Academia Sinica E-news No. 51 LECTURES Date Time Venue Speaker Title Moderator Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Thu 1/17 Prof. Michael S Room 716 of the Physics Bessell 14:00 Dept. Building, National Australian National Taiwan Univ. Univ., Australia Mon 1/21 Room 332, 3F, Inst. of 14:00 Physic Wed 1/23 Dr. Guenter Engling Auditorium, Research Post-doc Fellow, 14:00 Center for Environmental Research Center for Changes (11F, S. BHSS) Environmental Changes The SkyMapper Telescope and Dr. Sheng-Yuan Liu the Southern Sky Survey Dr. Hsiao-Hua Yu Inst. of Bioengineering, Singapore Nanomaterials for Molecular and Biological Sensing Dr. Jing-Jong Shyue Effect of Biomass Burning on Air Quality in Taiwan-Local Dr. Ya-Ju Hsu versus Regional Source 16:00 Prof. Chengbo Zhu Conference Room, Inst. of National Univ. of Mathematics Singapore 14:00 Auditorium, 3F, Inst. of Earth Sciences 15:30 Prof. Hong-Cheu Lin Applications of Supramolecular Conference Room A108, National Chao Tung Interactions in Electro-Optical Dr. Jiann-T'suen Lin Inst. of Chemistry Materials / Univ. Thu 1/24 Some Aspects of Unitary Representations of Classical Groups Prof. Kai-Chien Cheng National Chung Cheng Univ. Applications of GPS Water Level Measurement Dr. Ya-Ju Hsu Division of Life Sciences Thu 1/17 Tue 1/22 Thu 1/24 Conference Room 244, 15:00 Inst. of Biomedical Sciences Dr. Ling-Ping Lai NTU Hospital Hereditary Ion Channel Diseases in Taiwan Auditorium, 1F, Inst. of 10:00 Molecular Biology Dr. Danny Huang St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis, USA Structural Insights into the E1-E2 Molecular Relay from a Dr. Chwan-Deng Hsiao Ubiquitin-like Protein Conjugation Cascade Dr. Yi-Sheng Wang Auditorium, 1F, GenomicsAssistant Research 15:30 Research Center Fellow, Genomics Research Center From Neutrals to Ions—the First Step in Mass Analyses Auditorium, 1F, GenomicsProf. Leland Chung 16:00 Research Center Emory Univ., USA Reciprocal Tumor-Host Interaction Offers New Opportunities for Cancer Detection and Targeting Dr. Ru-Chi Shieh Director Chung-Hsuan Chen Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Thu 1/17 Assistant Research Conference Room B, Inst. Fellow Szu-Chien of Political Science Hsu (Preparatory Office) (5F, Inst. of Political N. BHSS) Science (Preparatory Office) 14:00 Focus Group Room of CSR, RCHSS Will “Intra-Party Democracy” Democratize China: The Case Commentator: of Direct Election Experiment Prof. Chien-Min Chao for Township Party Secretary Dr. Tzai-Hung Wen Postdoctoal Fellow, Research Center for Humanitiers and Social Sciences Spatial Epidemiology- New Perspectives from Medical Geography 1 Dr. Meng-Li Yang Academia Sinica E-news No. 51 Date Time Venue Speaker Title Fri 1/18 Prof. Chao-Ju Chen Gender Differences and Legal National Taiwan Univ. Room 802, Inst. of Consciousness of Inequality: 14:30 Sociology ( 8F, S. BHSS) Dr. Chin-fen Chang The Case of Workplace Researcxh Fellow, Discrimination Inst. of Sociology Mon 1/21 Conference Room, 5F, 10:00 Museum of Inst. of History and Philology Tue 1/22 Mr. Chin-Yung Chao The relationships between Research Assistant, defensive settlement patterns in Inst. of History and East Timor and El Niño Philology Corporate Social Conference Room B110, Prof. Chung-Hua Responsibility: More Pain than 13:30 1F, Building B, Inst. of Shen Gain?The Application of Economics National Taiwan Univ. Matching Theory Conference Room, 1F, 14:30 Inst. of European and American Studies Thu 1/24 Moderator Prof. Birgit Daewes Uni. of Würzburg, Germany Remembering 9/11 in Literature and Film: Transnational Director Yu-Cheng Lee Approaches to Ground Zero Dr. Chuan-Hsien Conference Room B, Inst. Chang of Political Science Assistant Research 14:00 (Preparatory Office) (5F, Fellow, Inst. of N. BHSS) Political Science (Preparatory Office) Politics of Defection: Reinvestigating the Influence of Electoral Systems over Party Switching 2