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...

November 4th, 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...

The ABCs of Research

Ben Shneiderman, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland

Ben Shneiderman is a pioneer in the field of human-computer interaction and in the early 1980s, developed the principles of direct...

II Career Event

Sundara Soap: Lessons Learned by a Young Entrepreneur Working to Fight Preventable Hygiene-Related Deaths and Disease in Myanmar, India, and Uganda

Erin Zaikis is a University of Michigan Ford School alum (B.A., 2010) and the founder of Sundara - a nonprofit organization that fights...

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

Kuniko Nielsen: "Modeling Voice Onset Time in English: Factors and their cross-speaker variability"

Kuniko Nielsen will discuss "Modeling Voice Onset Time in English: Factors and their cross-speaker variability."...

HistLing Discussion Group

Edward Nolan: Quod-Switching: Bilingualism and Social Context in the Letters of Pliny the Younger.

Edward Nolan will give a presentations on "Quod-Switching: Bilingualism and Social Context in the Letters of Pliny the Younger."

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Convergence of thresholding schemes for multi-phase mean-curvature flow

The thresholding scheme, a time discretization for mean curvature flow, was introduced by Merriman, Bence and Osher. In the talk I present...

Combinatorics

Maximal Newton polygons and the quantum Bruhat graph

We will start by explaining how to associate a Newton polygon to an element in GL(n) over a field of Laurent series. This collection of...

Geometry

Sasaki-Einstein metrics, K-Stability and the 5-sphere

I will discuss the connection between Sasaki-Einstein metrics, or conical Ricci flat Kahler metrics, and the algebro-geometric notion of...

2016 Parents Weekend

LSA Honors Guest Speakers Luke Schaefer & Kathryn Edin

A NYT Bestseller and White House pick, $2.00 a Day, was the summer book for the Class of 2020, written by Kathryn J. Edin (Professor of...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

p-adic analytic twists, modularity, and strong subconvexity

One of the principal analytic questions about automorphic L-functions are the so-called subconvex estimates on the size of their critical...

Student AIM Seminar

Optimizing Scalable Adaptive Choice Experiments with Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms

Multi-armed Bandit methods have been successful for A\B testing. It is the main algorithm behind google analytics. I will apply these...

November 5th, 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...