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DTSTAMP:20261022T120341
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T150000
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SUMMARY:Other:Davenport Scrimmage
DESCRIPTION:Michigan Men's Ultimate will be scrimmaging at Davenport University in Grand Rapids\, MI.
UID:153540-21915984@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153540
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Davenport University Field
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DTSTAMP:20261022T162123
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:UM-AMDP Info Session: Fall 2027 Admissions Cycle
DESCRIPTION:Are you a current University of Michigan undergraduate student interested in earning a master’s degree from the U-M School of Information on an accelerated timeline?\nThe U-M Accelerated Master’s Degree Program (UM-AMDP) offers eligible U-M students a reduced-credit pathway to a UMSI master’s degree. Rather than completing the standard 48 credits\, UM-AMDP students complete 39 credits\, which may allow them to graduate in as little as 1.5 years—or three semesters.\nJoin one of our virtual UM-AMDP Information Sessions to learn how you can continue your education at Michigan and deepen your expertise in the information field.\nEach session includes:\n\nAn introduction to the UM-AMDP and an overview of the curriculum  \nInformation about eligibility\, application requirements\, and deadlines  \nDetails about the reduced-credit pathway and expected timeline  \nLive Q&A with a member of the UMSI admissions team\n\nWhether you’re beginning to explore your options or preparing to apply\, this session will help you understand the program and determine whether the UM-AMDP is the right next step for you.
UID:150830-21910245@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150830
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTAMP:20260818T120829
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T151000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T161000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | Multiscale Analysis of the Energetics of a Sonoluminescing Plasma Blackbody: What Are the Limits of Energy Density Concentration that Can Be Achieved with Collapsing Bubbles?
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nA gas bubble in a fluid can concentrate the energy density of a sound wave by 12 orders of magnitude to create picosecond flashes of light that originate in a dense strongly coupled plasma. An abiding question is: what are the limits of energy focusing that can be realized with sonoluminescence? Our attempt at an answer involves a multiscale simulation of an imploding bubble. The fluid must be described by compressible fluid mechanics as the velocity of implosion exceeds Mach 1. The gas containing fluid cavity is described by molecular dynamics as the gradients of temperature and velocity can be very steep. The available energy per atom matches the measured emissivity and temperature\, provided the ionization energy is much lower than current theories. Application of compressed ultrafast photography to laser breakdown of dense gases reveals a consistent requirement on the large reduction of the ionization potential in these plasmas. Our multiscale analysis allows predictions for regions of parameter space where energy density concentration is substantially larger.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nSeth Putterman is a Professor of Physics at UCLA\, and President of the Julian Schwinger Foundation for Physics Research. He received a BS from Caltech and a PhD from Rockefeller University with George E. Uhlenbeck. Putterman’s thesis on the macroscopic theory of superfluids was expanded into a monograph. His theoretical research in nonlinear fluid mechanics and acoustics motivated him to set up an experimental lab which probed energy-focusing phenomena such as sonoluminescence\, X-ray emission from triboelectrification\, and crystal-generated nuclear fusion. Putterman [with Porrati] developed the foundational theory of sequential quantum jumps in a driven system such as intermittency in the fluorescence of a single trapped ion. He has served on the Defense Sciences Research Council. His work on sonoluminescence was featured on BBC2 Horizon\, “An Experiment to Save the World”. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Physical Society and recipient of a Sloan Fellowship. Putterman was named the UCLA 2010–2011 Faculty Research Lecturer. Currently he is PI on a phase 2 clinical trial at UCLA hospital aimed at curing chronic wounds. Nature profiled his out of the mainstream approach to science in their October 2005 issue.\n\nThe seminar will be conducted in person\, with livestream on Zoom. For more information\, please check the MIPSE website: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2627.php#fall2026
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150202
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Michigan Engineering,Physics,Plasma,Research,seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003
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DTSTAMP:20261020T133411
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CCMB/DCMB Weekly Bioinformatics Seminar Series featuring Lindsey Muir\, PhD (Research Assistant Prof. of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics)
DESCRIPTION:Development of cell reprogramming methods is hindered by low efficiency and the challenge of analyzing rare cells that have yet unknown phenotypes. While cells in a typical biosample can be identified using unbiased single-cell transcriptomics\, annotation itself relies on known gene expression signatures. Cells that begin to reprogram within a larger population remain indiscernible using this approach. Work in this area illuminates the unknowns related to our understanding of cell identity and heterogeneity. I will discuss our recent work\, including direct cell reprogramming to human hematopoietic stem cells\, future directions\, and key barriers to discovery in the field.
