January 15th, 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...

January 16th, 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...

SPECIAL EVENT

Dr. Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium: Math in the Age of Trump

For obvious reasons, I do not fit into the standard mold of a mathematician. But over time, I have learned to embrace my identity within the...

January 17th, 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...

Piano Forum: Jade Simmons

From Competing to Compelling: A Crucial Shift in Mode of Operation

As a concert pianist and the webcast host for the Van Cliburn and the Tchaikovsky International Competitions, Simmons brings a unique...

Geometry & Physics

Spin and hyperelliptic structures on log twisted differentials

The strata of abelian differentials with prescribed zeros are interesting objects of study from Teichmuller dynamics point of view. Their...

Student Algebraic Geometry

The dual complex of a resolution and Thuillier's theorem

Given a variety X, a closed subvariety Y, and a resolution of the pair (X,Y), one may construct a simplicial complex from the combinatorics...

Kelly Link

ZVWS Book Signing & Fiction Reading

Kelly Link, our Winter Distinguished Writer in Residence, is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners,...

January 18th, 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...

January 19th, 2017

mmmmmm writing

Coffee and Donut Break w/ Sweetland

Stop by the Sweetland Peer Writing Center on Thursday, January 19th any time between 9:30am and noon for free coffee and donuts....

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...

Commutative Algebra

Consequences of the direct summand conjecture, and problems that remain

The talk will survey several results that follow from the direct summand conjecture, recently proved by Y. Andre and B. Bhatt, and discuss...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

Structured Random Matrices tutorial: Latala's inequality and beyond

We continue talking about Ramon van Handel's new tutorial on Structured Random Matrices. This week I will present the proof of Van...

Topology

Profinite Topology from a Geometrical Viewpoint

We give a geometric construction of some subsets of a free group closed in the profinite topology. This is a joint work with E. Rips....

January 20th, 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...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Fast, high-order algorithms for particulate flows through periodic geometries

This talk will focus on a new periodization scheme for boundary integral methods. The scheme will allow us to quickly and accurately solve...

Combinatorics

Pizzas and Kazhdan-Lusztig atlases on toric surfaces

Motivated by the work of Knutson, Lam, Speyer and Snider, Bruhat atlases, introduced by He, Knutson and Lu are a way of locally modeling a...

January 21st, 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...