March 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...

March 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...

Introduction to SAS

Kathy Welch Retired CSCAR SAS consultant

This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SAS for Windows. It will cover the fundamentals of SAS, transformations and recodes,...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

The Birch--Swinnerton-Dyer formula in the cases of analytic rank 0 and 1

For an elliptic curve E over the rationals, the Birch--Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture predicts that (a) the rank of the Mordell--Weil group E(Q)...

Geometry & Physics

Topological recursion for the large-N dual of a torus knot

The conifold transition for the conormal bundle of a knot in S^3 is a non-compact non-exact Lagrangian in the resolved conifold. When the...

Student Combinatorics Seminar

Skew partitions and the affine symmetric group

It is well known that irreducible representations of the symmetric group are parameterized by partitions. There are also representations of...

Group, Lie and Number Theory

p-torsion in class groups of number fields of arbitrary degree

Fix a number field K of degree n over the rationals, and a prime p, and consider the p-torsion subgroup of the class group of K. How big is...

March 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...

Introduction to SAS

Kathy Welch Retired CSCAR SAS consultant

This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SAS for Windows. It will cover the fundamentals of SAS, transformations and recodes,...

Lasting Synergies

A "Pop-Up" Exhibit During the Ann Arbor Film Festival

The history of the Ann Arbor Film Festival is inextricably linked with the history of the University of Michigan. With support from the U-M...

Student Geometry/Topology

Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces

For hyperbolic surfaces, there is a well-known bijective correspondence between free homotopy classes and closed geodesics. More mysterious...

Colloquium Series

Energy Identity for Stationary Yang Mills

Yang Mills connections over a principle bundle are critical points of the energy functional \int |F|^2, the L^2 norm of the curvature, and...

2017 David Noel Freedman Lecture

Professor Doron Mendels: "The Maccabean Revolution: The "Time of Exception" and the Liberation from a God-King Competition"

The lecture deals with the political theology of the 1 Book of Maccabees. The book, composed in the middle of the second century BCE,...

March 22nd, 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...

Lasting Synergies

A "Pop-Up" Exhibit During the Ann Arbor Film Festival

The history of the Ann Arbor Film Festival is inextricably linked with the history of the University of Michigan. With support from the U-M...

Introduction to SAS

Kathy Welch Retired CSCAR SAS consultant

This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SAS for Windows. It will cover the fundamentals of SAS, transformations and recodes,...

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...

Algebraic Geometry

Geometry in orbital integrals and beyond II

Orbital integrals are important quantities in the theory of automorphic forms, and they usually appear when one applies trace formula. I...

Lasting Synergies

A "Pop-Up" Exhibit During the Ann Arbor Film Festival

The history of the Ann Arbor Film Festival is inextricably linked with the history of the University of Michigan. With support from the U-M...

March 23rd, 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...

Lasting Synergies

A "Pop-Up" Exhibit During the Ann Arbor Film Festival

The history of the Ann Arbor Film Festival is inextricably linked with the history of the University of Michigan. With support from the U-M...

Introduction to SAS

Kathy Welch Retired CSCAR SAS consultant

This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SAS for Windows. It will cover the fundamentals of SAS, transformations and recodes,...

Student Arithmetic

Elliptic Curves with Complex Multiplication

An elliptic curve over C is said to have complex multiplication (CM) if it has more endomorphisms than multiplication by integers. In this...

Commutative Algebra

Resolutions of conic modules over toric algebras

In this talk we consider a normal toric algebra R over a field of characteristic p >0. The module M of p^e-th roots of R is then the...

The Annual Zora Neale Hurston Lecture

Earl Lewis, President of the Andrew J. Mellon Foundation "When the Demons Are From Within"

Two generations of scholarship rightly upended the notion that slavery and segregation left a people crippled by a subordinate place in the...

Logic

MRP and squares, II

Justin Moore's mapping reflection principle (MRP) seems to capture the consistency strength of PFA, since it implies the failure of...

Topology

Coarsely hyperbolic surface bundles

I will discuss joint work with Bestvina, Bromberg, and Leininger showing that a surface bundle has hyperbolic fundamental group if and only...

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...

Lasting Synergies

A "Pop-Up" Exhibit During the Ann Arbor Film Festival

The history of the Ann Arbor Film Festival is inextricably linked with the history of the University of Michigan. With support from the U-M...

100 Years of DaDa

Ann Arbor Film Festival

A short film program curated by John Canciani and Aline Juchler (Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur) The selection contains clusters...

March 24th, 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...

Colloquium Series

Sumner Myers lecture: Symmetric Hybrid Systems: Periodic Gait Design for Legged Robots

While wheeled vehicles are very efficient on even terrains, legged robots can outperform them on uneven terrains and where there is no...

Lasting Synergies

A "Pop-Up" Exhibit During the Ann Arbor Film Festival

The history of the Ann Arbor Film Festival is inextricably linked with the history of the University of Michigan. With support from the U-M...

Museum Studies Program brown bag

The Smithsonian Institution and the Making of the American Nonprofit Sector

The speaker will discuss the beginnings of the Smithsonian Institution and the American nonprofit sector and how philanthropic foundations...

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...

SPECIAL EVENT

Dissertation Defense: Foundations of Boij-Soderberg Theory for Grassmannians

Boij-Soderberg theory characterizes syzygies of graded modules and sheaves on projective space. This thesis is concerned with extending the...

Introduction to SAS

Kathy Welch Retired CSCAR SAS consultant

This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SAS for Windows. It will cover the fundamentals of SAS, transformations and recodes,...

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Some results for motion by mean curvature in heterogeneous medium

We will discuss some results on the motion of interfaces by its mean curvature in heterogeneous media, in both continuous and discrete...

Geometry

Just so stories around Geometry, Dynamics, and PDEs.

The lecture consists of several mini-talks with just definitions, motivations, some ideas of proofs, and open problems. I will discuss some...

Combinatorics

Triangulations, plabic graphs, and Soliton solutions to the KP equation

The KP equation is a two-dimensional non-linear differential equation, which provides an excellent model for resonant interactions among...

Jane Stuart-Smith Colloquium

"A tale of one city: A sociophonetic study of 100+ years of Glaswegian vernacular"

Jane Stuart-Smith will present a talk entitled, "A tale of one city: A sociophonetic study of 100+ years of Glaswegian...

Student AIM Seminar

Semi-classical sine-Gordon equation, universality at phase transition and the gradient catastrophe

In this talk I am going to discuss the universal behaviours of of the semi-classical limit of the sine-Gordon equation. We consider a class...

March 25th, 2017

Zombie Apocalypse

An action-based public health preparedness event across the health science schools

Imagine this scenario – University of Michigan students and residents of the surrounding towns have been exposed to virulent pathogen, m....

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...

Lasting Synergies

A "Pop-Up" Exhibit During the Ann Arbor Film Festival

The history of the Ann Arbor Film Festival is inextricably linked with the history of the University of Michigan. With support from the U-M...