Happening @ Michigan

MIW Application Deadline-Winter 2017

The application deadline for Fall 2017 and early admission Winter 2018. Please note that interviews will be scheduled for the week of March...

Special Lecture: A Multifaceted Tale of Two Cenozoic Laccoliths, Ivan Doig Country, Montana

John Geissman, University of Texas-Dallas

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts lectures that feature distinguished speakers...

Academic Freedom in Times of War

Symposium 1917: Michigan’s Great War and Its Aftermath

In 1917, the University dismissed German Department Chair Carl Eggert and four others who were alleged to be sympathetic to Germany. This...

New Sociologies of Literature: How to study material practices

Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis

Workshop with Ignacio Sánchez Prado....

Tech Talk: The VR World of Oculus Rift

Computer Showcase Workshop Series

Virtual reality is a cutting-edge technology that’s surged in a big way recently, with many speculating it will be the next big computing...

Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. Debating Daʿwa: Theologies of Mediation in the Egyptian Islamic Revival

Yasmin Moll, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, U-M

What makes media “Islamic”? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Islamic television producers in Cairo, this paper looks at the...

Acing the Non-Academic Job Search Interview

Interviewing for the non-academic job search can differ greatly from the academic job search process. This workshop will focus on helping...

Gallery Talk - Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017...

Life After Grad School Seminar | "Non-Traditional" Physicist: The Real Story About Employment for Physics Graduates

Crystal Bailey (Careers Program Manager, American Physical Society)

Physics degree holders are among the most employable in the world, often doing everything from managing a research lab at a multi-million...

Economics at Work

Joe Parker, Colorado State University

Bio not yet available.

Navigating U.S. Job Search

Not in Handshake? Want to Join Event? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/37833...

PhonDi Discussion Group

Ian Calloway: "Power Priming and Speech Perception"

Ian Calloway: "Power Priming and Speech Perception"...

DISC Symposium. Investigating Islam: A Community Forum

Moderator: Pauline Jones, DISC director. Panelists: Kadin Herring and Amir Khafagy, Beyond Sacred cast members; Mohammad Khalil, associate...

HistLing Discussion Group

William Baxter: "How to reconstruct Old Chinese -- and why"

Professor William Baxter will give a presentation on "How to reconstruct Old Chinese -- and why"

Michigan Knowledge in a World of Empires and Colonies

Symposium 1917: Michigan’s Great War and Its Aftermath

The Great War created an urgency — and opportunity — to understand the history and culture of the Near and Far East. This panel will...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Complex dynamics in coupled nonlinear waveguides

We consider the nonlinear propagation of light along an array of two or three coupled waveguides. The three waveguide system is known to...

HET Seminar | Shaving off Black Hole Soft Hair

Massimo Porrati (New York University)

After recalling a definition of a black hole "hair" we explain why the only interesting hairs are those that are also remnants....

SoConDi Discussion Group

Emily Sabo

details to come

SynSem Discussion Group

Will Nediger

details to come

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: A Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

"Resentment: The Seeds of Violence Sown" by Mike McGovern

A Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country...

Combinatorics

Transition formulas and Schur-P-positivity for (stable) involution Schubert polynomials

Stable Schubert polynomials (aka Stanley symmetric functions) are Schur-positive symmetric functions, whose Schur coefficients can be...

Rob Van der Voo Lecture: Magnetostratigraphy of Upper Permian to Lower Triassic (?) Beaufort Group Strata, Karoo Basin, South Africa: Can We "See Through" the Early Jurassic Karoo Large Igneous Province Event? (And Other Musings)

John Geissman, University of Texas-Dallas

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts lectures that feature distinguished speakers...

Applying Stoichiometry to Real Reactions: Limiting Reactants and Yields

Rebecca Peebles (Eastern Illinois University)

Rebecca Peebles (Eastern Illinois University)

CSAS Lecture Series | Corruption and Forensic Experts in British India

Mitra Sharafi, Associate Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School

Systems for the collection and analysis of forensic evidence in late colonial India were designed to minimize corruption, particularly the...

DETROIT SCHOOL SERIES - WINTER 2017 - SARA SAFRANSKY

Sara Safransky is an Assistant Professor of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. On Friday, February 17th from...

