September 7th, 2016

Algebraic Geometry

Cohomology of varieties over the maximal cyclotomic extension

Some 35 years ago, Ken Ribet proved that an abelian variety defined over the maximal cyclotomic extension K of a number field has only...

September 8th, 2016

WCED Panel. Turkey’s Coup: The Context and Aftermath

Erdem Cipa, assistant professor of history; Fatma Müge Göçek, professor of sociology and women’s studies; Christiane Gruber, associate professor of Islamic art, U-M

On July 15, 2016 the Turkish military launched a coup attempt in a bid to topple the government of President Recep Erdogan. The coup...

Commutative Algebra

Frobenius splittings in non-local rings and the F-signature

The F-signature of a local ring, a numerical invariant shown to always exist by Tucker, is the asymptotic measurement of the number of...

September 9th, 2016

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Trapped and harmonic Rossby waves on the mid-latitude beta-plane: theory, simulations and observations

A Schroedinger eigenvalue equation is formulated for shallow water waves on a rotating plane, and this formulation yields zonally...

September 10th, 2016

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...