Other:Fall 2023 Central Student Government Elections
2023-11-29 00:00 - 23:00, 2023-11-30 00:00 - 22:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
Vote in the Fall 2023 CSG Elections! All students, undergrad and grad, can vote in one or more of these elections. All voting is conducted online at vote.umich.edu, and voting runs from 12:00 AM on Tuesday, November 28th to 10:00 PM on Thursday, November 30th.

Twelve (12) seats in the CSG Assembly are up for election, as well as one (1) seat on the U-M Police Department Oversight Committee. Students will also have the chance to vote on four (4) ballot questions.

Also, look out for other student government elections happening at the same time!

Well-being:LSA@Play: Gratitude Board
2023-11-29 07:00 - 22:00, 2023-11-30 07:00 - 22:00 | LSA Building - Navigation Desk
What are you most grateful for? Share to inspire our community on the Gratitude Board, located near the Navigation Desk on the 1st floor for the month of November.

Available during LSA building hours (holiday hours may vary)
Mon-Fri 7:00a-6:00p, 6:00-10:00p (MCard access)
Sat 12:00-6:00p (MCard access)
Sun 12:00-10:00p (MCard access)

Add to calendar: https://www.addevent.com/event/Jh19057569+google

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LSA@Play is a series of events to welcome and support LSA students. Gatherings and activities offer opportunities for students to prioritize self-care, inclusivity, and community. Plus, get free food and LSA swag!

Visit the LSA@Play webpage: lsa.umich.edu/play for more details, sign-up to receive text/email updates, and check for additional events being added soon!

If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at an event, please email lsaatplay@umich.edu. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to remove those barriers.

* While supplies last. One swag item per student, must be present with MCard to receive.

Exhibition:CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
2023-11-29 08:00 - 17:00, 2023-11-30 08:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-01 08:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-04 08:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Weiser Hall - 1010
The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

Exhibition:Manga no Ryokou: The “Manga Map” and A Journey Through the Art of Depiction in Japanese Cartography
2023-11-29 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-11-30 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-01 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-02 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-03 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-04 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-05 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
The exhibit examines the intersection between art, narrative, and geography within Japanese cartography. It centers on the titular “manga map”, a rare Japanese travel map of Japan (ca. 1934) that is densely packed with manga illustrations detailing local folklore, history, architecture, flora/fauna, and more. The exhibit also includes works of Japanese art and cartography in order to consider the dichotomy between artistry and geographic depiction, and how that plays with the definition of a “map.”

Alongside the exhibit, the manga map is also part of a new digital humanities preservation project at the library using the online crowd-sourcing platform Zooniverse, where the map will be transcribed/translated and made into a fully interactive digital map. More information is available at the exhibit.

Both the exhibit and the Zooniverse project were created as a summer internship capstone project by Joel Liesenberg, a dual-degree master’s student in International and Regional Studies focusing in Japanese studies and the School of Information focusing in digital curation.

Exhibition:Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics
2023-11-29 08:00 - 23:55, 2023-11-30 08:00 - 23:55, 2023-12-01 08:00 - 23:55, 2023-12-02 08:00 - 23:55, 2023-12-03 08:00 - 23:55, 2023-12-04 08:00 - 23:55, 2023-12-05 08:00 - 23:55 | Hatcher Graduate Library - North Lobby (off the Diag)
This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013).

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

Exhibition:The Sentimental Archive: Remembering Nubia through Salvage Anthropology
2023-11-29 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-11-30 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-01 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-02 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-03 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-04 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-05 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor
This exhibit showcases select photographs from The American University in Cairo’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library taken by the renowned Egyptian photographer Abd al-Fattah Eid as well as by the Cairo-born Swiss artist Margo Veillon.

In 1964, the construction of the Aswan High Dam displaced Nubians from their ancestral villages along the banks of the Nile in Egypt. In the years immediately preceding the dam’s construction, the American University in Cairo directed a large-scale project of salvage anthropology with funding from the Ford Foundation.

This endeavor yielded hundreds of photographs of al-nuba al-qadima or “Old Nubia” the term affectionately used by community members. Over the past sixty years, Nubians have used these images to cultivate a collective memory of a lost homeland. From Aswan to Alexandria and beyond, community members are salvaging their own stories from this anthropological archive, reshaping it as a sentimental terrain of solidarity across time, space, and circumstance.

This selection of photographs includes persons, places, and practices as well as glimpses of the presence of the photographer and researchers. Both online and offline, Egyptian Nubians continue to share and re-mediate these photos as they recall their historical displacement and revitalize their heritage for future generations.

The exhibit is curated by Yasmin Moll, assistant professor of anthropology, and coordinated by Nesrien Hamid, doctoral student in anthropology, with funding from the University of Michigan's Humanities Collaboratory.

For a deeper dive, visit the companion exhibit, Narrating Nubia, at the Duderstadt Center on North Campus. It delves into the archaeological, anthropological, and community narratives of both ancient and modern-day Nubia spanning Egypt and Sudan.

Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
2023-11-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, 547 Weiser Hall
*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Exhibition:(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT
2023-11-29 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-11-30 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-01 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-04 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-05 09:00 - 17:00 | North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery
Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

Exhibition:Digital Engrams
2023-11-29 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-11-30 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-01 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-04 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-05 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery, #1010
The notion that our brains actually create memories first stored and then revisited has been contemplated since the time of Plato and Aristotle. These units of memory, or engrams, are poetic portals through which we time travel, gaining hindsight and foresight, more meaning and greater wisdom, and hopes for a future less encumbered. Beyond reminiscences of technicolor sunsets, perhaps memories are simply the brain's records of endless repetitions and familiar neural pathways.

In an era of iPhones, Macbooks, Instagram, and Facebook, everything that’s happened to us in recent memory is at our immediate disposal and made to look better than the original … every day of every year, every meal of every trip, every postcard destination. With constant 24/7 access to the newsreel of our own lives, are we losing our innate ability to remember what matters in the process?

In Digital Engrams, L.A. artist Gabriela Ruiz combines sound, video, light and sculpture to create unexpected environments that challenge our sensibilities. The installation considers how images function on and off the screen, and how memories real and curated are the crux of personal and cultural identity. Who do we think we are in this life or the eternal life on the internet hereafter?

Ruiz’s spatial inquiries grapple with the potential erasure of the rituals of memorialization and the richness of material culture so important in her own Latinx heritage and to her sense of self.

–Amanda Krugliak, IH Arts Curator

About the artist:
Gabriela Ruiz is a self-taught artist whose practice blends diverse forms of expression and media, including sculpture, video, painting, and apparel design. Her sculptures incorporate found objects and industrial materials, such as thrift store furniture and insulation foam. Strongly influenced by growing up in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley to immigrant parents from Mexico, Ruiz’s practice is a reflection of the DIY work ethic she was raised under, the vibrancy of Mexican cultural and artistic traditions, and her exposure to subculture and fantasy at a young age as a means to escape the realities of daily life.

One of L.A.’s rising young talents, she presented her solo show Stream at the Palm Springs Art Museum in 2022, part of the museum's Outburst project.

*Gabriela Ruiz is the Jean Yokes Woodhead Visiting Artist at the Institute for the Humanities. This exhibition is part of LSA's fall 2023 Art & Resistance theme semester.*

Exhibition:Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee
2023-11-29 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-11-30 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-01 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-04 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-05 09:00 - 17:00 | North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

Exhibition:Illustrating the Renaissance Book: From Illumination to Woodcut
2023-11-29 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-11-30 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-12-01 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-12-02 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-12-03 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-12-04 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-12-05 09:00 - 20:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor
Enjoy a selection of manuscripts and early printed books from the 15th to the 17th centuries that were illustrated with illuminations and woodcuts. Throughout the European Renaissance (1300-1700), many book illustrations were exclusively ornamental, while others focused on enhancing the meaning of the text. However, as the pages on display attest, all these illustrations share a common ground: they reveal the aesthetic and intellectual fashions first proposed by Italian artists of the 1400s, who were strongly committed to the recovery of the past of classical antiquity.

The word “Illumination,” from the Latin illuminare, “to enlighten or to illuminate,” refers to the embellishment of a manuscript or early printed book with luminous colors, notably gold and silver. This illumination was prominent in the frontispiece, or first page of text, which included the decoration of its borders and initial letter, and even miniatures, that is, scenes with an independent narrative. With the introduction of movable-type printing in 1454, these illuminations would be gradually replaced by woodcuts, which were printed from a woodblock that had been cut by knife along the grain of the wood.

Available during Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room hours (https://myumi.ch/2m7d4).

Join us on September 13 for a talk by Pablo Alvarez, curator of the exhibit.

Meeting:LSAT Score Release - Drop-In Advising
2023-11-29 09:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-29 13:00 - 16:00, 2023-11-30 09:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-30 13:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-01 09:00 - 12:00, 2023-12-01 13:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
You just received your LSAT score. If you would like to process the next steps or understand your score report, attend virtual drop-in advising to talk with a Newnan Pre-Law Advisor.

Exhibition:Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!!
2023-11-29 09:00 - 16:00, 2023-11-30 09:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-01 09:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-04 09:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-05 09:00 - 16:00 | Lane Hall
Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

Community Service:Thrift Shop - One Thousand Schools
2023-11-29 09:00 - 16:30, 2023-11-30 09:00 - 16:30 | The Union Pond Room
Are you looking for a way to avoid fast fashion? Want to freshen up your closet? AND do you want to help kids get access to education in Honduras? Then come check out our Thrift SHhop November 29-30 at the Michigan Union 9am - 4:30pm in the Pond Room (right outside of Panera)! All proceeds from this fundraiser go toward supporting our goal of building 1,000 schools in Honduras! If you are interested in donating your gently used clothes please reach out to gvanbeek@umich.edu! One Thousand Schools (OTS) is a non-profit organization that works toward alleviating extreme poverty and gang violence in Honduras through youth education and empowerment. As the UofM chapter of OTS, our members are committed to not only empowering the people of Honduras but also emphasizing the significance of education and community within the university campus and surrounding region.

Careers / Jobs:2023 Undergraduate Internships and Postbaccalaureate Programs Virtual Open House
2023-11-29 10:00 - 11:00
Join us on for a live chat with our faculty, staff, and former and current interns. You will learn about our Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF/REU) internship at Scripps Research in La Jolla, CA and The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute in Jupiter, FL and the Postbaccalaureate Research and Education Program (PREP), how to navigate the online application process and daily life as an intern at our institution.

SURF is a ten-week biomedical research immersive summer internship for undergraduates. PREP, offered at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute, is a one-yearimmersive research experience at the interface between chemistry and biology for recent graduates interested in increasing their laboratory skills and scientific knowledge in preparation for application to graduate school.

Exhibition:Featured Exhibits
2023-11-29 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-11-30 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-01 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-02 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-03 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Natural History
Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

Exhibition:Featured Exhibits
2023-11-29 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-11-30 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-01 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-02 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-03 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Natural History
Stop by the Collections Case display in the museum’s main atrium, behind the mastodons, to see Nature’s Pharmacy.

August 2023–July 2024

Plants and fungi play a vital role in medicine due to the diversity of chemical defense mechanisms they evolved to safeguard them against pathogens, herbivores, and competitors. From its inception, the U-M Herbarium has cataloged and described plants—both poisonous and beneficial to human health—and still serves that role today. See specimens of these plant and fungal “friends” and “foes” from the U-M Herbarium collection and learn about how the collection is used for drug discovery today.

Lecture / Discussion:Brown Bag Seminar | Exotic energy injection in the early Universe
2023-11-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Randall Laboratory - 3481
The production of electromagnetically interacting particles in the early Universe is a generic prediction of many extensions of both the standard models of particle physics and cosmology. In this talk, I will give an overview of recent progress in understanding how injected particles deposit their energy into regular matter, and highlight some novel signatures of new physics that are well within current and near-future experimental reach.

Exhibition:Investigate Labs
2023-11-29 11:00 - 15:00, 2023-11-30 11:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-01 11:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-02 11:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-03 11:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-05 11:00 - 15:00 | Museum of Natural History
Step into our two Investigate Labs, where you can use scientific tools and museum specimens to answer questions and solve problems. Our labs offer activities most appropriate for ages 6 and up. Schedule subject to change.

Presentation:Rational duality groups and the Cohomology of SL_n(Z)
2023-11-29 11:00 - 12:00 | East Hall - 4088
Certain classes of groups, such as the special linear groups over integers, satisfy a (co)homological duality property that allows one to study their rational cohomology groups. I'll discuss a criterion to test when a group satisfies this duality, and see how in the case of SLnZ this comes down to the fact that the Tits building is homotopy equivalent to a wedge of spheres.

Exhibition:Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2023
2023-11-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2023-11-30 11:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-01 11:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-02 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
In conjunction with the Fall 2023 Theme Semester: Arts & Resistance, Stamps Gallery is partnering with the U‑M Arts Initiative to expand the 4th annual Respond/Resist/Rethink student art exhibition. All undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, or Flint U-M campuses in Fall 2023 are invited to apply to this juried exhibition that explores what can be done to create more just and equitable futures in the 21st Century and beyond.
The 2023 exhibition will include art of a variety of mediums and will be displayed in four galleries across all three U-M campuses, including Stamps Gallery (Central Campus, Ann Arbor), Duderstadt Center Gallery (North Campus, Ann Arbor), Riverbank Arts (Flint), and Stamelos Gallery (Dearborn).
The arts play a central role in shaping cultural and political narratives. Artists, designers and creatives of diverse backgrounds have been at the forefront of social change by offering alternate models and ways of thinking, making and creating that do not perpetuate dominant regimes. Creative processes have been used time and again to reveal under-told stories and to resist simple narratives. Regardless of one's personal politics, an artwork's potential to change hearts and minds is urgent and necessary.
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink invites students to leverage their creativity to (re)imagine what they can do to create a more just and equitable community in the spaces that they inhabit.
Throughout the spring, summer, and fall of 2023, U-M students submitted artworks through an open call process. A final list of artworks were chosen for the exhibition by a Selection Committee made up of U-M faculty, staff, and students.

The 2023 RRR Selection Committee members are:
Pedram Baldari, Jim Cogswell, Laura Cotton, Nalani Duarte, Adrienne Frank, Benjamin Gaydos, Kathryn Grabowski-Khairullah, Quinn Hunter, Ikalanni Jahi, Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Joe Levickas, Srimoyee Mitra, Kathi Reister, Chloe Schans, and Grace Sirman.
The 2023 RRR Curatorial Committee members are:
Laura Cotton, Nalani Duarte, Benjamin Gaydos, Kathryn Grabowski-Khairullah, Srimoyee Mitra, and Kathi Reister.
The 2023 RRR Organizing Committee members are: Chris Audain, Adrienne Frank, Kathryn Grabowski-Khairullah, Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Joe Levickas, Srimoyee Mitra, and Joe Rohrer.

Exhibition:The Blessings of the Mystery
2023-11-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2023-11-30 11:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-01 11:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-02 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
The Blessings of the Mystery examines themes of socio-economic, environmental activism, encounters between history and memory, Indigenous rights, and the formation and distribution of knowledge. The exhibition examines the Amistad Dam in Del Rio, the largest dam in Rio Grande that is jointly managed by the United States and Mexico and other contested sites in the region to unravel layered histories, connections, and tensions present in West Texas through film, sculpture, installation, collage, and drawing.
The experimental documentary film Teaching of the Hands is the center point of the exhibition - as it combines oral histories, reenactments, and archival footage to narrate a complex history of colonization, migration, and ecological precarity, Told from the perspective of Juan Mancias, Chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, scenes from the present day are woven together with those from 4,000 years in the past to investigate the transformation of Somi Se’k* by way of industry, infrastructure, and private property.
Emerging from the research to create the film, the exhibition includes an immersive installation of surveying flags and tools, series of drawings and collages, and a collection of original watercolors from the 1930s by artists and amateur archaeologists Forrest and Lula Kirkland that depict the ancient rock art of the Lower Pecos,that expand on concepts in The Teachings of the Hands. The watercolors, rarely seen plein air paintings, are on loan from the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas, and document the original forms and vibrant colors of murals that were still visible in the 1930s before flooding, erosion, and human interaction damaged or destroyed them. This exhibition has been shown in various iterations at Ballroom Marfa, the University of Texas at Austin, the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and University of California, Santa Barbara, and will be shown in Michigan and the midwest for the first time. The Blessings of the Mystery brings together an expansive body of work that sheds light on vital histories, living memories and Indigenous knowledge-systems embedded within the land well before the colonial boundaries between Mexico and the US were established - advocating for environmental justice and recognition of Indigenous rights and cosmologies.

Exhibition:Untold Stories, Part I
2023-11-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2023-11-30 11:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-01 11:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-02 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

Workshop / Seminar:Isolating the Marginal Effect of A Lesser Exclusion on Student Outcomes
2023-11-29 11:30 - 12:50 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3rd Floor Seminar Room (Room 3240)
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Careers / Jobs: BCG Advanced Degree Information Session
2023-11-29 12:00 - 13:30
We invite you to join us for BCG’s Information Session for Advanced Degree Candidates. Learn more about why ADCs think BCG is a great place to work and find out more about our recruiting process. Advanced Degree Candidates at BCG consist of Post Doc, PhD, JD and MD students.

Workshop / Seminar:Fall 2023: Health Science Well-Being & Academic Success
2023-11-29 12:00 - 12:50 | Taubman Health Sciences Library | 1135 Catherine St | Room 5000
The Well-Being & Academic Success series welcomes all Health Sciences Students (undergrad and grad) at the University of Michigan. The Health Science Schools include:

Dental School
Medical School
School of Kinesiology
School of Nursing
School of Pharmacy
School of Public Health
School of Social Work
A complimentary lunch will be provided at each session. Because of this, please be courteous - if you’re no longer able to attend, please update your registration status for lunch planning purposes, thank you!
This series is created and hosted by the Michigan Medicine Wellness Office, Center for Interprofessional Education, Wolverine Wellness, School of Dentistry, School of Kinesiology, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, School of Public Health and School of Social Work.

Workshop / Seminar:IPE Summer Abroad Funding Session
2023-11-29 12:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
Register to learn more about funding your international experience as a UM engineer!

Performance:Kathleen Beck, carillon
2023-11-29 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Kathleen Beck performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Earplugs are available from the carillonist upon request. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon: https://smtd.umich.edu/facilities/ann-and-robert-h-lurie-carillon/

Well-being:North Campus Mindfulness Meditation Drop-In (Online)
2023-11-29 12:00 - 12:30 | Off Campus Location
Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. This is a guided mindfulness meditation drop-in session. No experience necessary. Free and open to all.

Email dmitryb@umich.edu to sign up for the mailing list. You will receive a weekly reminder with the zoom link. Also, you can add the sessions to your Google Calendar: https://tinyurl.com/y3kbkwd6

Exhibition:Respond/Resist/Rethink
2023-11-29 12:00 - 18:00, 2023-11-30 12:00 - 18:00, 2023-12-01 12:00 - 18:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery, Room 1019
In conjunction with the Fall 2023 Theme Semester: Arts & Resistance and the U‑M Arts Initiative. The 2023 Respond/Resist/Rethink exhibition will include art of a variety of mediums and will be displayed in four galleries across all three U‑M campuses, including Stamps Gallery (Central Campus, Ann Arbor), Duderstadt Center Gallery (North Campus, Ann Arbor), Riverbank Arts (Flint), and Stamelos Gallery (Dearborn).

The arts play a central role in shaping cultural and political narratives. Artists, designers and creatives of diverse backgrounds have been at the forefront of social change. Creative processes have been used time and again to reveal under-told stories and to resist simple narratives. Regardless of one’s personal politics, an artwork’s potential to change hearts and minds is urgent and necessary. Respond/​Resist/​Rethink invites students to leverage their creativity to (re)imagine what they can do to create a more just and equitable community in the spaces that they inhabit.

Note: The Duderstadt Center will close slightly earlier, on Dec 1.
Duderstadt Center Gallery Hours: Noon-6pm Tues-Fri, Noon-6pm Sunday

Other:Zell Lurie Institute Holiday Gift Guide
2023-11-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-12-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-12-04 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-12-05 10:00 - 11:00 | Off Campus Location
The Zell Lurie Institute Presents a Catalog of Innovative Holiday Gifts by U-M Alum Entrepreneurs!

Dive into a curated collection of gift ideas for all of the holidays and occasions you may celebrate or add to your own wish list! Explore these featured products and services and receive exclusive discounts at purchase, using promo codes for the University of Michigan network.

Well-being:VIRTUAL | CEW+Inspire Midweek Mindfulness Sits
2023-11-29 12:15 - 12:45 | Off Campus Location
RSVP here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlcOuvpjkqHdA1Hj1C6fqBCDL4oMYBUz0A

Join us on Wednesdays from 12:15-12:45 pm. Register once to receive a Zoom link to access the sits each week or as your schedule allows. Live sits will continue through Wednesday, June 19th and resume on August 21st.

Mindful meditation is a contemplative practice that, over time, can build resilience and coping skills to support you to gain perspective, navigate the demands of daily life, and build compassion. Weekly guided sits offer a virtual community of practice that explores present-moment awareness, open and directed attention, non-judgment, and self-compassion. CEW+ Inspire Midweek Mindfulness welcomes practitioners of all skill levels. Each session offers instruction, support, and the opportunity to practice guided and self-directed mindful meditation. Participate weekly, or drop in as your schedule allows. All are welcome!

Performance:Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, carillon
2023-11-29 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Workshop / Seminar:CoderSpaces - Wednesdays, Fall 2023
2023-11-29 13:30 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
Are you grappling with a piece of code, trying to compute on a cluster, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.

All members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces to get research support and connect with others.

Tuesdays, 9:30-11 a.m. ET, via Zoom
Wednesdays, 1:30-3 p.m. ET, via Zoom

Careers / Jobs: Fehribach Center: Paid Internships for Students with Physical Disabilities
2023-11-29 14:00 - 14:30
"Come meet Larry Markle and Carlos Taylor from the Gregory S. Fehribach Center on Wednesday, November 29, at 2pm for a virtual presentation on the Fehribach Center’s internship program for students with physical disabilities.

The Gregory S. Fehribach Center in Indianapolis hosts an internship program for college students with physical disabilities (mobility, orthopedic, visual, & hearing) in which students are placed in a paid internship in a position that correlates with their academic major. Internships are very important in preparing college students for employment after graduation, and this is especially true for students with disabilities. A good internship experience gives the student real-world workexperience and important networking opportunities that will help in finding equitable employment after graduation.

To this point, 195 students from 40 colleges have participated in a total of 400 internships, with 63students interning in the summer of 2023. Internships are available for students who just finished their freshman year of college up to graduates within the last calendar year, and internships can be provided for nearlyall academic majors. Among the 39 employers who have hosted Fehribach Center interns are: Eskenazi Health, Eli Lilly, Cummins, Ice Miller, BraunAbility, the Indiana Pacers, the Indianapolis Children’s Museum, and Christel House International. In addition to the internship, housing and transportation assistance is provided as needed, and impactful professional development opportunities are offered for Fehribach Center interns.

More information about the Fehribach Center is attached and on the Fehribach Center’s website: https://www.eskenazihealth.edu/programs/Fehribach-Center. Please contact Fehribach Center staff members Larry Markle (larry.markle@eskenazihealth.edu) or Carlos Taylor (carlos.taylor@eskenazihealth.edu) if you have any questions."

Presentation:Aerospace Engineering Mugs and SUGS
2023-11-29 14:00 - 17:00 | Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - Studen Lounge
Interested in the Aerospace Sequential Undergraduate/Graduate Studies (SUGS) program? Join the Aerospace Academic Services Office (ASO) for an informational session and the opportunity to review and turn in your SUGS election form.

Careers / Jobs:How To Find The "Right Fit" In A Teaching Job? (Research)
2023-11-29 14:00 - 14:45
Nervous You Might Make The Wrong Decision When Selecting A School?

Well, that has a name and it’s called DECIDOPHOBIA and it’s the fear of making decisions ……

I know, I know, that’s a little dramatic, however making the wrong decision about where to start teachingcan impact your confidence, health, personal life, and the length of time you stay in the profession.

The problem is most students transitioning to a teaching career after graduation are selecting jobs a little blind because they don’t get all the information they need to make an informed decision. They don’t know what they don’t know as they start their career, AND that’s the norm…

So, I want to provide you an opportunity to BE CONFIDENT in knowing what you should know about the school/district as you start your teaching career.

That's the purpose of this information session - How To Find The Right Fit In A Teaching Job(Research) hosted by Ray Singletary, Supervisor of Teacher Talent and Recruitment for Manassas City Public Schools.

To give you a step by step process thatyou can use to research any School district, while giving you simple strategies to help you be confident that you found the right fit.

We will focus on the following:
1) Before You Apply
2) Before The Interview
3) After The Interview

Join us and get the information you need to find the right fit as you begin your journey into a teaching career.
Ray Singletary
Supervisor of Teacher Talent and Recruitment
Manassas City Public Schools

Careers / Jobs:How to Write a Federal Resume
2023-11-29 14:00 - 15:15
Interested in a career in public service? Come learn about therequired information for a federal resume and how to customize your resume to highlight your strengths and accomplishments.

***Privacy Notice***We are collecting your contact information for registration. We are collecting your email address so that OPM can contact you with updates regarding this event. Providing this information is voluntary, however if you do not provide it, you may not be able to participate in the event and we will not be able to update you regarding any changes to this event.

Livestream / Virtual:Negotiation Basics
2023-11-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
Negotiation is something that many people feel unprepared for, especially during the job search process. We’ll talk through the steps involved in salary negotiation, as well as negotiation tips that can be utilized in other contexts. Bring your questions, as there will be plenty of time for questions and answers.

This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/by27k.

We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

Workshop / Seminar:Negotiation Basics
2023-11-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual via Zoom
Negotiation is something that many people feel unprepared for, especially during the job search process. We'll talk through the steps involved in salary negotiation, as well as negotiation tips that can be utilized in other contexts. Bring your questions, as there will be plenty of time for questions and answers.This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available.

Careers / Jobs:Negotiation Basics (for graduate students)
2023-11-29 14:00 - 15:00 | University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
"Negotiation is something that many people feel unprepared for, especially during the job search process. We'll talk through the steps involved in salary negotiation, as well as negotiation tips that can be utilized in other contexts. Bring your questions, as there will be plenty of time for questions and answers. All Rackham graduate students are welcome.

This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recordingwill not be available.

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Livestream / Virtual:Rackham Consultation Services: Virtual Office Hours
2023-11-29 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham Consultation Services open office hours weekly on Monday and Wednesday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab
2023-11-29 14:00 - 15:00
*RSVP required to attend. Click "Join Event" here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/1352270/

Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn aboutresources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at Resume Lab is a great next step for you.

Get real-time, personalized support ina small group setting by checking out the Resume Lab.

We will discussand educate you on…
- Design and format
- Writing a great bullet point
- Targeting your resume for specific internships/jobs

If you're a Graduate Student or Recent Grad, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates.

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. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/1352270

Workshop / Seminar:Learning Seminar in Algebraic Combinatorics: Canonical form of a convex polytope via its dual volume
2023-11-29 14:30 - 16:00 | East Hall - 4088
The main goal of this talk is to introduce a method to compute the canonical form of a convex polytope by computing the volume of its polar dual polytope. We will first define the notion of a dual polytope and then compute the volume in a concrete example. Then we will give a proof that the dual volume actually gives the canonical form of the original convex polytope. Finally, we will introduce a more efficient way to compute the dual volume when the polytope has many vertices but few sides, via the Filliman Duality, which roughly says the volume of the polytope can be obtained from triangulating its dual.

Workshop / Seminar:Making Generative AI Better for You: Fine-tuning and Experimentation for Custom Research Solutions
2023-11-29 14:30 - 16:30 | Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
MIDAS and the Michigan AI Laboratory will jointly offer a training series to researchers across research fields as they start incorporating Generative AI in their research. Each will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on tutorials for using Generative AI in research.

Making Generative AI Better for You: Fine-tuning and Experimentation for Custom Research Solutions

Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
10th Floor, Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor

Prerequisites: Some Machine Learning experience.

Customizing and Fine Tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) – Dr. Joyce Chai, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering; MIDAS Associate Director

Tutorial: Fine-tuning LLMS – Shane Storks, Graduate Student Research Assistant, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering

Workshop / Seminar:Student CA Seminar: An Introduction to Group (Co)homology
2023-11-29 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 1866
(Co)homology groups are important algebraic invariants associated to a group G. In this talk we will look at how to define group (co)homology algebraically and topologically, prove the equivalence of the two definitions, and briefly see examples where having both perspectives can help study a group various finiteness properties and duality properties of a group.

Other:Student Sustainability Coalition Coffee Chats
2023-11-29 15:00 - 16:00 | Michigan League - Maizie's Kitchen & Market
Navigating the variety of avenues to engage in sustainability work on campus can be daunting and confusing! Come talk with the Student Sustainability Coalition (SSC) to learn more about sustainability initiatives on campus and get a free drink!

Workshop / Seminar:Winter 2024 Pre-Health Pathway: Charting Your Course Together
2023-11-29 15:30 - 16:30 | Angell Hall
Pre-health students are welcome to this in-person event where Pre-Health Advisors will be available to give direct assistance for course registration specifically for the pre-health pathway for the winter 2024 semester.

Careers / Jobs:Get to Know MoLo's Summer Internship Program!
2023-11-29 16:00 - 16:30
Come join us virtually to learn about our internship program from our Talent team and last summer's Interns. This informational session will also allow you to learn more about MoLo Solutions, the Third-Party Logistics industry, as well as our available Summer 2024 Carrier Sales andCustomer Operations Internship opportunities! Hear directly from past MoLo interns about their experience and prepare for this job opportunity!

Careers / Jobs:Learn more about Reading Partners (January start dates!)
2023-11-29 16:00 - 17:00
Reading Partners is a national nonprofit that mobilizes communities to provide students with the proven, individualized reading support they need to read at grade level by fourth grade.

Our work is powered by AmeriCorps. We mobilize AmeriCorps members across our 12 regions to recruit and coach volunteers, support students during and outside of tutoring sessions, work on capacity-building projects, and so much more.

This information session will give you an insight into the day-to-day livesof our AmeriCorps members, as well as highlight why service with ReadingPartners is a right fit for you!

Lecture / Discussion:Math Undergraduate Seminar: Exploring Ribbon Knots
2023-11-29 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 3096
https://www.overleaf.com/read/ggwfrcssvbmq

Workshop / Seminar:Michigan Lectures in Algebraic Geometry: New perspectives on the topology of algebraic maps I
2023-11-29 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 4096
Given a proper algebraic map f : X--> Y, the decomposition theorem of Beilinson, Bernstein, Deligne, and Gabber provides powerful tools to the study of its topology. This endows the cohomology of X with an extra structure, known as the perverse filtration, which measures the singularities of the map f. In recent years, the decomposition theorem and the induced perverse filtration have been found to share surprising connections to other branches of mathematics; these include non-abelian Hodge theory (the P=W conjecture), enumerative geometry (Donaldson-Thomas and BPS invariants), planar singularities (DAHA, knot invariants), and hyper-Kähler geometries (Hodge modules, motivic techniques). In this lecture series, I will discuss some of these developments. If time permits, open questions will be presented and discussed.

Careers / Jobs:TE Connectivity: University Relations Virtual Information Session
2023-11-29 16:00 - 17:00
The University Relations team at TE Connectivity would like toextend an invitation to join us on November 29th from 4:00 – 5:00pm ET for a Virtual Information Session. Learn about the various early-in-careeropportunities TE has to offer, hear from a panel of current employees (who are previous or current interns), and get the chance to win some TE gear!

Workshop / Seminar:Time-inconsistent mean-field stopping problems: A regularized equilibrium approach
2023-11-29 16:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
ABSTRACT: We study the mean-field Markov decision process (MDP) with the centralized stopping under the non-exponential discount. The problem differs fundamentally from most existing studies due to its time-inconsistent natural and also the continuous state space. Unlike many previous studies on time-inconsistent stopping, we are interested in the general discount function without imposing any structural conditions such as “decreasing impatience”. As a result, the study on the relaxed equilibrium becomes necessary as the pure-strategy equilibrium may not exist in general. We use the method of regularization to prove the existence of the relaxed equilibrium, and at the same time provide approximation results of it. We also establish some connections between the mean-field MDP and the N-agent MDP. As a third advantage of the regularization method, we prove that the regularized equilibrium is an $epsilon$-equilibrium of N-agent problem when $N$ is sufficiently large and the regularization constant $lambda$ is sufficiently small.

Careers / Jobs:USA - Campus - Get to Know EY: General Information Session & Panel
2023-11-29 16:00 - 17:00
IMPORTANT: You must register externally on the yello.co page in order to receive the event joining information. You will not be able to join the event directly through Handshake.

Curious about a career at EY? Come join us to learn more about EY, our service lines, practices, and overall culture. This session will start with a general firm overview, followed by a panel of EY staff from our Assurance, Tax, Consulting, and Strategy and Transactions service lines. EY campus recruiters will closeout with recruiting reminders and resources. We hope to see you there!

Workshop / Seminar:We Know What You Can Do Next Summer
2023-11-29 16:00 - 18:00 | LSA Building - 2001
Are you thinking about what you want to do next summer that does not involve getting scary phone calls?

We know what you can do!

The Transfer Student Center is bringing together all kinds of summer programs for you to explore.

Are you looking for any of the following?
✓ credit while surrounded by nature
✓ credit studying abroad
✓ an internship
✓ credit working with a arts-based or community-based non-profit

Than this is program for you! Many summer programs have deadlines early in Winter semester so now is the time to begin your exploration.

Come chat with the following programs.
● Camp Davis
● Bio Station
● GLACE
● Culture Corps
● Center for Global and Intercultural Studies
● D-SIP
● Semester in Detroit
● Opportunity Hub
● New England Literature Program
● LSA Scholarships (In case you need money to do something)

Registration is not required, but if you register we will send you a reminder.

Lecture / Discussion:Weekly DCMB / CCMB Seminar featuring Xiaojie Qiu (incoming Assist. Prof. at Stanford)
2023-11-29 16:00 - 17:00 | Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
Abstract:

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

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=[REDACTED]

Workshop / Seminar:Who Are the Hand-to-Mouth?
2023-11-29 16:00 - 17:20
Many households hold little wealth. In standard precautionary savings models these households should not only display higher marginal propensities to consume (MPCs), but also higher future consumption growth. In contrast, we see from the PSID that such “hand-to-mouth” households do not display higher growth in spending. They also exhibit greater volatility of spending and adjust their spending to a greater extent through the number of categories consumed. Consistent with a role for preference heterogeneity, the panel data show that it is persistent differences across households, not current assets, that predict low consumption growth and other spending differences for the hand-to-mouth households. To identify the extent of preference heterogeneity, we consider the model of Kaplan and Violante (2014) with both liquid and illiquid assets, but allow heterogeneity in preferences. To match the data, many poor hand-to-mouth must be relatively impatient and have a high inter-temporal elasticity of substitution (IES). The model shows that preferences predominantly explain the higher MPCs for low-asset households. Preference heterogeneity notably increases the spending impact of fiscal transfers, but only if targeted, while reducing that from interest rate cuts.

