September 25th, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

September 26th, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

Digital Destiny

Works by Dieudonne Fokou

Digital Destiny presents 20 sculptures in metal and found materials created over the past five years by the Cameroonian artist Dieudonne...

Geometry & Physics

On the Behrend function and its motivic version in Donaldson-Thomas theory

The Behrend function, introduced by Behrend, is a fundamental object in Donaldson-Thomas theory for Calami-Yau threefolds. The original...

September 27th, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

Detroit City Study

Shira Schwartz, Project Director Detroit City Study, PhD Candidate UM Department of Comparative Literature, City Study Stewards, Nick Tobler, Natalie Davis

Panelists: Shira Schwartz, Project Director Detroit City Study, PhD Candidate U-M Department of Comparative Literature, and Detroit City...

Digital Destiny

Works by Dieudonne Fokou

Digital Destiny presents 20 sculptures in metal and found materials created over the past five years by the Cameroonian artist Dieudonne...

Student Commutative Algebra

Bounds for Invariant Rings of Abelian Groups

Invariant rings have interested mathematicians for centuries. In particular, when one considers finite groups, determining that the ring of...

Student Geometry/Topology

Expanding endomorphisms of compact manifolds

An endomorphism of a Riemannian manifold is said to be expanding if it increases the norm of tangent vectors everywhere (possibly only after...

Colloquium Series

Microlocal methods in symplectic geometry.

I will outline how one starts with a symplectic manifold and defines a category enriched in local systems (up to homotopy) on this manifold....

Student Algebraic Geometry

Knot Theory and Problems on Affine Space

Affine n-space A^n is one of the most basic objects in algebraic geometry. Unfortunately, there are many basic things we don't know...

PCAP Editing Team Meeting

Help produce the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing

Join the editing team that produces the Prison Creative Arts Project's Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing. Contact Phil...

September 28th, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

Digital Destiny

Works by Dieudonne Fokou

Digital Destiny presents 20 sculptures in metal and found materials created over the past five years by the Cameroonian artist Dieudonne...

Student Arithmetic

An algorithm to compute the distribution of points on hyperelliptic curves over finite fields

We discuss a computational approach to the distribution of points on hyperelliptic curves over finite fields. This is a computational...

Analysis/Probability

Gaussian complex zeros on the hole event: the emergence of a forbidden region

Consider the Gaussian Entire Function (GEF) whose Taylor coefficients are independent complex-valued Gaussian variables, and the variance of...

SPECIAL EVENT

The Shape of Space (Public Lecture - all are welcome!)

When we look out on a clear night, the universe seems infinite. Yet this infinity might be an illusion. During the first half of the...

PCAP Membership Meeting

Community building + workshop facilitator peer support

PCAP membership meetings offer peer support for workshop facilitators, planning time for committees, and a group discussion or activity for...

September 29th, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

Digital Destiny

Works by Dieudonne Fokou

Digital Destiny presents 20 sculptures in metal and found materials created over the past five years by the Cameroonian artist Dieudonne...

Commutative Algebra

Asymptotic Behavior of Certain Koszul Homology Modules

Let (R, m) be a local ring, M a finitely generated module over R. Lech's limit formula states that for a fixed system of parameters...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

van Handel's proof of the majorizing measure theorem - part II

Majorizing measure theorem of Talagrand is one of the most important results in the theory of Gaussian random processes. it provides a...

Logic

Commuting endomorphisms and hypersmooth equivalence relations, part II

An equivalence relation E is hypersmooth (hyperfinite) if E is the union of an increasing sequence of smooth (finite) Borel equivalence...

Math Club

Visualizing Four Dimensions

This talk will introduce a method for learning to visualize 4-dimensional space, give participants a chance to work on some 4D visualization...

September 30th, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...

Digital Destiny

Works by Dieudonne Fokou

Digital Destiny presents 20 sculptures in metal and found materials created over the past five years by the Cameroonian artist Dieudonne...

Combinatorics

A representation-theoretic interpretation of positroid classes

To any (affine) permutation one can associate its (affine) Stanley symmetric function, which encodes some combinatorial information about...

October 1st, 2016

The Florence Flood, November 1966

The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond

This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the...