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DTSTAMP:20260923T090325
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: How to achieve quantum advantage?
DESCRIPTION:The development of error-corrected quantum computers raises the prospect of quantum advantages in scientific computation. Which problems are likely to benefit\, and what will it take to realize these advantages? I will first discuss basic quantum algorithm concepts and some criteria for comparing quantum and classical computation. I will then focus on eigenvalue problems\, where improving the precision of an approximate solution offers one possible route to quantum advantage. Recent advances allow quantum eigensolvers to use few auxiliary qubits and short coherent evolutions\, with near-optimal dependence on the target precision. I will introduce these developments and a method for estimating multiple eigenvalues together with their multiplicities. Most of the presentation is intended to be accessible to a broad mathematical audience without prior background in quantum computation.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148250
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics,Applied Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
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DTSTAMP:20261014T160644
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T180000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:DAAS Africa Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Summary:\nEnclosing open-air dumps and outlawing waste picking are key approaches to modernizing cities around the world. THE WASTE COMMONS explores the dramatic transformations involved in the impending closure of the city waste dump in Dakar\, Senegal\, and the lives that hang in the balance. It follows charismatic Zidane\, trailblazing Adja\, and their waste picker community\, as they battle to defend their carefully crafted worlds and rights to waste.\n\nShort bio: Rosalind Fredericks is an urban geographer of West Africa and Associate Professor at New York University’s Gallatin School. She is the producer and director of the award-winning documentary The Waste Commons\, which examines the politics of waste picking and urban transformation at the Mbeubeuss waste dump in Dakar\, Senegal.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153472
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film,African Studies Center,african diaspora,african and afroamerican studies,african and african american studies,africa,film screening
LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room)
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DTSTAMP:20261015T163000
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Robotics Department Seminar Series: Language and Robots: Space\, Time\, and Common Ground
DESCRIPTION:Robotics Department Seminar Series (https://robotics.umich.edu/events/robotics-seminar-series/)\nSpeaker: Joyce Y. Chai\, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering\, University of Michigan\nTitle: \"Language and Robots: Space\, Time\, and Common Ground\"\nDate: Tuesday\, October 27\, 2026\nTime: 4:00 - 5:00pm ET\nLocation: FRB 2300 + Zoom\nZoom Link: https://myumi.ch/Mp1x3\nMeeting ID: 961 2563 2448\nPasscode: 639024\n\nAbstract: Language plays a fundamental role in embodied AI\, serving not only as a means of communication between humans and robots\, but also as a powerful tool for representing knowledge\, reasoning about the world\, and guiding actions. While space and time have always been central to robotics\, language introduces new opportunities and challenges in how robots represent\, reason about\, and interact with the physical world. In this talk\, I will revisit some of the enduring challenges at the intersection of language and robotics through three interconnected dimensions: space\, time\, and common ground. For space\, I will discuss grounding language in the 3D world\, including reasoning across different spatial perspectives. For time\, I will explore how language supports learning about actions\, causal relationships\, and past experiences to enable long-horizon planning. For common ground\, I will examine how language enables humans and robots to establish\, maintain\, and repair shared understanding of their environment\, goals\, and intentions. Drawing on past and recent work\, I will take stock of where we stand and reflect on the challenges and opportunities.  \n\nSpeaker Bio: Joyce Chai is a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research interests span from natural language processing and embodied AI to human-AI collaboration. She is fascinated by how experience with the physical world and social interaction shape language learning and language use\; and is excited about situated language processing that is sensorimotor-grounded\, pragmatically-rich\, and cognitively-motivated. Her recent work explores the intersection of language\, vision\, and action to enable situated communication with embodied agents.  She is a recipient of the NSF Career Award\, and multiple awards with her students (e.g.\, Best Long Paper Award at ACL 2010\, Outstanding Paper Awards at EMNLP 2021 and ACL 2023\, and First Place in the Amazon Alexa AI Simbot Challenge 2023). She is a Fellow of ACL.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153749
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Free,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
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DTSTAMP:20261022T101612
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T173000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Should Universities Strive to Bridge Division?
DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together three former university presidents to explore whether colleges and universities have a responsibility to bridge social\, political\, and religious divides and\, if so\, whether they are succeeding and how they can do better. University of Michigan President Emerita Mary Sue Coleman will moderate the exchange\, which will also feature Brian Rosenberg\, president emeritus of Macalester College and author of *‘Whatever It Is\, I’m Against It’: Resistance to Change in Higher Education*\; and Teresa A. Sullivan\, president emerita of the University of Virginia and former provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148331
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Intergroup Dialogue,Activism,Civic Engagement,Discussion,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,In Person,Open Inquiry,Social,Social Impact,Staff,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre
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DTSTAMP:20260928T140621
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Transition Metal Catalyzed Alkylation and Alkenylation of Olefins: New Molecular Catalysts and the Role of Lewis Acidic Oxidants
DESCRIPTION:The selective catalytic functionalization of C–H bonds of hydrocarbons remains one of the foremost challenges facing synthetic chemists. For example\, alkyl and alkenyl arenes are produced on a scale of billions of pounds per year. Current commercial catalysts (e.g.\, Friedel-Crafts or zeolites catalysts) for arene alkylation are based on acid-mediated olefin activation. New catalysts that operate by a distinct reaction pathway that involves transition metal-mediated C–H activation followed by olefin insertion into metal-aryl bonds offer potential advantages. The presentation will focus on the development and study of new transition metal catalysts for arene alkylation and alkenylation based on molecular complexes of Ru\, Rh\, Pd and Pt with an emphasis on the unexpected role of Cu(II) carboxylates that are used as oxidant.
UID:151569-21911776@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151569
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Inorganic Chemistry,Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1640
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