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This workshop for experienced Word 2007 users will help you prepare longer documents and take advantage of more sophisticated features of Word. We'll cover advanced headers and footers, inserting graphics and work from other programs such as Excel, creating multiple newspaper style columns, formatting sections, creating a document template, creating a Table of Contents, and tracking revisions. Questions are encouraged.

*Limited seating to 12 participants*

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship and MPowered present Art Fry, Inventor of Post-it® Notes: "Post-it Notes Were Not An Accident".

PRESENTER: Art Fry, Inventor of the "Post-it" Sticky note. Dr. Spencer Silver in 3M Central Research Labs, created small, sticky spheres. Art Fry, in a Product Development Lab for tape products, attended a seminar where he heard of the sticky microspheres. In 1974 he first thought to use them in bookmarks to mark his music in the church choir. Once made, the bookmarks found even wider use as sticky notes. Fry was able to spearhead the development of Post-it Notes® because of 3M's officially sanctioned policy that permitted bootlegging.

Test sales in 1974 had small success because customers walked by the store shelves without trying them. A year later, 3M issued free samples to residents in Boise, Idaho. Over 90% who tried them said they would buy them and they did! By 1980, Post-it Notes® were sold in the United States and Canada, and launched into Europe in 1981.

As the business grew, a series of products were added to the Post-it® line, with Super Sticky Notes added in 2003 for better adhesion to non-smooth surfaces. The products are easy to use, but technically complex. Patent protection expired in the 1990's and other companies now produce sticky notes, but most of the world's sticky notes are produced in 3M's technology/capital intensive plant in Cynthiana, Kentucky.

 Free and open to the public.

This November, SMART's Sustainable Urban Mobility & Accessibility Summit is back by popular demand at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  

Moving Minds: The Next Transportation Infrastructure will bring researchers together with business leaders, entrepreneurs, practitioners and policy makers from around the world.

This year's summit will give special attention to: "Moving Minds" -- understanding the cultural, psychological, and aspirational underpinnings of our relationship to transportation (for both users and leaders), and responding with innovative systems, policies, and business models that address these dimensions sustainability, equitably, and compellingly, including:

• New policy frameworks and research directions for the next (integrated) transportation infrastructure,
• New business and employment opportunities related to the emerging global New Mobility industry, 
• "Resilience" - designing and operating integrated transportation/communication systems with capacities for transformational learning, adaptation and creative renewal when confronted by crisis, surprise, stress and trauma, 
• Innovative Capacity Building - developing and sharing the knowledge and skills to address the growing global challenges and opportunities of New Mobility / sustainable transportation in urban regions.

The summit aims to build on the invaluable wisdom and experience of its participants, and on SMART's ongoing work to understand and accelerate development and implementation of sustainable, systems-based solutions to mobility and accessibility in global urban regions.

Through step-by-step creation participants will gain a more advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel 2007. This class is geared towards someone who uses Excel as a database management system. Excel features taught in this class are: Advanced sorting skills, filtering a list, subtotal, pivot tables, validation, and macros. Questions are encouraged.

Limited seating to 12 participants*

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering cordially invites you to attend Engineering the Impossible Distinguished Lecture Series presented by Dr. Kincho H. Law, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.

Lecture Title - Computing and Communication Technologies in Civil and Building Engineering

ABSTRACT:  Civil and building engineering professions have had a long and successful history in adopting computing technologies, from computer-aided design, engineering analyses and simulations to project management. Current utilization of computing technology, however, remains limited to domain specific, standalone applications. As computer hardware and software, mobile computing and communication technologies continue to grow, there are many new opportunities and approaches to explore the use of these advanced technologies for engineering simulations, software integration and lifecycle project management. This presentation will discuss some of the recent technology developments and how they may be deployed in civil and building engineering industry.

To register for this event please contact Sherry Brueger at sbrueger@umich.edu

Reception to follow

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Office of Student Affairs presents David Green, MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and social entrepreneur, "Humanizing Capitalism to Make Medical Products and Services Affordable to Low Income People".

PRESENTER: David Green is a UM grad who has worked with many organizations to make medical technology and health care services sustainable, affordable and accessible to all. David is a MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur.

David helped establish Aurolab (India), to produce affordable intraocular lenses (now has 8% of the global market share) and helped develop high-volume, quality eye care programs that are affordable to the poor and self-sustaining from user fees (Aravind Eye Hospital in India) which performs 300,000 surgeries per year - 70 percent of the care is provided free of charge or below - cost, yet the hospital is able to generate substantial surplus revenue. Within this paradigm of 'humanizing capitalism; he now works to create social investing instruments to support sustainable social enterprises (in eye care and solar energy); and is developing affordable hearing devices with a novel fitting system.

