- Canceled :Puzzle Competition at Wolverine PickleballCancelled
Puzzle Competition at Wolverine Pickleball
Anyone interested in forming a team? I am currently registered as a free agent to be assigned to a team, but would love to have our own team.
$40 entry fee per team ($10 per person).
The winning team will receive $80 in gift cards, and second place will get $40. (this might change depending on how many teams sign up)Teams of up to 4 compete to complete a 500-piece Eeboo Puzzle the fastest!
Prizes and light appetizers are provided.
6:30-6:45 PM - Check-in, pick your table, and grab a wristband!
7:00 PM - Puzzling starts.
Want to register but don't have a team? Check out the free agent registration here.
Do you have a couple people but want to fill out our your team? Let us know and we will grab a free agent puzzler to add to your team. - Saturday Morning Physics: AI and the Business World at Univ of Michigan170 Weiser Hall (formerly Dennison Bldg.), Ann Arbor, MI
Saturday Morning Physics | AI and the Business World
These lectures are back! I will try and get there early to save seats, but please arrive by 10am in order to get your seat. This lectures are very popular. If you get there late you might have to sit in the overflow room next door.
Speaker: Nigel Melville
Associate Professor of Information Systems (U-M Ross Business School)Saturday, November 23, 2024
10:30-11:30 AM
170 & 182 Auditoriums Weiser Hall
Each lecture begins promptly at 10:30 AM and runs until 11:30 AM, with a half-hour Q&A afterward.Modern AI brings new benefits, costs, and risks to business organizations. This creates challenges as they try to adopt AI to achieve goals while avoiding harm and damage. I'll discuss findings from my research proposing a new framing of AI as a set of machine capabilities, share what I'm learning from industry engagements, and describe an innovative interdisciplinary initiative here at U-M that's asking the Big Questions about AI.
Close Parking is available at the Church Street Parking Structure for $10.00/car with only credit cards accepted. BUT a block away is a city parking structure on S. Forest and S. University that only charges $1.50/hr. Meters are $2.50 an hour.
About Saturday Morning Physics
Physics is a fundamental science and provides the foundations for solving both cosmic mysteries and practical problems. In 1995, the University of Michigan Department of Physics began sharing some of the latest ideas in the field with the public in the Saturday Morning Physics lecture series.Designed for general audiences, the lectures are an opportunity to hear physicists discuss their work in easy-to-understand, non-technical terms. The multimedia presentations include hands-on demonstrations of the principles discussed, along with slides, video, and computer simulations
- SMTD Theater production: John Proctor Is the Villain @ Lydia Mendelssohn TheaterLydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI
John Proctor Is the Villain @ Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Play starts at 8:00pm
I have purchase seats C6 and C7 in the Balcony. Buy your ticket somewhere near me.
Tickets are $35 - Purchase tickets hereAs a group of high schoolers in a small Georgia town analyze Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in their literature class, they find echoes of the play in their own lives and – with laughter, fury, and heartbreak – grapple with complicated questions of trust, betrayal, and the abuse of power.
Written soon after the #MeToo movement entered the national conversation, this momentous, touching, and laugh-out-loud funny play explores themes of trust, betrayal, and the abuse of power as experienced by a group of high school friends. Set in a small Georgia town where everybody knows everybody else’s business, John Proctor Is the Villain focuses on the students in a high school literature class, and particularly on a group of girls who have strong and sometimes complicated friendships with each other. As the students discuss Arthur Miller’s The Crucible with their beloved teacher Mr. Smith – and as they explore, in an after-school club, what feminism means to them – they begin to see echoes between this classic American play about the Salem witch trials and events unfolding in their world. As those events come to a shocking climax, their assessment of the heroes and villains in The Crucible, and in their own lives, changes forever.
Written by Kimberly Belflower
Directed by Halena Kays********************************
SMTD = School of Music, Theater, & Dance (SMTD) at the University of Michigan.Enjoy an extraordinary performance while supporting the next generation of professional performers at the beginning of their careers! These performances, on par with professional productions, showcase our exceptional students and renowned faculty. Best of all, the revenue generated by ticket sales directly supports future educational performance opportunities for all of our students.
