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...

October 26th, 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

Fontaine's calculation of differentials

To prove the p-adic Hodge-Tate decomposition, Fontaine interpreted C_p(1) as the rational Tate module for the p-divisible group (in the...

Department Colloquium | Planets Around Nearby Stars

Paul Butler, Staff Scientist (Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism)

Modern science began with Copernicus speculating that the Earth is a planet and that all the planets orbit the Sun. Bruno followed up by...

Algebraic Geometry

The direct summand conjecture and its derived variant I

In the late 60's, Hochster formulated the direct summand conjecture (DSC) in commutative algebra: a regular commutative ring splits off...

Analysis/Probability

The Parisi variational problem

n this talk, we introduce and study some basic questions regarding the phase diagram for general mixed p-spin glasses. We focus on 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...

October 27th, 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...

Big Data in Finance

Hosted by the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy and the Office of Financial Research

On Thursday and Friday, October 27-28, 2016, the Office of Financial Research and the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law 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...

Econometrics

Two-Step Estimation and Inference with Possibly Many Included Covariates presented by Xinwei Ma, University of Michigan and Bootstrap-Based Inference for the Maximum Score Estimator presented by Kenichi Nagasawa, University of Michigan

Two-Step Estimation and Inference with Possibly Many Included Covariates Abstract:...

Commutative Algebra

Frobenius Complexity of Cartier sub-algebras

This is joint work with Florian Enescu. In this talk, we extend the definition of Frobenius complexity, introduce by Enescu and Yao, to the...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

The Kadison-Singer Problem: Part 3 of the Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava Proof

We will continue our proof of Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava theorem. Last time we end up with showing that the characteristic polynomial of...

Differential Equations

Expanding large global solutions of the equations of compressible fluid mechanics

In a recent work Sideris constructed a finite-parameter family of compactly supported affine solutions to the free boundary isentropic...

Logic

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

Assuming the Continuum Hypothesis, Hindman, Leader and Strauss recently exhibited a colouring of the real line with two colours such that,...

My Queer Lineage

David Roche (Via Skype)

David Roche, a well-known writer, inspirational humorist, and speaker on disability-related topics, will be joining us via Skype to present...

October 28th, 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...

Big Data in Finance

Hosted by the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy and the Office of Financial Research

On Thursday and Friday, October 27-28, 2016, the Office of Financial Research and the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law 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...

PhonDi Discussion Group

Marta Ortega: "How do Chinese-English speakers represent pitch in their bilingual lexicon?"

Marta Ortega discusses "How do Chinese-English speakers represent pitch in their bilingual lexicon?"...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Fast algorithms for boundary integral equations with applications to particulate Stokes flow

A wide range of physics problems classically formulated as elliptic PDEs may be equivalently cast as boundary integral equations (BIE) of...

Geometry

Random graphs and applications to Coxeter groups

Erdos and Renyi introduced a model for studying random graphs of a given "density" and proved that there is a sharp threshold at...

Combinatorics

Cluster Structures on Higher Teichmuller Spaces for Classical Groups

Let S be a surface, G a semi-simple group of type B, C or D. I will explain how to construct the cluster structure on the moduli space of...

John Cage: "How to get Started"

Conceptual performance piece curated by Laura Kuhn and Aaron Levy, with performers Amanda Uhle, Martha Jones, and Greg Baise

How to Get Started is a collaborative experiment that explores improvisation and the origin of ideas. In the piece, three community leaders...

October 29th, 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...

The Aesthetic Movement

Artists of the Photo-Secession

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and...