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DTSTAMP:20260522T102454
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T130000
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Learning with Quantum Examples: Multiclass\, Online\, and Smoothed Settings
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nAs quantum computing progresses toward fault-tolerant architectures\, the question of which computational tasks admit provable quantum advantages and which do not has become increasingly central. Learning theory\, and in particular learning from quantum examples\, provides one of the few settings in which unconditional quantum-classical separations can be established. In distribution-free (i.e.\, worst-case) PAC learning\, existing results show that quantum examples provide no asymptotic advantage in sample complexity. In contrast\, under the uniform distribution\, unbounded quantum-classical separations are known for learning Fourier-sparse Boolean functions. Together\, these results reveal a striking dichotomy. However\, this understanding has largely been developed in the context of learning Boolean functions in the batch setting\, leaving open how these phenomena extend more broadly. This thesis develops the theory of learning with quantum examples beyond the batch Boolean setting along three directions: multiclass learning\, online learning\, and smoothed learning.\n\nIn the multiclass PAC setting\, we establish upper and lower bounds on quantum sample complexity in both the realizable and agnostic regimes\, finding that quantum examples continue to yield no distribution-independent separation from classical examples\, with learning rates governed by the Natarajan dimension up to logarithmic factors in the label-space size. We next study online learning\, where no standard framework for learning with quantum examples existed prior to this work. We provide such a model by lifting the classical online framework to one in which the adversary provides distributions over labeled examples\, and then by encoding these distributions as quantum examples. We establish expected regret guarantees for binary and multiclass classification in both the realizable and agnostic settings. The central finding is that unrestricted adversarial power permits highly concentrated distributions that dequantize the learning problem. Motivated by this dequantization phenomenon\, we develop a smoothed learning framework that constrains distributions to be smooth\, interpolating between the concentrated-distribution regime\, in which no quantum advantage exists\, and the uniform-distribution regime\, in which unbounded separations are known. For the class of Fourier-sparse Boolean functions\, we show that such separations persist throughout a nontrivial near-uniform regime in both the batch and online settings.\n\nTogether\, these results paint a coherent picture of learning with quantum examples beyond the batch Boolean setting\, showing that quantum-classical separations depend on the interplay between hypothesis class structure\, distributional assumptions\, and the degree of adversarial control permitted in the learning process.
UID:148398-21904185@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148398
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics,Graduate Students,Graduate,Dissertation
LOCATION:East Hall - 3088
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DTSTAMP:20260518T092015
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T134500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight
DESCRIPTION: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 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.
UID:141325-21903867@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Film,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
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DTSTAMP:20260518T095230
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T144500
SUMMARY:Film Screening:T.REX
DESCRIPTION:With stunning CGI visuals and the latest research from leading paleontologists\, the film offers audiences a fresh perspective on the GOAT (Greatest Of All Tyrants): Tyrannosaurus rex. Anchored by the true story of the young fossil hunters who made the discovery of a lifetime when they spotted a large fossilized leg bone on a walk on public lands in North Dakota\, T. REX intercuts the remarkable fossil dig\, with cutting edge computer graphics that bring the iconic T. rex to life—from hatchling to hulking adult. Narrated by Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill\, T. REX explores the newest science that has helped reinvent our understanding of the iconic predator.
UID:136347-21903895@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136347
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:natural history museum,Museum,Planetarium,Film
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260518T092015
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T154500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight
DESCRIPTION: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 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.
UID:141325-21903871@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Film,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260511T164507
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T193000
SUMMARY:Tours:Walking Tour: Creating Michigan: Key Moments in U-M’s Early History
DESCRIPTION:Explore the first 70 years of U-M history\, from the University’s Native American land accession and its origins in Detroit in 1817 to its move to Ann Arbor and emergence as a research university after 1837. We’ll traverse the original 40-acre campus\, learning about the professors\, presidents\, and students who walked the Diag nearly two centuries ago. \n\nGuided walking tour led by student docents. Duration: 1.5 hours\; 0.6 miles.\n\nMeet at the steps of Angell Hall facing State Street. \n\nTour will take place in rain or snow\, but will be cancelled for severe weather (registrants will be notified via email).\n\nRegistration required: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/2qsese6
UID:148228-21903351@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148228
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:history,university of michigan history,university history,U-m History,tour
LOCATION:Angell Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260515T144900
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Shakespeare in the Arb: Love's Labor's Lost
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare in the Arb performs every Thursday\, Friday\, Saturday\, and Sunday from June 4 through June 28. It is a 3-hour outdoor\, moving performance that takes place within Nichols Arboretum.\n\nAll tickets are general admission lawn-style seating. Please bring a chair or a blanket. Audience members should be prepared for weather conditions\, periods of sitting\, standing\, and 3 miles of walking to various locations in the Arboretum. Expect inclines and slopes\, staircases\, grass\, gravel\, and mulch as part of the terrain. The play will proceed in many forms of weather.  \n\nTicket prices are $25 general admission/$20 members/$15 student & youth. Youth under 5\, free.  Please note: there is a service fee for tickets purchased online.\n\nAll tickets are held at Will Call\, Nichols Arboretum Visitor Center\, 1610 Washington Heights. Ticket pick up is 5:00pm-6:00pm with showtime promptly at 6:30pm. Tickets are available in advance of the performances via the Michigan Union Ticket Office online\, in person at the Michigan Union or by phone at  (734) 763-8587.
