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...

September 21st, 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...

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 Arithmetic

Ramanujan sums, Ramanujan expansions, and twin primes

The Ramanujan sum c_q(n) is the sum of the nth powers of the primitive qth roots of unity. Ramanujan sums satisfy "orthogonality...

September 22nd, 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...

mmmmmm writing

Coffee and Donut Break w/ Sweetland

Stop by the Sweetland Peer Writing Center on Thursday, September 22nd any time between 9:30am and noon for free coffee and donuts....

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Personal Guarantees by SME Owners in Japan

Takeo Hoshi, Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Director of the Japan Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

Takeo Hoshi is the Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Senior Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford...

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...

Commutative Algebra

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

This is the second 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)...

Logic

Commuting endomorphisms and hypersmooth equivalence relations

An equivalence relation E is hypersmooth (hyperfinite) if E is the union of an increasing sequence of smooth (finite) Borel equivalence...

"When Elephants Fight" Screening

With remarks from Dr. Denis Mukwege and director Mike Ramsdell

Dr. Denis Mukwege is a renowned human rights advocate for women of the Democratic Republic of Congo specializing in the care of women after...

Rock the Classroom

Dr Charles Taylor, K.E. Allen

Let engaged learning in the classroom equal success in the classroom! We'll cover ways to make preparation, participation, review and...