This talk is presented by the Macroeconomics Seminar, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the Michael Beauregard Fund for Macroeconomics and the Economics Strategic Fund.

Performance:Voice Department Recital
2023-11-29 16:30 - 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Students from the Department of Voice perform a recital.

Careers / Jobs: Launch your Startup Ops Career w/ Venture For America ft Brianne Alvarez
2023-11-29 17:00 - 17:45
In America, the impact of entrepreneurship is powerful. Entrepreneurship drives innovation, economic growth, social mobility and more, but it's not accessible to all. Venture For America seeks to change that.

Venture For America is mobilizing the next generation of entrepreneurs and equipping them with experience, training, and community to become startup leaders and founders. During the two-year Fellowship, our Fellows are salaried, full-time employees at startups or high-growth companiesin one of our 13 cities, working in a range of roles and industries fromproject management, ops, sales, VC, UX, and more. During this event, you'll hear from Brianne Alvarez, '21 Philadelphia Fellow about her experience working at CampusESP as an Operations Specialist where she rolls up her sleeves to dig into data and works with the management team to identify and solve problems across the company. She'll also share about her VFAexperience.

Through VFA, Fellows find lifelong friends, an entrepreneurial community, and a network of individuals to help take their careerand ambitions to the next level. In addition to hearing from Brianne, our recruitment team will walk you through our mission, how Fellows find their job, common roles and industries available to Fellows, plus the programming, community, and resources. We'll close out with a Q&A with Brianne, our recruiters and how to apply for our next deadline on Dec. 1.

To apply to Venture For America's 2024 Fellowship class you must be a U.S.citizen, permanent resident or DACA recipient, early in your career (completed your undergraduate degree since 2021)

By registering for this event, you agree to be contacted by Venture For America about our marketing or promotional efforts related to the Fellowship. You will have the option to unsubscribe at any time.

Other:ANS December General Meeting
2023-11-29 17:00 - 18:00 | Baer Room (2906 Cooley)
Join the American Nuclear Society for our monthly general meeting.

Social / Informal Gathering:IGR Minor Party!
2023-11-29 17:00 - 19:00 | 1214 S University Ave
Save the date for the IGR Minor Party! We'll be having a paint and pour session at the IGR Office to celebrate students participating in our minor!

Other:Residence Hall Pop-up Advising
2023-11-29 17:00 - 20:00 | Mosher-Jordan Hall - Main lobby
Registration starts soon, and LSA Newnan advisors are coming to you! We'll be in residence halls discussing course planning for the winter term and answering any questions you may have.

Join us from 5-8 on select nights. We're looking forward to seeing you!

Reception / Open House:Respond/ Resist/ Rethink Celebration at Duderstadt Gallery, Ann Arbor
2023-11-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Join us for a celebration of Respond/Resist/Rethink: An Exhibition of Student Art for Change at Duderstadt Center Gallery, U-M Ann Arbor. The exhibition features work by U-M students from across all three campuses. Light refreshments will be served.
In conjunction with the Fall 2023 Theme Semester: Arts & Resistance, Stamps Gallery is partnering with the U‑M Arts Initiative to expand the 4th annual Respond/​Resist/​Rethink student art exhibition. All undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, or Flint U‑M campuses in Fall 2023 are invited to apply to this juried exhibition that explores what can be done to create more just and equitable futures in the 21st Century and beyond.
The 2023 exhibition will include art of a variety of mediums and will be displayed in four galleries across all three U‑M campuses, including Stamps Gallery (Central Campus, Ann Arbor), Duderstadt Center Gallery (North Campus, Ann Arbor), Riverbank Arts (Flint), and Stamelos Gallery (Dearborn).
The arts play a central role in shaping cultural and political narratives. Artists, designers and creatives of diverse backgrounds have been at the forefront of social change by offering alternate models and ways of thinking, making and creating that do not perpetuate dominant regimes. Creative processes have been used time and again to reveal under-told stories and to resist simple narratives. Regardless of one’s personal politics, an artwork’s potential to change hearts and minds is urgent and necessary. Respond/​Resist/​Rethink invites students to leverage their creativity to (re)imagine what they can do to create a more just and equitable community in the spaces that they inhabit.

Workshop / Seminar:Adult Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Workshop
2023-11-29 17:30 - 18:30 | Off Campus Location
Have you wondered if you have an undiagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)? This workshop, presented by the Mary A. Rackham Institute (MARI) mental health clinics, is to help educate adults who suspect they may have ASD.

The online workshop also explores when ASD testing is recommended, what to expect with testing, and resources for next steps. This is also a workshop for people who have loved ones they suspect may have undiagnosed ASD in adulthood.

The workshop is lead by a licensed, clinical mental health professional.

Upcoming Adult ASD Workshop Details
+ When: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023
+ Where: Virtual, held via secure Zoom webinar. Link is provided after you register and pay.
+ Cost: $45 per person, pre-paid before the workshop by credit card through the MARI patient portal.

How to get started: Complete the secure, online Adult ASD Workshop Registration Form and we will then provide the next steps to make sure you are added to the workshop.

Careers / Jobs:Falling into New Opportunities November Recruitment Mixer
2023-11-29 17:30 - 19:30 | 2600 Virginia Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia 20037, United States
Know someone you'd love to work with? Want to toast the holiday season? Join the KIPP DC recruitment team on November 29th at 5:30 pm for our Falling into New Opportunities November Recruitment Mixer! We'll be in the downstairs "Nixon Lounge" of the Watergate Building (2600 Virginia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20037). RSVP (https://www.kippdc.org/falling-into-new-opportunities-november-recruitment-mixer/) and bring a friend you think would be great at KIPP DC!

Workshop / Seminar:Robotics Pathways and Career Speaker Series
2023-11-29 17:30 - 19:00 | Ford Robotics Building - 2300
The Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series (RPCSS) invites professionals working in robotics to come talk with current undergraduates about their career path, how a background in robotics has impacted their professional growth, and what they hope to see in students looking to enter the profession.

The 90-minute format of the event will consist of a 30 minute presentation from the invited speaker and up to 60 minutes of moderated Q&A and discussion. Students will be able to participate in person or remotely.

No RSVP needed, all undergrads welcome!

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92286702864

Karl is a Software Engineer on the autonomy team at Skydio, where he helps develop Skydio’s Visual Positioning System. Karl graduated from UM with a BSE and MSE in Computer Engineering and started his career at Google working on Adwords and Android before leaving to start his own company in the food / tech space. After continuing to work in that space for a bit, Karl decided to shift gears and get into robotics. This is where U of M came back into the picture, as Karl worked in the UM Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles as a research engineer, which launched him solidly into the robotics field, first at Toyota Research Engineer (TRI) working on autonomous vehicles, and now Skydio.

Presentation:Community, Impact, Activism: NASA at 50
2023-11-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Michigan Union - Pendleton Room
Join us for a community dinner and launch party for a community-facing website chronicling the Native American Student Association (NASA) at the University of Michigan. Begun in 1972 NASA has worked for 50 years to bring Native American and Indigenous students together, to advocate for Native American rights, and to challenge UM to be better. This project combines archival research about significant moments of Native American student activism and interviews with current students and alumni to tell the story of NASA as a community that has shaped student experience and institutional action for decades. This is an informal event to celebrate the NASA community's history and ongoing presence and to introduce a digital archive created by and for the community.

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScvokxozVW8RiZwipp7b9cxPzSiC0ZKP8oAw7MNXdaQw3q5nA/viewform

Social / Informal Gathering:Deutschtisch im Max Kade Haus
2023-11-29 18:00 - 19:00 | North Quad - Dining Hall
Deutschtisch is a weekly event in the North Quad dining hall for Max Kade residents and visitors from outside of Max Kade Haus to speak German during a meal.

Careers / Jobs:How Accountants Can Save the World
2023-11-29 18:00 - 20:00
Learn about the many compelling and rewarding opportunities you can experience with a career in accounting. If you are interested in accounting or haven't yet declared a major, this session is for you!
This event will consist of a 30-minute Live Broadcast followed by the opportunity to chat with our KPMG recruiters & practice professionals.

Workshop / Seminar:QMSS Family Feud Game Night
2023-11-29 18:00 - 20:00 | CCCB 3460
Join the Quantitative Methods in the Social Science (QMSS) program for fun with data in the form of a Family Feud game night! Participate by completing this survey full of questions about being a college student at the University of Michigan. Then, join us for a chance to compete on a small team or as a member of the audience to see what other students had to say about these topics! Winning teams will win U-M swag as prizes.Dinner & snacks will be provided. Bring your friends!

Social / Informal Gathering:A book event with Laura Meckler
2023-11-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Literati is proud to welcome Laura Meckler to present and discuss her book Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity. Laura will be joined in conversation by Dr. Brianne Dotson.

About the Book: Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America?

In this searing and intimate examination of the ideals and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler tells the story of a decades-long pursuit in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and uncovers the roadblocks that have threatened progress time and again--in housing, in education, and in the promise of shared community.

In the late 1950s, Shaker Heights began groundbreaking work that would make it a national model for housing integration. And beginning in the seventies, it was known as a crown jewel in the national move to racially integrate schools. The school district built a reputation for academic excellence and diversity, serving as a model for how white and Black Americans can thrive together. Meckler--herself a product of Shaker Heights--takes a deeper look into the place that shaped her, investigating its complicated history and its ongoing challenges in order to untangle myth from truth. She confronts an enduring, and troubling, question--if Shaker Heights has worked so hard at racial equity, why does a racial academic achievement gap persist?

In telling the stories of the Shakerites who have built and lived in this community, Meckler asks: What will it take to fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? What compromises are people of all races willing to make? What does success look like, and has Shaker achieved it? The result is a complex and masterfully reported portrait of a place that, while never perfect, has achieved more than most and a road map for communities that seek to do the same.

Laura Meckler (she/her/hers) is national education writer for the Washington Post, where she covers education across the country as well as national education policy and politics. She previously reported on the White House, presidential politics, immigration, and health care for the Wall Street Journal, as well as health and social policy for the Associated Press. Her honors include a Nieman Fellowship and Livingston Award for National Reporting, and she was part of a team that won the George Polk Award for Justice Reporting. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two sons.

Dr. Brianne Dotson (she/her/hers) is the mother of two confident, creative, and inquisitive little girls who attend Ann Arbor Public Schools. She also serves as a Sr. Program Associate at WestEd, a national nonpartisan research and service agency, where she specializes in equity-focused systems change for state departments of education and school districts. Prior to WestEd, Brianne served as an English language arts teacher, elementary school principal, and a director at the University of Michigan. Dr. Dotson holds an Ed.D. from Michigan State University, an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. from the University of Southern California.

Sporting Event:Karate Practice
2023-11-29 18:30 - 20:15 | Gretchen's House
New members are always welcome. No previous experience is necessary. Just come to any practice. You may watch a practice or actually participate when you come. If you want to participate, wear loose fitting clothes and no jewelry, and most importantly, stay hydrated before the class!

Exercise / Fitness:Swing Ann Arbor: Weekly Beginner Lesson + Social Dance
2023-11-29 18:30 - 21:30 | Vandenberg Room (2nd Floor)
Swing Ann Arbor hosts a beginner drop-in lesson and social dance every Wednesday! No partner or experience needed. You do not need to be student of the University of Michigan to attend. Just bring yourself and some comfy shoes! WHEN:
Join us Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30pm for a free beginner drop-in lesson, followed by a social dance from 7:30-9:30pm! COST:
Admission to beginner drop-in lesson: FREE!
Admission to social dance: $5 or FREE if you take the beginner drop-in lesson/are an SAA member COVID PROTOCOL:Proof of vaccination required, mask recommended. If proof of vaccination cannot be shown, attendees must wear a mask the entire length of the event instead.

Recreational / Games:Tacos & Trivia
2023-11-29 18:30 - 20:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities, First Floor Lobby
What is the best-selling hip-hop album of all time? Who starred in the 1996 remake of Romeo and Juliet? Test your knowledge at Tacos & Trivia: Humanities In Pop Culture Trivia Night! Join the Public Humanities Interns of the Institute for the Humanities for an evening filled with fun questions, delicious food, and awesome prizes! Come alone or with a team — the interns can’t wait to see you!

Workshop / Seminar:Michigan Outdoor Leadership Education Series (MOLES)
2023-11-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Adventure Education Center, 1120 N Dixboro Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Have you found yourself wishing to explore Michigan’s beautiful landscapes, but find the idea of “outdoorsiness” to be a little daunting? Let Adventure Leadership show you the way!

The Michigan Outdoor Leadership Education Series (MOLES) will empower you with the skills and confidence needed to take the next step in your outdoors journey. Our workshop leaders will be your guides, facilitating experiences that will feed your enthusiasm for exploration, while also sharing a more authentic story of the public lands upon which we recreate.
We will take care of the gear — all you have to do is show up, ready to engage. No prior experience is needed. You can start as a complete beginner, or build on the skills you already have. Each workshop will focus on key outdoor competencies, such as navigation, how to pack a backpack, campsite cooking, and Leave No Trace principles. Participants who attend 6 out of the 8 sessions offered will not only walk away with an expansive wilderness skillset but will also qualify for a discount on rental gear for their own future excursion.
If you have dreams of backpacking over Spring Break, or simply sleeping outdoors successfully for the first time, this is the opportunity for you to prepare for whatever adventure you seek next.
Workshop sessions will take place on Wednesdays from 7 – 8:30pm during the fall semester. Please bring a water bottle and wear shoes and clothes you are comfortable with walking in and getting a little dirty. Feel free to bring along something with which to take notes (notebook, laptop, phone).

Careers / Jobs:SMFA at Tufts: MFA in Studio Art... Ask Us Anything!
2023-11-29 19:00 - 20:00
Please join us on Wednesday, Nov. 29th at 7:00pm EST for a lively virtual discussion, hosted by a panel of graduate program community members sharing insights into our MFA program in Studio Art, its interdisciplinary curriculum, opportunities, and student life. Our panelists include: graduate faculty, current students, admissions staff, and program director Laurel Nakadate.

Bring your questions about our studio culture and campus community, research and exhibition opportunities, the application process, or whatever else is on your mind. After all, you can Ask Us Anything!

Sporting Event:Women's Basketball vs SIUE
2023-11-29 19:00 | Crisler Arena
Women's Basketball vs SIUE

Exercise / Fitness:Bujinkan Budo Training Session
2023-11-29 20:00 - 21:30 | Intramural Sports Building
During the Fall 2023 semester, Bujinkan Budo Club training will be held on Wednesdays from 20:00 - 21:30 (8-9:30pm) at the Intramural Sports Building (IMSB) in Room MPR B. If you are interested in trying out a class, please send a message through Maize Pages or an email to michiganbujinkan@gmail.com. --For more information, email us at michiganbujinkan@gmail.com or checkout our website, which also includes a training schedule!

Performance:Campus Jazz Ensemble
2023-11-29 20:00 - 22:00 | Off Campus Location - Rackham Auditorium
The University of Michigan Campus Jazz Ensemble is the premier non-major jazz performing experience offered by SMTD, with membership by audition only.

Performance:Don Julin Trio
2023-11-29 20:00 | ARK Reserved
New eclectic music from Billy Strings’ duet partner

We remember Don Julin from the amazing duet shows that he did with Billy Strings, announcing a monster new talent. But there’s more to this Michigan musician than that. Ever wonder what “Red-Haired Boy” would sound like with a James Brown type of groove? Or what about songs titled “Muppets On The Titanic” or “You Make My Skin Crawl”? The Don Julin Trio, featuring Joe Wilson (dobro) and Kevin Gills (bass), takes listeners through a genre-bending instrumental journey that includes hints of bluegrass, jazz, Latin, funk, film score, and even a bit of baby boomer rock. The Don Julin Trio includes three of Michigan’s top sidemen. The job of a sideman is to make the “star” look and sound great; these guys have helped many local and national “stars” and bands look and sound great. A short list includes Steppin’ In It, Claudia Schmidt, Greg Brown, Billy Strings, Wayne Hancock, Neptune Quartet, Wilson Brothers, Rusty Blaides, Bill Kirchen, Kenny Olson, and others. In this setting, they can shine the light on each other, showcasing their musical compositions and instrumental abilities.

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4386/4387 for more detail.

Recreational / Games:Mswing Lesson + Open Dance
2023-11-29 20:00 - 21:30 | Koessler room, Michigan League
Come join us for a swing dance lesson (both beginner and advanced lessons will be taught!), games, open dance following the lesson, and meeting a bunch of cool folks :) We're a completely free organization, and no partner is required to attend.We generally meet on Wednesdays at 8pm in in the Koessler room at the Michigan League, but note the time and location differences for the 11/21 and 12/12 meetings.

Performance:Sarah Thune, piano
2023-11-29 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Graduate student Sarah Thune performs a recital.

Exhibition:Bangladeshis in Michigan
2023-11-30 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-01 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-02 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-03 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-04 08:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-05 08:00 - 23:00 | Shapiro Library - Gallery, 3rd floor
This fiber art exhibition features hand-embroidered portraits by writer, educator, and fiber artist Fatema Haque. Sourced from photos submitted by Bangladeshi Michiganders, these intricate portraits capture the immigration and settlement journeys of multiple generations of Bangladeshi Americans. The art is further contextualized through oral history interviews conducted by Haque, and documents the growth and evolution of this vibrant community.

Join us for an opening reception on November 30, 6-8pm.

Other:NCR Championship
2023-11-30 08:00 - 23:59, 2023-12-01 00:00 - 23:59, 2023-12-02 00:00 - 23:59, 2023-12-03 00:00 - 23:59, 2023-12-04 00:00 - 21:00 | AVEVA Stadium
Women's XVs National Championship - Division I

Conference / Symposium:ChE Symposium: Building Inclusive and Diverse Communities in Academia
2023-11-30 09:30 - 14:30 | Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms
LOCATION CHANGED

On Thursday, November 30 at 3:30 p.m., the College of Engineering will honor Lola Eniola-Adefeso for her appointment to an endowed professorship.

A special symposium organized by Lola Eniola-Adefeso will precede the Vennema Professorship installation ceremony.

Program:

9:30 AM - Welcome Remarks - State of Diversity in Engineering
Lola Eniola-Adefeso, PhD

10:00 AM - Addressing Racism in the Academy Will Bring More Impact, Power, and Quality of Life to All of Us
Kelly Stevens, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle

10:40 AM - Who Gets to Innovate: How Race Influences Technology
Christopher J. Hernandez, PhD
Professor, University of California San Francisco

11:10 AM - Inclusive and Equitable Teaching, Mentoring, and Outreach in Engineering
Shelly Peyton, PhD
Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1:00 PM - Equitable Hiring Strategies Toward a Diversified Faculty
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, PhD
Professor, University of Texas, Austin

1:40 PM - Can Academics be Activists AND Scientists?: Blueprint for Aligning Your Science with Your Service
Elizabeth Wayne, PhD
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Workshop / Seminar:Culture, History, and Politics (CHiP) Workshop
2023-11-30 10:00 - 11:30 | LSA Building - 4147
Join us for the CHiP workshop, "Decoupling: The Paradox of Liberalization and the Deep State amidst the Climate Crisis," with I-Lun Shih.

Exhibition:Featured Exhibits
2023-11-30 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-01 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-02 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-03 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Natural History
Stop by the Student Showcase display in the museum’s main atrium, behind the mastodons, to see Molecules of Life.

August 2023–July 2024

Molecules of Life (Student Showcase)
Discover the connection between form and function as you explore the molecular building blocks of life. In the realm of biological macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids, form determines function, so visualizing the three-dimensional structures of molecules is key in researching the ‘tiny’ macromolecules that perform vital functions in our cells. In Biophysics 421, under the guidance of Markos Koutmos, Assistant Professor of Biophysics & Chemistry, and Liz Tidwell, PhD candidate in Biophysics, students created models with digital modeling software and brought them to life via 3D printing. This exhibit showcases the 3D printed molecules, scaled up to better reveal the structures that inform, make, break, modify, and move within the body.

Workshop / Seminar:LSA Mental Health and Well-being Student Advocate Listening Tour for Students
2023-11-30 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
We are conducting listening tours to gain insight into your experiences as students in engaging with mental health and well-being at LSA.

Lecture / Discussion:PhD Defense: Xinyu Fei
2023-11-30 10:00 - 11:00 | Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717
Xinyu Fei is a Ph.D. student in Industrial and Operations Engineering. Her research focuses on developing models and efficient algorithms for solving large-scale nonconvex optimization problems in complex networks. Methods include stochastic integer programming, distributed optimization, parallel computing, and statistical learning. Applications include traffic signal control, resource allocation/re-distribution, and coordination of reopen/closedown decisions during pandemic emergency response.

Advisor: Siqian Shen
Position Sought: Industry, Academia
Availability: 2024

Workshop / Seminar:OGPS Job Search Workshop Series Fall 2023
2023-11-30 11:00 - 12:00 | THSL 2955
OGPS Career & Professional Development Job Search
This series of workshops aims to equip you with practical skills and knowledge for the job search process. You will have a chance to learn best practices and strategies necessary to best prepare for your career and job search. Each workshop will provide opportunities to engage and learn how to develop professional skills (assessment, communication, networking).
Aims and Objectives:To provide trainees with the tools and knowledge necessary for successful job hunting in the biomedical/medical field and life sciences.To help trainees present their skills and experiences effectively to potential employers.To boost trainees' confidence in the job search process.

Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute Seminar | Quantum-enhanced interferometric imaging: A step toward quantum-enhanced very-long-baseline interferometry for astronomy
2023-11-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Michigan League - Hussey
Brian Smith, Professor of Physics at the University of Oregon, will be presenting "Quantum-enhanced interferometric imaging: A step toward quantum-enhanced very-long-baseline interferometry for astronomy" as part of the Quantum Research Institute's fall seminar series from 11am - noon in the Hussey Room (2nd floor) at the Michigan League. A Zoom option is also provided.

Seminar Description:
We report a laboratory demonstration of interferometric imaging using a path-entangled single-photon state as a reference field distributed to spatially separated receivers to measure the spatial distribution of an extended incoherent source. The use of distributed entanglement between the receiving stations in this protocol allows measurements without requiring direct interference of the collected light and provides a route to larger baseline separations that could enhance the precision of astronomical telescopes.

Workshop / Seminar:Renew, Replenish, Restore: Yoga Series
2023-11-30 11:00 - 12:15
Renew, Replenish, & Restore programming at Trotter Multicultural Center is an opportunity for students to engage in racial healing. This series will take a direct focus on "movement" from the framework of the Tree of Contemplative Practices, where Yoga is the main practice of healing.

Workshop / Seminar:CSAAW Seminar | Student Presentations
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Weiser Hall - 747
Students from Complex Systems 100 (Introduction to Complex Systems) and Complex Systems 270 (Agent-Based Modeling) will present their final projects. Topics will include ecosystems, traffic, game theory, and echo chambers. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP below.

Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Off Campus Location
Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop for students that introduces principles and practices of equitable, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy, activism, policy, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships, center community-defined priorities, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.

**New for 2023-24, this workshop is an updated version of Ginsberg’s long-standing Entering, Engaging, and Exiting (E3) session. If you’ve attended that session in the past, you’ll gain additional knowledge from this session.**

Lecture / Discussion:M-LEEaD Fall 2023 Seminar- Air Pollution and pregnancy outcomes in California: wildfires and preterm birth
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Online via Zoom, Registration Required
Join us for an online seminar discussing air pollution and pregnancy outcomes in California.
REGISTER HERE: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtdOivrjwoGdQNdBzYmiosH4IL2EJpvRJv#/registration
Amy Padula, PhD, serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF. Dr. Padula is an epidemiologist with expertise in air pollution, social disparities, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. She was awarded the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award from the NIEHS to investigate the impact of wildfires on preterm birth in California.

Careers / Jobs:Mental Health Services Virtual Recruitment Event
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:00
NYC Health + Hospitals/CHS is looking to hire staff for the following jobs:

Clinical Supervisor (Associate Director, Mental Health Services I)-Annual Salary $115,800-$140,000

Psychiatrists (Physician Specialist)- Annual salary-$97,346 (Part-Time); PAGNY Annual Salary- $236,900-$247,200 (Full-Time)

Senior Clinical Supervisor- Annual Salary-$129,800-$149,800

Senior Psychiatrist-Annual Salary -$265,000-$285,000

Senior Mental Health Clinician- Annual Salary-$82,800-$92,800

Supervising Psychiatrist- Annual Salary- $250,000-$270,000

Unit Chief (Associate Director, Mental Health Services I)- Annual Salary $110,000-$120,000

Lecture / Discussion:Museums at Noon
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Haven Hall - Eldersveld Room
Presentation by Heidi Hilliker, PhD student in Middle Eastern Studies

In recent years, there has been a movement to decolonize Western museums, calling for a practice of self-reflection and transparency paired with a recognition of their Western-centric and criminal foundations. This has led institutions with collections of ancient Egyptian art and artifacts to revisit the ways in which they classify, interpret, and display their collections. These shifts in museum practice have revealed many competing interests, exposing the complex ways in which inclusion, identity, and ownership are deeply intertwined. I witnessed these competing interests first-hand this summer during my MSP internship when a new exhibition highlighting the influence of ancient Egypt and Nubia in contemporary black music debuted at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquity in Leiden, the Netherlands.

In this talk, I will discuss this and other curatorial and institutional case studies that reflect current trends and the complicated discourses developing from them. Additionally, I will consider the future of these movements and how they may affect museum practices.

Careers / Jobs:Northwestern MSEd Info Session for The University of Michigan
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:00
Attend a live-streamed information session about the Master ofScience in Education & Social Policy Program at Northwestern University. Presentations will include information about the curriculum, the master'sproject, field experiences for teachers, the application process, and financial aid. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of program administrators.

If you are registering to participate in the live-streamed information session about the program and admissions with our program directors, go to https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98047374075 at the scheduled time. When you log in to the session, you must allow audio in order to hear us. The session is interactive. You will have the opportunity to ask questions, and you will be asked to introduce yourself and specifywhich program you are interested in. You may either unmute yourself or type in the chat.

Lecture / Discussion:Reconstructing Paleoindian Workspaces
2023-11-30 12:00 | School of Education - 2327
This will present a detailed spatial analysis of the 13,000 year old Shawnee-Minisink site in northeastern Pennsylvania. Here, I pay special attention to artifact metrics, microdebitage, and lithic refits to help classify activity areas. Detailed refitting and spatial analyses will offer new models for reconstructing activities at other mobile hunter-gatherer sites. Results of this study also reveal gender specific and domestic workspaces that provide new information on Paleoindian lifeways in the Americas.

Workshop / Seminar:Revolutionizing Metal Processing: An Exclusive Presentation by Bmax
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Cooley Building - Baer Room (2906 Cooley)
LINK TO REGISTER IS TO THE RIGHT

We are excited to invite you to an informative and engaging presentation on Bmax, the pioneering company in the field of Magnetic Pulse (MP) systems for metal processing.

Register to Attend HERE by 11/21 (if you have not done so already)

About Bmax:
Bmax stands at the forefront of innovation as the leading provider of Magnetic Pulse (MP) systems and services for metal processing. With production facilities in both France and the United States, our team of over 70 highly experienced engineers brings decades of combined practical expertise and research to Bmax. Our cutting-edge technology has already transformed various industries, including automotive, aerospace, packaging, and more. From welding aluminum to steel in drive shafts to forming intricate and precise details in packaging, our technology empowers product managers and designers to achieve the unattainable.

At the heart of Bmax's success is our technology, which leverages high concentrations of electrical energy to manipulate metal at extreme deformation speeds. This groundbreaking approach is not only efficient but also environmentally friendly, setting new standards for engineering and design capabilities.

Why Attend?
—Gain insight into the future of metal processing.
—Discover the wide-ranging applications of Bmax technology.
—Learn about career opportunities and internships at Bmax.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn about an industry-shaping company and explore potential career paths. We look forward to welcoming you and answering any questions you may have about Bmax.

Careers / Jobs:Specialty Exam Thursday, November 30, 2023 12pm ET
2023-11-30 12:00 - 14:00
Virtual Info Session about Specialty Exam, BSA, Excise, Employment Tax Specialist

The Small Business/Self-Employed Division is nowhiring for Specialty Exam, BSA, Excise, Employment Tax Specialist positions.

We’re hosting a virtual information session about our Specialty Exam, BSA, Excise, Employment Tax Specialist positions. In this session, you’ll hear from managers in the Field Exam Division of SB/SE talk about our Revenue Agent/Employment Tax Specialist positions and provide you a better understanding on what will be expected from you, day-to-day. You’ll also receive information on the qualifications for these positions.

We’re now hiring for entry-level to senior positions nationwide.

Whether you’re a student exploring future career options, a recent graduate ready to enter the workforce, or simply looking for a career changethat offers work/life balance and great benefits, we have opportunities that may be just right for you!

Note: To be considered for employment by the IRS, you must be a US citizen (native born or naturalized).

This session begins at: 12:00 PM Eastern Time, 11:00 AM Central Time, 10:00 AM Mountain Time, 9:00 AM Pacific Time.

Click the Register button to Register today!

For additional information about our openpositions or to request any reasonable accommodations, send an email to SBSE.Recruitment@irs.gov, along with your name and inquiry, and we will be happy to answer your questions. Please allow at least 2 weeks for us to arrange for your accommodations.

Performance:Tiffany Ng, carillon
2023-11-30 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Earplugs are available from the carillonist upon request. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon: https://smtd.umich.edu/facilities/ann-and-robert-h-lurie-carillon/

Presentation:Using Arts Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Join us on November 30 at 12 pm (ET) to learn about the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study and how it is used to understand the arts' potential impacts on child health and brain development. During this webinar, Dr. Gay Dowling and Dr. John Iversen will provide an overview of the ABCD project and discuss how these data can be used to study connections between arts experiences and adolescent development. In addition, Dr. Iversen will highlight the arts-specific measures within ABCD, showing a high prevalence of the arts, with music being the most impactful activity among a wide range of artistic and athletic pursuits. This free webinar is hosted by NADAC, a data repository funded by the NEA. Register here: https://myumi.ch/2mAQp

Workshop / Seminar:World AIDS Day
2023-11-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Michigan Union - Wolverine Room
Come join us in learning about the experiences of people who are HIV+, over a meal. Learn more about the history of HIV/AIDS and its impact. Further, we will discuss PEP and PrEP, the resources available to protect against HIV.

This event is in collaboration with UNIFIED.

Careers / Jobs: Get to Know MoLo's Summer Internship Program!
2023-11-30 12:30 - 13:00

Workshop / Seminar:Religious, Spiritual, and Secular Identities on Campus
2023-11-30 13:00 - 15:00 | LSA Building, Room 2001
This workshop focuses on the role of religious and spirituality identities as an important aspect of DEI work on campus. Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding the variety and complexity of religious, secular, and spiritual (R/S/S) identities on our campus; understand why support for religious pluralism and spiritual development is important on a public college campus; learn about key religious accommodations and resources and how to access them in their work to support faculty, staff, and students; and discover ways to get involved in DEI work around R/S/S identities.At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:1. Understand the importance of religious, secular, and spiritual identity in faculty, staff, and students’ lives and in DEI work on our campus;2. Identify the main religious groups on our campus and how their proportions differ among faculty, staff, and stud;ents; understand the limitations of the way we collect data about religious background;3. Name the key religious accommodations and resources available to faculty, staff, and students; identify areas in which they can influence religious accommodations and in which there is more work to be done;4. Understand what is acceptable and what is unacceptable regarding religious expression on a public university campus and barriers you may encounter around R/S/S DEI5. Name three concrete steps they can take in within their sphere of influence to create greater equity and inclusion for students, faculty, and staff who hold minoritized religious identities6. Name ways to get more involved in DEI work around R/S/S identities on campus
AudienceAll LSA staff, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates currently employed in LSA are welcome to attend. External guests may request to join as room allows.

Performance:Eva Albalghiti, carillon
2023-11-30 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Graduate student Eva Albalghiti performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Workshop / Seminar:LSA Mental Health and Well-being Student Advocate Listening Tour for Faculty
2023-11-30 13:30 - 15:00 | Virtual
We are conducting listening tours to gain insight into your experiences engaging with mental health and well-being at LSA, and to consider opportunities to collaborate with our team on future initiatives to support students holistically within your respective workspaces.

Performance:First Year and Sophomore Composition Class Showing
2023-11-30 14:00 - 15:30 | Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre
Watch dance students perform materials they created during a semester of investigation into compositional and choreographic processes and approaches. Ideas are often wide-ranging, stylistic boundaries are pushed, and a variety of forms are knit together — from solos to small groups to entire class-wide segments.

Careers / Jobs:International Students Career Series: How to Navigate Small Talk
2023-11-30 14:00 - 15:00
"In the United States, many people participate in what is called """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""small talk"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""", where you make conversation with strangers or acquaintances about non-controversial topics, such as the weather, sports, or popular television shows. “Small talk” is one of the ways in American culture to chat about harmless topics in order to establish a connection and start to build a friendship.

For example, while waiting for an interview, in line at a M-Den, or in an elevator on campus, don’t be startled if a stranger says something to you like, “Did you watch the Football Game last night? What a game!” They might also make a joke about the long line you’re both in, or comment on the current situation.

If you are interested in learning more about """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""small talk"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""", now it’s your chance to sign up for this workshop on how to navigate small talk as an international student. In this workshop, we will educate you on what is small talk and you will also have the chance to practice small talk with Peers!"

Livestream / Virtual:Navigating the Student Debt Crisis
2023-11-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
As a companion to the Student Debt Crisis Teach-Out™, join us for Navigating the Student Debt Crisis, a live panel discussion on the impact of student loan debt in the face of rising economic uncertainty for students and degree-holders. Together with University of Michigan experts, explore the current state of financing in higher education and potential pathways forward for those seeking to know more about navigating the debt crisis. We encourage you to submit questions upon registering for the event or while participating in the Teach-Out.

Careers / Jobs:Vialto Partners Info Session
2023-11-30 14:00 - 14:30
We are hosting an Information Session for our current roles and our roles that will be coming up in June of 2024. We will be covering information about Vialto Partners and will be having a Q and A portion. We welcome anyone to come listen and questions are encourage!

Livestream / Virtual:Webinar: Estuaries past, present and future: Using elevations and historical maps to characterize estuarine habitats across 30 National Estuarine Research Reserves
2023-11-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
Estuaries are coastal gems. To protect and restore them, we need a clear understanding of exactly where they are, where they were, and where they could be in the future. A team led by the National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRs) recently completed an ambitious effort to map estuarine habitat in and around the 30 NERRs. They used a powerful combination of NOAA resources for elevation and tidal datums to map the reach of tides, historical topographic sheets generated by NOAA’s predecessor agency to map past habitat distributions, and compared this to mapping from USFWS’s National Wetland Inventory (NWI).

