February 12th, 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...

A Dangerous Experiment

Symposium 1877: Reconstructing the University of Michigan

This play is written and directed by LSA students. Based on an early fictional account of a woman’s experience at the university, as well...

Sunstruck

Travel back to the beginning of time and experience the birth of the Sun. Discover how it came to support life, how it threatens life as we...

February 13th, 2017

Mindfulness@Umich

Students, Faculty, Staff - All Welcome

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

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...

Mathematical Biology

Combining theory, model and experiment to understand how theta rhythms are generated in the hippocampus

Scientists have observed theta rhythms (3-12 Hz) in the hippocampus for decades, but we still do not have a clear understanding of how they...

Student Probability

Stochastic Smoothing of Largest Eigenvalue

Stochastic smoothing can be used to design online algorithms such for problems such as variance minimization and online PCA. In the case of...

Geometry & Physics

Path Integrals and Quantum Yang-Mills Theory

In the first part of the talk, we discuss the ubiquitous problem of ill-defined path integrals in quantum field theory. We then discuss the...

Student Combinatorics Seminar

A combinatorial approach to stable Grothendieck polynomials

Stable Grothendieck polynomials form a non-homogeneous basis for the ring of symmetric functions. They are the symmetric function analog of...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

Generalized Kuga-Satake theory and good reduction properties of Galois representations

Given a smooth projective algebraic variety over a number field F, one obtains a compatible system of geometric representations of the...

Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Jay Crisostomo (University of Michigan): "After Babel–Bibel Babble: Siting the Linguistic Memory of Babylon"

The Tower of Babel is embedded in our collective cultural memory as an etiological tale of multilingualism. The story itself, however,...

Community Town Hall

Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Search Advisory Committee

President Schlissel, along with members of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Search Advisory Committee, invite members of...

February 14th, 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...

Student Commutative Algebra

More on Benedetti and Varbaro's "On the dual graph of Cohen-Macaulay algebras"

This will be my first Valentine's Day talk in seminar. We'll move along to Chapter 3, focusing on the proof of the Main Theorem...

SAC Speaker Series Presents

A Talk by Professor Kristen Whissel of UC Berkeley

“Parallax Effects: Stereoscopic 3D and the Postwar Uncanny in House of Wax (André de Toth, 1953) and Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock,...

Student Algebraic Geometry

The Grothendieck ring of varieties

The Grothendieck ring of varieties is defined as the set of equivalence classes of varieties, modulo a natural equivalence relation; despite...

Terrance Hayes

ZVWS Book Signing & PoetryReading

Terrance Hayes, our Winter Distinguished Poet in Residence, is the author of Lighthead (Penguin 2010), winner of the 2010 National Book...

February 15th, 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...

Mindfulness@Umich

Student, 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...

Financial/Actuarial Mathematics

Particle Systems with Singular Interaction: application in Systemic Risk modeling

In this talk, I will analyze a system of particles with singular interaction through hitting times. Such systems have been used in...

Financial/Actuarial Mathematics

From the master equation to mean field game limits, fluctuations, and large deviations

A mean field game (MFG) is a stochastic differential game with a continuum of players, describing the limit as n tends to infinity of Nash...

The Bloodsucker Proxy

Mark Siddall, Curator, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History

Dr. Mark Siddall was a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows from 1996 - 1999. Today, he is a curator of zoology at the American Museum...

SPECIAL EVENT

Michigan Mathematics Bicentennial Lecture: Some Perspectives on Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

I would like to deal with the problem of being neither an applied mathematician nor a pure mathematician, yet feel that I am a...

Tauber Leadership Speaker Series | Peter Denk

Peter Denk, Senior Vice President responsible for Electrical Drives Division in North America at Robert Bosch LLC.

The Tauber Leadership Speaker Series proudly present Peter Denk, Senior Vice President responsible for Electrical Drives Division in North...

February 16th, 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...

Student Arithmetic

Visible elements in the Tate-Shafarevich group

The Tate-Shafarevich group, Sha(E), of an elliptic curve E defined over the rational numbers plays an important role in the Birch and...

Roundtable: Women in War

Wartime Posters of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1950-1970s)

In conjunction with the exhibit, Women in War: Wartime Posters of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975, join this roundtable to...

Tuần lễ: Vietnamese Studies Week

Nora Taylor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Karen Turner, College of the Holy Cross; Sophie Quinn-Judge, Temple University

Scholars who specialize in Vietnam lead a roundtable discussion to accompany the exhibition "Women & War: Wartime Posters from the...

Logic

L_{omega_1,omega}-sentences with maximal models in two cardinalities, part II

This will be part II of the talk on complete L_{omega_1,omega}-sentences with maximal models in (at least) two cardinalities. The talk will...

Mindfulness@Umich

Students, Faculty, Staff - All Welcome

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

February 17th, 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...

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...

Combinatorics

Transition formulas and Schur-P-positivity for (stable) involution Schubert polynomials

Stable Schubert polynomials (aka Stanley symmetric functions) are Schur-positive symmetric functions, whose Schur coefficients can be...

Ross Diaries Mini

Sponsored by Sanger Leadership Center and Design + Business

Ross Diaries Mini is an intimate gathering where students from across the business school will share powerful and compelling stories about...

February 18th, 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...

Sunstruck

Travel back to the beginning of time and experience the birth of the Sun. Discover how it came to support life, how it threatens life as we...

SMTD@UMMA

Elevation: New Heights in the Concert Hall

Professor Andrew Jennings and student chamber music ensembles present works by composers who, like Alfred Stieglitz and his partners in the...

SMTD@UMMMA: Elevation

New Heights in the Concert Hall

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York to position photography as a...