Academia Sinica E-news No. 251 LECTURES Date Time Venue Speaker Title Moderator Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Mon 01/16 Tue 01/17 15:30 Dr. Kuo-Wei Huang (King Abdullah Metal-Ligand Cooperative Conference Room University of Science Catalysis-Energy and A108, Inst. of Chemistry and Technology, Synthesis Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) Dr. Tiow-Gan Ong 14:10 Meeting Room of the Social Sciences Joint Dr. Kuei Sun (Univ. of Oscillatory Pairing of Library (1F, North Wing, Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Fermionic Superfluids in Humanities and Social Ohio, USA) Elongated Confinements Sciences Building) Dr. Shu-Wei Chang Division of Life Sciences Thu 01/12 B1 Auditorium, Inst. of Molecular Biology Dr. Huai-hu Chuang (Cornell Univ., USA) Thu 01/16 10:30 Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Building, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center Dr. Ming-Shi Shiao (Chairman & Professor, Department Beauty, Problems and Dr. Ning-Sun of Biomedical Challenges for Research into Yang Sciences, Chang Metabolomics Gung University, Taiwan) Thu 01/16 11:00 B1 Auditorium, Inst. of Molecular Biology Dr. Yun-Chi Tang (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology) Energy and Proteotoxic Stress Dr. Inhibit the Proliferation of Jun-Yi Leu Aneuploid Cells 14:00 B1 Auditorium, Inst. of Molecular Biology Dr. David Goldfarb (Univ. of Rochester, USA) The Nuclear Pore Complex Plays a Direct Role in Regulating Nuclear Import Pathways Thu 01/16 14:00 B1B Lecture Room, Inst. of Biomedical Sciences Addressing Some Fundamental Issues in Dr. Chih-Hao Hsia Nanoscale Magnetization (Princeton Univ., USA) Dynamics and Intracellular Thermogenesis Tue 01/17 11:00 B1 Auditorium, Inst. of Molecular Biology Dr. David Goldfarb (Univ. of Rochester, USA) Thu 01/16 Molecular Tuning of Bio-Electricity Dr. Cheng-Ting Chien 11:00 10:00 Dr. Alexander C. Tan Conference Room A, Preparatory Office, Inst. (Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand) of Political Science 1 Dr. Ru-Chi Shieh Using Yeast to Discover Drugs Dr. for Age-related and Ting-Fang Inflammatory Diseases Wang Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Thu 01/12 Dr. Ting-Fang Wang 1) Surviving the tenure-track years: Some two-cents worth of advice from an academic gypsy 2) Evanston to College Station, Baltimore to Leiden and places in between: The study of parties, party organizations and party change Academia Sinica E-news No. 251 Date Time Venue Speaker Title 14:00 Conference Room 1, Dr. Kao-Lee Liaw Research Center for (McMaster Univ., Humanities and Social Canada) Sciences Reproductive Contributions of Taiwan's Foreign Wives from the Top Five Source Countries: An Analysis Based on a Methodology Better than Event History Analysis Thu 01/12 15:00 Focus Group Room, Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences Dr. Ter-Hsing Cheng (Soochow Univ.) A Survey Experience in the Central and Eastern Europe and Cross-Regional Study Tue 01/17 14:30 Conference Room C103, Inst. of Economics Dr. YiLi Chien (Purdue Univ., USA) Conference Room B110, Building B, Inst. of Economics Dr. John Bailey Jones Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher (State Univ. of New Education: An Exploratory York at Albany) Model Thu 01/12 Tue 01/17 14:30 2 The Risk Premium and Long-Run Global Imbalances Moderator