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Academia Sinica Frontiers of Sciences and Humanities Seminar Series
Introduction:
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of Academia Sinica, Institutes/Research Centers from Divisions of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences will be jointly hosting the “Frontiers of Sciences and Humanities Seminar Series” in November 2018. 16 Seminars and mini-symposiums are going to take place in AS. To reveal the research development prospective of the next 10 years, the seminars invite 24 renowned scholars to elaborate on the development of their specialties. It is with hope that the series of activities can raise AS popularity in academia world, inspire AS researchers, and allow general public understanding the position and importance of AS.
Contact: Dr. Yen, Ai-Hsin (Department of Academic Affairs and Instrument Service, Academia Sinica), +886-2-2789-9614
| Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | Organizer | Date | Venue |
| Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences | |||||
| Dr. Sheng-Wei Chen | Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica | Institute of Information Science | 2018/11/15 (Thu.) 13:30 – 17:30 |
R106, 1F, Institute of Information Science | |
| Prof. Hsuan-Tien Lin | Chief Data Scientist of Appier | Machine Learning for Modern Artificial Intelligence | |||
| Prof. Jane Chang | Department of Chemical Engineering, UCLA | Challenges and Opportunities in Design and Engineering of Function Accelerated Nano-Materials | Research Center for Applied Sciences | 2018/11/30 (Fri.)09:10 – 12:00 | B106 Auditorium, 1F, Interdisciplinary Research Building for Science and Technology |
| Prof. Samuel Kou | Department of Statistics, Harvard, USA | Learning from Big Medical Data: Statistical Analysis on Electronic Health Records | Institute of Statistical Science | 2018/11/5 (Mon.) 09:20-10:20 |
1st Conference Room, 2F, Activities Center |
| Dr. Yen-Tsung Huang | Institute of Statistical Science | Causal Mediation Analysis: From Univariate to Multivariate Mediators | 2018/11/6 (Tue.) 09:20-10:20 |
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| “AS Science and Humanity Frontier Forum
Statistics for the Next Decade” |
2018/11/5 (Mon.) 13:30 – 15:00 |
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| Prof. Cheng Chin | Department of Physics, University of Chicago, USA | Create the Quantum World to Your Liking | Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences | 2018/11/23 (Fri.) 09:30-17:00 |
Dr. Poe Auditorium, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences
(on NTU campus) |
| Prof. Min-Hsiu Hsieh | University of Technology Sydney, Australia | Quantum Computer, Quantum Software and Beyond | |||
| Prof. Chun-Chieh Wu | Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University | Dynamics of Typhoon Intensity Change -DOTSTAR, T-PARC, WISHE, SEF and RI | Research Center for Environmental Changes | 2018/11/16 (Fri.) 14:00-17:00 |
1st Conference Room, 3F, Humanities and Social Sciences Building |
| Prof. Victor Tsai | Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | The Challenge of Understanding the Earth: Physics, Data Quality, and Computational Power | Institute of Earth Sciences | 2018/11/2 (Fri.)
9:00-11:30 |
IES Auditorium, 2F |
| Prof. Chung-Pei Ma | Astronomy Department, UC Berkeley | Black Hole Astrophysics in the New Era of Gravitational Waves | Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2018/11/19 (Mon.) 14:00-16:00 |
ASIAA Auditorium, 1F, Astronomy Mathematics Building (on NTU campus) |
| Division of Life Sciences | |||||
| Stem Cells & Developmental Biology Minisymposium | |||||
| Prof. Kenneth D. Poss | Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, USA | Mechanisms Guiding Tissue Regeneration in Zebrafish | Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology & Institute of Molecular Biology |
2019/1/24 (Thu.) 9:00-16:30 |
1F Auditorium, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology |
| Assistant Prof. Maria Barna | Departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Stanford University, USA | Ribosome Heterogeneity in Translating the Genetic Code: From Genes to Organisms | |||
| Prof. Sung-Jan Lin | Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University | Environmental Regulation of Hair Regeneration | |||
| Dr. Shen-Ju Chou | Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica | Patterning of the Cerebral cortex | |||
| Dr. Jun-An Chen | Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica | From “Mirco”Managing to “Lnc” Hox Gene Regulation: A Non Coding RNA Perspective | |||
| Dr. Ming-Jung Liu | Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica | Determinants of Alternative Translation Initiation Sites and Their Influence on Plant Gene Expression | |||
| Chen-Hui Chen | Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica | In Toto Monitoring of the Developing Zebrafish Skin at Single-Cell Resolution |
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| Genomics & Evolution Minisymposium / Division of Life Sciences | |||||
| Prof. Michael Desai | Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Physics, Harvard, USA | Evolutionary Dynamics in Experimental Microbial Population | Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology
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2018/11/22 (Thu.) 13:30-17:30 |
A134 , Agricultural Technology Building |
| Dr. Isheng Jason Tsai | Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica | Ecological Genomics of Fungi in Taiwan | |||
| Prof. Toni Gabaldón | Bioinformatics and Genomics Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain | Looking at Genomes from An Evolutionary Prism | |||
| Dr. Pao-Yang Chen | Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica | Genome-Wide DNA Methylation in Plants and Animals | |||
| Division of Humanities and Social Sciences | |||||
| Prof. Matthew Shum | Economics Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Dynamic Labor Supply of Taxicab Drivers: A Semiparametric Optimal Stopping Model | Institute of Economics | 2018/11/27 (Tue.) 14:30-16:30 |
Mo-Huan Auditorium, Institute of Economics |
| Dr. Yen-Sheng Chiang | Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica | What is Social? A Multi-Level and Multi-Disciplinary Perspective | Institute of Sociology | 2018/11/16 (Fri.) 14:30-16:30 |
Room 802, 8F, Humanities and Social Sciences South Building |
| Prof. Emma J. Teng | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA | Frontiers, Borderlands, and Diasporas : Reflections on Working at the Margins | Institute of Taiwan History & Institute of History and Philology & Institute of Modern History |
2018/11/13 (Tue.) 15:00-17:00 |
1st Conference Room, Humanities and Social Sciences North Building |
Date
From November 5, 2018 to January 24, 2019
Location
Academia Sinica
National Taiwan University
