November 16th, 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

Phoebe Ellsworth, Frank Murphy Distinguished Professor of Law and Psychology, and Faculty Associate, ISR Research Center for Group Dynamics

Professional Development: Writing

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

An Introduction to Rigid-Analytic Geometry

A rigid-analytic space is an analytic variety over a non-archimedean field, e.g. the p-adic rationals. Pioneered by Tate in the early...

Macroeconomics

Risk and Return in Segmented Markets with Expertise presented by Andrea Eisfeldt, UCLA Anderson

We develop a dynamic equilibrium model of complex asset markets with endogenous entry and exit in which the investment technology of...

Algebraic Geometry

Geometry of O'Grady's 6 dimensional example

There are not many known examples of compact irreducible hyperkahler manifolds. Two series of examples appear in dimension 2n, for every...

Analysis/Probability

Uniform tessellations of spheres by hyperplanes, almost isometric embeddings, one-bit sensing, and discrepancy

The problem of uniform tessellation of the unit sphere (or its subsets) by hyperplanes, or equivalently, almost isometric embeddings of...

November 17th, 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...

Econometrics

Single Market Nonparametric Identification of Multi-attribute Hedonic Equilibrium Models presented by Marc Henry, Pennsylvania State University

Abstract and paper not yet available.

Differential Equations

soliton resolution for energy critical wave equation

For large classes of dispersive equations, it has been conjectured that the solution will eventually break up as finite sum of solitons plus...

Logic

A survey on the effect of set-theory on models of L_{omega_1,omega}-sentences

The model-existence spectrum of an L_{omega_1,omega}-sentence phi is the set of all cardinals on which phi has a model....

Topology

Densities and semi-regular tilings

For a hyperbolic knot or link K the volume density is a ratio of hyperbolic volume to crossing number, and the determinant density is the...

SMTD@UMMA

Image in Motion

Students from the Department of Dance, under the mentorship of Dance faculty members Sandra Torijano and Peter Sparling, will perform a...

November 18th, 2016

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...

#EHour

David Tarver (Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative)

David Tarver currently serves as founder and President of the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative. David is a highly successful technology...

CSAAW Talk

From Chemistry to History via Kernel Embedding

We're having a CSAAW talk this Friday at 12pm in West Hall 317. A subset of the participants from the Complex Systems Hackathon will...

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...

Combinatorics

Convex polytopes for the central degeneration of the affine Grassmannian

In this talk, I will discuss the combinatorics of the affine Grassmannian, the affine flag variety and the central degeneration, with an...

November 19th, 2016

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 20th, 2016

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 21st, 2016

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...

Geometry & Physics

Hyperelliptic loci and Weierstrass points

The closure of the hyperelliptic locus is a cycle whose points parameterize curves admitting a double cover of the projective line....

November 22nd, 2016

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...

Student Geometry/Topology

Ricci Flow and the Poincare Conjecture

The Poincare conjecture, one of the most famous unsolved problems throughout the 20th century, states that every closed, simply-connected...

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...