Student Number Theory Planning Meeting
Come plan this semester's seminar with us! Whether you're open to giving a talk or not, we'd love for you to join us. Feel...
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Matroids and the integral Hodge conjecture for abelian varieties
Philip Engel (UIC)
We will discuss a proof that the integral Hodge conjecture is false for a very general abelian variety of dimension ≥ 4. Associated to any...
Student AIM Seminar: Planning Meeting
Welcome back to another semester! We are excited to kick off the Student AIM Seminar with our first planning meeting this Wednesday,...
Probability and Analysis Seminar: Large Deviation Principle for the Directed Landscape
Sayan Das (University of Chicago)
Abstract: The directed landscape is a random directed metric on the plane that arises as the scaling limit of classical metric models in the...
Singular Perturbations of Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the Wasserstein space
Antonios Zitridis
In this talk, I will present a singular perturbation problem for second-order Hamilton–Jacobi equations, focusing on the asymptotic...
Lectures on Schubert polynomials: Introduction
William Fulton (U Michigan)
In the first lecture, we will sketch the broad history of Schubert polynomials. This will feature a few of the geometric and algebraic ideas...
GEOMETRY SEMINAR. Compactness for G-invariant minimal hypersurfaces
R. BETTIOL (LEHMAN COLLEGE - CUNY)
Consider the space of embedded minimal hypersurfaces in a closed Riemannian n-manifold, with the C^k topology. For n=3, a celebrated work of...
Student Algebraic Geometry: The Valuative Tree, Part 1
Benjamin Baily
Consider the set of valuations v: C[[x,y]] -> R \cup \{\infty\}, normalized so that min(v(x), v(y)) = 1. We'll show that this set...
No AIM Seminar This Week
TBA
Abstract: AIM seminar participants (especially students) should be encouraged instead to attend the 2025 SIAM Student Mini-Symposium in...
Higher Dimer Models (Combinatorics Seminar)
Nicholas Ovenhouse -- Michigan State University
The "dimer model" is the study of random perfect matchings (or "dimer covers") of a graph. More generally, "n-dimer...
2025 SIAM Student Mini-Symposium in Applied Mathematics
The SIAM student chapter at the University of Michigan is hosting the 2025 SIAM Student Mini-Symposium in Applied Mathematics on September...
Pfaffians as τ -functions of the BKP hierarchy: a constructive parametrization of complex pure spinors de E. Cartan
Yuancheng Xie (Shenzhen MSU-BIT University)
It is well known that τ -functions of KP hierarchy are parameterized by points in Sato’s Universal Grassmannian manifold (UGM). These τ...
2025 Ziwet Lectures
Lior Horesh
Tuesday, September 9, 4 pm, East Hall 1324: Science 2.0 - Evolving the Scientific Method in the Age of AI...
Learning Seminar in Algebraic Combinatorics: Overview and introduction to tropical arithmetic and curves
Yelena Mandelshtam
This is the first meeting of the learning seminar in algebraic combinatorics this semester. We will introduce the basics of tropical...
Algebraic Geometry Learning Seminar: Birational invariants from Hodge structures and quantum multiplication
Alex Perry
Intro lecture and organizational meeting for a learning seminar on the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05105
Computing the adapted Wasserstein distance between the laws of stochastic processes
Fang Rui Lim
Recently, the adapted Wasserstein (AW) distance has emerged as an attractive alternative to the usual distances between laws of stochastic...
2025 Ziwet Lectures
Lior Horesh
Tuesday, September 9, 4 pm, East Hall 1324: Science 2.0 - Evolving the Scientific Method in the Age of AI...
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: The ring of cooperations for real Hermitian K-theory
Jackson Morris (University of Washington)
In the 80s, Mahowald used the bo-Adams spectral sequence to determine the v1-periodicity in the stable homotopy groups of spheres. Towards...
2025 Ziwet Lectures
Lior Horesh
Tuesday, September 9, 4 pm, East Hall 1324: Science 2.0 - Evolving the Scientific Method in the Age of AI...
AIM Seminar: Particle Simulations of Fluids and Plasmas
Robert Krasny (University of Michigan)
Abstract: The first part of the talk presents simulations of elliptical fluid vortices described by the 2D incompressible Euler equations...
Generalized cluster algebras as subquotients of cluster algebras (Combinatorics Seminar)
Rolando Ramos -- Michigan State University
Generalized Cluster Algebras (GCA) are generalizations of Cluster Algebras (CA) with higher-order exchange relations. Previously, Chekhov...
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: The asymptotic Picard rank conjecture
Aaron Landesman (Harvard)
The Picard rank conjecture predicts the vanishing of the rational Picard group of the Hurwitz space parameterizing simply branched covers of...
IBL Lunch
Come talk about teaching with IBL, interactive, and other active teaching methods over lunch. Bring teaching anecdotes, thoughts, and your...
DE Seminar: From Schrödinger to diffusion- speckle formation of light in random media and the Gaussian conjecture
Anjali Nair (UChicago)
A well-known conjecture in physical literature states that high frequency waves propagating over long distances through turbulence...
AIM Seminar / MCAIM Colloquium: Two Tales of Waving Tails in Biological Fluid Dynamics
Lisa Fauci (Tulane University)
Abstract: The motion of undulating, flexible “tails" in a fluid environment is a common element in many biological systems, from...
Contracting a Crowd of Heterogeneous Agents
Guillermo Alvarez, UM
We study a principal-agent model involving a large population of heterogeneously interacting agents. By extending the existing methods, we...
AIM Seminar: Variational methods in fracture mechanics
Kerrek Stinson (University of Utah)
Abstract: The widely used phase-field approach for modeling fracture is based on the Griffith criterion, which says that the elastic energy...
A variational approach to portfolio choice.
Emmet Lawless
In this talk we propose a calculus of variations approach to an optimal consumption problem with isoelastic preferences over an infinite...
AIM Seminar: Title TBA
Dan Bruder (University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering)
Abstract: TBA Contact: Silas Alben
AIM Seminar: Title TBA
Giovanni Russo (Università di Catania and University of Michigan)
Abstract: TBA Contact: Peter Miller
