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SUMMARY:Film Screening:Sea Monsters
DESCRIPTION:The film follows a curious and adventurous Dolichorhynchops – familiarly known as a ‘dolly’ – as she travels through the most dangerous oceans in history. Along the way\, she encounters long-necked plesiosaurs\, giant turtles\, enormous fish\, fierce sharks\, and the most dangerous sea monster of all– the mosasaur.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/121866
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:natural history museum,museums,Museum
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DTSTAMP:20240514T091858
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240725T130000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:BME Summer Workshops @ Michigan
DESCRIPTION:The goal of the BME Summer Workshops @ Michigan series is to establish the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as a place to gather\, learn\, and network – each summer – on important research topics in BME.\n\nThese workshops will provide a collaborative forum to present current research progress and discuss future research opportunities at the interface of engineering and medicine.\n\n\"Metabolism & Precision Health: A Biomedical Engineering Workshop\,\" an interdisciplinary workshop on metabolism and precision medicine\, is scheduled for July 25-26\, Thursday from 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. and Friday\, from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.\, in the NCRC Building 18 Dining Hall. It is co-sponsored by BME\, Precision Health\, the Michigan George M. O’Brien Kidney National Resource Center and the Department of Internal Medicine\, Division of Nephrology.\n\nConfirmed speakers include:\n\n--Nathan Price\, Chief Scientific Officer of Thorne HealthTech\n--Marian Walhout\, Professor and Chair\, Department of Systems Biology\, Maroun Semaan Chair in Biomedical Research\, UMass Chan Medical School\n--Kivanc Birsoy\, Chapman-Perelman Associate Professor\, Head of Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics\, Rockefeller University\n--Gary Patti\, Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry\, Washington University\n--Miriam Udler\, Assistant Professor of Medicine\, Harvard Medical School\n--Ahmet Coskun\, Assistant Professor\, Bernie Marcus Early Career Professorship\, Georgia Tech\n\nPlease register to attend the event by June 8 to reserve your place. If you are a student or postdoc who would like to present a poster or a short talk\, we must receive your title and abstract\, also by June 8.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122156
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biointerfaces,Michigan Engineering,engineering,engineer,Computational Science,bme,Biotechnology,Biosciences,Bioninterfaces,biomedical engineering,biomedical,Biology,Basic Science
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Dining Hall
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DTSTAMP:20240722T202122
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Contact-based Perception and Planning for Robotic Manipulation in Novel Environments
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Dmitry Berenson\n\nAbstract:\nThis thesis proposes a framework for autonomous robotic perception and planning for manipulation tasks in unknown environments by leveraging information from purposeful contacts and explicitly reasoning about uncertainty. \nWe focus on challenging tasks where objects to be manipulated are occluded by the environment\, other objects\, or themselves\, which limits the applicability of purely visual sensing and necessitates contact-based information gathering. \n\nEach chapter of our work tackles a specific challenge arising from collecting information through contact\, with the goal of enabling robots to explore autonomously. The first challenge we considered is the limited applicability of long-horizon planning when global perception is lacking. Traps may arise where the state remains in a cycle without accomplishing the goal\, and we develop a hierarchical control scheme to detect and escape from traps. \n\nContact-based exploration is also challenging due to the ambiguity of associating contact points to specific objects in multi-object environments. To resolve this\, we present a method that maintains a belief over both current and past contact points without relying on rigid associations. This flexibility allows for the correction of erroneous estimates.\n\nBuilding on these contact point estimates\, we infer the plausible poses of known objects. A key component in our method is the use of negative information—data indicating observed free space—which constrains possible object poses by measuring the discrepancy between these potential poses and the observed point clouds. This approach is especially effective in highly-occluded environments where visual object segmentation often fails.\n\nTo integrate our pose estimates into real-time decision-making\, we formulate a conditional probability on object poses given the disparity with observed point clouds. We derive a cost function from the mutual information between the object's pose and the occupancy of the workspace points\, facilitating its application in closed-loop model predictive control (MPC). Our method also includes a reachability cost function to prevent objects from being pushed out of the robot's workspace and incorporates a stochastic dynamics model to predict information gain changes as the object is manipulated.\n\nThe algorithms developed in this thesis emphasize efficient parallel computation and are evaluated using both simulated and real experiments. All implementations are made publicly available as open-source libraries.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123470
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Michigan Robotics,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
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DTSTAMP:20240809T123130
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240725T130000
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Learn About PMG's Graduate Leadership Program
DESCRIPTION:🌟Discover Your Career Path with PMG 🌟Are you ready to launch your career in digital marketing? Join us at PMG for a virtual information session tailored for college students interested in our award-winning company culture and the career opportunities within our Graduate Leadership Program (GLP). Here’s what we’ll cover:🏆Award-Winning Culture: Discover what makes PMGone of AdAge's Best Places to Work for nine consecutive years. Learn about our core values and the initiatives that shape our unique culture.🚀Graduate Leadership Program Overview: Explore our 8-week onboarding process\, designed across three dynamic tracks—Media Marketing\, Data Analytics\, and AI &amp\; Software Engineering. Understand how we equip new hires with the skills and support needed for a strong career start.🎯Inside the Hiring Process: Receive expert advice from our campus recruiting team on how to excel in our hiring process and stand out as a candidate.🎤Guest Speaker – Brent Aydon: Hear from Brent Aydon\, a Client Strategy Lead who started his career in our Graduate Leadership Program. Brent will share a glimpse into the projects he has worked on and discuss his career growth and experiences with PMG.📅Don’t miss out—RSVP today to secure your spot and move closer to making your professional aspirations a reality.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123225
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