strategies, I've been working to build a tool that uses causal research, and district administrative data to illustrate the relative performance gains districts might expect from different actions in order to help them understand this disconnect and bridge the gap between ambition and action. We have an initial prototype and are currently testing our assumptions and filling in gaps in the underlying research we're basing it on.

Workshop / Seminar:Boosting Your Self-Esteem and Confidence
2016-11-09 09:00 - 12:00 | Administrative Services Building - LPD
Pioneering Psychologist Dr. Nathaniel Branden writes: “The reputation you have with yourself—your self-esteem—is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.” Are you critical of yourself? Are you an over-achiever? Do you feel like you have to be perfect? Do you feel selfish when you put your own needs ahead of others? This session provides a safe, supportive space to learn and practice new behaviors to facilitate lasting change.

You will learn to:

Identify the various symptoms of low self-esteem
Recognize where low self-esteem originates and determine its overall impact
Find and use new behaviors to facilitate lasting change in your confidence

You will benefit by:

Realizing improved self esteem and confidence
Understanding how to be more comfortable in your own skin
Taking steps to change how you see yourself
Understanding how low self-esteem is playing out in your life

Audience:

Anyone who wants to rediscover their best self and experience more authenticity, self-respect, satisfaction with life, enthusiasm, and comfort in your own skin

Other:Innervisions: The Arts and Social Justice
2016-11-09 09:30 - 13:30 | Detroit Center
The Detroit Center is offering two new diversity programs focusing on Detroit arts and culture.

As a continuation of our “Beyond the Ivory Tower” Series, the Detroit Center will host the mini-symposium, Innervisions: The Arts and Social Justice, at the Detroit Center from 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 9.

Transportation will be provided for those coming from the Ann Arbor campus (Ann Arbor pick up at 8:30 a.m.; return to Ann Arbor by 2:30 p.m.).

The mini-symposium provides a unique opportunity for academic and community stakeholders to engage in discourse on a particular topic. Join in on the conversation with the following arts activists in session that will combine the World Café Conversation model with performances and presentations, featuring: 2015 Knight Arts Challenge Recipient Rhonda Greene (Executive Director, Heritage Works) and 2016 Kresge Artist Fellows: LO5 (aka, Carlos Garcia – Live Media Artist & Performer), Mahogany Jones (Hip Hop Artist), Red Stowall (Choreographer & Dancer), and Sterling Toles (Composer & Producer).

Participation is open to artists, community arts organizations, K-12 school staff, and University faculty, staff and graduate students of any department/discipline. Lunch will be provided. To register, see https://goo.gl/hZv2uk

Class / Instruction:Civil Rights in a Constitutional Democracy
2016-11-09 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
What kind of government structure do we have? The Hon. Donald E. Shelton explores the nature of our constitutional democracy and how it affects our lives.

The first ten amendments to the Constitution describe several civil rights, but how expansive are they and how much can the government curtail our rights to privacy and freedom? We’ll focus on the balance that the courts have tried to strike between the duty of the government to keep us safe and the individual rights of its citizens.

This study group for those 50+ will meet for 90 minutes on Wednesday, November 9.

Instructor Donald Shelton directs the Criminology and Criminal Justice Program, UM-Dearborn.

Meeting:RC Executive Committee Meeting
2016-11-09 10:00 - 11:30 | East Quadrangle - 1807 EQ Conference Room
RCEC

Other:Selling Day!
2016-11-09 10:00 - 16:00, 2016-11-10 10:00 - 16:00 | Mason Hall
We will be selling fruits and vegetables twice a week in Mason Hall. Our food comes from sustainable and local sources whenever available!

Lecture / Discussion:Veterans Week - Gulf War/Cold War Panel
2016-11-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Michigan Union - Wolverine Room
Come hear this experiences of those who kept us safe during the Cold War and fought during the Gulf War

Meeting:Nourish
2016-11-09 11:30 - 13:00 | North Quad - Space 2435
Join us once a month for community and conversation

Sept. 14: Navigating the Noise
Oct. 12: Managing the Messages
Nov. 9: Create, Color, Chill
Dec. 7: Year-end Yoga

Sponsored by CAPS and MESA

Lecture / Discussion:Opportunity in Michigan: Lessons from Leading Education States
2016-11-09 11:30 - 13:00 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom (1110)
About the lecture:
Arellano will provide an overview of Michigan's education data and landscape; what Michigan can learn from top-performing and high-growth states; and discuss what are key opportunities and challenges for state leaders.

From the speaker’s bio:
Amber Arellano is the founding executive director of The Education Trust-Midwest. Founded in 2010, today Ed Trust-Midwest is widely recognized as a leading voice for non-partisan data, original analysis and research, policy expertise and now a statewide coalition dedicated to making Michigan a top ten state for all groups of students. Under her leadership, Ed Trust-Midwest led the coalition and original policy research that led to the legislative passage and cross-sector development of Michigan’s first statewide educator support and evaluation system. ETM has led successful efforts to ensure Michigan implemented college- and career-ready standards, in collaboration with more than 140 organizations across the state. It also was the state’s first organization to call for quality standards and accountability for Michigan’s charter school authorizers. In partnership with the Steelcase Foundation, Arellano also founded the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. The CETL has brought proven best practices from leading education states to West Michigan, including an innovative new model for building and supporting teachers and principals to dramatically raise achievement in high-poverty schools. ETM is the Midwest division of the national Education Trust, which is among the nation’s most respected research and policy think-tanks on closing achievement gaps for students of color and low-income students in the U.S.

A first-generation college graduate, Arellano’s multi-sector career has been devoted to improving public education and opportunity for Americans of all backgrounds. Previously she worked at the National Poverty Center and served as a Rackham Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ford School of Public Policy, where she earned her Master’s in poverty and inequality policy. At the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Executive Office, she helped develop and execute cross-country public engagement campaigns. Before joining the policy sector, she earned accolades as a veteran journalist, covering education and race relations for the Detroit Free Press and later as a columnist for the Detroit News. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists named her Commentator of the Year for her “influential and crusading work on behalf of Michigan’s vulnerable students.” Arellano started her career as a high school teacher, and taught as an adjunct at Michigan State University, where she earned her Bachelor’s in secondary education. She serves on the board of the Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation and the Michigan Economic Center’s Leadership Council.

Sponsored by: The University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)
Co-Sponsored by: The University of Michigan Education Policy Initiative (EPI), University of Michigan School of Education

For more information visit www.closup.umich.edu or call 734-647-4091. Follow on Twitter @closup

Lecture / Discussion:3500 characters vs. 26 letters: Efficient or Inefficient?
2016-11-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Michigan Union - Anderson Room D
People unfamiliar with the Chinese language are often amazed by the sheer number of characters used in the written language: Chinese characters 汉字. A Chinese user needs to know about 3,500 characters in order to have a >99% comprehension of the content of an ordinary newspaper article. Compared to the 26 letters in the Roman alphabet, that seems like a lot. But is this an accurate comparison? Are characters in Chinese really equivalent to the letters in an alphabetic language? Does having over 3,000 common characters really make Chinese inefficient, placing an extra burden on learners? In this talk, I will show how characters function in Chinese by discussing what the characters really stand for; the difference between characters and words; how words are formed in Chinese—and how that process differs in Classical vs. Modern Chinese. No linguistic background is needed.

Biography

LI Kening, Director of the Chinese Language Program in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Michigan. She received her MA and PhD in linguistics from the University of Washington. Afterwards she taught in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Later, as a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, she worked in Beijing, China directing the prestigious Inter-University Program (IUP) for Chinese Language Studies. Her research interest is Chinese linguistics and how to apply linguistic theories to language teaching.

Other:FLAS Information Session
2016-11-09 12:00 - 13:30 | School of Social Work Building - 1636
Join us to learn more about Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students.

FLAS Fellowships provide tuition support and a stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. Fellowships are offered for the academic year and for summer in the U.S. or abroad.

Application Deadline: January 15, 2017

More information, including a list of eligible languages at ii.umich.edu/flas

Workshop / Seminar:HET Brown Bag Seminar | Supersymmetric Indices of 3d TQFTs on a Riemann Surface
2016-11-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Randall Laboratory - 3481
I will discuss the partition function of three-dimensional supersymmetric topological field theories defined on a circle bundle over Riemann surface and correlation functions of half-BPS loop operators. From the result, I will derive the quantum algebra of Wilson loops in terms of the associated Bethe equation, and show how the Seiberg-like dualities act on the half-BPS Wilson loops.

Workshop / Seminar:Medieval Lunch. A Saint and his Fighting Peasants: Research into a Genre Painting from the Dutch Golden Age
2016-11-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Tisch Hall - 1014
The venerable icon of the "Charity of St. Martin" (a knight slicing his cloak to share it with a naked beggar) underwent a curious transformation in the genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age. Martin's Charity became compromised by the inclusion of battling peasants and other mendicants around the central figures. With a focus on a recently acquired panel attributed to the Utrecht painter Jost Corneslisz Droochsloot, Prof. Walsh will explore the religious, popular cultural, and art historical questions raised by this manipulation of standard iconography.

Meeting:Social Area Brown Bag
2016-11-09 12:00 - 13:30 | East Hall - 4464
Socially diverse crowds are probably no wiser than homogeneous crowds

Presentation:Veterans Week - Stiggy's Dogs
2016-11-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Michigan Union - Anderson Room
We showcase service dogs that help veterans cope and adapt as they transition back to the civilian culture.
This will feature dogs from “Stiggy’s Dogs” an organization that trains dogs for this purpose

More information about Stiggy’s Dogs at: http://www.stiggysdogs.org/

Class / Instruction:Theater Discussion
2016-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
This class is organized around PTD Productions’ performance of Michael Frayn’s hilarious farce, Noises Off. Your enjoyment of the show will be enhanced by pre-performance and post-performance discussions. One week prior to seeing the show, we will visit the theater for director-led discussions of the play and sets.

We’ll reconvene for the 2 p.m. matinee of Noises Off (Nov. 16). The following week, the director will lead another discussion. Senior group tickets are $11 per show. PTD Productions has produced quality theater for 21 seasons.

The class for those 50 and over will meet for two hours each on November 9, 16 and 19 and will be led by instructor Liz Greaves-Hoxie.

Other:UMSI Design Clinic
2016-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Duderstadt Center - 2nd fl. VizHub 03

Lecture / Discussion:War on Terror Panel
2016-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Michigan Union - Wolverine Room
This generation of men and women have served in the longest running conflict in U.S. history. They return home to an economy that is still struggling to regain its foothold. Hear about their struggles and achievements as they talk about how America’s most recent conflicts have shaped their lives.

Workshop / Seminar:Financial/Actuarial Mathematics
2016-11-09 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 1084
Affine processes have been used extensively to model financial
phenomena since their marginal distributions are very tractable from
an analytic point of view (up to the solution of a non-linear
differential equation). It is well known by works of
Dynkin-McKean-LeJan-Sznitman that one can turn this point of view
around and represent solutions of non-linear PDEs by affine
processes. Recent advances in mathematical Finance in this direction
have been contributed by Henry-Labordere, Tan and Touzi. We shall
provide some general theory in this direction from the affine point of
view and introduce stochastic representation of fully non-linear
PDEs.

(Joint work with Georg Grafendorfer and Christa Cuchiero)
Speaker(s): Josef Teichmann (ETH)

Workshop / Seminar:Student Arithmetic
2016-11-09 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 1866
Dirichlet's theorem, which discusses primes of the form am+n with gcd(m,n) = 1, is a well-known result to a lot of mathematicians. In this talk, we will introduce one of its generalizations, the Chebotarev density theorem. The talk will be mainly following Lenstra and Stevenhagen's survey article, which can be found on Lenstra's website. Speaker(s): Angus Chung (UM)

Other:History Course Fair and Meet & Greet
2016-11-09 15:30 - 17:30 | Haven Hall - Next to Posting Wall, Ground Floor
Come mingle, learn about winter courses, chat with history students and professors. Join us for cider donuts down by the posting wall.

Workshop / Seminar:Navigating the Job Search Before Graduation
2016-11-09 15:30 - 17:00 | Center for the Education of Women - Large Conference Room
Presenters:
Raina LaGrand, MSW/MPH Student & Master's Level Social Work Counseling Intern
Samara Hough, LLMSW, Counselor and Program Specialist

This three-part series will help you prepare for your job search - from identifying your skills and drafting your resume to preparing for the interview process. Sessions will be both informational and interactive. Come prepared to work!

Part 1 - Assessing who are you, what you're good at, and what you want to do, 10/12/16
Bring a list of school, work, and volunteer activities if possible.

Part 2 - Resumes & Cover letters, 10/26/16
Bring existing resumes and cover letters, and job postings of interest.

Part 3 - Networking, Interviewing, and Communication, 11/9/16

This series is free and open to all current undergraduate and graduate students. Register here: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/navigating-job-search-graduation-series

Lecture / Discussion:2016 Decided: Post-election analysis
2016-11-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

Join the conversation on Twitter: #policytalks

About the event:
No one quite knows just what will unfold on November 8 . . . so the afternoon following the election, the Ford School will host an informal panel of experts moderated by Paul Courant to discuss the results and projected policy implications of 'Decision 2016'.

Join former U.S. Congressman John Dingell, Ambassador Ron Weiser, Marina Whitman, Mara Ostfeld and Betsey Stevenson for what promises to be a compelling discussion.

Social / Informal Gathering:CenterSpace: Women Loving Women
2016-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Michigan Union - Spectrum Center
CenterSpace provides a weekly drop-in space for different communities within queer & trans life at the University of Michigan. Tuesday CenterSpace creates women loving women, and those who are questioning or of similar identities, to gain support from one another while building a community of collective resources. There will be a CenterSpace host each evening who identifies within the community being centered, as well as light refreshments. All students are welcome to join us for one or many meetings throughout the Fall 16 semester!

Workshop / Seminar:Department Colloquium | Nonlinear Waves: Solitons at age 50 and …
2016-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 340
The study of nonlinear waves is filled with many remarkable discoveries, one of them being ‘solitons’, found some 50 years ago. Solitons have become both a popular concept and are found in many areas of physics. They are solutions to many important equations in mathematical physics. Dispersive shock waves, in which solitons play a role, will also be mentioned.

Workshop / Seminar:Financial/Actuarial Mathematics
2016-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 1360
Banks' assets are opaque, and therefore, we model their true accounting asset values as partially observed variables. We derive a stochastic control model to optimize banks' dividend and recapitalization policies in this situation, and calibrate that to a sample of U.S. banks. By the calibrated model, the noise in reported accounting asset values hides about one-third of the true asset return volatility and raises the banks' market equity value by 7.8% because the noise hides the banks' solvency risk from banking regulators. Particularly, those banks with a high level of loan loss provisions, nonperforming assets, and real estate loans, and with a low volatility of reported total assets have noisy accounting asset values. Because of the substantial shock on the true asset values, the banks' assets were more opaque during the recent financial crisis. Speaker(s): Jussi Keppo (National University of Singapore)

Lecture / Discussion:Fixing the Refugee Protection System: A conversation with Professor James Hathaway
2016-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Hutchins Hall - 218
Professor Hathaway will discuss his proposal for a more inclusive refugee system. This event is organized by the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program, an undergraduate student group at the University of Michigan.

Social / Informal Gathering:Harry Potter Theme Dinner
2016-11-09 16:00 - 21:00 | South Quad
Come to South Quad Dining Hall on Wednesday, November 9th and enjoy a unique Harry Potter Themed Dinner!

Lecture / Discussion:Imagining Adam and Eve: Hermaphrodites in the Garden of Eden
2016-11-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Tisch Hall - 1014
Leah DeVun focuses on the history of gender, sexuality, and science in pre-modern Europe, as well as on contemporary queer and feminist studies. She is the award-winning author of Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time (2009). She has also published articles in GLQ, Radical History Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Osiris, and Wired. Her current project is Enter Sex: A History of Hermaphrodites in the Middle Ages, which examines the history of sexual difference by looking at how scientists, lawyers, and religious thinkers, among others, have conceived of sex — particularly through their approaches to people with atypical anatomies — in the past and present.

Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Economics (ISQM)
2016-11-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Haven Hall - 5670 (Eldersveld Room)
Abstract:
We review targeted maximum likelihood estimation (TMLE), which provides a general template for the construction of asymptotically efficient plug-in estimators of a differentiable target parameter. TMLE involves maximizing a parametric likelihood along a so-called least favorable parametric model through an initial estimator of the data density, and iterating this updating process till convergence. For one-dimensional target parameters, we propose a universal least-favorable submodel that (a) guarantees that the TMLE only takes one step, and thus always exists in closed form, and (b) renders the targeting step of the TMLE maximally effective, resulting in meaningful practical improvements relative to an iterative TMLE. We generalize this to multivariate and infinite-dimensional parameters, and illustrate our proposal in several causal estimation problems. The asymptotic efficiency of the TMLE relies on the asymptotic negligibility of a second-order term. This typically requires the initial data density estimator to converge fast enough. We propose a new estimator, the Highly Adaptive LASSO (HAL), of the data density (and its functionals) that converges at a sufficient rate regardless of the dimensionality of the problem, under almost no additional regularity. This allows us to propose a one-step TMLE that is asymptotically efficient in great generality across all models and differentiable target parameters. We demonstrate the practical performance of HAL and its corresponding TMLE for the average causal effect.

