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DTSTAMP:20250109T133051
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250213T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Van Eenam Lecture #3 From Nash Equilibrium to Social Optimum and Back: A Mean Field Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Mean field games (MFG) and mean field control (MFC) problems have been introduced to study large populations of strategic players. They correspond respectively to non-cooperative or cooperative scenarios\, and the goals of their analyses are to find the Nash equilibriums and social optimums. These frameworks provide approximate solutions to situations with a finite number of players and have found a wide range of applications\, from economics to biology and machine learning. In this paper\, we study how the players can transition from a non-cooperative to a cooperative regime\, and back. The first direction is reminiscent of mechanism design\, in which the game's definition is modified so that non-cooperative players reach an outcome similar to a cooperative scenario. To better understand the second direction we introduce the \"price of instability\" and study how players that are initially cooperative gradually deviate from a social optimum to reach a Nash equilibrium when they decide to optimize their individual cost very much in the spirit of the \"free rider\" phenomenon. To formalize these connections\, we introduce two new classes of games which lie between MFG and MFC: $\lambda$-interpolated mean field games\, in which the cost of an individual player is a $\lambda$-interpolation of the MFG and the MFC costs\, and $p$-partial mean field games\, in which a proportion $p$ of the population deviates from the social optimum by playing the game non-cooperatively. We  shallconclude with algorithm for myopic players to learn a $p$-partial mean field equilibrium\, and we illustrate it on a stylized model.\n\nJoint work with G. Dayanikli\, M. Lauriere and F. Delarue
UID:128951-21861937@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128951
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4448
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DTSTAMP:20250207T143027
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250213T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250213T173000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:INFORMS Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Info session to introduce INFORMs to anyone at IOE!
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132519
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - G690
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DTSTAMP:20250108T103144
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250213T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250213T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Press Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe in the Age of Putin
DESCRIPTION:Wallace House Presents a WCEE Panel and Eisendrath Symposium Event\n\nIn the wake of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine\, the Kremlin has taken extraordinary steps to try to silence independent media through bans\, censorship and repressive labels like “foreign agents.” This crackdown has spread to Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia\, where some governments are mirroring not only Putin’s laws but also his actions — arresting and even killing journalists to suppress free speech. \n\nHow can journalists safeguard access to accurate information and combat disinformation in the face of these escalating threats? \n\nThe panel will discuss these critical issues and why their work matters to us all.\n\nAbout the Speakers\nBaktygul Chynybaeva\, 2024-25 Knight-Wallace Fellow\,  is a journalist from Kyrgyzstan with more than 20 years of experience covering healthcare\, environmental and human rights issues. Fluent in five languages\, she serves as a correspondent for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s Central Newsroom in Prague. Her investigative reporting on the dire condition of children’s cancer care in Kyrgyzstan inspired significant reforms in the country’s policies. Chynybaeva is also actively involved in organizing training sessions and capacity-building programs for journalists across Central Asian countries.\n\nHolger Roonemaa\, 2024-25 Knight-Wallace Fellow\, manages the investigative and fact-checking team at the daily news site Delfi Estonia. He is also an editor with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). He has covered money laundering\, corruption and evasion of sanctions\, and topics related to national security\, espionage and propaganda. In recent years\, most of his investigations have focused on Russian security threats in Baltic countries. He led and coordinated the “Kremlin Papers” project\, a high-profile investigative collaboration that detailed election interference\, information manipulation and territorial aggression by Russian president Vladimir Putin.\n\nJoseph Sywenkyj\, 2024-25 WCEE Distinguished Fellow and Knight-Wallace Fellow\, is an American photographer of Ukrainian descent who has lived and worked in Ukraine for approximately 20 years. His photography throughout Ukraine\, Eastern Europe and Central Asia has been published regularly in The Wall Street Journal\, as well as in The New York Times. His ongoing photographic series\, “Wounds\,” is an intimate study of Ukrainian activists and soldiers who were severely wounded during the Euromaidan Revolution and Russia’s current war against Ukraine. Sywenkyj has exhibited his photographs in numerous galleries and museums in both the United States and abroad. He was the recipient of two Fulbright scholarships\, one as a student and the other as a scholar\, and also received a W. Eugene Smith Grant and an Aftermath Project Grant.\n\nAbout the Moderator\nGeneviève Zubrzycki is the Weiser Family Professor in European and Eurasian Studies and the William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology at U-M. She is the Director of WCEE and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies. She previously served as Director of the Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies and the Center for European Studies. Her research focuses on nationalism and religion\, collective memory\, the post-communist transition\, and cultural politics in Eastern Europe and North America. Her award-winning books have been translated into Polish and French. In 2021\, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Bronisław Malinowski Prize in the Social Sciences from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA). She serves on the Board of Directors of The Reckoning Project\, an NGO investigating war crimes committed against civilian populations in Ukraine\, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America\, and the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie Université du Québec à Montréal.
