December 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...

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...

Perspective on Inclusion

Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein

Justice Richard Bernstein became the first blind justice, elected by voters statewide, to the Michigan Supreme Court in November 2014. With...

December 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...

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...

Geometry & Physics

Matrix Factorizations in Gromov-Witten Theory

Originally introduced by Eisenbud in the context of commutative algebra, matrix factorizations have since earned a prominent role in...

Student Combinatorics Seminar

Mobius Functions in Rep Theory and Topology

The mobius function of a poset is a tool for making inclusion exclusion arguments that reflect the structure of the poset. We'll talk...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

Constructing hyperelliptic curves of genus 3 whose Jacobians have CM

Given a sextic CM field K, we can ask whether there are any simple, principally polarized abelian varieties that have complex multiplication...

December 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...

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...

Colloquium Series

Geometric configurations of primes

We'll explain how some particularly recalcitrant problems in number theory can be formulated geometrically. In particular the talk will...

Student Algebraic Geometry

A combinatorial introduction to homological stability in arithmetic statistics

The goal of this talk is to introduce how to use some fine techniques in algebraic geometry to obtain concrete combinatorial results. I will...

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...

December 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...

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...

Algebraic Geometry

Building blocks of polarized endomorphisms

An endomorphism f of a normal projective variety X is polarized if the pullback via f of an ample divisor H is linearly equivalent to qH for...

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...

Ross Diaries Mini

Offered by the Sanger Leadership Center and Ross Design + Business

Ross Diaries Mini is an intimate gathering where students from across the business school will share powerful and compelling stories about...

December 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...

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...

What is True Multiculturalism?

Workshop hosted by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives

What does the word multicultural mean to you? Where does multiculturalism show up for you: in your residence hall, in your classes, in...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

The restricted invertibility principle: interlacing polynomials approach

The restricted invertibility principle asserts that every square matrix L with unit length columns contains a large column submatrix whose...

Topology

The type problem and Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates for hyperbolic surfaces

While the geometric theory of finite type surfaces is well developed, the study of hyperbolic geometric structures on infinite type surfaces...

December 9th, 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...

Museum Studies Program brown bag

Specimen Backlogs in the Age of Digitization: Strategies for Shedding Light on "Dark Data" Before They Become Black Holes

Daniel Miller, Collections Manager at the UM Paleontology Museum, will provide an overview of digitization and organizational initiatives...

PhonDi Discussion Group

San Duanmu & Zuxuan Qin: "A Judgment Study on the Interaction among Phonology, Morpho-syntax, and Semantics"

San Duanmu and Zuxuan Qin will speak on "A Judgment Study on the Interaction among Phonology, Morpho-syntax, and Semantics."...

Geometry

Predicting arithmetic using topology

We will see how topologists can discover theorems in arithmetic. I will present two collections of results from topology and arithmetic, and...

SoConDi Discussion Group

Dave Ogden: "Positive Attitudes Through Better Understanding: The Role of Perceptual Adaptation in Accent-Based Discrimination"

Dave Ogden will speak about "Positive Attitudes Through Better Understanding: The Role of Perceptual Adaptation in Accent-Based...

Student AIM Seminar

Treecode Accelerated Methods in Biomolecular Simulations

Treecode methods provide a useful tool for accelerating computation in many-body problems. These methods involve a hierarchical...

Detroit Hockey Night

Detroit Red-wings vs. Columbus Blue Jackets

Join our office in our riveting off-campus senior program where we will be transporting students to downtown Detroit to catch a Red Wings...

December 10th, 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...