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...

February 19th, 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...

Faculty Recital: Jeffrey Lyman, bassoon

Radical Mid-Century Modernists: Four women who kicked conservative ideas out of the Conservatoire

Professor of bassoon Jeffrey Lyman and pianist Liz Ames will perform five standard-breaking works composed for the annual competitions at...

February 20th, 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...

Student Probability

Resilience for the Littlewood-Offord Problem

We will discuss a new paper of Alfonso Bandeira, Asaf Ferber and Matthew Kwan. It presents a different view on a classical...

Geometry & Physics

AdS Black hole entropy from gauge theory

One of the great successes of string theory, as a theory of quantum gravity, is the explanation of the entropy of asymptotically-flat black...

February 21st, 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...

Sentence Processing Reading Group

"Similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension: Literature review and Bayesian meta-analysis."

The paper to discussed will be Jäger, Engelmann & Vasishth (in press) "Similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension:...

Student Commutative Algebra

Benedetti-Di Marca-Varbaro's "Regularity of Line Configurations"

Last week, we covered the proof of the Main Theorem 3.8 in the Cohen-Macaulay algebras paper. This will be used, together with Gorenstein...

Colloquium Series

The tautological ring of the moduli space of curves

The tautological ring of the moduli space of smooth curves of genus g was introduced by Mumford in the 1980s in analogy with the cohomology...

Student Algebraic Geometry

The Weierstrass subgroup of the Jacobian is usually free

When studying an algebraic curve X of genus at least 3, it often helps to consider (1) an embedding of X into some ambient space, and (2)...

Professional Autobiography

Rachel S. Lebovic, PharmD, BCOP

Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Ambulatory Oncology University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Department of Pharmacy Services

February 22nd, 2017

Race at the Intersection

Lisa Bowleg, EJR David, Hillary Potter, Natalia Molina, Saher Selod, & Matthew Hughey

Leading scholars from around the US will discuss their work on the intersection of racism with multiple socially-constructed identities....

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

Some optimization problems for the risk model with dependence structure

In this talk, I will give some kinds of risk model with dependence structure, and some criteria under which we discuss the optimization...

Algebraic Geometry

Top weight cohomology of moduli spaces of curves

The top weight cohomology of the moduli space of algebraic curves is naturally identified (with a degree shift) with the reduced rational...

Analysis/Probability

The law of fractional logarithm in the GUE minor process

Consider an infinite array of standard complex normal variables which are independent up to Hermitian symmetry. The eigenvalues of the...

February Science Café

Ancient Climates, Future Climates–What Can the Deep Past Tell Us?

Earth's climate has changed many times, and the mechanisms of these changes may shed light on what we can expect in the future. Join...