Speaker:  Prof. HU Yeyao (Central South University)Venue: Room 102, Building 2, Haina Court, Zijingang CampusAbstract: In this talk, we will first review the resolution of the celebrated Chang-Yang’s conjecture on a sharp Moser-Trudinger type inequality on the two-dimensional sphere. Then we recall the complete theory in dimension one and emphasize the key role played by mean field type equations. Moreover, higher dimensional analogues will be presented and some very recent progress will be introduced. We will also mention some related open problems that the audience might be interested in.Contact person: Prof. JIANG Wenshuai (wsjiang@zju.edu.cn)

Speaker: Dr. Xiaoping Chen (University of Washington)Venue: Room 723, Building A, SOM, Zijingang CampusAbstract: Indirect cronyism is a phenomenon in which managers show favoritism to indirect guanxihu subordinates who have informal, particular, and personal connection with a third party (e.g., another manager) and demonstrate its prevalent existence in Chinese organizations. We explore the crucial factors that may exacerbate managers to engage in indirect cronyism, and the downstream consequences on other members of the organization. We draw on the indirect reciprocity logic embedded in social exchange theory to predict two underlying motives to explain why managers engage in indirect cronyism: (a) fulfilling their felt obligation to favor the indirect guanxihu subordinate, and (b) strengthening their own guanxi with the third party. Results from three scenario-based experiments and one field study sampling a total of 1,559 working adults provide consistent support for our theoretical reasoning and hypotheses. We discuss the theoretical contributions this paper makes to advance the guanxi and cronyism literature, as well as the practical implications of our findings in Chinese organizations and beyond.Profile of the speaker: Dr. Xiaoping Chen is Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair Professor in the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. Dr. Chen is an elected Fellow at American Psychological Association and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She has served as Editor-in-Chief for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2010-2016) and is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Management and Organization Review. Professor Chen’s research interests include cooperation and competition in social dilemmas, teamwork and leadership, entrepreneur passion, Chinese guanxi, and cross-cultural communication and management.

Speaker: Prof. Ohyun Kwon (UCLA)Inviter: Dr. LI WeiVenue: C100, Building 5, Haina Court, Zijingang Campus

Speaker: Prof. ZHANG ZhifeiVenue: Room 210, Building 2, Haina Court, Zijingang Campus

Venue: Room 118, East Building 6, Zijingang Campus

Speaker: Prof. ZHANG Zhou (The University of Sydney)Venue: Room 102, Building 2, Haina Court, Zijingang CampusAbstract: In this talk, we start by describing the history of the study on this Kahler-Ricci flow, usually considered as the easy-sign version. The degenerate setting has been the main interest for the past 2 decades, following Tian’s Program which was later elaborated as Analytic Minimal Model Program in Song-Tian’s works. A board spectrum of techniques have been involved in the progress. We focus on the recent result by Wondo-Z regarding the types of infinite time singularities which is for the case of minimal manifolds), extending earlier works by Yashan Zhang and confirming a conjecture by Tosatti.

Speaker: Dr. ZHAO FangzhuHost: Prof. WANG QingqingVenue: Room 205, Composite Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang Campus

Speaker: Prof. LUO Liqun (Member of the National Academy of Sciences)Venue: atrium on the first floor of Research Building, Liangzhu Laboratory Host:Prof. HU Hailan