October 19th, 2016

Sinking City, Between Civilization and the Deep Blue Sea

A photography and video exhibition by photojournalist and filmmaker Marcin Szczepanski and writer Ben Logan, featuring the work of Frank Sedlar on modern solutions to Jakarta’s growing problem

Jakarta, Indonesia has a serious problem with flooding. The city is literally sinking while also experiencing climate change related...

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

Topological methods in some arithmetic questions

Fix a finite field, over which our objects are defined. We will start by discussing a classical way to compute the number of degree d monic...

Financial/Actuarial Mathematics

Solvability of Fractional Partial Differential Equation with Drichlet boundary

We study the solvability of a class of Dirichlet problem associated with non-linear integro-differential operator with nonsmooth boundary....

Algebraic Geometry

The volume of Kahler-Einstein Q-Fano varieties

A complex projective variety is Q-Fano if it has klt singularities and the anti-canonical divisor is Q-Cartier and ample. Starting from...

October 20th, 2016

Sinking City, Between Civilization and the Deep Blue Sea

A photography and video exhibition by photojournalist and filmmaker Marcin Szczepanski and writer Ben Logan, featuring the work of Frank Sedlar on modern solutions to Jakarta’s growing problem

Jakarta, Indonesia has a serious problem with flooding. The city is literally sinking while also experiencing climate change related...

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

Global Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity and Frobenius Betti numbers

The Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity and the Frobenius Betti numbers are numerical invariants that can be attached to any local ring of prime...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

The Kadison-Singer Problem: Part 2 of the Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava Proof

We will continue the proof of Paving Conjecture and finish the proof of Kadison-Singer problem using Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava theorem....

Differential Equations

Least action, incompressible flow, and optimal transportation

We describe a striking connection between Arnold's least-action principle for incompressible Euler flows and geodesic paths for...

Logic

Strong failures of higher analogs of Hindman's theorem, II

(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

Essential surfaces from intersections in the character variety

I will describe the SL2(C) character variety for a family of hyperbolic two-bridge knots. These character varieties have multiple curve...

Student Success: Learning How to Celebrate Differences

Hosted by the Intercultural Communication Program Suite in the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives

Practice how to be "respectfully curious" and learn about communication styles from other cultures. This workshop will build on...

October 21st, 2016

Sinking City, Between Civilization and the Deep Blue Sea

A photography and video exhibition by photojournalist and filmmaker Marcin Szczepanski and writer Ben Logan, featuring the work of Frank Sedlar on modern solutions to Jakarta’s growing problem

Jakarta, Indonesia has a serious problem with flooding. The city is literally sinking while also experiencing climate change related...

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...

Breakfast Q&A: SMTD alumnus Cedric Dent

“Building Take 6: 25 Years of Lessons Learned as a Performer, Arranger, Producer, and Educator”

This intimate gathering with SMTD Alumni Award Winner Cedric Dent (BM ’85, music education and piano), will focus on his success in the...

Digital History @ U-M: Crowdsourcing

Prof Martha Jones, Prof Dena Goodman, Justin Schell, Director Shapiro Design Lab

This meeting includes a discussion of crowdsourcing by History professors Jones and Goodman and Justin Schell, and a hands-on workshop using...

Museum Studies Program brown bag

Supporting Youth through Environmental Education: Teaching, Learning, and Design at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Looking beyond traditional science curricula in schools, this presentation will explore opportunities for science learning through actual...

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...

PhonDi Discussion Group

Nick Henricksen on "Consonant Gemination in Andalusian Spanish: Production and Perception"

Nick Henricksen will speak on "Consonant gemination in Andalusian Spanish: Production and perception."...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Inferring biodiversity maintenance mechanisms from ecological patterns

Among a set of competitors for a single common resource, the best will simply exclude the others. Yet in nature we can see astounding...

Combinatorics

Complex zeros and computational complexity of partition functions

I plan to discuss how the location of complex zeros affects the computational complexity of partition functions. Partition functions are...

Journal Club

Gender Representation in Linguistics

In the last few months, there has a been a fair bit of discussion on Phonolist (an email newsletter/blog about all things phonological)...

