October 12th, 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...

Algebraic Geometry

Birational rigidity of Fano hypersurfaces

The study of the birational group of Fano hypersurfaces was undertaken by Fano in dimension three, and has lead to the proof, by Iskovskikh...

Analysis/Probability

Stochastic Aspects of 2D Quantum Yang-Mills Theory

The lattice formulation of quantum Yang-Mills theory allows for all quantities to be computed in terms of well-defined random matrix...

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...

October 13th, 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...

GIEU 2017 Info Session

Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates

GIEU programs are project-based service-learning programs. Earn 3 credits taking a semester-long pre-departure course on intercultural...

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

Detecting F-pure centers using log discrepancies of semivaluations

We have long known, or implicitly used, that to a potential splitting \phi of the Frobenius homomorphism on a ring R of positive...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

The Kadison-Singer Problem: Part 1 of the Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava Proof

The Kadison-Singer problem was a longstanding open problem in functional analysis regarding the extension of certain functionals on C*...

Logic

Strong failures of higher analogs of Hindman's theorem

(One of the versions of) Hindman's theorem states that, whenever we partition an infinite abelian group G in two cells, there exists an...

Topology

Circle Packings on Surfaces with Complex Projective Structures

The classical circle packing theorem of Koebe, Andreev, and Thurston says that given a triangulation $\tau$ of a closed, orientable surface,...

October 14th, 2016

GREAT Trek

Brian May ’02 (BBA), Vice President of International Business at Founders

The design of the Grand Rapids Entrepreneurs in Action Trek (GREAT) is to further develop our students as innovative, creative and...

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...

SynSem Discussion Group

Fang Yuan: "The Copy-theoretic approach to Pivotal Constructions in Mandarin Chinese"

Fang Yuan will speak on "The Copy-theoretic approach to Pivotal Constructions in Mandarin Chinese."...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Micro/meso numerical modeling of flows laden with particles of arbitrary shape

Particulate flows are ubiquitous in environmental, geophysical and engineering processes. The intricate dynamics of these two-phase flows is...

Geometry

Information Geometry

In Information Geometry one studies the geometric properties of a manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric g and an affine connection D...

SoConDi Discussion Group

Marjorie Herbert: "Mouthing, Fingerspelling, or Both?: Codeswitching and Lexical Borrowing in American Sign Language (ASL)"

Marjorie Herbert will speak on "Mouthing, Fingerspelling, or Both?: Codeswitching and Lexical Borrowing in American Sign Language...

Combinatorics

Combinatorial description of the cohomology of the affine flag variety

The Fomin-Kirillov algebra is a quadratic algebra containing a certain commutative subalgebra isomorphic to the cohomology of the flag...

CSAS Film Screening of "For the Love of a Man"

Followed by a discussion with Filmmaker, Joyojeet Pal, and Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai, Michigan State University

For the Love of a Man is a documentary on the fan following around South Indian superstar Rajinikanth. The star, now in his mid-60s, has...

Student AIM Seminar

Hydrodynamics of confined active matter and bacterial suspensions

The talk will begin with a brief introduction to active soft matter, matter composed of active agents which consume energy to generate...

October 15th, 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 16th, 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...

An Afternoon of Jazz

A benefit for the Rinne Lewy Body Dementia Initiative - A program of the University of Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Center

Join the Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Center at Karl's Cabin for an Afternoon of Jazz....

October 17th, 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...

October 18th, 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

Systemic approaches to facilitating undergraduate STEM change

Foundational Courses in STEM; Lessons Learned, Future Directions: A REBUILD Seminar Series (Brown Bag Lunch)...

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...

Returning to School?

Presenter: Dr. Jacqueline Bowman, CEW Senior Counselor & Program Specialist

Have you thought about starting or finishing your college education, but feel unsure about how you go about doing it when you’ve got so...

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...