Elevation-based mapping revealed that estuary extent is greater than currently mapped in NWI. At more than two-thirds of the Reserves, the team detected tidal forests missed by NWI. Comparison of historical maps to NWI revealed dramatically greater loss of tidal wetland extent on the Pacific coast than in other regions. The results of this investigation suggest that multiple mapping methods complement each other and should be integrated to provide a more accurate understanding of estuaries—past, present and future.

Workshop / Seminar:899 Seminar Series: Jamie Gorman, Arizona State University
2023-11-30 15:00 - 16:00 | Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - IOE 1680
Bio: Dr. Jamie C. Gorman, Ph.D. is a Professor in Human Systems Engineering and Deputy Director of the Center for Human Artificial Intelligence and Robot Teaming (CHART) at Arizona State University and Senior Research Personnel with the NSF Institute for Student-AI Teaming at the University of Colorado. Dr. Gorman’s research focuses on dynamical systems and computational models of team coordination. His research is conducted in complex sociotechnical environments, including medical, space, military, educational, and sports settings, focusing on building generalizable models, metrics, and measurement systems. Dr. Gorman’s research has been funded by DoD, NSF, and industry partners. He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and serves on the editorial boards of Human Factors and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

Abstract: Human-autonomy teams operating in dynamic (“perturbed”) environments primarily interact across human and machine elements. However, most measurements are subjective, involving observer ratings and survey responses (e.g., trust; influence; autonomy), and there is a need for theoretically grounded, objective, and metrics of real-time human-machine coordination states. This talk presents generalizable objective measurement systems for measuring the dynamic spread of trust and distrust through influence, quantifying team resilience to automation and autonomy failures, and AI-supported collaborative learning in K -12 education. The practical deployment of measurement frameworks in dashboards and machine learning agents will be discussed.

Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Phenotypes to Phylogenies: Hair and Skin in Evolutionary Context
2023-11-30 15:00 - 16:00 | Biological Sciences Building - 1010
This event is part of our ongoing seminar series!

Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Tea
2023-11-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Angell Hall - 1176 (Hopwood Room)
All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

Careers / Jobs:Internship Info Session: Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), BeAudit You Can Be
2023-11-30 15:00 - 16:00
DCAA’s Info Session will provide information about our paid internship opportunities with Federal government benefits & option to workfull or part-time. DCAA is committed to your development and will transition you to a permanent position upon graduation (with reasonable performance expectations met). Our interns don't make copies and coffee - DCAA provides hands on learning right from the start! Discover how you can be a valued part of an inclusive, impactful work environment: challenging assignments, specialized training, career development, employer commitment towork/life balance as well as generous benefits. DCAA is a vital agency ofthe Department of Defense performing audits of government contracts, ensuring taxpayers get the best value for each dollar spent protecting the Nation. Enjoy a career with an opportunity to give back: $3 billion back,each year. Join us to discover how you can join us to Be Audit You Can Be!

Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab
2023-11-30 15:00 - 16:00 | University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, University Career Center office, 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas, but you’re not sure where to get started? Let's talk about search strategy!!

Get real-time, personalized support by checking out the in person Internship Lab. You’ll be guided by one of our Career Coaches who has designed this experience to provide you strategies, tools, and motivation to get on the right track with searching for internships.

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake, the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy.

**If you're not sure what you're interested in, consider making an "Exploring Major/Career Option" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting.

Recent Grads: If you are an alumni, you will not be able to access the link due the University’s policy of discontinuing alumni Zoom accounts 30 days after graduation. Please contact careercenter@umich.edu with the subject line “Recent Grad Help” to receive either a recording of the session or to be set up with a 1:1. Include the name of the workshop/event in your email.

Workshop / Seminar:Michigan Lectures in Algebraic Geometry: New perspectives of the topology of algebraic maps II
2023-11-30 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 4096

Workshop / Seminar:Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing - Fall 2023
2023-11-30 15:00 - 16:30 | East Conference Room - 4th Floor
Rackham/Sweetland Workshops, held in the Fall and Winter terms, cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in various aspects of writing.

Workshop / Seminar:Study Abroad Info Session: Advanced Spanish Abroad - Fall 2024 or Academic Year 2024-2025
2023-11-30 15:00 - 16:00
Join CGIS Advisor Juliana Mesa to learn more about the Spanish-language programs in Fall 2024 or Academic Year 2024-2025. These program offerings are pre-approved by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Students can earn 300- and/or 400-level Spanish credits depending on the program. Please visit the program brochure to learn more about course pre-requisites and other eligibility criteria
CGIS: Advanced Language and Culture in Madrid, Spain (Fall | AY)CGIS: Advanced Spanish Language in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Fall)CGIS: International Development in Quito, Ecuador (Fall)CGIS: Liberal Arts in Santiago, Chile (Fall)
DATES: Thursday, November 9, 12-1 pm (Info Session)Thursday, November 30, 3-4 pm (Info Session)Note: CGIS Fall/AY 2024 applications open in October, 2023 and close on March 1, 2024.

Other:Virtual Information Session
2023-11-30 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
Join us for a virtual, hour-long info session on undergraduate programs at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, including a presentation and Q&A with current students and the admissions team.Info session times are Eastern US.
Visit our Admissions Events page to learn more about additional upcoming events.

Workshop / Seminar:Writing Literature Reviews
2023-11-30 15:00 - 16:30 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room, 4th floor
How do I turn this never-ending tangle of literature into a neat, polished review? In this interactive workshop, we'll cover laying the foundation for your scholarly literature review and then taking that first critical step towards composition. We'll crowdsource tips for generating a source list, organizing it as you go, and starting to extract themes and ideas for section headings from your reading library. We'll also cover the basics of structure to reduce the barrier for writing your first sections. Whether you're halfway through or just starting out, you'll have a chance to take the next step on organizing, defining your purpose, or revising your argumentation. This presentation will focus on reviews in the sciences, but concepts are generalizable to all literature reviews.

Presented by Jimmy Brancho, Sweetland Center for Writing

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

Register at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/69728

Lecture / Discussion:Department of Astronomy 2023-2024 Colloquium Series Presents:
2023-11-30 15:30 - 16:20 | West Hall - 411
"Stirring the ISM with clustered feedback"

Star clusters are the result of extreme star formation. In these dense stellar systems, the energy, mass and radiation released by the massive stars is correlated in space and time, and this clustered feedback regulates the baryonic lifecycle of their host galaxies. However, current modern simulations of galaxy formation lack this critical effect on the evolution of galaxies. In this talk, I will present a novel method to model the influence of individual star clusters on their host galaxy within the hydrodynamical code GIZMO. By employing sink particles that are able to accrete gas, form stars and merge with one another, I can represent stellar clusters built via gas accretion and in-situ star formation, and hierarchical merging. I will demonstrate that this prescription leads to molecular clouds being shorter lived due to more destructive feedback, and I will discuss what physics are required to reproduce the formation of star cluster populations in this scenario.

Careers / Jobs:Find Your Future with Us! Natural Resources and Agriculture CareerFair
2023-11-30 15:30 - 16:30
Find Your Future With Us! Drop in to learn about "Entry-Level"Natural Resource and Agriculture Related Job openings which are open the week of this event!

We will highlight some information about these positions, their locations, and the best way to apply and be considered!

Please note, this is intended for students and graduates who have a background, interest and degree in Biology, Natural Resources, Agriculture,and related sciences. Due to HR Requirements, applicants in non-science backgrounds will not be considered for the positions.

Livestream / Virtual:Generative AI - Commercialization Spotlight & IP Trends
2023-11-30 15:30 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location
Join us for the next installment of Innovation Partnerships’ Software Thought-Leadership Series: Generative AI - Commercialization Spotlight & IP Trends. This webinar will delve into critical intellectual property and legal considerations for university innovators, as well as the latest patent and copyright trends. Two GAI-based technologies developed at U-M and their journeys toward commercialization and broader societal impact will also be spotlighted.

Generative AI holds immense potential across diverse domains, reshaping how we approach creativity, problem-solving and automation. Yet, as these opportunities emerge, the legal landscape is grappling with complex issues from intellectual property to legal implications.

Speakers include Perry Samson and Elliot Soloway, both professors in the College of Engineering, Brian Doughty from the U-M Office of the General Counsel and Randy Rueth from Marshall, Gerstein & Bourn LLP.

Careers / Jobs:Business Case Interview Overview & Workshop + Recruiter Q&A
2023-11-30 16:00 - 17:30
During this workshop, we will walk through and practice a business case interview. This session will be led by a Capital One professional trained in our interview process. A recruiter will also be on the call to answer any questions you may have. This workshop is intended to help candidates prepare for the following Student & Grad roles: Business Analyst, CODA, Cyber, Data Analyst, Finance, Human Resources, Management, MBA & Product.

Event Agenda:

4:00 – 5:00 PM EST Business Case Interview Overview & Workshop

4:30 – 5:30 PM EST Q&A breakout room with recruiter available

Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Zorro and the Curse of History: Swashbuckling Through the United States' Mexican Past
2023-11-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Tisch Hall - 1014
Zorro’s flowing black cape, mysterious mask, and pencil mustache make him instantly recognizable as one of the most enduring fictional characters in US media. Since he first appeared in 1919’s The Curse of Capistrano, this heroic Latino character has been righting wrongs in a romanticized nineteenth-century Los Angeles. Anthony Mora asks what we can make of Zorro’s popularity in a nation with such a long history of anti-Latine sentiment. Returning to Zorro’s origin story offers us a quirky view into the contradictory impulses that shaped popular understandings about the United States’ Mexican past and its Mexican present.

Anthony Mora's principal research interests focus on the historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the US Southwest. His book Border Dilemmas explores how the first generations of Mexicans living in the United States grappled with the racial and national ideologies that circulated along the nineteenth-century border. He is currently writing a history of the fictional character of Zorro from 1919 to the present. The iconic character serves as a means of tracing changing representations of Mexican Americans, historical memory, and US regionalism.

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

Careers / Jobs:Federal Resumes and Application Tips Thursday, November 30, 2023 4pm ET
2023-11-30 16:00 - 18:00
Virtual Information Session about Federal Resumes and Application Tips

During this event we will provide you information on federal resumes, application tips and the application process.

This session begins at: 4:00 PM Eastern Time, 3:00 PM Central Time, 2:00 PM Mountain Time, 1:00 PM Pacific Time

Click the Register button to RSVP

For additional information about our open positions or to request any reasonable accommodations, send an email to SBSE.Recruitment@irs.gov, alongwith your name and inquiry and we will be happy to answer your questions.

Careers / Jobs:Information Session - NEW Opportunities in 2024!
2023-11-30 16:00 - 16:30
Join us for a sneak peek into 2024 with some exciting new opportunities! Lets dive into the future together.

I would like to invite current students and upcoming/recent graduates to join a 15-minute information session to briefly learn about some BRAND NEW opportunities Northwestern Mutual is hosting in the new year.

Spend 15 minutes learning about:

🍁 Our 1-Day Seasonal Externship for all classes
⭐ The New Rising Leaders Program for Underclassmen
🍁 Full Time work and Internship Opportunities in the Field and at Corporate

I will be hosting sessions at the following times:

Thursday, November 30th at 10:00AM CT
Thursday, November 30th at 4:00PM CT
Monday, December 4th at 10:00AM CT
Monday, December 4th at 4:30PM CT

Sign up here: https://forms.gle/TPJr7Wos3Lq4Xx34A

Thank you for considering this invitation. Lets say goodbye to 2023 and embrace the new year!

Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary QC-CM Seminar | Inducing non-equilibrium phases in semiconductors with time-periodic drives
2023-11-30 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 335
“Floquet engineering” - designing band structures “on-demand" through an application of coherent time-periodic drives, has recently emerged as a powerful tool for inducing exotic phenomena in ordinary materials. In this talk, I will discuss the application of Floquet engineering for inducing novel non-equilibrium phases of matter in steady states of time-periodically driven semiconductors. The steady states are achieved due to the interplay between the coherent external drive, electron-electron interactions, and dissipative processes arising from the coupling to phonons and the electromagnetic environment. I will show that despite the highly non-equilibrium nature of these systems, by judicially choosing the properties of the material, the external drive, and the environments, their steady states can exhibit topological transport, metal-to-insulator phase transitions and even strongly correlated phases such as a novel electronic liquid gyro-crystalline phase.

Workshop / Seminar:Student Dyn/Geo/Top: Introduction to Heegaard Floer Homology
2023-11-30 16:00 - 16:50 | East Hall - 2866
Heegaard Floer Homology is a useful invariant for three manifolds, and it has many variants that can be used to study four dimensional cobordism and knots in three spheres. In this talk I will first introduce Heegaard decomposition and Heegaard diagram and state some basic properties of them. Then, I will make an analogy to the Lagrangian Floer Homology to define the ingredients of the Heegaard Floer Homology. Finally, I will define the hat version of Heegaard Floer chain complex and homology.

Workshop / Seminar:Ten Lectures on Schubert Polynomials. Lecture 8: Drift classes
2023-11-30 16:00 - 17:30 | East Hall - 4096
We show that every Schubert polynomial has a decomposition as a sum of polynomials, each of which is given by a tableau formula. This corresponds to a decomposition of its set of bumpless pipe dreams into a disjoint union of classes we call drift classes. (The vexillary case, studied in the last two lectures, is the case when there is one drift class.)

Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
2023-11-30 16:30 - 17:30 | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1311
Abstract:
The intervertebral disc (IVD) is an essential fibrocartilaginous joint in the spinal column that provides the shock absorption and weight distribution biomechanical properties of the spine. IVDs are complex, heterogeneous structures that are prone to cumulative damage overtime due to a limited regenerative capacity. The accrual of IVD injuries leads to IVD degeneration, which is associated with debilitating back pain. Successful healing of connective tissue injuries relies on temporally regulated immune cells that rapidly infiltrate damaged tissues and initiate regenerative cascades. These immune cells migrate into injured tissues and function as critical mediators of tissue regeneration and healing. However, the identity of these immune cell subtypes, their temporal coordination, and their effect on the IVD healing response after acute injury remain understudied. The objective of this study is to prevent IVD degeneration by defining the role of infiltrating immune cells during the acute stages of IVD repair. The importance of immune cells in facilitating healing has been well characterized in many musculoskeletal (MSK) tissues, such as bone and muscle, where T lymphocytes have been shown to be critical mediators of repair, but their role in IVD healing is unknown. Preliminary data show an important regulation of Cd3+ T cells in the IVD healing response that varies with sex where 12 week C57BL6 female mice with recurring waves of T cell infiltration during the acute IVD repair stages show less degenerative changes post injury than aged matched males. Therefore, the hypothesis is that Cd3+T cells are essential for IVD healing in female mice. These studies will offer a targeted approach to modulate IVD repair by elucidating the sex-related differences in the types and temporal regulation of key immune cell subtypes important during IVD healing.

Bio:

Dr. Sade Clayton is a Burroughs Wellcome Fund PDEP and Rita Levi- Montalcini Post-Doctoral Fellow in Regenerative Medicine in her third year of her training at Washington University in St. Louis in the Orthopaedic Surgery department. Her PhD thesis work was conducted in the Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with Rosa Serra. There, she identified a novel signaling pathway utilized by TGFβ during spinal column formation with an emphasis on spinal fibrous tissue development in mouse and chick embryo models. Her postdoctoral work in the labs of Simon Tang and Lori Setton aims to determine the function of the immune system in the development and repair of the intervertebral discs of the spine using RNA transcriptomics, microscopy, and flow cytometry in mouse and humans.

Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99085426766

Social / Informal Gathering:Breakfast for Dinner
2023-11-30 16:30 - 21:00
Come join us for everyone's favorite dinner party! We will be serving your favorite breakfast food during the dinner service!

Lecture / Discussion:Democracy, Labor and the Future of Work
2023-11-30 16:30 - 18:30
On 11/30, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie and former US Congressman Andy Levin will be on campus for a moderated conversation on Democracy, Labor, and the Future of Work. The conversation will look at the intersection of politics, the changing labor market, and the state of our democracy.
University of Michigan-Flint, Kiva Room, University Center

Lecture / Discussion:Donia Human Rights Center Panel | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75: A time to Celebrate or to Mourn?
2023-11-30 16:30 - 18:30 | Jeffries Hall - 1225
Discussion featuring Steven Ratner, Karima Bennoune, and Christopher Fariss, with a light reception to follow.

Discussion: 4:30-6:00pm
Reception: 6:00-6:30pm

This December will mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A response to the catastrophe of the Second World War, the UDHR still represents the most significant and transformative global commitment to human rights. The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect on the Declaration's legacy and the significant obstacles to achieving its promise. Three human rights professors from within the University will discuss the hopes of the framers, evidence of concrete results, and current developments that call into question the commitment of key global actors to the rights in the UDHR.

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Steven R. Ratner
Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; Director, Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan

Steven R. Ratner is the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He teaches and writes in the field of public international law on a range of issues, including state and corporate duties regarding foreign investment, territorial and ethnic-based disputes, civil and interstate armed conflict, and accountability for human rights violations. He is also interested in the intersection of international law and political philosophy and other theoretical issues.

Ratner came to the Law School in 2004 from the University of Texas School of Law. A member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law from 1998 to 2008, he began his legal career as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the US State Department.

In 1998–1999, the United Nations (UN) secretary-general appointed him to a three-person group of experts to consider options for bringing the Khmer Rouge to justice. And in 2010–2011, he was a member of the UN's three-person Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka, which advised the secretary-general on human rights violations related to the end of the Sri Lankan civil war. Since 2022, he has been a commissioner on the UN Human Rights Council's three-person International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia.

Ratner also worked in the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and at the Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in The Hague. From 2009 to 2021, he was a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law. He also is a counsellor of the American Society of International Law and a member of the American Law Institute. He has served as an expert on international investment law in various arbitrations and established. At the Law School, he directs the Geneva International Fellows Program.

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Karima Bennoune
Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Karima Bennoune, '94, is the Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. She specializes in public international law and international human rights law, including issues related to culture, extremism and terrorism, and women’s human rights.

Bennoune served as the UN special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights from 2015 to 2021. She also was appointed as an expert for the International Criminal Court in 2017 during the reparations phase of the groundbreaking case The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, which concerned intentional destruction of cultural heritage sites in Mali. In September 2023, she addressed the UN Security Council about gender apartheid in Afghanistan.

Since 2018, she has been a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law (AJIL), and in 2021 she also joined the editorial team of AJIL Unbound, the journal’s electronic publication. A former legal adviser for Amnesty International, she has carried out human rights missions in most regions of the world.

From 2012 to 2022, Bennoune served on the faculty of the University of California, Davis School of Law, becoming the Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Endowed Chair in International Law and a Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law. Previously, she taught at the Rutgers School of Law-Newark, where she was professor of law and the Arthur L. Dickson Scholar. She received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award.

Her courses have included International Law; International Protection of Human Rights; Terrorism and International Law; The Impact of 9/11 on International Law; Transnational Law; Women’s Human Rights; Gender, Sexuality, and International Human Rights Law; the United Nations Human Rights Practicum; and a course called Law and the Arab Spring, which drew from her fieldwork in North Africa. When Bennoune first taught at the University of Michigan Law School in 2001, she won the L. Hart Wright Award for Excellence in teaching.

Her book, Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here, received the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction. Released by W.W. Norton & Company in August 2013 and in paperback in 2014, the book addresses the work of many people of Muslim heritage against extremism and terrorism. The related field research took her to numerous countries, including Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Mali, Niger, Pakistan, and Russia. The TED talk based on the book, “When people of Muslim heritage challenge fundamentalism,” has received more than 1.5 million views.

Bennoune’s academic publications have appeared in many leading journals, including the American Journal of International Law, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and the European Journal of International Law. They have been widely cited, including on Slate and in the Nation magazine, the Dallas Morning News, and the Christian Science Monitor, as well as by the UN Special Rapporteurs on violence against women and on protecting human rights while countering terrorism.

Her article, “Terror/Torture,” was designated one of the top 10 global security law review articles of 2008 by Oxford University Press. Her topical writing has been published by the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post, Open Democracy, and Reuters.

Making frequent media appearances, Bennoune has spoken on CNN's “Anderson Cooper 360,” CNN International, MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes,” Fox Business News, National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, the Australian Broadcasting Service, BBC Radio, CBC-Radio, HuffPost Live, Radio France Internationale, and the "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" on PBS. She has been interviewed by many publications, including Charlie Hebdo, the Christian Science Monitor, the Guardian, and the International Herald Tribune.

In 2007, Bennoune became the first Arab-American to win the Derrick Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups. She received the 2016 Rights and Leadership Award from the International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law. In 2017, she was named one of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America. She has been a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. Currently, she sits on the Scholar Advisory Board of Muslims for Progressive Values.

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Christopher J. Fariss
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Christopher Fariss is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Faculty Associate in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan. In June 2013, he graduated with a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego. His core research focuses on the politics and measurement of human rights, discrimination, violence, and repression. He uses computational methods to understand why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods and research design. These methodological tools, essential for analyzing data at massive scale, open up new insights into the micro-foundations of state repression and the politics of measurement.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Careers / Jobs:Where Are They Now?: Michigan Education Corps Alumni Panel
2023-11-30 16:30
We want to see you at our Michigan Education Corps alumni panel!

Why? Because our alumni panel is an opportunity for you to see the diverse paths life took our members on after their time with MEC, and trust us, it's a conversation you won't want to miss! It's all about showingyou hat there's not just one path after serving as an MEC AmeriCorps Member. Hear from former AmeriCorps members who have launched careers in a variety of industries!

Our panel is simple, just like a friendly chat over coffee. First up, we'll give you the background on Michigan Education Corps and each of our panelists. You'll get to know more about their experiences – you know, where they were when they started as interventionist superheroes. Then, we'll zoom in on their life after service – the jobsthey have, and the things they're passionate about now.

You may be thinking “So, what else is Michigan Education Corps all about”? Our mission is crystal clear: to empower Michigan kids to reach their highest level of academic achievement in reading and math. But, we need your help todo so. If you’re enticed by the idea of a career in education or you’re looking for something for the “in-between” but, you aren’t sure where to start… Start right here!

No experience is required - MEC provides training and coaching to ensure your success. All you need is a passion for seeing kids succeed! Don't just take our word for it – RSVP now, secure your spot, and hear it straight from the source: our remarkablemembers.

Lecture / Discussion:“Piano Rewilded: The Mediated Natures of Taylor Swift,” Dr. Kate Galloway Lecture
2023-11-30 17:00 - 19:00 | Burton Memorial Tower
On May 20, 2023, during one of her Gillette Stadium stops on The Eras Tour, Taylor Swift swiftly removed her hands from the piano keyboard and exclaimed “I didn’t play that!” Swift’s piano appeared to start playing on its own as it came alive and expressed sonic vibrancy. This live playback through malfunction is reminiscent of sound artist and composer Annea Lockwood’s *Piano Transplants* (1968- ) series where the piano has the capacity to continue sounding without the presence of a human performer as the natural elements transform its materiality, functionality, and the physicality of its sound.

Visual and sonic references to idyllic nature, a cottagecore aesthetic, and representations of the mediated musicality of her sound are abundant across Taylor Swift’s *folklore* and *evermore* album releases, including the audiovisual settings for her music videos, the paramusical imagery of her official lyric videos, and the stagecraft of her live performances. This talk examines three audiovisual events as eco-sonic media to address the entangled ecological meanings encoded in Swift’s musical and paramusical expression in one of her most recent “eras”: The sound design of *folklore* and *evermore*, including Swift’s duet with Justin Vernon on “exile,” the woodland stagecraft and worldbuilding of the televised 63rd Grammys performance, and the rewilded moss-covered piano and gothic nature of The Eras Tour *folklore* and *evermore* sets. This talk takes Swift’s work as a cue to develop novel approaches to listening for and interpreting sonic environments in mediated spaces.

ABOUT THE GUEST SPEAKER

KATE GALLOWAY is Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her in-progress monograph *Remix, Reuse, Recycle: Music, Media Technologies, and Remediating the Environment* examines how and why contemporary artists remix and recycle sounds, music, and texts encoded with environmental knowledge. Her work is published in *American Music*, *The Soundtrack*, *Ethnomusicology*, *MUSICultures*, *Tourist Studies*, *Sound Studies*, *Feminist Media Histories*, *Popular Music*, and *Twentieth-Century Music*, among other venues. She has co-edited two special journal issues (*American Music* and *Twentieth-Century Music*) with K. E. Goldschmitt and Paula Harper that address the creative and social phenomena of internet music communities and practices of listening to the internet. Galloway is also co-editor of two forthcoming collections: *Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games: Listening to and Playing Ludic Soundscapes* with Elizabeth Hambleton and *Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans* with Christa Bentley and Paula Harper.

*This program is organized by the Department of Musicology at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.*

Workshop / Seminar:UM EMS Club November Mass Meeting
2023-11-30 17:00 - 18:00 | Michigan League 3rd floor Koessler Room

Careers / Jobs:2024 Backcountry Trails Program information session
2023-11-30 17:30 - 18:30
Do you seek adventure and challenge in a spectacular outdoor environment while getting paid and kickstarting your career? The Backcountry Trails Program might be for you! Join program staff for a virtual information session to learn more about this unique AmeriCorps opportunity. We will be giving an overview of the program, what to expect during a Backcountry season, and how to apply. There will also be time for Q&A. Multiple info session dates are available, with the possibility to add more.

Lecture / Discussion:Theaster Gates
2023-11-30 17:30 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Artist and social innovator Theaster Gates lives and works in Chicago. Trained in urban planning and ceramics, his artistic practice translates the intricacies of Blackness through space theory and land development, sculpture, and performance. Through the expansiveness of his approach as a thinker, maker, and builder, he extends the role of the artist as an agent of change. His performance practice and visual work find roots in Black knowledge, objects, history, and archives. His work focuses on the possibility of the “life within things” and redeems spaces that have been left behind. He is the founder of the Rebuild Foundation, an artist-led, community-based platform for art, cultural development, and neighborhood transformation whose mission is to demonstrate the impact of innovative, ambitious and entrepreneurial cultural initiatives enriched by three core values: Black people matter, Black spaces matter, and Black objects matter.
Gates will be speaking as part of the Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, which features the exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, currently on view at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). This landmark exhibition includes more than 60 objects representing the work of African American potters in the decades surrounding the Civil War as well as several contemporary works from leading Black artists, including Gates, whose work connects the past to the present. The exhibition is a reckoning with the central role that enslaved and free Black potters played in the long-standing stoneware traditions of Edgefield, South Carolina. It is also an important story about the unrelenting power of artistic expression and creativity, even while under the brutal conditions of slavery. Hear Me Now highlights the joy, struggle, creative ambition, and lived experience of African Americans in the 19th-century American South.
Gates’ presentation also serves as the kick off to a day-long convening on the issues raised by the exhibition. Organized in partnership with exhibition co-curator and U-M Professor of History, Jason Young, the convening will take place on Friday, December 1, at UMMA: find complete details at umma.umich.edu.
Gates has exhibited and performed at Biennale Architettura 2023, Venice, Italy (2023); Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy (2023); The New Museum, New York, (2022); The Aichi Triennial, Tokoname (2022); The Serpentine Pavilion, London (2022); The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (2021); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2013 and 2021); Tate Liverpool, UK (2020); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2020); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (2018); Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018); National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA (2017); Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (2016); Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2016); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2013); Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy (2013) and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany (2012). He was awarded the Nasher Prize for Sculpture 2018, as well as the Urban Land Institute, J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development.

Workshop / Seminar:Bangladeshis in Michigan Opening Reception
2023-11-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Shapiro Library Gallery, Clark Commons (3rd Floor), 919 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Bangladeshis in Michigan is a fiber art exhibition featuring hand-embroidered portraits by writer, educator, and fiber artist Fatema Haque. Sourced from photos submitted by Bangladeshi Michiganders, these intricate portraits capture the immigration and settlement journeys of multiple generations of Bangladeshi Americans. The art is further contextualized through oral history interviews conducted by Haque, and documents the growth and evolution of this vibrant community.The exhibit is free and open to the public at the Shapiro Library Gallery Clark Commons (3rd Floor) from November 30th - December 20th, 2023. An opening reception with food, conversation, and community will be held on November 30th from 6-8pm.
About the ArtistFatema Haque (she/her) is a Bangladeshi American writer, educator, and fiber artist based in Michigan. A self-taught fiber artist, Haque’s art celebrates the legacies of the Bangladeshi diaspora: those who immigrate, those who don’t, and the memories they carry with them wherever they go. Each intricate portrait requires anywhere from 30-100 hours of work, is done entirely by hand, typically on fabric she naturally dyed with plants and food scraps. She is inspired by the artistic legacies and resourcefulness of her aunts and grandmothers, who created hand-embroidered goods that were never formally recognized as art. Through her art, she aims to document the memories of her people.

Presentation:Carnegie Mellon Master's of Science in Computational Finance
2023-11-30 18:00 - 19:30 | West Hall - 335
Learn about Carnegie Mellon's highly-ranked Master's of Science in Computational Finance. Hear from the director of admissions about the program and general graduate school admissions tips. This program is great for those interested in quantitative finance from an academic and professional standpoint.

Other:Chill Out: A Winter Wellbeing Day
2023-11-30 18:00 | Diag - Central Campus
Want to “Chill Out” with CSG? Join us on the Diag on November 30 at 6pm for Chill Out: A Winter Wellbeing Day! Enjoy a free ice skating rink, snacks, hot chocolate, and campus resources for mental health and wellbeing.

Workshop / Seminar:Curating Scholarship: A Workshop on the Visual Presentation of Research
2023-11-30 18:00 - 21:00, 2023-12-01 09:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-02 09:00 - 16:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022
Visual exhibitions of research have the potential to engage publics beyond the readers of a scholarly monograph. Moving research off the page can take a variety of forms, but always requires careful curation. In this two-day workshop, graduate student and faculty scholars will gain an understanding of the requirements of curation, of the relationship between curation and creation, and of the research potentials opened through collaboration.

Curating Scholarship will be led by Institute for the Humanities Curator Amanda Krugliak, who will address conceptual questions of importance such as visual choices, context, display, and organizational styles. Logistical factors to be covered include planning, strategies, collaborative possibilities, and generating interest and support. Guest presenters will discuss their experience translating research and into exhibition format.

After the workshop, each participant will have the opportunity to meet with the curator for a 30-minute one-on-one session to discuss the exhibition potential of their own work.

Eligibility

Currently enrolled PhD students that have reached candidacy level as of September 1, 2023.
Faculty with an active appointment on any U-M campus as of September 1, 2023. Faculty are defined as tenure track and tenured professors, lecturers, and post-doctoral/research fellows.
Each selected participant will receive $250 in compensation for their time in attending the workshop.

Facilitator and Presenter:
Amanda Krugliak, Artist, Institute for the Humanities Curator, and Arts Administrator whose practice includes performance and conceptual experiential installations.

Presenters TBA

Application and email of endorsement are due Wednesday, October 18, 2023.

Selection Criteria:

Promise, significance, and interdisciplinary scope of the research project
The humanities and arts content of the project
The project’s potential contribution to public humanities scholarship
The quality, significance, and breadth of the applicant’s prior work

To apply, visit https://myumi.ch/qGnwX.

Performance:Dance Transcending the Demonic Woman: A Performance and Conversation with Yasuko Yokoshi
2023-11-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Dancer/choreographer Yasuko Yokoshi will perform *Nihon-buyo* (*Suodori* style) of “Kyōganoko Musume Dōjōji" (*Dōjōji*) and have a conversation about physicality, pedagogy, and aesthetics of traditional dance from a contemporary perspective.

This performance is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies and the International Institute; part of U-M's fall 2023 Festival of Asian Music.
https://smtd.umich.edu/asian-music-festival/

Community Service:General Body Meeting
2023-11-30 18:00 - 19:30 | 3427 Mason Hall
Join us for our last General Body Meeting for November! We will be recapping our goals from the month, and preparing for December's events and services.

Performance:Hula Performance
2023-11-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
In the 1890s Native Hawaiians lived through the overthrow of their sovereign kingdom by rogue American businessmen in 1893, and the annexation of their islands to the United States in 1898. Historians reading English-language sources wrote that Hawaiians did not oppose annexation. But opposition and fierce loyalty are loud and vociferous in Hawaiian-language sources. As part of the "Arts and Resistance" theme semester, this semesterʻs hula class focused on this period, and will present two original class choreographies of poetic texts from that era.

Free and open to the public.

Exhibition:IGDA Ann Arbor : Nate Berens ("Life of an Indie Game Generalist")
2023-11-30 18:00 - 22:00 | Off Campus Location
== Industry Speaker ==
Nate Berens (Founder - Redact Games / Developer - New Blood Interactive)
From art to coding to writing, acting, production, marketing, QA, and more, the life of a generalist is generally a bit nuts. Step into the world of indie game development and embrace your inner renaissance as IGDA Ann Arbor welcomes Nate Berens, the celebrated indie generalist behind Sagebrush, Cellular Harvest, Gloomwood, and other unique titles.

== Schedule ==
(Free pizza will be served).

6pm : Developer Lounge / Open Playtesting
7pm : (event start) Community Show-and-Tell (register your 10-min slot)
8pm : Industry Speaker
9pm : Networking

== How To Attend ==

In-Person (parking options)
Discord
Twitch

== Community Resources ==

Michigan Game Studios Database
IGDA Ann Arbor Twitter
IGDA Ann Arbor Facebook
IGDA Ann Arbor Discord Server

==IGDA Resources==
https://igda.org/resources/harassment/

Social / Informal Gathering:IOE Department Dinner
2023-11-30 18:00 - 20:00
Join IOE undergraduates, graduate students, staff and faculty alike for the annual IOE Department Dinner on November 30th from 6-8PM. Come for an evening of fun at the Original Cottage Inn (512 E William St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104) and enjoy food, drinks, and fun desserts. The IISE Eboard hopes to see you there.
The RSVP Form will close Friday, November 17th.

Dinner: Mediterranean Chicken, Plain and Pepperoni Pizza, and Garden Salad
Nonalcoholic beverages provided: sodas, teas, coffees
Desserts: Macaroons, Cheesecakes, Cannolis, Fruit (as needed)
Gluten Free and Vegan Options Available
GF: Mediterranean Chicken, Salad, Macaroons, Fruit
V: Plain Pizza, Salad, Fruit

Parking:
Maynard Street Parking Structure
324 Maynard St
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Thompson Street Parking Structure (University Lot - can still pay to park)
508 Thompson Stree
Ann Arbor, MI 48104t

Social / Informal Gathering:SDNS Crafting & Studying Night
2023-11-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Crofoot (1st floor) in the Michigan Union
Located in the Michigan Union in Michigan (1st floor). Join us for a night of crafting and studying where you can meet other disabled and neurodivergent folx! You can bring your own crafting supplies or use the ones we provide. We look forward to seeing you there!