Workshop / Seminar:Macroeconomics
2016-11-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Lorch Hall - 201

Lecture / Discussion:Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea
2016-11-09 16:00 - 17:30 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial integration and family union, the capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.
Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research in South Korea and China, The Capitalist Unconscious shows how the hegemonic democratic politics of the post-Cold War era—reparation, peace, and human rights—have consigned the rights of migrant laborers—protagonists of transnational Korea—to identity politics, constitutionalism, and cosmopolitanism. Park reveals the riveting capitalist logic of these politics, which underpins legal and policy debates, social activism, and media spectacle.

While rethinking the historical trajectory of Cold War industrialism and its subsequent liberal path, this book also probes memories of such key events as the North Korean and Chinese revolutions, which are integral to migrants’ reckoning with capitalist allures and communal possibilities. Casting capitalist democracy within an innovative framework of historical repetition, Park elucidates the form and content of the capitalist unconscious at different historical moments and dissolves the modern opposition among socialism, democracy, and dictatorship. The Capitalist Unconscious astutely explores the neoliberal present’s past and introduces a compelling approach to the question of history and contemporaneity.

Hyun Ok Park teaches sociology at York University. She writes about global capitalism, transnational migration, empire, postcolonialism, and the issues of comparison and comparability. She is the author of Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Duke University Press, 2005).

Event cosponsored by the U-M Department of Sociology.

Workshop / Seminar:RTG Working Seminar on Geometry, Dynamics and Topology
2016-11-09 16:00 - 17:30 | East Hall - 3866
Francois Labourie introduced the theory of Anosov representations
in his study of Hitchin representations and they have come to be regarded
as the correct analogue of convex cocompact representations into rank one
Lie groups in the setting of higher rank semi-simple Lie groups. I will introduce
a special class of Anosov representations, called projective Anosov representations,
and explain how Benoist's work shows that holonomy maps of strictly convex
projective structures on closed manifolds are projective Anosov representations. Speaker(s): Richard Canary (University of Michigan)

Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry
2016-11-09 16:10 - 17:30 | East Hall - 4096
I will construct a projective variety over Q whose automorphism group is discrete but not finitely generated. Speaker(s): John Lesieutre (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Workshop / Seminar:Analysis/Probability
2016-11-09 16:10 - 17:00 | East Hall - 2866
Speaker(s): Petros Valettas (University of Missouri)

Workshop / Seminar:Analysis/Probability
2016-11-09 16:10 - 17:00 | East Hall - 2866
We will give an overview of the classical concentration of measure phenomenon and its applications in the local theory of normed spaces. In particular, we will discuss refinements of classical results based on a Gaussian small deviation (one-sided) inequality for convex functions. This is a joint work with G. Paouris (Texas A & M University). Speaker(s): Petros Valettas (University of Missouri)

Lecture / Discussion:Mary Mattingly: Sacred Objects
2016-11-09 17:10 - 18:30 | Off Campus Location
Special Event: Wednesday, November 9 at 5:10 PM - Rackham Amphitheater

Mary Mattingly’s work collapses boundaries between performance, sculpture, architecture, and documentation. Her practice addresses nomadic themes that are based on the need to migrate due to current and future environmental and political situations.

Mary is the founder of the Waterpod Project: a self-sufficient habitat and public space atop a barge built to explore future collaborative living situations. It docked throughout New York’s harbor, with artists living onboard testing the ecosystem for the project’s duration. Her work has exhibited internationally and been featured in ArtForum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Le Monde Magazine, ICON, the Brooklyn Paper, Aperture, BBC News, MSNBC, Fox 5, and WNBC.

In residence with the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Mattingly will complete an installation in the Institute Gallery and an outdoor burial project on the U-M Central Campus Diag, chronicling the trappings of student life on campus.

Supported by the University of Michigan Institute for Humanities and Chelsea River Gallery.

Other:Author's Forum Presents "DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City Without Services" and "Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier," A Conversation with Kimberly Kinder and Rebecca Kinney
2016-11-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, room #100
Kimberly Kinder and Rebecca Kinney read from their latest books, followed by a conversation and Q & A.

About "DIY Detroit": "Stuck in a blighted city without basic services such as a bus line, what Detroit’s residents are left with after decades of disinvestment and decline is DIY urbanism—sweeping their own streets, maintaining public parks, and boarding up empty buildings. DIY Detroit describes a phenomenon that has become woefully routine as inhabitants of deteriorating cities “domesticate” public services in order to get by."

About "Beautiful Wasteland": "
Rebecca J. Kinney reveals that the contemporary story of Detroit’s rebirth is an upcycled version of the American Dream, which has long imagined access to work, home, and upward mobility as race-neutral projects. She tackles key questions about the future of postindustrial America, and shows how the narratives of Detroit’s history are deeply steeped in material and ideological investments in whiteness."

Kimberley Kinder is assistant professor of urban planning at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam.

Rebecca J. Kinney, who grew up in metropolitan Detroit, is assistant professor in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies and Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University.

Reception / Open House:"Objects Unveiled: Boxing, Rolling, Stretching, and Cutting" Opening Reception with Artist Mary Mattingly
2016-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Atrium
All are welcome to join us after artist Mary Mattingly's Stamps Lecture (5:10pm at Rackham) to celebrate the opening of her latest installation, at the Institute for the Humanities gallery through Dec. 15.

Studying the production, distribution, and use of Cobalt was the starting point for this exhibition. From craft objects to Impressionist painting and the contemporary Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye, Cobalt Blue has a significant art history. What does it mean though, to work with materials that are both seductive and linked to contemporary forms of violence? If the exhibition is a form of storytelling – what do these objects say?

Because of their ubiquity, the objects in the exhibition may veil their colonial histories, but in their modern replications, they implicate users in a massive extraction-based neocolonialism that can be deadly to the humans working in and living near mines. This is an extraction that also sacrifices the land, water, air, and animal life for economic gain.

The exhibition includes photographs and objects, many are transformed through boxing, bundling, rolling, cutting, stretching, and crushing; all techniques used to alter Cobalt.

Careers / Jobs:Biotech Career Track: Tips and Q&A with Biotech Insiders!
2016-11-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Explore biotech careers with 3 people with experience in the field (bios below):
** Faculty researcher and former Genentech scientist: Joan Greve
** PhD student and former Baxter management associate: Richard Youngblood
** Undergrad student and former intern at Roche, Carefusion andBD: Monica Patel

Joan, Richard and Monica will each share some information about their specific career paths and how they got into biotech, the positions they’ve had, the organizations where they’ve worked and key tipsfor job/internship searching. There will also be time for questions and some networking.

This is your opportunity to learn:
** What skills and experience are needed to break into biotech,
** How a biotech company is organized and what roles are available,
** What a “day-in-the-life” looks like,
** And get your questions answered in a casual, no-pressure environment

Please RSVP if you plan to attend – space is limited!
RSVP via Handshake: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/33221

Presenter Bios

Joan Greve, Ph.D.
Joan is trained in bioengineering from University of Washington and Stanford University, the latter at which she led the preclinical MRI lab for three years. She has more than 10 years of experience in therapeutic development at Genentech, Inc., including leading the MRI preclinical research group for five years and four years of project team experience successfully translating an antibody to treat Alzheimer’s disease from the bench into Phase I and II clinical trials. She is driven by the enjoyment that comes from addressing important scientific questions that hold the potential for treating unmet medical needs and which are best answered using complex imaging systems and a team of highly-motivated cross-functionalresearchers.

Richard Youngblood (Ph.D. expected April 2020)
After graduating with a B.S.E. in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Richard worked at Baxter Healthcare in the Operations Development Rotational Program. This consisted of three rotations over 27 months and included management roles in Technical Development, Manufacturing, and Quality Compliance. This program provided a great opportunity to learn what a young, early-career professional can bring to the table in big pharma.

Monica Patel (B.S.E expected April 2017)
Monica is currently a senior at U-M pursuing her bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering with a minor in business. She’s had three internship experiences: two R&D internships in the medical device industry with Carefusion and Beckton Dickinson (BD) and one in marketing in themedical diagnostic industry with Roche Tissue Diagnostics.

Other:Book Release Party for Stephen Ward
2016-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Join Semester in Detroit to celebrate the release of Stephen Ward's long-awaited book, "In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs."

Workshop / Seminar:Minding the Gap
2016-11-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Chemistry Dow Lab - A859
Have you considered taking a year after graduation to pursue a passion or opportunity before starting your career or graduate/professional school? So many exciting opportunities exist to develop your skills, travel, volunteer, and to learn more about yourself as well as those from backgrounds different from your own. Come check out some of the options that could have you choosing a gap year for yourself.

Meeting:PCAP Membership Meeting
2016-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 | East Quadrangle - 1423 EQ (Benzinger Library)
PCAP membership meetings offer peer support for workshop facilitators, planning time for committees, and a group discussion or activity for all volunteers. All are welcome from 6-7pm. A closed peer support session for workshop facilitators runs 7:10-8pm If you are interested in joining PCAP this semester, complete our volunteer survey (https://goo.gl/PrNDyo) or email pcapinfo@umich.edu.

Other:Weekly Adoration
2016-11-09 18:00 - 22:00 | St. Mary Student Parish
Adoration has started again for the 2016-2017 school year! Each Wednesday from 6:00pm-10:00pm you can come and pray before the Blessed Sacrament. Bring your journal, bring your Bible, bring your rosary, or just bring yourself; Adoration is a great way to spend some time with Jesus, the source of our peace and joy!

You can come and pray anytime you like for as long as you like, but we do ask that someone always be with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. If you know you can be in adoration at a certain time, sign up here or at the front office.

Careers / Jobs:Fashion Career Track: Neiman Marcus Group Virtual panel/Q&A
2016-11-09 18:30 - 19:30 | University Career Center office University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Do you have an interest in fashion but you're not sure how to break into the industry? Here is your chance to learn from and ask industryexperts what it takes to join the exciting world of fashion!

Please join us at the University Career Center for a virtual panel/Q&A with Neiman Marus employers:

Summer Mohn is the Manager of College Relations for The Neiman Marcus Group, primarily responsible for The Neiman Marcus Group Internship and Executive Development Program.
Summer’s first experience withNeiman Marcus was in the summer of 2006 during an internship in the buyingoffices at Neiman Marcus Direct. She joined the company full time in 2010 as a Stylist when CUSP® opened their first shop-in-shop boutique at the Neiman Marcus Northpark store in Dallas. Summer moved into the merchant organization in February of 2011 with the Executive Development Program. After graduation from the program, she was placed in the Beauty division at NeimanMarcus Direct, buying for beauty tools and fragrances. In August of 2013, Summer took a step off of the traditional merchant career path, and moved into Human Resources, where she holds her current position. Summer worksdirectly with the merchant organization on employee relations, as well asactively recruits and hires for the entry level positions within the buying office.
Summer graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington, with a B.B.A degree in Marketing. She currently resides in Dallas with her husband, Sean.

Jill Noeh is the Assistant Buyer of Designer Handbags for The Neiman Marcus Group in Dallas, Texas.
Jill's first internship in fashion was as a Brand Specialist with ASOS locally in Ann Arbor, MI. She then went on to secure a Sales Assistant role with Michael Kors where she exceeded sales expectations in regards to client capture by 95%. She was then provided the opportunity to serve as a Buying Intern for Michael Kors in NewYork, NY. In this role, Jill was responsible for developing the fall 2014 product knowledge guide for 8 Michal Kors Collections stores. Her final internship experience was with Bergdorf Goodman in New York the following summer where she expanded her experience with analyzing department sales. After completing the Executive Development Program, Jill was named an Assistant Buyer.
Jill graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree inCommunication Studies & minor in Business in December 2015.

Performance:Story Lab Kickoff Event
2016-11-09 18:30 - 19:30 | Michigan Union - Rogel Ballroom
Have you ever wondered what stories your classmates have to tell? Everyone comes to U-M with a unique past—a unique story—but so often that story is lost once core classes begin and career searches kick into high gear. We are changing that.

The Sanger Leadership Center and the Ross Design + Business Club invite you join us for the Story Lab Kickoff on Wednesday, November 9 from 6:30-7:30 PM at the Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom.

You’ll hear powerful stories from your classmates and learn more about what’s beneath the surface here at U-M. You'll also hear from Professor Marcus Collins, Ross alumni and professor, who has his own unique Ross story. We will also highlight how you can perfect your own story through our workshops this year. Who knows—it could be YOU in the spotlight at a future Story Lab event!

Space is limited—RSVP today!

Lecture / Discussion:Anxious Election
2016-11-09 18:45 - 21:00 | Kraus Natural Science - 2140 (Kraus Auditorium)
***NOTE TIME AND VENUE CHANGE***

This event has been rescheduled to accommodate those who wish to attend the Uniting Michigan: A Vigil
event scheduled for 6 PM on the Diag.

Racist Resurgence
Sexual Assault
Climate Change
Media Malfeasance?
Economic Insecurity
Political Revolution?

What is it all about and where does it leave us? Historical perspectives and community discussion with:

Max Alvarez
Anne Berg
Matthew Countryman
Angela Dillard
Leah Duncan
Geoff Eley
ToniAnn Treviño

Free and open to the public.

Workshop / Seminar:CIUM Chinese Vocal Workshop
2016-11-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
Join us for the fall 2016 Chinese vocal workshop! This weekly workshop is free and open to the public. If you would like to join, please come to the audition. See below for more details.

CIUM Singers is a music group supported by the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan as part of its efforts to promote Chinese arts and culture. CIUM Singers consist of U-M students, faculty, researchers, staff, and local residents who get together regularly to learn Chinese songs under Ms. Liyan Sun’s instruction, CIUM music advisor.

Ms. Liyan Sun, a native of China, is a professional vocalist educated at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and holds a post-graduate degree in Advanced Studies in Opera Performance at Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK. She served as a voice instructor at the University of Windsor, Canada, and she currently serves as a CIUM music advisor and a conductor for several Chinese music choirs. If you are interested in participating in this music workshop, please contact Ms. Liyan Sun, liyansun@uwindsor.ca.

Audition:
7 pm, Wednesday, September 21 at Forum Hall

Practice time:
7-9 pm every Wednesday from September 21 through December 14.
*No class on November 23 for Thanksgiving holiday.

Location:
Forum Hall, Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw Ave. Ann Arnor

For inquiries: confucius@umich.edu.

Sporting Event:Michigan Volleyball vs. Indiana
2016-11-09 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Michigan Volleyball vs. Indiana

Lecture / Discussion:Veterans Week - Service Above Self
2016-11-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location
he entire campus community as well as the general public is welcome to our Gala Event: Service Above Self – Honoring our Veterans. This event will feature stories from a WWII veteran, a Korean War veteran, a Gulf War era Veteran and an Iraq War Veteran. In between stories there will be live music.

Careers / Jobs:Acing the Interview: Housing student-staff candidate interview preparation
2016-11-09 20:00 - 21:00 | Multipurpose Room West Quadrangle West Quadrangle, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
This workshop is for students interviewing for Housing student-staff positions for 2017-2018.

Preparing for your job interview could very well be one of the most important moments of your career! This workshop will focus both on general interviewing and specific interview preparation for Housing student-staff positions.

Carefully review our website to learn the basics: https://careercenter.umich.edu/article/interviewing-resources

Review STAR Resources: https://www.livecareer.com/quintessential/STAR-interviewing

These pieces will not be covered in the workshop. You will be applying this interview Strategy, therefore you need to be familiarwith it, if you want to ACE your time in our workshop!

Other:Connection Mass Meeting!
2016-11-09 20:00 - 21:00 | Language Resource Center
Come to our mass meeting and see how you can get involved in Connection this year! Learn how to become a tutor for middle school ELL students. We are especially in need of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian, and Spanish speakers!

Performance:Mandolin Orange w/ sg My Bubba
2016-11-09 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Mandolin Orange, writes Ashleigh Phillips of Independent Weekly, crafts "simple songs that go beyond chord progressions and vocal harmonies, leading somehow toward something pure. Using acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin and a hand-me-down fiddle, Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz allure with a heartworn sensibility." This North Carolina duo has shared stages with Rosanne Cash, Chatham County Line, the Steep Canyon Rangers and Abigail Washburn," and they made a splash at the 2015 Ann Arbor Folk Festival. Mandolin Orange's original songs are drenched in a mastery of classic country, blues, and rock, but they are both personal and contemporary. It takes genius to be simple, and this young duo has that kind of genius. They come to Michigan with a new release, "Blindfaller."

