April 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...

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...

Special Events

Grad Thesis Defense: Dynamics on the Moduli Space of Pointed Rational Curves

The moduli space M_{0,n} parametrizes all ways of labelling n distinct points on the Riemann sphere P^1, up to change of coordinates by...

Special Events

Grad Thesis Defense: A Mirror Theorem For Symmetric Products of Projective Space

Through 3 general points and 6 general lines in P^3, there are exactly 190 twisted cubics; 190 is a Gromov-Witten invariant of P^3. I will...

Financial/Actuarial Mathematics

Largest eigenvalues of spiked random matrices and reflected Brownian motions

Spiked random matrix models arise when a matrix of interest (e.g. a sample covariance matrix) is corrupted by noise. In this context, one...

April 20th, 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...

Differential Equations

Concentration compactness for critical nonlinear wave equations

I will discuss recent large data results concerning nonlinear systems of wave equations of the so-called energy critical class, obtained...

Topology

Boundaries under Dehn filling

We investigate the relationship between the boundary of a relatively hyperbolic group and the boundary of a quotient obtained via a long...

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...

April 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...

Psychology Methods Hour: Alternatives to Regression Discontinuity

Sammy Ahmed, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Psychology, Developmental and Lauren Tighe Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Psychology; School of Social Work, University of Michigan

Sammy and Lauren will present on alternatives to regression discontinuity (RD). Sammy will present an overview of RD, its application in...

Geometry & Physics

FRG Special Lecture: Quasimaps and geometric representation theory

I define quasimaps to Nakajima varieties and discuss their relations with representation theory, DT-invariants of threefolds and other parts...

Combinatorics

Braid group symmetries of Grassmannian cluster algebras

We define an action of the k-strand braid group on the set of clusters for Gr(k,n), whenever k divides n. This action preserves the...

April 22nd, 2017

Geometry & Physics

FRG-Workshop on Quasimaps and Geometric Representation Theory

http://dept.math.lsa.umich.edu/www-personal.umich.edu/~janda/2017-quasimaps.html Speaker(s): Andrey Smirnov, Jinwon Choi, Young-Hoon Kiem

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...

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that...

April 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...

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that...

April 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...

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that...

April 25th, 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...

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that...