Workshop / Seminar:Transportation Town Hall
2023-11-30 18:00 - 19:30 | Michigan League, Floor 1 - Room #4
We will hosting a town hall with students and community leaders!!

Lecture / Discussion:(HYBRID) When an Academic’s Brain Becomes Her Worst Enemy: A True Story
2023-11-30 18:30 - 20:30 | GG Brown Laboratory - 1571
Ann Jeffers shares her journey with mental illness, including receiving a diagnosis of bipolar disorder with psychotic features while she was on the tenure-track in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her illness was complicated by the trauma she experienced as a graduate student at Virginia Tech from multiple incidents of violence including the 2007 mass shooting. At the advice of her medical team, she kept her mental illness hidden from the University of Michigan and continued to teach, attend conferences, and conduct research while actively symptomatic. Her memoir documents her experiences at the height of the illness. Now a tenured associate professor, Jeffers has become a vocal advocate for mental health and disability justice on campus and in the community.

This event is a hybrid event. This includes an author discussion and Q&A from 6:30 - 7:30 PM ET followed by a reception with coffee, tea, and desserts until 8:30 PM. Remote CART services are available.

You may purchase the book at the event (limited supply; credit card only) or you may purchase the book, Can You Hear The Music? My Journey Through Madness, on Amazon.

This event is sponsored by the DEI Committee for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Please email Ava Armour <ayarmour@umich.edu> with any questions or concerns. Accommodation requests (specifically ASL) should be made at least 7 days in advance.

Presentation:Dinner for Democracy: Climate Change and Wealth Inequality
2023-11-30 18:30 - 19:30 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240
Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about hosted by the student organization, Turn Up Turnout (TUT). Free food at in-person events!
Participants can expect to gain a deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts, information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue, and additional resources you can use to learn more.

Social / Informal Gathering:TV and Movie Night in the Connector
2023-11-30 19:00 - 21:00 | The Connector - 1520
Join the Connector Community Assistants for TV and movie night every Thursday at 7:00 P.M. in the Connector (West Quad). Free popcorn for all attendees!

Performance:Chamber Opera: "Gianni Schicchi"
2023-11-30 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-12-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Step right up, folks! Brace yourselves for a Jersey-fied twist on the operatic classic as we transport *Gianni Schicchi* from the cobblestone streets of 13th-century Florence to the sun-soaked shores of 2005 New Jersey! Picture this: a tale of money, greed, and the eternal clash between the old guard and the new wave, all set against the backdrop of big hair, bigger attitudes, and the inescapable allure of the Jersey shore.

Gianni Schicchi, the real Florentine legend plucked straight from Dante's *Inferno*, is reborn in a high-spirited satire that's part cunning deceit, part operatic rollercoaster. Get ready for a libretto that's more Sopranos than Puccini, as we explore the timeless themes of wealth, family, and the pursuit of that elusive American Dream.

And who could forget the show-stopping aria "O mio babbino caro," a powerhouse performance that'll leave you breathless and reaching for those gelato-scented tissues. Join us for a night of operatic mayhem where tradition meets modernity, and where New Jersey's own Gianni Schicchi proves that even in the Garden State, the drama is as grand as the arias! Don't miss this operatic extravaganza – because in Jersey, the soprano isn't the only one hitting those high notes!

Conductor: Kirk Severtson
Stage Director: Mo Zhou
John Morefield, piano

CAST
Gianni Schicchi: Cody Carlson
Rinuccio: Yinghui He
Lauretta: Cinderella Ksebati
Zita: Aria Minasian
Gherardo: Jabari Lewis
Nella: Amber Rogers
Simone: Xavier Perry
La Ciesca: Maddy Ringo
Betto di Signa: Thomas Long
Marco: Justin Ingui
Maestro Spinellocio & Pinellino: Loren Reash-Henz
Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Hunter Reid
Gherardino: Marisa Redding
Buoso: Keen Williams

Performance:Imogen Says Nothing
2023-11-30 19:30 - 22:30, 2023-12-01 20:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-02 20:00 - 23:00, 2023-12-03 14:00 - 17:00 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
In the first folio of Shakepeare’s *Much Ado About Nothing*, a character named Imogen appears briefly in the stage directions. She speaks no lines and is probably a typo.

In Aditi Kapil’s *Imogen Says Nothing*, Imogen is a woman in Elizabethan England whose life is changed by the opportunity to appear in a performance of *Much Ado About Nothing* – an opportunity reserved solely for men. Imogen appears on stage as a woman playing a man playing a woman. To make matters more complicated, Imogen is also a bear.

A revisionist comedy in verse and prose, this feminist hijacking of Shakespeare investigates the voices that have long been absent from the theatrical canon, and the consequences of cutting them.

*Imogen Says Nothing* premiered on January 20, 2017, at the Yale Repertory Theatre, which also commissioned the play, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Written by Aditi Kapil
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

FUN FACTS: Aditi Kapil took the title from a piece of dialogue in *Much Ado About Nothing*. Beatrice, when describing Benedick, says, “The one is too like an image and says nothing.”

Aditi Kapil discusses the development of Imogen at Yale here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUZc0lWwiqI

Exercise / Fitness:Swing Ann Arbor Swing II: November Swingout Bootcamp
2023-11-30 19:30 - 20:30 | Mason Hall
WHAT: It’s back again for a second month! In this course, we will build on the Lindy Hop essentials of Swing I and learn how to do a swingout. Swingouts are a fundamental (and by far the most recognizable) move of Lindy Hop! They require dancers to hone their connection with a partner and can lay the groundwork for many new moves. We will dedicate most of the time in this class to cleaning up the swingouts you will learn in the first few weeks. We will also focus on musicality and teach you a few fun swingout variations (time permitting). COURSE PREREQUISITES: Swing I or equivalent. You should feel comfortable switching between 6-count and 8-count Lindy Hop, have experience with some basic variations (e.g. yoyos, Lindy circles), and feel confident about your musicality and connection. We will not expect you to know how to do a swingout yet – we will teach you to do one! WHEN: 7:30pm-8:30pm on Thursdays (11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/30) WHERE: Mason Hall Room 1401, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor INSTRUCTORS: Sarah Redman & Steve Losh PRICING:General Admission 4-Week Pass: $40SAA Member 4-Week Pass: $30Individual Class: $12Acceptable forms of payment: cash, check, or PayPal REGISTRATION: Please register in advance by filling out this short form: https://tinyurl.com/SAANovProgressives\

Performance:Vadim Monastyrski, piano
2023-11-30 19:30 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Vadim Monastyrski, visiting professor of music with the Department of Piano, performs a recital.

Performance:"Tales from our Roots," a senior dance performance
2023-11-30 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-12-01 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-12-02 20:00 - 22:00 | Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre
The University of Michigan Department of Dance presents *Tales from our Roots*, a concert featuring group and solo choreography and performance by senior BFA dance majors Rae Beck, Ruby Clay, and Claire Schick.

Rae Beck’s, *Mina, The One Who Sees All*, utilizes storytelling and dance to explore the concept of traveling into a fantasy realm. *The Typist* investigates the relationship between the artist and the machine.

Ruby Clay’s dance, *B4 L8R*, addresses the dichotomy between sisterhood and loneliness. Clay drew inspiration from their personal “unfinished business” and literature from the 1960s counterculture in making the work.

Inspired by the photography of Justine Kurland titled “Girl Pictures”, Claire Schick’s, *Sisters I Never Had*, depicts a cast rebelling, playing, and lavishing in each other's company within nature. Schick’s solo, *The Ballad of Big Trees*, is in honor of Henry Cowell State Redwood Park in Santa Cruz, California, which holds a special place in Claire’s family and life.

This concert will be performed Thursday, November 30 through Saturday, December 2, 2023. Shows begin at 8:00pm. (Livestreaming on December 1.) Tickets are free, available at the door an hour before the start time.

Performance:Brain Plasticity Ukulele Collective and BLUESHOUSE!
2023-11-30 20:00 | ARK Reserved
Ukes and blues!

Brain Plasticity Ukulele Collective is an open community of musicians playing at all levels and abilities. Ukes? Well, it’s more like 30 different instruments. Plasticity? Yes! The Brain Plasticity Ukulele Collective believes that by sharing music and learning how to play a new instrument, you can: “Drop a brain bomb. Fire up the synapses. Rewire some neural pathways.” And BLUESHOUSE!, led by veteran English bluesman Mike Brooks, has enlivened countless stages and street parties around southeast Michigan over the last decade. Join us for a combination that will stretch your brain!

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4247/4248 for more detail.

Performance:Early Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Lab Ensemble
2023-11-30 20:00 - 22:00 | Off Campus Location - Rackham Auditorium
Early Jazz Ensemble - Chris Smith, Director
Jazz Lab Ensemble - Dennis Wilson, Director

Designed to rehearse, perform, and examine the repertoire of the jazz big band, the Jazz Lab Ensemble explores classic, historically significant repertoire as well as new arrangements and/or compositions.

Workshop / Seminar:FSL - NPHC Council Meetings Fall 2023
2023-11-30 20:00 - 21:00 | 1443 Washtenaw Ave

Other:Salt Company
2023-11-30 20:00 - 21:00 | Cahoots Cafe
Every Thursday at 8pm @Cahoots CafeJoin us for night of worship and teaching from the Bible

Careers / Jobs:SMFA at Tufts : MFA Application Portfolio Prep
2023-11-30 20:00 - 20:30
Are you considering applying to a masters program in studio art? Join us for a tutorial on best tips and practices for assembling your graduate application portfolio, hosted by the Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions with guest participation from our current MFA candidates.

Careers / Jobs:Teach For America Info Session + Q&A
2023-11-30 20:00 - 20:45
Interested in learning more about Teach For America? Ignite your spark by joining us for an upcoming informational session where you'll discover who we are, what we do, and how our programs work. The first 30minutes will address the most common questions we receive:

1. What is Teach For America?
2. What and where will I teach?
3. What will my salary and finances look like?
4. How does teacher certification work?
5. Howwill I be trained and supported?

We will end with 15 additional minutes of Q&A, at which point you can get your specific questions answered. Wewill also be sending follow-up resources ahead of our application deadline on February 5th. We hope to see you there!

Exercise / Fitness:Swing Ann Arbor: Taster Series
2023-11-30 20:45 - 21:45 | Mason Hall
Swing Ann Arbor is offering a 4-week Taster Series next month! This series will introduce you to a different type of swing dance each week. Continue reading for each week’s topic! 11/2/23: ST. LOUIS SHAGSt. Louis Shag is an African American Partnered Jazz dance that has been alive in St. Louis MO since the 1930’s. Kendra and Casey will be covering the basic shapes and style of the dance to get you shagging faster than you can say “In St. Louis, they just call it Shag!” Instructors: Casey McCoy and Kendra Wade 11/9/23: COLLEGIATE SHAGSometimes the music is too fast for Lindy Hop, too bouncy for Balboa, or not chunky enough for Charleston. Collegiate Shag is your secret weapon! Challenge yourself with new footwork & stylized shapes while you get your cardio in.Instructors: Emily Topham + Angel Jenio 11/16/23: 20s CHARLESTONTry your hand at the grandparent of the swing family! A simple ballroom hold and step-touch footwork will soon have you ready to try fun stylings with your partner.Instructors: Emily Topham + Angel Jenio **Note: there is no class the week of November 20th due to Thanksgiving** 11/30/23: SLOW JAZZLearn how to partner dance to slow music from the Swing Era! In this class we’ll teach you about the history of some slow dances from the 1930s and 1940s, get you comfortable moving with a partner in close embrace to slow jazz music, and provide you with some dance vocabulary to make the dance interesting. A great way to impress your friends and family at formal dances & weddings! Instructors: Emily Topham + Max Okros WHERE: Mason Hall Room 1401, University of Michigan, Ann ArborPRICING:General Admission 4-Week Pass to all four classes: $40SAA Member 4-Week Pass to all four classes: $30Individual Class: $12Acceptable forms of payment: cash, check, or PayPal REGISTRATION: Please register in advance by filling out this short form: https://tinyurl.com/SAANovProgressives

Lecture / Discussion:Department of Astronomy 2023-2024 DEI Series Presents:
2023-12-01 09:30 - 10:20 | West Hall - 411
“The ups and downs in the life of an international academic"

To develop a career within academia, it has become normal to experience a high degree of mobility. Moving across cities, countries and continents, family and friends are left behind, and it is increasingly difficult to build a support network. This situation can be particularly taxing on demographic groups that are underrepresented in science. Drawing from personal experience as a female scientist and mother of an infant, I will explain some situations in which being an international scholar has fostered my career, and some in which it has hindered it. In a round-table style, I will put forward some questions in the hope that it leads to a discussion about fostering positive work environments that minimize the alienating feeling of changing institutions.

Conference / Symposium:+Tech Forum: GenAI Edition
2023-12-01 10:00 - 15:00 | Ross School of Business - Robertson Auditorium
Join us for a one-day crash course on GenAI and walk away with a deeper understanding of this cutting edge technology.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Emre Demiralp, Director of Product Management at Uber (U-M PhD in Computer Science and Neuroscience)

FEATURING
+ Mythbusting GenAI with PwC
+ GenAI Tools Workshop with Microsoft
+ Lightning Panel: Healthcare with Henry Ford Hospital Chief Medical Officer Associate Amy Engelhardt and CEO & Co-Founder of CircNova, Inc Crystal Brown
+ Lightning Panel: Applications with Meta Senior Director Ganesh Kumar and Publicis Sapient Senior Client Partner Scott Hamerink

Lecture / Discussion:Artists Speak: Theaster Gates and Adebunmi Gbadebo with social justice curator and museum changemaker, Monica O. Montgomery
2023-12-01 10:00 - 11:30 | Museum of Art - University of Michigan Museum of Art
Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQbDMYYn1ie7BmIbmMR2iJ9RUzsT8M5BN4PBb3A1etiug8wg/viewform.

Witness a dynamic discussion among movers and shakers in the social justice art world. Artist, Activist and Professor Theaster Gates and Artist Adebunmi Gbadebo contemplate their work in the Hear Me Now exhibition and in the world through a lens of restorative justice. Hear the unfiltered thoughts of these artists in conversation with social justice curator and museum changemaker, Monica O. Montgomery.

This program is part "Free To Speak! A Convening on Art, Slavery and Reconciliation", a 2-day celebration of Black creativity, agency, and memory. Inspired by UMMA’s presentation of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, 'Free to Speak' hopes to contribute to urgent national conversations about racial justice while exploring what it means to exhibit materials made by enslaved people in Southeast Michigan, especially in light of the region’s relationships to the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, the explosion of Black music and culture, and ongoing racial protest and liberation movements. Part storytelling, part scholarly deep dive, the discussions and diverse perspectives that emerge will offer new possibilities to inspire change in the arts and culture field. ​ To see the full convening schedule and to RSVP, please click here. Artist and social innovator Theaster Gates lives and works in Chicago. Trained in urban planning and ceramics, his artistic practice translates the intricacies of Blackness through space theory and land development, sculpture, and performance. Through the expansiveness of his approach as a thinker, maker, and builder, he extends the role of the artist as an agent of change. His performance practice and visual work find roots in Black knowledge, objects, history, and archives. His work focuses on the possibility of the ​“life within things” and redeems spaces that have been left behind. He is the founder of the Rebuild Foundation, an artist-led, community-based platform for art, cultural development, and neighborhood transformation whose mission is to demonstrate the impact of innovative, ambitious and entrepreneurial cultural initiatives enriched by three core values: Black people matter, Black spaces matter, and Black objects matter.

Adebunmi Gbadebo, a multimedia artist, explores the intersections of land, matter, and memory on sites of slavery using materials like indigo dye, plantation soil, and Black hair. She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY, and a Creative Place Keeping certification from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is a 2022 Pew Fellow, 2023 Maxwell and Hanrahan Fellow, and A.I.R at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Gbadebo has been written about in notable publications like The New York Times and Forbes. She has spoken at institutions like the Museum of the African Diaspora and the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Gbadebo's art resides in permanent collections at institutions such as the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She is currently designing a monument at Clemson University to honor enslaved laborers who transformed Fort Hill Plantation into the university.

Monica O. Montgomery is a museum thought leader and independent curator at the nexus of culture, community engagement, and equity. She consults with a myriad of organizations, corporations, associations, non profits, universities and museums on contemporary art, community engagement and championing inclusion and belonging to spark ecologies of promise. Known for curating social justice exhibits and founding diversity initiative Museum Hue, over the last 2 decades she has served as an executive director, fundraiser, marketer, educator, and program director. Her career credits include a TedX talk & SXSW plenary and over 40+ curated contemporary art and public history exhibits with renowned organizations like the South African Embassy, Brooklyn Museum, Portland Art Museum, Community Art Center, T Thomas Fortune Cultural Center, The New School. Teachers College, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, Weeksville Heritage Center and The Highline among others. She served as Curator of Social Justice and Special Programs for the FUTURES exhibition, at Smithsonian Arts & Industries, organizing an interactive exhibit of art, technology and history to celebrate the Smithsonian Institutions 175th Anniversary.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Free to Speak is generously supported by the U-M Inclusive History Project, the U-M Arts Initiative Arts & Resistance Theme Semester Fund, the Americana Foundation, Michigan Humanities, the U-M Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the U-M Department of History.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman.

Workshop / Seminar:Department Seminar Seminar Series: Dean Knox, Assistant Professor, Department of Operations, Information & Decisions, Statistics & Data Science, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
2023-12-01 10:00 - 11:00 | West Hall - 340
Abstract: Analyses of police misconduct rely heavily on self-reported law-enforcement data that suffers from unobserved confounding, mismeasurement, and selection issues. I first show how these challenges have led to distortions in prior policing research, including a high-profile retraction. Next, I demonstrate how nonparametric sharp bounds can help researchers address these challenges without relying on implausible, often implicit assumptions. I introduce an algorithm for obtaining such bounds for any structured discrete system and essentially any estimand, assumptions, and arbitrarily incomplete dataset(s)—flexibly accommodating the wide variety of oversight tasks and data environments across America's 18,000 law enforcement agencies. The algorithm outputs a fail-to-reject region capturing both fundamental lack of identification as well as sampling uncertainty. Finally, I propose an approach for targeting future data collection under budget constraints to optimally narrow the expected fail-to-reject region.
http://www.dcknox.com/

Presentation:Dissertation Defense-Iman Samani
2023-12-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1044
This dissertation explores innovative strategies for solving linear variable-coefficient wave propagation problems in one and
multiple dimensions. The research uncovers a substantial contrast between two primary methodologies used to achieve high
formal accuracy: one approach enlarges the computational stencil, while the other enriches it with additional information,
such as derivatives or moments. The findings reveal that enrichment techniques are notably more effective in enhancing the
accuracy of numerical solutions. As a result, a Hermitian version of the Active Flux method is developed, which significantly
advances the state-of-the-art in solving wave propagation problems

Social / Informal Gathering:La Tertulia
2023-12-01 10:00 - 11:00 | Modern Languages Building - 4th Floor Commons
* Practice your Spanish speaking skills with fellow students and instructors in a welcoming and relaxed environment
* Free coffee, tea, light snacks, and baked goods
* Get advice on courses and Discuss study abroad

All levels and students are welcome!

Workshop / Seminar:UM Structure Seminar: Delineating the Mechanism of acetyl transfer across lysosomal membrane using cryo-EM
2023-12-01 10:00 - 11:00 | Life Sciences Institute - LSI Library
Assistant Research Scientist
Mosalaganti Lab

Class / Instruction:UMS Messiah Soloist Master Class with Gina Perregrino, mezzo-soprano
2023-12-01 10:30 - 12:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
The Department of Voice, in conjunction with the University Musical Society, is pleased to present three separate Master Classes, Friday, December 1, 2023, 10:30am-12:30pm at the Earl V. Moore Building.

Each class will be led by a soloist from this year's UMS presentation of Handel's *Messiah*, each working with four of our SMTD voice students. The master clinicians are Rachele Gilmore, soprano; Gina Perregrino, mezzo-soprano; and Paul Appleby, tenor.

All classes are open to the public to come and observe. Class locations are as follows:

- Watkins Lecture Hall: Rachele Gilmore, soprano.
- McIntosh Theatre: Gina Perregrino, mezzo-soprano.
- Kevreson Rehearsal Hall: Paul Appleby, tenor.

Class / Instruction:UMS Messiah Soloist Master Class with Paul Appleby, tenor
2023-12-01 10:30 - 12:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Kevreson Rehearsal Hall

Class / Instruction:UMS Messiah Soloist Master Class with Rachele Gilmore, soprano
2023-12-01 10:30 - 12:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall

Conference / Symposium:Celebrating the life and career of James S. Jackson
2023-12-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Michigan League
Please join us to celebrate the life and career of James S. Jackson on Friday, December 1, 2023.

Lunch will be served at the Michigan League at 11 a.m.
The symposium will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater.
Please RSVP at https://myumi.ch/EPMNe.

In tribute to James’s legacy, the symposium will feature presentations on his transformational impact nationally and internationally, on sports, on the University of Michigan, and on research and mentoring.

View the full symposium program at https://myumi.ch/qGeX3

Careers / Jobs:CIC Student Working Group Meeting
2023-12-01 11:00 - 12:00
The CIC invites students of all academic backgrounds and varying research experience to join the CIC Student Working Group. Students around the world will join a community of young professionals and researchersinterested in the future of COVID-19 and ongoing pandemic research.
Jointhe CIC Student Working Group this semester to participate in the Fall 2023 COVID-19 Data Visualization Project!

Workshop / Seminar:OGPS Faculty Corner Series Fall 2023
2023-12-01 11:00 - 12:00 | THSL 2955
OGPS Faculty Corner SeriesThis is a monthly in-person event designed to provide insights, advice, and knowledge to you as an emerging academic. Each event features a faculty member discussing topics pertinent to starting an academic career focusing on research. You will get to hear from faculty about their career trajectories and how they navigated their transition from trainee to faculty member. You will also have an opportunity to network with the faculty member as well as other trainees.Aims and Objectives:
To provide a platform where trainees can learn from faculty experiences and knowledge.To address and discuss pertinent issues and topics relevant to the biomedical/medical field and life sciences.To foster networking and community-building opportunities among trainees and faculty.To promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement, equipping trainees with the necessary skills and information for the faculty profession needed to transition into academia.

Meeting:Pause-Café
2023-12-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (Room 4134)
Enjoy some coffee, tea, and snacks while
improving your French skills!!!

Come for 10 minutes or the whole hour!

Everyone is welcome, regardless of level!

Workshop / Seminar:STEM, DIS, and Reproductive Health GCC Information Sessions
2023-12-01 11:00 - 12:00

Presentation:Did An Asteroid Really Kill The Dinosaurs?
2023-12-01 11:30 - 12:15, 2023-12-02 11:30 - 12:15, 2023-12-03 11:30 - 12:15 | Museum of Natural History
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.

The state-of-the-art Planetarium & Dome Theater at the U-M Museum of Natural History transports visitors beyond distant stars and back in time from the comfort of reclining seats. Tickets $8. Tickets are available on the day of the show at the Museum Store.

Lecture / Discussion:Entrepreneurship Hour: Richard Lui, Sharon Matusik, and Ron Busby Sr.
2023-12-01 11:30 - 12:20 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
This week’s EHour session will redefine the meaning of powerhouse discussions.

These speakers represent three distinct changemakers and are coming to Ann Arbor to unveil what you need to know to succeed in (and transform) tomorrow’s business world.

Lui is a seasoned pro with over 25 years of experience in news, business, media, and tech. He’s also a diversity and inclusion champion who’s shared his wisdom with world leaders, Fortune 500 companies, and communities across the globe.

Matusik earned her stripes at Colby College, excelling in economics and English before clinching a PhD in strategic management from the University of Washington. Matusik's journey led her to the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, where she made waves from the get-go.

Busby leads the charge as President/CEO of the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC). As a former successful business owner with extensive community building experience and a track record as one of the nation's best CEOs, Ron brings not only business management skills but also a passion for uplifting entrepreneurs.

This panel of diverse voices and experiences is sure to be an EHour you won’t forget!

Join us this Friday, Dec 1 at Stamps Auditorium. You won’t want to miss it!

Performance:Carson Landry, carillon
2023-12-01 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Graduate student Carson Landry performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Earplugs are available from the carillonist upon request. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon: https://smtd.umich.edu/facilities/ann-and-robert-h-lurie-carillon/

Conference / Symposium:Celebrating the life and career of James S. Jackson
2023-12-01 12:00 - 18:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)

Livestream / Virtual:Flash Talk | DiSKO in the Kelsey Museum
2023-12-01 12:00 - 12:30 | Off Campus Location
No, this is not a new dance craze! DiSKO stands for the Digital Study of Kelsey Objects, an educational outreach project at the Kelsey Museum that intends to create 3-D models of select objects from our collections. The main goal of the project is to make these teaching and learning resources publicly available online for free, without requiring any special software or equipment to access them.

Join the Kelsey Museum’s director of education, Cathy Person, as she presents the current state of the project, its goals, and its challenges.

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

To register for this Flash Talk, fill out the form at https://forms.gle/QYKVQynXC5AxtZ7f6. Zoom log-in information will be provided upon registration. Please sign up by 9:30 AM the day of the event to ensure you receive a confirmation email containing the access code.

Well-being:Heartfulness Guided Meditation
2023-12-01 12:00 - 12:30 | Off Campus Location
Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly, drop-in program designed to help you Mental well-being.

All U-M students, faculty, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required.

*What will you learn?*

The guided meditation practice involves three simple steps: relaxation, rejuvenation, and meditation.

Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow this with a rejuvenation method to detox the mind to let go of stress and complex emotions, and will leave you feeling light and refreshed. Lastly, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself by listening to your heart’s voice.

*Why Meditate?*

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony.

*Please take Learn to Meditate session if you are new to the practice. These sessions are offered Monthly.* https://events.umich.edu/event/128708

*Event Details*

Heartfulness Guided Meditation
Fridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)
Join Via Zoom Meeting
Register to receive Passcode (see “Related links”

This wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.

Lecture / Discussion:IOE 101: Timothy Bryan
2023-12-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1610
Presenter Bio:
Timothy Bryant currently work at United Flow Technologies as as Sales Operations Coordinator

Short Description:
United Flor Technologies Operates as a Technical Sales Representative in the Water and Wastewater Industry. Throughout the talk, Timothy will be speaking on the roles for young engineers, the Water and Wastewater Industry, and the company itself.

Workshop / Seminar:LAGS Seminar | Seizing Opportunities - From Michigan to Congo
2023-12-01 12:00 - 13:00 | West Hall - 335
Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/95573161835
Meeting ID: 955 7316 1835
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Upon finishing my PhD in CME at Michigan, my wife and I moved to The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), located in central sub-Saharan Africa, where I’ve been teaching undergraduate math and physics since 2018. The DRC is a challenging place for physics education. The poor quality of primary and secondary education along with chronic poverty and insecurity means that students are often ill prepared for university physics. However, there is still a need for qualified STEM practitioners to solve the many technical challenges of a growing society. The experience of teaching in the DRC has changed me forever. In this seminar, I will share with you some of the challenges I faced and the rewards I received by seizing this unique opportunity.

Conference / Symposium:Marsal School dije Office
2023-12-01 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual via Zoom

Workshop / Seminar:Metal Homeostasis at the host – pathogen interface: from nutritional immunity to nutritional intoxication
2023-12-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1400
Antibiotic resistance is a global health concern that causes over one million deaths worldwide. Understanding molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis and the innate immune response is critical for identifying new antimicrobial therapeutic approaches. My lab is interested in characterizing the underlying determinants of metal homeostasis with an eye toward creating new antimicrobial agents. One-third of the proteome is predicted to comprise metalloproteins. Metals are essential for all forms of life as they serve as enzymatic cofactors, structural stabilizers and chemical messengers. However, high concentrations of metals are toxic. Thus, maintenance of metal homeostasis is essential at the host-pathogen interface. For example, S100A12 is a high affinity transition metal binding protein that starves invading pathogens and prevents them from acquiring essential zinc, in a process termed nutritional immunity. I will present recent results from my lab that sugges t zinc binding to S100A12 potentiates oligomerization and is associated with activation of inflammation through the receptor for advanced glycation end products. The importance of zinc regulation is also highlighted in the pathogenesis of the human pathogen Streptococcus agalactiae, one of the primary causes of adverse pregnancy outcomes. CadD, a metal efflux transporter is essential for S. agalactiae to resist zinc intoxication by macrophages, thereby facilitating ascending infection in a pregnant host. Together, these data demonstrate the importance of understanding metal homeostasis and provide potential pathways to overcoming antibiotic resistance.

Presentation:Neuroscience Graduate Program Dissertation Defense
2023-12-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
Presenting, “Soma-to-germline transition in a chromatin-linked neurodevelopmental disorder”
Dr. Shigecki Iwase, Chair

Workshop / Seminar:NHATS/NSOC Webinar Series
2023-12-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Speaker: Kate Duchowny, Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

All webinars are held Friday 12-1 p.m. ET.

Register for the 2023-2024 NHATS/NSOC Webinar Schedule
https://micda.isr.umich.edu/2023-2024-nhats-nsoc-webinar-series/

Workshop / Seminar:NTRG: Automorphic Representations
2023-12-01 12:00 - 13:00 | East Hall - 3088
We will be discussing Getz-Hahn's "Introduction to Automorphic Representations."

Careers / Jobs:Pro Football Hall of Fame "Before the Snap" ft. Seth Levit
2023-12-01 12:00 - 13:00
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is proud to offer a series for learners in high school, college and beyond! “Before the Snap” gives an insight to professional careers in and around the NFL, while giving thelive viewing audience the opportunity to interact with an industry expert.

Our special guest is Seth Levit, the Executive Director of the JasonTaylor Foundation and former member of the Miami Dolphins Media Relationsteam.

We will be streaming the program LIVE on the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s YouTube page and will take questions from students across the country throughout the program. To participate, all you will need to do is:
- Visit https://www.youtube.com/user/ProFootballHOF at 12:00pm ET on Friday, December 1, 2023 to view the program.
-To ask a question, comment on the post with the following information:
* Name of School (if applicable)
* Location
* Question for Industry Expert

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out! You can contact me at 330-588-3558 or by email at Jacob.Ray@ProFootballHOF.com

Workshop / Seminar:Study Abroad Info Session: Advanced Spanish Abroad - Spring/Summer 2024
2023-12-01 12:00 - 13:00
Join CGIS Advisor Juliana Mesa to learn more about the Spanish-language programs in Spring/Summer 2024. These program offerings are pre-approved by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Students can earn 300- and/or 400-level Spanish credits depending on the program. Please visit the program brochure to learn more about course pre-requisites and other eligibility criteria
CGIS: Advanced Spanish in Alicante, SpainCGIS: Advanced Spanish in Santiago de Compostela, SpainCGIS: Public Health in Santiago, Dominican RepublicCGIS: Spanish in Madrid - 300/300
DATES:Friday, November 17, 12-1 pm (Info Session)Friday, December 1, 12-1 pm (Info Session)
Note: CGIS Spring/Summer 2024 applications open in October, 2023 and close on January 15, 2024 or February 1, 2024.

Exhibition:The Art of Resistance in Early America
2023-12-01 12:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-04 12:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-05 12:00 - 16:00 | William Clements Library
The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

Exhibition:With this hand I strum the harp of your soul
2023-12-01 12:00 - 15:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - 100H, Gallery
Friday, December 1
12 - 3PM
Hatcher Graduate Library
100H, Gallery
Conversation: 12 - 1PM
Reception and exhibit: 1 - 3PM

The late Cuban book artist Rolando Estévez would have turned 70 years old on December 1, 2023. Estévez traveled to Ann Arbor several times during his life to meet with and teach students, deliver lectures, and collaborate on artistic and intellectual projects with his close friend, Distinguished Anthropology Professor and author, Ruth Behar.

Thanks to Behar’s dedicated efforts to build a bridge between Estévez and the University of Michigan, our Special Collections serves as the home for many of Estévez’s artists’ books, including several one-of-a-kind works of art. To celebrate the work of Estévez and the memory of his presence at Michigan, Behar dreamed up the idea of a poetic and artistic tribute to which all are welcome.

Behar has invited author Richard Blanco, who recited his poem, “One Today,” at President Barack Obama’s 2012 inauguration, to the university to join her in conversation about Estévez’s poetry and handmade books. Jamie Lausch Vander Broek, Librarian for Art & Design, will moderate.

A reception featuring Cuban pastelitos de guayaba and live music will follow with examples from Estévez’s prolific and boundary-breaking career on display.

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This event is part of the ARTS & RESISTANCE Fall 2023 LSA Theme Semester. Learn more: https://umma.umich.edu/exhibitions/2023/arts-resistance-fall-2023-theme-semester
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Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and U-M Library.
Co-sponsors include: Center for World Performance Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of American Culture, and Latina/o Studies

Tours:Coral Reef Tank Visit
2023-12-01 12:30 - 13:00 | Museum of Natural History
Wednesdays and Fridays at 12:30 p.m.
No tours December 27 or 29

Join Professor Jim Bardwell for a peek behind the scenes at his large coral reef tank featuring many species of coral, anemone, and fish. Explore reef ecology and, if you're lucky, get a glimpse of a reclusive octopus! 30 minutes, limit 12 people. This program takes place in the research area of the Biological Sciences Building and is appropriate for ages 6 and up.

Space is available first come, first served. Sign up and meet at the Welcome desk.

Presentation:Sky Tonight
2023-12-01 12:30 - 13:15, 2023-12-01 14:30 - 15:15, 2023-12-02 12:30 - 13:15, 2023-12-02 14:30 - 15:15, 2023-12-03 12:30 - 13:15, 2023-12-03 14:30 - 15:15 | Museum of Natural History
A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions on your own with the North Star, current and upcoming constellations, visible planets, a few deep sky objects depending on the season, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for, this is the show for you.

The state-of-the-art Planetarium & Dome Theater at the U-M Museum of Natural History transports visitors beyond distant stars and back in time from the comfort of reclining seats. Tickets $8. Tickets are available on the day of the show at the Museum Store.

Workshop / Seminar:GCC: UK - Literary Monsters Program Info Session
2023-12-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Find out more information about the Global Course Connections (GCC) program in London, UK. This program is offered by the Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) and runs in Spring 2024 with an on-campus component for the Winter 2024 semester. Literary MonstersMoving among the people and streets of London and studying the political and cultural power historically centered there, students will deepen their understanding of the cultural and geographic origins and histories of British literary monsters such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Mr. Hyde. The layered geography of the city itself, its neighborhoods and institutions and cemeteries, will become our classroom as well as an additional kind of course text, as we unpack the anxieties about foreignness, status, and marginalization that tales of monstrosity have documented and critiqued.