Jelena Krivokapic Colloquium

"Prosodic structure in speech and body gestures"

Jelena Krivokapic will present a talk entitled, "Prosodic structure in speech and body gestures."...

MS-based approaches for the elucidation of nucleic acid higher-order structure and dynamics

Daniele Fabris (University at Albany, State University of New York)

The discovery of ribozymes and riboswitches has keenly reasserted the critical role played by higher-order structure in determining the...

Ottawa Political Internship Meeting

Meeting for the Ottawa Political Internship

Preprint Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Enumeration of points, lines, planes, etc. (following Huh and Wang)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05484 Speaker(s): Mircea Mustata (UM)

RC Faculty Talks 2017: Stephen Ward: On the Meaning and Memory of 1967

The year 2017 will occasion a range of commemorative activities on campus in recognition of various noteworthy historical anniversaries. The...

Reception - Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017...

Colloquium Series

Induced subgraphs and coloring

What causes a graph to have high chromatic number? One reason is that the graph may contain a large set of pairwise adjacent vertices...

Yoga Workshop

Free Yoga Workshop with Sunhay You

3C-S (Third Century Screens) Colloquium: Opening Reception

Alumni Center Founders Room, 200 Fletcher St. 5PM Opening reception will feature special guests and a screening on the PUPP (pop-up...

Fridays After 5

Stop in to UMMA on select Friday evenings to enjoy special exhibitions and engaging activities at Fridays After 5! With all of UMMA's...

Overwatch in Discord Group Call, Fridays 5 PM - 7 PM

The Casual Gaming Club is here to make sure you don't have to ever solo-queue again and have to deal with getting both a Hanzo and...

Ross Diaries Mini

Sponsored by Sanger Leadership Center and Design + Business

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

CJS Special Event | Invitation to the 400-year-old Art of Japanese Storytelling: A Night of Rakugo

Yanagiya Sankyo 柳家さん喬, Yanagiya Kyonosuke 柳家喬之助, Rakugo Storytellers

Free & Open to the Public...

Mark Webster Reading Series

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents...

Michigan Women's Gymnastics vs. N.C. State

Michigan Women's Gymnastics vs. N.C. State

Student Recital: Andrew Schafer, baritone

PROGRAM: Brahms - Salamander, In Waldeseinsamkeit; Alte LIebe; Botschaft; Schubert - selections from Winterreise, op. 89; Schumann -...

WEBSTER • Tara E. Jay & Danez Smith

Second-Year MFA Readings

Tara E. Jay is a poet from Indiana. She grew up in trailer parks, on food stamps and gas station take-out. She lives alone with a rescued...

A Night At The Set

Presented by Kappa Alpha Psi.

Senior Performance: Home and Away by Tsukumo Niwa

Using music, visual arts, and poetry as tools for audience engagement, Tsukumo Niwa's “Home and Away” features diverse stories of...

Senior Recital: Tsukumo Niwa, oboe

PROGRAM: Dvorak - Excerpt from Symphony no. 9 in E Minor, “From the New World,” op. 95, B. 178; Jacob TV - Garden of Love; Fairouz -...

Greg Brown

Greg Brown's mother played electric guitar, his grandfather played banjo, and his father was a Holy Roller preacher in the Hacklebarney...

Student Recital: Allison Chu & Anita Ho, clarinets

PROGRAM: Wanamaker - Duo Sonata; Chausson - Andante et Allegro; Karg-Elert - Sonata for Clarinet Solo, op. 110; Lovreglio - Fantasia on...

Masters Recital: J.Nick Smith, conductor

PROGRAM: Duka - Fanfare pour précéder “La PÉRI”; Françaix - 9 Pièces caractéristiques; Brahms - 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1; Jacob...

Wii U at Mary Markley, Fridays 9 PM - 12 AM

Do you like playing Smash 4? How about Mario Kart 8? Or do you just in general enjoy Nintendo games? Lucky for you, CGC hosts Wii U events...

Game vs. Miami Ohio

GO BLUE

Michigan Business Challenge Semi-Finals and Finals

Teams will have the opportunity to write a marketing and financial overview for their company and complete a business plan.