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DTSTAMP:20250429T181504
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250501T110000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Perspective{s}: The 2025 IP Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:All Stamps seniors who are enrolled in the year-long Integrative Project course participate in the IP Exhibition held each spring\, which is the culmination of their thesis work. The senior studio spaces in the Stamps Art &amp\; Architecture Building are transformed into exhibition space\, with 4D work featured in a group screening and reel\, and selected projects displayed in the A&amp\;A Street Gallery. \n\nExhibition Dates: April 21 – May 3\, 2025Art &amp\; Architecture Building\, 2000 Bonisteel BlvdOpen Monday through Saturday\, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.\nOpening Reception: Friday\, April 25\, 1-8 p.m.Film/Video Screenings will take place in the Art &amp\; Architecture Auditorium on Friday\, April 25\, 2025 at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. (followed by a talkback with the filmmakers)\, and on Saturday\, May 3 at 2 p.m.
UID:131205-21867961@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131205
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250421T115308
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250501T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250501T130000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Probabilistic Deep Learning for Expressive and Reliable World Models
DESCRIPTION:Co-chairs: Kira Barton & Maani Ghaffari\n\nFRB 2300 and on Zoom\n\nAbstract\nIn order to plan and execute missions\, autonomous robots require informative maps that simultaneously model pertinent information in the environment while also communicating uncertainty. While machine learning methods can enable complex reasoning and tasks\, probabilistic methods boast reliable algorithms with quantifiable uncertainty. In this thesis\, we study how learning and probabilistic methods can be combined to construct rich world models that fill in gaps from sparse data\, model rich semantic information leveraging advancements in neural networks\, and model errors or limitations in the map. First\, we study mapping in dynamic scenes where combining temporal sequences of data is non-trivial and simple accumulation of data can leave artifacts or traces. We propose novel techniques that extend semantic scene completion networks to consider temporal information\, develop a new dataset without artifacts\, and demonstrate how scene flow predictions can be leveraged to remove artifacts from moving objects. Next\, we consider how object geometry can be leveraged to perform probabilistic mapping in the Bayesian Kernel Inference (BKI) framework. We propose novel algorithms that structure the BKI operation as a convolutional neural network layer with per-category geometry\, as well as extend the idea of probabilistic inference using ellipsoids to 3D-Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS). To address the open-ended nature of real-world environments\, we create an open-vocabulary probabilistic mapping update method with quantifiable uncertainty\, which naturally extends BKI to neural network latent predictions by adopting a Gaussian distribution likelihood compared to the categorical distribution employed for semantic mapping. Finally\, we demonstrate how uncertainty estimates can guide active perception through the application of optimal experimental design. Specifically\, we show how uncertainty in 3D-GS maps can be used to select informative viewpoints and keyframes\, enabling robots to actively and efficiently navigate to reduce map uncertainty during exploration. All proposed algorithms are evaluated on a combination of synthetic and real-world data\, with several real-world robot experiments. Overall\, this thesis explores a unified framework for robotic world modeling that integrates modern machine learning with classical probabilistic methods\, enabling richer\, more reliable maps for decision-making in challenging and uncertain environments.
UID:135141-21876358@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135141
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Michigan Robotics,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
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DTSTAMP:20240620T181506
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250501T110200
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250501T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michelle Hinojosa: Logcabins
DESCRIPTION:Stamps Gallery commissioned Michelle Hinojosa (MFA\, 2023) to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the Gallery. Hinojosa has created log cabin quilts to adorn the columns in front of Stamps Gallery. The log cabin quilts traditionally represent the warm hearth at the center of a home. This installation reflects on the interplay between home\, placemaking\, labor\, and intergenerational memories of migration. Rather than quilting cotton designed to softly embrace the body\, these quilts are sewn from outdoor grade\, UV-resistant polyester. The quilt is an ode to Hinojosa’s grandmother who illegally crossed the US/Mexico border holding her babies and her quilts. As she and her family drove across the United States to work in the fields of the Salinas Valley\, the quilts offered a safe space for her and her family. Hinojosa celebrates their resilience to her grandmother and elders while also drawing attention to precarity and violence experienced by refugees and migrants crossing the US-Mexico border in our present today.\nArtist’s bio:\nMichelle Inez Hinojosa is an artist\, educator\, and researcher whose work is informed by Indigenous and Latine/x/a/o studies. Born and raised in Texas\, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in both drawing and painting and art education with a minor in art history at the University of North Texas. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. She works with quilting\, bead weaving\, embroidery\, jewelry\, transparent film installations\, painting\, ceramics\, and sculpture to honor and explore the history of migration in her family and humanize the current discourse around migration still occurring at the southern border. Alongside her artwork she maintains a writing practice to re-story\, re-make\, and re-claim the often subordinated narratives of Latinx\, Chicanx\, Mexican\, and Texican peoples. \n\nRecently\, Hinojosa was named an inaugural Creative Careers Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan\, she has also attended residencies at Mildred's Lane (Pennsylvania)\, Anderson Ranch Art Center (Aspen\, CO) and The Cedars Union (Dallas\, TX). 
UID:122384-21848883@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122384
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250415T174443
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250501T150000
SUMMARY:Other:23rd annual Award Ceremony & Graduation Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Recognizing the graduates and recipients of the minor in intergroup relations education\, certificate in dialogue for community change\, Gurin Certificate\, and liberatory education cord. With remarks and light hors d'oeuvres. \n\nDetails and graduate registration: https://igr.umich.edu/awards\n\nWHO CAN ATTEND?\nThis event is open to IGR graduating students\, their guests\, IGR community\, and invited friends of IGR only. RSVP required.
UID:132779-21871807@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132779
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Commencement,Graduation
LOCATION:Michigan League
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DTSTAMP:20250421T113230
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250501T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775
DESCRIPTION:The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the military hostilities that began the American Revolutionary War. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are firmly established in American memory as the culmination of a range of governmental\, political\, economic\, and social tensions that amplified in the decade leading up to 1775. In this exhibit\, visitors will have the opportunity to see original historical manuscript letters\, documents\, newspapers\, and artwork that reveal aspects of the bloody work of Empire and individual alike in April 1775.\n\nAmong the items on display will be Commander in Chief of the British Army\, General Thomas Gage's draft orders for the Concord Expedition\, April 18\, 1775\; a bundle of letters collected by former Sons of Liberty supporter Dr. Benjamin Church\, which he secretly turned over to British Army intelligence\; letters by Silas Deane\, John Hancock\, and Rachel Revere\; and much more.\n\nOpen weekdays from 12-4 pm.
UID:134875-21875518@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134875
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Ann Arbor,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,libraries,Library
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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