Presentation:LSA/Engineering Multiple Dependent Degree Program (MDDP) Info Session
2023-12-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/4193919019
Are you interested in a possible Dual Degree between the College of LSA and the College of Engineering?

If so, attend the Multiple Degree Dependent Program (MDDP) Information Session to find out more about the process of having a Dual Degree between LSA and COE, gauge your interest, and ask questions to our MDDP Team! This session is intended for current LSA or Engineering students interested in a second Bachelor’s Degree alongside their current degree program with these unique schools.

Lecture / Discussion:Speaking Freely: Lightning Talks & Roundtable Discussions facilitated by museum changemaker and social justice curator Monica O. Montgomery
2023-12-01 13:00 - 17:30 | Museum of Art - University of Michigan Museum of Art
Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQbDMYYn1ie7BmIbmMR2iJ9RUzsT8M5BN4PBb3A1etiug8wg/viewform.

Join us for an action packed afternoon of learning and exchange, highlighting the artists, people and projects advancing equity and bringing us closer to our shared humanity. Using the power of story to bring people together, we are inviting a cross section of artists, community members, descendant family members, curators, historians, activists, poets, and scholars to be "Free to Speak!" presenting lightning talks on a variety of powerful entry points connected to the Hear Me Now exhibition and its themes. Our afternoon will be guided by museum changemaker, social justice curator, and expert facilitator Monica O. Montgomery and also includes roundtable discussions among participants, summary segments to recap and synthesize important ideas, and a graphic notetaker creating vivid illustrations of all that is being shared.

The afternoon will feature three "lightning rounds" with the following featured speakers:

1:00pm - 2:15pm: Nandi Comer, Poet Laureate of Michigan Tonya Matthews, President & CEO, International African American Museum Wayne O’Bryant, storyteller, activist, and public speaker Yodit Mesfin Johnson, activist and poet

2:30pm - 3:45pm: Mary Elliott, Curator of American Slavery, NMAAHC James Claiborne, Senior Vice President of Exhibitions and Programs, The Wright Museum Beverly Willis, historian & storyteller from Washtenaw County

4:00pm - 5:30pm: With descendants of Old Edgefield potter David Drake: Pauline Baker, Wanda Holmes, and Fortune Carolina, Jr.

This program is part "Free To Speak! A Convening on Art, Slavery and Reconciliation", a 2-day celebration of Black creativity, agency, and memory. Inspired by UMMA’s presentation of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, 'Free to Speak' hopes to contribute to urgent national conversations about racial justice while exploring what it means to exhibit materials made by enslaved people in Southeast Michigan, especially in light of the region’s relationships to the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, the explosion of Black music and culture, and ongoing racial protest and liberation movements. Part storytelling, part scholarly deep dive, the discussions and diverse perspectives that emerge will offer new possibilities to inspire change in the arts and culture field. For the full convening schedule and to RSVP, click here.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Free to Speak is generously supported by the U-M Inclusive History Project, the U-M Arts Initiative Arts & Resistance Theme Semester Fund, the Americana Foundation, Michigan Humanities, the U-M Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the U-M Department of History.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman.

Performance:Jenna Moon, carillon
2023-12-01 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
SMTD doctoral alumna Jenna Moon performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics & The Social Sciences
2023-12-01 13:30 - 15:00 | Haven Hall - 5769 Prefunction
The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics & The Social Sciences (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research projects that use the comparative method to study the causes and effects of social, political and economic processes. We specifically welcome presenters, discussants, and participants from other social science fields to share their work with us. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Center for Emerging Democracies, and others. In other words: All are welcome.

Other:IPE Friday Free Passport Photos for Engineering Students
2023-12-01 13:30 - 15:30 | Chrysler Center - 245
Need a passport photo for a passport or visa application? International Programs in Engineering (IPE) has got you covered!

-Fall & Winter Semester Only
-Fridays 1:30-3:30pm at the IPE Office (245 Chrysler Center)
-No Appointment Needed
-Not During Exam Week or Holidays

This service is for CoE undergraduate and graduate students.
For best results, wear darker colored, solid (non patterned) shirt/top

Presentation:We Are Stars
2023-12-01 13:30 - 14:15, 2023-12-02 13:30 - 14:15, 2023-12-03 13:30 - 14:15 | Museum of Natural History
What are we made of? Where did it all come from? Explore the secrets of our cosmic chemistry and our explosive origins. Connect life on Earth to the evolution of the Universe by following the formation of hydrogen atoms to the synthesis of carbon, and the molecules for life.

The state-of-the-art Planetarium & Dome Theater at the U-M Museum of Natural History transports visitors beyond distant stars and back in time from the comfort of reclining seats. Tickets $8. Tickets are available on the day of the show at the Museum Store.

Presentation:Data-Efficient Robotic Manipulation of Deformable One-dimensional Objects with Unreliable Dynamics
2023-12-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Ford Robotics Building - 2300
This dissertation takes a step to increase the abilities of robots to manipulate deformable objects, like ropes and cables. I focus on two problems, our inability to accurately predict in all scenarios how a DOO will move or deform, and the cost of collecting training data in robotic manipulation. I present a system that can quickly learn to manipulation the DOO despite limited data and imperfect predictions, as well as plan grasps and regrasps when the robot gets stuck.

Chair: Dmitry Berenson
Meeting password: [REDACTED]

Workshop / Seminar:Political Theory Workshop
2023-12-01 14:00 - 15:30 | Haven Hall - 5670 (unless otherwise noted)
September 8 Welcome back, Fall 2023: gather with colleagues to catch up and meet our new theory students. Refreshments provided!

September 15 Matt McManus, “The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism: Oxymoron or the Real Deal?”
Comment: Andy Murphy

September 22 Guido Parietti, Michigan State: “Power and Political Realism”
(Walker Room, 5664 Haven Hall)

September 29 Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University: “The Sovereign's Wrath”
Comment: Maria Lovetere

October 6 Book party! Celebrating the publication of David Temin’s Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought (participants and format TBA)

October 13 No workshop: APT Conference weekend
October 20 No workshop: We encourage everyone to attend the Emerging
Scholars Conference happening that day!

October 27 Maria Lovetere, “Environmentalist Approaches to Geoengineering”

November 3 Charlotte Boucher, “Citizenship is as Citizenship Does”
Comment: Merisa Sahin

November 10 Erin Pineda, Smith College: Title TBA
Comment: Jess Hasper

November 17 NO WORKSHOP

November 24 NO WORKSHOP: THANKSGIVING BREAK

December 1 Amir Fleischmann, “The Sword and the Trowel: Workers Councils and the Rule of the Poor”

Questions? Contact the co-organizers, Annie Heffernan (akheff@umich.edu) or Andy Murphy (murphyan@umich.edu)

Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab
2023-12-01 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-04 15:30 - 16:30 | University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, University Career Center office, 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at Resume Lab is a great next step for you.

Get real-time, personalized support in a small group setting by checking out the Resume Lab.

We will discuss and educate you on…
- Design and format
- Writing a great bullet point
- Targeting your resume for specific internships/jobs

If you're a Graduate Student or Recent Grad, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates.

Social / Informal Gathering:Study Hall @ The DSI
2023-12-01 14:00 - 17:00 | Mason Hall - G325/G333
Join us for study hall at the Digital Studies office, located in Mason Hall, room G333/G325. No RSVP required. Snacks and drinks are provided!

Questions or accommodations? Email Sarah Torsch at dsi-studentservices@umich.edu.

Tours:The Origins of the Law Quadrangle: A Walking Tour
2023-12-01 14:30 - 16:30
Have you ever wondered about the history of the buildings that sit in the middle of campus that many associate with the Renaissance, east coast Ivy Leagues, or even Hogwarts?

This walking tour seeks to familiarize you not only with the illustrious, imposing architecture of the Law Quadrangle here at the University of Michigan but also with the historic presence of the Law School itself. Over the course of 1.5 hours, we will discuss the conception of the buildings themselves, the winding roads it took to get there, and the Law School’s many years of influence on social issues and legal education as we stroll through the Quad. Join us as we uncover stories and debunk myths about the distinctive University of Michigan Law Quadrangle.

The tour starts on the southeast corner of State St. and N University. Please dress weather appropriate.

Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar: Intriguing dynamics in a dense cell monolayer
2023-12-01 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 1084
In this talk, we consider an expansion of a dense monolayer of cells: a collective multicellular phenomenon, where cells divide, grow, and maintain contacts with their neighbors. During migration, cells display complex behavior, adjusting both their division rate and their growth after division to the local mechanical environment. Experimental observations show that cells near the edge of the expanding monolayer are larger and move faster than cells deep inside the colony. To explain these observations and describe cell migration patterns, we formulate a spatio-temporal theoretical model for multicellular dynamics in terms of the cell area distribution; the model includes cell growth after division and effective pressure. Numerical simulations of the model predict both the speed of invasion and the width of the outer proliferative rim; these predictions are in a good agreement with experimental observations. Theoretical analysis yields the equation for density of cells and reveals a novel type of propagating front with compact support. The velocity of front propagation (monolayer expansion) is obtained analytically and its dependence on all the relevant parameters is determined.

Lecture / Discussion:Department Colloquium
2023-12-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Mason Hall - 2306
Title: Perception as a relationship
Abstract: Perception is harder than it looks. To perceive is to enter into relationships with the things we see. Indeed, for reasons that I will try to articulate, it is to enter into something like a loving relationship with them. The love-like character of perceiving has been been by-and-large ignored by philosophers and cognitive scientists, but acknowledging it allows for new insight into some of the hardest problems about perception that there are. In this talk I will focus on one class of these having to do with perceptual indeterminacy. This talk, which is work in progress, is part of a larger project to explore the ways in which “ordinary” perception is ethically and aesthetically demanding. I draw on ideas from earlier work on perception (e.g. Action in Perception, MIT, 2004 and Varieties of Presence, HUP, 2012), as well as on my newest book The Entanglement (published this past summer by Princeton). I hope this talk will be of interest to students and colleagues working in a wide array of different philosophical areas as well as to scholars in different fields.

Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | On entropy growth in perturbative scattering
2023-12-01 15:00 - 16:00 | West Hall - 335
Inspired by the second law of thermodynamics, we study the change in subsystem entropy generated by dynamical unitary evolution of a product state in a bipartite system. Working at leading order in perturbative interactions, we prove that the quantum n-Tsallis entropy of a subsystem never decreases, provided that subsystem is initialized as a statistical mixture of states of equal probability. This is true for any choice of interactions and any initialization of the complementary subsystem. When this condition on the initial state is violated, it is always possible to explicitly construct a "Maxwell's demon'' process that decreases the subsystem entropy. Remarkably, for the case of particle scattering, the circuit diagrams corresponding to n-Tsallis entropy are the same as the on-shell diagrams that have appeared in the modern scattering amplitudes program, and the entropy growth is intimately related to the nonnegativity of cross-sections.

Workshop / Seminar:Singularities of Hypersurfaces
2023-12-01 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 2866
It is not hard to appreciate the beauty of singularities when you see their pictures. In this talk, we will describe important invariants of isolated hypersurface singularities, notably the mixed Hodge structure of the Milnor fiber and its corresponding spectrum, with an application to bounding the number of ordinary double points on projective hypersurfaces of fixed dimension and degree.

Workshop / Seminar:Stamps Minor Information Session
2023-12-01 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Make creative problem solving, hands-on making, and visual communication a part of your education. The Stamps Minor in Art & Design is for students interested in design thinking, visual composition, working collaboratively, critical thinking and analysis, and gaining skills with tools and techniques relevant to a wide range of material processes.

This one-hour virtual information session is the first step in declaring a Minor in Art & Design. You'll talk with the Stamps Minor Advisor and find out if the Minor in Art & Design is right for you. All Fall 2023 Minor info sessions will be held as Zoom meetings online: please register to receive your invitation. For more information, contact stamps-minor-advising@umich.edu

Stamps is committed to making events accessible to all attendees. This event will take place online using the Zoom platform, and automated captions will be available. If you anticipate needing any additional accommodations to participate, please email stamps-minor-advising@umich.edu at least one week in advance of the scheduled event so we can arrange for your accommodation or an effective alternative. After receiving your request, we will follow up with you directly.

Workshop / Seminar:Study Abroad Info Sessions: CGIS Spanish 230 and Spanish 232 Program Offerings
2023-12-01 15:00 - 16:00
Join CGIS Advisor Juliana Mesa to learn more about the Spanish 230 and Spanish 232 program offerings.
CGIS: Spanish 230 in Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCGIS: Spanish 230 in Granada, SpainCGIS: Spanish 230 in San José, Costa RicaCGIS: Spanish 232 and Intercultural Development in Alicante, Spain
DATES:Friday, November 17, 3-4 pm (Info Session(Friday, December 1, 3-4 pm (Info Session)Note: CGIS Spring/Summer 2024 applications open in October, 2023 and close on January 15, 2024.

Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Workshop in Race, Ethnicity and Politics
2023-12-01 15:30 - 17:00 | Haven Hall - 5769 Prefunction
Racial and ethnic identities play a key role in shaping behaviors, attitudes, institutions and social structures. As such, scholars across disciplines have been devoted to investigating how race and ethnicity feature in every aspect of social and political life. The purpose of I-REP (Interdisciplinary Workshop in Race, Ethnicity and Politics) is to provide a space for scholars whose research centers race, ethnicity and politics across a number of fields to receive critical feedback on the early stages of their work (especially graduate students), build community with other researchers who share similar interests and offer an opportunity for participants to collaborate on a joint research project within the working group.

Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture - Dr. Lucas Weaver, Kent State University
2023-12-01 15:30 - 16:30 | 1100 North University Building - 1528
Mammals are among the most dynamic constituents of modern terrestrial ecosystems, and their rise to ecological prominence has long been attributed to the demise of non-avian dinosaurs during the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event. Over the last 20+ years, however, it has become apparent that mammals began diversifying much earlier, in the Mesozoic, and the major lineages that characterize mammalian faunas in the aftermath of the K-Pg mass extinction began their ecological ascendency beginning in the Cretaceous. Nonetheless, because placental mammals are the most abundant and diverse extant mammals, there is a still an assumption that they must have evolved key behavioral and life-history traits that allowed them to diversify up to the present day (the ‘placental-mammal paradigm’). Further, the earlier adaptive radiation of mammals in the Cretaceous has been nearly universally ascribed to the rise of angiosperms (flowering plants), with mammals simply tracking the emerging ecospaces new plant groups facilitated (the ‘Cretaceous-angiosperm paradigm’). In this talk, I challenge the ‘placental-mammal’ and ‘Cretaceous-angiosperm’ paradigms.

My first vignette will highlight my research on multituberculate mammals, demonstrating how this oft-considered ‘archaic’ lineage shows evidence of being as behaviorally and reproductively ‘advanced’ as extant small-bodied placental mammals. My second vignette will highlight recent work exploring the role that tectonism may have played in stimulating the Cretaceous diversification of mammals and other terrestrial lineages. I will then outline ongoing field-based projects and new results that aim to test, and lend support to, that hypothesis. Collectively, these projects underscore a need for challenging expectations in the realm of early mammalian paleontology, building upon first principles, and re-focusing our attention on field- and specimen-based science.

Workshop / Seminar:GEOM SEMINAR: On Measures Invariant under Horospherical Subgroups in Rank One Lie Groups
2023-12-01 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 3866
Given a positive Laplace eigenfunction on a hyperbolic manifold, there exists a horospherically invariant measure corresponding to it, known as the Burger-Roblin measure. A question attributed to Babillot concerns whether every horospherically invariant measure arises from such a correspondence. In this talk, I will survey previous works where affirmative answers to this question were found and present a new result extending it to a broad class of subgroups in rank one Lie groups. This is joint work with Or Landesberg, Elon Lindenstrauss, and Hee Oh.

Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquium
2023-12-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Michigan League - Henderson
Demet Kayabaşı
PhD Candidate - Department of Linguistics

Title: Emphatic Markers & Encoding of Event Participants
in the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Abstract: Anaphoric items like “myself” are widely studied in relation to dependency phenomena like reflexivity (e.g. “I hurt myself.”). Reflexives interact with the argument structure and can saturate A-positions across languages (Faltz 2016, Büring 2005). However, it is also cross-linguistic common for the same anaphors in some languages also mark a relation that does not alter the argument structure while still maintaining a co-referential relationship with an argument (Dechaume & Wiltschko 2017 i.a.), also known as an emphatic marker (e.g. “I tied my shoelaces myself.”). Using data from both spoken and signed languages, this talk presents an analysis of both the event and information structural role of anaphors, and why the functions go together.

Yu-Chuan Lucy Chiang
PhD Candidate - Department of Linguistics

Title: Acquisition of light verb syntax by Mandarin Bilinguals

Abstract: This talk discusses the acquisition of the syntax of so-called light verb constructions in Mandarin by adult English-Mandarin heritage bilinguals and adult L2 Mandarinspeakers. Light verbs contribute limited semantic content in the verb phrases they form with dependent nouns in Mandarin (Huang 2015; Lin 2014). Questions arise as to how the verb phrase da dianhua ‘(tele)phone/call (someone)’ can be formed in parallel to the lexical meaning ‘hit (the) telephone’. Some syntactic structures can be used to distinguish the two meanings, such as passives and topicalization. Since these structures involve complex syntax and semantics properties, the acquisition of light verbs raises some interesting questions about bilinguals. An online acceptability judgment experiment via PCIbex was conducted to address such questions. Based on the results, Mandarin-English bilinguals’ judgments on light verbs showed distinct patterns, suggesting that the grammar of Mandarin light verbs differs among the three groups of speakers.

This event will be hybrid, as well as zoom https://umich.zoom.us/j/91857099548.

Workshop / Seminar:Michigan Lectures in Algebraic Geometry: New perspectives on the topology of algebraic maps III
2023-12-01 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 4096

Workshop / Seminar:NERS Colloquium: Heuristic vs Theoretically Complete Sources of Uncertainty
2023-12-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Cooley Building - White Auditorium (G906)
Abstract: A predictive science requires advanced mathematical and computational tools that explain how uncertainties, ubiquitous in all modeling and simulation efforts, affect our predictions and understanding of complex phenomena. This remains to be a fundamental difficulty in most modeling and simulation applications. There are many uncertainty classification systems which occur in modeling and simulation, most practical uncertainty frameworks are discipline-specific or model-specific. These classification systems define categories of uncertainties which need to be considered for a specific model or application. Such uncertainty frameworks cannot be proved to be complete, and certainly are not universal. To develop a complete set of errors associated with modeling and simulation, it is necessary to define every error that could affect the accuracy of computational model’s prediction of a real-world system regardless of the model, discipline, or application, i.e., a theoretically complete set of errors. The presentation will show three main types of uncertainty frameworks, including a theoretically complete set of errors that, if accounted for, would result in the correct prediction of reality. The presented theoretically complete set of errors is a set of thirteen distinct difference terms, which are closely related to current practices in verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification. It can be easily shown that these thirteen errors represent a theoretically complete set of errors.

Dr. Tomasz Kozlowski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Kozlowski received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Purdue University in 2005, where he worked on spatial homogenization methods for transport calculations, PARCS code development, and multi-physics RELAP5/PARCS and TRACE/PARCS coupling. Later, he worked at the Division of Nuclear Power Safety at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, where he taught numerical methods and conducted researcher on BWR stability, BWR safety analysis, and multi-physics coupling methods. At the University of Illinois, he worked on a variety of topics related to code validation, uncertainty quantification, Bayesian statistics, and LWR, MSR, HTGR reactor analysis.

Reception / Open House:Untold Stories, Part I: Exhibition Walkthrough with the Artists
2023-12-01 16:30 - 17:30 | Off Campus Location
Join us for an exhibition walkthrough of Untold Stories, Part I with Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang and learn about the research and ideas that inform their artwork and practices.
Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I: 2023 Stamps Faculty Exhibition is on view at Stamps Gallery from September 15-December 9, 2023.

Social / Informal Gathering:Kaffeestunde im Max Kade Haus
2023-12-01 17:00 - 18:00 | North Quad - Edward Said Lounge (2450 NQ)
Kaffeestunde is a weekly opportunity to mingle and unwind "auf Deutsch". It is a place to connect with other Max Kade residents, chat informally in German and participate in activities prepared by facilitators. The Kaffeestunde is open to the wider German-speaking community at UofM.

Kaffeestunde meets weekly on Fridays from 5-6pm in the Edward Said Lounge (2450 NQ)

Performance:Jenna Youness, jazz
2023-12-01 17:30 - 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Undergraduate student Jenna Youness performs a recital.

Lecture / Discussion:A Poet Speaks: Closing reception with words from poet Nikky Finney
2023-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art - University of Michigan Museum of Art
Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQbDMYYn1ie7BmIbmMR2iJ9RUzsT8M5BN4PBb3A1etiug8wg/viewform.

Join us for the culmination "Free To Speak! A Convening on Art, Slavery and Reconciliation", a celebration of Black creativity, agency, and memory inspired by the exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina. The evening will feature National Book award winning poet Nikky Finney and a chance to chat with the curators of Hear Me Now in the galleries. Refreshments provided.

Nikky Finney has spent her career illuminating the Southern cultural and political heritage of Black people in ways that resonate throughout the country and world. Her ongoing legacy of poignant expression, indomitable truth, and devotion to social justice has enriched the country and world. In her career of more than 30 years, Finney has written six books and hundreds of poems and essays that explore and confront the experiences that have shaped life in the South for herself and countless other African Americans. Her most recent book, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry (Northwestern University Press, 2020) is an enduring love song to her father and 400 years of African American fight and ingenuity. Finney is Carolina Distinguished Professor at USC in Columbia where she is also Director of the Ernest A. Finney Jr. Cultural Arts Center, a 21st century arts and cultural center named for her father, an exciting endeavor deeply planted in the twin soils of creativity and Black cultural expression.

This program is part "Free To Speak! A Convening on Art, Slavery and Reconciliation", a 2-day celebration of Black creativity, agency, and memory. Inspired by UMMA’s presentation of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, 'Free to Speak' hopes to contribute to urgent national conversations about racial justice while exploring what it means to exhibit materials made by enslaved people in Southeast Michigan, especially in light of the region’s relationships to the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, the explosion of Black music and culture, and ongoing racial protest and liberation movements. Part storytelling, part scholarly deep dive, the discussions and diverse perspectives that emerge will offer new possibilities to inspire change in the arts and culture field. To see the full schedule and to RSVP, click here.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Free to Speak is generously supported by the U-M Inclusive History Project, the Arts Inititaive Arts & Resistance Theme Semester Fund, the Americana Foundation, and Michigan Humanities.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman.

Workshop / Seminar:F.A.M Fridays 🥙 🎨 🎵
2023-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Trotter Multicultural Center - Sankofa Lounge
FAM Fridays is a series that will celebrate culture through Food, Art, & Music on one Friday of each month. We will explore the different foods our campus community and larger Ann Arbor community has to offer. The series will also showcase student creativity through art and music. This series is meant to amplify students from marginalized communities and build community through programming.

Lecture / Discussion:Michigan Quantum Technology Club (QuantUM)
2023-12-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Michigan Union - Pond Room
Prof. Zheshen Zhang is the first invited speaker to the speaker series hosted by QuantUM, the new undergraduate Michigan Quantum Technology Club. Prof. Zhang's research encompasses both the theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum information science, aiming to enable new sensing, data processing, communication, and networking capabilities. The event is open to anyone interested in learning more about quantum information science, and will feature a presentation by Prof. Zhang followed by a Q&A session for students to ask about the presentation, Prof. Zhang's research, and the field as a whole.

Recreational / Games:Winter Wellness-Land
2023-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Mason Hall - 3448 Mason Hall
Join us for DORAK’s annual Winter Wellness-Land event for a much needed study break. Destress, relax and watch all your worries melt away as you get a chance to chill with the kindest club on campus ❄️

We have games; we have care packages; we have your favorite Christmas music and best of all… everybody is welcome! So treat yourself to some well deserved rest and walk right into this winter wellness-land :) There will be free goodies, hot chocolate, and food!

Performance:Attempts on Her Life
2023-12-01 19:00 | GA - Mendelssohn
Come celebrate Rude Mechanicals' 27th annual season with Attempts on Her Life, written by Martin Crimp and directed by Tiara Partsch. A fast-paced, vibrant and thrilling nonlinear script, Attempts on Her Life unfurls in 17 wildly different scenarios: an ensemble of actors find themselves attempting to define the life of a mysterious figure named Anne, whose various identities and narratives always seem to elude them. The play embraces a meta-physical, absurdist approach as we find ourselves navigating a provocative, lyrical and dangerous prose: Crimp’s world is ominous, and this play puts forth the complexities of our contemporary world– blurring the lines between reality and performance art, the play asks that we reconsider the very ways we think of personal and collective narrative in a world that feels like it’s about to blow.

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4397/4398 for more detail.

Presentation:Creative Writing Program Honors Thesis Reading
2023-12-01 19:00 - 20:30 | East Quadrangle - Abeng Multicultural Lounge
Please join us for an evening of readings from this term's honors thesis graduates. Featured presenters are Esther Launstein and Oscar Nollette-Patulski.
Free and open to the public. Light refreshments served.

Workshop / Seminar:Free Improv Comedy Show
2023-12-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Angell Hall Auditorium B

Performance:Free Improv Comedy Show: Midnight Book Club
2023-12-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Angell Hall - Auditorium B
Midnight Book Club Presents our final show of this semester. Grandma Got Run Over By A Bigger Grandma! Come for a fun and FREE night of laughs. Bring hot chocolate. Bring your friends. Don't bring your grandma! Angell Hall Auditorium B, 7pm.

Social / Informal Gathering:Friday Night Vespers
2023-12-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Various homes near/on campus. Reach out on IG for details!
Take a pause from the academic rigors and intensity of the week and join us every Friday evening for worship, community, Bible study, and home-cooked food! Because we believe meaningful rest is vital to a meaningful life, we come together every Sabbath to celebrate rest, re-center on what's important, and be mindful of our purpose, beautifully designed by our Creator.

Performance:Midnight Madness
2023-12-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Connor O'Neils Irish Pub - 318 S Main St, Ann Arbor
Enjoy a performance from Léim Irish Dance during Ann Arbor's annual Midnight Madness Event. We will be dancing outside of Connor O'Neils Irish Pub (318 S Main St, Ann Arbor) between 7pm-9pm. Performances are free to watch and we will be dancing regularly throughout the 2 hour time block. Don't forget to check out discounts from downtown businesses afterwards!!

Social / Informal Gathering:Night at the Museum for U-M Students
2023-12-01 19:00 - 22:00 | Museum of Natural History
Take a study break and have a relaxing night at the museum. Try out some dinosaur yoga in the galleries, see a planetarium show or explore the galleries. Test your knowledge with science trivia or complete a museum scavenger hunt and spin to win a prize! Refreshments will be provided.

Free to attend. Must present valid Mcard.

Performance:Not A Christmas Special
2023-12-01 19:00 - 20:20 | Modern Languages Building - Lecture Hall 1
Join Amateur Hour for our final show of the semester, which is not at all, in any sense, not even remotely A Christmas Special. Do not wear holiday sweaters. Do not expect any yuletide cheer. We are not about that.

Workshop / Seminar:NSBP Willie Hobbs Moore Sci-Fi Movie Night
2023-12-01 19:00 - 21:00
Join the Willie Hobbs Moore chapter for a cozy old school sci-fi movie in West 340. Get cozy with food, hot chocolate, and other snacks that will be prepared for the movie!

Film Screening:Friday Night Films
2023-12-01 19:30 - 21:00
The Digital Media Common’s CCA Gallery student staff are partnering with the Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) crew to present films from the AAFF archive. Monthly themes correspond with art exhibits in the CCA Gallery. Screenings will begin at 7:30 pm in Design Lab 2 at the Duderstadt Center.

October 20: Scary Movie Night

November 10: Respond, Resist, Rethink

December 1: Animation Night

Performance:Adam Plomaritas
2023-12-01 20:00 | ARK Reserved
A rising voice from Ypsilanti

Adam Plomaritas effortlessly arrives at the seamless intersection of sophisticated rock, country, and soul. The Ypsilanti, Michigan–based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist intricately fuses a warm, bluesy trinity of sound across his thoughtful, intimate catalog. With hints of Michael McDonald, Amos Lee, and Ray Charles, Adam wraps listeners in a soothing, genre-defying embrace. His emotive vocals, hypnotic instrumentation, and introspective tales provide a comforting reassurance about overcoming challenges in life and love. Adam draws on the words of John Coltrane to describe his own art: "My music is the spiritual expression of what I am – My faith, my knowledge, my being .. When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups .. I want to speak to their souls."

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4360/4361 for more detail.

Performance:ComCo Presents: Ikea Snowman
2023-12-01 20:00 - 21:30 | Modern Languages Building - Auditorium Four
Come see the Comedy Company, the oldest improv comedy troupe at the University of Michigan. We perform a mix of short form and long form improv which means lots of laughs and giggles and goofs.

The show is just under an hour and a half and jam-packed with fun from start to finish. Bring your friends!

Performance:Contemporary Directions Ensemble
2023-12-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Conductor Jayce Ogren

Acclaimed, Detroit-based composer and vocalist Shara Nova joins the Contemporary Directions Ensemble as part of her William Bolcom Residency in Composition. She will be the featured vocalist in *The Blue Hour*, a 70 minute collaborative work by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Angelica Négron, Shara Nova, Rachel Grimes, Caroline Shaw and Shara Nova herself.

This ensemble, composed exclusively of graduate music students, performs contemporary classical music in a variety of instrumentations, from solo works to chamber orchestra. The CDE frequently commissions and performs new works and hosts renowned guest artists and composer residencies.

The CDE artistic advisor is SMTD composition professor Roshanne Etezady.

Preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh0I2aJWBRE

Performance:Natasha, Pierre
2023-12-01 20:00 | Arthur Miller
Presented by In the Round Productions.
Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4472/4473 for more detail.

Lecture / Discussion:Seeing in Depth: A Trip Through the Solar System
2023-12-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Detroit Observatory
The Detroit Observatory was born in the prime of solar system discovery. The 19th century witnessed the discovery of Neptune, multiple moons around other planets, asteroids by the hundreds, dozens of brilliant comets, and more! Join us December 1st for a series of presentations by DO Staff on our favorite solar system objects!

This program includes tours of the observatory and telescope observing of Jupiter, Saturn, and other seasonal celestial objects, weather permitting. Experience the history of astronomy at the Detroit Observatory!

Workshop / Seminar:Center For Campus Involvment: UMixTape
2023-12-01 21:00 - 23:59 | Michigan UnionIt's a music-themed late night! If you have any interest in music whether it be playing it or listening to it, stop by! There will be games, live music, food, crafts, and neon music trivia!
It's a music-themed late night! If you have any interest in music whether it be playing it or listening to it, stop by! There will be games, live music, food, crafts, and neon music trivia!

Social / Informal Gathering:UMixTape
2023-12-01 21:00 - 23:59 | Pierpont Commons

Other:Hawks Invite
2023-12-02 06:00 - 16:30 | Henry Ford College
In this tournament, the club is heading down to Henry Ford College for another great day of wrestling!

Presentation:Saturday Morning Physics | The Formation of Planetary Systems
2023-12-02 10:30 - 11:30 | Weiser Hall - 170 & 182
The past two decades have witnessed the discovery of over 5,000 planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. This talk will provide an overview of these alien worlds and the types of planetary systems that they live within. Such planetary systems display an enormous variety, but they also have a number of universal features. Although the mechanisms that form these planets remain under study, this talk will present a progress report on our current understanding of the physical processes involved.

The event will be in-person and also live-streamed on YouTube: https://myumi.ch/VM4nZ

We celebrate the Pulikeshi Dayalu Astrophysics Fund on this date!

Other:Museum Store Holiday Sale
2023-12-02 11:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Natural History
Looking for the perfect gifts for science-lovers, dinosaur-enthusiasts, and students of natural history? Look no further than the UMMNH Museum Store Holiday Sale. One day only! 30% off on all merchandise. Free gift wrapping.

Other:Scientist Spotlight
2023-12-02 11:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Natural History
Only for the curious! Visit with University of Michigan scientists from a variety of fields and participate in engaging, hands-on activities to learn about their cutting-edge research. These researchers are part of the U-M Museum of Natural History’s Science Communication Fellows program, bringing scientists and the public face-to-face.

Free and open to the public.
Suitable for upper elementary through adult visitors.
Made possible with support from the National Science Foundation.

Workshop / Seminar:IPE Pre Departure Orientation Winter 2024
2023-12-02 12:45 - 17:00 | Chrysler Center 220 (Chesebrough Auditorium)
Pre Departure Orientation for all students going on an IPE program for Winter Term 2024

Exercise / Fitness:Hisuian Samurott Raid Day
2023-12-02 14:00 - 17:00 | In the DIAG
Ready Up! Come out to face Hisuian Samurott in raids with Pokemon GO UMich!

Performance:Natasha, Pierre
2023-12-02 14:00 | Arthur Miller
Presented by In the Round Productions.
Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4472/4474 for more detail.

Other:Read and Look | The Ancient World in 100 Words
2023-12-02 14:00 - 15:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
What were pyramids used for? How did the Romans fight battles? Which Greek inventions are still used today?

During our December “Read and Look” program, we will explore concepts from the ancient Mediterranean covered in *The Ancient World in 100 Worlds*, written by Clive Gifford with illustrations by Gosia Herba. Come join us at this family-friendly event as we find artifacts in the Kelsey Museum’s galleries that coincide with the peoples, objects, and ideas highlighted in the book. We will also have replica artifacts on hand for kids to touch!

The Kelsey’s “Read and Look” program is great for our younger visitors, ages 4–8. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

This event is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Performance:Gabriel Condon, jazz guitar
2023-12-02 15:00 - 16:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Graduate student Gabriel Condon performs a first dissertational recital. Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Musical Arts.

Performance:Katherine Moran, viola
2023-12-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Graduate student Katherine Moran performs a recital.

Performance:Non-Majors Dance Class Showing
2023-12-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre
Come cheer on your friends at this exciting event, which showcases U-M students who have taken classes in the Department of Dance taught by our graduate students. This showing will include the following:

Modern Dance, with Ginny Jiang; Improvisation, with Scott Crandall; Contemporary Dance, with Tim Tsang; Intro to Krump, with Kiana Cook; and Bollywood, with Sreya Muthukumar.

Performance:Chamber Music Department Recital
2023-12-02 17:30 - 19:00, 2023-12-02 20:00 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Chamber Music Department recitals feature student ensembles from across the department — piano, strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion — performing music written in the western European classical tradition from the 1700s to today.

Performance:Hayoung Jung, voice
2023-12-02 17:30 - 18:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Graduate student Hayoung Jung performs a dissertation recital.

Performance:Sarah Wallace, voice
2023-12-02 17:30 - 18:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall
Undergraduate student Sarah Wallace performs a recital.

