November 6th, 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...

November 7th, 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...

Mathematical Biology

Source reconstruction from extracellular potentials: from single cells to the whole brains

Extracellular recordings of electric potential remain a popular tool for investigations of brain activity on all scales in animals 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

A K-theoretic version of FJRW theory

In 2007, a quantum theory for quasi-homogeneous polynomial singularities was developed by Fan, Jarvis, and Ruan, based on ideas of Witten,...

Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory

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

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

Public Finance

Opening Hours of Polling Stations and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Natural Experiment presented by Niklas Potrafke, University of Munich and University of California - San Diego

Abstract and paper not yet available.

Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Mayte Green-Mercado (University of Michigan) - "Christian Prophet or Muslim Saint? Re-creating Identities in Late Spanish Islam"

Sixteenth-century Europe and North Africa witnessed parallel processes of heightened religious enthusiasm: invoking divine grace and...

November 8th, 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...

Student Geometry/Topology

Configurations of Points and Factorization Homology

Factorization homology is a way of constructing invariants manifolds. Whereas homology gives invariants that are additive (like the Euler...

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 9th, 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...

Algebraic Geometry

A non-finitely generated automorphism group

I will construct a projective variety over Q whose automorphism group is discrete but not finitely generated. Speaker(s): John Lesieutre...

Analysis/Probability

Variance estimates and almost Euclidean structure

We will give an overview of the classical concentration of measure phenomenon and its applications in the local theory of normed spaces. In...

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...

Story Lab Kickoff Event

Offered by the Sanger Leadership Center and Ross Design + Business

Have you ever wondered what stories your classmates have to tell? Everyone comes to U-M with a unique past—a unique story—but so often...

November 10th, 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...

Algebraic Geometry

On the unirationality of M_{1,n} in characteristic p.

We show that the Deligne-Mumford moduli space of genus 1 curves with n marked points is not unirational in characteristic p, for n...

Logic

Preserving sequences of stationary subsets of omega_1

Let M be an inner model that computes omega_1 correctly. We show two results (due to Stevo Todorcevic and Paul Larson) on whether there is...

Topology

The Gromov boundary of the ray graph

The mapping class group of the plane minus a Cantor set arises naturally in the study of group actions on the plane by homeomorphisms. The...

November 11th, 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...

Young IO Economists Conference

Spatial Equilibrium, Search Frictions and Efficient Regulation in the Taxi Industry presented by Nick Buchholz, Princeton University; How do Vertical Contracts Affect Product Availability? An Empirical Study of the Grocery Industry presented by Sylvia Hri

Spatial Equilibrium, Search Frictions and Efficient Regulation in the Taxi Industry Abstract:...

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...

PhonDi Discussion Group

Dave Ogden: "Positive Attitudes Through Better Understanding: The Role of Perceptual Adaptation in Accent-Based Discrimination"

Dave Ogden will discuss "Positive Attitudes Through Better Understanding: The Role of Perceptual Adaptation in Accent-Based...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Solitons and (many) nonlocal integrable nonlinear equations

Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Transform (IST) are well known in the Math/Physics community. History, background, examples and a number...

Geometry

Diffeomorphism groups and nonlinear PDE in Information Geometry

I will describe an infinite-dimensional analogue of the Fisher-Rao metric on the quotient space of the group of diffeomorphisms of a compact...

Combinatorics

Discrete solitons in infinite reduced words

In 1997 Hirota introduced a discrete dynamical system dKdV that lies conceptually between the classical KdV equation (a PDE) and the box...

Kevin McGowan Colloquium

Subcategorical mismatches can be mismatches of phonetic, phonological, lexical, and social context.

Kevin McGowan is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky. He will give a talk titled, "Subcategorical...

November 12th, 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...