October 7th, 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...

Coloring Who We Are

Workshop (hands-on)

The coloring movement appeals to people of all ages, but coloring books available to buy are often quite expensive and promote stereotypes....

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...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Lorentz force impedance tomography in 2D: theory and experiments

Lorentz force impedance tomography, also known as the Magneto-Acousto-Electric Tomography (MAET), is a novel hybrid modality that represents...

Geometry

Uniform Fellow Traveling Between Surgery Paths In the Sphere Graph

Guiradel generalized the notion of geometric intersection number between curves on on a surface to any pair of G–trees; associated to...

Combinatorics

Positivity and canonical bases for surface skein algebras

We investigate whether surface cluster algebras have positive canonical bases, natural linear bases for which the structure constants for...

Student AIM Seminar

Bessel Functions and Representation Theory

Special Functions frequently arise in applied mathematics, especially as solutions to differential equations. However, deriving (and...

The Fly Room

Q&A following the screening with Dr. Alexis Gambis, a fly geneticist and director of the film

"The Fly Room" is a sweeping, yet intimate portrait of the complicated relationship between Calvin Bridges, father of modern...

October 8th, 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 9th, 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 10th, 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...

Mathematical Biology

A piecewise-smooth, two smooth, and a fast-slow system for plankton population dynamics

Phytoplankton, and the zooplankton that graze upon them, play a crucial role in the dynamics observed at higher levels of the aquatic...

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...

October 11th, 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...

EXCEL Talk: David T. Little, composer

“David T. Little: A Conversation with William Bolcom Resident Composer”

This informal meet-and-greet with acclaimed composer and SMTD alum David T. Little will offer a chance to chat about his music the morning...

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

Zariski-Lipman and Differential Operators

In this talk, we will review symbolic powers and differential operators on polynomial rings. Then, following a recent survey of Dao et al.,...

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 12th, 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...

Algebraic Geometry

Birational rigidity of Fano hypersurfaces

The study of the birational group of Fano hypersurfaces was undertaken by Fano in dimension three, and has lead to the proof, by Iskovskikh...

Analysis/Probability

Stochastic Aspects of 2D Quantum Yang-Mills Theory

The lattice formulation of quantum Yang-Mills theory allows for all quantities to be computed in terms of well-defined random matrix...

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...

October 13th, 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...

GIEU 2017 Info Session

Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates

GIEU programs are project-based service-learning programs. Earn 3 credits taking a semester-long pre-departure course on intercultural...

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

Detecting F-pure centers using log discrepancies of semivaluations

We have long known, or implicitly used, that to a potential splitting \phi of the Frobenius homomorphism on a ring R of positive...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

The Kadison-Singer Problem: Part 1 of the Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava Proof

The Kadison-Singer problem was a longstanding open problem in functional analysis regarding the extension of certain functionals on C*...

Logic

Strong failures of higher analogs of Hindman's theorem

(One of the versions of) Hindman's theorem states that, whenever we partition an infinite abelian group G in two cells, there exists an...

Topology

Circle Packings on Surfaces with Complex Projective Structures

The classical circle packing theorem of Koebe, Andreev, and Thurston says that given a triangulation $\tau$ of a closed, orientable surface,...