September 11th, 2016

PCAP Facilitator Training

Essential for all our creative arts workshop facilitators.

PCAP facilitators work in teams to lead weekly creative arts workshops in prisons, youth detention and treatment centers, and community...

September 12th, 2016

Geometry & Physics

A mirror theorem for symmetric product of projective space

Genus-zero Gromov-Witten invariants of a smooth variety or orbifold X are rational numbers that -- roughly -- count rational curves on X...

FLINT WATER CRISIS: FIXING IT

LECTURE: DR. MARTIN KAUFMAN (MUP '80; PH.D. '94), U-M FLINT GEOGRAPHY, PLANNING, AND ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT

n April 2014, Flint switched its water source to the Flint River. The switch, along with a combination of other factors, corrupted the...

September 13th, 2016

Colloquium Series

Data-driven discovery of dynamical systems in the engineering, physical and biological sciences

We demonstrate that the integration of data-driven dynamical systems and machine learning strategies with adaptive control are capable of...

PCAP Editing Team Meeting

Help produce the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing

Join the editing team that produces the Prison Creative Arts Project's Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing. Contact Phil...

September 14th, 2016

Free Espresso Drink Coupon

Free Food Week at #FiresideCafe & #FiresideRoast

Any guest who makes an $8 or more purchase after 3pm at Fireside Cafe or Fireside Roast will receive a coupon for a free espresso drink...

Analysis/Probability

Exterior differential systems and isoperimetric inequalities with Gaussian measure and on Hamming cube.

The goal of this talk is to give a unified approach to the solutions of a class of isoperimetric problems by relating them to the exterior...

PCAP Membership Meeting

Community building + workshop facilitator peer support

PCAP membership meetings offer peer support for workshop facilitators, planning time for committees, and a group discussion or activity for...

September 15th, 2016

Commutative Algebra

Small subalgebras of polynomial rings and Stillman's conjecture in large characteristic for all degrees

This is the first of two talks on joint work of Tigran Ananyan and the speaker. The main result is that there is a positive integer B(n,d)...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

Matrix regularizing effects of Gaussian perturbations

I will talk about the work of Aizenman, Peled, Schenker, Shamis and Sodin, studying the regularizing effect of the gaussian random noise to...

Special Science Talk

Communicating Science For Fun and Profit / Joe Palca (National Public Radio Science Reporter)

Joe Palca has spent more than thirty years as a science journalist—first in local TV, then for the journals Science and Nature, and for...

Topology

Conway mutation and knot Floer homology

The Kinoshita-Terasaka and Conway knots are notoriously hard to distinguish. This is because they are related by mutation, an operation on...

Roundtable on Network Aesthetics

Patrick Jagoda, John Cheney-Lippold, Anna Watkins Fisher & Sheila Murphy

Thursday, September 15 | Roundtable on Network Aesthetics: Patrick Jagoda, John Cheney-Lippold, Anna Watkins Fisher, Sheila Murphy...

September 16th, 2016

Dieudonne Fokou

GalleryDAAS Artist Talk

Dieudonne Fokou from Cameroon experiments continuously with new media, as he explores different modes of creation in the plastic arts....

Geometry

Riemannian manifolds with positive Yamabe invariant and Paneitz operator

For a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension at least three, we know that positive Yamabe invariant implies the existence of a conformal...

Combinatorics

Moduli spaces of tropical curves and representations of the symmetric group

I will discuss the combinatorial construction of the moduli space of stable tropical curves with labeled marked points, as a generalized...

Digital Destiny

Works by Dieudonne Fokou

Digital Destiny presents 20 sculptures in metal and found materials created over the past five years by the Cameroonian artist Dieudonne...

September 17th, 2016

EXCEL Talk: Latitude49

“Crossing the Parallel: from College to Career”

U-M alumni ensemble Latitude49 offers a combined roundtable discussion and open rehearsal where they share experiences coming out of school...