April 7th, 2017

Stumbling Blocks

Martha Jones, Presidential Bicentennial Professor

Exploring our aspirations for a diverse campus community means also understanding challenges from U-M’s past. The Future University...

MQuest

Enjoy a cross-campus scavenger hunt with CCI!!! We will send out 4 tweets a day with clues to find the location of a Golden Block M, which...

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

Continuum theory of electrostatics with application to biological molecules

Electrostatic interactions are fundamental in colloidal and biological systems. Continuum models, such as the classical Poisson-Boltzmann...

Geometry

Convex hulls of quasicircles in hyperbolic and anti-de Sitter space

Thurston conjectured that quasifuchsian manifolds are determined by the induced hyperbolic metrics on the boundary of their convex core and...

Combinatorics

Honeycombs and Kronecker products

Kronecker coefficients are tensor product multiplicities for the irreducible representations of the symmetric group. Recently, Stembridge...

April 8th, 2017

Stumbling Blocks

Martha Jones, Presidential Bicentennial Professor

Exploring our aspirations for a diverse campus community means also understanding challenges from U-M’s past. The Future University...

2017 Andean Circle Conference

(In)equality in the Andes: Issues of Language, Gender and Race

This year’s Andean Circle conference will address the ways in which social inequality is practiced and experienced in the Andes. The...

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...

April 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...

April 10th, 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

How the physics of enhancers shapes development

Enhancers are small regulatory pieces of DNA that control the activity of genes, which eventually determine cellular fates during the...

Geometry & Physics

Cubic Extremel Transition

Extremal transition is a certain kind of contract-deform surgery, which plays a key role in the classification of Calabi-Yau 3-folds. The...

April 11th, 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...

Special Events

A Hollywood celebrity, the Bad Boy of Music, and the development of spread spectrum communications

When the United States entered WWII, a glamorous Hollywood actress and a renegade composer collaborated on a plan for a new type of weapon....

Colloquium Series

Real structures on ordinary Abelian varieties

The moduli space for elliptic curves (or Abelian varieties) is a complex manifold which admits complex conjugation. The "real...

April 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...

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

Crashes & Bubbles: A Heterogeneous Agent Model with Transaction Costs & Learning

N Investors trade in a single risky asset over a finite time horizon. Trades are executed at prices observed by all investors. While no...

Financial/Actuarial Mathematics

The risk tolerance process and the sensitivity of optimal investment and consumption

In this talk, we investigate the sensitivity of optimal trading strategies and consumption streams with respect to the current level of...

April 13th, 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...

Densifying Networks

Sidney Redner, Sante Fe Institute

We discuss the unusual properties of networks that grow by either: (a) redirection or (b) node duplication. The former leads to unusual...

Student Arithmetic

Composing and commuting dilated floor functions

Floor functions appear in number theory, e.g. in expressions for the Riemann zeta function and in some proofs of quadratic reciprocity....

An Update on UM Athletic Programs

Warde J. Manuel, University of Michigan Donald R. Shepherd Director of Athletics

Warde J. Manuel was named Michigan's Donald R. Shepherd Director of Athletics on January 29, 2016. He has earned three degrees from UM...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

The stabilized set of p's in Krivine's theorem can be disconnected

J. L. Krivine's theorem states that for every Banach space X with a basis, there exists a p in [1, infinity] such that l_p is finitely...

Differential Equations

Randomization and dynamics in nonlinear wave and dispersive equations

In this talk we show how certain well-posedness results that are not available using only deterministic techniques (eg. Fourier and harmonic...

EIHS Lecture: On Futures, Past and Present

Robin Blackburn, University of Essex, and Nancy Fraser, The New School for Social Research

Amid economic turbulence, environmental disaster, and political shocks, some observers today perceive a crisis of futurity, manifested in an...

Topology

Superinjective Simplicial Maps of the Two-sided Curve Complexes on Nonorientable Surfaces

I will talk about a joint work with Luis Paris. We prove that on a compact, connected, nonorientable surface of genus at least 5, any...

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...

Michael Byers

HZWP Faculty Spotlight

Michael Byers’ first book, The Coast of Good Intentions, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the...