Academia Sinica E-news No. 23 LECTURES Date Time Venue Moderator Speaker Title Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences 10:00 3F, Inst. of Earth Sciences Dr. Chih-An Huh Dr. Tzu-Chien Chiu Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA Long-Term Atmospheric14C Record via Triple-Dated (230Th/234U/238U, 231Pa/235U and 14C) Fossil Corals versus Reconstructions of Paleocarbonate Ion Concentrations –Two Approaches to Understand the Glacial World 10:30 2F. Lounge Inst. of Statistical Sciences Dr. John Aston Prof. Ulf Bockenholt McGill Univ., Canada Studying Response Sets and DIF with Direct Questions and Randomized Response Methods 10:30 2F. Lounge Inst. of Statistical Sciences The Beveridge-Nelson Decomposition and Impulse-Response Analysis in the Professor Chang-Jin Kim Dr. John Aston Presence of Markov-Switching: Has the Univ. of Washington, USA Persistence of Real GDP Changed Since the Mid 1980's? 14:00 3F, Inst. of Earth Sciences Dr. Jr-Chuan Huang Postdoctoral Research Dr. Jian-Cheng Research Center for Environmental Changes Fri 7/6 Mon 7/9 Thu 7/12 Typhoon-Induced Storm Hydrograph Simulations versus Parameter Sensitivity in a 3-Layer Topmodel: A Case Study in Subtropical Mountainous Watershed Division of Life Sciences 15:00 B1B Lecture Rm. Dr. Yijuang Inst. of Biomedical Chern Sciences Dr. Feng-Shiun Shie Manipulation of Microglial Activation as a National Health Research Therapeutic Strategy in Alzheimer's Inst. Disease 16:00 Conf. RM A207, Inst. of Chemistry Dr. Ker-Chau Li Distinguished Research Mining Large Scale Gene Expression Data Fellow and Director, Inst. with the System of Liquid Association of Statistical Science 11:00 Auditorium, 1F, Genomics Research Center Dr. Shin-Ichiro Nishimura Clinical Glycomics Based on Hokkaido Univ., Japan Glycoform-Focused Reverse Genomics 15:00 Rm 106 Inst. of Plant and Microbial Biology Dr. Guang-Yuh Jauh Organization of Cellular Assistant Research Fellow, Compartmentation and Actin dynamic in Inst. of Plant and Elongating Pollen Tube Microbial Biology Mon 7/9 Wed 7/11 Rm 106 Inst. of Plant and Microbial Biology Fri 7/13 11:00 Dr. Yee-Yung Charng Dr. Stanton Gelvin Purdue Univ., USA Dr. Stanton Gelvin (Purdue Univ., USA) DR. Chih-Cheng Tsai B1B Lecture Rm. Assistant Professor Dr. Hsiu-Ming Inst. of Biomedical Univ. of Medicine and Shih Sciences Dentistry of New Jersey, USA Agrobacterium as a Plant Pathogen: Interaction of Agrobacterium with Plant Defense Pathway Atrophin Proteins at Work: Implications for Histone Modification, Nuclear Receptor Signaling, and Polyglutamine Diseases Division of Humanities and Social Science Mon 7/9 14:30 Conf. Rm. 3F (R2319), Inst. of Ethnology Prof. Gareth Fisher Yale Univ., USA The Buddhist Revival in Mainland China: Religious Responses to Cultural Change Academia Sinica E-news No. 23 Date Wed 7/11 Fri 7/13 Time Venue Moderator Speaker Title 10:00 Rm. 519, North Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, Inst. of Linguistics Prof. Bernard Comrie Max Planck Inst. for Evolutionary Anthropology The Areal Typology of Chinese: Between North and Southeast Asia 10:00 Rm. 702, North Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, Inst. of Linguistics Prof. Bernard Comrie Max Planck Inst. for Evolutionary Anthropology New Thoughts on the Typology of Relative Clauses