Performance:José Martí Open Mic
2023-12-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Rackham Graduate Building
The José Martí Open Mic is an event honoring activist José Martí a Cuban poet, essayist, journalist, and revolutionary philosopher, considered a key figure in Latin American literature. He played a significant role in the movement for Cuban independence from Spain and is revered as a national hero in Cuba. He used his art as a vessel to express his opinion and we are encouraging YOU to share your voice too! The stakes are low! Share your favorite quote from a book and explain what it means to you, talk about your favorite movie, and share your favorite song. You do not need to be scripted, allow yourself to streamline your thoughts about current events happening in the world. The space is yours! We are looking for Writers, Musicians, Vocalists, Actors, Dancers, and Visual Artists to present existing or original artworks. Selected artists will perform in front of a live audience! Performers of all skill levels are welcome!
The deadline to sign up to perform is December 2nd at 11:59 p.m. Link: https://forms.gle/NJSkPrNHn4xFRFWK7

Social / Informal Gathering:2023 ART AUCTION
2023-12-02 18:30 - 21:00 | Michigan Union - Courtyard
The Prison Creative Arts Project is excited to invite you to our 2023 Art Auction on Saturday, December 2nd at the Michigan Union Courtyard in Ann Arbor (530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109).

Doors open at 6:30 pm.

This important event will also help us fundraise for the coming year's *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* - providing financial support at a critical time in our growth, enabling us the bring the artwork of artists into the public realm in order to humanize people in prison, break stereotypes, and create dialogue about mass incarceration.

RSVP (https://umich.ejoinme.org/pcap2023artauction) for a night of fun, community, food, and entertainment!

In true PCAP fashion, the 2023 Art Auction is free and open to the public. We welcome all people who wish to join into our community! As a fundraising event, we are offering the optional opportunity to contribute by covering the cost of your meal, plus the additional option to cover somebody else's.

6:30 Reception & Silent Auction
7:30 Program & Live Auction

Space is limited. Get your tickets now! (https://umich.ejoinme.org/pcap2023artauctiontickets)

Set an alarm! The silent auction will begin online on Thursday, November 30th at 7:00pm (https://pcap2023artauction.ggo.bid/)

The silent auction will be BOTH in-person & virtual. The LIVE auction will be in-person ONLY.

We will be utilizing mobile-bidding, so have your smartphone handy & charged.
No smartphone? No problem! Assistance will be available at the event and desktops can also be used for online participants.

Want to skip the line? Pre-register ahead of time: (https://umich.ejoinme.org/pcap2023artauction)

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

Performance:Attempts on Her Life
2023-12-02 19:00 | GA - Mendelssohn
Come celebrate Rude Mechanicals' 27th annual season with Attempts on Her Life, written by Martin Crimp and directed by Tiara Partsch. A fast-paced, vibrant and thrilling nonlinear script, Attempts on Her Life unfurls in 17 wildly different scenarios: an ensemble of actors find themselves attempting to define the life of a mysterious figure named Anne, whose various identities and narratives always seem to elude them. The play embraces a meta-physical, absurdist approach as we find ourselves navigating a provocative, lyrical and dangerous prose: Crimp’s world is ominous, and this play puts forth the complexities of our contemporary world– blurring the lines between reality and performance art, the play asks that we reconsider the very ways we think of personal and collective narrative in a world that feels like it’s about to blow.

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4397/4399 for more detail.

Workshop / Seminar:Center For Campus Involvment: Watch Party @ the Union
2023-12-02 19:00 - 23:00 | Willis Ward, South Lounge, Kuenzel
Join us in the Michigan Union to cheer on the Michigan Wolverines against the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Big10 Championship. Food will be provided!

Exercise / Fitness:Let it Swing! Winter Dance 2023
2023-12-02 19:00 - 2023-12-03 01:00 | Concourse Hall
WHAT: An evening of social dancing and live music! Help us celebrate the end of 2023 with friends, music, and, of course, dance! This year will feature tunes from KissMe crowd favorite, The River Skippers! SCHEDULE:7-7:50pm: FREE beginner lesson8-11pm: Evening dance with live music from the The River Skippers
11-11:30pm: Evening dance with DJ-ed swing music11:30pm-1am: Late night blues with DJ-ed music
WHERE: Concourse Hall, Ann Arbor, MI ADMISSION:General admission: $25 SAA/AACTMAD members + student admission: $20 Front desk volunteer admission: $10
COVID PROTOCOL: Masks welcome, Covid vaccination suggested This event is made possible by Swing Ann Arbor, Friday Night Swing, and Riverside Swings

Sporting Event:B1G Championship Watch Party
2023-12-02 19:30 - 23:00 | Michigan Union

Performance:Handel's Messiah
2023-12-02 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-12-03 14:00 - 15:30 | Hill Auditorium
Handel composed his oratorio Messiah over the course of a single month in 1741, six months before its triumphant premiere at a new concert hall in Dublin. Nearly 300 years later, Handel’s Messiah fills Hill Auditorium with its ravishing beauty brought to life by friends and colleagues from the community. Music director Scott Hanoian conducts the UMS Choral Union and the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra in this annual holiday tradition.

Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Scott Hanoian, conductor

Rachele Gilmore, soprano
Gina Perregrino, alto
Paul Appleby, tenor
Nicholas Newton, bass-baritone

Performance:The Bucket List
2023-12-02 19:30 | GA -Michigan Theater
Groove is a comedic, high energy, non-traditional percussion and performance group. We (usually) have one goal: to rock the masses. To achieve it, we drum on anything and make music out of everything!

But recently, we’ve decided that maybe we should expand our goals beyond rocking the masses. Beyond the music, beyond the fortune and fame that comes with rock-star status, and even beyond rock hard, tasty abs, washer-board style.

Life is short, the world is wide, drums are loud, and Groove needs to start thinking about bigger and better things before we “kick the bucket”. And that’s why Groove Presents: The Bucket List.

Our bucket list items include, but are not limited to: skydiving, learning to play the kazoo, seeing the northern lights, reminiscing about songs that played on grandma’s radio, swimming with sharks, and redirecting our musical efforts into becoming a Meghan Trainor cover band.

Add this semester’s show to YOUR bucket list. You won’t want to miss it.

Follow us for more! @umgroove

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4479/4481 for more detail.

Performance:Daniel Severtson, oboe
2023-12-02 20:00 - 21:00 | Stearns Building
Undergraduate student Daniel Severtson performs a recital.

Performance:Electronic Chamber Music - Protest & Resistance
2023-12-02 20:00 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Chip Davis Technology Studio
Interdisciplinary student ensembles present performances of original works with live electronics on the theme of Protest & Resistance.

Michael Gurevich, director

Performance:Maria Savarese, cello
2023-12-02 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Graduate student Maria Savarese performs a recital.

Performance:Natasha, Pierre
2023-12-02 20:00 | Arthur Miller
Presented by In the Round Productions.
Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4472/4475 for more detail.

Performance:The Empty Pockets
2023-12-02 20:00 | ARK Reserved
“Getting all the more creative with their sound”—Pulse

The Empty Pockets ignite a bright flame by harnessing a joyful friction between Americana, folk, and rock ’n’ roll spiked with roots soul. The Chicago quartet—Josh Solomon (guitar, vocals), Erika Brett (keyboards, vocals), Nate Bellon(bass, vocals), and Adam Balasco (drums)—lean on an
unspoken, yet airtight musical dialogue honed by countless miles on the road, performances alongside the likes of Kenny Loggins, a procession of fan favorite releases (including a #1 debut), and a wealth of memories together. They come to Michigan with a new release, “Gotta Find the Moon.”

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4259/4260 for more detail.

Workshop / Seminar:Renew, Replenish, Restore: Yoga Series
2023-12-03 10:00 - 11:15 | Trotter Multicultural Center - Multipurpose Rooms 2 + 3

Presentation:Discovery Demo: All About Owls
2023-12-03 11:00 - 11:15 | Museum of Natural History
Join us in the Science Forum for a 15-20 minute engaging science demonstration that will help you see the world in a whole new way. Demonstrations are free and appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above. Schedule subject to change.

Explore the unseen lives of owls in this hands-on demonstration. Together, we will use museum specimens to learn about some of owls’ unique adaptations, like big eyes, specialized ears, quiet wings, and sharp claws. What do these adaptations tell us about how owls eat? How are these modern raptors related to dinosaurs? Find out what an owl pellet is (Hint: it's not poop!) and dissect a real owl pellet to learn about the owl's diet. Come and discover the role of these birds of prey in the food chain!

Other:National Portfolio Day - Online
2023-12-03 12:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
Explore the nation’s best colleges of art and design and meet with Stamps Undergraduate Admissions representatives, who can provide informal portfolio reviews, discuss our unique curriculum, and answer questions about professional careers in art. Showing your work early can help you acquire important information about organizing and presenting your portfolio for future admission consideration. High school students, parents, teachers, guidance counselors, and college transfer students are encouraged to attend. All National Portfolio Day events are free and open to the public.

Social / Informal Gathering:Study Days at Thayer
2023-12-03 12:00 - 20:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Lobby & third floor study area
Feeling bored with your go-to study spots? Well, there’s no gatekeeping at the Institute for the Humanities. Come over to the Thayer Academic Building (across from MLB), where we are hosting Study Days at Thayer! The Institute for the Humanities' Public Humanities Interns will transform the space into a cozy, productive space to grind it out before final exams. We’ll provide the coffee, tea, and snacks, so all you need to do is bring over your books, laptops, and friends! But wait! There’s more…There will be a decompression room, a quiet study area, a social study area, and the gallery will be open.

Workshop / Seminar:Polar Ice: A Teacher Workshop on Climate Science
2023-12-03 12:30 - 16:00 | Museum of Natural History
Polar ice cores give us the most incredible details about past climate changes, which put current climate changes in perspective and provide information to improve climate models. At this workshop, you will learn about the field of ice core science, explore museum exhibits related to climate science and get several classroom-ready activities.

Registration required. $10 registration fee includes a light lunch.

This program is appropriate for any classroom teacher. Curriculum is aimed at grades 6-12.

Other:Karate Practice
2023-12-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Intramural Sports Building, Medium Multi-purpose Room
New members are always welcome. No previous experience is necessary. Just come to any practice. You may watch a practice or actually participate when you come. If you want to participate, wear loose fitting clothes and no jewelry. ***Please complete the liability waiver prior to your first Sunday practice

Presentation:Public Tours
2023-12-03 13:00 - 13:30 | Museum of Natural History
These free tours are about 30 minutes long and are limited to 15 people per tour group. Sign up for a tour at the Welcome Desk. Visitors of all ages are welcome. Times subject to change.

Museum Highlights Tour: December 2023
Saturdays
1:00 p.m.
No tours on December 2, 23 and 30

Learn about some of our most exciting exhibits and galleries like the Exploring Michigan gallery, Evolution: Life Through Time, and the Unseen Worlds installation by artist Jim Cogswell. Along with learning about the past, this tour will take a step into the future and explore cutting-edge research being done in the Biological Sciences Building every day.

Walking with Whales Tour - December
Sundays
1:00 p.m.
No tours on December 24 or 31

Discover a world where prehistoric whales had four limbs and walked on land! Learn about how whales and dolphins made the transition from land back into the water as you examine specimens that were distant or direct ancestors to modern cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises).

Performance:Attempts on Her Life
2023-12-03 14:00 | GA - Mendelssohn
Come celebrate Rude Mechanicals' 27th annual season with Attempts on Her Life, written by Martin Crimp and directed by Tiara Partsch. A fast-paced, vibrant and thrilling nonlinear script, Attempts on Her Life unfurls in 17 wildly different scenarios: an ensemble of actors find themselves attempting to define the life of a mysterious figure named Anne, whose various identities and narratives always seem to elude them. The play embraces a meta-physical, absurdist approach as we find ourselves navigating a provocative, lyrical and dangerous prose: Crimp’s world is ominous, and this play puts forth the complexities of our contemporary world– blurring the lines between reality and performance art, the play asks that we reconsider the very ways we think of personal and collective narrative in a world that feels like it’s about to blow.

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4397/4400 for more detail.

Performance:Natasha, Pierre
2023-12-03 14:00 | Arthur Miller
Presented by In the Round Productions.
Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4472/4476 for more detail.

Performance:Violin Studio Recital
2023-12-03 14:00 - 15:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
A recital featuring violin students from the Department of Strings.

Sporting Event:Women's Gymnastics vs Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan (EX)
2023-12-03 14:00 | Crisler Arena
Women's Gymnastics vs Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan (EX)

Workshop / Seminar:BGSA x MSI Connect Soul Food Sunday
2023-12-03 15:00 - 18:00 | Trotter Basement

Presentation:Discovery Demo: Cow Eye Dissection
2023-12-03 15:00 - 15:15 | Museum of Natural History
Have you ever wondered how we see? To take a closer look at the organ that helps us see the world, join UMMNH staff in dissecting a cow’s eye. How is it similar to and different from our eyes, and those of other animals? Learn the parts of the eye and how they work together. While exploring the lens, we’ll also talk about why some of us need glasses and how we can keep our eyes and our vision healthy.

Performance:African Diaspora Class Showing
2023-12-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre
A presentation of dances and materials learned in African Dance, Congolese Dance, and other diasporic classes within the Department of Dance. This showing often features live drumming.

Workshop / Seminar:The Premodern Colloquium. Koryŏ's Economy: Draft Chapter for the Cambridge History of Korea—Koryŏ
2023-12-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Off Campus Location
I just have a few questions for everyone to consider while reading the draft: (1) What do we mean by "agrarian economy"? Can agrarian economies also be cash economies? (2) According to Richard von Glahn, during the Mongol Yuan dynasty, "the attempt to assimilate Mongol institutions with the norms of Chinese imperial governance engendered multiple and conflicting hierarchies rather than bureaucratic order," which resulted in failure to establish a stable fiscal infrastructure. Must "multiple and conflicting hierarchies" (which was also present in late Koryŏ Korea) result in fiscal instability? Can we find exceptions to this rule in other historical contexts? (3) More generally, can we assume that institutional and cultural differences necessarily produce divergent outcomes in economic performance? Or should we consider other factors to explain these divergences?"

Performance:Art Outta Town: Hairspray
2023-12-03 16:30 | GA - 50 Capacity
Join us to see the hit Broadway musical Hairspray! We’ll travel together on a blue bus to the Wharton Center for Performing Arts in East Lansing, where you’ll have the chance to see this touring Broadway production. Tickets are $15 and include round-trip transportation and admission to the show. Space is limited so buy your tickets now!

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4511/4512 for more details.

Performance:Art Outta Town: Hairspray
2023-12-03 16:30 | GA - 50 Capacity
Join us to see the hit Broadway musical Hairspray! We’ll travel together on a blue bus to the Wharton Center for Performing Arts in East Lansing, where you’ll have the chance to see this touring Broadway production. Tickets are $15 and include round trip transportation and admission to the show. Space is limited so buy your tickets now!

Meet outside of the Michigan League front entrance (911 N. University Ave.).

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4329/4508 for more details.

Performance:Samuel Stover, double bass
2023-12-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Undergraduate student Samuel Stover performs a recital.

Performance:Chamber Music Department Recital
2023-12-03 17:30 - 19:00, 2023-12-03 20:00 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall

Performance:First & Second-Year Bassists Studio Recital
2023-12-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall
First and second-year Double Bass students from the Department of Strings perform a recital.

Social / Informal Gathering:Study Night in the Connector
2023-12-03 19:00 - 21:00 | The Connector - 1520
Come study with the Connector Community Assistants each Sunday from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Connector (West Quad).

Performance:Seamus Egan
2023-12-03 19:30 | ARK Reserved
New solo music from the founder of Solas

It’s hard to think of an artist in traditional Irish music more influential than Seamus Egan. From his beginnings as a teen prodigy, to his groundbreaking solo work with Shanachie Records, to his founding of Irish-American powerhouse band Solas, to his current work as one of the leading composers and interpreters of the tradition, Egan has inspired multiple generations of musicians and helped define the sound of Irish music today. As a multi-instrumentalist, he’s put his mark on the sound of the Irish flute, tenor banjo, guitar, mandolin, tin whistle, and low whistle, among others. As a composer, he was behind the soundtrack for the award-winning film “The Brothers McMullen,” co-wrote Sarah McLachlan’s breakout hit, “I Will Remember You,” and has scored numerous documentaries and indie films since. As a bandleader, Solas was the preeminent Irish-American band of their generation for decades, continuously renewing Irish music with fresh ideas. As a performer, few others can make so many instruments or such wickedly complex ornaments seem so effortless. Music comes as naturally to Seamus Egan as breath, but his mastery of the tradition is only one facet of his plans to move the music forward. Seamus comes to Michigan with a new album, “Good Winter.”

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4282/4283 for more detail.

Performance:Class Recital: Piano 150
2023-12-03 20:00 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Students taking studio piano lessons perform a recital. Performers in this recital are non-piano majors and non-SMTD students.

Performance:William Halloran, tuba
2023-12-03 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Graduate student William Halloran performs a recital.

Other:Uninsured Student Outreach
2023-12-04 08:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Are you uninsured? At the University of Michigan, we believe health insurance is important for your well-being. If you don't have coverage, please take advantage of this opportunity through U-M to get health insurance.

During the week of December 4-8, 2023, staff from UHS and the Michigan Medicine Patient Financial Counselors will be available to help uninsured students check their eligibility for Michigan Medicaid and/or subsidies on the Health Insurance Marketplace. They can also assist with the application process.

To schedule an appointment, send an email to uhs-mancare-stuins@med.umich.edu and:
* Mention uninsured outreach appointment in the subject line
* Include times you are available for a half-hour appointment between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on December 4-8, 2023
* Include your name and cell phone number

We will get back to you with your appointment time and a Zoom link.

More information and a link to request an appointment time can be found at https://uhs.umich.edu/uninsured-outreach (also linked from this page).

Lecture / Discussion:Dissertation Defense: Kamolnat Tabattanon
2023-12-04 09:00 - 10:00 | Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717
Join Kamolnat Tabattanon as for her dissertation defense titled "Bridging the gap between mobility perception and performance for aging manual wheelchair users"

Chair: Bernard Martin

Exhibition:Inaugural Art Show and Competition
2023-12-04 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-05 09:00 - 17:00 | 1100 North University Building - 2540
To enter your artwork, complete this visit lsa.umich.edu/earth/artshow and complete the Google form linked at that page. Upon completion of the form, you will be sent a shortcode to cover the cost of printing. After receiving the shortcode, send your artwork to U-M Printing Services (printingservices@umich.edu) no later than November 27 (one week prior to the voting). You must also email an image of your artwork to clhooper@umich.edu to enable online voting.

Watch this space for images of the artwork starting December 4, when voting will open. Voting will take place completely online.

The deadline for voting is December 6. Awards will be announced at 12 pm on December 7.

Careers / Jobs:Center for Urban Teaching (CfUT) Exploration Week {Info Session 1 of 4}
2023-12-04 10:00 - 11:00
Come learn about the Center for Urban Teaching program and howyou can be a part of our vision to be the number one producer and provider of high-performing teachers and leaders for urban schools that are better prepared, better retained, and better positioned to have an increasedimpact on student achievement.

The talent recruitment team are eager and honored to share how you can receive intensive training and first hand teaching experience in this one of a kind program targeting undergraduates, recent grads, and career changers interested in perfecting their craftand working in inner city schools upon graduation. Program graduates alsoget the benefit of job placement services in addition to continued coaching through CfUT partner schools for the first two years in the field.

Those that show leadership potential may also be nominated for a full rideMasters degree in educational leadership resulting in a Principal's Lincesure upon graduation.

Sessions are provided during the first full weekof each month. (See Links Below)
- #1 Monday from 10-11am CST meet.google.com/dzr-vrxs-vvn
- #2 Tuesday from 12-1pm CST meet.google.com/oji-kbas-pvk
- #3 Wednesday from 11-12pm CST meet.google.com/jom-fbxo-hau
- #4 Thursday from 1-2pm CST meet.google.com/qmj-pozm-rsu

*by RSVPing to this event, we will add you to those interested in the Center for Urban Teaching program and circle back to you in the event that you are not able to make our info sessions.

Workshop / Seminar:Guest Speaker: Dr. Stephen J. Harris
2023-12-04 10:00 - 11:30 | GG Brown Laboratory - 1280
1) Statistical and machine learning-based durability-testing strategies for energy storage. 2) Comparison of careers as an industrial vs. an academic scientist
RSVP: https://forms.gle/kHGd8gcSaE4f8bf58

Light refreshments provided

Workshop / Seminar:LSA Workshop: Hired-In
2023-12-04 10:00 - 12:00 | LSA Building - 2001
In this session, participants will:
Increase awareness of how implicit bias can show up during the hiring process
Gain an awareness of the importance of consistent guidelines, evaluation and candidate experience
Discuss equitable hiring conventions Increase knowledge regarding affirmative action goals
Learn about resources that exist in LSA and on campus

Audience:
This workshop is required for all staff who are involved in the staff recruiting and selection process for LSA. All LSA staff, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates currently employed in LSA are welcome to attend. External guests may request to join as room allows.

Workshop / Seminar:[DEICP] Writing a Diversity Statement for your Faculty Job Search
2023-12-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual via Zoom
Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many academic employers have begun to request a diversity statement as part of the faculty job application process. In this interactive session, we will discuss best practices for writing diversity statements, examine sample statements, and work through activities designed to help participants start writing their own statement.

Learning objectives:
Reflect on ways you are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in your research, teaching, engagement, leadership, or other areas.Identify resources that allow you to participate and contribute to DEI initiatives, opportunities, projects, and research.Review best practices to write a diversity statement and learn how to critically evaluate diversity statements.This workshop is designed for University of Michigan master's students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.

Livestream / Virtual:Writing a Diversity Statement for Your Faculty Job Search
2023-12-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Off Campus Location
Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many academic employers have begun to request a diversity statement as part of the faculty job application process. In this interactive session, we will discuss best practices for writing diversity statements, examine sample statements, and work through activities designed to help participants start writing their own statement.
Learning objectives:

Reflect on ways you are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in your research, teaching, engagement, leadership, or other areas.
Identify resources that allow you to participate and contribute to DEI initiatives, opportunities, projects, and research.
Review best practices to write a diversity statement and learn how to critically evaluate diversity statements.

This workshop is designed for University of Michigan master’s students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/4rRMm.

We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Workshop on Gender and Politics
2023-12-04 11:30 - 12:30 | Institute For Social Research - 1440
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Gender and Politics (IGAP) is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop for scholars interested in studying the relationships between gender, sexuality, and politics. We invite scholars across disciplines and methodologies to attend and present their work.

Workshop / Seminar:CMENAS Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Lecture. The Geopolitics of Sport in the MENA Region
2023-12-04 12:00 - 14:00 | Weiser Hall - 555
The realm of sports provides a significant arena for exploring power dynamics within and between the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond, given the substantial presence of migrants and from the diaspora originating from this region in Europe and North America. This encompasses inquiries into the formulation of identity within the context of sports, governmental involvement in sports and its strategic utilization for political advantages, the intersection of women and sports, the evolving power dynamics within the sports industry, and the region's emergence as a significant new player. These diverse facets will be explored in the forthcoming presentation.

Dr. Mahfoud Amara holds the position of Associate Professor in Sport Management and Social Sciences at Qatar University. His research interests and publications encompass a wide range of topics, including sports, business, culture, politics, and society in the Arab region and within Muslim communities. He has been invited to speak at numerous international conferences, workshops, and symposia. Additionally, he has contributed to books such as “Sport Politics and Society in the Arab World” (2012), “Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities” (2015), “Sport in the African World” (2018), and “The Olympic Movement in the Middle East and North Africa” (2018).

This event is part of the CMENAS Fall Colloquium 2023: “The MENA world after a MENA World Cup” 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor.

Colloquium questions: cmenas@umich.edu

This series is funded in part by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant.

To register, go to https://myumi.ch/8eA8n.

Presentation:Innovation Insights: A Research Talk with William Bork
2023-12-04 12:00 - 14:00 | Off Campus Location
The Center for Academic Innovation invites you to an exciting Innovation Insights Research Talk featuring William Bork, researcher and former K-12 educator in the United States, Taiwan, and Mexico.

Large-scale studies investigating the academic outcomes of immigrant learners, like the PISA assessment, can tell us a lot about certain experiences but often only focus on data related to students’ destination countries. In this talk, Bork details that while destination country data is useful, incorporating more origin country characteristics could provide a more complete picture of the immigrant student experience and explain variations in academic achievement.

A Zoom link will be provided upon registration. We hope to see you there!

*Innovation Insights*

The Center for Academic Innovation brings together people who want to transform education, share knowledge, and increase learner success by hosting inspiring talks, collaborative problem-solving workshops, and discussions on the latest in educational research and practice. The Innovation Insights series features a diverse lineup of topics, delivered by leaders in academia and private industry, united by the common goals of delivering insights into how to further academic innovation and build the future of education.

*About William Bork*

William Nicholas Bork Rodriguez is a researcher and former K-12 educator within the USA, Taiwan, and Mexico. William uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods to study international education, teacher professional practice, and more.

Performance:Julie Zhu & Tiffany Ng, carillon
2023-12-04 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Julie Zhu, President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, and University Carillonist Tiffany Ng perform on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Earplugs are available from the carillonist upon request. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon: https://smtd.umich.edu/facilities/ann-and-robert-h-lurie-carillon/

Workshop / Seminar:Performative Typography and the Threat of Metaphorical Identity in the Poetry of Douglas Kearney
2023-12-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Angell Hall - 3241
Please join us for a work-in-progress workshop featuring Kelly Hoffer, Helen Zell Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry. You can sign up to receive Kelly's draft and RSVP for lunch here: https://forms.gle/LECbaJrEQJkivQsG8

Kelly will present her chapter, "Performative Typography and the Threat of Metaphorical Identity in the Poetry of Douglas Kearney." Abstract: Metaphors move, or, etymologically, “carry over.” At the level of the poetic line, the metaphor is the consummate change-maker. Metaphor is always staving off its dismissal as a mere decorative rhetorical figure, but modern critics and philosophers have affirmed its force. Nietzsche argues that metaphors constitute our notion of “truth”; Lakoff thinks of metaphor as a mechanism essential to language and conceptualizing the world; and Sontag concludes it is a force that both intervenes in, and is shaped by, societal attitudes. Despite this, recently metaphor has come under attack by poet Douglas Kearney as a figure that resists, rather than inducing, change. In his book of poetics Optic Subwoof (2022), Kearney argues the metaphorical relation promises false equivalency, substituting one form of suffering for another. As such, metaphors offer the reader a narcissistic reflection rather than a true encounter with difference. This article considers Kearney’s resistance to metaphor in the context of debates about the (im)potency of the aestheticization of suffering (Sontag) and humanistic empathy (Hartman) as engines for social change. It then turns to analyze Kearney’s own poems in light of his stated poetics. Does his visual poetry avoid the metaphor he is so suspicious of? If this poetry isn’t doing metaphor, what is it doing? And why might his form of visual poetics, or what Kearney calls “performative typography” be the structure he chooses as his intervention in today’s experimental poetic field?

Workshop / Seminar:ESO Workshop
2023-12-04 12:30 - 13:50 | LSA Building - 4147
Join us for the ESO workshop, "Instagram Worthy: Self-Appraisal Work in Social Media's Attention Economy," with Michelle Rabaut.

Lecture / Discussion:Great Lakes Seminar Series: Oday Salim
2023-12-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Off Campus Location - Lake Superior Hall
There is an all too common misconception that environmental justice law is vague and toothless. In fact, environmental justice law is nearly ubiquitous and has been significantly altering environmental decision-making norms. This talk will address the ways that environmental justice law has already shaped and may in the future shape Great Lakes environmental protection and restoration. Specifically, the talk will define environmental justice law, summarize its history, and go through Great Lakes case studies that illustrate how this legal framework alters decision-making regarding pollution control, natural resources management, and energy regulation.

Workshop / Seminar:OGPS Career Exploration Panels Series Fall 2023
2023-12-04 13:00 - 14:00
OGPS Career & Professional Development Career ExplorationThis is a series of career panels aimed at helping you explore different career paths in the biomedical/medical field and life sciences. You will have a chance to hear from professionals in a variety of roles and sectors, helping you to visualize potential career trajectories. Each panel will have at least 3 panelists working at different companies/organizations at a different stage in their career (early-, mid-, late-).
Aims and Objectives:To expose trainees to various career options in the biomedical/medical field and life sciences.To help trainees understand the pathways to these careers.To enable trainees to make more informed career decisions.

Workshop / Seminar:Science Success Series | Mindful Mondays
2023-12-04 13:00 - 14:00 | SLC, 1720 Chemistry, Flex Room
Give your brain some rejuvenation by taking a mindful study break! Come join us for an hour of connection and conversation with fellow students while coloring. This is a drop-in style event where you can come and go as your schedule allows. Light snacks will be provided.

Performance:Carson Landry, carillon
2023-12-04 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Graduate student Carson Landry performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Lecture / Discussion:Alumni Career Panel
2023-12-04 15:00 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location
Register for this event at https://myumi.ch/W24xd. You will receive Zoom Link upon registration.

Presented by the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the University Career Center, this series of events is intended to support humanities graduate students from across fields in exploring and preparing for the diverse career paths available to them. Students may attend events individually, but may find it especially helpful to attend each in progression.

About this event:
For humanists interested in pursuing diverse career pathways beyond tenure-track roles, the options can sometimes feel overwhelming and abstract. During this session, a panel of alumni from U-M humanities departments working in diverse industries will provide concrete details about their day-to-day work and the career journeys that led them there. Panelists include: Jill Jividen, Senior Director of Research Development at the University of Michigan; Michelle-May Curry, Curator at the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; and Jamie Hart, Executive Director at the Coalition to Expand Contraceptive Access. The goal is to provide examples of the varied pathways and types of work humanists pursue after graduating with a Ph.D.

Students should come prepared with questions for the panelists, as there will be plenty of time to steer the conversation in directions that are most meaningful for the group.

Workshop / Seminar:CANCELLED - HEP-Astro Seminar | Belle II: A Flavorful Experiment
2023-12-04 15:00 - 16:00 | West Hall - 335
The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB asymmetric-energy electron-positron collider has been collecting the world’s highest-intensity collisions at the Upsilon(4S) since 2019. A data set comparable in size to that of predecessor experiments, and collected with the new detector, enables unique or world-leading results. Examples include indirect searches for non-standard-model physics in the weak interactions of quarks, determinations of fundamental standard-model parameters, and direct searches for low-mass dark matter. This talk presents a selection of recent results and briefly discusses future perspectives.

Workshop / Seminar:CAPS and SPH Outreach
2023-12-04 15:00 - 16:30

Conference / Symposium:Humanities Career Connections: Workshops for Humanities Graduate Students
2023-12-04 15:00 - 16:30 | Osterman Common Room
For humanists interested in pursuing diverse career pathways beyond tenure-track roles, the options can sometimes feel overwhelming and abstract. During this session, a panel of alumni from U-M humanities departments working in diverse industries will provide concrete details about their day-to-day work and the career journeys that led them there. Panelists include: Jill Jividen, Senior Director of Research Development at the University of Michigan; Michelle-May Curry, Curator at the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; and Jamie Hart, Executive Director at the Coalition to Expand Contraceptive Access. The goal is to provide examples of the varied pathways and types of work humanists pursue after graduating with a Ph.D. Students should come prepared with questions for the panelists, as there will be plenty of time to steer the conversation in directions that are most meaningful for the group.
Presented by the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the University Career Center.

Careers / Jobs:Institute for the Humanities: Alumni Career Panel
2023-12-04 15:00 - 16:30
"Presented by the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the University Career Center, this series of events is intended to support humanities graduate students from across fields in exploring and preparing for the diverse career paths available to them. Students may attend events individually, but may find it especially helpful to attend each in progression.

About this event:
For humanists interestedin pursuing diverse career pathways beyond tenure-track roles, the options can sometimes feel overwhelming and abstract. During this session, a panel of alumni from U-M humanities departments working in diverse industries will provide concrete details about their day-to-day work and the career journeys that led them there. Panelists include: Jill Jividen, Senior Director of Research Development at the University of Michigan; Michelle-May Curry, Curator at the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; andJamie Hart, Executive Director at the Coalition to Expand Contraceptive Access. The goal is to provide examples of the varied pathways and types of work humanists pursue after graduating with a Ph.D.

Students should come prepared with questions for the panelists, as there will be plenty oftime to steer the conversation in directions that are most meaningful forthe group.
"

Performance:Strings Showcase
2023-12-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
A monthly performance series featuring our outstanding SMTD string students as soloists and in chamber music ensembles. These young artists are selected by the faculty to perform at this prestigious event. Free Admission.

Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Psychological Diversity across the Globe (Catherine Thomas)
2023-12-04 15:30 - 17:00 | Institute For Social Research - 1430
Culturally Wise Interventions and Their Effects on Psychosocial and Economic Well-Being

People are enculturated actors, shaped by their sociocultural and socioecological contexts. A vast empirical literature has documented that, in Global North contexts that afford greater choice and material abundance, selves are more independent–prioritizing personal interests and autonomy in their preferences and behavior. However, the social psychological literature suffers from glaring gaps in low resource Global South contexts where selves are likely higher in interdependence–prioritizing relationships, roles and obligations in their preferences and behavior (Thomas & Markus, 2023). An agenda on ‘culturally wise’ interventions seeks to fill this gap by experimentally comparing different culturally grounded approaches across diverse sociocultural contexts. Building on theoretical principles of wise interventions (Walton & Wilson, 2018) and culture match (Stephens et al., 2012), culturally wise interventions are attuned to how culturally specific models of self, motivation, and relationality can exert powerful effects on meaning making and behavior. Through experimental evaluations of such intervention approaches in understudied contexts, this research agenda seeks to advance a more comprehensive account of human behavior as well as strategies for promoting psychosocial and economic well-being around the globe. This talk will focus on how culturally wise approaches in sub-Saharan Africa can be leveraged to mitigate poverty and inequality.

Catherine Thomas of the Research Center for Group Dynamics and the University of Michigan, co-organizer of the Group Dynamics Fall 2023 Seminar Series with Shinobu Kitayama, closes the series.

Group Dynamics Fall 2023 Seminar Series: Psychological Diversity across the Globe
Do our cultural contexts influence our psychology and behavior — and if so, how? In this RCGD series, we delve into the socio-ecological, histo-cultural, and economic dynamics shaping the diversity of selfhood and its associated cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes. We go beyond the traditional East and West focus to include a wide range of cultural groups. This series will elucidate the implications of psychological diversity across the globe for policies in international relations, politics, economics, business, immigration, and other relevant domains.

Organized by Shinobu Kitayama and Catherine Thomas
As permissions allow, seminars from this series are later posted to ISR's YouTube playlist.

In person: ISR Thompson 1430
The series runs Mondays from 3:30 to 5.

