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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tales of the Maya Skies
DESCRIPTION:Tales of the Maya Skies immerses viewers in the wonders of Maya science\, cosmology and myth. This beautifully illustrated story takes us back in time to the jungles of Mexico to discover how Maya scholars developed a sophisticated understanding of astronomy\, architecture\, and mathematics that enabled them to predict solstices\, solar eclipses\, weather patterns and planetary movements.
UID:124089-21883250@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124089
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Space,Science,natural history museum,Museum
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
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DTSTAMP:20251007T075335
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T143000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Strategic Learning with Asymmetric Rationality
DESCRIPTION:This paper analyzes the dynamic interaction between a fully rational\, privately informed sender and a boundedly rational\, uninformed receiver with memory constraints. The receiver designs an information-processing and decision-making protocol\, modeled as a finite-state machine\, that governs how information is interpreted\, how internal memory states evolve\, and when and what decisions are made. We characterize optimal protocols that balance learning with robustness to strategic manipulation and quantify the extent of both learning and manipulation through payoff bounds for each party. A simple class of protocols disciplines the sender and gives rise to behavioral patterns such as opinion polarization and decision avoidance. The model offers an expressive framework for strategic learning and decision-making under asymmetric rationality\, with applications to regulatory review and media distrust.
UID:138485-21883145@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138485
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Theory,seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
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DTSTAMP:20251025T123214
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T150000
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:10.10.25 Amazon warehouse  Information Session: Application Process & Best practices
DESCRIPTION:DescriptionJoin us for an informative conversation about entry-level hourly warehouse roles at Amazon. Learn about our workplace culture\, available positions\, and the many opportunities for career growth within our organization.Date: Friday October10th 2025 Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PST What to Expect: • Learn about warehouse opportunities and comprehensive benefits • Get guidance on the application process • Understand day-to-day operations • Participate in a live Q&amp\;A session   Featured Discussion: • Overview of warehouse roles and responsibilities • Work-life balance and scheduling options • Career growth opportunities Joinus to: • Learn about Amazon Profile Creation • Understand the application process • Best time and Days to apply Save your spot to hear from our team at this online event. Signup today! Ready to apply\, go to https://amazon.com/flexiblejobs   
UID:140357-21886978@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140357
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DTSTAMP:20251002T165157
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar:  Dispersive behaviour of quasilinear hyperbolic waves on periodic backgrounds
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Waves propagating in media with periodic structures have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. These media show interesting macroscopic properties\, which may be quite different from those of the individual materials constituting the stratified system. More recently\, waves on fluids and gases with an underlying periodic structure have been studied.  These waves present a peculiar\, somehow unexpected\, behaviour. For example\, there is evidence that in spite of the fact that the waves are governed by a genuinely quasi-linear hyperbolic system\, they do not break into a shock.  Here we present several systems in which hyperbolic waves show a dispersive behaviour\, and deduce approximate effective equations which explain the peculiar phenomena.  In all cases\, the effective equations are obtained by asymptotic expansion of the solution in a small parameter representing the ratio between the period of the structure and a typical wavelength.\n\nWe start by considering 1D shallow water system with periodic bathymetry. The detailed numerical solutions of the system are compared with the ones satisfied by the effective equations at various orders in the small parameter. Traveling wave solutions of the dispersive models are also computed and compared with the traveling waves emerging from the shallow water system.  As a second example we consider 2D shallow water\, with waves propagating in the x-direction\, while the bathymetry is periodic in the y-direction.  The last example concerns the Euler equations in gas dynamics. The stationary background is a state with constant pressure\, zero velocity\, and a periodic variation in the density.  Open problems and related work in progress will be mentioned.  \n\nContact:  Peter Miller
UID:135810-21877293@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135810
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1084
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DTSTAMP:20250828T123027
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Department of Anthropology presents its fall 2025 Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series\, “Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism\,” with Assistant Professor Alyssa Paredes:\n\n“Existential crises hang over the producers of the world’s food. Many of these challenges are self-inflicted. In the banana-growing regions of the Southern Philippines\, which produce fruit for export to Japanese markets\, plantations unleash pesticide drift\, food waste\, water effluent\, and fungal pathogens into the surroundings. The plantocratic elite systematically shirks responsibility for these excesses\, using legal contracts\, scientific conventions\, and standards of trade to frame them as “external” to their supply chains. However\, plantation management is regularly proven wrong in its assumption that the things they try to push downstream will not double back to haunt them. Everyday actors on the plantations’ peripheries transform the devices designed to work against them into openings for intervention. Their efforts implore critical scholars of the environment and of global economies to take seriously the possibility that Big Ag’s increasingly frequent failures to reproduce itself are more than just minor inconveniences to business-as-usual. In this series of lectures\, I trace the afterlives of the externalities that commodity production obscures\, disguises\, or otherwise erases from its ambit of accountability. In so doing\, I offer an ethnographic model for turning the commodity studies model\, inherited from generations of anthropologists\, inside-out.”\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in 411 West Hall. They are free and open to the public. \n\nFriday\, Sept. 12\nElses and Externalities: The Un/Making of Plantation Capitalism \n\nFriday\, Oct. 10\nRejects: Food Cosmetic Standards and the Geopolitics of Waste\n\nFriday\, Nov. 14\nEffluent: Living Downstream of Yourself on the Mindanao River\n\nFriday\, Dec. 5\nForce Majeure: The See-Through Plantation\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155\n\nIf you need accommodations in order to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.\n\nABOUT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ALYSSA PAREDES\nAlyssa Paredes is an environmental and economic anthropologist with research interests at the intersection of industrial agriculture\, transnational supply chains\, and social mobilization between the Southern Philippines and Japan. Her book manuscript\, tentatively titled “Bananapocalypse: An Ethnography of the Commodity for the 21st Century\,” is under contract with the University of California Press. Additionally\, her work appears in journals in anthropology\, history\, geography\, food studies\, and Asian studies. She is also co-editor of “Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments Behind Filipino Food” (University of Hawaii Press 2025). She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University.
UID:135598-21876979@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135598
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,History,Southeast Asia,AEM Featured,Anthropology,Archaeology,Ecology
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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