January 11th, 2017

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...

Internet Finance in China

Professor LUO Yu of the School of Finance, Renmin University of China

This lecture is an overview of the latest development of internet finance in China. internet finance, similar to Fintech in the U.S., has...

Algebraic Geometry

Vanishing theorems, log-D modules and Multi-indexed Deligne extensions

Kodaira vanishing is the most famous vanishing theorem in algebraic geometry. After reviewing Kodaira-Nakano vanishing, I will introduce its...

January 12th, 2017

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...

ASC Presentation. UMAPS Research Colloquium Series

UMAPS Scholars: Priscilla Mante, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Samuel Johnson, University of Liberia

Since 2009, the U-M African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) Program brings early career faculty from African universities to Ann Arbor for...

Commutative Algebra

Symbolic powers of ideals defining F-pure rings

Given a radical ideal I in a regular ring R, the containment problem of symbolic and ordinary powers of I consists of determining which...

Topology

Intrinsic chirality of graphs in 3-manifolds

We say that an embedding $\Gamma$ of a graph $\gamma$ in a 3-manifold M is achiral if there is an orientation reversing homeomorphism of...

Mary Szybist

Janey Lack Poetry Reading

Mary Szybist, our Janey Lack poet this year (invited by the current second-year poets), is most recently the author of Incarnadine...

January 13th, 2017

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...

Museum Studies Program brown bag

"History Compels Us to be Daring": Sites of Conscience in Action Around the World

The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience draws connections between historic sites and their contemporary implications, and this...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Extended smoothed boundary method for simulating phenomena in energy materials with complex microstructures

The complexity of microstructures (and/or moving boundaries) makes conventional continuum-level simulations that involve complex...

Geometry & Physics

Double ramification and tautological relations

Tautological relations are certain equations in the Chow ring of the moduli space of curves. I will discuss a family of such relations,...

January 14th, 2017

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...

January 15th, 2017

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...

January 16th, 2017

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...

SPECIAL EVENT

Dr. Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium: Math in the Age of Trump

For obvious reasons, I do not fit into the standard mold of a mathematician. But over time, I have learned to embrace my identity within the...

January 17th, 2017

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...

Piano Forum: Jade Simmons

From Competing to Compelling: A Crucial Shift in Mode of Operation

As a concert pianist and the webcast host for the Van Cliburn and the Tchaikovsky International Competitions, Simmons brings a unique...

Geometry & Physics

Spin and hyperelliptic structures on log twisted differentials

The strata of abelian differentials with prescribed zeros are interesting objects of study from Teichmuller dynamics point of view. Their...

Student Algebraic Geometry

The dual complex of a resolution and Thuillier's theorem

Given a variety X, a closed subvariety Y, and a resolution of the pair (X,Y), one may construct a simplicial complex from the combinatorics...

Kelly Link

ZVWS Book Signing & Fiction Reading

Kelly Link, our Winter Distinguished Writer in Residence, is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners,...