Free and open to the public.

COE Faculty and Staff Arts & Crafts Show 2009

• September 1 - deadline for artists who would like their artwork to be considered for the 2009 poster.
• October 1 - final deadline for artists to submit their work for the show.

Diag Day will be the pinnacle of Global Entrepreneurship Week when student organizations from all parts of campus will come together on the Central Campus Diag in an event similar to Festifall. These organizations will be discussing how they embrace and advance the entrepreneurial mindset in their own unique way in both Michigan and beyond. The goal of this event is to highlight the fact that the entrepreneurial mindset is prevalent everywhere and in a variety of ways as highlighted by the wide variety of organizations involved.

Diag Day will also feature a Passport Program which encourages students to visit various tables and converse with the club and venture members to receive prizes.

Universal Magnetic Structures by AOSS Professor Mark Moldwin

Refreshments will be served before seminar.

Abstract:  The understanding of the large-scale structure of matter in the universe can be organized principally by two force fields - gravitational and magnetic fields. Gravity gathers together material into moons, planets, stars, star clusters and galaxies. Magnetic fields principally push plasmas apart creating their own hierarchy of magnetized structures. The universe is full of distinctive magnetic forms that recur on widely different scales and in lab, heliophysics and astrophysical contexts. To organize this presentation of magnetically-defined structures, I put them in three groups and draw from the field of heliophysics: current sheets (e.g., the heliospheric current sheet); flux tubes (e.g., sun spots); and cells in which I include cavities (e.g., magnetospheres). The emphasis of this talk is on flux tubes, one of the fundamental examples of the magnetic organization of matter. The talk will address why plasmas organize around a small set of universal structures and provide examples on how thinking about discrete structures can add to our understanding of the solarterrestrial relationship.

About the Speaker:  Mark Moldwin is a Professor of Space Sciences in the University of Michigan's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences in the College of Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty of UM in July of 2009, Dr. Moldwin was a Professor of Space Physics at UCLA (2000-2009), Professor Physics and Space Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne (1994-2000) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Space and Atmospheric Sciences and Non-proliferation and International Security groups at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Moldwin joined the LANL in 1992 after receiving his Ph.D. in Astronomy/Space Physics from Boston University. He was awarded a B.A. in Physics with Honors from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 1987. Dr. Moldwin's primary research interests are magnetospheric and heliospheric plasma physics, and pre-college space science education and outreach.

Serious Games Expo, a showcase of simulation and game-type activities being used for teaching and skill mastery in education, medicine, business and industry. A flight simulator is one example of a serious game---a type of activity designed to foster deep, multidisciplinary, sensory learning.

Thought leaders from the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor community will display their serious game products such as prediction market software Crowd Clarity, Facebook marketplace Bodega Shop, and educational games Bibliobouts and Place Out of Time. Crowd Clarity uses the wisdom of crowds to help companies decide when to launch a new product. Bodega Shop allows Facebook users to shop for and trade gifts. Bibliobouts supports literacy for incoming college students. Place Out of Time assigns participants a historical figure to play as they argue in a trial related to a contemporary issue. These are just a few of the products that will be on display.

"You can do complex, multidisciplinary, multifaceted things in a game environment," said Ken Ludwig, expo organizer and a lecturer in the U-M Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering. "Underlying serious games is how people actually learn. They learn through all their senses and nonlinearly. When you learn stuff this way, you learn it totally."

A map is available at: www.engin.umich.edu/facilities/maps/chrysler.html

SPONSORS: The Center for Entrepreneurship, the Medical Innovation Center, the School of Information and the U-M Library's Computer + Video Game Archive.

Join us for this half day public symposium to feature keynote speakers: Bruce M. Kahn, Ph.D., Director and Senior Investment Analyst, Deutsche Bank Asset Management and Megan McCluer, Program Manager, Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program, U.S. Department of Energy.

The symposium will also host a panel discussion focused on current investment spaces in wind, solar, and energy storage. Panelists will discuss technology, financing, policies, and other specific aspects of development related to these specific markets within Cleantech.

Following this will be a panel on 'Developments in Today's Cleantech Industry within the State of Michigan'. The symposium will wrap-up with a networking luncheon followed by a post lunch discussion on positioning Cleantech within the State of Michigan.

Cleantech 2009 is co-presented by the Erb Institute for Global and Sustainable Enterprise and the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, at the University of Michigan.