UID:153874-21916580@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153874
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,Computational Science,Biosciences,biomedical research,Biomedical Engineering,Basic Science,Bioinformatics
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit I - 4B700
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DTSTAMP:20260908T151707
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:German Convo on the Go
DESCRIPTION:Meet at Burton Tower for a 1-hour walk and talk in German with Mary Gell (magell@umich.edu). This event happens 'rain or shine.' Open to speakers of German at all levels.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151752
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Language,European,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Humanities
LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower - Meet Outside the Tower
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DTSTAMP:20260915T123858
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:How Wonderful A Good Map Is: How I Came To Chart The Wolverine
DESCRIPTION:Artist Elaine S. Wilson will describe her ongoing project\, Charting the Wolverine\, from its inception in 2008 to its current state with  31 “map-prints” and over 240 watercolors created. She'll describe her research of historic atlases and maps and her adventures on the back roads of Michigan and Indiana along the railroad tracks making watercolors and drawings. Join us in the Clark Library or via Zoom (https://myumi.ch/2jjkZ).\n\nCharting the Wolverine is a series of digital prints about what you see when you ride Amtrak's Wolverine train from Ann Arbor\, MI to Chicago.\n\nThis event is made possible through the Dr. Bernard Sivak Memorial Fund.
UID:150959-21910622@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150959
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Maps,Library,Free
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd floor)
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DTSTAMP:20261019T123757
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Online Information Session for Admitted Transfer Students
DESCRIPTION:Join the Transfer Student Center staff to learn more about:\n\n	•	How to understand your transfer credit and how transfer credit will count towards degree requirements.\n	•	Orientation and registration: Registering for your first semester of classes.\n	•	Connecting with the department you plan to major in.\n	•	Understanding your housing options\n	•	Any other questions you may have.\n\nRegistration is required. Register with link at the right.
UID:142813-21916407@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142813
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260903T140455
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Policy Gradient Flow for Stochastic Control
DESCRIPTION:Reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable success in landmark applications such as AlphaGo and AlphaFold\, and is increasingly expected to play a central role in emerging domains such as autonomous driving. A substantial body of work has established theoretical foundations for classical reinforcement learning algorithms\, including temporal-difference learning\, policy iteration\, and Q-learning. By contrast\, policy gradient descent\, despite its widespread use\, remains less well understood from a theoretical perspective\, largely because of its non-convex structure and the complexity of the underlying functional space. Existing convergence analyses typically require uniform regularity assumptions on the policy\, viewed as a feedback control function\, along the gradient flow\; moreover\, the resulting convergence rates depend on these regularity bounds. In this work\, we significantly strengthen the existing convergence theory. Our key insight is to relate policy gradient descent to a mirror flow on the space of probability measures over controlled trajectories\, where the Bregman divergence is induced by the convex control cost. We rigorously prove a JKO-type convergence result showing that the discrete-time mirror flow converges to its continuous-time counterpart\, and we identify the limiting dynamics as a preconditioned policy gradient descent flow on the space of control processes. Leveraging this mirror-flow perspective\, we establish an exponential convergence rate that is independent of policy regularity. The convergence holds both in Bregman divergence and in the value of the associated control problem.
UID:148617-21904532@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148617
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
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