LECTURES Date Time Venue Speaker Title Moderator Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Seminar Room Thu 617, Inst. of 11:00 Mathematics 02/13 (NTU Campus) Introduction to Soliton Dr. Tetsu Mizumachi Solutions and Stability (Kyushu Univ., Theory of KdV Solitons Japan) and KP-II line Solitons Auditorium 122, Research Center Thu 14:00 for Information 02/13 Technology Innovation Prof. Hao-Chuan Wang (National Tsing Hua Univ.) Seminar Room Fri 617, Inst. of 10:00 Mathematics 02/14 (NTU Campus) Linear Stability of 1-line Solitons of KP-II; Dr. Tetsu Mizumachi Derivation of the (Kyushu Univ., Modulation Equations Japan) of the Local Amplitude and the Local Phase Shift of Line Solitons Seminar Room Mon 722, Inst. of 10:00 Mathematics 02/17 (NTU Campus) Dr. Li-Chang Hung (National Taiwan Univ.) Seminar Room Mon 617, Inst. of 10:00 Mathematics 02/17 (NTU Campus) Behavior of Solutions of the Modulation Dr. Tetsu Mizumachi Equations ; Estimates (Kyushu Univ., for the Remainder Part Japan) (Pego-Weinstein's method in conjunction with a virial identity) On Grounding Human Communication with Human-Computer Interaction Designs Dr. Wen-Huang Cheng Entropy Dissipation Method for Partial Differential Equations Room 202, Astro- Prof. Iku Nakamura Mon Hesse Cubics and GIT14:00 Math. Building (Hokkaido Univ., stability 02/17 (NTU Campus) Japan) First Meeting Tue 14:00 Room, 5th Floor, 02/18 Inst. of Physics Dr. Norden E. Huang (National Central Univ.) What is Frequency? Dr. Chia-fu Chou Dr. Danny HungA108 Conference Chieh Chou Chemical Biological Tue Dr. Rong-Jie 15:30 Room, Inst. of (Massachusetts Approaches in Tackling Chein 02/18 Chemistry , AS Inst. of Technology, Diabetes USA) 1 Date Time Venue Auditorium 106, Wes new Inst. of 10:00 Information 02/19 Science Building Speaker Prof. William Dall (Stanford Univ., USA) Prof. Yun-Wei A108 Conference Chiang Thu 15:30 Room, Inst. of 02/20 (National Tsing Hua Chemistry , AS Univ.) Title Moderator Efficiency and Parallelism: The Challenges of Future Computing Dr. Jan-Jan Wu Dynamical Transition and Conformationspecific Pathways of BAX Protein By Spinlabel ESR Dr. Der-Lii Tzou Room 202, Astro- Prof. Shih-Hsien Yu Wave Motion around Mon 14:00 Math. Building (National University Shock and Boundary 02/24 (NTU Campus) of Singapore) Layers Conference Room 1101,Research Wed 14:00 Center for 02/26 Environmental Changes R1203 Lecture Wed 14:20 Room of ASIAA 02/26 (NTU Campus) Simulations of Tornadoes, Tropical Dr. Shian-Jiann Lin Cyclones, MJOs, and (Geophysical Fluid QBOs, Using GFDL's Dynamics Multi-scale Global Laboratory, USA) Climate Modeling System Dr. Eswaraiah Chakali (National Central Univ.) Optical and NIRpolarimetry: A Key Tool to Understand Dust Grain Properties and the Importance of Magnetic Fields in Star-formation South Building for Dr. Frank Jui-Lin Li Thu Humanities and (Jet Propulsion 14:00 Social Sciences 02/27 Laboratory, USA) Building Tropical Pacific Radiative Biases and their Impacts on SSTs, Upper Ocean Currents, and Temperatures in Global Coupled Climate GCMs Prof. Kung-Chien Wu Thu Lecture Hall, Inst. 15:00 (National of Mathematics 02/27 Kaohsiung Normal Univ.) Pointwise Behavior of the Linearized Boltzmann Equation on Torus Division of Life Sciences Room A134, Inst. Thu 15:00 of Plant and 02/13 Microbial Biology Dr. Tomonao Matsushita (Kyushu Univ., 2 Phytochrome controls alternative splicing in Arabidopsis Dr. Shu-Hsing Wu Date Time Venue Speaker Title Moderator Japan) Dr. Motoyuki Auditorium, 1F, Mon Hattori 11:00 Inst. of Molecular 02/17 (The Univ. of Biology Tokyo, USA) X-ray Structure and Mechanism of an ATPactivated P2X Receptor Room A134, Inst. Wed 15:00 of Plant and 02/19 Microbial Biology Dr. Greg P. Copenhaver (The Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA ) Topic 1: Visualizing the Landscape of Meiotic Recombination in Dr. Chung-Ju Arabidopsis Topic 2: A Rachel Wang Primer on Open Access Publishing with PLOS Genetics Room A134, Inst. Fri 11:00 of Plant and 02/21 Microbial Biology Dr. Chao-Wen Wang ( Inst. of Plant and Microbial Biology) The Size Control of Lipid Droplets B1B Lecture Mon Room, Inst. of 11:00 Biomedical 02/24 Sciences Dr. Andrew T.A. Cheng (Inst. of Biomedical Sciences ) From Phenotype to Genotype: The Identification of GADL1 to Predict Response to Lithium Treatment in Bipolar I Disorder Auditorium, 1F, Tue 11:00 Inst. of Molecular 02/25 Biology Dr. Yen-Ping Hsueh (Duke Univ., USA) Interactions Between Nematodes and Nematode-trapping Fungi—A Fatal Attraction B1B Lecture Tue Room, Inst. of 11:00 Biomedical 02/25 Sciences Prof. Min-Chuan Huang (National Taiwan Univ.) Functional Roles of GalNAc-type O-glycosylation in Cancer Division of Humanities and Social Sciences 2nd Conference Tue 10:00 Room, Institutum 02/18 Iurisprudentiae Dr. Kuan-Hsi Wang (Zhejiang Univ., China) 3 The Relationship between the “Lun - Jen Human Relations” and the Chinese Legal Culture --Psychoculturology Perspective Dr. Ling-Hui Li Dr. Reiji Kannagi Date Time Venue Speaker Title Conference Room Prof. Ming Li Tue 14:30 B110, Inst. of (Concordia Univ., Persuasive Signalling 02/18 Economics Canada) Room B202, Thu Research Center 12:00 for Humanities and 02/20 Social Sciences Dr. Nu-Anh Tran (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA) Contested Identities: Nationalism and Anticommunism in the Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1960 Moderator Dr. Meng-Yu Liang Dr. Wen-Chin Chang The Incentives of Conference Room Dr. Chuan-Hsien Thu Electoral Participation in Chang (Inst. of 14:00 B, Inst. of Less Democratic 02/20 Political Science Political Science) Countries Fri Room 802, 8F, 14:30 Inst. of Sociology 02/21 Prof. ChungShiang Kuang (National Chung Cheng Univ.) Historical Conditions and Predicaments of Alternative Media Development 2nd Conference Tue 10:00 Room, Institutum 02/25 Iurisprudentiae Dr. Hui-Chieh Su (Inst. of European and American Studies) Content-Neutrality of the State: Perspective of the European Court of Human Rights 4 Dr. HorngLuen Wang