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...

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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...

September 23rd, 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...

Museum Studies Program brown bag

Negotiating Slavery? The Politics of Memory and the Transformations of a State Museum in Colombia

This presentation discusses the challenges of curating an exhibition about slavery in Colombia’s Museo Colonial. It explores questions...

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...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Evolutionary games and the tragedy of the commons - E Pluribus Unum

Public goods games involve the competitive interaction between players or organisms who produce a commonly available good (cooperators) and...

Geometry

On intersections of conjugate subgroups

We de fine a new invariant of a conjugacy class of subgroups which we call the weak width and prove that a quasiconvex subgroup of a...

Artists’ Talk & Reception. Invisible Women: Portraits of Aging in Ukraine

Ashley Bigham, 2015-16 Walter B. Sanders Fellow, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, U-M; Grace Mahoney, doctoral student in Slavic languages and literatures, U-M

Ashley Bigham and Grace Mahoney will discuss photographs and water colors included in their joint exhibition, Invisible Women: Portraits of...

September 24th, 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...

September 25th, 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...

September 26th, 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...

Geometry & Physics

On the Behrend function and its motivic version in Donaldson-Thomas theory

The Behrend function, introduced by Behrend, is a fundamental object in Donaldson-Thomas theory for Calami-Yau threefolds. The original...

September 27th, 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...

Detroit City Study

Shira Schwartz, Project Director Detroit City Study, PhD Candidate UM Department of Comparative Literature, City Study Stewards, Nick Tobler, Natalie Davis

Panelists: Shira Schwartz, Project Director Detroit City Study, PhD Candidate U-M Department of Comparative Literature, and Detroit City...

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

Bounds for Invariant Rings of Abelian Groups

Invariant rings have interested mathematicians for centuries. In particular, when one considers finite groups, determining that the ring of...

Student Geometry/Topology

Expanding endomorphisms of compact manifolds

An endomorphism of a Riemannian manifold is said to be expanding if it increases the norm of tangent vectors everywhere (possibly only after...

Colloquium Series

Microlocal methods in symplectic geometry.

I will outline how one starts with a symplectic manifold and defines a category enriched in local systems (up to homotopy) on this manifold....

Student Algebraic Geometry

Knot Theory and Problems on Affine Space

Affine n-space A^n is one of the most basic objects in algebraic geometry. Unfortunately, there are many basic things we don't know...

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...