January 8th, 2017

PCAP Facilitator Training

Essential for all our creative arts workshop facilitators.

PCAP facilitators work in teams to lead weekly creative arts workshops in prisons, youth detention and treatment centers, and community...

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...

Less Than Perfect

August 26, 2016–January 8, 2017

In our society, we are taught to strive for and expect perfection. Yet throughout our lives, we learn as much or more from our flaws and...

January 9th, 2017

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...

Geometry & Physics

Genus-One Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau Correspondence

The Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence refers to a conjectural equivalence between Gromov-Witten invariants (virtual counts of curves...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

Periods of modular forms on Gamma_0(N) and products of Jacobi theta functions

We give a closed formula for the sum of all Hecke eigenforms on Gamma_0(N), multiplied by their odd period polynomials in two variables, as...

January 10th, 2017

Statistics: A Review

Ed Rothman, Brenda Wilson Gillespie, and Corey Powell

This workshop is a one-day intensive review of common statistical methods of design, measurement, analysis and presentation of scientific...

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 11th, 2017

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...

Internet Finance in China

Professor LUO Yu of the School of Finance, Renmin University of China

This lecture is an overview of the latest development of internet finance in China. internet finance, similar to Fintech in the U.S., has...

Algebraic Geometry

Vanishing theorems, log-D modules and Multi-indexed Deligne extensions

Kodaira vanishing is the most famous vanishing theorem in algebraic geometry. After reviewing Kodaira-Nakano vanishing, I will introduce its...

January 12th, 2017

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: Priscilla Mante, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Samuel Johnson, University of Liberia

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

Commutative Algebra

Symbolic powers of ideals defining F-pure rings

Given a radical ideal I in a regular ring R, the containment problem of symbolic and ordinary powers of I consists of determining which...

Topology

Intrinsic chirality of graphs in 3-manifolds

We say that an embedding $\Gamma$ of a graph $\gamma$ in a 3-manifold M is achiral if there is an orientation reversing homeomorphism of...

Mary Szybist

Janey Lack Poetry Reading

Mary Szybist, our Janey Lack poet this year (invited by the current second-year poets), is most recently the author of Incarnadine...

January 13th, 2017

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...

Museum Studies Program brown bag

"History Compels Us to be Daring": Sites of Conscience in Action Around the World

The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience draws connections between historic sites and their contemporary implications, and this...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Extended smoothed boundary method for simulating phenomena in energy materials with complex microstructures

The complexity of microstructures (and/or moving boundaries) makes conventional continuum-level simulations that involve complex...

Geometry & Physics

Double ramification and tautological relations

Tautological relations are certain equations in the Chow ring of the moduli space of curves. I will discuss a family of such relations,...

January 14th, 2017

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...