Meeting:The University of Michigan Pre-Optometry Club: College Visits
2016-11-09 20:00 - 21:00 | Palmer Commons - Boardroom 2 (6th floor)
Colleges will come in to discuss their optometry programs! Come learn about your grad school options!

Class / Instruction:IT4U Live Webinar on the New Inbox by Gmail
2016-11-10 09:00 - 09:45 | Off Campus Location
Are you looking for a different way to manage your email so it acts more like a task list? Inbox by Gmail sorts, bundles and marks your email as complete. Using the new features, you can get closer to INBOX ZERO--an inbox with no email in it!

Free online webinar. Register in My LINC at
https://maislinc.umich.edu/maislinc/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?ActivityId=41933

IT4U is a regular series of 30- and 45-minute interactive webinars brought to you by Information & Technology Services. Learn and apply tips and techniques for working with ITS tools, products, and services. View previous IT4U sessions at https://goo.gl/wwPVod

Workshop / Seminar:Pre-Law Personal Statement Workshop
2016-11-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Angell Hall
Learn what law schools are looking for in your personal statement and participate in writing exercises designed to help you write a strong and inspired essay.

Social / Informal Gathering:CEW Community Support Space
2016-11-10 11:00 - 13:00, 2016-11-11 11:00 - 13:00 | Center for the Education of Women
CEW's doors are open to all this Thursday and Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for a space of community discussion and support. We will offer food, creative tools, and an opportunity to share thoughts and feelings. Please join us.

Message from President Schlissel:

"It will take quite some time to completely absorb the results from yesterday’s election, understand the full implications, and discern the long-term impact on our university and our nation. More immediately, in the aftermath of a close and highly contentious election we continue to embrace our most important responsibility as a university community.

Our responsibility is to remain committed to education, discovery and intellectual honesty – and to diversity, equity and inclusion. We are at our best when we come together to engage respectfully across our ideological differences; to support ALL who feel marginalized, threatened or unwelcome; and to pursue knowledge and understanding, as we always have, as the students, faculty and staff of the University of Michigan."

Workshop / Seminar:International Economics
2016-11-10 11:30 - 13:00 | Lorch Hall - 201

Lecture / Discussion:Leadership Lessons from a Nontraditional Career Path in Bioscience
2016-11-10 11:30 - 12:30 | 1100 North University Building - 1544
Please join us for the Dean’s Leading by Example Lecture Series presenting Dr. Ronald Piervincenzi on “Leadership Lessons from a Nontraditional Career Path in Bioscience."

Speaker Bio: Dr. Ronald Piervincenzi

Ronald T. Piervincenzi, Ph.D., was appointed Chief Executive Officer of United States Pharmacopeia on February 1, 2014.

For 12 years Dr. Piervincenzi was a partner and leader in McKinsey & Company's Global Pharmaceutical and Medical Products Practice where, among other responsibilities, he launched McKinsey's global drug safety, medical and regulatory service line. Most recently, as a VP in Development Sciences with Biogen Idec, he launched a new group (Value-Based Medicine) focused on applying tools and technologies of personalized medicine to the multiple sclerosis disease area.

Dr. Piervincenzi earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from Duke University in Biomedical Engineering, with research focused on protein engineering. He is the founder of multiple non-profits in the community service and scientific spaces including serving currently as Board Chair for the Newark Mentoring Movement and the NextStep Translational Research Foundation.

Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club
2016-11-10 12:00 - 13:30 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who employ feathered bangs, polished nails, fine European suits, and the sensitivity of the finest salesmen to create a fantasy for wealthy women seeking an escape from the everyday.

Akiko Takeyama's investigation of this beguiling underground "love business" provides an intimate window into Japanese host clubs and the lives of hosts, clients, club owners, and managers. The club is a place where fantasies are pursued and the art of seduction isn't merely about romance; a complex set of transactions emerges. Like a casino of love, the host club is a site of desperation, aspiration, and hope, in which both hosts and clients are eager to roll the dice. Takeyama reveals the aspirational mode not only of the host club, but also of a Japanese society built on the commercialization of aspiration, seducing its citizens out of the present and into a future where hopes and dreams are imaginable—and billions of dollars can be made.

Akiko Takeyama is an assistant professor of anthropology and women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas. Her research interests lie in changing gender, sexuality, and class dynamics in contemporary Japan. Her first book, Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club, (2016 Stanford University Press) theorizes the commercialization of feelings, emotions, and intimate relationships among socially marginalized population —the youth and women— in Japan’s service-centered economy. Her second book project, tentatively entitled “Affect Economy of Human Trafficking in Japan,” will explore human affect ―hope, fear, and a sense of vulnerability― in the analysis of 21st century capitalism, complicating such legal categories as human rights and individual consent especially when sexual and economic exploitation are carried out in the name of individual choice.

Presentation:P&SC Brown Bag
2016-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 | East Hall - 4464
.Workplace mistreatment of faculty of color: Characteristics, consequences, and coping

Lecture / Discussion:The Genesis and Collapse of a Bronze Age Center in the Maros Valley of Southeastern Europe
2016-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Ruthven Museums Building - Room 2009
Around 2000 B.C., the settlements of the Maros culture reached their widest extent across southeastern Hungary, western Romania, and northern Serbia. It was at this time that the Bronze Age site of Pecica Şanţul Mare was established. Over the next 500 years, Pecica rapidly became the preeminent Bronze Age center in the region, controlling the distribution of metals and domesticated horses throughout the Carpathian Basin, and then with equal rapidity collapsed and was abandoned. Renewed excavation at Pecica Şanţul Mare affords a finegrained view of the interplay of factors which led to the genesis and collapse of this important Bronze Age polity, and allows regional patterns of growth, aggregation, and dispersal to be linked to specific social processes and elite strategies at this critical center. Pecica provides a valuable case, in which a
complex polity does not transition into a stable state-like organization.

Conference / Symposium:University of Pennsylvania Model United Nations Conference (UPMUNC)
2016-11-10 12:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-11 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Philadelphia, PA, USA
MUN Conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania

Performance:Gifts of Art presents Acoustic Americana for Veterans Day
2016-11-10 12:10 - 13:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art - Main Lobby, Floor 1
When a job at a steel plant brought Bill Bynum's parents to Detroit from Arkansas in the ‘40s, they brought country music with them. Based in Southeast Michigan, Bill Bynum brings that background to his sound. Bill Bynum & Co’s sound of guitar, fiddle, dobro, and bass leans into country or veers towards bluegrass, and their powerful vocals and lyrics take you on a musical journey. Both traditionals and originals have a sound as comfortable as old blue jeans and as fresh as a new blade of grass. Bill Bynum is on lead vocals and guitar; Hester Hasheian, fiddle and backing vocals; Bill Arnold, dobro; and Scott Kendall, bass.

Well-being:Weekly Drop-in Meditation/Gentle Yoga Sessions
2016-11-10 12:30 - 13:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Room 2032

Other:UMSI Design Clinic
2016-11-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Ross School of Business - Zell Lurie Institute: 3rd fl., Rear Meeting Space

Lecture / Discussion:University of Michigan Retirees Association Meeting
2016-11-10 13:30 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - Banquet Room
Ian Hiskens, PhD, Vennema Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering.

Lecture / Discussion:Rationality and Alienation: Themes from Gandhi’s Political Philosophy
2016-11-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Angell Hall - 3222
http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/akeel-bilgrami

Lecture / Discussion:Veterans Week - Women in the Military Panel
2016-11-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Michigan Union - Pond Room
Since WWI and before, women have served vital supportive roles in the U.S. military. Now women are serving along side their male counterparts in some of the most dangerous work in the military. Often they have to overcome sexist stereotypes, sexual harassment or worse all while serving their country. Come and hear their stories of perseverance, grit and courage when they honorably served in the U.S. military.

Workshop / Seminar:Econometrics
2016-11-10 14:30 - 16:00 | Lorch Hall - 301

Lecture / Discussion:Michigan Library Publishing Club: Michigan Journal of Sustainability
2016-11-10 14:30 - 16:00 | Buhr Building - The PubHub
The Michigan Library Publishing Club is pleased to announce our autumn Pub Club event focused on water, climate change, and ways to engage the local community and beyond toward a more sustainable future. We’ll be discussing the article “Partners in Local Resilience” from the newest issue of the Michigan Journal of Sustainability, published open access by Michigan Publishing in partnership with the Graham Sustainability Institute and the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program.

Free and open to the public, the Pub Club event will feature a lively discussion inspired by our diverse group of guest speakers, including: local artist Leslie Sobel; Dow Sustainability Fellows and editors of the Michigan Journal of Sustainability, Erin Hamilton and Neil Lewis, Jr.; and leaders in sustainability at the University of Michigan Library and in the local community.

Please invite family, friends, and colleagues to be part of this important conversation and opportunity to engage with key community members toward finding solutions, local to global, to environmental issues. There is no reading requirement to participate in the Pub Club, though we hope everyone has a chance to check out the article “Partners in Local Resilience” in advance of the event. All are invited to read and comment (#PubClub) on this article from the new issue of the Michigan Journal of Sustainability for free using the digital annotation tool Hypothes.is. (See Link Below)

Join us Thursday, November 10, 2:30-4:00pm for guaranteed good conversation and free coffee, treats, and collectible letterpress bookmarks handmade by Michigan Publishing staff and members of the local community at Wolverine Press. All Pub Club events are free and open to the public, so everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate in the discussion. Add yourself to the Michigan Library Publishing Club group on Facebook and RSVP to the event for more details. We look forward to seeing you there!

Lecture / Discussion:Pub Club: Michigan Journal of Sustainability
2016-11-10 14:30 - 16:00 | Buhr Building - PubHub, Michigan Publishing, 839 Greene St.
Discuss water, climate change, and ways to engage the local community and beyond toward a more sustainable future (plus enjoy free coffee, treats, and collectible letterpress bookmarks handmade at Wolverine Press). We’ll be talking about the article “Partners in Local Resilience” from the newest issue of the Michigan Journal of Sustainability, published open access by Michigan Publishing in partnership with the Graham Sustainability Institute and the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program. There's no reading requirement to participate, but you're invited to read and comment (#PubClub) for free using the digital annotation tool Hypothes.is (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mjs/12333712.0004.002?view=text;rgn=main).

We'll have a diverse group of guest speakers, including: local artist Leslie Sobel; Dow Sustainability Fellows and editors of the Michigan Journal of Sustainability, Erin Hamilton and Neil Lewis, Jr.; and leaders in sustainability at the University of Michigan Library and in the local community.

Add yourself to the Michigan Library Publishing Club group on Facebook and RSVP to the event for more details (https://www.facebook.com/events/1208334489186929/).

The Michigan Library Publishing Club (Pub Club) is a quarterly event series devoted to discussing open access books, journals, and digital projects published by Michigan Publishing, part of the U-M Library. #PubClub: Read, Learn, Engage

Social / Informal Gathering:Ask Me Anything with Jason Mendelson
2016-11-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Jason is a co-founder of Foundry Group and early stage venture capital firm located in Boulder, Colorado. In his previous life, he has been a managing director at Mobius Venture Capital, a lawyer at Cooley LLP and a software engineer at Accenture. He also co-founded Shareholder Representative Services. In addition to his investing career Jason has co-written the book "Venture Deals, Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist" and is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Law School where he teaches a course on venture capital. Jason is also the Chairman of the Entrepreneurial Board at Silicon Flatirons. Jason holds a B.A. in Economics and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. In his spare time you can find him playing drums, guitar and singing in Legitimate Front, a Boulder-based 70's funk band.

Come meet an extraordinary person and be ready with your questions during this informative, interactive "Ask Me Anything" session.

RSVP here: http://www.annarborusa.org/events/entrepreneurs-networking-spark-events/ama-ask-me-anything-jason-mendelson-spark-central

Event Email: phillip.coleman@annarborusa.org

Workshop / Seminar:Commutative Algebra
2016-11-10 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 3096
By the Auslander-Buchsbaum-Serre Theorem, a singular ring has infinite global dimension. A 'non-commutative resolution' is given by a module M whose ring of endomorphisms has finite global dimension. Intuitively, this replaces the idea of 'projective modules' with 'summands of M'. When R is a domain of characteristic p>0, one possible M to consider is the module of p^e roots.

In this talk, I will demonstrate that, for toric algebras, the module of p^e roots gives a non-commutative resolution, and show how the precise module structure of the endomorphism ring can be described combinatorially. This is joint work with Eleonore Faber and Karen E. Smith.

Speaker(s): Greg Muller (University of Michigan)

Presentation:Decision Consortium
2016-11-10 15:00 - 16:30 | East Hall - 4464
Children's developing use of scarcity and variety in their evaluations and valuations of items

Workshop / Seminar:EXCEL Trainings
2016-11-10 15:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Room 2443
Led by Jonathan Kuuskoski

Have a project that needs some funding support? Interested in the EXCEL micro grants but have questions on how to make your proposal stand out? EXCEL can help you! In this session we will cover basic aspects of the grant-writing process, and provide tips on how to optimize your prose and craft the best possible EXCEL funding proposal.

Offered conveniently for Theatre & Drama and Musical Theatre, it is open to all interested U-M students.

Other:ZEAL Law Clinic office hours
2016-11-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLINIC, part of Michigan Law's Zell Entrepreneurship and Law (ZEAL) Program, is a clinical law program focusing on advising U-M student entrepreneurial ventures. The first of its kind in the United States, the clinic provides law students with unique, real-world experience in representing early-stage ventures while offering valuable legal services to the University entrepreneurial ecosystem. The clinic has provided no-cost legal services to a significant number of student-led startups since its inception in 2012, meets with hundreds of student entrepreneurs each year, and has provided hundreds of hours of legal information to individuals and organizations throughout the U-M community.

Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry
2016-11-10 15:10 - 16:00 | East Hall - B844
We show that the Deligne-Mumford moduli space of genus 1 curves with n marked points is not unirational in characteristic p, for n sufficiently large with respect to p, when p>7. This statement, as well as the non-unirationality of many other Deligne-Mumford moduli spaces, was well-known in characteristic zero, but is more difficult in characteristic p. Our method uses the action of Frobenius on the etale cohomology of M_{1,n}. Following Deligne, we can compute this cohomology in terms of modular forms. The unirationality then follows from classical results on modular forms modulo p.
Speaker(s): Will Sawin (Princeton/ETH)

Workshop / Seminar:Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar
2016-11-10 15:10 - 17:00 | East Hall - 3866
We are going to present a very short (probabilistic) proof of the classical Dvoretzky theorem in the spirit of Figiel's (topological) proof. This approach gives rise of a new global parameter which is responsible for small deviation and small ball estimates. Furthermore, the dependence on epsilon we obtain in this way is the optimal one. A refined form of the random version of Dvoretzky's theorem (due to V. Milman) in terms of this parameter will also be discussed. The latter can be viewed as the almost isometric version of the Klartag-Vesrhynin result on the one-sided inclusion of Dvoretzky's theorem. (Joint work with G. Paouris). Speaker(s): Petros Valettas (University of Missouri)

Workshop / Seminar:Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar
2016-11-10 15:10 - 17:00 | East Hall - 3866

Workshop / Seminar:Adobe Premiere Pro CC – An Introduction
2016-11-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Modern Languages Building - ISS Media Center Mac Classroom, 2001-B
In this introductory hands-on workshop, you will learn how to:
- Edit video with Adobe Premiere Pro CC
- Import and organize your footage
- Use editing tools for added precision
- Export footage to sharable formats
- Transfer your work between computers

No prior experience with Adobe Premiere Pro CC is necessary. If you are new to video editing, we strongly suggest that you attend one of our iMovie workshops prior to attending this workshop.

If you are unable to attend one of our sessions – we have video versions of our workshops!
Premiere Pro CC – https://vimeo.com/album/4118072
Final Cut Pro X – https://vimeo.com/album/4123227
iMovie – https://vimeo.com/album/4118403

Register for this workshop at
http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=Adobe+Premiere&submit=Search

Workshop / Seminar:Economic Development
2016-11-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240
Abstract:
There is abundant evidence that having high-achieving peers generate positive gains on individual performance. We know little, however, about the mechanisms that operate when interacting with others. We implement a randomized experiment in 171 schools in Mexico that allows us to isolate the effect of changes in the mean and variance of peers on students' academic performance and behavior. We find that tracking and mixing (i.e., bimodal groups) generate similar average gains (0.07-0.08SD) without hurting low-achieving students. Both concerns about the relative ranking as well as peer support seem to play a role in explaining peer effects.

Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar: From traits to ecosystems: The leaf energetic and carbon economics bases of global plant production
2016-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1210
Abstract
Terrestrial plant production varies across climate gradients, but the mechanisms driving this variation are a subject of debate. Specifically, it is unclear whether production is primarily influenced by “direct” climate effects on the kinetics of plant metabolism, or “indirect” climate effects on plant size, stand biomass, stand age structure, and growing season length. I address this debate by deriving metabolic theory that links hypothesized climate influences with production, and assessing these hypothesized relationships using a global compilation of ecosystem woody plant biomass and production data. Notably, age and biomass explained most of the variation in production whereas temperature and precipitation explained almost none, suggesting that climate indirectly (not directly) influences production. This lack of a direct kinetic effect may arise from covariation of leaf traits and climate, which decouples plant and air temperatures. This yields a general thermoregulation of leaves, which I suggest originates from selection on leaf traits to maximize carbon gain across and within variable environments. Using global data for leaf temperatures, traits and photosynthesis, I evaluate predictions from a theory of thermoregulation that synthesizes energy budget and carbon economics theories. These results provide a novel mechanistic understanding of constraints on evolution of plant form and function, and have critical implications for earth system models that almost always assume plant temperatures equal ambient air temperature.

Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

Social / Informal Gathering:Harbaugh Themed Dinner
2016-11-10 16:00 - 21:00 | Mosher-Jordan Hall
Come to Mosher-Jordan Dining Hall on Thursday, November 10th and enjoy a delicious dinner celebrating Coach Harbaugh!

Lecture / Discussion:II Panel Discussion: Using Language and Area Studies With Your Professional Degree
2016-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | School of Social Work Building - 1636
Join us for a panel discussion including professional degree alums who are using language study in their field of study, followed by an informal fair highlighting language and area studies resources on campus.

Panelists

Frank Sedlar (BA Civil Engineering '13, MS Civil Engineering '15) is a Fulbright Fellow to Indonesia, where he works with the Jakarta Government and PetaJakarta.org to coordinate an urban drone research program.

Maria Smith (MA REES /MPP Public Policy ’12) is a Foreign Affairs Officer with the Office of the Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia. She is a former Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State and was previously a Nonproliferation Graduate Fellow at the National Nuclear Security Agency.

Linda Schultz (MPH Health Behavior And Health Education '12) is a Health Consultant at the World Bank with the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice.

Language and Area Studies Resource Fair

Afroamerican and African Studies
Asian Languages and Cultures
Germanic Languages and Literatures
International Institute
African Studies Center
Armenian Studies Program
Center for European Studies
Center for Japanese Studies
Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Center for South Asian Studies
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Copernicus Program in Polish Studies
Donia Human Rights Center
Islamic Studies Program
Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Nam Center for Korean Studies
Program in International & Comparative Studies
Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia
Language Resource Center
Modern Greek
Near Eastern Studies
Slavic Languages and Literatures

Workshop / Seminar:Logic
2016-11-10 16:00 - 17:30 | East Hall - 3096
Let M be an inner model that computes omega_1 correctly. We show two results (due to Stevo Todorcevic and Paul Larson) on whether there is in M a partition of omega_1 into infinitely many sets that are stationary from the point of view of V. Speaker(s): Andres Caicedo (Math Reviews)

Workshop / Seminar:Math Club
2016-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - Nesbitt Room
Speaker(s): Deniz Bilman (UM)

Workshop / Seminar:Topology
2016-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 1866
The mapping class group of the plane minus a Cantor set arises naturally in the study of group actions on the plane by homeomorphisms. The ray graph is a Gromov-hyperbolic graph on which this group acts by isometries (it is an equivalent of the curve graph for this surface of infinite type). Therefore, studying the properties of the ray graph could give tools to study subgroups of the considered mapping class group and prevent some specific group actions on the plane.

In a recent joint work with Alden Walker, we give a description of the Gromov boundary of the ray graph in terms of "cliques of long geodesic rays" on the plane minus a Cantor set. As a consequence, we prove that the Gromov boundary of the ray graph is homeomorphic to a quotient of a subset of the circle. In this talk, I will introduce the ray graph and present (with many pictures!) our description of its Gromov boundary. Speaker(s): Juliette Bavard (University of Chicago)

Careers / Jobs:Using Language and Area Studies With Your Professional Degree
2016-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | 1080 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Panel discussion including professional degree alums who are using language study in their field of study. Targeted to professional school students but open to everyone. Language and area studies programs will also be invited to join a small fair after the panel discussion.

* Part ofthe International Career Pathways Sessions. See the ICP website for additional sessions: (http://internationalcenter.umich.edu/swt/work/um-based-programs/icp/)

Careers / Jobs:Using Language and Area Studies With Your Professional Degree
2016-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | School of Social Work Building - International Institute (Suite 2660)
Panel discussion including professional degree alums who are using language study in their field of study. Targeted to professional school students but open to everyone. Language and area studies programs will also be invited to join a small fair after the panel discussion.

Film Screening:Veterans Week - Veterans of Color Documentary Screening
2016-11-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Haven Hall - Room 4701
Veterans of Color is based on interviews with 31 African American women and men who served in America’s Military. Serving their country even when treated as second-class citizens— these women and men stormed the beaches of Normandy, flew as Tuskegee Airmen, and experienced the pain and chaos of the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The film captures personal accounts that help all Americans understand the challenges faced by African American vets during their lifetimes. Sponsored by ABPFAS in collaboration with DAAS, & the Veterans Week Committee. For more info contact Leon Howard at howardii@umich.edu

Workshop / Seminar:Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar
2016-11-10 16:10 - 17:30 | East Hall - 1360
Speaker(s): Matt Stevenson or Takumi Murayama

Lecture / Discussion:Detroit School Series: Marcus Hunter
2016-11-10 16:15 - 18:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham East Conference Room, 4th Floor
Presenters: Marcus Hunter, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at UCLA
Marcus Hunter is an Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, and a faculty affiliate at the Ralph Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. Please join us to hear Hunter present research from his work on the varying experiences and politics of urban Black Americans across the United States since 1900, including insights from his books Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America (2013) and Chocolate Cities (forthcoming with Zandria F. Robinson).
For more information about the Detroit School Series and audio/video of past events, please see http://www.umich.edu/~detsch/. This year's Detroit School series is organized by Patrick Cooper-McCann (urban planning), Jessica Lowen (anthropology), and Lydia Wileden (sociology and public policy). Margi Dewar and Angela Dillard serve as faculty advisors. We thank the Rackham Graduate School for generously supporting this year’s series as a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop.

Social / Informal Gathering:CenterSpace: Trans, Genderqueer, Intersex, Non-Binary
2016-11-10 17:00 - 18:30 | Michigan Union - Spectrum Center
CenterSpace provides a weekly drop-in space for different communities within queer & trans life at the University of Michigan. Tuesday CenterSpace creates space for trans, genderqueer, intersex, and nonbinary folks, and those who are questioning or of similar identities, to gain support from one another while building a community of collective resources. There will be a CenterSpace host each evening who identifies within the community being centered, as well as light refreshments. All students are welcome to join us for one or many meetings throughout the Fall 16 semester!

Presentation:Fine Arts Abroad Info Session
2016-11-10 17:00 - 17:30 | East Quadrangle - B852
Take art history, music history, rock music history, and creative writing courses abroad with CGIS.

CGIS and its global partners offer a variety of programs in the fine arts. At this info session, explore the many programs and courses available to UM students abroad through CGIS. Distinguish your resume and broaden your perspectives when you
• Explore the cultural, religious, and literary life of the Japanese archipelago
• Investigate the historical, intellectual, and social legacies of Western music and art in Austria
• Examine the history of the Beatles and other British groups of the 1960s in Liverpool and London
• Study Norse fables, contemporary fairytales, and the magical landscape of Iceland.

At the info session on Thursday, November 10, learn more about these programs:
GCC Japan—Japanese Art and Culture in Kyoto
Art and Music in Vienna, Austria
The Beatles and the British Invasion, London and Liverpool
Reading and Writing Fairytales in Iceland

Careers / Jobs:Getting Started: Exploratory PhD Process Group for Nonacademic Career Paths
2016-11-10 17:00 - 18:15 | Rackham Graduate School, W Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA
Are you a PhD student with an open-mind and enthusiasm for self-exploration? Are you ready to actively participate and share thoughts, feelings, and behaviors around your nonacademic career options? If so, this may be the group for you!

The Getting Started Group, facilitated by The University Career Center and CAPS, will meet three times this semesterto explore interests, feelings, goals, and opportunities around nonacademic career paths. This is a group for students beginning to explore options, at any point in their PhD process.

There is an expectation that group discussions will remain respectful and confidential, and we will limit group size to 12 participants. It is important for group integrity that those interested are committed to attending all 3 sessions from 5-6:15pm at Rackham, on November 10, November 17, and December 1.

Students will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. When the group is full,we will give participants first priority for our Winter Group.

To register for the upcoming Fall 2016 Getting Started Group, click the link below:
https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJFb7bGDIokMtGzCRxvCwIheok2SnwBTOvBFSP4-HLvcOVig/viewform?usp=send_form

Questions? ContactAmy Longhi at amyhoag@umich.edu or call The University Career Center at 734-764-7460.

Other:Ig.Nite
2016-11-10 17:00 - 19:00 | St. Mary Student Parish
Come out for our Ig.Nite evening of dinner and discussion, starting with 5:10pm Daily Mass!

Other:RC Chili Supper and Course Mart
2016-11-10 17:00 - 19:00 | East Quadrangle - Lower Atrium
RC Students learn about RC classes coming up in the next semester and share a meal with RC faculty, staff and other students

Workshop / Seminar:REAL TALK: Gender Equality Workshop Series
2016-11-10 17:00 - 18:30 | Duderstadt Center - 1180
Panel | Men: as Adversaries, as Allies

Learn more at the fifth seminar of our workshop series in partnership with the Graduate Society of Women Engineers and CEW. This workshop series will help develop strategies for equality in a professional setting. All workshops are open to anyone on campus.

RSVP at cfe.umich.edu/equality

Film Screening:The Great War in Film: A Discussion of Memory
2016-11-10 17:00 - 19:00 | 4151 USB (undergraduate science building)
Come join the history club for our event: THE GREAT WAR ON FILM: a discussion of memory with Professors Gaggio and Marwil.Right beforeNovember 11 (remembrance, armistice, and veterans day), come watch, learn about, and discuss films made about the First World War, and how we still remember it today.Room 4151 in the USB (undergraduate science building)Hope to see you all there!

Lecture / Discussion:Athi-Patra Ruga: Queenz in Exile
2016-11-10 17:10 - 18:30 | Off Campus Location
Exploring the border-zones between fashion, performance, and contemporary art, Athi-Patra Ruga makes work that exposes and subverts the body in relation to structure, ideology, and politics. Bursting with eclectic multicultural references, carnal sensuality, and a dislocated undercurrent of humor, Ruga’s work creates a world where cultural identity is no longer determined by geographical origins, ancestry, or biological disposition, but is increasingly becoming a hybrid construct.

Athi-Patra has exhibited widely including recent exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the 55th Venice Biennale, The Brass Artscape in Brussels, SFMOMA, the Tate Modern, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Athi-Patra Ruga was also recently included in the Phaidon book Younger Than Jesus, a directory of over 500 of the world’s best artists under the age of 33.

Additional events with Athi-Patra Ruga will take place at 7 pm on Friday, November 4 at MOCAD (4454 Woodward Ave, Detroit) and at 7 pm on Friday, November 11 at Bona Sera (200 W Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti).

Supported by Performa, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), and Chelsea River Gallery.

Other:Celeste Ng Reading
2016-11-10 17:30 - 19:30 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Celeste Ng is the author of the novel Everything I Never Told You, which was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. Everything I Never Told You was also the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the ALA’s Alex Award, and the Medici Book Club Prize. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and she is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize.

Workshop / Seminar:China Reading Group
2016-11-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Haven Hall - 5664
Open to doctoral students and faculty in the social sciences. Please email blakeapm@umich.edu if you would like to attend.

Careers / Jobs:Acing the Interview: Housing student-staff candidate interview preparation
2016-11-10 18:00 - 19:00 | 1000 McIntyre St, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA

Lecture / Discussion:Bring the Boys Home: Recovery and repatriation of missing WWII soldiers
2016-11-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Michigan Union - Anderson Room
Paul Schwimmer is part of an archaeological team, History Flight, that is dedicated to finding the remains of missing WWII soldiers and bringing them home. He will lead an in-depth discussion about the ongoing efforts of private organizations (NGOs) that search for, and recover, many of the 83,000 missing soldiers, sailors, Marines, and Army Air Corps service men and women who gave their lives defending this country in World War II. He recently went to the South Pacific to search for the remains of Marines killed there during the battle of Tarawa. There they found the remains of many missing Marines including a Medal of Honor winner.

Lecture / Discussion:What Do We Owe Our Veterans?
2016-11-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheater
It is a generally held truism that we ought to sincerely thank our veterans, especially on Veterans Day. Is the truism correct, though? Even if it is, what does it mean? Are some of our expressions of thanks really just trumped up ways of absolving ourselves for responsibility in war? What are some of the ways we over-valorize veterans? What are some of the ways we scapegoat veterans? In celebration of Veterans Day, join us for a deeper enquiry into such questions.

Cheyney Ryan (Oxford Institute for Ethics and Law of Armed Conflict/Conscientious Objector of Vietnam)

Mike Robillard (Oxford Uheiro Institute for Practical Ethics/Veteran of Iraq)

Robert Underwood (Oxford PhD Student/Veteran of Iraq)

David Reese (Georgetown PhD Student/Veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan)

Ian Fishback (University of Michigan PhD Student/Veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan)

Exercise / Fitness:Yoga Class
2016-11-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Trotter Multicultural Center
As part of our Health & Wellness initiative, Trotter offers FREE hour long fitness classes twice a week. Join us on Thursdays where Trotter will host a calm and relaxing yoga class from 6:00-7:00pm taught by Elizabeth Gonzalez, the Assistant Director of Clinical Services for CAPS here at UofM. All are welcome!

Exercise / Fitness:Zouk Thursdays
2016-11-10 18:00 - 21:00 | Angell Hall
A time to practice and learn Zouk. If you know absolutely nothing about Zouk or dancing, we'll help you through the basics. You'll have an opportunity to practice with other people. Get there whenever you can, there is no such thing as being late for these practices. And of course... leave whenever you want.Practica will be from 6-8pmSocial from 8-9pm

Workshop / Seminar:EXCEL Trainings
2016-11-10 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - EXCEL Lab
Led by Jonathan Kuuskoski

Have a project that needs some funding support? Interested in the EXCEL micro grants but have questions on how to make your proposal stand out? EXCEL can help you! In this session we will cover basic aspects of the grant-writing process, and provide tips on how to optimize your prose and craft the best possible EXCEL funding proposal.

Open to all interested students, and hosted in a convenient location next to the Student Commons in the Earl V Moore Building.

Presentation:Double Wolverine Panel
2016-11-10 19:00 - 21:00 | South Hall - 1225
A panel of UM undergraduate alums, who are now current UM law students, will discuss their law school experience. Reception to follow.

Performance:LACS Performance. Yahuba: Afro-Caribbean Music from Puerto Rico
2016-11-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
Yahuba is a Puerto Rican musical group music whose varied repertoire highlights the fusion of different folkloric traditions in the region, such as jíbaro, bomba, plena, and danza from Puerto Rico; salve, palos, bachata, and merengue from the Dominican Republic; RaRa and Konpa from Haiti; changüi, rumba, son, bolero, and guaracha from Cuba, among other musical traditions. All of these rich musical traditions are reworked from their most basic and essential melodic and harmonic elements, on top of an African-American jazz and funk base, to create a new platform for a truly Pan-Caribbean cultural fusion.

Founded in 1999, Yahuba is also dedicated to the research, education, and performance of the musical traditions of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean region. An important tenet of the band’s work is the diffusion of knowledge about Caribbean culture as seen throughout the history of its musical tradition, especially those elements connected to its African heritage.

Other:Weekly Bible Study - The Book of John Ch 8:31-59
2016-11-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Michigan League, 3rd Floor, Room D
Weekly group gathering for fellowship, worship and a Bible Study. This year we will be working our way through the book of John.

Performance:Roméo et Juliette
2016-11-10 19:30, 2016-11-11 20:00, 2016-11-12 20:00 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
Music by Charles Gounod
Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martin Katz
University Opera Theatre directed by Paul Curran
Sung in French with projected English translations

An opera based on Shakespeare’s play. If ever two young people in this world were never meant to be together tis Roméo & Juliette.

