January 22nd, 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...

SMTD@UMMA

The Star-Spangled Banner: Transformation, Translation, Amnesia & Remembrance

Professor Mark Clague explores how processes of translation and transformation trace the meaning of Francis Scott Key’s 200-year old song...

January 23rd, 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...

Student Probability

Energy optimization on the sphere and application to Welch bounds

Using a tensorization trick, one may prove that rotationally symmetric distributions satisfy energy minimization properties. This fact has...

Gasses and Gas Laws

Christopher Nicholson (University of West Florida)

A first lecture on the properties of gasses will be presented. Aspects of gas pressure and measurement will be discussed. The origin of...

January 24th, 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...

Cosmology

The History and Nature of Our Universe

This course is based on Great Courses DVDs by Prof. Mark Whittle. Restricted to those 50 and over, the course covers the structure of the...

Student Commutative Algebra

Minimal primes of certain ideals I of a polynomial ring S and the multiplicity of S/I

We will discuss sections 2.2 and 2.3 of Benedetti and Varbaro's 2014 "On the dual graph of Cohen-Macaulay algebras." These...

Student Geometry/Topology

Geometric transitions in projective space

What is a geometry? The Greeks had an answer, but then the 19th century showed that they didn't have all of them. In this talk we...

Student Algebraic Geometry

An Introduction to Differential Operators

The theory of differential operators and modules over them (so called D-modules) has had many applications in many fields of math - most...

"The F Word"

Post-Screening Q & A with Director Robert Adanto

"THE F WORD" explores radical "4th wave" feminist performance through interviews with a new generation of feminist...

January 25th, 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...

Algebraic Geometry

Derived categories of cubic fourfolds and non-commutative K3 surfaces

The derived category of coherent sheaves on a cubic fourfold has a subcategory which can be thought as the derived category of a...

January 26th, 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...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

Interlacing polynomial method: Existence of Ramanujan graphs of any degrees.

We will continue our discussion on Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava's interlacing polynomial method. This time we will focus on their result...

Topology

Algebraic and topological properties of big mapping class groups

There has been a recent surge in studying surfaces of infinite type, i.e. surfaces with infinitely-generated fundamental groups. In this...

January 27th, 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...

Carillon Recital

Ringing in the Year of the Rooster

Celebrate lunar new year with East Asian music performed on the 53-bell Charles Baird Carillon by Tiffany Ng, assistant professor of...

Mindfulness@Umich

Faculty and Staff Session

Mindfulness@Umich is a program that is available to all University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff. The sessions are 30 minutes...

PhonDi Discussion Group

Cheng-Wei Lin: "The Perception and Production of Arabic Lexical Stress by Learners of Arabic: A Usage-Based Account"

The discussion on stress in Arabic in the literature has primarily focused on the phonological constraints/rules behind the grammar of...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Methodology development to radically improve the computational performance of physics-based mobility solutions

A substantial body of terramechanics research has been performed at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering...

Geometry

Quasiconformal mappings on the Grushin plane

A growing body of recent literature investigates quasiconformal mappings in the setting of equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds. In this...

SynSem Discussion Group

Intensification, gradability and social perception: the case of totally

We are reading a paper by Beltrama on Intensification, gradability and social perception: the case of totally....

Combinatorics

A rational lift of the combinatorial R-matrix

The combinatorial R-matrix is the unique affine sl_n crystal isomorphism between A x B and B x A, where A and B are finite-dimensional...

January 28th, 2017

Constructing Gender

Origins of Michigan’s Union and League

Ask U-M students, alumni, or fans what symbolizes the University of Michigan, and you’ll likely hear the Big House, the Diag, along with...

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...