Academia Sinica E-news No. 345 LECTURES Date Time Venue Speaker Title Moderator Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Thu Auditorium 122 14:00 12/26 CITI Building Dr. Hung-Yu Wei (National Taiwan Univ.) Spatially and Temporally Resolved Room 1203 of the Astronomy14:20 Mathematics 12/27 Building Fri Bio-inspired Device-toDevice Dr. Yu Tsao Communications Dr. Rosie Chen (Max-Planck-Inst.) Star Formation Relation and Pattern in HII Regions in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds (NTU Campus) Mon Auditorium 122 10:30 12/30 CITI Building Dr. Yong Rui Knowledge Mining and Dr. Yen-Yu Lin (Microsoft Research Semantic Search Asia) Seminar Room Mon 617, Inst. of 16:00 12/30 Mathematics (NTU Campus) Dr. Ching-Hao Chang Introduction to J(Univ. of Minnesota, Holomorphic Curves USA) Seminar Room Tue 617, Inst. of 13:30 Mathematics 12/31 (NTU Campus) The Brauer-ManinScharaschkin Obstruction to Dr. Chia-Liang Sun Existence of Rational (Inst. of Points on Subvarieties Mathematics) of Semi-Abelian Varieties over Global Fields Tue Dr. Tony Anthony Zee Auditorium 1F, 14:00 12/31 Inst. of Physics (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) 1 Exact, Broken, and Approximate Symmetries Dr. Chi-Yee Cheung Academia Sinica E-news No. 345 Date Time Venue Speaker Title Moderator Auditorium 106, Thu 14:00 New Inst. of Information 01/02 Science Building Molecular Responses Dr. Lee-Wei Yang to Ligand Perturbations (National Tsing Hua can be Described by Linear Response Univ.) Theories Auditorium 106, Thu New Inst. of 15:30 Information 01/02 Science Building Economic Mechanisms Dr. Benjamin C. Lee for Managing Risk in Dr. Yuan-Hao Chang (Duke Univ., USA) Heterogeneous Data Centers Seminar Room 617, Inst. of Tue 13:30 Mathematics 01/07 (NTU Campus) Dr. Huei-Jeng Chen Diophantine Approximation in Finite (Inst. of Characteristic Mathematics) Seminar Room Wen 617, Inst. of 16:00 Mathematics 01/08 (NTU Campus) Dr. Goong Chen (Texas A&M Univ., USA) Mathematical and Computational Study of Wind Energy Division of Life Sciences B1B Lecture Fri Room, Inst. of 15:00 Biomedical 12/27 Sciences B208 Conference Fri 12/27 15:00 Dr. Robert S. Eisenberg (Rush Univ. Medical Center) Selectivity is a Consequence of Simple Dr. Ru-Chi Physical Forces in Shieh Some Important Channels Dr. Yung-I Lee Room, (National Interdisciplinary Museum of Research Building Nature Science) Beautiful Orchids from Tiny Seeds B1B Lecture Mon Room, Inst. of 11:00 12/30 Biomedical Sciences Dr. Hwai-Jong Cheng Visual Circuit (UC Davis School Refinement of Medicine) 1F Auditorium, Mon 11:00 Inst. of Molecular 12/30 Biology Dr. Jen Liou (UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2 Dr. Ching-I Peng Dr. Hsiu-Ming Shih Regulation and Dr. Cheng-Ting Functions of ER-plasma Chien Membrane Junctions Academia Sinica E-news No. 345 Date Time Venue Speaker Title Moderator USA) Modulation of ATPB1B Lecture Mon 01/06 Tue 11:00 Room, Inst. of Biomedical Sciences 1F Auditorium, 11:00 Inst. of Molecular 01/07 Biology Sensitive Potassium Channels by (UC Davis School Intracellular Signaling: of Medicine) Implications in Health and Disease Dr. Yu-Fung Lin Dr. Hans D. Dr. Chun-Kuei Su Habitat Defining Genes VanEtten on the Supernumerary (Univ. of Arizona, Chromosomes of Nectria hamatococca USA) Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Room 802, 8F, Fri 14:30 Inst. of Sociology 12/27 Dr. Thung-Hong Unequal Expansion and Crises of Higher Lin Dr. HorngEducation in Taiwan: (Inst. of Sociolog) Luen Wang Some Empirical Findings 2nd Conference Tue 12/31 Tue Room, Institutum Iurisprudentiae Dr. Tzung-Mou Wu 10:00 (9F, North Building (Institutum for Humanities and Iurisprudentiae) Social Science) Conference Room Dr. Yu-Chin Chen 14:00 B110, Building B, (Univ. of 12/31 Inst. of Economics Washington) Tue Conference Room A Legal Historical Study of the Institution of Succession by Necessity What Makes a Commodity Currency? Dr. Juin-Jen Chang Career Concerns, Beijing Style Dr. ChunHsien Yeh Dr. Jiahua Che (The Chinese 15:10 B110, Building B, 12/31 Univ. of Hong Inst. of Economics Kong) 3 Academia Sinica E-news No. 345 Date Time Venue Speaker Conference Room Dr. Yu-Shan Wu Thu B, Inst. of Political 14:00 (Inst. of Political Science 01/02 Science) (5F, N. BHSS) Conference Room Mon 01/06 14:00 B, Inst. of Political Science (5F, N. BHSS) Dr. Andrew Kydd Title Strategic Triangle under Power Transition and Rebalancing: How Long Can Taipei Continue Playing Pivot? International Relations in the Pages of (Univ. of "International Wisconsin, USA) Organization" 4 Moderator