Academia Sinica E-news No. 54
LECTURES
Date
Time
Venue
Speaker
Title
Moderator
Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Thu
2/21
Fri
2/22
Dr. Meng-Lung Hsieh
National Cheng Kung Find Mountain River’s DNA Dr. Ya-Ju Hsu
Univ.
The Levi Problem and the
Prof. Mei-Chi Shaw
Conference Room, Inst. of
Cauchy-Riemann Equations in
10:30
Univ. of Notre Dame,
Mathematics
Theory (Methods of PDE in
USA
Several Complex Variables)
14:00
Auditorium, 3F, Inst. of
Earth Sciences
Room 716 of the Physics Prof. Aaron Evans
14:00 Dept. Building, National SUNY at Stony
Taiwan Univ.
Brook, USA
TBA
Mon
2/25
Room 716 of the Physics Dr. Mei-Yin Chou
12:00 Dept. Building, National Univ. of Virginia,
Taiwan Univ.
USA
Metallicity Gradients and
Chemical Fingerprinting of the
Milky Way's Halo Streams
Tue
2/26
Room 716 of the Physics Dr. Hiroyuki Hirashita
Dust as a Key Species for
14:00 Dept. Building, National Univ. of Tsukuba,
Galaxy Evolution
Taiwan Univ.
Japan
Fri
2/29
Dr. Sheng-Yuan Liu
Dr. Lung-Yih Chiang
Boundary Regularity for on
Prof. Mei-Chi Shaw Pseudoconvex Domains in
Conference Room, Inst. of
10:30
Univ. of Notre Dame, Complex Manifolds (Methods
Mathematics
of PDE in Several Complex
USA
Variables)
Polarization—A Potential Tool
Room 716 of the Physics Dr. Sujan Sengupta
to
14:00 Dept. Building, National Indian Inst. of
Dr. Lung-Yih Chiang
Probe Brown Dwarfs and
Taiwan Univ.
Astrophysics, Indian
Exoplanets
Division of Life Sciences
Dr. Sophien Kamoun
Sainsbury Laboratory, John
Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Topic: Structure, Evolution, and
Function of Oomycete Effectors
Ms. Chiung-Yun
Chang
MBAS student
Fri
2/22
Tue
2/26
Wed
2/27
12:00
Room 106, Inst. of Plant Ms. Pei-Shan Chien
and Microbial Biology
MBAS student
10:00
Auditorium, 1F, Inst. of
Molecular Biology
Dr. Jin-Rong Xu
Associate Professor of Fungal Dr. Wan-Sheng Lo
Biology, Purdue University,
USA
Topic: Signaling Pathways
Regulating Early
Infection-Related
Morphogenesis in the Rice
Blast Fungus
Following Translation by
Single Ribosomes One Codon Dr. Chih-Yen King
at a Time
Dr. Jin-Der Wen
UC-Berkeley, USA
B1C Lecture Room
11:00 (Basement), Inst. of
Biomedical Sciences
Prof. Allan I. Basbaum
The Neurobiology of Pain:
Univ. of California,
From Molecules to Circuits
San Francisco, USA
Dr. Shu-Hsing Wu
From Double Bond
Room 106, Inst. of Plant Assistant Research
16:00
Conjugation System to
and Microbial Biology
Fellow, Inst. of Plant
Photomorphogenesis
and Microbial Biology
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Dr. Bai Chuang Shyu
Dr. Shu-Hsing Wu
Academia Sinica E-news No. 54
Date
Time
Venue
Speaker
B1C Lecture Room
11:00 (Basement), Inst. of
Biomedical Sciences
11:00
Auditorium, 1F, Inst. of
Molecular Biology
Title
Prof. Eugene I.
Shakhnovich
Harvard Univ., USA
Prof. Hueng-Sik Choi
Chonnam National
Univ., Korea
Bridging Scales in Biological
Evolution: From Atoms to
Organisms
Moderator
Dr. Carmay Lim
Structure and Function of the
Orphan Nuclear Receptor Small Dr. Bon-Chu Chung
Heterodimer Partner
Dr. Andrew O. Jackson
Mr. Chun-Chieh Chen Department of Plant and
Microbial Biology, University
of California, Berkeley, USA
Topic: Structure, Replication
and Molecular Genetics of a
Plant Nucleorhabdovirus
MBAS student
Fri
2/29
12:00
Room 106, Inst. of Plant
and Microbial Biology
Mr. Bhaskara G.C.
MBAS student
Mon
3/3
14:00
Auditorium, 1F, Inst. of
Molecular Biology
Dr. James L. Van Etten
Department of Plant Pathology,
University of Nebraska, USA
Topic: Unusual Lifestyle of
Giant Algal Viruses
Prof. Pascale Chavis Role of Reelin in the Plasticity
Dr. Cheng-Ting Chien
of Postnatal Hippocampus
INSERM, France
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Tue
2/26
Dr. Wan-Sheng Lo
Conference Room B110, Ms. Ching-Yi Lin
Univ. of California,
15:00 1F, Building B, Inst. of
Davis, USA
Economics
Exchange Rate Uncertainty and
the Extensive Margin of
Exports
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