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DTSTAMP:20260121T122547
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Incentives and the Social Fabric of Organizations
DESCRIPTION:When do incentives work\, and when and why do they backfire? How do incentives interact with the social context of organizations in which the incentives are used? This talk presents evidence from a series of field experiments\, and it draws on relational incentives theory to reconcile seemingly divergent findings. In the first experiment\, social recognition incentives had positive and enduring effects on volunteer retention at Wikipedia. In contrast\, a second field experiment in healthcare reveals how social recognition incentives backfired\, undermining physicians’ well-being at work. A third study\, conducted in the same healthcare setting\, shows that a form of participation incentive—a co-creation initiative with physicians—enhanced physician motivation and organizational citizenship behaviors. This research program dissects the reciprocal influences of incentives and social relationships to study how they jointly shape motivation\, behavior\, and well-being\, with implications for designing more effective incentive systems.
UID:144251-21895031@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144251
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Business,Capitalism,Career,Collective Behavior,Discussion,Free,Health,Health & Wellness,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,Org Studies,Org. Studies,Organizational Studies,Presentation,Professional Development,Research,Science,seminar,Social Science,Social Sciences,Sociology,Speaker,Talk
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240
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DTSTAMP:20260130T135221
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T133000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics & The Social Sciences
DESCRIPTION:The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics & The Social Sciences (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research projects that use the comparative method to study the causes and effects of social\, political and economic processes. We specifically welcome presenters\, discussants\, and participants from other social science fields to share their work with us. We have participants from Economics\, the Ford School of Public Policy\, the Law School\, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, Mathematics\, Political Science\, the Ross School of Business\, Sociology\, Statistics\, and the Center for Emerging Democracies\, and others. In other words: All are welcome.
UID:112863-21896032@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/112863
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Department Of Political Science,Political Science
LOCATION:Haven Hall - Pre-Function Room 5769
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DTSTAMP:20260213T172214
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Frequency Fridays: 3D Modeling with Blender
DESCRIPTION:Today's topic: 3D modeling with Blender.\n\nFrequency Fridays is a weekly media workshop series\, every Friday from 2-3pm in the Design Lab PIE Space on the first floor of Shapiro. Workshops will feature instruction in music production\, video editing\, sound design\, motion graphics\, and more. All skill levels welcome.\n\nIf you have questions about Frequency Fridays\, please reach out to alvin hill\, the library's Media Production Specialist\, at munk@umich.edu.
UID:145478-21897393@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145478
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Design Lab PIE Space, 1st floor
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DTSTAMP:20260310T094648
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T144500
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:136347-21897101@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
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DTSTAMP:20260304T151939
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T153000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Frobenius Identities in Combinatorics (Combinatorics seminar)
DESCRIPTION:Several recent proofs of unimodality theorems in combinatorics rely on unexpected identities satisfied by the volume map on combinatorially defined algebras over fields of characteristic p. The proof of unimodality for the h-vector of simplicial spheres by Papadakis–Petrotou and for the h^*-vector of IDP and Gorenstein lattice polytopes by Adiprasito–Papadakis–Petrotou both fit into this framework. In this talk\, we reinterpret the volume map from the perspective of commutative algebra and explain the origin of these identities. This viewpoint yields short proofs and suggests new research directions. This is joint work with Adiprasito\, Oba\, Papadakis\, and Petrotou.
UID:142070-21889967@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142070
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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DTSTAMP:20260225T160245
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T143000
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SUMMARY:Presentation:The Origin of Metals in Galaxy Clusters - Characterizing the Early Enrichment Population
DESCRIPTION:Metals (anything heavier than Helium) are made by stars\, but when and where those stars existed in the Universe is an outstanding problem. X-ray observations show that the hot\, X-ray emitting gas surrounding galaxy clusters\, the intracluster medium (ICM)\, has a nearly universal metallicity of ZICM ≈ 0.4Z⊙. This metallicity is largely independent of stellar fraction\, M∗/Mgas\, and exceeds what is expected from present-day stellar populations under standard initial mass functions (IMFs). This discrepancy is known as the missing metal conundrum. Many theories have been posed to explain this mismatch\, but fault has been found to each when compared with observations. The primary remaining theory yet to be disproved is the existence of an Early Enrichment Population (EEP) - a predominantly high-mass stellar population at z ∼ 10 − 6 that enriched the ICM while leaving a minimal surviving population. In this dissertation\, I develop and test a quantitative framework for the EEP by combining detailed X-ray measurements\, chemical evolution models\, and constraints from supernovae and galaxy luminosity functions. I do this through a homogeneous study of 26 galaxy groups and clusters using archival XMM-Newton data\, measuring radial metallicity profiles and the deriving the relation between ZICM and M∗/Mgas. With this I show that an additional metal component\, ZEEP is required even when updated yields\, remnants\, and non closed-box behavior in groups are taken into account when deriving the contribution from the visible stellar populations\, Z∗. I then construct theoretical models for the EEP\, exploring a range of IMFs and using Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) rates to identify IMFs that reproduce both the required metal yield and present-day observables. I further constrain the low-mass end of the EEP IMF by requiring that the residual light from long-lived EEP stars not exceed the observed luminosity of dwarf elliptical galaxies that dominate the low-luminosity component of cluster luminosity functions. Together\, these results provide the first observationally anchored\, testable constraints on the EEP and its IMF\, and establish concrete predictions for high-redshift supernovae and dwarf galaxy light that can be probed with current and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope.
UID:145963-21898183@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145963
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:astronomy
LOCATION:East Hall - 4448
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DTSTAMP:20260126T144850
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar:  Sensitivity limits from the geometry of nonequilibirum response
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Many biophysical processes can be accurately modeled as a system stochastically exploring a discrete and connected network of possible states. Probability distributions over this space are not only subject to the system's intrinsic noisy dynamics\, but may also be influenced by externally imposed perturbations. While results such as the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem allow for a precise understanding of how such perturbations may affect observable quantities on the system\, these only properly function at equilibrium. Here\, we explore the case of perturbations on nonequilibrium stochastic systems and derive a new response formula based on the Matrix-Tree Theorem approach. In particular\, we derive the tightest possible linear bounds to sensitivity in arbitrary observables based on only the topology of the state network. These bounds stem from achetypical primitive models we call \"uniquely constructable sets\" that dictate the system properties under extreme conditions. As an exploratory example\, we investigate a model of a macromolecule with three ligand binding sites to showcase how the uniquely constructable sets can be used to find all possible variations that are capable of maximizing the sensitivity of the number of bound sites relative to the external ligand concentration.\n\nContact:  AIM Seminar Organizers
UID:141900-21889615@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141900
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1084
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DTSTAMP:20260306T133125
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T173000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Bike Repair Hours
DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnose bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding.\n\nEvery Wednesday from 4-6pm and Friday from 3-5:30pm in the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) SIGN UP HERE: https://tr.ee/Lp9kLnnfP9\n \nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \n\nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\n\nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer at any skill level for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu or sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QVMuOatF-toPc_ky9QIAeeD0ob-ndBGA4uUFm9EAZ0g/edit?usp=sharing
UID:146268-21898807@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146268
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Biking,Climate Change,Community Service,Cycling,Education,Environment,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,planet blue,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Fabrication Underground  (B430-Lower Level)
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