- Glenlore Trails AURORA - an illuminated immersive winterland walkGlen, commerce township, MI
Experience the Magic of AURORA
Tickets $25 - we will purchase at the door so we can check out the weather. DO NOT purchase yet!
Step into Aurora, our illuminated winter wonderland! This magical night walk is filled with dazzling lights, enchanting holiday sounds, and a special twist—magic wands that let you unlock hidden surprises along the trail. Whether you’re looking for a fun family outing or a memorable date night, Aurora offers a truly immersive experience that will bring the holiday season to life! Aurora will be open from November 15th through December 29th, 2024.
TICKETS: We will purchase tickets when we get there. Meet near the ticket booth at 5:30pm. If tickets are sold out for the early times, there are food trucks we can eat at while we wait for our scheduled time slot.
Trail is about 1 mile long. KIDS welcome
Located at 3860 Newton Road, Commerce Township, MI 48382
- Friday Night AI | AI vs. The Flu: Can Technology Predict and Prevent Epidemics?Ann Arbor District Library - Downtown, Ann Arbor, MI
Friday Night AI | AI vs. The Flu: Can Technology Predict and Prevent Epidemics?
(We can go out for food and drink after the Talk)
Panelists: Prof. Alexander Rodriguez, Prof. Adam Lauring
Moderator: Prof. Rada Mihalcea
Interactive Activities: Yara El-Tawil
Organizer: Michigan AI Lab, in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library
When: December 13, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Where: AADL Ann Arbor downtown, 4th Floor Meeting Room (343 S 5th Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104)Free and open to the public
As flu season approaches, the challenge of predicting and preventing widespread outbreaks is once again at the top of our—and public health officials’—minds. Recent advances in AI offer promising new approaches for monitoring disease spread, analyzing patterns in real-time, and providing early warnings to help limit infections. But how effective are these tools in accurately forecasting outbreaks and guiding preventive action? Join us for a conversation with epidemiologists and AI researchers as we explore the power of machine learning, big data, and predictive modeling to tackle epidemics like the flu or other infectious diseases. Learn about the tools already in place, the hurdles in predicting complex viral patterns, and the steps needed to make AI a trusted ally in public health. With interactive activities developed by graduate student Yara El-Tawil.About the speakers:
Alexander Rodriguez is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his PhD in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2023. His research interests include problems at the intersection of machine learning, time series, multi-agent systems, uncertainty quantification, and scientific modeling. These are primarily motivated by public health, computational epidemiology, and community resilience. His work has been recognized with the best paper award at ICML AI4ABM 2022 and was awarded the 1st place in the Facebook/CMU COVID-19 Challenge and the 2nd place in the C3.ai COVID-19 Grand Challenge. He was also named a ‘Rising Star in Data Science’ by the University of Chicago Data Science Institute in 2021 and a ‘Rising Star in ML & AI’ by the University of Southern California in 2022. His dissertation received the 2024 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and the 2024 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award Runner Up. His homepage is alrodri.engin.umich.edu.Adam Lauring is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases and the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Michigan. He received his MD and PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Lauring pursued his post-graduate clinical and research training at the University of California, San Francisco, where he completed a medical residency, an Infectious Diseases fellowship, and a postdoctoral fellowship in virology. He has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan since 2012.
Dr. Lauring studies the fundamentals of how viruses mutate and how this drives the evolution of poliovirus, influenza virus, SARS-CoV-2. His more recent work utilizes advanced sequencing of influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 specimens to understand viral spread across communities and the impact of evolution on vaccine effectiveness. More recently, he is part of a project to use AI to understand factors that contribute to viral emergence. His research on virus evolution and genomic epidemiology has been funded by grants from the NIH, CDC, NSF, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Moderator: Rada Mihalcea is the Janice M. Jenkins Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research interests are in natural language processing, with a focus on multimodal processing and computational social sciences. She is an ACM Fellow, a AAAI Fellow, and served as ACL President (2018-2022 Vice/Past). She is the recipient of a Sarah Goddard Power award (2019) for her contributions to diversity in science, and the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers awarded by President Obama (2009).
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