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DTSTAMP:20261026T085802
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Rethinking Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors
DESCRIPTION:Zoom: In the Meeting Invite\nIn-Person: West Hall\, Room 411\n\nAbstract:\nSuperconducting nanowire single-photon detectors combine near-perfect efficiency\, exceptional timing precision\, and almost no false counts\, making them a key enabling technology for quantum information science. Yet two long-standing constraints limit their wider use: they must operate at liquid-helium temperatures\, and their design imposes a fundamental trade-off. A large active area captures more light\, while a small one offers higher speed\, lower noise\, and sharper timing. In this talk\, I will present two complementary approaches to easing these constraints. The first rethinks the material. Exfoliated van der Waals flakes of an iron-based superconductor produce a fast\, self-resetting photoresponse well above liquid-helium temperatures. I will discuss what it will take to achieve single-photon sensitivity. Because this approach leads to smaller detectors\, efficient light collection becomes even more important. The second approach rethinks optics. Cryogenic dielectric metasurfaces act as flat lenses\, allowing a small detector to collect light like a much larger one. They can also add new functions\, such as sorting photons by polarization onto neighboring detectors. Together\, these approaches point toward single-photon detectors that are warmer\, smaller\, and more capable\, with reduced size\, weight\, power\, cost\, and cooling demands. They could open new opportunities across quantum technologies\, photonics\, and sensing.\n\nBio:\nPankaj K. Jha is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University\, with an affiliated appointment in Physics\, where he leads the Quantum Technology Laboratory. He received his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M University and was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley and Caltech before joining Syracuse. His research integrates 2D materials\, metamaterials\, and superconducting devices to advance quantum photonic technologies\, focusing on next-generation single-photon detectors. His work has been highlighted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\, the Kavli Foundation\, and the Moore Foundation. His honors include a 2023 Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Visiting Faculty Research Program Fellowship and a 2023 Syracuse University Faculty Creative Activities and Research (FCAR) Grant. His research is supported by the NSF\, AFRL\, DARPA\, and Google.
UID:148612-21904526@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148612
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Applied Physics,Astronomy,Chemistry,Computer Science And Engineering,Electrical And Computer Engineering,Electrical Engineering And Computer Science,Materials Science,Physics,Quantum,Quantum Computing,Quantum Science
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 411
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DTSTAMP:20261026T144359
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T113000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:After the Vote: Elections 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow University of Michigan students\, faculty\, and staff for lunch and conversation two days after the November 3 midterm elections. Whatever you're thinking after the results\, there's a seat for you here. This is a space to listen\, share\, and look ahead together. This is event is limited to the U-M community. \n\nGrab lunch in the Great Hall starting at 11:20 a.m.\, then head into Annenberg Auditorium for a conversation with peers. There will be a guided discussion with moments of open mic for you to weigh in\, and you'll leave with a sharper sense of what the results mean for policy and what to watch in the months ahead.
UID:154056-21917090@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154056
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Civic Learning,Democracy,Democracy And Civic Engagement,Democratic Engagement,election,gerald r. ford school of public policy,In Person,Politics
LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260922T103914
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T120000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Fill the Ranks”: The Civil War and the University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:“Fill the Ranks”: The Civil War and the University of Michigan explores how campus and community debated the issues that tore the country apart\, how students and alums joined the fight\, and how the University’s public mission began to conflict with its elite aspirations. Based on collections at the Bentley Historical Library.\n\nDeveloped by the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory and featuring the work of its student docents\, “Fill the Ranks” includes historic artifacts\, digital animations\, and interactive elements spanning two floors.\n\nOn display September 25\, 2026-July 2\, 2027 at the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, 1398 Ann Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109.\n\nView the exhibit during the Observatory’s open hours: Thursdays 12-5 pm\, Fridays 12-11 pm\, Saturdays 12-5 pm.\n\n“Fill the Ranks”: The Civil War and the University of Michigan is supported in part by the Inclusive History Project. To learn more\, please visit inclusivehistory.umich.edu. Additional support provided by the University of Michigan’s U.S. at 250 initiative.
UID:152626-21914243@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152626
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,American History,American Politics,archives,bentley historical library,bentley library,civil rights,Civil War,Education,educational,Exhibition,free,history,Humanities,Museum,museums,Politics,Social Sciences,Storytelling,Student Life,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
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DTSTAMP:20260911T131259
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America”
DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm.
UID:152024-21912684@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,William L Clements
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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DTSTAMP:20261102T152122
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ACUM Presents: Advocacy Belonging and Community in 2026
DESCRIPTION:Please join the ABCA Committee in-person or virtually to discuss global\, national\, and local matters currently impacting advisors and students. Snacks will be provided for the in-person participants! The Advising Council at the University of Michigan\, or ACUM\, brings together those who advise to best serve our students through the sharing of information\, ideas\, and best practices across U-M. We welcome your involvement in our committees and future events.R2: Create rapport and build academic advising relationships
UID:145252-21915593@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145252
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:LCSIB 1280
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DTSTAMP:20261027T181727
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SUMMARY:Performance:Adam Lenhart\, carillon
DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Adam Lenhart performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.
UID:154189-21917345@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154189
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music
LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower
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DTSTAMP:20260807T152312
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010\, Weiser Hall\, and virtually on Zoom.  If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/ykpz2\n\nCan food determine your fate? Could indulging in delicacies bring calamity to your community? This talk reevaluates the history of Japanese food culture by examining how ideas of healthy eating became both a popular phenomenon and a matter of grave concern among trained medical experts and amateur culinary enthusiasts alike. It explores why ordinary people ate what they did\, how these ideas on proper eating came to be\, and what social\, economic\, and moral concerns propelled their rise. Guidance on dietetics conveyed priorities about how well-nourished bodies were meant to act in the world\, whether as agricultural workers\, samurai bureaucrats\, or merchant consumers. Failure to keep a proper diet carried life-or-death consequences\, according to these guides\, that could bring not just disease to oneself but financial and moral ruin to one’s household\, domain\, or even society at large. This study of historical nourishment modes in Japan thus reveals an early modern dietetic revolution in the making\, which disrupted older forms of expertise and provided a venue to critique official policies on eating and living right before the introduction of modern scientific nutrition.\n\nJoshua Schlachet is a historian of Japan\, specializing in the cultural history of nourishment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His new book\, *Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan* (University of Hawaiʻi Press\, 2026)\, examines how the emergence of a dietary common knowledge expanded concepts of a well-nourished body to encompass economic productivity\, status hierarchy\, and moral cultivation. Schlachet is co-editor of *Interdisciplinary Edo: Towards an Integrated Approach to Early Modern Japan* (Routledge\, 2024)\, a collected volume of innovative humanistic research on society and culture in the Tokugawa era. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian languages and cultures from Columbia University in 2018 and is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan's Center for Japanese Studies.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:150002-21907801@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150002
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia,Asian Languages And Cultures,center for japanese studies,Food,History,japan,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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