September 14th, 2016

Free Espresso Drink Coupon

Free Food Week at #FiresideCafe & #FiresideRoast

Any guest who makes an $8 or more purchase after 3pm at Fireside Cafe or Fireside Roast will receive a coupon for a free espresso drink...

Analysis/Probability

Exterior differential systems and isoperimetric inequalities with Gaussian measure and on Hamming cube.

The goal of this talk is to give a unified approach to the solutions of a class of isoperimetric problems by relating them to the exterior...

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...

September 15th, 2016

Commutative Algebra

Small subalgebras of polynomial rings and Stillman's conjecture in large characteristic for all degrees

This is the first of two talks on joint work of Tigran Ananyan and the speaker. The main result is that there is a positive integer B(n,d)...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

Matrix regularizing effects of Gaussian perturbations

I will talk about the work of Aizenman, Peled, Schenker, Shamis and Sodin, studying the regularizing effect of the gaussian random noise to...

Special Science Talk

Communicating Science For Fun and Profit / Joe Palca (National Public Radio Science Reporter)

Joe Palca has spent more than thirty years as a science journalist—first in local TV, then for the journals Science and Nature, and for...

Topology

Conway mutation and knot Floer homology

The Kinoshita-Terasaka and Conway knots are notoriously hard to distinguish. This is because they are related by mutation, an operation on...

Roundtable on Network Aesthetics

Patrick Jagoda, John Cheney-Lippold, Anna Watkins Fisher & Sheila Murphy

Thursday, September 15 | Roundtable on Network Aesthetics: Patrick Jagoda, John Cheney-Lippold, Anna Watkins Fisher, Sheila Murphy...

September 16th, 2016

Dieudonne Fokou

GalleryDAAS Artist Talk

Dieudonne Fokou from Cameroon experiments continuously with new media, as he explores different modes of creation in the plastic arts....

Geometry

Riemannian manifolds with positive Yamabe invariant and Paneitz operator

For a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension at least three, we know that positive Yamabe invariant implies the existence of a conformal...

Combinatorics

Moduli spaces of tropical curves and representations of the symmetric group

I will discuss the combinatorial construction of the moduli space of stable tropical curves with labeled marked points, as a generalized...

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...

September 17th, 2016

EXCEL Talk: Latitude49

“Crossing the Parallel: from College to Career”

U-M alumni ensemble Latitude49 offers a combined roundtable discussion and open rehearsal where they share experiences coming out of school...

September 18th, 2016

September 19th, 2016

"Symposium on Computational Biology"

Kendal N. Houk, UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry, Catherine Royer, Rensselaer and Ron Levy, Temple University, Charles L. Brooks III,

Prof. Charles L. Brooks III: "Exploring the Biophysics Landscape from Protein Folding to Protein Function"...

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...

Geometry & Physics

Topological Recursion Relations

Topological Recursion Relations (TRRs) are very special relations in the cohomology ring of the moduli space of stable curves. So far most...

September 20th, 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...

SPECIAL EVENT

Foundational Courses in STEM; Lessons Learned, Future Directions: A REBUILD Seminar Series

REBUILD is an Inter-departmental committee of faculty members representing the LSA departments of Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Math, and...

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 Commutative Algebra

Monomial Primes in Toric Tensor Products

This talk will summarize some handy ideal sum decomposition properties of monomial prime ideals in normal toric rings. I'll also try to...

Student Geometry/Topology

Teichmuller theory and moduli spaces: an introduction

I will introduce the general notion of moduli spaces and why they might be useful, focussing in particular on Teichmuller space, the moduli...

Colloquium Series

Derived Representation Theory and Homotopy Categorification of sl_k

This talk is about my joint work with Po Hu and Petr Somberg. "Brave new algebra", a.k.a. "derived algebraic geometry",...

Student Algebraic Geometry

Cycle classes on abelian varieties

We will discuss notions of positivity for cycle classes on abelian varieties and will present an example of Debarre-Ein-Lazarsfeld-Voisin 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...

SMTD@UMMA

“Composing a Space”

U-M Composition faculty members Roshanne Etezady and Kristin Kuster consider the concept of the feminine in music and discuss creating new...