Performance:Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation Showcase Concert
2016-11-10 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
A variety of student and faculty-led ensembles including the U-M Jazz Ensemble, Hannah Baiardi Quartet, Emma Aboukasm, Andrew Bishop, Ed Sarath, and Ellen Rowe.

Performance:Saxophone Studio Recital
2016-11-10 20:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
The U-M Saxophone Ensemble presents an evening of group-improvisation, alongside interpretations of projected graphic scores, including Earle Brown's iconic December 1952, and a soundpainting work by Alexandros Markeas, professor of jazz and improvisation at the Paris Conservatory. The concert concludes with the minimalist masterpiece In C by Terry Riley.

Exercise / Fitness:Mswing open Swing
2016-11-10 20:30 - 22:00 | Koessler 3rd Floor Michigan League
Come and learn to swing dance if you don't know how. If you do come and meet new people and have a great time. It will be a swinging good time!

Conference / Symposium:Inaugural Michigan University-Wide Sustainability & Environment Conference
2016-11-10 23:59 | Off Campus Location
WHAT
The Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Conference (MUSE) is an inaugural conference and workshop aimed at bringing together the immense array of sustainability and environment-related research ongoing at the University of Michigan.

WHEN & WHERE
MUSE 2017 will be held February 9-10, 2017 in Ann Arbor at the University's Palmer Commons.

WHO
MUSE will bring together University leadership, faculty, fellows, and graduate students for a mixture of interdisciplinary lectures, panel discussions, poster sessions, and network- and skill-building activities. Opportunities will be provided to present both early-stage and final findings from your research. Participation among researchers at all stages of their careers (early to senior) will allow new opportunities for collaboration, mentorship, and learning about new developments in fields relevant to your work.

WHY
The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences. Faculty, research fellows, and graduate students are encouraged to attend.

HOW
MUSE is spearheaded by a group of PhD students from the SNRE, CLASP, EEB, Psychology, Political Science, Nursing, and Communication Studies. Funding is made possible by SNRE.

WHAT NEXT
***Registration for MUSE is now open until January 20. Registration is free and open to the entire UM community, but space is limited, so please register only if you plan to attend the entire conference. To register, go to bit.ly/muse2017registration***

Sporting Event:Match @ Marquette University
2016-11-11 08:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Marquette University
Tournament at Marquette University the Weekend of November 11th

Lecture / Discussion:Translational Research Town Hall
2016-11-11 08:00 - 09:00 | University Hospitals - Ford Auditorium
Discuss the state of translational research and learn about the many services and resources available to research teams across U-M.

Sponsored by U-M Office of Research, MICHR, UMMS Office of Research

Register here: https://translationalresearchtownhall.splashthat.com/

Light breakfast served at 7:30

Ceremony / Service:Veterans Week - Flag Raising and Lowering on the Diag
2016-11-11 08:00 - 08:15, 2016-11-11 17:00 - 17:15 | Diag - Central Campus - Flagpole
We will be raising and lowing the flag on the diag for Veterans Day. Please come and show your respect for those who served.

Careers / Jobs:Apply to the DocNetwork Immersion! (health/tech/bus dev./sales)
2016-11-11 08:30 - 12:30 | 526 N Maple Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA
**CLICK JOIN EVENT AND FILL OUT THE SURVEY IN THE LINK TO APPLY**

Are you looking to learn more about a company that lies at the intersection of health and technology? Then don't miss out on the opportunity to get an inside look at what it is like to work at DocNetwork in Ann Arbor! DocNetwork.org is a leading electronic health record system for camps, child care and schools. Their mission is to bring the lightweight side of the medical industry onto the web.

On November 11th from 9AM-12:30PM, the University Career Center will be bringing a group of U-M students to experience a day in the life at DocNetwork located right here in Ann Arbor. During this Immersion, students will get the opportunity to- "Meet the people. See the space. Do the job." The Immersion will include a tour of the facility, a chance to network with employees, and learn about internship andcareer opportunities available. This is an exploratory event for students hoping to learn more about different career options and industries.

This application will open on October 10th and close at 12pm on November 2nd -please click 'JOIN EVENT' to fill out your application. However, apply early! We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and if there is alarge interest in the event and we receive a large number of applications early on, the application may close early.

Students must be able to attend the full day program at DocNetwork to participate. University Career Center staff will be along with you on the Immersion to guide you through the day, and more details will be provided to the selected participants. Students must participate in a 30 minute group debrief session immediately following the Immersion to reflect upon this experience.

**Please note, clicking 'attending' on this event does not guarantee a space on the Immersion. Application questions will be reviewed for each applicant and UniversityCareer Center staff will select the students who will be invited to participate**

Careers / Jobs:Apply to the Google Ann Arbor Immersion!
2016-11-11 08:30 - 12:00 | 2300 Traverwood Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA
PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO A HIGH VOLUME OF APPLICATIONS, THIS IMMERSION EVENT HAS CLOSED EARLY.

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**CLICK JOIN EVENT AND FILL OUT THE SURVEY IN THE LINK TO APPLY**

Do you have an interest in sales, marketing/advertising, engineering, technology and/or innovation? Thendon't miss out on this opportunity to get an inside look of what it is like to work in one of these roles at Google Ann Arbor!

Mountain View meetsMidwestern values at Google Ann Arbor, a sales and operations office working with companies across North America, from the Fortune 500 to the smallbusinesses that drive the U.S. economy. Want to help companies grow by using cutting-edge digital technology? Then Google Ann Arbor is for you.

On November 11th from 9AM-12:00PM, the University Career Center will be bringing a group of U-M students to experience a day in the life at Google Ann Arbor. The Immersion will include a tour of the facilities, a chance to network with employees, and learn about internship and career opportunities available. This is an exploratory event for students hoping to learn moreabout different career options and industries.

This application will open on October 10th and close at 12PM on October 19th - please click 'JOIN EVENT' to fill out your application. However, apply early! We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and if there is a large interest in the event and we receive a large number of applications early on, the application may close early.

Students must be able to attend the full day program at Google Ann Arbor to participate. University Career Center staff will be along with you on the Immersion to guide you through the day, and more details will be provided to the selected participants. Students must participate in a 30 minute group debrief session immediately following the Immersion to reflect upon this experience.

**Please note, clicking 'attending' on this event does not guarantee a space on the Immersion. Applicationquestions will be reviewed for each applicant and University Career Centerstaff will select the students who will be invited to participate**

Conference / Symposium:Young IO Economists Conference
2016-11-11 08:30 - 17:00 | Lorch Hall - 201
Spatial Equilibrium, Search Frictions and Efficient Regulation in the Taxi Industry Abstract:
This paper analyzes the dynamic spatial equilibrium of taxicabs and shows how common taxi regulations lead to substantial inefficiencies. Taxis compete for passengers by driving to different locations around the city. Search costs ensure that optimal search behavior will still result in equilibrium frictions in the form of waiting times and spatial mismatch. Medallion limit regulations and fixed fare structures exacerbate these frictions by preventing markets from clearing on prices, leaving empty taxis in some areas, and excess demand in other areas. To analyze the role of regulation on frictions and efficiency, I pose a dynamic model of search and matching between taxis and passengers under regulation. Using a comprehensive dataset of New York City yellow medallion taxis, I use this model to compute the equilibrium spatial distribution of vacant taxis and estimate intraday demand. My estimates show that search frictions reduce welfare by $422M per year, or 62%. Counterfactual analysis reveals that existing regulations attain only 11% of the efficiency implied by a social planner’s solution, while the adoption of optimized two-part tariff pricing would lead to 89% efficiency, or a welfare gain on the order of $2.1B per year. The addition of directed matching technology to an optimized regime would increase welfare even further, by approximately $2.4B per year.

How do Vertical Contracts Affect Product Availability? An Empirical Study of the Grocery Industry Abstract:
Producers frequently provide nancial incentives to retailers in order to gain distribution for their products. These payments often take the form of vendor allowances: lump-sum transfers to retailers that do not directly depend on volume. To quantify the size of vendor allowances and their e ects on product assortments and welfare, I develop a framework to identify lump-sum transfers using only data on retail prices, sales, and assortments. Without making any assumptions about producer and retailer bargaining, set estimates of vendor allowances are recovered. Additionally, by assuming that producers make take-it-or-leave-it o ers, point estimates can be obtained. Lower bounds from set estimates imply that, on average, vendor allowances amount to at least 5% of retailer revenues. I apply model estimates to simulate how market outcomes change in the absence of vendor allowances. Counterfactual simulations predict that retailers fare worse, product variety is reduced as retailers replace
iche" products with mainstream" options, but consumers nevertheless are better o . Small producers, which o er high-velocity products, increase market distribution and pro ts, but, absent marginal cost data, consequences for large producers are uncertain.

A Theory of Bidding Dynamics and Deadlines in Online Retail Abstract:
We present an equilibrium search model that parsimoniously rationalizes the use of auctions as a sales mechanism for new-in-box goods—a frequent occurrence in online retail markets—and analyze whether the existence of these auctions is welfare enhancing relative to a market consisting only of posted prices. Buyers have a deadline by which the good must be purchased, and sellers choose between auctions and posted-price mechanisms. As the deadline approaches, buyers increase their bids and are more likely to buy through posted-price listings. The model predicts equilibrium price dispersion even for new, homogeneous goods. Using data on one million auction and posted-price listings for new-in-box items on eBay.com, we find robust evidence consistent with our model. As predicted, bidders increase their bids from one auction to the next, equilibrium price dispersion exists, and auctions and posted-price listings coexist. Fitting the model to the data, we find that retail auctions increase total welfare by 1.8% of the average retail price if listing fees exactly cover platform costs, but reduce welfare by 2.3% if listing fees are pure profit.

Input Allocation and Downstream Market Structure: Slot Control in the U.S. Airline Industry Abstract:
To help manage airport congestion and reduce delays, airlines operating at four U.S. airports must obtain from the FAA operating authorizations called "slots" to take off or land. Currently, the FAA allocates the slots using the "use-it-or-lose-it" rule. Because of that, the current system of slot control may inadvertently make these airports more congested as it creates incentives for the airlines to hoard the slots. The goal of the paper is to theoretically and empirically investigate the link between input allocation and the downstream market structure. I estimate a structural econometric model of airline competition. Using this model, I recalculate the downstream equilibrium for a set of alternative mechanisms of slot allocation.

Conference / Symposium:Reading, Writing, and World-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
2016-11-11 09:00 - 17:00 | Tisch Hall - 1014
Please mark your calendars for an upcoming conference sponsored by multiple departments at the University of Michigan.

Friday, November 11, 2016
8:30-9:00am • Opening
9:00-10:30am • Panel 1: Race, Religion, and Region
10:30am-12:00pm • Panel 2: Women, Gender, and Culture
12:00-1:00pm • Lunch
1:00-2:30pm • Panel 3: Reading, Writing, and Race
2:30-4:00 • Panel 4: Mary Kelley as Scholar, Mentor, and Friend: A Roundtable
4:00-4:30 • Closing Remarks

Conference / Symposium:Nam Center for Korean Studies Conference | Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2016
2016-11-11 09:50 - 17:10, 2016-11-12 09:50 - 17:10 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th Floor
This conference, Korean Families in Economic and Demographic Transitions,” the sixth in Perspectives on Contemporary Korea series, aims to bring scholars together to discuss how recent economic and demographic changes have affected parents and children in Korea, and at the same time how changing family structure and arrangements have also contributed to recent economic and social inequality. In particular, the conference invites scholars with both quantitative and qualitative approaches to Korean families. On the one hand, quantitative studies can offer trends and patterns of changing Korean families. On the other hand, qualitative research can explore subjective meanings, perceptions, and experiences of inequality and family changes beneath macro trends and patterns. In collaboration, these approaches offer the opportunity for better understanding of changing Korean families and surrounding inequalities.

Complete conference information: http://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/perspectives-on-contemporary-korea/perspectives-on-contemporary-korea-2016---korean-families-in-eco.html

Exhibition:Clements Library: A Century of Collecting, 1903 - 2016
2016-11-11 10:00 - 16:00 | William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Room
The William L Clements Library is one of the world’s finest early American history collections. The books, maps, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and other original treasures in the Library’s holdings form a remarkable collection of primary sources on America from Columbus through the nineteenth century.

Visit the newly renovated William L Clements Library to see the unique treasures that reflect the broad range of our collections. This exhibit highlights the collecting philosophy and practices of Mr. Clements and the Library’s four Directors.

For more information about the Library and using it for research, please visit our website at clements.umich.edu.

Exhibition:Out of the Ordinary
2016-11-11 10:00 - 16:00 | William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Room
The Library has been in collecting mode almost non-stop since it opened in 1923, and many unusual or extraordinary objects have found a home within its walls. The four Clements Library curators have each contributed to this exhibit a selection of interesting, remarkable, or peculiar items. As we celebrate the return of the Clements collection to 909 South University Avenue, we invite you to peruse a few of the oddball items that have turned up in a great library.

Exhibit open: November 4, 2016 - April 28, 2017
Exhibit hours are Fridays 10:00am - 4:00pm

Reception / Open House:2016 SNRE Fall Open House
2016-11-11 10:30 - 15:30 | Dana Natural Resources Building
Fall Open House is your opportunity to learn more about The School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan. On November 11th, you're invited to meet our community of faculty, staff and students. The agenda includes an information fair, faculty and student panels, lunch, and a tour of our Gold LEED certified Dana Building.

Please RSVP at link below

Conference / Symposium:CFE Graduate Symposium
2016-11-11 10:30 - 11:30 | Duderstadt Center - 1180
The Center for Entrepreneurship will be hosting a graduate symposium info session at the Duderstadt Center, Room 1180. Learn how the CFE can assist you through its:

CLASSES taught by U-M science & engineering alumni
TREKS across the country
FUNDING to get your idea started
NETWORKING with job recruiters and alumni
MENTORS to land a job or to talk about your idea.

Learn more on Friday, Nov. 11 or email cfe-graduate@umich.edu.

Workshop / Seminar:Mitsui Finance
2016-11-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Ross School of Business - R1230

Other:The Quito Project Andean Market Sale
2016-11-11 11:00 - 16:00 | Mason Hall
Stop by Mason Hall to shop our selection of alpaca sweaters, scarves and gloves, all handmade by indigenous Andean artisans! All profits will help finance our free education program for underprivileged primary students in Quito, Ecuador.

Come learn about our project for education equity in Ecuador, support our program, ask for last minute application tips and learn how you can get involved!

Workshop / Seminar:MDetroit Student Service Workshop II
2016-11-11 11:45 - 16:45 | Detroit Center
Join us for the MDetroit Student Service Workshop II on Friday, November 11. This second in a three-part series provides new and experienced students with a dynamic way to enhance community engagement skills and effectiveness with emphasis on Detroit-based engagement activities.

Note: Attendance at Workshop I (held October 11) is not a requirement.

Agenda
11:45 AM
Board bus at Fleming Administration Bldg., 503 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI

12:00 - 1:30 PM
Bus leaves Ann Arbor
Tour Southwest Detroit and Northend
Box lunches provided

1:30 - 3:15 PM
U-M Detroit Center, 3663 Woodward Avenue, Suite 150, Detroit, MI
Speaker - Debbie Fisher, Director, The HOPE Initiative, Focus: HOPE

Small group discussions on "Best Practices for Community Engagement in Detroit."

Participating community org reps include Focus: Hope, Arise Detroit, Live6, Mission: City, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, and Mosaic Youth Theatre.

Announcement of MDetroit Student Service grant program & details

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Brief tour of Westside Detroit

4:45 PM
Bus returns Ann Arbor (Fleming Administration Building)

Limited enrollment/RSVP today - at https://goo.gl/gFgPxz

Partner Organizations
- Center for Educational Outreach
- Center for Engaged Academic Learning
- Center for Social Impact, Ross School
- Detroit Center
- Ginsberg Center
- Office of Metropolitan Impact, U-M Dearborn
- Semester in Detroit
- Technical Assistance Center, School of Social Work
- Semester in Detroit
- Taubman College
- Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
- University Library

Sporting Event:Fall Championship
2016-11-11 12:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Macatawa Bay Yacht Club
MCSA Fleet Racing Fall Championship

Fair / Festival:Grove Fest
2016-11-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower - North Campus Grove
Come celebrate the new North Campus Grove with CCI and the Ice Carving Team! There will be food trucks, a petting zoo and much much more!

Other:NIRCA Nationals!
2016-11-11 12:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Hershey Parkview XC Course
NIRCA Nationals meet in Hershey, PA.