This conference is free and open to the public.  Pre-registration is required.

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, the Office of Corporate Relations, the Chinese Entrepreneur Network and MPowered present Nick Yang, Founder and Vice Chairman, KongZhong Corporation, CEO of Wukong, and CEO and founder of Monkey King, "Recognizing and Capturing Entrepreneurial Opportunities, My Experiences Building a Company from Zero to IPO in 2 Years and 2 Months".

PRESENTER: Nick Yang is currently the CEO and founder of Monkey King Search Company in Beijing China. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a BSEE degree in 1997 and from Stanford University with MSEE degree in 1999. After graduation, he co-founded ChinaRen.com, with Stanford classmates, Yunfan Zhou and Joe Chen. By mid-2000, ChinaRen.com had became the fourth largest website in China and was sold to Sohu.com. He became the CTO of Sohu and stayed in Sohu for one and half years. In May 2002, he co-founded KongZhong Inc. with Yunfan Zhou, focusing on wireless value added services In July, 2009, he quit the position as president of KongZhong and founded Monkey King Search Company focusing on mobile search.

Free and open to the public.

This class is for chart users. In this class we will explore the following: Understanding charts, creating charts, working with different types of charts, resizing and editing charts, data ranges, legends, axis, 3D charts and working with pivot charts using Microsoft Excel 2007. Questions are encouraged.

Limited seating to 12 participants*

This endowed chair was established by a gift in 1993 to support a distinguished faculty member in the College of Engineering.

Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of Professor Hero, a distinguished member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty.

LECTURE TITLE: Statistical Signal Processing As An Enabling Technology

ABSTRACT: The field of signal and image processing is at the intersection of mathematics, science and engineering. It continues to impact core technologies on which our society depend including modern telecommunications, transportation, and medical technology. Statistical signal processing deals with the extraction of information from noisy or degraded measurements. Prof. Hero will illustrate the enabling role of statistical signal processing in several areas of science and technology.

BIO: Alfred O. Hero III received the B.S. (summa cum laude) from Boston University (1980) and the Ph.D from Princeton University (1984), both in Electrical Engineering. He joined the faculty at U-M in 1984. In addition to his primary appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he also has appointments, by courtesy, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Statistics. In 2008 he was awarded the the Digiteo Chaire d'Excellence, sponsored by Digiteo Research Park in Paris, located at the Ecole Superieure d'Electricite, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. He has held numerous visiting positions at leading academic and industrial institutions.

Alfred Hero has served extensively in the professional community. In recent years, he sat on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2004-2006), and the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2002, 2004). He was President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2006-2007) and during his term he served on the TAB Periodicals Committee (2006). He was a member of the IEEE TAB Society Review Committee (2009) and is Director-elect of IEEE for Division IX (2009).

Alfred Hero is an IEEE Fellow, a member of Tau Beta Pi, the American Statistical Association ASA), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the US National Commission Commission C) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He has been plenary and keynote speaker at several major conferences and received an IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (1998), an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1998), an IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000) and a 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturership.

Prof. Hero's recent research interests include detection, classification, pattern analysis, and adaptive sampling for spatio-temporal data. Of particular interest are applications to network security, multi-modal sensing and tracking, biomedical imaging, and genomic signal processing. He has published more than 350 journal and conference papers, and is author of the book, Foundations and Applications of Sensor Management.

Reception will follow in Masco Rooms

Abstract: This talk will start with a general presentation of Pixar Animation Studios and our film making process, followed by discussions of our crowd simulation pipeline and the challenges faced on Ratatouille, WALL•E, and Up. On Ratatouille, an animation centric crowd pipeline was born, merging the strengths of our proprietary rigging tools and the commercially available software, Massive. WALL•E demanded fast physics for large crowds, for which the technology "Brain Springs" was created. For Up, the focus was flexible navigation and terrain following for a pack of vicious dogs. Learn how these crowds came to life and how technological improvements helped bring audiences all those Rats, Robots, and Rottweilers!

Biography:  Paul Kanyuk is a technical director at Pixar Animation Studios, with credits on the films Cars, Ratatouille, WALL•E, and Up. His specialty is crowd simulation, and he's responsible for the procedural animation of numerous crowd spectacles, including the hordes of rats in Ratatouille, the deluge of falling passengers in WALL•E, and the vicious pack of dogs in Up. He also teaches courses in RenderMan and crowd simulation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Kanyuk has a BS Eng. in digital media design from the University of Pennsylvania.

Open to the public.