February 8th, 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...

Mindfulness@Umich

Student, 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...

Analysis/Probability

The Thouless-Anderson-Palmer equations for generic mixed p-spin glasses

The Thouless-Anderson-Palmer (TAP) equations are the mean field equations for mixed p-spin glasses on the hypercube. They relate the spin on...

6th Annual Shirley Verrett Awards Ceremony

Anita Gonzalez, Professor of Theatre & Drama, School of Music, Theatre & Dance to be honored

The U-M Women of Color in the Academy Project (WOCAP) will bestow its 6th Annual Shirley Verrett Award to Anita Gonzalez, Ph.D. on February...

February 9th, 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...

"The Push and Pull of Coevolution"

Luis Zaman, Department of Biology, University of Washington-Seattle

Coevolution is often invoked to explain open problems in evolution, including the origin of sexual reproduction, speciation, and the...

Commutative Algebra

Topological Noetherianity of cubic polynomials

Stillman's conjecture (now a theorem by Ananyan-Hochster) shows that for all d_1,...,d_r there exists D such that any ideal generated...

Community Wise! An Art Exhibition and Fish Bowl Conversation Celebrating the U-M Bicentennial

Rogério M. Pinto, Assoc Prof of Social Work, U-M; Liliane Windsor, Asst Prof of Social Work, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Warren Thompson, Pgm Director, Urban Renewal Community Corrections; Eric Anderson, Newark Community Collaborative Board

Join the SSW Faculty Allies for Diversity Committee to celebrate Community Wise, an intervention to reduce substance use for those with...

Differential Equations

Elementary approaches to some dispersive estimates

Usual presentations of dispersive estimates tie them to the Fourier restriction phenomenon. I will give an alternative proof for dispersive...

Logic

L_{omega_1,omega}-sentences with maximal models in two cardinalities

In this talk, we will present some examples on complete L_{omega_1,omega}-sentences with maximal models in (at least) two cardinalities....

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...

February 10th, 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...

PhonDi Discussion Group

Björn Köhnlein: "Prosodic and segmental structure at the interface of synchrony and diachrony"

Björn Köhnlein will give a presentation on "Prosodic and segmental structure at the interface of synchrony and diachrony"...

Story Lab Retreat

Sponsored by Sanger Leadership Center and Design + Business

This interactive workshop is for those students who would like to work on building communication skills, exuding presence, and learning how...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

The effect of piezoelectric material on the stability of flexible flags

Piezoelectric material has drawn enormous attention in recent decades due to its ability to convert mechanical deformation energy into...

Geometry

Connectivity of triangulations without degree one edges under 2-3 and 3-2 moves

Matveev and Piergallini independently showed that, with a small number of known exceptions, any triangulation of a three-manifold can be...

Combinatorics

Computing Linear Systems on Metric Graphs

The linear system |D| of a divisor D on a metric graph has the structure of a cell complex. And the set R(D) of corresponding tropical...

CSEAS Presentation. ĐÊM THƠ: Vietnamese Poetry Reading

Thúy Anh Nguyễn, Lecturer in Vietnamese Language; John Whitmore, Researcher Emeritus; Hanh Bui, Borrowing Specialist at U of M Libraries; Vietnamese Language students

John Whitmore will provide context for Vietnamese poetry in history,10th-20th centuries, and various participants will read poems in both...

A Dangerous Experiment

Symposium 1877: Reconstructing the University of Michigan

This play is written and directed by LSA students. Based on an early fictional account of a woman’s experience at the university, as well...

February 11th, 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...

Sunstruck

Travel back to the beginning of time and experience the birth of the Sun. Discover how it came to support life, how it threatens life as we...

A Dangerous Experiment

Symposium 1877: Reconstructing the University of Michigan

This play is written and directed by LSA students. Based on an early fictional account of a woman’s experience at the university, as well...

February 12th, 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...

A Dangerous Experiment

Symposium 1877: Reconstructing the University of Michigan

This play is written and directed by LSA students. Based on an early fictional account of a woman’s experience at the university, as well...

Sunstruck

Travel back to the beginning of time and experience the birth of the Sun. Discover how it came to support life, how it threatens life as we...

February 13th, 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

Combining theory, model and experiment to understand how theta rhythms are generated in the hippocampus

Scientists have observed theta rhythms (3-12 Hz) in the hippocampus for decades, but we still do not have a clear understanding of how they...

Student Probability

Stochastic Smoothing of Largest Eigenvalue

Stochastic smoothing can be used to design online algorithms such for problems such as variance minimization and online PCA. In the case of...

Geometry & Physics

Path Integrals and Quantum Yang-Mills Theory

In the first part of the talk, we discuss the ubiquitous problem of ill-defined path integrals in quantum field theory. We then discuss the...

Student Combinatorics Seminar

A combinatorial approach to stable Grothendieck polynomials

Stable Grothendieck polynomials form a non-homogeneous basis for the ring of symmetric functions. They are the symmetric function analog of...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

Generalized Kuga-Satake theory and good reduction properties of Galois representations

Given a smooth projective algebraic variety over a number field F, one obtains a compatible system of geometric representations of the...

Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Jay Crisostomo (University of Michigan): "After Babel–Bibel Babble: Siting the Linguistic Memory of Babylon"

The Tower of Babel is embedded in our collective cultural memory as an etiological tale of multilingualism. The story itself, however,...

Community Town Hall

Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Search Advisory Committee

President Schlissel, along with members of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Search Advisory Committee, invite members of...

February 14th, 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...

Student Commutative Algebra

More on Benedetti and Varbaro's "On the dual graph of Cohen-Macaulay algebras"

This will be my first Valentine's Day talk in seminar. We'll move along to Chapter 3, focusing on the proof of the Main Theorem...

SAC Speaker Series Presents

A Talk by Professor Kristen Whissel of UC Berkeley

“Parallax Effects: Stereoscopic 3D and the Postwar Uncanny in House of Wax (André de Toth, 1953) and Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock,...

Student Algebraic Geometry

The Grothendieck ring of varieties

The Grothendieck ring of varieties is defined as the set of equivalence classes of varieties, modulo a natural equivalence relation; despite...

Terrance Hayes

ZVWS Book Signing & PoetryReading

Terrance Hayes, our Winter Distinguished Poet in Residence, is the author of Lighthead (Penguin 2010), winner of the 2010 National Book...