Math during the Pandemic

Here is a resource for folks missing seminar life: Catalog of Virtual Seminars The pandemic has produced an environment where  you can see seminar talks essentially anywhere in the world! You can search by topic, speaker name, place, etc. But never forget the wise words of a productive mathematician: Don’t let the talks interfere with a good…

Professor Sasha Barvinok to speak in Junior Colloquium Friday

Please join us for the first Junior Colloquium of the Semester. Tomorrow the “Research at Michigan” series continues with Professor Sasha Barvinok telling us about his research into The mathematics of computational complexity. Room 3088 from 4 to 5pm. Everyone is welcome, but all math graduate students are especially encouraged to learn about what kind of…

Research at Michigan TODAY in junior colloquium

Don’t miss Junior Colloquium TODAY, Friday November 1 at 4 pm, EH 3088. Today’s event features Professor Ralf Spatzier telling us about his work on Rigidity in Geometry and Dynamics in our “Research at Michigan” series. All graduate students, post-docs and faculty are encouraged to attend, but the series is specifically aimed at beginning PhD…

Two Math Conferences this weekend in Ann Arbor!

So much research activity! Come check out the two conferences being held in our department this weekend October 18, 19, 20! Both run mostly Saturday, although some special talks for students will run Friday in the “Facets of Algebraic Geometry” conference. Click links for details. Midwest Homotopy Type Theory (opening talk:  current UM PhD student…

Research at Michigan Series

Don’t miss Junior Colloquium TODAY, Friday Oct 4 at 4 pm, EH 3088, for our first talk of the year  in the “Research at Michigan” series. Professor Peter Miller will tell us about his work on Solitons, Integrable Systems, and Asymptotics. The Research at Michigan series features Michigan faculty speaking about their mathematical research. The talks…