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...

January 31st, 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 of Benedetti and Varbaro's "On the dual graph of Cohen-Macaulay algebras."

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

Colloquium Series

Algebraic geometry, topology, strings and singularities

I will discuss a Brieskorn-Grothendieck program involving certain singularities and Lie algebras. These singularities arise in many...

Student Algebraic Geometry

Regularity of Line Configurations

In Math 631, you learn about the configuration X of 27 lines on a smooth cubic surface in projective 3-space, reducing to the Fermat cubic...

February 1st, 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

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 2nd, 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...

ASC Presentation. UMAPS Research Colloquium Series

UMAPS Scholars: Gerald Walulya, Makerere University; Moses Flomo, Cuttington University; Fitsum Andargie, Addis Ababa University

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

Commutative Algebra

A Multinomial Theorem for Symbolic Powers of Primes

These two talks will be suggestive of what my thesis defense will be like, whenever that is. Similar to Eloisa's talk, the first talk...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

Interlacing Family: Existence of infinite family of Ramanujan Graphs Part 2

We will continue on Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava's proof of the existence of infinite many Ramanujan graphs of any degree....

Topology

Smooth and topological rigidity of higher rank lattice actions

Given a non-linear action of a discrete group on a torus, one can always construct a linearized action by toral automorphisms. We ask under...

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...

Tom Sleigh

ZVWS Poetry Reading

Tom Sleigh is the author of eight books of poetry, including ArmyCats, winner of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and...

February 3rd, 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

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...

Politicized Science: Why Evidence Still Matters

Sharyn Clough, Professor of Philosophy; Director, Phronesis Lab: Experiments in Engaged Ethics; School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University

If values are ubiquitous in science, and I think they are, then we can no longer use the presence of values to discriminate between good and...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Numerical schemes for integro-differential equations related to alpha-stable processes

The mean first exit time, escape probability and transitional probability density are utilized to quantify dynamical behaviors of stochastic...

Geometry

Zimmer's conjecture for cocompact lattices

The Zimmer Program is a collection of conjectures and questions regarding actions of lattices in higher-rank simple Lie groups on compact...

Combinatorics

Large colored sum free sets in finite vector spaces

Let A be an abelian group. A colored sum free set of A is a list (a_1,b_1,c_1), (a_2,b_2,c_2), ..., (a_N,b_N,c_N) of triples of elements of...

February 4th, 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...