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We will discuss\u00a0this year\u2019s ACC workshop, meet fellow graduate students,\nand partake in Panera coffee and pastries.\n\n\u00a0For the 2026-27 year, the ACC\nworkshop theme is Wisdom and Discernment in Research, centering Christopher\nJ. Pexa's Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhota Oyate, which\nexplores how the Dakhota [Dakota\/Lakota\/Nakota Sioux] people and culture have\nbeen (mis)translated into the English language and US cultural meanings.\nPexa \"rewrites\" those translations by analyzing Dakota literature published\nsince the Dakota War of 1862 through an interpretive method guided by thi\u00f3\u0161paye ethics.\n\nPexa\u2019s literary and historical analysis inspires questions of\nhow \"knowing\" and \"truths\" in US research are communicated, translated, and\ninfluenced by ideas of wisdom and discernment. Specific questions we might discuss are: How does culture influence what it means to be discerning and wise? How does research influence what it means to be discerning and wise?\nHow is discernment determined, and what constitutes wise discernment in US\nculture and other, non-US cultures within the US academy? How does our own\nresearch reflect our personal ideas of discernment and wisdom?", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"151936-21912484@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/151936", "building_id":"", "building_name":"", "campus_maps_id":"", "room":"", "location_name":"Angel Hall, RM 3241", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["Sessions"], "website":"https:\/\/sessions.studentlife.umich.edu\/p\/track\/17930", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Sessions @ Michigan", "group_id":"4791", "website":"https:\/\/sessions.studentlife.umich.edu\/" } ], "image_url":"", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"", "event_large":"", "event_large_2x":"", "event_large_lightbox":"", "group_thumb":"", "group_thumb_square":"", "group_large":"", "group_large_lightbox":"", "event_large_crop":"", "event_list":"", "event_list_2x":"", "event_grid":"", "event_grid_2x":"", "event_feature_large":"", "event_feature_thumb":"" }, "occurrence_count":1, "first_occurrence":21912484 } , "152617-21914185": { "datetime_modified":"20260922T083438", "datetime_start":"20260924T103000", "datetime_end":"20260924T123000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2026-09-24", "date_end":"2026-09-24", "time_start":"10:30:00", "time_end":"12:30:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"Long-horizon and Multimodal Reasoning for Contact-rich Manipulation", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"Long-horizon and Multimodal Reasoning for Contact-rich Manipulation: PhD Defense, Zixuan Huang", "event_subtitle":"PhD Defense, Zixuan Huang", "event_type":"Presentation", "event_type_id":"16", "description":"Committee chair: Dmitry Berenson\n\nAbstract: \nContact-rich manipulation is central to many everyday robotic tasks, from assembly and tool use to cable routing and threading. Unlike free-space motion, these tasks require robots to deliberately make and maintain contact with objects and the environment, where small errors can cause large changes in forces, motion, and task outcome. Successful manipulation therefore requires reasoning about both how contact interactions evolve over time and how those interactions can be inferred from incomplete sensory observations.\nThis dissertation addresses two complementary challenges in contact-rich manipulation: long-horizon reasoning and multimodal reasoning. Long-horizon tasks such as cable routing require planning over extended sequences of contact interactions, where locally reasonable actions may lead to globally incorrect outcomes. Meanwhile, precise assembly and threading are often only partially observable from vision, motivating the integration of force and tactile sensing.\n\nThe first thrust develops diffusion-based subgoal generation methods that provide long-horizon guidance to model predictive control, including contact-aware representations that capture object\u2013environment relationships. The second thrust develops multimodal generative models that jointly reason about actions, vision, force, touch, and proprioception, and investigates how control-relevant representations can be learned within world-action models. 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