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DTSTAMP:20260224T094518
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T101500
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Joint Deformation and Contact Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
DESCRIPTION:Co-Chairs: Nima Fazeli and Dmitry Berenson\n\nAbstract:\nCentral to the success of many dexterous manipulation tasks is contact. Humans can intuitively reason about and control contacts to cook\, clean\, push\, build and complete many\, many more tasks. Our goal in designing autonomous robotic manipulators is ultimately to design robotic systems capable of ubiquitous reasoning and control of contact. In this thesis\, we focus on contact-rich manipulation on systems exhibiting elastic deformation\, either in the manipulator or the objects being manipulated. This compliance yields exciting opportunities\, such as robust compliant contact interfaces\, gradual force buildup and dissipation\, and the potential for observability of contact via the deformation. Even with compliance in the system\, contacts are rarely directly observable\, forcing reliance on indirect\, local\, and noisy sensing. Additionally\, the compliance in conjunction with contact introduces high-dimensional states and complex dynamics.\n\nIn this thesis\, we explore methodologies to provide robots a sense of contact. We investigate data-driven methodologies for overcoming the complex\, partially observable nature of contact. In particular\, we look to exploit the tight relationship between deformation and contact\, as elucidated by multi-modal sensory feedback. With our sense of contact in hand\, we then explore downstream reasoning and behaviors in a variety of manipulation settings\, such as tool use\, non-prehensile and prehensile manipulation\, and multi-task visuomotor policies.
UID:145860-21897963@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145860
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Robotics,Michigan Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 4000
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DTSTAMP:20260218T113323
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Friday Seminar Series - Deconstructing Lentinus
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Deconstructing Lentinus
UID:144786-21895844@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144786
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,environmental,Science,evolutionary biology,evolution,Environment,eeb,Ecosystems,ecosystem,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology
LOCATION:Research Museums Center - Demo Room
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DTSTAMP:20260211T102201
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T110000
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SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000)
DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu.
UID:144249-21895021@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Medicine,Literature,Lifelong Learning,Leadership,Interdisciplinary,In Person,History,Health Professions,Nursing,Graduate School,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate,Free,Faculty,Detroit,Community Engagement,Civic Engagement,Undergraduate Students,Networking,Personal Development,pharmacy,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Pre-Law,Professional Development,Public Policy,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Sociology,Staff,Storytelling,Sustainability,Teaching,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260115T181512
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 2): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 2 Curatorial Statement\n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Sally Clegg (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Kim Karlsrud (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtists Sally Clegg and Kim Karlsrud wrap the Division Street pillars in highly site-specific ornament unearthed from the overlooked margins of Ann Arbor. On the Courtyard pillar\, Karlsrud scales up photographs of objects found in liminal spaces surrounding campus buildings on Green Road\, which the artist has encrusted in road salt. On the entryway pillar\, Clegg zooms in on tiny fragments of found material from UMich’s famous “rock” to celebrate nearly seven decades of student art and activism. Both artists uplift aggregate of local human activity to reveal tiny worlds of found form. \n\nSally Clegg: Sentimentary Rock\nSentimentary Rock is a composition of paint slag collected from the UMich rock monument at the corner of Washtenaw Avenue and Hill Street. This colorful composite material has been accumulating at the base of the iconic limestone boulder since the mid 1950’s\, when students began a tradition of painting it in acts of protest\, creativity\, and ritual\, sometimes multiple times per week. Akin to byproducts of industry such as “Fordite” (collectable chunks of automotive overspray sometimes called ‘Detroit agate’)\, Sentimentary Rock includes thousands of layers\, each dripped from a palimpsestic public proclamation. When processed\, sculpted\, sealed\, assembled\, and macro-photographed\, the result is this enlarged array of tiny gems\, intended to celebrate the indissoluble student voice. \n\nKim Karlsrud: What Amasses\nWhat Amasses is an assemblage of everyday found objects collected within the Miller Creek watershed\, an urbanized drainage system that encompasses much of the city of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan campus. Selected objects were immersed in a road salt solution\, allowing delicate crystalline formations to emerge. Road salt is a common material input into these hydrological networks during the winter months and exists in multiple states of refinement\, expression\, coherence\, and fragmentation. Each object was then arranged\, photographed\, and enlarged to recontextualize these materials in ways that invite deeper reflections on how infrastructure and human agency blur notions of the natural and the artificial. \nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nSally Clegg \nSally Clegg is an artist and educator from Pelham\, Massachusetts. Her studio practice is rooted in sculpture and expanded printmaking\, stemming from a fascination with human efforts to make meaning from our relationships to objects. Clegg integrates history\, popular culture\, literature and philosophy as material for artmaking\, leveraging personal anecdote and humor to reveal the complexity\, absurdity\, and theoretical richness at play in our connections to things and to ourselves. \n\nClegg holds an MFA in Art from The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design\, and a BA in Art & English from Goucher College. She has exhibited nationally and internationally\, and her work can be found in permanent collections at Yale University\, The New York Public Library\, and elsewhere. Her artwork and writing has appeared in ASAP/Journal\, BOMB Magazine\, Sculpture Magazine\, and Hyperallergic. She is a lecturer in Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\n\nKim Karlsrud \nKim Karlsrud is the co-founder of Commonstudio\, a collaborative creative practice that develops socio-ecological and spatial interventions\, installations\, and initiatives working with and within urban landscapes. Her work explores the space between art and design\, and is grounded in the concept of the “commons\,” that which is shared\, as well as that which is ordinary\, banal\, and commonplace.