April 16th, 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...

April 17th, 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...

Special Events

Grad Thesis Defense: A Mode Coupling Theory for Random Waveguides with Turning Points

We study acoustic waveguides with varying cross section and slowly bending axis. In particular, we consider waveguides with rough walls and...

Geometry & Physics

Mirror Symmetry, Tyurin Degenerations, and Classification of K3 Fibered Calabi-Yau Threefolds

In the first talk, I will describe a potential relationship between mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau manifolds and the mirror duality between...

Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory

Large gap asymptotics at the hard edge for product random matrices and Muttalib-Borodin ensembles

We study the distribution of the smallest eigenvalue for certain classes of positive-definite Hermitian random matrices, in the limit where...

Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory

Dressing networks: towards an integrability approach to collective and complex phenomena

A large variety of real world systems can be naturally modelled by networks, i.e. graphs whose nodes represent the components of a system...

April 18th, 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...

Special Events

Grad Thesis Defense: Dualities Arising from Borcea-Voisin Threefolds

Mirror symmetry is a major conjectured duality about Calabi-Yau manifolds, which provide the extra six dimensions of string theory, stating...

Logic

$\mathfrak p=\mathfrak t$, III

This is the third and last talk in the series (reasonably self-contained for those who missed any number of previous parts). I will continue...

Colloquium Series

Counting lattice points in Thurston's asymmetric metric on Teichmuller space

Following the work of Mirzakhani and Souto-Erlandsson, we consider the mapping class group orbit of a filling geodesic current and show that...

April 19th, 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...

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...

Special Events

Grad Thesis Defense: Dynamics on the Moduli Space of Pointed Rational Curves

The moduli space M_{0,n} parametrizes all ways of labelling n distinct points on the Riemann sphere P^1, up to change of coordinates by...

Special Events

Grad Thesis Defense: A Mirror Theorem For Symmetric Products of Projective Space

Through 3 general points and 6 general lines in P^3, there are exactly 190 twisted cubics; 190 is a Gromov-Witten invariant of P^3. I will...

Financial/Actuarial Mathematics

Largest eigenvalues of spiked random matrices and reflected Brownian motions

Spiked random matrix models arise when a matrix of interest (e.g. a sample covariance matrix) is corrupted by noise. In this context, one...

April 20th, 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...

Differential Equations

Concentration compactness for critical nonlinear wave equations

I will discuss recent large data results concerning nonlinear systems of wave equations of the so-called energy critical class, obtained...

Topology

Boundaries under Dehn filling

We investigate the relationship between the boundary of a relatively hyperbolic group and the boundary of a quotient obtained via a long...

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...

April 21st, 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...

Psychology Methods Hour: Alternatives to Regression Discontinuity

Sammy Ahmed, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Psychology, Developmental and Lauren Tighe Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Psychology; School of Social Work, University of Michigan

Sammy and Lauren will present on alternatives to regression discontinuity (RD). Sammy will present an overview of RD, its application in...

Geometry & Physics

FRG Special Lecture: Quasimaps and geometric representation theory

I define quasimaps to Nakajima varieties and discuss their relations with representation theory, DT-invariants of threefolds and other parts...

Combinatorics

Braid group symmetries of Grassmannian cluster algebras

We define an action of the k-strand braid group on the set of clusters for Gr(k,n), whenever k divides n. This action preserves the...

April 22nd, 2017

Geometry & Physics

FRG-Workshop on Quasimaps and Geometric Representation Theory

http://dept.math.lsa.umich.edu/www-personal.umich.edu/~janda/2017-quasimaps.html Speaker(s): Andrey Smirnov, Jinwon Choi, Young-Hoon Kiem

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...

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that...