Student AIM Seminar

Towards a Theoretical Analysis of PCA for Heteroscedastic Data

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a method for estimating a subspace given noisy samples. It is useful in a variety of problems ranging...

October 22nd, 2016

Sinking City, Between Civilization and the Deep Blue Sea

A photography and video exhibition by photojournalist and filmmaker Marcin Szczepanski and writer Ben Logan, featuring the work of Frank Sedlar on modern solutions to Jakarta’s growing problem

Jakarta, Indonesia has a serious problem with flooding. The city is literally sinking while also experiencing climate change related...

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 23rd, 2016

Sinking City, Between Civilization and the Deep Blue Sea

A photography and video exhibition by photojournalist and filmmaker Marcin Szczepanski and writer Ben Logan, featuring the work of Frank Sedlar on modern solutions to Jakarta’s growing problem

Jakarta, Indonesia has a serious problem with flooding. The city is literally sinking while also experiencing climate change related...

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...

Overnight Illuminated

An UMMA Dialogue with architect and artist Catie Newell and Jennifer Friess

Detroit-based architect and artist, Catie Newell, and newly arrived UMMA Assistant Curator of Photography, Jennifer Friess, will discuss the...

October 24th, 2016

Sinking City, Between Civilization and the Deep Blue Sea

A photography and video exhibition by photojournalist and filmmaker Marcin Szczepanski and writer Ben Logan, featuring the work of Frank Sedlar on modern solutions to Jakarta’s growing problem

Jakarta, Indonesia has a serious problem with flooding. The city is literally sinking while also experiencing climate change related...

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...

Boren Award Information Session

Stephanie McGowan, Program & Research Officer, Boren Scholarships & Fellowships, International Institute of Education

A national program officer for the Boren Awards will lead a presentation on the opportunities available through the Boren Scholarship and...

Conversations on Europe. Italian Style: Fashion and Film

Eugenia Paulicelli, professor of Italian studies and comparative literature, director of fashion studies, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Italian cinema launched Italian fashion to the world. This lecture is based on Professor Paulicelli’s latest book, "Italian Style:...

Geometry & Physics

Exact solution of (0,2) supersymmetric Landau Ginzburg models

In this talk I will describe the low energy physics of Landau-Ginzburg models with N=(0,2) supersymmetry. I'll exhibit examples...

Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory

Zeros of orthogonal polynomials: a potpourri of S-curves, critical measures and quadratic differentials

The relation between (standard) orthogonal polynomials and random matrix theory is, by now, somewhat classical. In rough terms, we can...

Student Combinatorics Seminar

Combinatorics and Geometry of Schubert Polynomials

Schubert polynomials are polynomials indexed by permutations with nonnegative integer coefficients; they reflect Coxeter combinatorics of...

Teaching Mathematics

The Impact of Class Size on Instructors

A panel discussion of the impact of smaller (and larger) class sizes on instructors' management of and instruction in their classes....

World Polio Day

U-M SPH and Rotary of Ann Arbor partner to light U-M iconic Rackham Building

SPH in partnership with Rotary Club of Ann Arbor will light up the iconic Rackham Building on the U-M campus with the statement "End...

October 25th, 2016

Sinking City, Between Civilization and the Deep Blue Sea

A photography and video exhibition by photojournalist and filmmaker Marcin Szczepanski and writer Ben Logan, featuring the work of Frank Sedlar on modern solutions to Jakarta’s growing problem

Jakarta, Indonesia has a serious problem with flooding. The city is literally sinking while also experiencing climate change related...

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 Geometry/Topology

Model categories and homotopical algebra

We will first introduce model categories, which are structures which axiomatize some of the typical tools one uses in classical homotopy...

Student Algebraic Geometry

Introduction to the Geometric Langlands Correspondence

The geometric Langlands correspondence is a geometric reformulation of the classical Langlands correspondence in number theory. In this...

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...

That Strange Summer

Geri Alumit Zeldes Filmmaker, Journalist, and Associate Professor

The film examines the evidence in the murder case brought against two Filipina nurses at the VA Hospital in Ann Arbor in 1975. One reviewer...