Lecture / Discussion:Yiddish Leyenkrayz
2016-11-11 12:00 - 13:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Room 2000
The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

Performance:Dance Master Class Repertory Series: Alexander Springer and Xan Burley
2016-11-11 12:10 | Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theatre
This technique master class, co-taught by SMTD alums Xan Burley and Alex Springer, explores their collaborative body of work as the Median Movement. Warm-up attends to the shifting weight of the body at rest and in motion, generating heat for endurance, strength, and stability. Class exercises work to develop alignment and intelligent corporeal engagement in preparation for complex material. Improvisation practices, wherein we regard the body as a receptive vessel, instigate authentic embodiment of both individual and collective creative identities. Class will include phrase material drawn from Burley’s and Springer’s current repertory.

Each Modern Lab session features a different guest artist teaching a master class and sections from their repertory. This panorama of the contemporary dance field is presented to broaden the students’ awareness of potential career possibilities. Each guest artist conducts a 30-minute technique class/warm-up and then teaches repertory that is performed by the class.

In the final 15 minutes, faculty coordinator Bill De Young conducts a Q & A with each artist, discussing their career; their recommendations for transitioning from student to professional, and what they look for when they audition dancers for their projects.

Workshop / Seminar:Selectivity Mechanism of the Voltage Gated Proton Channel, Hv1
2016-11-11 12:15 - 13:15 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
Host: Randy Stockbridge

Workshop / Seminar:Comparative Politics Workshop (CPW)
2016-11-11 13:00 - 14:30 | Haven Hall - 5664
Held in the Walker Room

Workshop / Seminar:CSAAW journal discussion on Farmer et al., "Is economics the next physical science?"
2016-11-11 13:00 - 14:00 | West Hall - 317
CSAAW will discuss Farmer et al., "Is economics the next physical science?" (2005). Pizza will be provided.

Workshop / Seminar:Digital Data in Archaeology: Recording, Analysis, Publication, and Preservation
2016-11-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Designed for students and the interested public, this workshop explores how digital technologies are influencing the practice of archaeology through the prism of four research projects sponsored by Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Project directors will present reflections on their use of digital technologies to capture data in the field, develop interpretations, and publish results. Representatives of LSAIT, Deep Blue Data, and Michigan Press will provide perspectives on the collection, storage, and long-term preservation of archaeological data. Sebastian Heath, a pioneer in the dissemination of archaeological data online, will give a response. All are welcome.

Schedule:
1:00-1:10 Introduction
1:10-1:30 Notion Survey (Christopher Ratté)
1:35-1:55 Gabii Project (Marcello Mogetta)
2:00-2:20 El Kurru (Geoff Emberling)
2:25-2:45 Olynthos Project (Lisa Nevett, David Stone)
2:50-3:00 Break
3:00-3:20 LSAIT GIS (Peter Knoop)
3:25-3:45 Deep Blue Data (Jake Carlson, Amy Neeser)
3:50-4:10 Michigan Press (Charles Watkinson, Jeremy Morse)
4:15-4:35 Respondent (Sebastian Heath, ISAW/NYU)
4:40-5:00 Discussion

Workshop / Seminar:Economics at Work
2016-11-11 13:00 - 14:30 | Lorch Hall - 140 (Askwith Auditorium)
Jason is a co-founder and managing director at Foundry Group, a Boulder-Colorado based venture capital firm focused on making early-stage technology investments, participating in select growth rounds and identifying and supporting the next generation of venture fund managers.

Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Jason was a co-founder of SRS Acquiom and a Managing Director and General Counsel for Mobius Venture Capital. Prior to this, Jason was an attorney with Cooley. Early in his career, Jason was a software engineer at Accenture.

Jason holds a B.A. in Economics, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Law School. He is also an active musician with his band Legitimate Front. He also co-authored the best selling book "Venture Deals, Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist". You can find him on Twitter: @jasonmendelson.

Economics at Work is an invited speaker series whose goal is to allow students a chance to discover the wide array of career paths of undergraduate economics majors and the role economics plays in their careers.

Lecture / Discussion:PhonDi Discussion Group
2016-11-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Lorch Hall - 403
Dave Ogden will discuss "Positive Attitudes Through Better Understanding: The Role of Perceptual Adaptation in Accent-Based Discrimination."

Abstract
It has been argued that language, including accent, is one of the last domains in which discrimination is widely acceptable, and that language discrimination is a “back door” to discrimination on other traits like nationality, ethnicity, and gender (Lippi-Green, 2012). Researchers consistently find negative evaluations, and even linguistic profiling, of speakers and accents perceived as non-standard (see Lindemann & Subtirelu, 2013; Purnell, Idsardi, & Baugh, 1999). Accent discrimination resulting from negative attitudes linked to stereotypes of social groups is well-recognized in sociolinguistic research (Dragojevic & Giles, 2016; Gluszek & Dovidio, 2010). More recently, researchers have begun to assess how perceptual fluency, or the effortfulness that listeners feel in understanding accented speech, affects attitudes towards speakers. Disfluent perception, the experience associated with effortful information processing, leads to negative emotions and attitudes toward that information (Alter, 2013; Alter & Oppenheimer, 2009), and disfluent perception of an unfamiliar accent leads to negative evaluations of the speaker (Dragojevic & Giles, 2016). Yet listeners have a robust ability to adapt to and understand highly variable speech patterns, as shown by improvements in comprehension of non-native speech with listening experience (Baese-Berk, Bradlow, & Wright, 2013; Bradlow & Bent, 2008; Sidaras, Alexander, & Nygaard, 2009). I will present pilot data for an experiment testing the hypothesis that adaptation resulting in more fluent perception will lead to more positive attitudes towards a non-native speaker.

Careers / Jobs:Sociology 395, First-Gen Pilot Course- Building Your Network & Acing the Interview
2016-11-11 13:00 - 15:00 | Room 210 Tappan Hall 855 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
You can’t start networking unless you know where to begin! This workshop will give you the tools to identify and connect with contacts inaddition to conducting informational interviews - opportunities that will help you expand your knowledge on what a career or company is like by learning from an employee's daily activities. These meetings can occur without the pressure so often present in a typical job interview but many times lead to opportunities down the road.

Preparing for your job interview could very well be one of the most important moments of your career! This workshop will help you know what to say to employers to sell your skills, settle your nerves, and put you in the mindset of an employer.

Carefully review our website to learn the basics: https://careercenter.umich.edu/article/interviewing-resources

Review STAR Resources: https://www.livecareer.com/quintessential/STAR-interviewing

These pieces will not be covered in the workshop. You will be applying this interview Strategy, therefore you need to be familiar with it, if you want to ACE your time in our workshop!

Other:Triple header vs. NMU
2016-11-11 13:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-12 00:00 - 23:59, 2016-11-13 00:00 | Grayling High School
The Michigan Club Softball Team and its bougie members (with a few exceptions) take on Northern Michigan in more ways than one: competitively and culturally. Gear up for a journey filled with victory, cold temperatures, wild game (can be applied to the triple header or our meals), and an overwhelming amount of completely serious Trump/Pence yard signs.

Lecture / Discussion:CCG Technologies Seminar: "Development and Application of a High-Throughput Assay for Homocitrate Synthase, a Novel Target for Antifungal Drug Design"
2016-11-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Palmer Commons - Great Lakes
Aspergillus fumigatus is a prevalent fungal pathogen that primarily infects individuals through inhalation of conidia, which subsequently germinate and send invasive hyphal extensions throughout the lungs, resulting in clinical bronchopulmonary and invasive aspergillosis. Individuals who are immunocompromised, such as burn patients, transplant recipients, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, and individuals suffering from HIV/AIDS or other immunodeficiency syndromes, as well as those suffering from chronic lung disease exhibit a higher risker developing aspergillosis. In addition, asthmatics with fungal hypersensitivity are susceptible to developing allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis or severe asthma with fungal sensitization. Current antifungal therapies are generally unsuitable for the treatment of aspergillosis due to the toxicity and side effects associated with these drugs. These shortcomings underscore an urgent clinical need to develop new antifungal drugs that offer greater efficacy and a lower toxicity profile. One such target for drug development is homocitrate synthase (HCS), which catalyzes the first and committed step in fungal lysine biosynthesis. HCS is conserved in A. fumigatus, but is absent in humans, rendering it an attractive target for antifungal intervention. Further, recent studies have demonstrated that HCS is essential to the bronchopulmonary virulence of A. fumigatus, validating this enzyme as a novel target for antifungal drug design. The overall objective of this proposal is to identify and characterize HCS inhibitors that block the growth of A. fumigatus. Toward this goal, we have developed a sensitive, low volume fluorescent assay for HCS and employed this assay to conduct an in vitro high-throughput screen for small molecule inhibitors of A. fumigatus HCS (AfHCS) in the UM Center for Chemical Genomics. This screen has identified over 20 compounds that inhibit AfHCS with IC50 values less than or equal to ten micromolar, which have been prioritized for testing in fungal growth assays using A. fumigatus clinical isolates. We envision that these compounds will yield chemical probes for studying aspergillosis in cell- and animal-based models and will provide a basis for developing new therapeutics for treating a broad spectrum of bronchopulmonary diseases caused by A. fumigatus.

Lecture / Discussion:DAAS African American Workshop with LaShawn Harris (Michigan State University)
2016-11-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Haven Hall - 4701 (DAAS Conference Room)
Position: Assistant Professor
Field: 20th Century, Cultural, Labor and Working Class, Social, Urban, Women & Gender
Education: 2007 Ph.D. Howard University, Washington, D. C.

Selected Publications:

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy, (University of Illinois Press 2016)

“‘Women and Girls in Jeopardy by His False Testimony:’ Charles Dancy, Urban Policing, and Black Women in New York City during the 1920s” (Forthcoming Journal of Urban History)

“‘The Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Virginia Christian’: Southern Black Women, Crime & Punishment in Progressive Era Virginia” Journal of Social History, Vol. 47, Issue 4, (Summer 2014) 2015 Winner of the Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize sponsored by the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH)

“Marvel Cooke: Investigative Journalist, Communist & Black Radical Subject” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Vol. 6, No. 2, (Fall 2012): 91-126

“Dream Books, Crystal Balls, and “Lucky Numbers”: African American Female Spiritual Mediums in Harlem, 1900-1945.” Journal of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 35, Issue 1, (January 2011): 1-30

“Running with the Reds: African American Women and the Communist Party during the Great Depression.” Journal of African American History, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Winter 2009): 21-40

“Madame Queen of Policy: Madame Stephanie St. Clair and African American Women’s Participation in Harlem’s Informal Economy,” Black Women, Gender & Families, Vol. 2 No. 2, (Fall 2008): 53-76

Lecture / Discussion:DocDe Discussion Group
2016-11-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Lorch Hall - 403
Details to come.

Workshop / Seminar:Statistical Learning Workshop
2016-11-11 14:30 - 16:00 | Haven Hall - 5664

Workshop / Seminar:Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics
2016-11-11 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 1084
Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Transform (IST) are well known in the Math/Physics community. History, background, examples and a number of recently found "simple" nonlocal integrable equations and solutions will be discussed. Speaker(s): Mark Ablowitz (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Workshop / Seminar:Geometry
2016-11-11 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 3096
I will describe an infinite-dimensional analogue of the Fisher-Rao metric on the quotient space of the group of diffeomorphisms of a compact Riemannian manifold by the subgroup of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms. Time permitting I will also discuss Amari-Chentsov connections and the associated nonlinear PDE. Speaker(s): Gerard Misiolek (Notre Dame)

Workshop / Seminar:HET Seminar | Causality and Universality at Strong Coupling
2016-11-11 15:00 - 16:00 | West Hall - 335
Causality imposes constraints on the coupling constants in perturbative effective field theory, which have played a role in understanding scattering amplitudes, the a-theorem for renormalization group flows, and higher curvature corrections in quantum gravity. I will describe similar constraints on strongly interacting theories. In one limit, these constraints imply the averaged null energy condition, which links causality to the inequalities obeyed by quantum information. Then, in large-N conformal field theory, I'll describe how causality tightly constrains the stress tensor correlation functions, and points directly toward the emergence of Einstein gravity in the holographic dual.

Workshop / Seminar:IWAP Series Meeting
2016-11-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Haven Hall - 6551
Held in the Prefunction Room

Workshop / Seminar:Post-election Dialogue Series #1:
2016-11-11 15:00 - 16:30 | Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
A space to discuss impacts of the election process and results on us as individuals, and on how we move forward with our work together.

Sponsored by Ginsberg Center, CAPS & CivCity
Location: Ginsberg Center

Lecture / Discussion:Relativism Requires Alternatives, Not Disagreement or Relative Truth
2016-11-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Angell Hall - 3222
http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/carol-rovane

Lecture / Discussion:SoConDi Discussion Group
2016-11-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Lorch Hall - 473
Moira Salzman will discuss "South Korean language policy and the erasure of Jejueo."

Abstract
South Korea is considered one of the most linguistically homogenous countries worldwide, and this image is promulgated by governmental policies, the educational system, and linguistic scholars. In South Korean schools, the majority of classroom hours are allocated to “correct use of the Korean language” (Song 2012:30) and popular television shows promote prescriptivist grammar and lexicon (Seth 2011:25). In his oft-cited reference grammar of the Korean language, Sohn (1999:12) writes, “Despite [...] geographical and sociopolitical dialectal differences, Korean is relatively homogenous, with excellent mutual intelligibility among speakers from different areas.”
However, Jejueo, the indigenous language of Jeju Island, South Korea, is less than 12% mutually intelligible with Korean (O’Grady 2015). Jejueo is classified as critically endangered, with 5,000 to 10,000 speakers all over the age of 70 (UNESCO 2010) and language use rapidly shifting to Korean. The social and economic reforms of the New Village Movement in the 1970s created a diglossia on Jeju Island, where Jejueo was prohibited from use in the media, education, religion and all official capacities. Recent work on Jejueo language ideologies (Kim 2011, Kim 2013) suggests that speakers maintain ideologies rooted in the former diglossia, as Korean is used as a language of “distance and rationality” (Kim 2013). This paper discusses the possibilities for Jejueo status planning and revitalization within the larger sociohistorical context of Korean language ideologies.

Reception / Open House:U-M Library Undergraduate Research Award Ceremony
2016-11-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Shapiro Library - Bert's Study Lounge (Lobby)
Join us for the 6th annual U-M Library Undergraduate Research Award ceremony to honor the recipients of the 2015-2016 awards.

Each year, U-M Library conducts a research award competition to recognize and celebrate the extraordinary academic achievements of our undergraduate students. The award is given to students who demonstrate excellence in library research conducted in support of an undergraduate student project. For information on this year's recipients and their projects, please go the research award's web page: http://www.lib.umich.edu/undergraduate-research-award/award-winners#2015-2016

Workshop / Seminar:Combinatorics
2016-11-11 15:10 - 16:00 | East Hall - 4088
In 1997 Hirota introduced a discrete dynamical system dKdV that lies conceptually between the classical KdV equation (a PDE) and the box ball system (a cellular automaton). The most remarkable property of each of these systems is the existence of so-called soliton solutions. I will describe a new variant on dKdV and explain what its solitons look like. The system is built out of reduced word dynamics in the affine symmetric group, with the generators enriched by weights that transform according to the Lusztig relation (a,b,c) mapsto (bc/(a+c), a+c, ab/(a+c)). This is joint work with P. Pylyavskyy. Speaker(s): Max Glick (U. Connecticut)

Workshop / Seminar:Economic Theory
2016-11-11 15:30 - 17:00 | Lorch Hall - 301
Abstract:
What makes some strategy-proof mechanisms easier to understand than others? To address this question, I propose a new solution concept: A mechanism is obviously strategy-proof (OSP) if it has an equilibrium in obviously dominant strategies. This has a behavioral interpretation: A strategy is obviously dominant if and only if a cognitively limited agent can recognize it as weakly dominant. It also has a classical interpretation: A choice rule is OSP-implementable if and only if it can be carried out by a social planner under a particular regime of partial commitment. I fully characterize the set of OSP mechanisms in a canonical setting, with one-dimensional types and quasi-linear utility. A laboratory experiment tests and corroborates the theory.

Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Microbial controls on biogeochemical carbon cycling in marine sediments
2016-11-11 15:30 - 16:30 | 1100 North University Building - 1528
Marine sediments cover almost ~75% of the Earth’s surface and are one of the largest global reservoirs of organic carbon. Microorganisms play a primary role in the decomposition of organic matter in marine sediments. Consequently, the activity of these microorganisms can have profound impacts on both local and global biogeochemical cycles. A major question in carbon biogeochemistry is determining what controls the accessibility or bioavailability of organic matter to microorganisms. It is not clear whether microorganisms themselves are ultimately controlling the degradation rate or whether it depends primarily on chemical and physical properties of the compounds and/or the depositional setting and sediment composition. In this presentation, I will focus on new insights into the dynamics of organic matter degradation using novel isotopic approaches and explore how microbial metabolic potential can influence carbon mobilization in sediments

Performance:Guest Recital: Francesco D’Orazio, violin
2016-11-11 15:40 - 17:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Luciano Berio composed his renowned Sequenza VII for solo violin especially for Francesco D’Orazio, who has performed it all over the world. Considered Italy’s most famous violinist of contemporary music today, D’Orazio will perform a concert of new music for solo violin by Italy’s leading composers and French composer Pierre Boulez.

