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...

April 14th, 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...

Geometry

Density bounds for two-radius packings of disks in the plane.

A packing of disks in the plane is a non-overlapping arrangement of disks. We will consider how well a packing consisting of disks of two...

Senior Thesis Project: Matt Kunkel

WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOUTHWEST AFRICA, FROM THE GERMAN SUDWESTAFRIKA BETWEEN THE YEARS 1884-1915

A group of actors gather to tell the little known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past...

Senior Thesis Project: Matt Kunkel

WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOUTHWEST AFRICA, FROM THE GERMAN SUDWESTAFRIKA BETWEEN THE YEARS 1884-1915

A group of actors gather to tell the little known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past...

April 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...

Senior Thesis Project: Matt Kunkel

WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOUTHWEST AFRICA, FROM THE GERMAN SUDWESTAFRIKA BETWEEN THE YEARS 1884-1915

A group of actors gather to tell the little known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past...

Men’s Glee Club

Our Victory and Pride: Singing in the Key of Michigan since 1859

Part one of two MGC Hill concerts in 2017 celebrating U-M's historic bicentennial. Eclectic works will continue our theme of “How...

April 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...

April 17th, 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...

Special Events

Grad Thesis Defense: A Mode Coupling Theory for Random Waveguides with Turning Points

We study acoustic waveguides with varying cross section and slowly bending axis. In particular, we consider waveguides with rough walls and...

Geometry & Physics

Mirror Symmetry, Tyurin Degenerations, and Classification of K3 Fibered Calabi-Yau Threefolds

In the first talk, I will describe a potential relationship between mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau manifolds and the mirror duality between...

Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory

Large gap asymptotics at the hard edge for product random matrices and Muttalib-Borodin ensembles

We study the distribution of the smallest eigenvalue for certain classes of positive-definite Hermitian random matrices, in the limit where...

Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory

Dressing networks: towards an integrability approach to collective and complex phenomena

A large variety of real world systems can be naturally modelled by networks, i.e. graphs whose nodes represent the components of a system...

April 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...

Special Events

Grad Thesis Defense: Dualities Arising from Borcea-Voisin Threefolds

Mirror symmetry is a major conjectured duality about Calabi-Yau manifolds, which provide the extra six dimensions of string theory, stating...

Logic

$\mathfrak p=\mathfrak t$, III

This is the third and last talk in the series (reasonably self-contained for those who missed any number of previous parts). I will continue...

Colloquium Series

Counting lattice points in Thurston's asymmetric metric on Teichmuller space

Following the work of Mirzakhani and Souto-Erlandsson, we consider the mapping class group orbit of a filling geodesic current and show that...