January 24th, 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...

Cosmology

The History and Nature of Our Universe

This course is based on Great Courses DVDs by Prof. Mark Whittle. Restricted to those 50 and over, the course covers the structure of the...

Student Commutative Algebra

Minimal primes of certain ideals I of a polynomial ring S and the multiplicity of S/I

We will discuss sections 2.2 and 2.3 of Benedetti and Varbaro's 2014 "On the dual graph of Cohen-Macaulay algebras." These...

Student Geometry/Topology

Geometric transitions in projective space

What is a geometry? The Greeks had an answer, but then the 19th century showed that they didn't have all of them. In this talk we...

Student Algebraic Geometry

An Introduction to Differential Operators

The theory of differential operators and modules over them (so called D-modules) has had many applications in many fields of math - most...

"The F Word"

Post-Screening Q & A with Director Robert Adanto

"THE F WORD" explores radical "4th wave" feminist performance through interviews with a new generation of feminist...

January 25th, 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...

Algebraic Geometry

Derived categories of cubic fourfolds and non-commutative K3 surfaces

The derived category of coherent sheaves on a cubic fourfold has a subcategory which can be thought as the derived category of a...

January 26th, 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...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

Interlacing polynomial method: Existence of Ramanujan graphs of any degrees.

We will continue our discussion on Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava's interlacing polynomial method. This time we will focus on their result...

Topology

Algebraic and topological properties of big mapping class groups

There has been a recent surge in studying surfaces of infinite type, i.e. surfaces with infinitely-generated fundamental groups. In this...

January 27th, 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...

Carillon Recital

Ringing in the Year of the Rooster

Celebrate lunar new year with East Asian music performed on the 53-bell Charles Baird Carillon by Tiffany Ng, assistant professor of...

Mindfulness@Umich

Faculty and Staff Session

Mindfulness@Umich is a program that is available to all University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff. The sessions are 30 minutes...

PhonDi Discussion Group

Cheng-Wei Lin: "The Perception and Production of Arabic Lexical Stress by Learners of Arabic: A Usage-Based Account"

The discussion on stress in Arabic in the literature has primarily focused on the phonological constraints/rules behind the grammar of...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Methodology development to radically improve the computational performance of physics-based mobility solutions

A substantial body of terramechanics research has been performed at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering...

Geometry

Quasiconformal mappings on the Grushin plane

A growing body of recent literature investigates quasiconformal mappings in the setting of equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds. In this...

SynSem Discussion Group

Intensification, gradability and social perception: the case of totally

We are reading a paper by Beltrama on Intensification, gradability and social perception: the case of totally....

Combinatorics

A rational lift of the combinatorial R-matrix

The combinatorial R-matrix is the unique affine sl_n crystal isomorphism between A x B and B x A, where A and B are finite-dimensional...

January 28th, 2017

Constructing Gender

Origins of Michigan’s Union and League

Ask U-M students, alumni, or fans what symbolizes the University of Michigan, and you’ll likely hear the Big House, the Diag, along with...

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 29th, 2017

Constructing Gender

Origins of Michigan’s Union and League

Ask U-M students, alumni, or fans what symbolizes the University of Michigan, and you’ll likely hear the Big House, the Diag, along with...

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 30th, 2017

Mindfulness@Umich

Students, Faculty, Staff - All Welcome

Mindfulness@Umich is a program that is available to all University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff. The sessions are 30 minutes...

Constructing Gender

Origins of Michigan’s Union and League

Ask U-M students, alumni, or fans what symbolizes the University of Michigan, and you’ll likely hear the Big House, the Diag, along with...

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

Unraveling Kidney Physiology, Pathophysiology and Therapeutics: A Modeling Approach

The kidney not only filters metabolic wastes and toxins from the body, it also regulates the body's water balance, electrolyte balance,...

WCED/CSEAS Panel. The Philippines Under President Duterte

Deirdre de la Cruz, Asian Languages & Cultures/History; Allen Hicken, Political Science; Allan Lumba, History; Victoria Reyes, Center for Institutional Diversity, U-M

Since his election in May of 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte has charted a controversial course for his country, the Philippines. In just...

Student Probability

Convex Phase Retrieval via Linear Program PhaseMax

Suppose we wish to recover a signal x in R^n from m measurements of the form y_i = || , which is know as Phase Retrieval problem. A recent...

Geometry & Physics

Towards a global A-model theory

Over twenty years ago, Candelas and his collaborators proposed the celebrated mirror conjecture, which related the genus zero Gromov-Witten...

Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Aileen Das (University of Michigan): "Ibn Sina and the Limits of Galenic Medicine: Disciplinary polemics in the canon of medicine"

Professor Das argues that the five-volume medical compilation the Canon of Medicine (Al-Qānūn fī l-ṭibb) by the Persian polymath Ibn...