Speaker: Dr. Xiaoping Chen (University of Washington)Venue: Room 723, Building A, SOM, Zijingang CampusAbstract: Indirect cronyism is a phenomenon in which managers show favoritism to indirect guanxihu subordinates who have informal, particular, and personal connection with a third party (e.g., another manager) and demonstrate its prevalent existence in Chinese organizations. We explore the crucial factors that may exacerbate managers to engage in indirect cronyism, and the downstream consequences on other members of the organization. We draw on the indirect reciprocity logic embedded in social exchange theory to predict two underlying motives to explain why managers engage in indirect cronyism: (a) fulfilling their felt obligation to favor the indirect guanxihu subordinate, and (b) strengthening their own guanxi with the third party. Results from three scenario-based experiments and one field study sampling a total of 1,559 working adults provide consistent support for our theoretical reasoning and hypotheses. We discuss the theoretical contributions this paper makes to advance the guanxi and cronyism literature, as well as the practical implications of our findings in Chinese organizations and beyond.Profile of the speaker: Dr. Xiaoping Chen is Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair Professor in the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. Dr. Chen is an elected Fellow at American Psychological Association and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She has served as Editor-in-Chief for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2010-2016) and is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Management and Organization Review. Professor Chen’s research interests include cooperation and competition in social dilemmas, teamwork and leadership, entrepreneur passion, Chinese guanxi, and cross-cultural communication and management.

Speaker: Prof. Ohyun Kwon (UCLA)Inviter: Dr. LI WeiVenue: C100, Building 5, Haina Court, Zijingang Campus

Speaker: Prof. ZHANG ZhifeiVenue: Room 210, Building 2, Haina Court, Zijingang Campus

Venue: Room 118, East Building 6, Zijingang Campus

Speaker: Prof. ZHANG Zhou (The University of Sydney)Venue: Room 102, Building 2, Haina Court, Zijingang CampusAbstract: In this talk, we start by describing the history of the study on this Kahler-Ricci flow, usually considered as the easy-sign version. The degenerate setting has been the main interest for the past 2 decades, following Tian’s Program which was later elaborated as Analytic Minimal Model Program in Song-Tian’s works. A board spectrum of techniques have been involved in the progress. We focus on the recent result by Wondo-Z regarding the types of infinite time singularities which is for the case of minimal manifolds), extending earlier works by Yashan Zhang and confirming a conjecture by Tosatti.

Speaker: Dr. ZHAO FangzhuHost: Prof. WANG QingqingVenue: Room 205, Composite Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang Campus

Speaker: Prof. LUO Liqun (Member of the National Academy of Sciences)Venue: atrium on the first floor of Research Building, Liangzhu Laboratory Host:Prof. HU Hailan

Speaker: Prof. Atilla Incecik (University of Strathclyde）Venue: Offline: 126, Administration Building, Zhoushan CampusOnline: Tencent Meeting 753-637-338Abstract: Growth in waterborne transportation and trade will be driven as the world population increases due to demand for food, water, energy and technological products. With massive growth in computational capacity and data storage capabilities, globally accessible networks and cloud infrastructure, availability of smart devises and smart and cheap sensors, a significant increase of digitalization and automation in all waterborne sectors is taking place. This talk will aim at presenting the expected impacts on waterborne transport of increasing population, economic growth, energy demand and supply, climate change, decarbonisation, digitalization and automation and the research in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde to address these impacts. The presentation will be concluded by emphasizing the importance of training and upskilling of naval architects, ocean and marine engineers as well as seafarers to meet the challenges summarized above.Profile of speaker: Atilla Incecik is Professor of Offshore Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. During the last sixteen years he served as the Head of Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, and Associate Principal and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. Professor Incecik’s research activities include the development of hydrodynamic design and analysis tools and model testing of marine and offshore engineering systems, including marine renewable energy devices. Professor Incecik was the Research Manager of Industrial Doctoral Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE) and is a Chair Professor at Zhejiang University. Professor Incecik is Editor-in-Chief of Ocean Engineering Journal. In 2019 Professor Incecik was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Chalmers University of Technology in recognition of his research on green shipping and environmental sustainability.