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DTSTAMP:20261006T122422
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T140000
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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Democracy Needs You
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a live panel discussion exploring how democracy works in practice and what it means for everyday civic life. Faculty experts will expand on key concepts from the Democracy and Civic Engagement Teach-Out®\, including how governments and elections work\, how people and communities influence public decisions\, the role of information and media\, and the challenges that can weaken democratic systems. The conversation will center on clear\, accessible questions and invite learners to consider how informed participation\, strong institutions\, accountability\, and civic action contribute to a healthy democracy. Learners will also have an opportunity to engage with the panel through a moderated Q&A.
UID:153355-21915693@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153355
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mooc,Alumni,Information and Technology,Innovation,Learning,Lifelong Learning,Michigan Online,Networking,Online Learning,Teach Out,Undergraduate,Academic Technology At Michigan,Academic Innovation
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20261011T194247
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T153000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Learning Seminar in Algebraic Combinatorics
DESCRIPTION:This talk will be an introduction to Nakajima quiver varieties\, focusing on type A quivers. We will begin with a brief recount of quiver representations\, including discussion of kernels and indecomposables. We will define the notion of framing\, and impose a ``stability condition\" on framed quiver representations to obtain what we will call pre-quiver varieties\, of which the Grassmannians and complete flag varieties are examples. Next\, we will introduce the doubled framed quiver. Imposing both the stability condition and additional \"moment map condition\" on doubled framed quiver representations yields the notion of a Nakajima quiver variety. Examples include cotangent bundles of Grassmannians and complete flag varieties.
UID:153542-21915986@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153542
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics,Combinatorics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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DTSTAMP:20261001T231756
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Entropy-Regularized Finite-State Mean Field Control Problems
DESCRIPTION:We study an infinite-horizon discounted mean field control problem for finite-state nonlinear continuous-time Markov chains. Controls are locally integrable transition-rate matrices and are penalized by relative entropy with respect to a state-dependent reference generator. We prove that the value function is the unique bounded viscosity solution on the closed simplex of the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation by a direct dynamic-programming argument and a finite-state comparison principle. Under a uniform semiconvexity condition and C¹\,¹ regularity\, the value function is globally semiconvex and intrinsically C¹\,¹ on the closed simplex and yields a Gibbs feedback that is the unique Hamiltonian minimizer at interior states. For positive\, symmetric\, possibly state-dependent reference rates\, an entropy-plus-value free energy decays globally exponentially when the temperature parameter is compatible with the semiconvexity modulus. We also establish a discounted planner-to-game correspondence for potential mean field games under a state-independent reference generator.
UID:153194-21915402@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153194
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:Angell Hall - AHG128
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DTSTAMP:20261011T192126
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Life Coaching Circles
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Coaching Cirlces!  Each coaching session will provide 8-10 staff members with an opportunity to interact informally with a Student Life Unit Director (or leader) around a leadership topic of interest to them. These are informal conversations (rather than workshops or presentations) between staff and these leaders who have experience with and willingness to share their wisdom around these topics.Staff are asked to register for no more than one coaching circle a semester. Space is very limited\, register today!
UID:152716-21914415@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152716
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center, Room 1080
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DTSTAMP:20261007T155148
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | From Prehistoric Qubits to Building a Useful Quantum Computer
DESCRIPTION:This is a hybrid lecture. Join us in person at Rackham Amphitheatre (4th Floor) or via livestream: https://myumi.ch/d8Q7X\n\nIn the span of four decades\, quantum computation has evolved from an intellectual curiosity to a potentially realizable technology. I will describe my thesis work on macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy-level quantization that led to the Nobel Prize\, as well as several other important experiments that advanced superconducting qubits.  Nevertheless\, the path toward a full-stack scalable technology is a work in progress. There are significant outstanding quantum hardware\, fabrication\, architecture\, and algorithmic challenges that must be solved. Here\, we show how the road to scaling could be paved by adopting existing semiconductor technology to build much higher-quality qubits and employing system engineering approaches.
UID:148343-21903967@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148343
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Physics,Smoke-free,Undergrad Physics Events,Undergraduate Students,Faculty,Graduate Students
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th Floor Amphitheatre
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