Speaker: Jeom Kee PaikVenue: Room 414, Haigong Building, Zhoushan CampusAbstract: Digital Healthcare Engineering (DHE) provides an innovative intelligent management framework to address challenges such as the ageing of ships and offshore engineering assets, operational and maintenance difficulties, and insufficient personnel support. By integrating technologies such as sensors, digital twins, and artificial intelligence, it enables holistic health management for both facilities and personnel throughout their entire lifecycle, thereby enhancing safety, extending service life, and ensuring operational sustainability.

Speaker: Lei WeiVenue: Ground Floor Lecture Room, CHOW YEI CHING Building, Yuquan CampusAbstract: The integration of a variety of functional materials within thermal-drawn fibers has emerged as a versatile platform for the fabrication of advanced functional fiber electronics. This approach exploits the thermal drawing of a macroscopic preform, where functional materials or prefabricated devices are arranged at a prescribed position, yielding kilometers of fibers with a sophisticated architecture and complex functionalities in a very simple and scalable manner. A single strand of fiber that incorporates materials with disparate electronic, optoelectronic, thermomechanical, rheological, and acoustic properties can see objects, heat sound, sense stimuli, communicate, store and convert energy, modulate temperature, monitor health, and dissect brains. Integrating these functional fibers into fabrics, ancient yet largely underdeveloped forms, is setting the stage for fabrics to be the new frontier in imperceptible sensing and healthcare.

Speaker: Wojciech KopczukVenue: Meeting Room 201, School of Economics, Zijingang CampusAbstract: Wojciech Kopczuk is currently a professor in the Department of Economics and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief (2017–present) of the Journal of Public Economics, a leading journal in the field of public economics, and as the Honorary President (2024–present) of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF).

Speaker:Dr. José R. Albiol-IbáñezVenue: A322, anzhong buildingAbstract: This research explores innovative approaches to sustainability in the construction sector through the integration of recycled and advanced materials. Key areas include the reuse of industrial  waste—such as sewage sludge, brick fragments, glass, plastic, marble cuttings, within concrete formulations and structural components. The study also investigates the architectural and sculptural potential of agricultural waste, particularly rice husks. Advanced manufacturing techniques like 3D printing are central to this work, enabling the development of translucent concrete, hybrid beams with “Lego”-style joints, and bone-inspired geometries. Notable applications include Spain’s first 3D-printed house, lightweight structuralsystems using aircraft fuselages, and proposals for building wind towerswith inflatable systems. The research also engages with cutting-edge mobility concepts such as Hyperloop and the use of smart materials, aiming to redefine both the materiality and performance of future architecture and infrastructure.

Speaker:Che Ting ChanVenue: Lecture Hall 201, Haina Complex Building 4, Zijingang CampusAbstract: Topologically protected boundary states enable unidirectional wave propagation, offering a novel approach for photonic/phononic devices that resist backscattering caused by structural defects or disorder. However, wave propagation in such systems is confined to the boundaries between topologically distinct phases. Since the boundary state channels for energy/signal transmission must be flanked by topological insulator materials characterized by band gaps defined by topological invariants, their effective transmission area is significantly smaller than the overall device area. Consequently, achieving robust unidirectional transmission comes at the cost of spatial efficiency, as the bulk material regions merely function as cladding structures. To overcome this limitation, we attempt to achieve 100% spatial utilization by constructing topological waveguides. Furthermore, we will demonstrate that certain special waveguide networks exhibit unique wave propagation characteristics similar to those of topological photonic crystals, making them practically valuable for exploring topological physics.

Speaker:Prof. Eva OlssonVenue: Lecture Hall, Campus Main Library, Zijingang CampusAbstract: Professor Eva Olsson is a distinguished scholar at Chalmers University of Technology, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and serves on the Nobel Committee for Physics, representing the pinnacle of scientific achievement in Sweden and beyond. She will introduce her research in physics and materials science, and discuss how research is selected and judged for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Speaker: Prof. Alan S. GoldmanVenue: Haina Complex Building5-C100, Zijingang CampusAbstract: Professor Alan S. Goldman is a Distinguished Professor at Rutger University's Department of Chemistry. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College in 1980 (advised by Prof. Walter G. Klemperer) and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1985 (advised by Prof. David R. Tyler), with a thesis on Mechanistic studies of photoinduced organometallic reactions.After joining Rutgers in 1987, he advanced through the faculty ranks to become a Distinguished Professor in 2005. His research focuses on organometallic chemistry and catalytic science, with publications in top journals like Science, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Acc.Chem.Res., and ACS Catal. He has received notable honors, including the 2023 Honorary Professorship at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati; the 2021 election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); and the 2019 American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry.

Speaker: Bo TaoVenue: 2A-203, ZJE Building, Haining CampusAbstract: Understanding the intricate cellular architecture and molecular signaling within complex disease microenvironments remains a major challenge, limited by technological bottlenecks. This talk will introduce a suite of originally developed, multidimensional spatial-omics technologies that break through these barriers. These tools, including Patho-DBiT and epi-Patho-DBiT, are uniquely compatible with clinical FFPE tissue samples, enabling unprecedented analysis of genomics, epigenomics, and proteomics within a preserved spatial context. We have pioneered the application of these methods to perform in-depth dissections of both atherosclerosis and the tumor microenvironment. This presentation will demonstrate how our spatial approach can directly link molecular data to biological function.

Speaker: Nicolas GisinVenue: 4-311, Chengjun CourtAbstract: Physics is traditionally formulated using timeless, axiomatic mathematics, making it challenging to incorporate indeterminism or the concept of creative time into physical theories. An alternative approach, based on intuitionistic mathematics—rooted in time-evolving processes—offers a perspective more aligned with our experience of physical reality. Nearly a century ago, Brouwer, the father of intuitionism, introduced such processes as “choice sequences”. However, Brouwer conceived these evolving sequences as generated by a creating subject, an idealistic notion that is quite foreign to physics. In contrast, we propose a naturalistic interpretation of intuitionism, where choice sequences evolve through a form of creating time. This perspective brings intuitionistic mathematics closer to the frameworks used by physicists, bridging the gap between mathematical formalism and the dynamic nature of physical reality.