November 27th, 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...

The Aesthetic Movement

Artists of the Photo-Secession

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and...

November 28th, 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...

Technology Adoption in the Community

Switching from Keypads to Touchscreens for People with Visual Impairments in India

Joyojeet Pal, U-M School of Information, discusses the challenges that touchsreens present to users with visual impairments in India. He...

The Aesthetic Movement

Artists of the Photo-Secession

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and...

Topology

Ordering groups and group actions on 1-manifolds

Given a group G, and a manifold M, can one describe all the ways that G acts on M? This is a remarkably rich question even in the case...

Geometry & Physics

Chern classes and Gromov-Witten theory of projective bundles

In the first half I will start with an informal introduction to Gromov-Witten invariants. In a joint work with Y.P. Lee and motivated by the...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

Algebraic and tropical de Rham theories for non-Archimedean spaces

We show that de Rham cohomology sheaves of a smooth non-Archimedean space have a functorial decomposition through local weights. In...

November 29th, 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...

The Aesthetic Movement

Artists of the Photo-Secession

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and...

SPECIAL EVENT

University-Wide Discussion of the REBUILD Foundational Course Initiative

Foundational Courses in STEM; Lessons Learned, Future Directions: A REBUILD Seminar Series (Brown Bag Lunch)...

Design Science Master's Degree Information Session

Traditional science studies the world as we find it. Design Science studies the world as we make it.

We invite you to learn more about our new Design Science master’s degree and doctoral program, offered through the College of...

Colloquium Series

Quaternion algebras and supersingular locus of Hilbert modular varieties

There is a deep and famous result of Deuring and Serre (refined by Ribet) in arithmetic geometry saying that one has a canonical bijection...

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...

November 30th, 2016

Holiday Kickoff

a one-day-only sales event for U-M faculty and staff

All U-M faculty and staff are invited to the second annual Holiday Kickoff at Computer Showcase on . This special sales event features the...

Holiday Kickoff

a one-day-only sales event for U-M faculty and staff

All U-M faculty and staff are invited to the second annual Holiday Kickoff at Computer Showcase on . This special sales event features the...

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...

The Aesthetic Movement

Artists of the Photo-Secession

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and...

Student Arithmetic

Cohomological Approaches to the Weil Conjectures

When Weil proposed his famous conjectures, he noted that the rationality and functional equation parts would follow from the existence of a...

Financial/Actuarial Mathematics

Portfolio choice with permanent and temporary transaction costs

In this talk we study the problem of optimal portfolio choice with permanent and temporary transaction costs. In a general Markovian model...

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...

Style Your Startup

Roslyn Karamoko of Detroit Is The New Black, Shawn Blanchard of SnapSuits, & Biljana Stewart of Biba Design Jewelry.

Are you trying to grow a business? Do you have a passion for fashion? Are you interested in becoming an entrepreneur? This event is for YOU!...

December 1st, 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...

Clothing Swap to Save

Hosted by Epsilon Eta and CSG Sustainability Commission

On Thursday, December 1st, Epsilon Eta and the CSG Sustainability Commission will be hosting a clothing swap in the Michigan Union's...

The Aesthetic Movement

Artists of the Photo-Secession

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and...

GFP Brown Bag

Dr. Rebecca Bigler, Professor of Psychology , University of Texas at Austin

When, Why, and How to Talk to Children About Gender: Research-Based Advice for Parents and Teachers...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

Sparse spectral approximations of matrices via the solution to the Kadison-Singer problem

We will discuss the proof and applications of a recent result of Friedland and Youssef, who utilize the solution of the Kadison-Singer...

Differential Equations

Optimal wall-to-wall transport by incompressible flows

The wall-to-wall optimal transport problem asks for the design of an incompressible flow between parallel walls that most efficiently...

EXCEL Trainings

Give ‘Em What They Want: Career Competencies Arts Employers are Looking For and How to Get Them

Led by Career Center Representative. Employers are looking for recent graduates with these “7 Career Readiness Competencies.” Give ‘em...

December 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...

The Aesthetic Movement

Artists of the Photo-Secession

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and...

HistLing Discussion Group

Daniel Walden "Truth to/from Power: Poetic and Kingly Truth-Telling in Hesiod's Works and Days"

Daniel Walden will speak on "Truth to/from Power: Poetic and Kingly Truth-Telling in Hesiod's Works and Days."

Covering Trump: The Presidency and the Press in Turbulent Times

Craig Gilbert of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Tracy Jan of The Boston Globe, Laura Meckler of The Wall Street Journal, Katie Zezima of The Washington Post and Vincent Hutchings, U-M political science professor talk with Jon Morgan of Bloomberg News

A panel of national journalists and a political science expert will offer analysis about the presidential election and the tempestuous...

Journal Club

How to get an academic job? Discussion

The Graduate Committee will host a discussion about the academic job market, with a focus on the job application process. Since we are doing...

December 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...

The Aesthetic Movement

Artists of the Photo-Secession

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and...