About the Group Dynamics Seminar Series

The Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent seminars have included discussions in “Law and Psychology,” “Racism and Discrimination,” “Social Media,” and “Political Polarization.” The series is offered by the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD), at the Institute for Social Research.

Careers / Jobs:An Introduction to the Advisor Mastery Program at Raymond James
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:00
Please join us for a panel discussion with 2 of our Financial Advisors, and 2 of our Financial Advisor Coaches to gain a deeper understanding of who we are, our development program (Advisor Mastery Program),and what a career as a Financial Advisor looks like. The event will feature live Q & A, as well as, a comprehensive overview of our 2 year developmental program, and highlight our open and upcoming roles.

To learn more, feel free to visit our website at:
https://www.raymondjames.com/advisor-opportunities/affiliation-options/new-advisors.

Lecture / Discussion:Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Mass Flight from and in Ukraine: A Game Changer in International Refugee and Migration History?
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Weiser Hall - 1010
The mass flight from and in Ukraine indeed deserves to be labeled as a major "refugee crisis” for Europe. The talk will take this case as a point of departure, but then zoom back a century into the aftermath of World War I, when refugees from Ukraine and Russia were formative for international refugee politics and international law. The lecture will then analyze who was accepted as a refugee over time and who was not, and why Ukrainian refugees have been received surprisingly positively since the beginning of the second Russian-Ukrainian War.

The open door policy in Europe since February 2022 is based on the reaction to mass flights from the former Yugoslavia. The history of Croatia and Bosnia from 1991 to 1995 are also important points of reference to understand Ukraine's predicaments in its struggle against Russian neo-imperialism and fascism. Another recurring topic of the lecture will be the dialectic between humanitarian and utilitarian refugee politics and how they might be combined. The countries of origin are usually set aside once the mass flight has occurred and play only a minor role in migration history. This must change in the case of Ukraine, where the return of refugees and other ways to strengthen human capital should be a major consideration.

Philipp Ther is Professor of Central European History at the University of Vienna, where he also founded the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET). Five of his monographs have been published in English: *Europe since 1989: A History* (Princeton UP); *The Dark Side of Nation States: Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe* (Berghahn Press); *Center Stage: Operatic Culture and Nation Building in 19th Century Central Europe* (Purdue UP); *The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492* (Princeton UP); and *How the West Lost the Peace. The Great Transformation since 1989* (Polity Press). In 2019 he was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize by the Austrian Research Fund, the highest recognition for scientists in Austria.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Livestream / Virtual:LSA Information Session for LSA + Ross School of Business MDDP (Joint Degree)
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/3418063291
This information session will detail the application requirements, general structure and considerations of a MDDP (Joint Degree) between the Colleges of LSA and the Ross School of Business. This session is mandatory for those seeking to complete the Undergraduate Dual Degree Approval form. Individual audits of progress and the signing of documents will not take place during this group meeting.

Workshop / Seminar:RNA Innovation Seminar: Andy Berglund, University at Albany
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium
HYBRID SEMINAR:
In-person: BSRB, ABC Seminar Rooms
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qbOGve5KT7mUErr2Pg0Aow

Abstract: Repeat or microsatellite expansions are responsible for more than 50 human diseases. Myotonic dystrophy (DM), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) are a few examples of repeat expansion diseases. RNA processing (pre-mRNA splicing) pathways are negatively impacted in these diseases with specific changes in pre-mRNA splicing proposed to lead to symptoms observed in affected individuals. Many of the projects in the lab combine biochemical, molecular, and genomic approaches with cellular and other model systems to understand the mechanisms through which these diseases alter pre-mRNA splicing. Through screening approaches, small molecules have been identified that reduce the levels of the repeat expansion RNAs and rescue mis-splicing in DM and SCA cell and animal models.

Keywords: Myotonic Dystrophy, Spinocerebellar Ataxias, Alternative Splicing and RNA Binding Proteins

Lecture / Discussion:Search Engines | "Octavia Butler AI: Other Radical Possibilities of Technology"
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Haven Hall - 4701 Conference Room
Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here:
https://myumi.ch/Z3Vqy

Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus:
https://myumi.ch/EPMmG

Talk Abstract

“Meanwhile blackness means to render unanswerable the question of how to govern the thing that loses and finds itself to be what it is not.” Harney & Moten, The Undercommons

My argument in this project is to make AI more wild, not less. By wild, I indicate generative possibility for the technology in opposition to the reproduction of the same. The prompt for this line of inquiry is the call for transparency and accountability as an “ethics” in AI design. Another prompt is the “alien encounters” described in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series of speculative fiction. I wonder if advocacy toward a corrective can produce the ends sought: less harmful bias and more equitable opportunity. What if—outside of the frame of the ethical corrective—one reorients AI application and ontology?

Keywords

artificial intelligence, black techné, ethics, Octavia Butler, ontology, predictive, surround, supervised learning, unsupervised learning

Dr. Beth Coleman is an Associate Professor of Data & Cities at the University of Toronto, where she directs the City as Platform lab. Working in the disciplines of Science and Technology Studies and Critical Race Theory, her research focuses on smart technology & machine learning, urban data, and civic engagement. She is the author of Hello Avatar and multiple articles. Her research affiliations have included the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; Microsoft Research; Data & Society Institute; and expert consultant for the European Commission Digital Futures. She was the 4S 2021 Toronto Conference Co-Chair. She is a founding member of the Trusted Data Sharing lab, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and the Inaugural Director, University of Toronto Black Research Network Institute Strategic Initiative. Coleman is a 2021 Google Artists and Machines Intelligence awardee and 2022 Google Senior Visiting Researcher. Her previous academic positions include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Waterloo. She is the co-founder of SoundLab Cultural Alchemy, an internationally acclaimed multimedia art and sound platform. She has a history of international exhibition including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Musée d'Art moderne Paris.

Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture, and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since 1994, Nakamura has written books and articles on digital bodies, race, and gender in online environments, on toxicity in video game culture, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. These books include, Race After the Internet (co-edited with Peter Chow-White, Routledge, 2011); Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota, 2007); Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002); and Race in Cyberspace (co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman, Routledge, 2000). In November 2019, Nakamura gave a TED NYC talk about her research called “The Internet is a Trash Fire. Here’s How to Fix It.”

André Brock is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media. His scholarship examines Black and white representations in social media, video games, weblogs, and other digital media. He has also published influential research on digital research methods. His first book, titled Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, was published with NYU Press in 2020 and theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies.

This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space.

We want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please email Giselle Mills at gimills@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.

Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here:
https://myumi.ch/Z3Vqy

Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus:
https://myumi.ch/EPMmG

This event is the second lecture of new DISCO Network programming, titled "Search Engines," funded by the U-M Arts Initiative with support from the DISCO Network and Digital Studies Institute.

We would like to thank the following co-sponsors:

Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Department of American Culture
Department of Communication and Media
Department of English Literature and Language
Department of History
School of Information
Trotter Multicultural Center

Workshop / Seminar:Search Engines | "Octavia Butler AI: Other Radical Possibilities of Technology" Beth Coleman in Conversation with Lisa Nakamura and André Brock
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:30 | 4701 Conference Room
Talk Abstract
“Meanwhile blackness means to render unanswerable the question of how to govern the thing that loses and finds itself to be what it is not.” Harney & Moten, The UndercommonsBeth Coleman's argument in this project is to make AI more wild, not less. By wild, she indicates generative possibility for the technology in opposition to the reproduction of the same. The prompt for this line of inquiry is the call for transparency and accountability as an “ethics” in AI design. Another prompt is the “alien encounters” described in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series of speculative fiction. This talk wonders if advocacy toward a corrective can produce the ends sought: less harmful bias and more equitable opportunity. What if—outside of the frame of the ethical corrective—one reorients AI application and ontology?Keywords
artificial intelligence, black techné, ethics, Octavia Butler, ontology, predictive, surround, supervised learning, unsupervised learning
Dr. Beth Coleman is an Associate Professor of Data & Cities at the University of Toronto, where she directs the City as Platform lab. Working in the disciplines of Science and Technology Studies and Critical Race Theory, her research focuses on smart technology & machine learning, urban data, and civic engagement. She is the author of Hello Avatar and multiple articles. Her research affiliations have included the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; Microsoft Research; Data & Society Institute; and expert consultant for the European Commission Digital Futures. She was the 4S 2021 Toronto Conference Co-Chair. She is a founding member of the Trusted Data Sharing lab, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and the Inaugural Director, University of Toronto Black Research Network Institute Strategic Initiative. Coleman is a 2021 Google Artists and Machines Intelligence awardee and 2022 Google Senior Visiting Researcher. Her previous academic positions include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Waterloo. She is the co-founder of SoundLab Cultural Alchemy, an internationally acclaimed multimedia art and sound platform. She has a history of international exhibition including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Musée d'Art moderne Paris.Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture, and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since 1994, Nakamura has written books and articles on digital bodies, race, and gender in online environments, on toxicity in video game culture, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. These books include, Race After the Internet (co-edited with Peter Chow-White, Routledge, 2011); Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota, 2007); Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002); and Race in Cyberspace (co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman, Routledge, 2000). In November 2019, Nakamura gave a TED NYC talk about her research called “The Internet is a Trash Fire. Here’s How to Fix It.”André Brock is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media. His scholarship examines Black and white representations in social media, video games, weblogs, and other digital media. He has also published influential research on digital research methods. His first book, titled Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, was published with NYU Press in 2020 and theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies.

This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space.Accommodations: We want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please email Giselle Mills at gimills@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.

Lecture / Discussion:STS Speaker Series. A History of 'Impairment'
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Tisch Hall - 1014
“Impairment” is a key term in Anglophone disability studies and medical discourse, referring to physical difference, limitation, or injury. When disability scholars and activists critique the definition of impairment, they generally place the concept in the genealogy of medicalization and inappropriate pathologization. Yet as this talk will show, the history of impairment is as bureaucratic and actuarial as it is medical.

Popularized by the American life insurance industry in the early twentieth century, "impairment" indicates rating as well as diagnosis—the attachment of value, risk, or financial loss to particular traits. Specifically, impairment emerged as a form of information for corporate surveillance when life insurance companies joined with the Library Bureau in the 1890s to pool data on “impaired risks” among applicants.

This talk is drawn from a forthcoming article by Mara Mills and Dan Bouk, written after years of speculation among the authors that our areas of expertise—the history of disability and technology (Mills) and the history of life insurance (Bouk)—have more than a passing affinity.

Bio: Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and founding co-director of the NYU Center for Disability Studies. She is also a founding editorial board member of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. She is recently co-editor of Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality (Oxford 2020), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU 2023), and a forthcoming special issue of Osiris on "Disability and the History of Science" (2024). Upcoming publications include the NSF-funded edited collection How to be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press), a coauthored book with Jonathan Sterne on time stretching, and an NEH-funded collaborative research project with Michele Friedner on "The Global Cochlear Implant."

Co-sponsors: Departments of American Culture; Communication and Media, Center for Ethics, Society and Computing; UM Initiative in Disability Studies

Workshop / Seminar:Student Combinatorics: Heronian friezes
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 3866
In 2020 Sergey Fomin and Linus Setiabrata introduced an algebraic object called a Heronian frieze that is an analogue of the frieze patterns introduced and studied by Coxeter and Conway in the 1970s inspired by the Euclidean geometry of polygon triangulation. This survey talk will start with frieze patterns, discuss classical results about integrality, and draw connections to cluster algebra theory. We will build up to Heronian friezes, including a discussion of the necessary geometric ingredients. We will end with an advertisement for current work on the case in which the polygon lies on a sphere.

Workshop / Seminar:Study Abroad Info Session: GCC South Africa - Global STEM Leadership
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:00
IMPORTANT NOTE: Participants must be in the LSA Women in Science and Engineering Residence Program (WISE RP)
Global Course Connections (GCCs) offer a unique opportunity to take what students learn on campus at U-M during the winter semester and apply it abroad in a fun and exciting hands-on class taught by a U-M professor during a 3-week, off-campus field experience that takes place during the following summer.
Join your CGIS Advisor to learn more about this GCC opportunity in South Africa, the application process, and the courses.
Friday, September 15, 4-5 pm (Info Session)
Friday, October 20, 4-5 pm (Info Session)
Monday, December 4, 4-5 pm (Group Advising)
Application Deadline: December 10, 2023

Workshop / Seminar:Who Will Pay for the Energy Transition? Affordability, Efficiency, and Electricity Price Regulation
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:20 | Lorch Hall - 201

Workshop / Seminar:Microlocal sheaves and affine Springer fibers
2023-12-04 16:15 - 17:30 | East Hall - 3088
Abstract: The resolutions of Slodowy slices tilde S_e are symplectic varieties that contain the Springer fiber (G/B)_e as a Lagrangian subvariety. In joint work with R. Bezrukavnikov, M. McBreen and Z. Yun, we construct analogues of these spaces for homogeneous affine Springer fibers. We further understand the categories of microlocal sheaves in these symplectic spaces supported on the affine Springer fiber as some categories of coherent sheaves.

In this talk I will mostly focus on the case of the homogeneous element ts for s a regular semisimple element and will discuss some relations of these categories with the small quantum group providing a categorification of joint work with R.Bezrukavnikov, P. Shan and E. Vasserot.

I will then mention some recent application of this result to the Breuil-Mezard conjecture by T. Feng and B. Le Hung.

Workshop / Seminar:Smooth Sailing: Navigating Tricky Talks and Conflict in Organizations
2023-12-04 16:30 - 18:00 | Michigan Union - 2210A
Get ready for a deep dive into the "Smooth Sailing: Navigating Tricky Talks and Conflict in Organizations" workshop! We'll be exploring the ins and outs of handling challenging conversations and conflict in organizations, all while touching on current events, identity-based discussions, and inclusive practices.

Throughout the session, you'll pick up effective communication strategies and conflict resolution techniques, fostering a positive organization/student group dynamic. Expect practical insights and engaging discussions to boost your confidence in navigating the seas of organizational dynamics.

Light snacks will be provided. Limited Spots available!

Register here: https://myumi.ch/5J2W1

Careers / Jobs:Evercore Private Capital Advisory (PCA) Women’s Insight into Secondaries
2023-12-04 17:00 - 18:00
Private Capital Advisory (PCA) is excited to invite women in the Class of 2026 to apply to join us virtually for an interactive session to learn more about the secondaries industry and the 2025 Summer Analyst program. Students will hear from Senior Partners and get a chance to network with several of the women in the group.
This event is invite only andselected candidates will have an opportunity to hear from professionals across the below sectors of PCA.
• General partner (“GP”) team - provides strategic advisory services to financial sponsors across a variety of portfolio and fund management objectives. A deal example can be found here.
• Limited partner (“LP”) team - advises LPs on sales of portfolios of private assets. Our LP team works with a wide variety of LPs on liquidity solutions, including university endowments, foundations, public and corporate pensions, family offices and asset managers. A deal example can be found here.
• Structured Capital Solutions (“SCS”) team - employs various forms of structured asset-backed security technologies to create innovative capital and liquidity solutions for private markets issuers and investors.
The Private Capital Advisory (PCA) Women’s Insightinto Secondaries event is principally aimed at attracting sophomore students who self-identify as female, however, all sophomore students regardless of background who are interested in exploring job opportunities at Evercore are welcome to apply. If you are interested in attending, please apply through Evercore's website (linked below) by Wednesday, November 29 at 11:55pm EST.

Registration Link: https://evercore.tal.net/vx/appcentre-ext/brand-4/spa-1/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/1/opp/1974-Evercore-Private-Capital-Advisory-PCA-Women-s-Insight-into-Secondaries/en-GB

Event details, including the Zoom link, will be provided to invited candidates the week of the event.

Workshop / Seminar:Hydrogen Grand Challenge
2023-12-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - 2000A
REGISTER FOR WORKSHOP #2 ON SESSIONS: https://myumi.ch/RpgkW

The Hydrogen Grand Challenge is a series of prize competitions organized by MI Hydrogen to accelerate the adoption of hydrogen as a clean and sustainable energy carrier, particularly in areas such as transportation and industrial applications, in order to facilitate an equitable, affordable, clean, and secure energy transition.

The first competition, Michigan Hydrogen Horizon, asks University of Michigan students to develop a business case for a Michigan-centered, regional deployment of hydrogen. The business case should demonstrate where clean hydrogen can add value to specific sectors and technology applications.

Your business plan may contribute to the creation of the hydrogen ecosystem and economy in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region!

Schedule

Preview Event: H2 Edge Introduction To Hydrogen And Competition Announcement
October 10, 5pm
Livestream

Workshop #1: Prize Competition Kickoff Workshop
October 30, 5pm, Central Campus, 2239 Lane Hall
November 1, 5pm, North Campus, 2000A Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Attend either session to learn more about the competition, get your questions answered, meet potential teammates, and chat with the challenge mentors.

Workshop #2: Understanding A Problem
November 20, 5pm
Central Campus, 2239 Lane Hall

Workshop #3: Identifying Viable And Scalable Opportunities
December 4, 5pm
North Campus, 2000A Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project

Workshop #4: Presenting Your Draft Business Case
January 16, 5pm
Central Campus, 2239 Lane Hall

Workshop #5: Team Report Out
January 29, 5pm
North Campus, 2000A Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project

Social / Informal Gathering:SDNS Support Group
2023-12-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Blain (1st floor) Michigan Union
Located in the Michigan Union in Blain (1st floor). Join us for our support group, where you can discuss topics such as school, personal life, disability, neurodivergence, chronic illness, and more in a supportive environment. We look forward to seeing you there!

Workshop / Seminar:Gingerbread House Decorating
2023-12-04 18:30 - 20:00 | BSB 1060 / Kraus Auditorium
ELI Winter “Student to Student” EventGingerbread houses made of cookies and candy are an old American and European winter holiday tradition. This event features a friendly competition in which small teams work together to assemble and decorate a gingerbread house, and the best house gets a prize! Meet new people, practice casual English, show off your creativity, and have some fun! Supplies will be provided to registered participants, and there will be plenty of food and drinks, too!

Recreational / Games:Gingerbread House Decorating
2023-12-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Biological Sciences Building - 1060
Gingerbread houses made of cookies and candy are an old American and European winter holiday tradition. This event features a friendly competition in which small teams work together to assemble and decorate a gingerbread house, and the best house gets a prize! Meet new people, practice casual English, show off your creativity, and have some fun! Supplies will be provided to registered participants, and there will be plenty of food and drinks, too!

Performance:Jinzhao Xu, piano
2023-12-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Graduate student Jinzhao Xu performs a recital.

Performance:Computer Music Showcase
2023-12-04 20:00 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Chip Davis Technology Studio
A showcase of performances by students in Performing Arts Technology 202/502.

Instructor: Dr. Paul Dooley

Performance:John Serra, voice
2023-12-04 20:00 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Undergraduate student John Serra performs a recital.

Performance:Nefesh Mountain
2023-12-04 20:00 | ARK Reserved
Jewish Spirit and Appalachian traditions meet on common ground

Yes, Nefesh Mountain is a bluegrass band. Yes, some of their lyrics are sung in Hebrew. No, it isn’t a gimmick or a parody. And, no, it’s not klezmer music. Now that we’ve got that straight, let’s hear Nefesh Mountain for what it really is: a soulful, euphoric, folk-flavored outpouring of hope and joy, propelled by the kind of crisp, crystalline picking that gives lyrics wings. It’s a distinctively Nefesh Mountain sound. Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg have attracted high-powered musicians on their recordings, including Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Tony Trischka, and David Grier, aided by Nefesh Mountain’s touring band members, Alan Grubner on fiddle and Tim Kiah on bass. A dazzling picker in his own right, Eric provides lead guitar and banjo throughout, while Doni soars with some of the most melodic, incisive and soul-stirring vocals we’ve heard since Mary Travers first took the spotlight. Come out and hear the band’s inspiring new version of the Allman Brothers’ “Revival”!

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4324/4325 for more detail.

Well-being:ECE Tea Table
2023-12-05 08:30 - 16:00 | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 3313 EECS and 3414 EECS
Are you burnt out from studying for finals? Do you need to take a break to stretch your legs? Stop by the graduate student lounge (3414 EECS) or the UG student lounge (3313 EECS), to get some tea and a snack!

Tea varieties offer several different benefits:

Chamomile tea
Helps to reduce menstrual pain and muscle spasms, improves sleep and relaxation, and reduces stress

Green tea
Helps boost your heart health by lowering bad cholesterol and reducing blood clotting. Studies show this type of tea can also help lower blood pressure, triglycerides and total cholesterol.

Black tea
Helps combat inflammation and support healthy immune function. It can also be steamed, cooled and then pressed on minor cuts, scrapes and bruises to relieve pain and reduce swelling. A black tea bath can also ease inflammation caused by skin rashes and conditions such as poison ivy.

ECE students are encouraged to drop by and help themselves! This time of year can be very challenging and tiring, so be sure to take a few minutes for yourself. Good luck with finals!

Workshop / Seminar:Arabic Placement test_December 5, 2024 (9:00am-11:30am)
2023-12-05 09:00 - 11:30 | (PC Lab) MODERN LANGUAGES BUILDING 812 East Washington, 2001, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Welcome to the Arabic Placement TestAbout the testThe test is approximately two hours and a half in length, and it is composed of three portions:a. The writing portion is completed on paper and it is worth a total of 100 points.b. The reading portion is completed on Canvas site, and it is worth a total of 48 points.c. Right after finishing with the reading portion, each student will have a follow-up interview with a proctor. The interviews last approximately 15 minutes and it is worth a total of 20 points.Important: a. The interview portion will be weighted most heavily as it will be used to validate performance on the other portions. The final result/score/rating will thus be based on the student’s performance on the interview above all. Rating of performance on the writing or reading portions is secondary. b. Students who receive 60% or above will be placed in Arabic 401 and thus placed out of the language requirement.c. Students who are not able to write in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) do not need to take the placement test and they will be advised to enroll in Arabic 101.
Where can I view my results?Placement results are posted within 7 business days after the test.You will not be notified of your score automatically. You may view your placements via: Wolverine Access > Student Business > Academic Records > View Placement Exam Results.Important information about the test* Placements are valid for only one year. If you fail to register in the course that you are placed in, you will be required to retake the test.* Retaking the placement test is only permitted after the placement results expire.* The test assesses students’ proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), NOT colloquial Arabic. * If you speak an Arabic dialect but you do not know how to read or write or have little knowledge, feel free to register in Arabic 101.* Students who know some Arabic because they came from an Arabic-speaking household or have studied Arabic before, must take the Arabic proficiency test in order to determine their placement.* Students who have taken Arabic at other institutions and wish to continue their Arabic study at UM must take the placement test to determine their level. Credits for Arabic study undertaken at another institution prior to joining UM or in a summer program while attending UM, transfer in as generic departmental credits and students must take the placement test to determine credit equivalencies to UM courses.* If you place in or beyond the 401 level, you will have satisfied the LSA language requirement. * Students are encouraged to take a placement test as early as possible in their studies in order to determine the level they should enroll in, or if they test out of the language requirement. This is extremely important to avoid delays in graduation and complications with placement.* Arabic 101, 201, 401, 501 are offered ONLY in the Fall semester, and Arabic 102, 202, 402, 504 are ONLY offered in the Winter semester.* Students can take intensive Arabic 103 (the equivalent of Arabic 101 &102, combined), and Arabic 203 (the equivalent of Arabic 201 & 202, combined) in the Spring/Summer terms.If you have questions regarding the placement test, please contact the program director at, mesarabicprogram@umich.edu.

Workshop / Seminar:CoderSpaces - Tuesdays, Fall 2023
2023-12-05 09:30 - 11:00 | Off Campus Location

Well-being:Drop-in Vaccination Clinics
2023-12-05 10:00 - 14:00 | Michigan Union - Pond Room (1st floor)
Some clinics will offer both flu and COVID-19 vaccines, while others will offer flu vaccines only. This may change as more COVID-19 vaccine becomes available. The clinic schedule contains the latest information (see related links on this page).

Social / Informal Gathering:This is Michigan
2023-12-05 10:30 - 14:00
Come join us on Tuesdays to learn more about our connection with our local state! We will be showcasing all of the local dishes and partners that we love so much!

Lecture / Discussion:“Health, Sibship Size, and Economic Exchanges Between Siblings in Adulthood”
2023-12-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Institute For Social Research - 2030
Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics for Christine Percheski, Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, for the next CID Speaker Series event:

“Health, Sibship Size, and Economic Exchanges Between Siblings in Adulthood”
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
11 a.m.-12 p.m.
This is a hybrid event, and details to join virtually are available once the registration form is completed.

If you have any questions or require accommodations, please contact Nicole at bonomini@umich.edu.

Tours:Far Out! U-M in the 60s from JFK to Earth Day
2023-12-05 11:30 - 12:30 | LSA Building - We will begin our tour at the Cube, just behind the LSA Building.
Join the students in History 294 on a campus walking tour that will transport you sixty years into the past. There are countless buildings across campus, and each tells a story about life in Ann Arbor in the 1960s. This tour will share that history.

Please register here https://forms.gle/myCxvwuCb5u3RR9w7 and join us on Tuesday, December 5, 11:30 am-12:30 pm.

We’ll begin at the Cube and make nine stops across campus, about 1.25 miles total, ending at the Michigan Union. This walking tour will take place outside, regardless of weather.

Social / Informal Gathering:QTBIPOC Kickbacks
2023-12-05 11:30 - 13:00 | Michigan Union - 3000-3200
Find your community. Join our monthly gatherings as we literally open up the wall between MESA and Spectrum Center for community and meals, centering students who are queer and trans Black, indigenous, and people of color. Drop in, grab food, and hang out!

This program is jointly presented by the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs and Spectrum Center, and is open to all U-M students.

Exhibition:Robotics Fall Demo Days
2023-12-05 11:30 - 16:30 | Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
All week long in the Robotics Building, there will be a variety of courses displaying and presenting their work from this semester:

Tuesday, December 5
ENG 100.580: BioDesign / Presentations / noon - 1:30pm in Atrium
ROB 550: Robotic Systems Lab / Competition / 11:30am to 4:30 in Atrium

Wednesday, December 6
ROB 311: How to Build Robots & Make Them Move / Competition / 12:30- 2:30pm in Atrium
ROB 498: Storytelling with Robotics / Display / begins at noon in Atrium

Friday, December 8
ROB 498: Storytelling with Robotics / Reception / 4pm to 6pm

Monday, December 11
EECS 467: Autonomous Robotics / Showcase / 10:30am to 12:30 in Atrium

Careers / Jobs: Drop in for Office Hours
2023-12-05 12:00 - 13:00
Drop in to ask more questions about the hiring and applicationprocess. Hear tips for your resume building, and learn what to expect inan interview and throughout the rest of the application and selection process.

Careers / Jobs:Capgemini Invent - Sophomore Coffee Chats
2023-12-05 12:00 - 14:00
TWO DATE OPTIONS: 12/5 and 12/7, 12pm-2pm CT

Calling all sophomores interested in learning about our early identification programs!!Register for a coffee chat with a consultant at Invent who can speak to you about our programs.

You'll receive a personalized link for your coffee chat a day before the event. Please use the external registration link to confirm you receive your personalized meeting link.

Capgemini Invent's RISE program is an innovative, case study competition that offers you an opportunity to flex your critical-thinking skills against real-life problems. You will gain a true understanding of how working at a global management consulting firm can develop your career path as we expose you to technologies and industries around the world. We would love to hear from you if you are interested in applying your critical thinking skills, working in a team environment to develop a creative solution, and presenting to apanel of executives.

Capgemini Invent's EPIC program is focused on providing undergraduate sophomore students who identify as under-represented minorities the opportunity to be exposed to the world of management consulting. Through this program, chosen participants will have the opportunityto network with consultants and leaders at Invent, learn tips & tricks for acing a case interview, and strengthen their business skill set.

Careers / Jobs:Center for Urban Teaching (CfUT) Exploration Week {Info Session 2 of 4}
2023-12-05 12:00 - 13:00

Workshop / Seminar:Close Encounters of the Damaging Kind: How the Human DNA Replication Machinery Accommodates Chemically-Modified DNA- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar
2023-12-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Medical Science Unit I - 5330
Dr. Mark Hedglin will present a seminar on Tuesday December 5th, 2023 at 12:00 noon in 5330 MS I.

Social / Informal Gathering:CommuniTea
2023-12-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Trotter Multicultural Center - Sankofa Lounge
We provide programming and space for events that help students develop, understand, and demonstrate an ability to shift cultural perspective and adapt behavior to effectively navigate cultural similarity and difference based in race, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, class and other human differences.

Come and join us! Every Tuesday, we have CommuniTea. Launched this year, CommuniTEA is a weekly tea gathering for students, staff and faculty to build community and share information about what they are experiencing during the week. Organizations and units are encouraged to collaborate and offer light refreshments or share tea practices that center their cultural practices.

Workshop / Seminar:CommuniTea Event at the Trotter Multicultural Center
2023-12-05 12:00 - 14:00
Come and join us! Every Tuesday from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., we have CommuniTea. Come to the Trotter Multicultural Center to drink tea (and other beverages) socialize, reflect, play games and to have fun! At TMC, we welcome you and look forward to meeting with you. Prizes are awarded as well. Let the good times roll!

Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar with Erick Bayala
2023-12-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Biological Sciences Building - 1010
More to come

Careers / Jobs:Info Session Country Specific - Panama
2023-12-05 12:00 - 14:00
Serving in the Peace Corps is a great way to become part of a community overseas, learn a new language, and make a lasting impact. Join us at this country-specific information session to learn more about the Peace Corps from returned Volunteers who served in Panama. You'll have theopportunity to ask questions about service and gain tips to guide you through the application process.

Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Role of Assortative Mating in Marital Infidelity: Insights from China
2023-12-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Weiser Hall - Room 1010
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/73Db9.

Existing studies on assortative mating in China have primarily focused on its determinants as well as consequences regarding marital stability and quality. However, little is known about its effect on marital infidelity. Are those with similar characteristics more likely to remain faithful in the marriage? Are those who bring “more” to the marriage more prone to infidelity because they have the upper hand? Or, are those who are more dependent on the marriage more likely to engage in infidelity as a compensatory act? Using newly available data from the Chinese Private Life Survey, we examine the association between marital infidelity and patterns of assortative mating in the context of China, where educational homogamy becomes the norm but income hypergamy still prevails (men out-earning women). Our findings show a complex interplay of resources, status, and dependency in a highly gendered environment. We find that marriages in which the wife is more educated than the husband exhibit a higher likelihood of experiencing extramarital affairs than those marriages in which the husband and wife have similar education levels. Contrary to our expectation, marriages in which the husband out-earns the wife are more likely to remain faithful than marriages where incomes are equal. Results also show that there are some trade-offs between education and income. For example, among all types of educational and income pairings of the spouses, marriages in which the wife is more educated but makes less money than the husband are the most likely to experience extramarital affairs. It is worth noting that the observed patterns are mainly driven by the subsample of men, who on average are 1.7 times more likely to be unfaithful than women. Our study demonstrates the limited utility of classic perspectives on marital exchange and underscores the evolving and asymmetric nature of gender power dynamics in marriages in a society with a longstanding patriarchal tradition juxtaposed with changing gender relations.

Feinian Chen is a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and Director for the Hopkins Population Center. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 and was trained in social demography at the Carolina Population Center. Her research crosscuts a range of areas in demography, family sociology, gender, aging, and quantitative methodology. Her main research interests include intergenerational relations, women's work and family, population aging, and health. Her work has been published in Annual Review of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Demography, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Sociological Methods and Research. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Hewlett Foundation. She is actively engaged in research on family transitions, gender dynamics, and their health implications in the diverse contexts of China, India, the Philippines, and the US.

Workshop / Seminar:Media Training for International Faculty
2023-12-05 12:00 - 13:00 | 412 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Would you like to improve your communication skills? Be prepared to talk to the media?

Our media training sessions can help you improve your communication skills, including how to create your message clearly and concisely, how to engage with the media effectively and how to handle difficult questions or scenarios.

What is media training? Interactive, in-person instruction on the fundamentals of interacting with the media to tell the public about your research and mission.Skills you’ll learn:
• Handling tough questions
• Hone your key messages so you aren’t misquoted
• Learn how reporters work and what they need from you––and how to get what you need from them.
• An understanding of how working with media can help your career.
• Overcome anxiety about interacting with reporters
Who we are: Our media team of storytellers and multi-media experts are all former print and broadcast journalists.

Performance:Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, carillon
2023-12-05 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Faculty member Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Earplugs are available from the carillonist upon request. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon: https://smtd.umich.edu/facilities/ann-and-robert-h-lurie-carillon/

Workshop / Seminar:OGPS Health & Wellness Stress Management and Resiliency Workshop
2023-12-05 12:30 - 13:30 | Taubman Health Sciences Library Room 2955
Join the OGPS Health & Wellness Team for a deeper dive into types of stress and the impact on one’s well-being. Learn about your own stress style, and personalized ways to improve your resiliency and coping.

Presentation:Creating a Culture of Innovation While Advancing Safety and Operations — CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series
2023-12-05 13:00 - 14:00 | Transportation Research Institute - Room 139
In January 2022, the United States Department of Transportation launched its National Roadway Safety Strategy, which outlines the Department’s comprehensive plan to significantly reduce severe injuries and fatalities on the nation’s roadways, highways, and streets. This represents the initial step towards achieving the ambitious, long-term goal of attaining zero roadway fatalities. This presentation will delve into how the United States Department of Transportation is influencing transportation system safety by developing short-term, low-cost roadway enhancements, creating innovative infrastructure designs, and leveraging new speed management strategies and countermeasures. Additionally, Mr. Cronin will discuss how the Department of Transportation is pioneering long-term solutions in technology innovation, including leveraging vehicle-to-everything communications to facilitate interoperable connectivity, influencing the future of autonomous driving with Cooperative Driving Automation, and developing tools to advance research and adoption of these technologies. All efforts are aimed at reaching the ultimate goal of zero roadway fatalities, and how you can actively engage in shaping the future of transportation.
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About the speaker: Brian Cronin is the Acting Director of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office. Prior to this role, Brian served as Director, Office of Safety and Operations Research and Development, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for 5 years, and two years as the Director Office of Operations Research and Development. In his most recent role, he provided executive leadership and guidance for improving and advancing transportation safety and operations-related technologies and innovations through research, development, and testing. Brian is providing executive leadership in FHWA’s involvement in the Intersection Safety Challenge, development of a Vulnerable Road User Research Plan Report to Congress, and establishing a new Center of Excellence for New Mobility and Automated Vehicles. Brian guided the development of the Cooperative Driving Automation research program and V2X research efforts.

Prior to his appointment into the SES, Brian served for 11 years in the ITS JPO, with the last 8 years as the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Research Team Leader. In this position, he provided strategic leadership and direction in the development of ITS solutions to improve transportation mobility, safety, and the environment. Brian provided technical leadership for the development of the connected vehicle research program and the Secretary’s Smart City Challenge.

