March 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...

March 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...

Mathematical Biology

The impact of collecting data at varying temporal resolution on parameter inference for biological transport models

Speaker(s): Jonathan Harrison (Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford)

STRIDE Workshop for Staff

Committee on Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence

The Committee on Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) provides training to faculty about how...

Geometry & Physics

On a conjecture of Lehn

Formulas for the integrals of top Segre classes of tautological bundles over the Hilbert scheme of points of surfaces were conjectured in...

Student Combinatorics Seminar

Crystal-like structures on shifted tableaux (for orthogonal Schubert calculus)

I'll talk about shifted Young tableaux, which are (among their various applications) the Type B analogs of ordinary Young tableaux --...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

The Hasse-Weil zeta functions of orthogonal Shimura varieties

Initiated by Langlands, the problem of computing the Hasse-Weil zeta functions of Shimura varieties in terms of automorphic L-functions has...

March 14th, 2017

Pie Day

What day is infinitely better than all the rest? Pie Day! All dining halls will be serving pie inspired foods at all meals! We calculated...

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...

Student Commutative Algebra

Bring Your Work to Work Day (Pi Day)

Participants will give short talks on current research work. After that we will plan out future seminars. Speaker(s): TBD (University of...

Student Geometry/Topology

An introduction to simplicial sets and their homotopy theory

We will first describe simplicial sets and how one can be naturally lead to them by first considering geometric simplicial complexes. Next,...

March 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...

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

Portfolio Optimisation, Transaction Costs, Shadow Prices and Fractional Brownian Motion

While absence of arbitrage in frictionless financial markets (i.e. without transaction costs) requires price processes to be...

March 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...

Commutative Algebra

The implicitization problem for rational normal scrolls

We study the defining ideals of the Rees algebra and of the special fiber ring for ideals of a rational normal scroll in P^n. In particular,...

AE585 Seminar | Navigating Unmanned Aerials Vehicles at Low Altitude

In this talk, we present our recent work on UAV navigation using not one, but multiple GPS receivers, either on the same UAV or across different UAVs fused with other navigational sensors, such as IMUs and vision.

The ever-growing applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) require UAVs to navigate at low altitude below 2000 feet. Traditionally, a...

Topology

Aspherical products which do not support Anosov diffeomorphisms

I will explain how some tools from topology and geometric group theory can be used to rule out Anosov diffeomorphisms on certain aspherical...

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...

Marie Howe

ZVWS Poetry Reading

Marie Howe has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and NYU. Her most recent book, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W. W....

Reproductive Health Today

Featuring Justine Wu, M.D., Timothy Johnson, M.D., Ed Goldman, J.D., and Monique Steele, N.P.

Come engage in a panel discussion about women's reproductive health and rights in the changing political landscape. An open dialogue...

Young & Elected

A Panel Featuring Young Elected Officials Across Michigan Who Are Creating Change Within Their Communities

Join us for an exciting evening with State Representatives Darrin Camilleri, Abdullah Hammoud and Jewell Jones, Ypsilanti Mayor Pro-Tem...

March 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...

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...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Convex variational methods for multiclass data segmentation on graphs

Graph-based variational methods have recently shown to be highly competitive for various classification problems of high-dimensional data,...

Combinatorics

The algebraic and combinatorial structure of generalized permutahedra

Generalized permutahedra are a beautiful family of polytopes with a rich combinatorial structure. We explore the Hopf algebraic structure of...

Student AIM Seminar

Beating the Curse with Density Functional Theory

The leading renewable energy sources suffer from inconsistent production levels. Solar panels don't generate power at night or during...

March 18th, 2017

EXCEL Talk: Stephanie Jordan

“The Potential of Academic Research and Performance in the Public Sphere”

Visiting U.K. dance historian Stephanie Jordan discusses her research career inside and outside the academy working with dance companies to...

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...

Pop Art Comes to Michigan, 1963

Featuring Michelle Oka Doner, Miriam Levin, Michael Lobel, David McCarthy, Alex Potts, Rebecca Zurier

In 1963, the University of Michigan Museum of Art hosted two pioneering exhibitions of Pop Art. At that time the concept of Pop Art was...