Are you curious about how other faculty are teaching with and about Artificial Intelligence (AI)? A series of two panels on November 6 and 7 will provide an opportunity to hear about how faculty in different disciplines redesigned course elements to address AI. There will be time for Q&A. In this session, you will hear from: Metin Cosgel, Economics Brad Tuttle, Journalism Aviana Rosen, Allied Health Sciences Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=3677 (https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=3677)

As you consider a Graduate Program in Financial and Enterprise Risk Management (FERM) at UConn, it is extremely important that you can make an informed choice. Attending a virtual information session is a valuable way to gather the missing pieces. The FERM Virtual Information Sessions are an ideal opportunity to learn first-hand about all of our Graduate FERM Program offerings and hear from admissions representatives who can answer your questions about pursuing this degree.

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For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

Prof. Carlos Trallero, Department of Physics, University of ConnecticutQuantum times I will present some of the research that we cover in our group from the most fundamental topics in quantum optics and quantum electrodynamics to more applied research such as developing the building blocks of a quantum processor and a new path to a nuclear reactor.

Host: Jill DesiminiLocation: YNG 132Webex:s.uconn.edu/psla_seminars (http://s.uconn.edu/psla_seminars)   Before a Plant Arrives on Site: Politics, Migrations, and Possibilities of the Plant Nursery Trade   It's a familiar scene: A tree arrives to the construction site, swaddled in burlap, wrapped with twine, and strapped down to the bed of an eighteen-wheeler after a thousand-mile journey to site. The landscape designer who carefully selected every aspect of it— its genus and species, its caliper, maybe even down to the proprietary cultivar???works with the landscape crew to carefully place the tree— rootball and all—into place, just so. But what geographic relationships, market forces, federal policies, horticultural ideologies, and labor preceded this plant's arrival on site? How are plants in the nursery industry tended, marketed, and transported, and in what ways do those processes delineate who gets to be comfortable and at whose expense? Thinking through a Philadelphia street tree and its expansive terrains of carbon and temperature, this talk traces the uneven heat geographies and politics of exposure inherent to the industrial US nursery trade. Case studies for growing otherwise are analyzed along the axes of labor, carbonized freight geographies, and ecosystem genetics. Leah Kahler is a landscape designer and researcher whose work probes the socioecological legacies of the plantation landscape, focused on urban-rural connections through sites of labor, extraction, and production. Their work attends to the often-invisible dynamics of power, resource, and politics that shape the material processes of the built environment and produce meaning across space. Leah's current project, conducted with support from the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, investigates the socio-ecological geographies of the global plant nursery trade through ethnographic fieldwork and archival methods. Leah earned a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia, where their research as a Benjamin C. Howland Fellow explored the possibilities of an abolition ecology through speculative fictions at the site currently known as the Louisiana State Penitentiary. While at UVA, Leah co-edited the 15 th volume of LUNCH design journal, themed THICK. They were a 2021 Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Scholar finalist, and she received the LAF Honor Scholarship in Memory of Joe Lalli, FASLA. Kahler practiced with Reed Hilderbrand's Cambridge studio, where they played a key role in the design and construction of a 24-acre public park on the Tennessee River in Knoxville. Kahler has taught at the Boston Architectural College and more recently at University of Pennsylvania as the 2024-2025 McHarg Fellow where they received the G. Holmes Perkins Distinguished Teaching Award. They hold a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and the Growth and Structure of Cities from Bryn Mawr College.