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Events around U-M

Rally / Mass Meeting
Faculty Senate: Political Speech and the Public Square
The University of Michigan is an institution with diverse communities, interests and opinions. In Fall 2024, the Faculty Senate Office launched this series – Political Speech and the Public Square – to provide a forum for members of the U-M community to present informed, fact-based perspectives, and to listen to and learn from each other.…

Lecture / Discussion
Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: Friday Night AI
How to Build a Robot from Scratch
Panelists: Zara Burzo, Raphael Fournier, additional panelists TBDModerator: Prof. Rada MihalceaOrganizer: Michigan AI Lab, in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District LibraryWhen: September 11, 2026, 6:30pm – 7:30pmWhere: AADL Ann Arbor downtown, 4th Floor Meeting Room (343 S 5th Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104) Robots are among the most challenging automated systems to build because…

Workshop / Seminar
The Center for the Study of Complex Systems: Generative AI Availability, Grades, and Student Satisfaction at a Large University
The spread of generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has raised concerns that students offload cognitive effort to AI, earning high grades without learning. If this “GenAI substitution hypothesis” is true, grades should rise disproportionately in GenAI-susceptible courses — those relying more on assessments like take-home problem sets and essays rather than in-class exams. Substitution…

Workshop / Seminar
Information and Technology Services (ITS): Exploring Gemini Notebook for Education
Discover the power of Gemini Notebook, the advanced AI-powered research and note-taking assistant available to all University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students. Designed to help you understand and synthesize information from your own documents, Gemini Notebook transforms your lesson plans, lecture notes, and research papers into a dynamic knowledge base. By grounding its responses…

Workshop / Seminar
Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society MIDAS: Claude Code for R Users: Getting Started with Agentic Coding
Elle O’Brien
Tutorial Overview Many scientists use AI coding tools through a browser — copying and pasting between chat and editor. Agentic tools like Claude Code work differently: they run on your machine, read your project, execute your code, and iterate on errors. This hands-on tutorial covers the pros and cons of using a coding agent and…

Lecture / Discussion
Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society MIDAS: How AI Might Make And Break America’s Justice System
Vivek Sankaran and Bridgette Carr
Abstract Most Americans facing a legal problem, whether an eviction, a custody dispute, or a debt collection suit, navigate it alone. In three out of four civil cases in state courts, at least one side has no lawyer, and the judges and lawyers inside the system are burning out. We will never hire enough lawyers…

Conference / Symposium
Automotive Futures: 18th Annual Future of Automotive IT: Real AI Applications in the Automotive Industry
This conference will be a hybrid conference with options to attend in person or to view via a YouTube livestream.Our 18th Annual Future of Automotive IT on September 18th at the University of Michigan is titled, “Real AI Applications in the Auto Industry.” We’ll be discussing examples of how AI is actually being used within…

Workshop / Seminar
Information and Technology Services (ITS): Streamline Daily Work Tasks with U-M Maizey
Sponsored by ITS Instructional Support
Streamline Daily Work Tasks with U-M Maizey U-M Maizey is a tool that enables U-M faculty, staff, and students to use custom datasets to enhance their GenAI experience, helping them extract insights, discover patterns, and gain deeper knowledge from the data. Enhance your productivity by harnessing U-M Maizey for various staff-related tasks, including managing Dropbox, Google Drive,…

Workshop / Seminar
Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering: Fall 2026 MICDE State of AI & Future of Institutions
Hosted by MICDE, the State of AI & the Future of Institutions event brings together scholars, students, and institutional leaders to examine the rapid evolution of AI and its implications for knowledge, research, education, work, governance, and society. Held twice a year, the series creates a forum for timely, cross-disciplinary discussion of AI’s emerging capabilities,…

Workshop / Seminar
DCMB Seminar Series: CCMB/DCMB Weekly Bioinformatics Seminar Series featuring Feng Yue, PhD (Director, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine – Center for Advanced Molecular Analysis at Northwestern Medicine)
Dr. Yue is the founding director of the Center for Cancer Genomics at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, director of the Center for Advanced Molecular Analysis at Northwestern Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, the Duane and Susan Burnham Professor of Molecular Medicine, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, and…