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DTSTAMP:20260923T202117
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T103000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026 National Postdoc Appreciation Week
DESCRIPTION:National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW) 2026 is an annual event sponsored by the National Postdoctoral Association. The week honors the research\, innovation\, and vital contributions of postdoctoral fellows. This year’s theme is celebrating 150 years of the U.S. postdoc position. 
UID:149939-21907416@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149939
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Kalamazoo Room, 2nd floor
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DTSTAMP:20260922T083438
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Long-horizon and Multimodal Reasoning for Contact-rich Manipulation
DESCRIPTION:Committee chair: Dmitry Berenson\n\nAbstract: \nContact-rich manipulation is central to many everyday robotic tasks\, from assembly and tool use to cable routing and threading. Unlike free-space motion\, these tasks require robots to deliberately make and maintain contact with objects and the environment\, where small errors can cause large changes in forces\, motion\, and task outcome. Successful manipulation therefore requires reasoning about both how contact interactions evolve over time and how those interactions can be inferred from incomplete sensory observations.\nThis dissertation addresses two complementary challenges in contact-rich manipulation: long-horizon reasoning and multimodal reasoning. Long-horizon tasks such as cable routing require planning over extended sequences of contact interactions\, where locally reasonable actions may lead to globally incorrect outcomes. Meanwhile\, precise assembly and threading are often only partially observable from vision\, motivating the integration of force and tactile sensing.\n\nThe first thrust develops diffusion-based subgoal generation methods that provide long-horizon guidance to model predictive control\, including contact-aware representations that capture object–environment relationships. The second thrust develops multimodal generative models that jointly reason about actions\, vision\, force\, touch\, and proprioception\, and investigates how control-relevant representations can be learned within world-action models. Together\, these methods aim to enable robots to perform contact-rich manipulation with greater robustness\, adaptability\, and long-horizon reasoning capability.
UID:152617-21914185@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152617
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Robotics,Michigan Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 4000
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DTSTAMP:20260923T202118
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Arts Initiative Graduate Student Arts Research Opportunities - Info Session and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Sign up here for one of our info sessions about grad student arts research opportunities
UID:150231-21908428@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150231
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20260825T131550
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T110000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Arts Research Funding + Collaboration for Graduate Students Info Session (GSARG and FEAST)
DESCRIPTION:Thinking about getting involved in arts research at the University of Michigan? Join the University of Michigan Arts Initiative for a virtual open house to learn about two opportunities for students across campus: the Graduate Student Arts Research Grant (GSARG) and FEAST (Faculty Engineering/Arts Student Teams).\n\nGSARG provides grants of up to $3\,000 to support graduate student-led research projects that incorporate artistic practices\, methods\, or approaches. Open to graduate students across U-M\, the program supports innovative and interdisciplinary research that integrates the arts into scholarship and inquiry. \n\nLearn more about the program and past awarded projects here: https://arts.umich.edu/gsarg\n\nFEAST brings together faculty and students from different disciplines to collaborate on faculty-led arts research projects. Undergraduate and graduate students join interdisciplinary research teams\, contribute their own skills and perspectives to an ongoing project\, and earn course credit for their participation. FEAST is designed to create opportunities for students to engage directly in collaborative arts research while working across disciplinary boundaries. \n\nLearn more about the program and current projects recruiting here: https://arts.umich.edu/feast\n\nDuring this informal session\, we’ll introduce both programs\, explain eligibility and how to apply or get involved\, review key deadlines\, and share examples of the kinds of projects each program supports. You’ll also have plenty of time to ask questions and determine which opportunity might be the right fit for your interests.
UID:150872-21910380@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Student,Funding Opportunities,Arts Initiative
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260803T161823
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T110000
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Engineering Department Career Day featuring AERO\, APPL PHYS\, BME\, DESCI\, IOE\, ME\, NERS & ENG PHYS and ROB\, hosted by ECRC
DESCRIPTION:The Department Career Day featuring the departments below will take place on Thursday\, September 24 from 11 AM–3 PM on North Campus.\n\nFeatured Departments may include:\n\nAerospace Engineering (AERO)\nApplied Physics (APPL PHYS)\nBiomedical Engineering (BME)\nDesign Science (DESCI)\nIndustrial and Operations Engineering (IOE)\nMechanical Engineering (ME)\nNuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS) & Engineering Physics (ENG PHYS)\nRobotics (ROB) \n\nThis event is designed to connect you with employers who are specifically seeking students from your engineering department. You’ll have the opportunity to engage with companies that are coming to recruit talent in your major for full-time\, internship\, and co-op opportunities.\n\nMake the most of this event\, we encourage you to review and research participating employers in Career Forge and Career Fair Plus (CF+).
UID:149791-21907188@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149791
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students,Career,Graduate Students
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center
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