The structure of a Ginzburg-Landau (GL) model originally introduced to model superconductivity can be extended to describe a variety of other physical phenomena that involve ordered systems. The GL theory is particularly useful for understanding the behavior of structural defects - the regions of disorder that appear, e.g., for topological reaso...
Creator:
Golovaty, Dmitry (University of Akron)
Created:
2012-09-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Italo-Canadian dancer and choreographer Gioconda Barbuto is the 2015 McKnight International Artist. A dancer of explosive wit, subtle intelligence, and a fine sense of theatricality, Gioconda has distinguished herself throughout her career in an impressive number of works. She danced with the Minnesota Dance Theatre before becoming a soloist wit...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Barbuto, Gioconda
Created:
2015-11-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Giota Salpeas was born in 1997 in Baltimore, Maryland. Both of her parents families are from Greece. Growing up in a Greek community has shaped many aspects of Giota's life.
Creator:
Salpeas, Giota
Created:
2017-10-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Quincy, Massachusetts, Vesa (women's) gymnasts at Holmes Park, Westminster, Massachusetts, n.d. (On back of original: "Aili Bjornholm, Elsi Niemi, Helmi Heikkinen at Holmes Park, Quincy, Massachusetts)
Created:
1931?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Quincy, Massachusetts, Vesa (women's) gymnasts at Holmes Park, Westminster, Massachusetts, n.d. (On back of original: "Aune Niemi, Liisi Fager, Sirkka Ingstrom, Elsie Niemi. Liisi and Sirkka went to Soviet Union or Russia in the year 1932 with their folks. Where Elsie met Vennie at Holmes Park and the Worcester Sisu wouldn't give up so he got hi...
Created:
1931
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Girl holding a sign that reads, "Let My People Go". On January 17, 1971 a group from Beth El held a protest in connection with Jews in the Soviet Union.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Instant Identity, A Decade Later: Adolescent Girls, Digital Media, and Identity in the Instagram Age. Shayla Thiel-Stern is Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Adolescent girls used Instant Messaging ten years ago in ways that both transgressed and played into stereotypical feminine norms. Today, girls ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thiel-Stern, Shayla
Created:
2013-10-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This Letter is Filled with Muslin: Girlhood, Sociability, and Material Culture. Katie Goetz is a Ph.D. in History from the University of Minnesota. Things structured the rituals of young women. Friendships were sealed and kinship affirmed by the exchange of objects. Goetz considers the ways in which 18th and 19th century young women's social net...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Goetz, Katie
Created:
2013-10-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
