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...

October 30th, 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...

John Cage: "How to get Started"

Conceptual performance piece curated by Laura Kuhn and Aaron Levy, with performers Michael Stone-Richards, Alison Wong, and James Cornish

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

October 31st, 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...

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

Point-like bounding chains in open Gromov-Witten theory

Over a decade ago, Welschinger defined real enumerative invariants in dimensions 2 and 3. It has remained an open problem to extend these...

Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory

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

This is a continuation of last week's talk: The relation between (standard) orthogonal polynomials and random matrix theory is, by now,...

Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Paul Losensky (University of Indiana, Bloomington) - “The Gate of Acceptance Opened before Him”: The Social Life of Poetry and Fashioning a Poetic Vocation in Safavid Isfahan

In seventeenth-century Isfahan, poetry could be heard everywhere, from the shops of craftsman to the homes of the nobility, and members of...

November 1st, 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...

Health, History, Demography & Development (H2D2)

Paid Maternity Leave and the Role of Disability Insurance presented by Brenden Timpe, University of Michigan and Federal Transfers and Government Accountability in Indonesia presented by Traviss Cassidy, University of Michigan

Paid Maternity Leave and the Role of Disability Insurance Abstract:...

SPECIAL EVENT

Integrating theory and local data to improve teaching

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...

Esther Dischereit's Flowers for Otello

Spoken-word performance in German and Turkish (English translations provided) by Esther Dischereit and Selim Özdogan. Interpretive dance by Holly Handman-Lopez. Electronic music by Tom Lopez. Percussion by Justin Gunter.

Please join Alamanya: Transnational German Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 6pm for a multimedia...

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...

November 2nd, 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...

Social Area Brown Bag

Lauren Schmitz, Research Fellow, Populations Studies Center and Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Title: The Effect of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genetic Potential for Educational Attainment on Schooling Outcomes...

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

The direct summand conjecture and its derived variant II

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

November 3rd, 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...

SACAPALOOZA

SAC's Undergraduate Declaration Event and Information Session

If you are interested in declaring a Screen Arts & Cultures major or a Global Media Studies minor and/or you just want to learn more...

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

Generalizing Serre's Splitting Theorem and Bass's Cancellation Theorem via free-basic elements

By defining and using free-basic elements, we find new proofs of Toby Stafford's theorems generalizing Serre's Splitting Theorem...

Differential Equations

Explicit high-order symplectic integration of nonseparable Hamiltonians: algorithms and long time performance

Symplectic integrators preserve the phase-space volume and have favorable performances in long time simulations. Methods for an explicit...

Logic

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

This is talk 4 out of 4. Last time we introduced a set-theoretic principle S(kappa,theta), which implies a particular anti-Ramsey theoretic...

Topology

Higher-dimensional Dehn twists and symplectic mapping class groups

Given a Lagrangian sphere S in a symplectic manifold M of any dimension, one can associate to it a symplectomorphism of M, the Dehn twist...

Client Services Panel

Patrick Pjesky (LSA Alum, Google Account Strategist, Former LSA Development Associate), Bridget Reichenbach (Qualtrics Corporate Recruiter), and Sylvan Edwards (LSA Alum, HireRoad Account Manager)

Expose students to client centered roles that allow them to leverage the communication and analytical skills developed as student in the...