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DTSTAMP:20260119T102724
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Specialization\, the Division of Labor\, and Explorations in Property Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Specialization is a process where individuals\, groups\, or organizations focus on one task or area of knowledge. It drives economic development\, organizational growth\, and increases in social complexity\, capacity\, and heterogeneity. Discussions of specialization in the social sciences contain an undocumented but significant ambiguity. The term specialization is used to refer to both the division of labor\, in which tasks are divided into complementary processes or components\, and differentiation\, in which units choose tasks that are different from each other. Despite a long history in which the two types of coordination are used interchangeably under the term ‘specialization\,’ we demonstrate that the division of labor and differentiation thrive in opposite social conditions. Using computational models\, we found that variation in basic social conditions had opposite effects for the two different coordination processes: increasing social density encouraged the division of labor and inhibited differentiation and increasing the number of specializations encouraged differentiation and inhibited the division of labor. Since specialization is central to economic development\, there is value in understanding the conditions that foster it. We show that encouraging specialization requires disambiguating the two distinct types of coordination.
UID:142378-21890773@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142378
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Business,Capitalism,Career,Corporate,Discussion,Entrepreneurship,Free,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Org Studies,Org. Studies,Organizational Studies,Presentation,seminar,Sociology,Speaker,Talk
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240
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DTSTAMP:20260413T104336
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T144500
SUMMARY:Film Screening:T.REX
DESCRIPTION:With stunning CGI visuals and the latest research from leading paleontologists\, the film offers audiences a fresh perspective on the GOAT (Greatest Of All Tyrants): Tyrannosaurus rex. Anchored by the true story of the young fossil hunters who made the discovery of a lifetime when they spotted a large fossilized leg bone on a walk on public lands in North Dakota\, T. REX intercuts the remarkable fossil dig\, with cutting edge computer graphics that bring the iconic T. rex to life—from hatchling to hulking adult. Narrated by Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill\, T. REX explores the newest science that has helped reinvent our understanding of the iconic predator.
UID:136347-21892278@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136347
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Planetarium
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
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DTSTAMP:20260105T145425
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T153000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:A reflection principle for nonintersecting paths and lozenge tilings with free boundaries (Combinatorics seminar)
DESCRIPTION:Okada and Stembridge's Pfaffian formula for the enumeration of families of nonintersecting paths with fixed starting points and unfixed ending points has been widely used to resolve many challenging problems in enumerative combinatorics. In this talk\, we present a new formula that complements Okada and Stembridge's Pfaffian formula. The combinatorial interpretation of the new formula gives a reflection principle for nonintersecting paths. It implies that the enumeration of families of nonintersecting paths with unfixed ending points can be resolved by enumerating families of nonintersecting paths with fixed ending points instead. Using this formula\, we also show that the enumeration of lozenge tilings of a large family of regions with free boundaries can be deduced from those without free boundaries and present several applications of this result.
UID:139210-21885089@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139210
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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DTSTAMP:20260113T104609
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar:  Relativistic Initial Data Sets with Prescribed Asymptotics
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  In General Relativity\, Einstein's equation may be viewed as a second-order system of nonlinear PDE's for the Lorentzian metric on (n+1)-dimensional spacetime that admits an initial value formulation. The required initial data is comprised of a (usually complete) n-dimensional Riemannian manifold equipped with a symmetric (0\,2)-tensor\, respectively representing a spatially global \"instant in time\" and the \"initial velocity\" of the metric. The Gauss-Codazzi equations imply that not every such pair is admissible\, however\, and a working initial data set must satisfy certain nonlinear elliptic PDE’s dubbed the constraint equations. In this talk\, I will discuss recent work with several collaborators on the construction of working asymptotically flat initial data sets in which various asymptotic features of physical interest can be prescribed.\n\nContact:  AIM Seminar Organizers
UID:141894-21889609@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141894
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1084
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DTSTAMP:20260115T152159
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T170000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Can ‘Slavic’ Speak for Minorities? — Who Gets to Belong in Eastern Europe? - Talk 4
DESCRIPTION:In the last four decades the popularity of Balkan \"Gypsy\" music has exploded\, becoming a staple at world music festivals and dance clubs in the United States and Western Europe. At the same time\, thousands of Balkan Roma have emigrated westward due to deteriorating living conditions\, racist threats and increased violence. In this heightened atmosphere of xenophobia\, entrenched stereotypes have arisen amidst deportations and harassment. Roma\, as Europe’s largest minority and one of its quintessential “historic others\,” face the paradox that they are revered for their music yet reviled as people. This illustrated lecture will explore the challenges Balkan Roma face as well as their resilience in transnational sites.\n\nThis is a hybrid event\, please register here: https://myumi.ch/y14ew
UID:143975-21894359@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143975
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Crees,Eastern Europe,International,Music,Rackham,Slavic,Weiser Center For Europe And Eurasia
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room
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DTSTAMP:20260118T115323
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T150000
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SUMMARY:Other:Coffee Chat
DESCRIPTION:Join the U-M Student Sustainability Coalition for a casual coffee chat at Matthaei Botanical Gardens as part of the EAT! Exhibit. From 3–4:30 p.m. on January 23\, students will host an open conversation exploring themes of food access and sovereignty\, with a focus on local communities and a shared campus experience.\n\nThe group will also share how and why they roast coffee as a way to bring people together\, using food and drink as tools for connection\, dialogue\, and community building.  Free and open to all.
UID:144086-21894636@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144086
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Sustainability
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens - Conservatory
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DTSTAMP:20260112T165447
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | CFT Data\, QFT RG Flows\, and the Fuzzy Sphere
DESCRIPTION:The CFT data -- scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients -- of high dimension operators contains valuable information about the theory and its deformations\, but is traditionally unobtainable outside of integrable models. We will review how the fuzzy sphere regulator allows numeric access to much of this data in the 3d Ising model\, and show how to exploit the emergent conformal generators of the theory to significantly improve it.  We discuss some of the applications of this data\, including tests of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis and the spectrum of masses of the QFTs in the vicinity of the critical point.
UID:143130-21892186@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143130
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Physics,Science,Seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20260413T104859
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T154500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight
DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you.
UID:141325-21892206@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
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