September 28th, 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

An algorithm to compute the distribution of points on hyperelliptic curves over finite fields

We discuss a computational approach to the distribution of points on hyperelliptic curves over finite fields. This is a computational...

Analysis/Probability

Gaussian complex zeros on the hole event: the emergence of a forbidden region

Consider the Gaussian Entire Function (GEF) whose Taylor coefficients are independent complex-valued Gaussian variables, and the variance of...

SPECIAL EVENT

The Shape of Space (Public Lecture - all are welcome!)

When we look out on a clear night, the universe seems infinite. Yet this infinity might be an illusion. During the first half of the...

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 29th, 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...

Commutative Algebra

Asymptotic Behavior of Certain Koszul Homology Modules

Let (R, m) be a local ring, M a finitely generated module over R. Lech's limit formula states that for a fixed system of parameters...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

van Handel's proof of the majorizing measure theorem - part II

Majorizing measure theorem of Talagrand is one of the most important results in the theory of Gaussian random processes. it provides a...

Logic

Commuting endomorphisms and hypersmooth equivalence relations, part II

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

Math Club

Visualizing Four Dimensions

This talk will introduce a method for learning to visualize 4-dimensional space, give participants a chance to work on some 4D visualization...

September 30th, 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...

Combinatorics

A representation-theoretic interpretation of positroid classes

To any (affine) permutation one can associate its (affine) Stanley symmetric function, which encodes some combinatorial information about...

October 1st, 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...

October 2nd, 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...

October 3rd, 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...

Complex Analysis, Dynamics and Geometry

A Complete Description of the Non-splitting Bifurcations of the Complex Polynomial Vector Fields in C

In this talk, the qualitative dynamics of the vector fields in the complex plane defined by complex polynomials is studied. The ultimate...

Geometry & Physics

Central charges of B-branes at non-geometric phases

On the first half of my talk, I'll focus on basic concepts about B-branes and their central charges and how they arise in physics and...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

Shahidi matrices of local coefficients and Tate-type gamma factors

Shahidi local coefficients associated with parabolic inductions on quasi-split reductive groups defined over a local field are the core of...

Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Amir Ganjavie (York University) - Utopia and Censorship: Iranian Cinema at the Crossroads of Love, Sex, and Tradition

Iranian censorship forbids depictions of unrelated men and women touching one another. Given this, Western scholars generally view Iranian...

Teaching Mathematics

Does Student Engagement Matter? Teaching Practices for Encouraging Student Engagement

In 2015-2016, the Mathematics Department and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching conducted a large-scale study of the impact of...

October 4th, 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...

Health, History, Demography and Development (H2D2)

Undocumented Immigrants and Labor Market Fluidity: Evidence in the Context of Equilibrium Unemployment Theory presented by Parag Mahajan, University of Michigan and The Economic Consequences of Immigrant Disenfranchisement: Evidence from the United States

Undocumented Immigrants and Labor Market Fluidity: Evidence in the Context of Equilibrium Unemployment Theory Abstract:...

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 Geometry/Topology

Exotic manifolds and the generalized Poincare conjectures.

I will discuss the history of the generalized Poincare conjectures, which ask whether a manifold which has the homotopy type of a sphere is...

Colloquium Series

Families of varieties and Hodge theory

Allowing the isomorphism class of algebraic varieties to vary in a family usually imposes strong conditions on the space parametrizing that...

Student Algebraic Geometry

Complex-Analytic Methods in Algebraic Geometry

To any smooth algebraic variety over the complex numbers, we can associate a complex manifold called its analytification. We will discuss a...

China Miéville Reading

ZVWS Distinguished International Writer In Residence

CHINA MIEVILLE is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer and academic. He often describes his work as "weird fiction"...

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...