Academia Sinica E-news No. 27 LECTURES Date Time Venue Moderator Speaker Title Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Fri 8/3 14:00 Mon 8/6 10:30 Auditorium 106, New IIS Bldg. Inst. of Info. Science Prof. H.Y. Mark Liao Univ. of Washington USA IAA Conf. Rm., NTU CCMS & Physics Bldg. R716 Dr. Phan, Bao Ngoc Visiting Scholar ASIAA 2 Fl. Lounge Inst. of Statistical Science Dr. Ching-Kang Prof. Ying-Chao Hung Ing National Central Univ. Video Codec Optimization Exploiting Statistical Properties Discovery of New Nearby Late-M and L Dwarfs at Low Galactic Latitude and Future Plan to Study the Origins and Evolution of Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets Solving Fundamental Optimization Problems for Complex Queueing Systems with Shared Resources Division of Life Sciences 11:00 Mon 8/6 16:00 Tue 8/7 11:10 Wed 8/15 15:00 Prof. J. Don Chen Dr. Hsiu-Ming Univ. of Medicine and Shih Dentistry of New Jersey USA Dr. Yee-Yung Charng Associate Research Conf. Rm. A207 Fellow, Agricultural Inst. of Chemistry Biotechnology Research Center B1B Lecture Rm. Dr. Bai Chuang Prof. Koichi Iwata IBMS Shyu Nihon Univ., Japan Rm. 106 Prof. Ian D. Small Ming-Hsiun Inst. of Plant and Unive. of Western Hsieh Microbial Biology Australia B1B Lecture Rm. IBMS Nuclear Receptor Signaling and a Novel Family of Ankyrin Repeat How Do Plants Take the Heat? Molecular Genetics View A Involvement of Anterior Cingulate Neurons in Pain Perception Division of Humanities and Social Science Thu 8/2 14:00 10:00 Tue 8/7 15:00 IPSAS Conf. Rm. B, 5Fl., N. Bldg. for Humanities and Social Sciences 2nd Conf. Rm. Institutum Iurisprudentiae B110 Meeting Rm. Inst. of Economics Prof. Vinod K. Aggarwal The Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific: A U.C. Berkeley, USA U.S. Perspective Prof. Zhang Qian Fan China Peking Univ. Toward Electoral Justice: On the Standard of Judicial Review of Negative Campaign Mr. David W. Savitski Market Power Analysis for the Oil Federal Energy Regulatory Pipeline Industry Commission, USA