\n\nKarlsrud completed her undergraduate degree in Product Design from Otis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan. She is currently an Assistant Visiting Professor in the College of Design at the University of Oregon\, teaching across Art and Landscape Architecture departments. She jointly received the 2014-15 Prince Charitable Trust Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture\, was a 2017 resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and is the 2025-26 Fuller Fieldscape Fellow. Website / Instagram
UID:138032-21881301@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138032
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260213T101444
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T180000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Teach Access Student Academy
DESCRIPTION:Discover how to build empathy and awareness for accessibility in this engaging\, interactive event! Open to all students\, whether you’re enrolled in a college or university or learning independently\, this free event will strengthen your understanding of accessibility and why it matters.\n\nYou’ll learn practical accessibility skills you can apply to your projects\, along with strategies for having meaningful conversations that motivate others to prioritize inclusion.\n\nWhether you are new to accessibility or looking to strengthen your understanding\, this event will help you take steps toward creating a more accessible world.\n\nLast day to register is Sunday\, February 22.
UID:145393-21897233@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145393
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:accessibility,Training,Academic Technology At Michigan
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260205T093231
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T120000
SUMMARY:Presentation:University of Cambridge Admissions Visit
DESCRIPTION:There are two opportunities to meet with a representative from the University of Cambridge this month! Cambridge's representative\, Nathan Lamb\, will be coming to U-M to present and answer any questions you have about applying to Cambridge\, including available scholarships!\n\nThere is an in-person session on Friday\, February 27th from 11-12pm in the 1040 Multipurpose Room in the LSA Building (500 S State Street) and a follow-up virtual session from 12:30-1:30pm\, for those who can't be there in person.
UID:145101-21896669@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145101
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Scholarships,Onsf,Office Of National Scholarships And Fellowships (Onsf)
LOCATION:LSA Building - Multipurpose Room (1040)
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DTSTAMP:20260219T144530
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Public Perceptions and Acceptance of Vaccination in Malaysia and Indonesia: Insights from Recent Fieldwork
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: http://myumi.ch/3Rw8g\n\nThis presentation offers a comparative examination of the acceptance and perception of different types of vaccination in Malaysia and Indonesia. It highlights both the similarities and differences in the factors shaping public attitudes toward immunization across these countries. The discussion also identifies key considerations for improving vaccine uptake and public health strategies in these regions.\n   \n   Dr. Yogambigai Rajamoorthy is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Accountancy and Management at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)\, Malaysia. She holds a PhD and a master’s degree in economics from Universiti Putra Malaysia and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Malaya. Her research focuses on health economics\, especially the economic valuation of vaccines\, public acceptance of immunization\, and public‑health decision‑making. She has contributed to widely cited studies on COVID‑19 vaccine acceptance and dengue awareness\, and her work emphasizes aligning health policy with public values.\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at valdezjo@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:144643-21895627@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144643
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health,malaysia,Asian Languages And Cultures,Public Health
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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DTSTAMP:20260218T160802
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Gender Unruliness\, Power\, and Order
DESCRIPTION:How does gender shape power\, knowledge\, and lived experience across imperial and post-imperial worlds? This graduate workshop explores gender not just as a social category but as a critical lens for analyzing colonial power\, resistance\, and postcolonial critique. Inspired in part by Howard Chiang’s concept of transtopia\, which highlights gender transgression across times and cultures\, this workshop challenges Western-centric frameworks and invites broader\, global perspectives on gender variance.\n\nThis workshop brings together scholars to examine how gender constructs and disrupts hierarchies of power\, intersects with race and imperialism\, and reshapes scientific\, cultural\, and political authority.\n\nJoin us for a conversation to reconsider the entanglements of gender\, power\, and order across historical geographies and contexts.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:142517-21891066@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142517
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Humanities,History,Graduate Students,Graduate School
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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