Academia Sinica E-news No. 178 LECTURES Date Time Venue Speaker Title Moderator Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences 15:00 Eigenvalue Problems Auditorium, Inst. of Dr. Futoshi Takahashi Related to the Critical Mathematics (National Sobolev Exponent: (Osaka City Univ.) Taiwan Univ. Campus) Variable Coefficient Case 16:10 Auditorium, Inst. of Dr. Luigi Accardi Mathematics (National (Universita di Roma Taiwan Univ. Campus) Tor Vergata, Italy) 10:30 Dr. 2F, Conference Room, Dr. Ya-Lin Lee Enzyme Substrate Inst. of History and Specificity and Reaction in Jung-Hsin (Council of Agriculture) Non-typical Environments Philology Lin 14:00 Dr. Chi-Jen Lu Auditorium, Inst. of Mathematics (National (Inst. of Information Taiwan Univ. Campus) Science) 10:30 Dr. Kwan-Liu Ma 2F, Lecture Hall, Tsai Visual Analysis of (Univ. of Yuan-Pei Memorial Hall Networks California-Davis, USA) 10:30 Nanomechanics and 703 Conference Room, Dr. Isaac Kuo-Kang Liu Nanomanipulation of Soft Dr. Inst. of History and (Univ. of Warwick, Biological Materials for Ji-Yen Tissue Engineering Philology Coventry, UK) Cheng Applications 14:00 Simulation of Seasonal Room 1101, 11F, S, Dr. Cheng-Ta Chen Northwest Pacific Typhoon Building for Humanities (Taiwan Normal Univ.) Activity with a Regional and Social Science Climate Model 14:00 Room 1203 of the Dr. Patrice Theule Astronomy-Mathematics (Univ. of Provence, Building (National Marseille, France) Taiwan Univ.) Thu 08/05 Fri 08/06 Mon 08/09 Tue 08/10 Wed 08/11 Fri 08/20 Nonlinear Weyl Relations and the Quadratic Fock Functor The Power of Randomness in Computation Dr. Wei-Chung Liu The Thermal Chemical Reactions in Interstellar Ices Division of Life Sciences Fri 08/06 Mon 08/09 11:00 Dr. Pao-Tien Chuang Mammalian Lung 1F, Auditorium, Inst. of (Univ. of California San Development and Lung Molecular Biology Francisco, USA) Cancer Dr. Bon-chu Chung 16:00 Auditorium A134, Dr. Allan SY Lau Agricultural Technology (Univ. of Hong Kong, Building China) 1) HIV-1 in AIDS Pathogenesis: Its Effects on Cytokine Dysregulation and Contributions to the Dr. Pathogenesis of Ning-Sun Opportunistic Infection, 2) Yang Molecular Chinese Medicine Research Program at HKU 10:30 1F, Auditorium, Biodiversity Research Center What Australian Animals Can Do for Genomics; What Genomics Can Do for Australian Animals Dr. Wen-Hsiung Li 11:00 1F, Auditorium, Inst. of Dr. Tony Hung Molecular Biology (Harvard Univ., USA) Enabling Biological Applications for Droplet Microfluidics Dr. Ting-Fang Wang Tue 08/10 Dr. Jenny Graves (Australian National Univ.) 1 Academia Sinica E-news No. 178 Date Time Speaker Title 10:00 Two-Hour Workshop: How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper 11:00 1F, Auditorium, Inst. of Dr. Tian Xu Molecular Biology (Yale Univ., USA) Developing Novel Genetic Dr. Approaches for Deciphering Biology and Bon-chu Chung Disease 10:00 Inst. of Biological Chemistry Room 102 BCF M101 Training Course: Introduction of Dr. Nano-DSC III (Differential Chris Jao Scanning Calorimeter) 11:00 Dr. Pumin Zhang 1F, Auditorium, Inst. of (Baylor College of Molecular Biology Medicine) Aneuploidy and Tumorigenesis 11:00 Room A134, Agricultural Dr. Jeffery Q. Shen Technology Building, (Univ. of Nevada, Institute of Plant and USA) Microbial Biology WRKY Transcription Factors: Their Role in Plant Responses to the Environment 16:00 Dr. Shu-Hsia Chen Conference RM A133, Myeloid Derived Dr. Agricultural Technology (Mount Sinai School of Suppressor Cells Mediated Wen-Chin Medicine, New York, Immune Switching Building Yang USA) 10:00 Inst. of Biological Chemistry Room 114 10:00 In Vitro Conservation and Conference RM A133, Genetic Fidelity of Dr. Dr. Ravishankar Rai Agricultural Technology Micropropagated Ming-Tsair (Univ. of Mysore, India) Medicinal Plants of Building Chan Western Ghats of India 11:00 B1B Lecture Room, Inst. of Biomedical Sciences Thu 08/12 Mon 08/16 Thu 08/19 Ms. Whitney Lin (TA Instruments) Mr. Forest Lee (GE Healthcare) Dr. Chou-Zen Giam (USU School of Medicine) BCF M102 Training Course: Introduction of Biacore T100 (Surface Plasmon Resonance) 14:00 Fri 08/06 14:30 Tue 08/10 Focus Group Room of the Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences Dr. Ruoh-rong Yu (Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences) Conference Room B110, Building B, Inst. of Economics Inference and Decision for Dr. Toru Kitagawa Set Identified Parameters (Univ. College London, Using the Posterior Lower UK) and Upper Probabilities Interviewers' Traits and Survey Outcomes: Evidence from Panel Study of Family Dynamics Conference Room Dr. John C. Chao C103, Building C, Inst. (Univ. of Maryland, of Economics US) Instrumental Variable Estimation with Heteroskedasticity and Many Instruments Conference Room B110, Building B, Inst. of Economics Increasing Returns and News-Driven Business Cycles Dr. Jang-Ting Guo (UC Riverside, USA) 2 Dr. Bon-chu Chung Dr. Chris Jao Too Much of a Good Thing: IKK/NF-kappa B Activation Dr. by the HTLV-1 Tax Hsiu-Ming Oncoprotein and Cellular Shih Senescence. Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Thu 08/05 Moderator Room A134, Agricultural Dr. Jeffery Q. Shen Technology Building, (Univ. of Nevada, Institute of Plant and USA) Microbial Biology Wed 08/11 Tue 08/17 Venue Academia Sinica E-news No. 178 Date Thu 08/12 Time Venue Speaker Dr.Huang Xueleii The Archives Building, (Inst. of Modern Inst. of Modern History History) 3 Title Imag(in)ing the Isms: Towards a Sociological Look at the Mingxing (Star) Motion Picture Company, 1922-1938 Moderator