Academia Sinica E-news No. 19 LECTURES Date Time Mon 6/11 16:00 Tue 6/12 14:00 Wed 6/13 10:10 13:15 15:30 Thu 6/14 15:00 16:10 15:00 Mon 6/11 16:00 Tue 6/12 15:00 11:00 Wed 6/13 15:00 Mon 6/11 10:00 15:00 Venue Moderator Speaker Title Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Chih-Chiang Huang Variational Principles for Propagation National Taiwan Univ. Speeds Prof. Wen-Ching Lien Inst. of Mathematics National Cheng Kung Self-Similar Flows of the Piston Problem Univ. Kung-Chien Wu, Sobolev's Inequality National Chiao Tung Univ. 1F Auditorium Dr. Tsz King Prof. Kingman Cheung LHC:Hot Topics Institute of Physics Wong, Tsing Hua Univ. Prof. Inez Y. Fung The Global Driving Force: The Changing 2F Lecture Hall, U.C. Berkeley, USA Carbon Cycle Dr. George Inst. of Earth T-F Wong Prof. Thomas M. Powell Modeled Regime Shifts in the North Sciences U.C. Berkeley, USA Pacific Synthesis and Characterization of Novel A108 Conf. Rm Dr. Kuang- Prof. Sue-Lein Wang, Nanoporous Materials in Metal Inst. of Chemistry Lieh Lu National Tsing Hua Univ. Phosphates and Phoctive Cytotoxins Dr. Poe Lecture Prof. Kuo-Chu Hwang Regulation of Enzyme Activity by Hall, NTU National Tsing Hua Univ. Substrates at Active Sites Electrorheological Fluids: from Prof. Ping Sheng Mechanism to Applications Inst. of Mathematics Hong Kong Univ. of Effective Dynamic Mass Density of Science and Technology Composites Division of Life Sciences R106, Inst. of Plant Prof. Ping-Chin Cheng The Mechanism of Anther Dr. Yue-Ie and Microbial State Univ. of New York, Dehiscence-Photonic and Mechanical Hsing Biology USA Approaches Dr. Yu-Hsiang Lin Conf. Rm A207, Dr. Tzyy-Jen A Bioassay for and Analysis of Soybean Univ. of Queensland, Inst. of Chemistry Chiou Nodulation Control Signals Australia Rm106, Inst. of Dr. Tuan-hua Prof. Montserrat Pages Molecular Responses of Plants to Plant and Microbial David Ho CSIC, Spain Desiccation Biology B1B Lecture Rm., Prof. Chang-An Yu Structural and Kinetic Studies of the Dr. TaiInst. of Biomedical Oklahoma State Univ., Cytochrome bc1 Complex-the Concerted Huang Huang Sciences USA Q-Cycle Mechanism R106, Inst. of Plant Dr. Dah-Tsyr Chang Dr. ShuNovel Story of an Old Enzyme: Starch and Microbial Associate Prof. Hsing Wu Binding Domain of Rhizopus Oryzae Gluc Biology National Tsing Hua Univ. Auditorium, 1F, Dr. Stephen T. Emlen Research Chronicles of an Avian Research Center for Dr. Lucia Liu Cornell Univ., USA Behavioral Ecologist Biodiversity Division of Humanities and Social Science Dr. HenrYungli Chang, Rm 519, 5F, S. On the Structure of Adverbial Verb Associate Research Building for Constructions in Formosan Languages Fellow, Inst. of Linguistics Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. C. T. James Huang Variation and Change: Parametric Theory Inst. of Linguistics Inst. of Linguistics and the Macro-History of Chinese Syntax 1 Academia Sinica E-news No. 19 Date Time 10:00 Tue 6/12 14:30 15:00 Wed 6/13 14:30 10:00 Thu 6/14 14:00 Venue Moderator Speaker 2nd Conf. Rm., Institutum Dr.Tay-Sheng Wang, Iurisprudentiae, 9F., Research Fellow N. Building for Institutum Iurisprudentiae Humanities and Social Sciences Conf. Rm, Inst. of Dr. YuProf. David Dennis Caron European and Cheng Lee U.C. Berkeley, USA American Studies R110, Building B, Inst. of Economics Conf. Rm., Inst. of Dr. WenEuropean and Ching Ho American Studies The Archives Building, Inst. of Modern History IPSAS Conf. Rm. B, 5F., N. Building for Humanities and Social Sciences Title The Rule of Party in Republican China: From the Viewpoint of Taiwanese Legal History The United States and the UNCLOS—A Lens on the American Treaty Ratification Process An Investigation of the Monetary Policy Prof. Tai-Kuang Ho of Taiwan by Using the Sign Restrictions Univ. of Bonn, Germany Methodology Prof. John Joseph Lee New York Univ., USA Ireland: The First Globalised Society? Prof. Peter C. Perdue MIT, USA China from the Edges: Frontiers and Environments Dr. Jih-Wen Lin Associate Endogenizing Party System for the Chang Research Fellow of Electoral Institutions: The Case of SNTV Dr. Chyi-In Wu Focus Group Room Dr. Meng-Li Associate Research of CSR, RCHSS Yang Fellow, Inst. of Sociology 2 The Development of Friendship Networks within School Class in Later Adolescence: Dynamics and Processes