A Q&A session will follow, moderated by composition Professor Michael Daugherty.

PROGRAM: Berio- Sequenza VIII; Ivan Fedele- Suite Francese II; Luciano Chessa- Corrente and Sarabanda; Salvatore Sciarrino- Capricci n. 1-4; dall’Ongaro- La Musica di E..Z.; Boulez- Anthemès 1

Workshop / Seminar:Biophysics Seminar: Prof. Edward R. Lyman, University of Delaware
2016-11-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Abstract: Your cell membranes are made mostly of lipids, the class of biological macromolecule that includes fat, oil, and wax. This "lipidome" is a complex mixture of some 800 different types of lipid, which changes with your diet and with the administration of lipid synthesis drugs like statins. Altering the lipid composition of a membrane changes its biophysical properties, such as thermodynamic phase, fluidity, viscosity, and curvature stress. Changes in biophysical properties may in turn affect cellular functions like signaling, which often relies on the diffusive encounter of membrane-bound receptors. I will give an overview of the state of membrane biophysics, with a particular focus on recent experimental breakthroughs which admit measurements of lipid diffusion with unprecedented spatiotemporal precision. I will then discuss our own efforts to use modeling approaches in collaboration with experimental colleagues to rationalize lipid and protein spatiotemporal organization in model membranes, and our plans to extend these approaches to interpret recent measurements on live cell membranes.

Lecture / Discussion:Kevin McGowan Colloquium
2016-11-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Hutchins Hall - 138
Kevin McGowan is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky. He will give a talk titled, "Subcategorical mismatches can be mismatches of phonetic, phonological, lexical, and social context."

Abstract
We listen to the world through a filter of our own phonetic, phonological, lexical, and social expectations. In this talk I will present a pair of experiments that attempt to tease apart theories of listeners’ expectations and the speech signal. In both experiments, listeners made lexical decisions in a semantic priming paradigm. In experiment 1, long and short voice onset times (VOT) were paired with citation and fast speaking rates to examine the extent to which longer VOTs are more canonical cues to a voiceless stop —more likely to facilitate semantic priming— than shorter VOTs across speech styles. The results of this study suggest that previous findings, which argue for the superiority of long VOT in evoking word-initial voiceless percepts in English listeners, are exaggerated by a mismatch between listener expectations established by a citation speaking rate. Experiment 2 is a follow-up experiment that investigates whether, as has been generally assumed, artificially shortened VOT results in a voiced, rather than voiceless, percept for word-initial stops even when all other coarticulatory phonetic cues in the word might indicate voicelessness. Listeners heard short VOT paired with citation speaking rates in words like ‘coal’ and made lexical decisions about either a voiceless percept consistent word (coal/mine) or a voiced percept consistent word (goal/score). Surprisingly, in this task, artificially short VOT paired with a citation speaking rate word frame resulted in strong semantic priming for voiceless percepts and only weak semantic priming for voiced percepts. Listeners are sensitive to the subcategorical mismatch in the stimuli, but even a clear VOT cue does not override the constellation of other coarticulatory cues to voicelessness when long VOT productions are absent from the task. The message of these experiments is that VOT, while a cue to the voiced/voiceless distinction in English word-initial stops, is neither a sufficient nor a necessary cue to perceive this category difference (see also Lisker, 1996). Use of this cue depends on social information in the speech signal (implemented here with speaking rate), lexical status of the word (whether it has a voiced lexical competitor), the relationship to other phonetic cues in the word, and extrinsic comparison to other productions by the same talker. I will argue that theories of speech perception and word recognition that do not take all of this contextual information into account during processing risk missing a fundamental property of what it means to be a human and what it is native speakers know when they know a language.

Workshop / Seminar:Preprint Algebraic Geometry Seminar
2016-11-11 16:00 - 17:30 | East Hall - 1866
https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4781 Speaker(s): Matt Stevenson (UM)

Social / Informal Gathering:Fridays After 5
2016-11-11 17:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art
Stop in to UMMA on select Friday evenings to enjoy special exhibitions and engaging
activities at Fridays After 5! With all of UMMA's galleries remaining open until 8:00 p.m., this exciting series provides an interactive atmosphere for all audiences. While you're here, browse the UMMA Store for a wide variety of speciality items. Park in the Maynard Structure (between Liberty and William) and receive free, validated parking. The Museum is always free. From 6-7:30 p.m. Artist Khaled al-Saa'i will lead a hands-on demonstration that introduces traditional and modern Arabic calligraphy and discuss the ways in which he uses calligraphic forms in his own work. Works in UMMA’s collection by Mr. al-Saa’i will be on view on the Lower Level. Registration is required please email: umma-programregistration@umich.edu

Other:Pledge and Pizza
2016-11-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Michigan Union
Join Michigan UMTTR to pledge to know and use the 5 signs of emotional suffering as part of the Campaign to Change Direction. THERE WILL BE FREE PIZZA!
"I pledge to know the Five Signs of emotional suffering and change the culture surrounding mental health, mental illness, and wellness."

Other:UM Hockey Game Performance
2016-11-11 17:00 - 22:00 | Ann Arbor, MI
Synchronized Skating performance at the Nov. 11th UM Men's Varsity Hockey Game at Yost Arena.

Lecture / Discussion:VETx - Armed Forces Association at Ross
2016-11-11 17:00 - 18:00 | Ross School of Business - Ross Colloquium
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be in the military? Were you ever curious of what stories your fellow Ross Military Veterans have never told you? Now you finally have your opportunity on Veteran's Day, Friday November 11th, 5-7PM in the Colloquium! RSVP

The Armed Forces Association at Ross and the Sanger Leadership Institute is proud to bring you the 2nd Annual VETx or "Veteran Experience" event! VETx is a series of TED talk style speeches performed by our very own Ross military veterans, highlighting stories from their time in the service and connecting those stories to leadership in business. Following the TED talks, we will have a panel of Ross military veterans, moderated by Professor Ryan Ball, that you will be able to engage and ask questions to. RSVP Here!

We have three excellent talks planned for you:

"Resiliency" by Jeff Pawlik - MBA2, US Army
"Moral Ambiguity" by Bobby Carsey- MBA1, US Coast Guard
"Healing an Organization" by Taylor Markward- MBA3, US Army

And our Panel will consist of another group of great Ross Military Veterans:

James Mckinney, MBA2, US Army
Colin Tyrrell, MBA2, US Army
Molly Hope, MBA1, US Army
Chris Monti, MBA1, US Air Force
Ryan Colameo, MBA1, US Marine Corps

Food will be provided.

RSVP Requested at: https://ross.campusgroups.com/AFA/

Workshop / Seminar:Artist Talk and Demonstration: Calligraphy as an Expressive Language
2016-11-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Museum of Art
This program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Please register to secure your space by emailing umma-program-registration@umich.edu.
Artist Khaled al-Saa'i will make a special appearance at UMMA's November Fridays After 5 event. The Syrian born artist will discuss the ways in which he uses calligraphic forms is his own work and lead a hands-on demonstration that introduces traditional and modern day Arabic calligraphy.

Mr. al-Saa'i will introduce variations of traditional Arabic calligraphic scripts, the function and quality of each one, and the traditional tools used to create them. He will also introduce Sunbuli script, the late Ottoman cursive known for its compact combinations, by demonstrating individual letters and words. Audience members will have the chance to try their hand at creating this unique style of script.

Mr. al-Saa'i will also explore the expressive possibilities of calligraphic lettering, moving beyond the rules of writing and language, and highlighting his own historic and recent work.

Work in UMMA’s collection by Mr. al-Saa’i will be on view on the Lower Level for browsing before and after the program until 8:00 p.m.

This program is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan History of Art Department, the Institute for the Humanities, and UMMA.

Presentation:Artist Talk and Demonstration: Calligraphy as an Expressive Language
2016-11-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Museum of Art
Artist Khaled al-Saa'i will make a special appearance at UMMA's November Fridays After 5 event. The Syrian born artist will discuss the ways in which he uses calligraphic forms is his own work and lead a hands-on demonstration that introduces traditional and modern day Arabic calligraphy. Mr. al-Saa'i will introduce variations of traditional Arabic calligraphic scripts, the function and quality of each one, and the traditional tools used to create them. He will also introduce Sunbuli script, the late Ottoman cursive known for its compact combinations, by demonstrating individual letters and words. Audience members will have the chance to try their hand at creating this unique style of script. Mr. al-Saa'i will also explore the expressive possibilities of calligraphic lettering, moving beyond the rules of writing and language, and highlighting his own historic and recent work. Work in UMMA’s collection by Mr. al-Saa’i will be on view on the Lower Level for browsing before and after the program until 8:00 p.m.This program is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan History of Art Department, the Institute for the Humanities, and UMMA.

Lecture / Discussion:Distinguished University Professor Lecture: June Manning Thomas
2016-11-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Auditorium 2104
Mary Frances Berry Distinguished University Professor of Urban Planning
Centennial Professor of Urban and Regional Planning June Manning Thomas will give the Mary Frances Berry Distinguished University of Michigan Professor of Urban Planning Lecture at Taubman College. As one of nine faculty members university-wide to receive this top faculty honor this year, Professor Thomas is also the first faculty member at Taubman College to receive this prestigious designation.
Thomas is a pre-eminent scholar on how racial inequality and disunity have affected the planning, evolution, and redevelopment of cities and their neighborhoods. Her work focuses on economically distressed central cities, addressing issues of planning theory and socialjustice. Her co-edited book Urban Planning and the African American Community: In the Shadows is a path-breaking exploration of key connections between racial injustice and urban planning. Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit won the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s Paul Davidoff Award for urban planning books published in in the area of social justice. She has written or co-edited three additional books related to race and poverty in Detroit and in other depopulated cities in the Midwest as well as dozens of book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. She also has written policy reports for the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan.
Her recent research explores community development in Detroit and the 1960s civil rights movement in Orangeburg, South Carolina, where she helped integrate the local high school. Her research has been widely recognized by numerous academic awards including her election as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. She is a prominent and highly effective national advocate for diversity and inclusion of under-represented faculty and students in urban planning academic programs. In 2013 she was named president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, where she encouraged greater racial diversity in the nation’s urban planning schools.
Recognized as an outstanding and inspirational teacher, Thomas was a founding instructor for the U-M Residential College’s Semester in Detroit program, teaching at the U-M Detroit Center from 2011 to 2015. Her graduate course in planning theory is a defining experience for many graduate students, emphasizing ethics and challenging students to consider how the planning process interacts with and affects disadvantaged communities without access to decision-makers. In recognition of her many contributions in the classroom and of her wider service on behalf of a more inclusive University, Professor Thomas was awarded the 2014 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award.
Thomas earned her B.A. from Michigan State University in 1970, with a major in sociology. Awarded Danforth, National Science Foundation, and Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, she entered the doctoral program in the Urban and Regional Planning Program at the University of Michigan, earning her Ph.D. in 1977 with a dissertation studying the loss of land ownership among African-Americans in South Carolina. She taught at Michigan State University before accepting a position in 2007 as the Centennial Professor in the Urban and Regional Planning Program of the A. Alfred Taubman College Architecture and Urban Planning.
About the award:
Established in 1947, Distinguished University Professorships recognize full professors for exceptional scholarly or creative achievement, national and international reputation, and superior teaching skills. Each professorship bears a name determined by the appointive professor in consultation with her or his dean. Manning Thomas chose to be named the Mary Frances Berry Distinguished University Professor of Urban Planning.

Presentation:Elise Keaton: Shutting Down Mountaintop Removal
2016-11-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Dana Natural Resources Building
One of the leading activists in halting coal mountaintop removal in Appalachia gives a talk on what part we all can play in saving our natural resources.

Elise Keaton is an outreach coordinator for the Greenbrier River Watershed Association and board member for the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation in West Virginia.

Cottage Inn will be catered.

Other:Dinner Party and Bunco
2016-11-11 18:30 - 21:00 | Lepkowski's Home
We will be having dinner and playing Bunco at the Lepkowski's home Friday, November 11. Come join us for a night of food, fun and good conversation.

Performance:Jhimilaa: Vibrance of Our Nation
2016-11-11 18:30 | Hill Auditorium
Presented by the Indian American Student Association at Hill Auditorium

Sporting Event:Michigan Women's Basketball vs. Oakland
2016-11-11 18:30 | Off Campus Location
Michigan Women's Basketball vs. Oakland

Presentation:Athi-Patra Ruga at Bona Sera
2016-11-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location
Exploring the border-zones between fashion, performance, and contemporary art, Athi-Patra Ruga makes work that exposes and subverts the body in relation to structure, ideology, and politics. Bursting with eclectic multicultural references, carnal sensuality, and a dislocated undercurrent of humor, Ruga’s work creates a world where cultural identity is no longer determined by geographical origins, ancestry, or biological disposition, but is increasingly becoming a hybrid construct.

Athi-Patra has exhibited widely including recent exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the 55th Venice Biennale, The Brass Artscape in Brussels, SFMOMA, the Tate Modern, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Athi-Patra Ruga was also recently included in the Phaidon book Younger Than Jesus, a directory of over 500 of the world’s best artists under the age of 33.

Presented in conjunction with Athi-Patra’s Thursday, November 10 Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series presentation at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor. An additional event with Athi-Patra Ruga will take place at 7 pm on Friday, November 4 at MOCAD (4454 Woodward Ave, Detroit).

Other:Lebanese Student Association and Persian Student Association Bowling Night
2016-11-11 19:00 - 22:30 | Revel & Roll
The Lebanese Student Association and the Persian Student Association collaborated to plan a bowling social!Come out to Revel & Roll address attached, if you need a ride contact: cfaraj@umich.edu

Other:WEBSTER • Ashley Whitaker & Molly Dickinson
2016-11-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Critically acclaimed novelist (and one of Salon.com's sexiest men alive) Justin Torres called ASHLEY WHITAKER a "Real Texan Charmer." The editors of Glimmer Train typed her name on their website one time. She lives alone with her cat, Catwoman.

MOLLY DICKINSON is a poet hailing from the West Coast. Her work can be found in Jerk Poet, on Tin House’s The Open Bar, and on The Nervous Breakdown. Molly graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 2012, where she was the recipient of the American Academy of Poets Prize.

Sporting Event:Michigan Ice Hockey vs. No. 4 Boston University
2016-11-11 19:30, 2016-11-12 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Michigan Ice Hockey vs. No. 4 Boston University

Performance:Bob Schneider
2016-11-11 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Born in Ypsilanti, raised in Munich, Germany, and based in Austin, Bob Schneider is a rock-oriented singer-songwriter who pushes the limits. He's the son of a German opera singer who moonlighted in pop on the side, and he's been performing since he was a toddler. He moved to El Paso to study art, but the musical urge was stronger and he ended up in Austin. Bob fronted several of the city's most popular bands, including Lonelyland, the Scabs, and the Ugly Americans, and since then he's been burning up the grapevine in a very competitive town with his weekly Monday night shows at the Saxon Pub. His musical diverse tunes have been credited as a songwriting influence by Jason Mraz among others. Bob's album "Lovely Creatures,"brought him seven Austin Music Awards, including Musician for the Year, Song of the Year (for the top-15 national hit "40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)," Album of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, and Songwriter of the Year. He comes to Michigan with a new release, "King Kong Vol. III."

Film Screening:Friday Flicks
2016-11-11 20:00 - 23:00 | Michigan Union - Hussey Room
Showing of the movie Star Trek Beyond
Free popcorn and other refreshments will be served

Performance:The 1975
2016-11-11 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Lower Bowl tickets available over the counter ONLY at MUTO.
All other tickets available through the EMU Convocation Center.

The 1975 will return stateside this fall for a North American headline tour in support of their #1 US and UK sophomore album, "I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it" (Dirty Hit / Interscope Records). The 1975 will perform live at the EMU Convocation Center Friday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. Other ticket types are available at EMUtix.com.

The 1975, a four-piece from Wilmslow, Cheshire, creatively infuses indie, rock, pop, alternative, and electro to create the unpredictable album, "I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it". The UK art-pop quartet will kick off their tour in Phoenix, AZ on October 13 at Comerica Theatre and will hit major cities including Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago, and Mexico City. They recently topped Rolling Stone, NPR, Spin, Stereogum, Complex, and Entertainment Weekly’s “Best of 2016 (so far)” lists.

