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...

October 2nd, 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...

October 3rd, 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...

Complex Analysis, Dynamics and Geometry

A Complete Description of the Non-splitting Bifurcations of the Complex Polynomial Vector Fields in C

In this talk, the qualitative dynamics of the vector fields in the complex plane defined by complex polynomials is studied. The ultimate...

Geometry & Physics

Central charges of B-branes at non-geometric phases

On the first half of my talk, I'll focus on basic concepts about B-branes and their central charges and how they arise in physics and...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

Shahidi matrices of local coefficients and Tate-type gamma factors

Shahidi local coefficients associated with parabolic inductions on quasi-split reductive groups defined over a local field are the core of...

Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Amir Ganjavie (York University) - Utopia and Censorship: Iranian Cinema at the Crossroads of Love, Sex, and Tradition

Iranian censorship forbids depictions of unrelated men and women touching one another. Given this, Western scholars generally view Iranian...

Teaching Mathematics

Does Student Engagement Matter? Teaching Practices for Encouraging Student Engagement

In 2015-2016, the Mathematics Department and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching conducted a large-scale study of the impact of...

October 4th, 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...

Health, History, Demography and Development (H2D2)

Undocumented Immigrants and Labor Market Fluidity: Evidence in the Context of Equilibrium Unemployment Theory presented by Parag Mahajan, University of Michigan and The Economic Consequences of Immigrant Disenfranchisement: Evidence from the United States

Undocumented Immigrants and Labor Market Fluidity: Evidence in the Context of Equilibrium Unemployment Theory Abstract:...

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 Geometry/Topology

Exotic manifolds and the generalized Poincare conjectures.

I will discuss the history of the generalized Poincare conjectures, which ask whether a manifold which has the homotopy type of a sphere is...

Colloquium Series

Families of varieties and Hodge theory

Allowing the isomorphism class of algebraic varieties to vary in a family usually imposes strong conditions on the space parametrizing that...

Student Algebraic Geometry

Complex-Analytic Methods in Algebraic Geometry

To any smooth algebraic variety over the complex numbers, we can associate a complex manifold called its analytification. We will discuss a...

China Miéville Reading

ZVWS Distinguished International Writer In Residence

CHINA MIEVILLE is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer and academic. He often describes his work as "weird fiction"...

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...

October 5th, 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...

Financial/Actuarial Mathematics

Model-independent pricing with additional information: a Skorokhod embedding approach.

I will consider the pricing problem of an agent having additional (potentially insider) information on the market in a model-independent...

Analysis/Probability

On the Brunn-Minkowski inequality for log-concave measures

The Brunn-Minkowski inequality is a fundamental inequality in Geometry, and has found many applications in Analysis and Probability. This...

Derek Palacio

Fiction @ Literati

Derek Palacio’s stunning, mythic novel marks the arrival of a fresh voice and a new chapter in the history of 21st century Cuban-American...