Academia Sinica E-news No. 207 LECTURES Date Time Venue Speaker Title Moderator Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Thu 3/10 Room 1203 of the Astronomy-Mathematics Dr. Tsz Yan Lam 14:00 Building (National (IPMU) Taiwan Univ. Campus) Thu 3/10 On the Uniqueness and Auditorium, 6F, Inst. of Structure of Solutions to the Dr. Zhi-You Chen 15:00 Mathematics (National (National Tsing Hua Univ.) Equation and System Arising Taiwan Univ. Campus) from Chern-Simons Thu 3/10 Design of Efficient Transition Dr. Kotohiro Nomura Dr. Metal Complex Catalysts for Conference Room (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Ling-Kang 15:30 Synthesis of New Polymers by A108, Inst. of Chemistry Japan) Liu Precise Olefin Polymerization Fri 3/11 Room 1203 of the Dr. Rachel Webster Astronomy-Mathematics 14:00 (Univ. of Melbourne, Building, National Australia) Taiwan Univ. The Epoch of Reionisation: the MWA Experiment Mon 3/14 R1203 of the Dr. Jinhua He Astronomy-Mathematics 12:00 (Yunnan Astronomical Building, National Observatory, PRC) Taiwan Univ. Observed Relation of Dust and Gas Around Post-AGB Stars Tue 3/15 15:30 Wed 3/16 Occurrence of Room 1101, 11F, S, Dr. Yoshimasa Yamamoto Cylindrospermopsis 14:00 Building for Humanities (Research Center for Raciborskii Blooms in a Small and Social Sciences Environmental Changes) Artificial Pond in Northern Taiwan Wed 3/16 Dr. Shigeru Nishiyama Conference Room (Keio Univ. Yokohama, 15:30 A108, Inst. of Chemistry Japan) Thu 3/17 10:30 Fri 3/25 Room 1203 of the Dr. Dan Werthimer Astronomy-Mathematics 14:00 (UC Berkeley Space Building, National Science Lab., USA) Taiwan Univ. Analytical Modelings in Large-scale Structure Dr. Bernd Ondruschka Conference Room A108, Inst. of Chemistry (Friedrich-Schiller Univ. Jena, Germany) Dr. Jeffery Long Conference Room A108, Inst. of Chemistry (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA) In Search of Alternative Dr. Solvents and/or Solvent Free Ling-Kang Working Liu Synthetic Studies of Dr. Biologically Important Organic Rong-Jie Substance Employing Chein Electroorganic Chemistry Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks Dr. Ming-Hsi Chiang Is Anybody Out There? The Search for ET with help from Eight Million Volunteers Division of Life Sciences Mon 3/14 2F, Conference Room, Dr. Pingwen Peter Chiou (Inst. of Cellular and 14:30 Inst. of Cellular and Organismic Biology Organismic Biology) Mon 3/14 Auditorium, 1F, 14:30 Genomics Research Center Dr. Jeffery Kelly (The Scripps Research Inst., USA) 1 Dr. Pattern Recognition Receptors Tao-shih in Fish Immunity Hsieh Adapting Proteostasis to Ameliorate Loss- and Gain-of-Function Misfolding Diseases Dr. Chi-Huey Wong Academia Sinica E-news No. 207 Date Time Tue 3/15 Venue Speaker Title Dr. Jason C. H. Shih R114, Inst. of Biological (North Carolina State 11:00 Chemistry Univ., USA) Discovery, Development and Commercialization of Keratinase Enzyme Moderator Dr. Ming-Daw Tsai 1F Auditorium, Inst. of 11:00 Molecular Biology Molecular Tomography Dr. Kenneth A. Taylor Visualizing Active Molecular (Florida State Univ., USA) Motors in situ using Electron Microscope Tomography Dr. Yen-Chywan Liaw Mon 3/21 B1 Auditorium, Inst. of 11:00 Molecular Biology Dr. Tom Rapoport (Harvard Univ., USA) Dr. Hsou-min Li Mon 3/21 Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Dr. Fu-Tong Liu, MD (Inst. of Biomedical 14:00 Building, Agricultural Biotechnology Sciences) Research Center Mon 3/21 Auditorium, 1F, 10:30 Genomics Research Center Wed 3/23 Room A134, Agricultural Dr. Robert L. Fischer Technology Building, (Univ. of California, 15:00 Institute of Plant and Berkeley, USA) Microbial Biology 2011 Professor Shu-Chen Dr. Grace Chen Lectureship: Regulation of Gene Imprinting Yue-Ie Hsing in Arabidopsis Endosperm Fri 3/25 Dr. De-Maw Chuang R114, Inst. of Biological (National Institutes of 11:00 Chemistry Health, USA) Molecular Actions and Dr. Therapeutic Potential of Mood Ming-Daw Stabilizers for Multiple Brain Tsai Disorders in Preclinical Studies Tue 3/15 How the ER Gets into Shape (Special Seminar) Galectins: On Regulation of Inflammation, Cancer Progression, and Adiposity The Development of Dr. Nicholas West (Centenary Inst., Australia) Genome-Wide Screening in TB Research Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Thu 3/10 Ms. Chia-chen Chou (Fellowship of Educational 14:00 Preparatory Office, Inst. Program, Preparatory Office, Inst. of Political of Political Science) Science) On Autocrats' Incentives to Promote Social Rights: Political Turnover and Labor Policy Implementation in China Tue 3/15 Conference Room 14:30 B110, Building B, Inst. of Economics Quantile Estimation of Double Threshold Autoregressive Models with Exogenous Variables and Heteroskedasticity Thu 3/17 Political Institution and Dr. Tsung-Hao Huang Financial Reform: A 14:00 Preparatory Office, Inst. (Preparatory Office, Inst. of Comparison between Taiwan of Political Science) Political Science) and South Korea Tue 3/22 2nd Conference Room, Dr. Pi-Fang Wang Statutory Review of Preparatory Office, Administrative Rules: From the 10:00 (Preparatory Office, Institutum Perspective of French Law Institutum Iurisprudentiae) Iurisprudentiae Conference Room B, Dr. Cathy Chen (Feng Chia Univ.) Conference Room B, 2 Dr. Chi-Huey Wong