Sporting Event:Michigan Men's Basketball vs. Howard
2016-11-11 21:00 | Off Campus Location
Michigan Men's Basketball vs. Howard

Recreational / Games:Wii U at Mary Markley, Fridays 9 PM - 12 AM
2016-11-11 21:00 - 2016-11-12 00:00 | Mary Markley Hall
Do you like playing Smash 4? How about Mario Kart 8? Or do you just in general enjoy Nintendo games? Lucky for you, CGC hosts Wii U events at Mary Markley every Friday nights from 9:00 PM to 12:00 AM (not including academic breaks)! Come anytime you want and we'll let you join in on the gaming or you can just watch other members play, meet the community, and overall just have a great time. This weekly event is hosted by an Event Coordinator, Logan Huacuja. Details about the specific room where the event will be happening will be posted in the group chat and our Facebook page. If you have any questions specifically about this event, please contact Logan Huacuja: lhuacuja@umich.edu

Other:League Game vs Toledo
2016-11-11 21:30 - 23:30 | Team Toledo Arena
Game at Toledo Ice House

Sporting Event:MICHIGAN FALL CLASSIC 2016
2016-11-12 08:00 - 19:00 | Central Campus Recreational Building
University of Michigan's Mens Volleyball Team pre-season tournament.

Other:University of Cincinnati Tournament
2016-11-12 08:00 - 19:00 | University of Cincinnati Campus Recreation Center
Club Volleyball Tournament at the University of Cincinnati

Other:Wolverbuck Oar
2016-11-12 08:00 - 16:00 | OSU Boathouse,Grigg's Reservoir, Columbus, OH
The Wolverines will head to Columbus, in an attempt to win their 20th consecutive victory against Ohio State.

Community Service:Ann Arbor Data Dive
2016-11-12 08:30 - 19:30 | North Quad - Check in at Media Gateway (Thayer and Washington St. Entrance)Media Gateway (Thayer and Washington St. Entrance)
A2 Data Dive brings together local non-profits and community members in the Ann Arbor and Greater Detroit area to collaborate and work on data in context. The goal of the day is to give non-profits a better understanding of their data and what they can do with it, while giving people hands-on experience with data. We aim to build a strong, interdisciplinary community of practitioners who can share knowledge, skills, resources and data to support our broader community needs.

This year, we have some great clients. We’ll be working with data from:

Girls on the Run
Natural Area Preservation - The City of Ann Arbor
Nonprofit Network
Salem-South Lyon District Library

A2 Data Dive is open to anyone who is interested, regardless of background. You volunteer your time and brain power, and we will provide you with the opportunity to meet new people, learn new skills, and give back to the community. We have a variety of possibilities for projects for people with a wide range of skill sets. Past participants have done information visualization, created a web scraper, created heatmaps of populations reached, proposed new database schemes, and much more.

Mark your calendars and keep an eye out for for more details in the coming weeks! If you have any questions, you can reach out to us at datadiveorganizers@umich.edu or view our website at www.a2datadive.org.

The registration for the event is now open! If you want to take a dive at real-world data and help some awesome non-profits along the way, take some time to register here: http://bit.ly/2eVXb2X

Conference / Symposium:All That Glitters: Magnificence in Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture
2016-11-12 09:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Keynote speaker: Sally Cornelison, Syracuse University.

Magnificence has been expressed in any number of forms and for a variety of ends. Broadly conceived, the word conjures up a diverse menu of associations, including virtue, splendor, largesse, and majesty on the one hand, and wealth, display, and even decadence on the other. Often magnificence has implied expenditure on a large scale. The term suggests the confluence of materials and performance, where public acts potentially inscribe on images and objects important social, economic, and power relations. The significance embedded in these relations varies depending on historical and cultural circumstances. While the related concepts of materiality and performativity have garnered much recent scholarly attention, magnificence as a particular meeting point for those two modes of analysis has largely escaped art-historical scrutiny. The 2016 Graduate Symposium, “All That Glitters: Magnificence in Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture,” hosted by the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan, will therefore focus on the visual, historical, and/or theoretical implications surrounding things made to impress.

Schedule
The Space of Magnificence (9:40 am)
Philippe L.B. Halbert, Yale University
“‘Our Colony Has Today Become Opulent’: Material Magnificence in the French Atlantic World 1660-1789”

Elsaris Núñez Méndez, National Autonomous University of Mexico
“The Ochavo Chapel: Magnificence, Sacredness and Religious Legitimacy in the Cathedral of Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico)”

Identity and Magnificence (10:55 am)
Rheagan Martin, University of Michigan
“Restrained Magnificence: Constructing Female Power in Mantua’s Palazzo Ducale”

Meng Tong, The University of Kansas
“The Chime Bells of Marquis Yi of Zeng as a Lieu de Mémoire: Shaping China’s Modern Cultural Identity”

Laura Polucha, Columbia University
“Magnificent Mourning: The Subtle Splendor of 19th- and early 20th-Century Mourning Attire”

Making Magnificence (2:10 pm)
Emily Anderson, University of Southern California
“Magnificent Macabre: The Engravings of the Anatomical Preparations of Frederik Ruysch”

Rebecca Gridley, New York University
“Luca’s Labors: Luca della Robbia’s Working Methods, Works, and Medici Magnificence”

Sarah Mills, The City University of New York
“Pink Metallic Threads: The Glam of Industrial Design”

Keynote Address (3:40 pm)
Professor Sally Cornelison, Syracuse University
Hometown Glitter: Giorgio Vasari and Church Decoration in Late Renaissance Arezzo

Presented by the Department of History of Art with additional support from the U-M Museum of Art, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Institute for the Humanities, the Lieberthal and Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the Department of History, the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Department of Anthropology.

Other:NCTTA Divisionals 1
2016-11-12 09:00 - 17:00 | Central Hower High School
First Divisional Tournament of NCTTA

Community Service:STEM Saturday
2016-11-12 09:00 - 16:00 | Undergraduate Science Building
STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Our main initiative is to improve education in these areas, especially targeting lower socioeconomic areas of Southeast Michigan. Each semester, we hold an all day STEM event for high school students from school districts in the surrounding area. This event is an opportunity for us to teach the lesson plans and activities that we have been developing all semester as well as to expose high school students to the diversity of opportunities in STEM fields. Students are brought to campus during this event via transportation that the club arranges. Once here, the students are brought to the USB (Undergraduate Science Building). STEM club members then deliver 40 min to hour long interactive, hands-on instructional lessons in Science, Technology, Math, or Engineering related fields. These lessons are screened ahead of time to ensure that they are engaging, fun, and collaborative. They are designed to follow in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin who said, "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."In the past we have had lessons ranging from interactive science lessons with DNA, to math related mysteries, designing and customizing computer games through coding, and car prototypes for engineering exercises. Join us this semester and showcase your passion for your major by demonstrating all the cool activities and work such a job entails.

Other:Straight Outta Charleston
2016-11-12 09:00 - 23:59 | Charleston, IL
Reserve tournament in Charleston, IL

Conference / Symposium:U-M History of Art Graduate Student Symposium: "All That Glitters: Magnificent Display in Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture"
2016-11-12 09:30 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Dr. Sally Cornelison, Professor of Italian Renaissance art at Syracuse University, will provide the keynote talk for this U-M History of Art Graduate Student Symposium. Eight graduate students in Art History and related fields from the University of Michigan and other institutions will present papers that examine the visual implications of magnificence and display from a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches. These graduate student presentations vary widely in geographic locations and historical time periods.

Exhibition:EXHIBITION OPENING: "TRIPTYCHS," TERRY SARGENT RETROSPECTIVE
2016-11-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
Join us for a strolling brunch as we celebrate the work of Terry Sargent.
Terry Sargent’s concept sketches, Barbara Ratner’s renderings, and Jonathan Hillyer’s architectural photographs illustrating in evolutionary fashion their work in common on seven different commissions, from initial concepts through built projects, will be successively displayed—first at the College of Architecture of Georgia Tech and then at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Atlanta was where Sargent practiced for much of his early career and Taubman was Sargent’s alma mater where he received his Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Urban Planning degrees.
The buildings exhibited will be taken from the years when Sargent served as Senior Design Principal of Lord & Sargent (subsequently Lord Aeck Sargent) from 1983 until 2014 and will be illustrated by 2-D physical representations and projected digital media. Written commentary by surviving collaborators will accompany each project. Drafts of three sketch/rendering/photograph “triptychs” are included at the end of this Prospectus which illustrate the character of display boards contemplated. Organized by Jean Wineman and Christian Unverzagt.

Community Service:Mission Continues - Veterans Day and Community Thanksgiving
2016-11-12 10:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Join us for a community celebration of Veteran’s Day and Thanksgiving. Write thank you notes to veterans, take a tour of Detroit military history, and enjoy a hearty Thanksgiving dinner!
Volunteers are also welcome to join in an optional morning service opportunity at Central. Projects and activities will be available for all ages, so bring the whole family! Breakfast and lunch also provided for volunteers.

Detroit
CENTRAL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY, 2425 Tuxedo Street

For more information, call (612)877-2509

Other:League Playoffs
2016-11-12 10:30 - 18:00 | Penn State
Playoffs @ PSU

Lecture / Discussion:Saturday Morning Physics | Evolution in Black and White: How Fruit Flies Change Their Spots and Stripes
2016-11-12 10:30 - 11:30 | Weiser Hall - 170 & 182
DNA is often described as the blueprint for life because it encodes information that directs the development and function of all living things. Changes in DNA sequence accumulated over evolutionary time give rise to the differences we see among species. In this talk, Professor Wittkopp will use the pigmentation of fruit flies to illustrate genetic mechanisms of development and evolution.

Other:Family Art Studio: Clay Across Cultures
2016-11-12 11:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art
Free. Registration is required: email umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please
include date and title of program in the subject line of your email. Indicate if you would like to register for the 11:00 a.m. session or the 2:00 p.m. session and how many adults and children are in your group. Create your own project inspired by the ceramics in UMMA's collection. UMMA docents will lead a tour of the galleries to look at different examples of the possibilities for making objects out of clay followed by a hands-on workshop led by local artist Nora Venturelli. Designed for families with children ages six and up to experience art together. Parents must accompany children.Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

Other:Hands-On Demo: Hunting Mammoths and Mastodons?!
2016-11-12 11:00 - 11:30, 2016-11-12 15:00 - 15:30 | Ruthven Museums Building
Join us for an interactive demonstration exploring some of the evidence of mastodon and mammoth hunting by people who lived in Michigan between 10 and 15 thousand years ago. Visitors will meet the Museum mastodons, learn about a recent mammoth find, and discover the interactions between people and these massive mammals by examining stone points and bone casts. Visitors will also learn about how museum scientists reproduce important fossils and artifacts by making their own casts to take home!

Hands-on demonstrations are 20-30 minute interactive programs on the 2nd floor of the Museum.​ ​They include both brief presentations highlighting University research and engaging hands-on activities, and are suitable for adults and children ages 5 and up.

SATURDAYS at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.; SUNDAYS at 3:00 p.m.
(No Demos November 5, 6, 26, 27, December 3, 17, 18, 24, 25, 31 and January 1)

Other:Storytime at the Museum
2016-11-12 11:15 - 12:00 | Museum of Art
Children ages four to seven are invited to hear a story in the galleries. Stories will be
followed by a short activity responding to the art on display. Parents must accompany
children. Siblings are welcome to join the group. The story on November 12 will focus on ceramics in UMMA’s collection. Meet in front of the UMMA Store. Storytime is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

Other:BTU Championships
2016-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Elkhart, IN
BTU Championships in Elkhart IN

Presentation:Did An Asteroid Really Kill the Dinosaurs?
2016-11-12 12:30 - 13:15 | Ruthven Museums Building
Did a space rock six miles wide slam into the Earth 66 million years ago and wipe out 75 percent of all living species at that time, including the dinosaurs? Cosmic collisions are abundant in our solar system. See the numerous craters on worlds like the moon, Mars, and even distant Pluto. Explore the dinosaur disaster up close. Kid-friendly program.

SATURDAYS at 12:30 PM

Meeting:Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting
2016-11-12 12:45 - 14:45 | Off Campus Location
Worried about climate change? Wondering how you can make a real difference? Come to the monthly meeting of the Ann Arbor chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL). CCL is a national, grassroots organization working to enact federal legislation to put a price on CO2. Our meetings consist of dialing in to a national conference call (featuring different guest speakers each month), followed by local discussion of actions.

Community Service:Invasive Plant Removal Day
2016-11-12 13:00 - 17:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Meet outside the building at 1pm, or in Seeley Lounge at 12:30pm.
Join North Campus Woods Restoration to learn about and identify invasive plants, and help contribute to the stewardship of the environment on campus! We will meet at the NW perimeter sidewalk of the Art & Architecture building (North Campus) on Bonisteel Blvd at 1PM. We will have water available for those who want/need it, and pizza at 4pm. The event will wrap up the event around 5pm with a final walk-through to ensure we did not leave any tools or equipment in the woods.

Other:Saturday Sampler Tour | Ancient Color
2016-11-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Egyptian, Greek and Roman use of color not only enhanced their art and architecture but was also highly symbolic. Join us for a colorful tour that discusses color choices and techniques of ancient work at the Kelsey.

Performance:Senior Recital: Rikki Morrow-Spitzer, mezzo-soprano
2016-11-12 14:00 | Off Campus Location
PROGRAM: Duke - Six Poems by Emily Dickinson; Ravel - Cing Mélodies populaires grecques; Santoliquido - I Canti della Sera; Vaughan Williams/Shove - The New Ghost; Vaughan Williams/Gabriel - selections from The House of Light; Heymann - Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss; Das gibt nur einmal; Berliner Wiegenlied; Irgendwo.

Exhibition:EXHIBITION ON VIEW: TRIPTYCHS: TERRY SARGENT’S BUILDING DESIGNS IN SKETCHES, RENDERINGS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS
2016-11-12 15:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Exhibition On View: November 12, 2016 – January 6, 2017
Terry Sargent’s concept sketches, Barbara Ratner’s renderings, and Jonathan Hillyer’s architectural photographs illustrating in evolutionary fashion their work in common on seven different commissions, from initial concepts through built projects, will be successively displayed—first at the College of Architecture of Georgia Tech and then at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Atlanta was where Sargent practiced for much of his early career and Taubman was Sargent’s alma mater where he received his Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Urban Planning degrees.
The buildings exhibited will be taken from the years when Sargent served as Senior Design Principal of Lord & Sargent (subsequently Lord Aeck Sargent) from 1983 until 2014 and will be illustrated by 2-D physical representations and projected digital media. Written commentary by surviving collaborators will accompany each project. Drafts of three sketch/rendering/photograph “triptychs” are included at the end of this Prospectus which illustrate the character of display boards contemplated. Organized by Jean Wineman and Christian Unverzagt.

Performance:Senior Recital: Julia Knowles, Cello
2016-11-12 17:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Sollima - Arboreto Salvatico; Werner Henze - Serenade; Ravel - Sonata for Violin and Cello; Brahms - Piano Trio no. 1 in B Major, op. 8.

Sporting Event:Michigan Women's Soccer vs. Illinois State
2016-11-12 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Michigan Women's Soccer vs. Illinois State

Sporting Event:Party and Rock
2016-11-12 19:30 - 23:00 | Planet Rock
This is our first ever party since our organization was established. Everyone is welcome to join us at Planet Rock Ann Arbor to meet up with new friends and try out rock climbing for the first time. We encourage you to bring any food you like to share with all other members.To show how excited we are about getting new members to join our organization, we will make this event FREE for UM STUDENTS who haven't climbed with us before. Admission for others is only $10. (Planet Rock is charging $32/person.) For UM students, please sign up on https://maizepages.umich.edu/organization/wolv-climbers to get free admission to this event.Please fill out this google form if you will come to the event. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyd9ndavFyM8GMZkKgjU8EmtCbKfaDceLvcnxuW3gk9ZdGaQ/viewform?c=0&w=1

Performance:Joe Crookston
2016-11-12 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
From Ithaca NY, Joe Crookston is bringing his fiddle, his slide guitar,
original paintings and visual art, for a night full of hilarious stories,
foot-stomping, infectious rhythms, lush sonic landscapes, and sublime
orchestral folk for a night that will leave you feeling more awake and
alive with a renewed sense of what's possible.

Never heard of Joe Crookston? Check him out on YouTube. It's good. Live
is even better. Take a chance and come to this show.

Joe will give you your money back if you aren't blown away by this night.

The Ark is an awesome venue. They only invite the best. They wouldn't
invite Joe back for a third night if he unless he is blow-you-away good.
And he is. Promise.

http://www.theark.org/shows-events/2016/nov/12/joe-crookston
