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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Reform as Process: Implementing Change in Public Bureaucracies Book Launch: Professor Martin J. Williams
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Martin J. Williams's Reform as Process\, an in-depth study of civil service reform scross six African countries. \nBuilding an effective civil service is crucial for public service delivery and good governance\, but reforming bureaucratic institutions is notoriously difficult. This book takes a fresh perspective on this challenge by documenting and analyzing the implementation of more than one hundred reforms initiated by six African countries over the last thirty years.\nMartin J. Williams shows that these efforts largely fell short of their goals because they typically approached organizational change as a matter of changing formal structures and processes through one-off projects. Some did yield positive changes\, however\, when they were able to create opportunities for civil servants to discuss performance and how to improve it. Drawing on this evidence\, Williams develops a new theory of how systemic reforms can lead to meaningful change—not by trying to force it through top-down interventions but by catalyzing an ongoing and decentralized process of continuous improvement.\nReform as Process makes theoretical and empirical contributions to research on organizational performance\, civil service reform\, and public service delivery\, and it shares practical insights and strategies to help reformers around the world achieve meaningful change in their organizations.About the AuthorMartin J. Williams is associate professor of organizational studies and (by courtesy) political science and public policy at the University of Michigan\, as well as associate faculty at the Blavatnik School of Government\, University of Oxford.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143761
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Weiser Hall 500 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109 10th Floor
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student AIM Seminar: Quasi-steady modeling predicts the dynamics of free-falling and flapping plates
DESCRIPTION:The flight of a thin wing or plate is an archetypal problem in flow-structure interactions at intermediate Reynolds numbers. Free-falling plates display an impressive variety of steady and unsteady motions that are familiar from fluttering leaves\, tumbling seeds and gliding paper planes\, while flapping wings or foils are emblematic of bird flight and fish swimming. This talk will show that the key behaviors of both passive and flapping flight may be captured by a quasi-steady nonlinear aerodynamic model that predicts forces from plate kinematics without needing to solve for the flows. Regarding passive flight\, we show that this nonlinear model successfully reproduces previously documented unsteady states such as fluttering and tumbling while also predicting new types of motions\, and a linear analysis accurately accounts for the stability of steady states such as gliding and diving. Regarding flapping flight\, simulations reproduce the well-known transition for increasing Reynolds number from a stationary state to a propulsive state\, where the latter is characterized by a Strouhal number that is conserved across broad ranges of parameters. These findings extend the phenomena of unsteady locomotion that can be explained by quasi-steady modeling\, and they broaden the conditions and parameter ranges over which such models are applicable.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143955
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Applied Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3088
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