Prior to joining FHWA in 2003, Brian served as the Advanced Public Transportation Systems Team Leader with the Federal Transit Administration where he oversaw research and deployment of transit-related ITS technologies to improve transit operations. Brian holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech. Brian is also a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Maryland.

Brian recently celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary to his wife Lisa LaCourse, and has two girls, Lucy and Julia. Brian enjoys camping, kayaking, hiking, swimming, biking, and golf.

Workshop / Seminar:Culture Change Foundations: Improving Workplace Climate
2023-12-05 13:00 - 14:30 | Off Campus Location
Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.

Social / Informal Gathering:De-Stress Fest (Fall Edition)
2023-12-05 13:00 - 14:00
The fall semester is coming to a close and final exams are upon us. We know this is a stressful time for many students, BUT we would like to help you “de-stress” by inviting you to the College of Engineering's De-Stress Fest…Fall Edition!!!

***What will there be???***
Arcade Games
VR Games provided by the Vis Studio
Cookie Decorating
Therapy Dogs
15 min. Massages (first-come, first-served)
Breathing Exercises
Swag

When: Wednesday, December 6th
Time: 10am - 1pm
Where: Duderstadt Connector (registration), Duderstadt Atrium, DL1, DL2, Vis Studio, CCA

Sponsored by C.A.R.E. & connect@michiganengineering

Performance:Lon Mitchell, carillon
2023-12-05 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Lon Mitchell performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Careers / Jobs:FAO Schwarz Fellowship Info Session - December 2023
2023-12-05 14:00 - 14:45
The FAO Schwarz Fellowship program is designed to develop the leadership skills of recent college graduates and prepare them for successin the social impact sector.

This selective Fellowship is one of veryfew paid two-year domestic fellowships in social change and offers excellent preparation for a career in nonprofits and public service. The Fellowship also prepares students interested in applying to graduate programs related to policy, education, social work or management.

Learn more about the Fellowships during our online info session on Tuesday, December 5 from 2:00 - 2:45 pm ET. Please sign up in advance on our website.

Workshop / Seminar:Cognitive Science Seminar Series
2023-12-05 14:30 - 15:50 | Lorch Hall - 403
The Cognitive Science Seminar Series is an informal gathering of graduate students and faculty from multiple departments with an interest in presenting and discussing cognitive science topics.

SCHEDULE
September 19 - Andrew McInnerney (Cognitive Science and Linguistics)
October 10 - Shane Storks (Computer Science and Engineering)
October 24 - Lucy Chiang (Linguistics)
November 7 - Doug Merchant (Linguistics)
November 14 - Emory Richardson (Psychology)
November 28 - Soo Ryu (Psychology)
December 5 - Alexander Johnson (Psychology)

To be added to the seminar distribution list, please email
cogsci-seminar-requests@umich.edu.

Social / Informal Gathering:Michigan Voices Season 5 Podcast Launch Party
2023-12-05 14:30 - 16:00 | North Quad - Space 2435
Join us for the launch of Season 5 of Michigan Voices. Michigan Voices explores the policy issues and cultural discussions prevalent in the Ann Arbor community and broader United States, as well as the perspectives and aspirations of university students from the University of Michigan and some of the voices of Gen Z. Produced by students in Writing 200: The Art of Podcasting.

Directions to Space 2435 in North Quad can be found here
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Workshop / Seminar:RTG Number Theory: Pseudo-varieties of profinite graphs and spanning trees
2023-12-05 14:30 - 15:45 | East Hall - 4096
Abstract: We consider pro-C graphs for certain categories of finite graphs. After exploring some general theory, we specalize to a particular pseudo-variety denoted by ε that arises naturally in constructing end point compactifications of connected abstract graphs. We show that any connected secondcountable pro-ε graph has a profinite analogue of spanning tree as in connected abstract graphs. The structure of pro-ε graphs and their fundamental profinite groups are shown to be analogous in certain ways to that of abstract graphs and their fundamental groups.

Lecture / Discussion:PhD Research Talk: Yaohui Guo
2023-12-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717
Seminar Abstract:
Trust has been identified as a critical factor for effective human-robot teaming. However, existing literature on trust modeling predominantly focuses on dyadic human-robot teams, and there is little, if not no, research on trust modeling in multi-human-multi-robot (MHMR) teams. To fill this research gap, we propose the Trust Inference and Propagation (TIP) model, a mathematical framework for computational trust modeling in MHMR teams. The TIP model accounts for both the direct and indirect experiences that a human agent has with a robot, successfully capturing the underlying trust dynamics and significantly outperforming a baseline model. In addition, to foster trust in MHMR teams, we develop an online learning algorithm for real-time, optimal team formation in dynamic, collaborative environments. Specifically, we model the teaming problem as a matching linear bandit and show the proposed algorithm achieves sublinear regret, which offers a promising avenue for real-time, optimal team formation that goes beyond static or pre-planned strategies.

Presenter Bio:
Yaohui Guo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on human-robot/AI collaboration, specifically in developing algorithms that enhance robots' interaction abilities by accurately interpreting human internal states. He has received Master's degrees in Robotics and Mathematics from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Automation from Xi’an Jiaotong University. His research is supported by the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.

Other:Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute Information Session
2023-12-05 15:30 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location
This is an information session for the Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute and the application process. Have an idea, but want to learn more? Come on by! No registration required, just show up with the Zoom link provided in this listing, below.

About the Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute:
The Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute is a mini-grant program and week-long institute to help up to 6 scholars or teams take an idea for a project and develop a proposal and project plan.

Project ideas can take a broad range of forms, from collecting community interviews to providing access to data in interesting ways, such as digital maps or collections. Scholars with collaborative, multi-generational, or community-centered research ideas are highly encouraged to apply.

The institute will take place May 6-10, 2024 on the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus. Submissions are open from November 6 through December 22, 2023. See digitalscholarship.umich.edu for more details.

Careers / Jobs:Summer Transportation Internship Program for Diverse Groups: Virtual Info Session
2023-12-05 15:30 - 16:00
Join The Washington Center's Summer Transportation Internship Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG) staff for a 30-minute info session andQ&A focused on this paid summer 2024 internship opportunity in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The Summer TransportationInternship Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG) seeks undergraduate, graduate, and law students for a fulfilling, paid 10-week summer internship.STIPDG is your unique opportunity to get hands-on public service experience while discovering challenges and innovation in U.S. transportation infrastructure. STIPDG interns help support the world’s leading transportation system and the safe, sustainable and equitable movement of people and goods. Build your network, develop new skills, and learn about open positions at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)!

This program is acritical part of U.S. DOT efforts to increase diverse representation in its workforce. Students from underrepresented backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Applications Accepted for Summer 2024: October 2, 2023-January 31, 2024

DOT Interviews and Selection Notifications: February-April 2024

2024 Program Dates: June 3-August 9, 2024

Workshop / Seminar:Chemical Biology Approaches to Dissect Microbial Pathogenesis
2023-12-05 16:00 - 17:15 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
This talk gives an overview of the current projects in the Lupoli group, which seek to answer questions that fall under two main categories related to microbial pathogenesis: (1) regulation of bacterial chaperones; (2) assembly of bacterial surface glycans. The initial project focuses on the “skin”, or surface, of bacteria called the cell envelope, which mediates infection of the host and protects bacteria from host immune defense tactics. While Gram-negative bacteria contain a protective outer membrane layer absent in most Gram-positives, almost all bacteria contain polymers composed of unique monosaccharides that extend from the cell surface. Gram-negative bacteria typically contain lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the outer leaflet of the outer membrane with attached polysaccharides called O-antigens that help mediate interactions with the environment. O-antigens are composed of repeating oligosaccharides that define particular bacterial serotypes, which distinguishes bacterial strains within a single species. Foundational chemical biology work has contributed to our understanding of eukaryotic cell surface composition. However, we still lack a clear understanding of assembly of bacterial surface glycan polymers that contain prokaryote-specific or “rare” sugars. In this talk, we describe synthetic and chemoenzymatic methods to construct rare nucleotide sugars to study substrate recognition by bacterial glycosyltransferases that build O-antigens. We identify key regions in sugar substrates that are required for substrate binding and activity, and we use this knowledge to design chemical probes that will be used for the construction of synthetic O-antigens and small molecule inhibitors that will stall O-antigen synthesis. This work will expand our understanding of cellular mechanisms underlying bacterial polysaccharide synthesis, and will teach us about the roles that rare sugars play in bacterial cellular interactions.

The latter project focuses on DnaK, the bacterial homolog of Hsp70, an ATP-dependent chaperone that functions in concert with cofactor proteins to catalyze nascent protein folding and salvage misfolded proteins. In the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), DnaK and its cofactor proteins DnaJ1, DnaJ2 and GrpE are proposed drug targets. Despite the importance of chaperone function in human cancers and infectious disease, there are limited chemical probes or inhibitors that enable in vivo studies on the function of individual chaperones/cofactors. In this talk, we describe the discovery of small molecule inhibitors of mycobacterial DnaK, most notably a peptidomimetic called telaprevir, which is able to inhibit chaperone function through interactions with the peptide-binding cleft of DnaK. Binding of telaprevir leads to allosteric conformational changes that prevent ATP hydrolysis in a distal domain. We find that telaprevir also inhibits E. coli DnaK and human Hsc70 chaperones due to high conservation of Hsp70 sequences. Using in vitro and in vivo chaperone assays, we demonstrate that telaprevir modulates the function of mycobacterial DnaK and its cofactor protein DnaJ2 in cells, which disrupts cellular proteostasis. Co-treatment of mycobacteria with telaprevir and aminoglycosides, which further stress the proteome, enhances the potency of these antibiotics. In addition, telaprevir combats mycobacterial resistance to the frontline TB drug rifampin, as DnaK-DnaJ2 function is required for stabilization of protein mutants that confer drug tolerance. This work sets the stage for our current work on the design of peptide-based inhibitors with higher selectivity for bacterial chaperones to probe chaperone-protein interactions and explore resulting synergy with different classes of antibiotics.

Workshop / Seminar:Colloquium Seminar: Diffusion-based probabilistic flows and low distortion mappings
2023-12-05 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 1360
A central question in the field of optimal transport studies optimization problems involving two measures on a common metric space, a source and a target. The goal is to find a mapping from the source to the target, in a way that minimizes distances. A remarkable fact discovered by Caffarelli is that, in some specific cases of interest, the optimal transport maps on a Euclidean metric space are Lipschitz. Lipschitz regularity is a desirable property because it allows for the transfer of analytic properties between measures. This perspective has proven to be widely influential, with applications extending beyond the field of optimal transport.

In this talk, we will further explore transport maps with low distortion. The key point which we shall highlight is that, for low distortion mappings, the optimality conditions mentioned above do not play a major role. Instead of minimizing distances, we will consider a general construction of transport maps based on probabilistic flows, and introduce a set of techniques to analyze their distortion. In particular, we will go beyond the Euclidean setting and consider Riemannian manifolds as well as infinite-dimensional spaces.

We shall also discuss the emerging and intimate connections between our construction and recent advances in algorithms for generative modeling.

Workshop / Seminar:DAAS Africa Workshop
2023-12-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Haven Hall - 4701 - DAAS Conference Room
Join the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
and the African Studies Center for our next

AFRICA WORKSHOP
"Petronoir African Cinema: Reading Recent African Films for Energy"

Carmela Garritano
Associate Professor of International Affairs, Texas A&M University

TUESDAY, DEC. 5
4:00 PM
4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room)

Can't make it? Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99340604276

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This talk suggests the term “petronoir” to describe prestige and art films from Africa that re-tool the narrative and formal conventions of film noir to denounce the endlessly deferred promises of oil-based national development and infrastructural modernity. The films analyzed in this presentation detail patchwork, failed, or underdeveloped petroleum infrastructures across several African cities and closely examine the novel forms of labor and sociality that emerge in response to energy shortage. These films project infrastructural longing and, at the same time, testify to the creativity of Africans living with under-resourced energy distribution networks.

In these ways, petronoir African cinema intervenes in the dominant discourse of climate crisis and energy transition. It reminds us that our efforts to address global warming and break free from fossil fuels must grapple with the modest and justified energy demands of those on the margins of petromodernity.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Garritano works at the intersection of politics and film and media, and her research has been supported by Fulbright IIE, the West African Research Association, and the US Department of Education’s FLAS program. Trained in African area studies, her writing combines theoretically-grounded inquiry with ethnographic and archival research methods. Her first book, "African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History" (Ohio University Press, 2013), is a historical account of movie production in Ghana, beginning with the first films of the Gold Coast Colonial Film Unit, through the struggles of the Ghana Film Industry Corporation, and finally to the emergence and growth of a loosely-configured, commercial movie industry between the late 1980s and 2010. The book was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and was awarded The First Book Award by the African Literature Association.

Additionally, she is co-editor, with Kenneth W. Harrow, of "A Companion to African Cinema" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019), a volume that brings together some of the most exciting writing on African film and media today. It spotlights research that draws from well-established methods, such as postcolonial theory, as well as new work informed by affect theory, film festival studies, and sound studies.

Dr. Garritano has also published writing on African literature, postcolonialism, and Nollywood. Her work has appeared in top-tier journals such as The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Black Camera, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, African Studies Review, and Research in African Literatures.

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Workshop / Seminar:Department Seminar Seminar Series: Linbo Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto.
2023-12-05 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 340
Abstract: There has been a recent surge in attention towards trustworthy AI, especially as it starts playing a pivotal role in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, the justice system, and finance. Causal inference emerges as a promising path toward building AI systems that are stable, fair, and explainable. However, it often hinges on precise and strong assumptions. In this talk, I introduce sparse causal learning as a common ground between trustworthy AI and robust causal inference. Here, sparsity plays a dual role in enhancing explainability and ensuring the robust identification of causal effects. Specifically, I reconsider the supervised learning problem of predicting an outcome using multiple predictors through the lens of causality. I demonstrate that it is possible to remove spurious correlations caused by unmeasured confounding by leveraging low-dimensional structures in the predictors. I study its identifiability using an expert voting approach and show that sparsity provides a promising path to transforming exact causal inference methods into multiply robust identification frameworks. Furthermore, I introduce the synthetic instrument, a novel tool for constructing instrumental variables and estimating causal effects. This new approach leads to algorithms that are theoretically justifiable, computationally feasible, and statistically sound.

https://sites.google.com/site/linbowangpku/

Conference / Symposium:Dismantling the Now and Then: Stamps MFA Students Symposium
2023-12-05 16:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Participants of the Art Theory graduate seminar taught by Professor Irina Aristarkhova invite you to an open session in the form of a symposium, with an introduction by David Chung, Professor and Director of MFA Program, moderated by Dylan AT Miner, Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research, Creative Practice, and Graduate Education.

Presentations by Scott A. Crandall, Hannah Buchanan, Andy Maticornea Kajie, Darren Spirk, Charlie Reynolds, Cress Thibodeaux, Samantha Griffith, and Laura Mackie.

The presenters will discuss each other's creative work, situating it within contemporary arts, culture and relevant fields. All are welcome!

Workshop / Seminar:Generosity Accelerator
2023-12-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Ross School of Business
About the Thriving Accelerator Workshops:
A Thriving Accelerator is an immersive workshop from the Center for Positive Organizations about a topic in the science of thriving. After completing a workshop, students will be able to immediately implement their learnings to create lasting personal and organizational impact.

In the Generosity Accelerator, you will:
- Learn proven tools that will help you and your teams accelerate the flow of resources.
- Understand the foundational pieces needed to build a culture of generosity within your organization.
- Increase your personal, professional, and organizational connections, performance, and well-being.

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

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

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

Careers / Jobs:Joining AmeriCorps: Careers After Service
2023-12-05 16:00 - 17:00
Join us for Joining AmeriCorps: Careers After Service to learnabout how you can be a part of the solution to challenges facing the country with AmeriCorps!

Lecture / Discussion:Nam Center Colloquium Series | ‘War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning’: Militarized Queerness, Racial Masking, and the Korean War Mascot
2023-12-05 16:00 - 17:30 | LSA Building - Room 1040 Multipurpose Room
Please note: This session is planned to be held both in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: http://myumi.ch/dkz61

Revisionist attempts to recuperate the Korean War as a pioneering civil rights advance have left to the side the U.S. war machine’s flexible incorporation of Korean “orphans” and other forms of nonnormative life, even though such examples of GI “humanitarianism” were widely propagated in their moment. Although presented as objects of rescue, mascots were mobilized in dangerous roles that marked their militarized collusion and recalled their original status as permissible targets of war violence. Although propagated as proof of the U.S. military’s colorblind humanitarianism, the Korean War mascot, as indigenous life made over as potential adoptee, thus demands theorization as an object of colonial conquest. As a war remnant, a singularity whose obverse was the mass casualty, the Korean mascot hovered in a gray zone between friend and enemy as a form of queer life.

Christine Hong is Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and Literature. She directs the Center for Racial Justice at UC Santa Cruz, serves on the board of directors of the Korea Policy Institute, an independent research and educational institute, co-chairs the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council, and co-edits the Critical Ethnic Studies journal. Her book, A Violent Peace: Race, Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific, was published by Stanford University Press in 2020. Along with Deann Borshay Liem, she co-directed the Legacies of the Korean War oral history project. She also co-edited a two-volume thematic issue of Critical Asian Studies on Reframing North Korean Human Rights (2013-14); a special issue of positions: asia critique on The Unending Korean War (2015); and a forum of The Abusable Past on “White Terror, ‘Red’ Island: A People’s Archive of the Jeju 4.3 Uprising and Massacre.”

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Workshop / Seminar:STAR Scholars Fall Seminar Series
2023-12-05 16:00 - 17:30

Careers / Jobs:USA - Campus - EY Upskilling Series: Resume Writing
2023-12-05 16:00 - 16:45
IMPORTANT: You must register externally on the yello.co page in order to receive the event joining information. You will not be able to join the event directly through Handshake.

Learn how to give the "write" impression at our Resume Writing Session! Join EY Campus Recruiters as they cover the fundamentals of resume writing. We ensure that you will stepaway from the session with more knowledge on how you can enhance your resume to stand out during the application process.

Lecture / Discussion:Professors Gordon Belot, James M. Joyce, and Laura Ruetsche's Collegiate Professorship in Philosophy, Inaugural Lecture
2023-12-05 16:30 - 18:00 | Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
This event will take place both in person and virtually. Additional details regarding each lecture can be found below.

Professor Gordon Belot, the Lawrence Sklar Collegiate Professor of Philosophy

Lecture Title: On the Road to Truth

Abstract: This talk will explore some questions raised by Larry Sklar in Theory and Truth. What does it mean to be a realist about our scientific theories in our present predicament, in which we are virtually certain that the best theories of physics cannot be true, strictly speaking, because they break down or make false predictions in certain regimes? Sklar suggests that to be a realist in this setting is to be confident that our best current theories are in some sense stations on the road to truth—but what precisely does that mean?

Professor James M. Joyce, the Cooper Harold Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy

Lecture Title: Decision Making and the Accuracy of Beliefs

Lecture Abstract: Epistemologists have long focused on belief as the basic epistemic attitude, with the understanding that a belief is fully successful only if true. In the 20th Century, however, some philosophers began to see degrees of confidence, or credences, as more fundamental, largely because of their ties to rational action. The philosopher Frank Ramsey and statistician Bruno de Finetti famously argued that (i) a rational person's credences will be revealed in her betting behavior, and (ii) that a person whose credences do not obey the laws of probability will accept "books" of bets that, in the aggregate, lose money no matter what the world is like. These "pragmatic" (action centered) arguments were used to justify probabilism, the idea that rational credences must be subjective probabilities. But, many epistemologists were dissatisfied with this pragmatic approach since it did not ultimately relate the quality of credences to their accuracy or "closeness to the truth". As a response to these complaints, I sought to define a meaningful sense of accuracy for credences, and to show that probabilism could be seen as a means to pursuing credal accuracy. I knew de Finetti had offered an argument that could be adapted for this purpose, but it had limited applicability and was still pragmatic in spirit. While searching for something more general, and more clearly epistemic, I was attending the UM Decision Consortium, run by Frank Yates of the Psychology Department. One day Frank pointed me to his wonderful book Judgment and Decision Making, which introduced me to the use of strictly proper scoring rules to measure the accuracy of probabilistic forecasts. This turned out to be exactly what I needed! In two related papers, I argued that any reasonable score of credal accuracy should be a strictly proper scoring rule, and that for a wide range of such rules probabilism follows in this sense: for any system of credences that violates the laws of probability there is a system of credences that satisfies those laws and is more accurate in every possible state of the world.

Professor Laura Ruetsche, the Louis E. Loeb Collegiate Professor of Philosophy

Lecture Title: "The Physics of Ignorance: Believe It or Not?"

Lecture Abstract: Should we believe our very best theories of physics? Scientific realists urge that we should: the best way to make sense of a theory's remarkable success, they argue, is to suppose that the world is (more or less) the way that theory says it is. Most physicists regard our very best theories of physics, including those making up the Standard Model of contemporary particle physics, to be effective theories. Not itself fundamentally or universally valid, an effective theory is rather, within an avowedly limited domain, an able mimic of more fundamental theories. But what do we believe, when we believe an able mimic? And is that something we should believe? I'll critically consider a resourceful realist answer to these questions. I'll also defend an alternative that becomes available once we liberate ourselves from a constrictive presupposition: that to understand a theory, we must articulate the way that theory says the world is.

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Careers / Jobs:Disney Auditions - A World of Opportunity
2023-12-05 17:00 - 18:00
Join the Disney Talent Casting team for an interactive discussion on the global performance opportunities available with Disney Live Entertainment! We will touch on a range of topics including audition prep, growth opportunities and how to take your next steps towards an on stage role within Disney Live Entertainment.

Come prepared with any questions to help prepare you for next Disney Audition!

Careers / Jobs:Michigan Financial Companies College Night - CANCELLED!
2023-12-05 17:00 - 19:00 | 28411 Northwestern Highway, Southfield, Michigan 48034, UnitedStates
CANCELLED EVENT!!

Current Juniors and Seniors are invited to learn more about our 2024 Summer Internship Program through an interactive evening at our Southfield office. Students will have the opportunity tomeet members of our executive team and financial advisors, and get your questions answered as we learn more about you!

Please Register for the Event within Handshake.

Any questions, feel free to contact our Recruiting Coordinator:
Chelsea Zangkas at: czangkas@michiganfinancial.com
OR
our Director of Marketing:
Kristen Walker at: kwalker@michiganfinancial.com

Careers / Jobs:Providence Schools: Early Contract Hiring Event
2023-12-05 17:00 - 20:30 | 797 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, UnitedStates
Good afternoon!

We are pleased to announce that Providence Public Schools will be hosting an Early Contract Hiring Fair featuring Hiring Incentive Bonuses $$$ of $5,000 for serving in hard-to-fill areas AND$25,000 in loan forgiveness for educators of color (Eligible if selectedfor an early contract that sign up before 2/15/24)

To join us, please RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/Early-contract

You will be able to interview for the Providence Public School District as a whole, potentially beoffered an Early Contract, and guaranteed a position for the 24/25 school year in the following hard-to-fill areas (Special Education, Dual Language/Bilingual, Speech-Language Pathologist, Secondary Science, Secondary Math, School Psychologist).

Please apply to one of the areas at https://tinyurl.com/applyppsd in addition to attending the event.
*Additional details and information can be found at https://tinyurl.com/Earlycontractinfo

If you are having issues registering, please email Careers@ppsd.org .
We look forward to seeing you there!

Presentation:Story Lab Fall Showcase
2023-12-05 17:00 - 18:30 | Ross School of Business - Robertson Auditorium
ABOUT
Story Lab develops executive-level presence and communication skills through storytelling workshops and events. To be an effective leader — at work, in the community, or in your personal life — you must be able to communicate with impact. Often this means telling stories that are meaningful to you and others, and doing so in the rich language and expressive style of a seasoned storyteller. If you can craft and deliver an effective story, you will be better able to convey your value to recruiters, inspire and motivate classmates and colleagues, and influence your audience. At Story Lab, you’ll find an immersive experience and an opportunity to hone your skills in a safe and supportive environment.

DATE
Dec 5 | 5:00-6:30 PM @ Robertson Auditorium
Share your story, or come to support your peers.
RSVP required.

PARTICIPANT REQUIREMENTS
Open to all.

Visit our webpage to learn more!

Workshop / Seminar:Student Analysis: An Introduction to Vorticity and Incompressible Flow
2023-12-05 17:00 - 18:00 | East Hall - 4096
In this talk, I will introduce the concept of vorticity and discuss its central role in the behavior of incompressible fluids, focusing in particular on the role of the Lagrangian viewpoint. Time permitting, we will discuss some well posedness results, including the theorem of Beale-Kato-Majda.

Lecture / Discussion:Graduate Student Capstone Presentations
2023-12-05 18:00 - 21:00 | East Quadrangle - Keene Theater
A culmination of the year-long certificate program that brings together theory, research, and practice. Light reception to follow each date.

November 21, 6:00-9:00 PM
Room 1405 // East Quad // 701 E. University

Fitz Neeley
*An Introduction to Tabla*

Kara Roseborough
*Pa' La Gente: Artivism in Bomba*

Xin Yi Chong
*Finding Identity*

November 28, 6:00-9:00 PM
Keene Theater // East Quad // 701 E. University

James Koo
*鼓樂 - Gu Yue*

Asa Willoughby
*Bengal Calling*

Sreyashi Dey
*Shikhandi: Revenge, Remembrance and Transcendence*

Sitso Ahlijah
*The Acogny Technique*

December 5, 6:00-9:00 PM
Keene Theater // East Quad // 701 E. University

Simranpreet Anand
*Re-Sounding the Loom: Finding Resonance through Dhurrie Weaving *

Sreya Muthukumar
*Embodied Expressions: Innovations in Dance Pedagogy*

Jonathan Barahal Taylor
*Subverting Expectations: Improvisational Instincts and Cross-Cultural Musical Dialogue*

Gavin Ryan
*Reinkarnasi: Modernization of Gamelan Selonding*

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

Careers / Jobs:UAlbany Epidemiology and Biostatistics MS and PhD Graduate Study
2023-12-05 18:00 - 19:00
Join us online via Zoom to learn more about earning a masters or doctoral degree in epidemiology or biostatistics from the University atAlbany School of Public Health.

Faculty will be available to talk withyou about the curriculum, signature research strengths, the admissions and application process, funding opportunities, and our one-of-a-kind partnership with the New York State Department of Health.

Examples of research areas in epidemiology include HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, zoonoses, social determinants of health, racialand ethnic disparities in health outcomes, food insecurity, stress and health, violence, alcohol and substance abuse, and life course epidemiology.

Signature strengths in biostatistics include statistical theory advancement and methods in artificial intelligence, precision medicine, bioinformatics, spatiotemporal analysis, stochastic processes, and applied biostatistics.

Notable resources and opportunities for students include the UAlbany AI Plus Institute. Visit www.albany.edu/ai-plusm for moreinformation.

Visit www.albany.edu/sph/epidemiology-biostatistics to learn more.

Other:Technique Class
2023-12-05 18:30 - 21:30 | Phoenix Center
Special Styling Class!LOCATION: the Phoenix Center at 220 S. Main St.PRICES: $10 for students, included in monthly pass.Come join us for Technique class where we review the body movement and technique for the three styles you have seen throughout the last month! We will be focusing on different styling in each dance. No partner necessary! Please bring dance shoes or socks.6:30pm - 8:30pm : open level (this is a 2 hour class!)8:30pm - 9:30pm : Social dancing (no partner necessary! All levels welcome!)We hope to see you then!

Lecture / Discussion:Writer to Writer with Public School Poetry
2023-12-05 18:30 - 19:30 | Off Campus Location
Writer to Writer offers rare glimpse into the writing that professors do outside the classroom and how they handle the same challenges student writers face. Hosted by Shelley Manis from U-M LSA’s Sweetland Center for Writing.

This December, we welcome Public School Poetry with Ellen Stone, Scott Beal, David Ward, and Julie Babcock!

Public School Poetry was created by a group of poets educated through the public school system. We hope this online journal embodies the strangeness of public school and our colliding desires to learn, break rules, see what others are doing, and create new and better spaces. Despite the name, we are not a student-specific publication; our contributors come from all backgrounds and life stages.

This journal is a leap of faith and an ongoing experiment. Each contributor writes “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and anonymously assign. Poems and essays appear together in each issue.

https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/

Ellen Stone comes from a family of public-school teachers in Pennsylvania and spent her career teaching public school before retiring after 20+ years at Community High School in Ann Arbor.

Scott Beal is a product of public schools in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Ohio, and Michigan, and currently directs the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts program at the University of Michigan.

David Ward has been a public school student at Sedona Red Rock High School, Arizona State University, and the University of Michigan, where he now teaches writing.

Julie Babcock is a poet and a fiction writer who sprang from public school systems in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and now teaches at University of Michigan.

Well-being:Guided Music Meditation
2023-12-05 19:00 - 20:00 | East Quadrangle - 1506
✨Join us for a musical evening of sacred sound meditation✨
In addition to this musical experience, we offer discussion about relevant topics related to yoga lifestyle, mental resilience, mantra meditation, and many more!

We have so many exciting insights and events to share! We also have vegetarian snacks!

We meet every Tuesday 7:00-8:00 PM at East Quad Room 1506

We are open to the student populous and public! Hope to see you there!

Workshop / Seminar:Mosher-Jordan Hall Council Cookies and Cocoa December Event
2023-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Jordan Side Kitchen and Living Room

Social / Informal Gathering:Trivia and Game Night in the Connector
2023-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | The Connector - 1520
Join the Connector Community Assistants for a trivia and game night featuring all of your favorite games such as life-size Connect 4, jumbo Jenga, Loteria, and more! Free popcorn for all attendees and prizes for trivia winners. We hope to see you there.

Exhibition:VR / AR Student Project Exhibition (EECS 498.003 : XR)
2023-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Duderstadt Center - 1st Floor VizStudio
Experience socially-impactful VR / AR apps made by Michigan students at the EECS 498 XR Exhibition! Join us December 9th in the first-floor Duderstadt VizStudio.

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

Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Symphony Orchestra
2023-12-05 19:15 - 19:45 | Off Campus Location
This lecture begins at 7:15pm before the 8:00 pm USO performance, featuring music by Hansol Choi (*Samdo*, world premiere), Jonathan Leshnoff (*Concerto for Two Percussionists*) and Shostakovich (Symphony No. 5).

Kenneth Kiesler, conductor
Yeo Ryeong Ahn, conductor
Ian Antonio and Douglas Perkins, percussion

In its final concert of 2023, the University Symphony Orchestra (USO) performs one of the greatest and most often performed symphonies of the 20th Century, a new piece by a composer-percussionist and a recent work for two percussion soloists.

The concert opens with the world premiere of *Samdo*, by Hansol Choi. A reinterpretation of intense traditional Korean music for orchestra, this colorful and exciting piece utilizes traditional Korean percussion quartet music, Samulnori, and combines various traditional Korean rhythmic patterns with shamanistic music and popular Korean folk songs. *Samdo* will be conducted by Yeo Ryeong Ahn, native of Seoul, Korea, and orchestral conducting student in her final year as a doctoral student in orchestral conducting.

Renowned percussionists and SMTD faculty members Ian Antonio and Douglas Perkins are featured in the highly charged and virtuosic *Concerto for Two Percussionists* by Jonathan Leshnoff, followed by the Fifth Symphony by Shostakovich.

For most of his life, Shostakovich tried to stay in the good graces of the government while being true to himself and his art. In 1934, after Stalin went to see Shostakovich’s new opera *Lady Macbeth of Mtensk*, Pravda published an article, possibly written by Stalin himself, which condemned the composer and his new opera, calling it “chaos instead of music.” Shostakovich aimed to redeem (protect) himself with his new symphony, which he described as “A Soviet Artist's Response to Just Criticism.” At its premiere, which received an ovation lasting more than 30 minutes, he managed to please the government while sending the masses a very different message of resistance and forced optimism. Its epic quality and combination of brass fanfares, soulful songs, folk music, militaristic marches, and sounds of the Russian Orthodox Church, has made it one of the most popular pieces in the repertoire of symphony orchestras worldwide.

Performance:Siwon Kim, piano
2023-12-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Graduate student Siwon Kim performs a recital.

Performance:[Cancelled] Maxwell Remmer, cello
2023-12-05 20:00 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
This recital has been cancelled; we apologize for any inconvenience.

Performance:An Acoustic Christmas
2023-12-05 20:00 | ARK Reserved
Presented by The Ark.
Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4350/4351 for more detail.

Performance:Saxophone Studio Recital
2023-12-05 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Saxophone students from the Department of Winds & Percussion perform a recital.

Performance:University Symphony Orchestra
2023-12-05 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
Kenneth Kiesler, conductor
Yeo Ryeong Ahn, conductor
Ian Antonio and Douglas Perkins, percussion

PROGRAM

Hansol Choi, *Samdo* (World Premiere)

Jonathan Leshnoff, *Concerto for Two Percussionists*

Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5

In its final concert of 2023, the University Symphony Orchestra (USO) performs one of the greatest and most often performed symphonies of the 20th Century, a new piece by a composer-percussionist and a recent work for two percussion soloists.

The concert opens with the world premiere of *Samdo*, by Hansol Choi. A reinterpretation of intense traditional Korean music for orchestra, this colorful and exciting piece utilizes traditional Korean percussion quartet music, Samulnori, and combines various traditional Korean rhythmic patterns with shamanistic music and popular Korean folk songs. *Samdo* will be conducted by Yeo Ryeong Ahn, native of Seoul, Korea, and orchestral conducting student in her final year as a doctoral student in orchestral conducting.

Renowned percussionists and SMTD faculty members Ian Antonio and Douglas Perkins are featured in the highly charged and virtuosic *Concerto for Two Percussionists* by Jonathan Leshnoff, followed by the Fifth Symphony by Shostakovich.

For most of his life, Shostakovich tried to stay in the good graces of the government while being true to himself and his art. In 1934, after Stalin went to see Shostakovich’s new opera *Lady Macbeth of Mtensk*, Pravda published an article, possibly written by Stalin himself, which condemned the composer and his new opera, calling it “chaos instead of music.” Shostakovich aimed to redeem (protect) himself with his new symphony, which he described as “A Soviet Artist's Response to Just Criticism.” At its premiere, which received an ovation lasting more than 30 minutes, he managed to please the government while sending the masses a very different message of resistance and forced optimism. Its epic quality and combination of brass fanfares, soulful songs, folk music, militaristic marches, and sounds of the Russian Orthodox Church, has made it one of the most popular pieces in the repertoire of symphony orchestras worldwide.

This performance will be preceded by a pre-concert conversation about the music and the artists at 7:15 in the Hill Auditorium Lower Lobby.

Sporting Event:Men's Basketball vs Indiana
2023-12-05 21:00 | Crisler Arena
Men's Basketball vs Indiana
