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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:GISC Rabbi Elliott T. Spar Politics and Culture in the Muslim World Series. Book Launch: *The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt*
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: *The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt *by Dr. Yasmin Moll\n   \n   RSVP: http://bit.ly/RevolutionWithin416\n   Wednesday\, April 16\, 4:00 PM ET\n   CupsnChai Ann Arbor\n   214 S 4th Ave\n   \n   Join the Global Islamic Studies Center at CupsnChai Ann Arbor on Wednesday\, April 16\, at 4pm for the book launch of Professor Yasmin Moll's new book\, *The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt*. This event will be moderated by Professor Andrew Shryock\, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Free chai & snacks will be provided!\n   \nAbout the book:\nThe New Preachers of Egypt—so named because of their novel preaching styles\, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help—came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television channel on the cusp of the Arab Spring uprisings. They promoted an innovative and inclusive Islamic piety that millions of young middle-class viewers found radical and compelling—but were scorned as neoliberal by leftists\, as stealth Islamists by secularists\, and as too Westernized by other Muslim preachers.\n   \n Drawing on long-term fieldwork with the New Preachers\, their producers\, and followers in Cairo\, Yasmin Moll shows how Islamic media and the social life of theology mattered to contestations over the shape of a New Egypt. These mass-mediated fractures within Islamic Revivalism were happening at a time of both revolutionary possibility and authoritarian entrenchment. The New Preachers' Islamic media inspired a \"revolution within\" that transcended the country's divisions and anticipated the ethos of creativity\, solidarity\, and coexistence that soon would mark Tahrir Square\, the ethical epicenter of the 2011 uprising. Vividly written and boldly theorized\, The Revolution Within challenges conventional accounts of the 2011 revolution and its aftermath as a struggle between secular and religious forces\, reconsidering what makes a practice virtuous\, a public Islamic\, a way of life Godly.\n   \n   \n   \n   About the author:\n   \n   Yasmin Moll is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Anthropology. Her new book\, *The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt*\, is out with Stanford University Press in the series Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures. Moll is an ethnographic filmmaker and a former member of the Michigan Society of Fellows (2014-2017).\n   \n   About the moderator:\n   \n   Andrew Shryock is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He studies political culture in the Middle East\, Arab and Muslim communities in North America\, and new approaches to history writing. His books include *Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan* (1997)\, *Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend* (2010)\, *Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present* (with Daniel Smail\, 2011)\, and *Beyond Refuge in Arab Detroit* (with Yasmeen Hanoosh and Sally Howell\, 2025).\n     \n   Purchasing Dr. Moll's book?\n   \n   Order using the promo code below for a discount!\n   $32.00 paperback\, 368 pages\n   Receive 20% off at http://www.sup.org/ with code: MOLL20\n\n---\n   \n   \n   This event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan. This talk is a part of the GISC Rabbi Elliott T. Spar “Politics and Culture in the Muslim World” series.\n   \n   \n   ----\n   \n   Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter here! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies\, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.\n   \n   Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83\n   \n   Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ\n   \n   Email islamicstudies@umich.edu\n   \n   Are you a student looking for funding?\n   \n   Graduate Funding Opportunities: https://bit.ly/GISCGradFunding\n   \n   Undergrad Funding Opportunities: https://bit.ly/GISCUndergradFunding\n\nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email: -- islamicstudies@umich.edu
UID:134291-21874085@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134291
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Book,Global Islamic Studies,Discussion,book discussion,Anthropology,Lecture
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250218T140613
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Optimal PhiBE — A Model-Free PDE-Based Framework for Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning
DESCRIPTION:This talk addresses continuous-time reinforcement learning (RL) in settings where the system dynamics are governed by a stochastic differential equation but remains unknown\, with only discrete-time observations available. While the optimal Bellman equation (optimal-BE) enables model-free algorithms\, its discretization error is significant when the reward function oscillates. Conversely\, model-based PDE approaches offer better accuracy but suffer from non-identifiable inverse problems. \nTo bridge this gap\, we introduce Optimal-PhiBE\, an equation that integrates discrete-time information into a PDE\, combining the strengths of both RL and PDE formulations. Compared to the RL formulation\, Optimal-PhiBE is less sensitive to reward oscillations\, leading to smaller discretization errors. In linear-quadratic control\, Optimal-PhiBE can even achieve accurate continuous-time optimal policy with only discrete-time information. Compared to the PDE formulation\, it skips the identification of the dynamics and enables model-free algorithm derivation. Furthermore\, we extend Optimal-PhiBE to higher orders\, providing increasingly accurate approximations.
UID:129844-21864640@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129844
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
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DTSTAMP:20250326T143035
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T173000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Schwarzman Scholars Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Join ONSF and Jason Rathman\, Admissions Outreach & Selection Officer for Schwarzman Scholars on Wednesday\, April 16th from 4 to 5:30pm in Weiser Hall\, Room 455 for an information session. \n\nSchwarzman Scholars is a graduate program designed to ready the next generation of leaders to drive change. It provides a fully-funded Master’s Degree in Global Affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. The experience encompasses unique opportunities in and outside the classroom\, providing Scholars with extensive leadership training\, a network of senior mentors\, opportunities to engage in high-level interactions with Chinese leaders and visiting speakers\, optional internships\, career development guidance\, and travel seminars around China.
UID:134398-21874312@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134398
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Office Of National Scholarships And Fellowships (Onsf),Onsf,Scholarships
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 455
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