March 5th, 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...

March 6th, 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

Irreversible Remodeling of Tissue by Cells: Implications for the Spread of Cancer

Cells move in tissue in several situations such as the spread of cancer. It is known that cell motility leads to deformation of the tissue....

Film Screening. "The Island President"

Mohamed Nasheed, Former President of the Maldives, political prisoner, human rights leader

Jon Shenk, Director. Documentary. (101 min., 2011). Description: Mohamed Nasheed, president of the Maldive Islands, works tirelessly to save...

Geometry & Physics

Zeta functions of alternate mirror Calabi-Yau pencils

Exploiting intuition from mirror symmetry, we prove that if two Calabi-Yau invertible pencils in projective space have the same dual...

Student Combinatorics Seminar

Proving Sokal's Conjecture on the Zeros of the Independence Polynomial

In a list of problems published in 2001, Alan Sokal conjectured a value D where the independence polynomial of graphs is zero-free in a...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

A finer Tate duality theorem for local Galois symbols

Let K be a p-adic field and M a finite continuous Galois module. Local Tate duality is a perfect duality between the Galois cohomology of M...

March 7th, 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...

Colloquium Series

Differential Equations, Algebraic Groups, and Patching for Torsors

Differential Galois theory is an algebraic theory for linear differential equations, in analogy to classical Galois theory. It was proposed...

Student Algebraic Geometry

Cones of effective cycles of projective bundles over curves

I'll introduce cones of higher codimension cycles and following a paper of Fulger, compute them for projective bundles over curves. If...

March 8th, 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

Data driven nonlinear expectations for statistical uncertainty

In practice, stochastic decision problems are often based on statistical estimates of probabilities. We all know that statistical error may...

The DAAS Diasporic Dialogues Workshop in conjunction with PCWID

Manoucheka Celeste, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of Florida Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies Research, and the African American Studies Program "Traveling Blackness: Navigating Race and Immigration"

Immigration, as crisis and in times of crisis, routinely cycles through as a news topic of the day. This talk will explore the story of...

Algebraic Geometry

Positivity of cotangent bundles of manifolds with pseudo-effective canonical class

Given a projective manifold, one can measure the positive directions in its tangent bundle by evaluating the slopes of its sub-sheaves with...

March 9th, 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...

Frequentist/Bayes controversies, homeopathy and (ES)P-values

Roderick J.A. Little Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Statistics, and Research Professor - Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

I compare and contrast the two predominant philosophies for characterizing empirical uncertainty, frequentist and Bayesian statistics. The...

Student Arithmetic

Formal power series, finite automata, and Christol's theorem

Let F be a finite field. The ring of formal power series F[[t]] is the t-adic completion of the polynomial ring F[t]. Completing F[t]...

Howard R. Marsh Lecture

From Protester to "Terrorist": The mechanisms of state repression by Will Potter, Howard March Visiting Professor of Journalism

The FBI has classified environmentalists and animal rights advocates as the "number one domestic terrorism threat." despite the...

Topology

Discreteness Algorithm Advisoes

Determining whether a given finitely generated group of isometries is discrete is a formidable problem. Let $\Gamma$ be a rank 2...

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...

Jenny Offill

ZVWS Fiction Reading

Jenny Offill saw her first novel, Last Things, published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and in the UK by Bloomsbury. It was a New York...

Art+Science Preview Lecture/Reception

Contemporary artist Scott Hocking and Taubman Institute Scholar Charles Burant, MD, PhD

Join us for a behind-the-scenes peek at the ongoing dialogue between noted contemporary artist Scott Hocking and Charles Burant, MD, PhD,...

"Remnants"

Written and Performed by Dr. Henry Greenspan, RC Faculty member

"Remnants" is an award-winning, minimalist piece that includes the voices of 3 men and 4 women, currently presented as a one-man...

March 10th, 2017

SPECIAL EVENT

Recruitment Weekend

Various activities will be taking place Friday & Saturday. A schedule with more detail will follow. Speaker(s): (University of...

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...

The DAAS African American Workshop

Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court with Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University with courtesy appointments in the Department of Sociology and The Beasley School

Numerous accounts have identified the racialized nature of mass incarceration and its impact on minority communities, poverty, crime,...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Fast phase retrieval from local correlation measurements

We propose a phase retrieval approach that uses correlation-based measurements with compactly supported measurement masks. The algorithm...

Quant Program Practitioner Seminar

Introduction to Quantitative Analysis in Proprietary Trading

Dr. Greg Sobczak, Partner and Head of Financial Engineering at Chicago Trading Company, will be speaking about his transition from academia...

Combinatorics

Schubert puzzles and quantum integrable systems

In 1997, Terry Tao and I invented "puzzles" to study Horn's problem, slightly after Klyachko had used Schubert calculus on...

Dressing the Head: Romantic Styling in Ingres’s Portraiture

Susan Siegfried, Denise Riley Collegiate Professor of the History of Art and Women's Studies, Professor of History of Art and Professor of Women's Studies

This lecture explores Ingres’s portraits from the 1820s and his sympathetic response to new features of appearance, as the bourgeoisie...

March 11th, 2017

SPECIAL EVENT

Recruitment Weekend

Various activities will be taking place Friday & Saturday. A schedule with more detail will follow. Speaker(s): (University of...

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...

Vortex

2017 Benefit Concert

Come see a medley of University of Michigan's finest dance, acapella, and other performing arts groups on campus on March 11th in the...