UID:130561-21866270@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130561
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,In Person,Journalism,Wcee,Balkan,Communication And Media,eastern europe
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheater
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DTSTAMP:20250228T123221
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250213T170000
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:2025 Mayoral Fellowship Information Session with University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:The Mayoral Fellowship Program develops partnerships with universities and provides opportunities for college students to work on current projects that will offer real life experience. We believe that our city government should be reflective of our residents. Understanding the importance of developing the City of Detroit’s future workforce means our employees should be diverse and inclusive of all the cultures represented in our communities. We are looking forward to students such as yourselves to help shape the future of Detroit. The city is building and connecting to the heartbeat of its college residents and wants to offer you a jump start to your career. This program provides college students an opportunity to take a look at a career in government. Our interns are well positioned throughout various departments to gain work experience and to develop employment skills. Interns will work on currently active projects that will increase your knowledge and assist the city in its move forward. Beingonboard will provide you with a stronger learning path\, receiving classroom learning and then job application throughout the program. This connection between the City of Detroit and University of Michigan will open the doors of a government work environment to teach and grow students. 
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132718
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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DTSTAMP:20250212T134830
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250213T183000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:February Board Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Join Multicultural Lounge Community Assistant Aleena and fellow residents for an informal board game night in the Yuri Kochiyama Multicultural Lounge in South Quad. Grab some snacks\, bring your competitive spirit\, and make new friends in this relaxed and fun-filled evening!
UID:132469-21871009@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132469
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Community,Food,free,Free Food,Games,Social
LOCATION:South Quad - Yuri Kochiyama Multicultural Lounge
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DTSTAMP:20250110T095933
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250213T170000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:From Seed to Sovereignty: Incubator Workshop for Student-Led Food & Social Change Projects
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever imagined a community pizza oven behind your residence hall? Or wanted to start your own line of tomato sauce with your grandma's recipe? The UM Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) wants to help bring your idea to campus!\n\nWe are excited to be hosting a two-part incubator workshop series aimed at helping students create projects that further food sovereignty movements on campus! \n\nUMSFP nourishes a community of students working for a food sovereign campus. One way UMSFP does this is through the Student Food Empowerment Fund\, a grant for student organizations to purchase meaningful materials for events and develop long-term projects that support food sovereignty at U-M. \n\nStudent food sovereignty is the right of students to eat\, grow\, build community\, and experience joy with culturally relevant and sustainably and equitably produced food. UMSFP seeks to empower students to challenge and reshape campus food systems\, shaped by systems of oppression\, with its grants. UMSFP’s approach to food student food sovereignty emphasizes supporting student agency within the unique dynamics of a college environment\, drawing inspiration from grassroots movements for food justice while seeking to build an alternative food system led by and for students. \n\nJoin us to brainstorm some cool student-led projects (like the farm stand!)\, while enjoying time with other like-minded students and\, of course\, food! \n\nRegistration is encouraged but not required!
UID:130888-21867238@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130888
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sustainability,Food,Environment
LOCATION:Michigan League
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