Academia Sinica E-news No. 129 LECTURES Date Time Venue Speaker Title Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Moderator Thu 8/13 14:00 Auditorium, 3F, Dr. Maryline Le Béon, Inst. of Earth National Taiwan Univ. Sciences Slip Rate at Different Time Scales along the Southern Dead Sea Fault Mon 8/17 14:10 Meeting Room of Assistant Prof. Vitaly the Joint Library, Podzorov, BHSS Rutgers Univ., USA Intrinsic charge carrier transport and optical properties of single-crystal organic field-effect transistors Director Yia-Chung Chang 14:00 Auditorium, 3F, Prof. Eiji Ohtani Inst. of Earth Tohoku Univ., Japan Sciences Dehydration of the stagnant slab in the transition zone and existence of the dense wet magma at the base of the upper mantle Director Bor-Ming Jahn Thu 8/20 Dr. Jian-Cheng Lee Division of Life Sciences Mon 8/17 11:00 B1B Lecture Room, Inst. of Biomedical Sciences Prof. Chao-Yuh Yang L5, Pro-apoptotic Electronegative Baylor College of Medicine LDL. 11:00 B1B Lecture Room, Inst. of Biomedical Sciences Dr. Yu Liang Life Technologies, USA 15:00 Auditorium, GRC Dr. Jean Lu Functional Screening in Stem Cells Genomics Research Center 16:00 Room106, Inst. Prof. Dr. Thomas J. of Plant and Buckhout, Humboldt Microbial University, Germany Biology Tue 8/18 Wed 8/19 Quantitation of Small RNAs In Vitro and In Vivo and Its Clinical Applications. Early Iron-deficiency-induced Transcriptional Changes in Arabidopsis Roots Dr. Pauline Yen Dr. Yijuang Chern Dr. Wu-Shiun Hou Dr. Wolfgang Schmidt Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Dr. Pei-Shan Liao Treatments of refusals in Guttman Assistant Research Fellow, scales: A comparison among Center for Survey Research, different imputation methods RCHSS 14:00 Focus Group Room of CSR, RCHSS 14:30 The Archives Dr. Marc A. Matten, Building, Post Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Inst. of Modern History Modern History Thu 8/13 1 The Yellow Emperor as an icon of national identity - an invented tradition? Dr. Ji-Ping Lin