October 2nd, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

October 3rd, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

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...

Complex Analysis, Dynamics and Geometry

A Complete Description of the Non-splitting Bifurcations of the Complex Polynomial Vector Fields in C

In this talk, the qualitative dynamics of the vector fields in the complex plane defined by complex polynomials is studied. The ultimate...

Geometry & Physics

Central charges of B-branes at non-geometric phases

On the first half of my talk, I'll focus on basic concepts about B-branes and their central charges and how they arise in physics and...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

Shahidi matrices of local coefficients and Tate-type gamma factors

Shahidi local coefficients associated with parabolic inductions on quasi-split reductive groups defined over a local field are the core of...

Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Amir Ganjavie (York University) - Utopia and Censorship: Iranian Cinema at the Crossroads of Love, Sex, and Tradition

Iranian censorship forbids depictions of unrelated men and women touching one another. Given this, Western scholars generally view Iranian...

Teaching Mathematics

Does Student Engagement Matter? Teaching Practices for Encouraging Student Engagement

In 2015-2016, the Mathematics Department and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching conducted a large-scale study of the impact of...

October 4th, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

Health, History, Demography and Development (H2D2)

Undocumented Immigrants and Labor Market Fluidity: Evidence in the Context of Equilibrium Unemployment Theory presented by Parag Mahajan, University of Michigan and The Economic Consequences of Immigrant Disenfranchisement: Evidence from the United States

Undocumented Immigrants and Labor Market Fluidity: Evidence in the Context of Equilibrium Unemployment Theory Abstract:...

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...

Student Geometry/Topology

Exotic manifolds and the generalized Poincare conjectures.

I will discuss the history of the generalized Poincare conjectures, which ask whether a manifold which has the homotopy type of a sphere is...

Colloquium Series

Families of varieties and Hodge theory

Allowing the isomorphism class of algebraic varieties to vary in a family usually imposes strong conditions on the space parametrizing that...

Student Algebraic Geometry

Complex-Analytic Methods in Algebraic Geometry

To any smooth algebraic variety over the complex numbers, we can associate a complex manifold called its analytification. We will discuss a...

China Miéville Reading

ZVWS Distinguished International Writer In Residence

CHINA MIEVILLE is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer and academic. He often describes his work as "weird fiction"...

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...

October 5th, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

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...

Financial/Actuarial Mathematics

Model-independent pricing with additional information: a Skorokhod embedding approach.

I will consider the pricing problem of an agent having additional (potentially insider) information on the market in a model-independent...

Analysis/Probability

On the Brunn-Minkowski inequality for log-concave measures

The Brunn-Minkowski inequality is a fundamental inequality in Geometry, and has found many applications in Analysis and Probability. This...

Derek Palacio

Fiction @ Literati

Derek Palacio’s stunning, mythic novel marks the arrival of a fresh voice and a new chapter in the history of 21st century Cuban-American...

October 6th, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

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...

ASC Presentation. UMAPS Research Colloquium Series

UMAPS Scholars: Ian Bekker, North-West University; Hiruy Tefera, Addis Ababa University; Netsanet Weldesenbet, Addis Ababa University

Since 2009, the U-M African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) Program brings early career faculty from African universities to Ann Arbor for...

Commutative Algebra

Transformation rules for F-signature under finite morphisms

The F-signature is a numerical invariant of singularities which measures the asymptotic number of splittings of iterates of Frobenius. In...

Decision Consortium

Daniel Kessler, UM Psychiatry Neuroimaging Methods Core

Which findings from the functional neuromaging literature can we trust? Putting "cluster failure" in context

Logic

Commuting endomorphisms and hypersmooth equivalence relations, part III

An equivalence relation E is hypersmooth (hyperfinite) if E is the union of an increasing sequence of smooth (finite) Borel equivalence...

Topology

Towers of regular self-covers and linear endomorphisms of tori

Let M be a manifold that admits a nontrivial cover diffeomorphic to itself. What can we then say about M? Examples are provided by tori, in...

Differential Equations

Macroscopic Limits of the Becker-Doering equation via gradient flows

In this talk, we will consider gradient structures for a discrete coagulation-fragmentation model, the Becker-Doering equation, and its...

October 7th, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

Coloring Who We Are

Workshop (hands-on)

The coloring movement appeals to people of all ages, but coloring books available to buy are often quite expensive and promote stereotypes....

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...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Lorentz force impedance tomography in 2D: theory and experiments

Lorentz force impedance tomography, also known as the Magneto-Acousto-Electric Tomography (MAET), is a novel hybrid modality that represents...

Geometry

Uniform Fellow Traveling Between Surgery Paths In the Sphere Graph

Guiradel generalized the notion of geometric intersection number between curves on on a surface to any pair of G–trees; associated to...

Combinatorics

Positivity and canonical bases for surface skein algebras

We investigate whether surface cluster algebras have positive canonical bases, natural linear bases for which the structure constants for...

Student AIM Seminar

Bessel Functions and Representation Theory

Special Functions frequently arise in applied mathematics, especially as solutions to differential equations. However, deriving (and...

The Fly Room

Q&A following the screening with Dr. Alexis Gambis, a fly geneticist and director of the film

"The Fly Room" is a sweeping, yet intimate portrait of the complicated relationship between Calvin Bridges, father of modern...

October 8th, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...