UID:148316-21903855@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148316
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Shakespeare In The Arb,shakespeare
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
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DTSTAMP:20260330T152609
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T223000
SUMMARY:Meeting:Friends of the UMMP Fossil Club
DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the U-M Museum of Paleontology (FUMMP) meet once a month\, usually on the first Friday\, with both an in-person component at the Research Museum Center (RMC) and Zoom option. The exterior building doors are locked for security reasons and someone will start letting people in the doors at RMC from 7:00 - 7:30pm\, and the Zoom room will open around 7:15pm. The meeting will start at 7:30pm with a few business details discussed until about 7:45pm when the presentation or program will begin.\n\nDr. Matt Friedman\, UMMP Director and Curator will be presenting a talk to the group this month entitled\, \"Drawing back the curtain: The dawn of modern marine fish diversity\".\n\nContact bauerjen@umich.edu to request access to the Zoom link.\n\nLearn more about the Friends of the UMMP on their website: http://michiganbasinfossils.org/.
UID:145979-21898215@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145979
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum Of Paleontology,Paleontology,Research Museums Center
LOCATION:Research Museums Center - RMC 1006
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DTSTAMP:20260204T123323
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Chris Smither
DESCRIPTION:“an American original – a product of the musical melting pot and one of the absolute best singer-songwriters in the world.” –Associated Press\n\nBorn in Miami\, during World War II\, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a Tulane University professor\, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his mother’s ukulele. “Uncle Howard\,” Smither says\, “showed me that if you knew three chords\, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords\, you could pretty much rule the world.” With that bit of knowledge under his belt\, he was hooked. “I’d loved acoustic music – specifically the blues – ever since I first heard Lightnin’ Hopkins’ Blues In My Bottle album. I couldn’t believe the sound Hopkins got. At first I thought it was two guys playing guitar. My style\, to a degree\, came out of trying to imitate that sound I heard.”\n\nIn his early twenties\, Smither turned his back on his anthropology studies and headed to Boston at the urging of legendary folk singer Eric von Schmidt. It was the mid-’60s and acoustic music thrived in the streets and coffeehouses there. Smither forged lifelong friendships with many musicians\, including Bonnie Raitt who went on to record his songs\, “Love You Like A Man” and “I Feel the Same. (Their friendship has endured as their career paths intertwined over the years.) What quickly evolved from his New Orleans and Cambridge musical experiences is his enduring\, singular guitar sound – a beat-driven finger-picking\, strongly influenced by the playing of Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin’ Hopkins\, layered over the ever-present backbeat of his rhythmic\, tapping feet (always mic’d in performance).
UID:144670-21895671@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144670
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mutotix,Ark
LOCATION:ARK Reserved
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260303T152543
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Echoes of the Past: Greektown as Seen by Sam Karres
DESCRIPTION:Explore the personal sketchbooks of Sam Karres\, Greek-American painter and artist\, as he illustrates the daily life of residents in Greektown\, Detroit. This exhibit highlights Detroit’s Greek-American community and urban scenery during the late 20th century. Experience art and life through Sam’s eyes with scenes of music\, dance\, restaurants\, and the faces of the community. Let the vivid watercolor paintings and expressive sketches transport you to a Greektown of the past\, and learn more about Sam Karres’ life as an artist.\n\nFeaturing works from the Sam Karres Archive\, 1955-2012\, held by the University of Michigan Library's Special Collection Research Center. Curated by Annelie Zissis and Arthur Pfeifer-Rubey\, Library Engagement Fellows.
UID:146151-21898517@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146151
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd floor)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260414T144814
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260605T233000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Muted Volumes: Book-Objects\, Patterned Papers\, and the Closed Stacks of Buhr
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit in the Clark Library rotunda focuses on handmade decorative patterned papers when exploring books stored at the library's Buhr Offsite Shelving Facility. Decorative paper\, noticed when walking through the stack's aisles or surprising you when you casually flip through a book\, can really catch your eye. But because the Buhr stacks are closed from browsing\, the density and dimensionality of its nearly 3 million books are reduced to title searches on a screen.\n\nAs a response to these reflections\, artist and library staff member Stephanie Osorio shares her handbound unopenable book-objects as symbolic stand-ins for forgotten books at Buhr — the books that don’t get a chance to be noticed. Along with the book-objects are the carved woodblocks that made prints to decorate them. Some books from Buhr that inspired this project with their original decorated patterned papers will also be on display.\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening reception on Thursday\, May 14th\, 5pm - 6:30pm\, for an opportunity to hear from the artist and engage with the book-objects.
UID:147739-21901691@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147739
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd floor)
CONTACT:
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