Moderator: Professor He Lianzhen, Zhejiang University Time: 9-10:30 am, July 15, 2020 (Beijing time)Venue: Zoom (ID: 430 724 0352; Password: 233975)Speakers: Prof. David Kastan (Yale) and Prof. Hao Tianhu (ZJU)He Lianzhen, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics, Vice President of Zhejiang University.David Kastan, Ph.D., is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Columbia University and Dartmouth College. He has lectured worldwide and is among the most widely read of contemporary literary scholars, with his works translated into such languages as Chinese, Danish, Hungarian, Italian, and Russian. Currently the Chief Consultant for the CMRS, Zhejiang University, he is the first American scholar to serve as a general editor of the Arden Shakespeare. He has authored or edited many books, incl. Shakespeare after Theory (Routledge), Shakespeare and the Book (Cambridge UP), A Will to Believe (Oxford UP), and On Color (Yale UP). Hao Tianhu, Ph.D., Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Zhejiang University. Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ZJU

Speaker：10 scholars from ZJU, Yungang Grottoes Research Institute, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Xinzhou Normal UniversityVenue: Douyin/BilibiliScan the QR code to to enter the live platform

Speaker：Prof. Elena Lomonova, Eindhoven University of TechnologyAbout the speaker：Elena Lomonova (1959) studied Electromechanical and Control Systems at Moscow Aviation Institute (State University of Aerospace Technology), Russia. After graduating (cum laude), she started her industrial carrier at the Research and Development Company “Astrophysics”, Moscow, Russia (1982-1987). Afterwards she moved to the Electromechanical and Control Systems Department at State University of Aerospace Technology (MAI), and was active in research, education and industrial projects (1987-1997). She gained her PhD (cum laude, 1993) on researching of autonomous power and control systems for vehicles with laser equipment. Since 1998 she worked for the Delft University of Technology before joining Eindhoven University of Technology in 2000. In March 2009 she was appointed as a full-time professor. Her chair focuses on fundamental and applied research on enabling energy conversion theory, methods and technologies for high-precision, automotive and medical systems.Venue: DingtalkScan the QR code to join Dingtalk group

Speaker: Prof.  Wang Libing, College  of  Education, Zhejiang University, Director  of  UNESCO-APEID Associated Centre, Zhejiang University &Secretary of  Global University Network for Innovation-Asia and the Pacific(GUNI-AP)Biography:  Dr Libing Wang is currently Chief of Section for Educational Innovations and Skills Development (EISD) and Senior Programme Specialist in Higher Education, based at UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education,Bangkok,Thailand. His areas of responsibility with UNESCO cover higher education, teacher education, ICT in education, TVET, ESD, and research and foresight in Asia and the Pacific region. Prior to joining UNESCO, he was a Professor of Comparative Education at Zhejiang University, People’s Republic of China. He was secretary of the Global University Network for Innovation: Asia and the Pacific (GUNI-AP) from 2002 to 2012. Mr Wang got his doctoral degree in Comparative Education in 1994 at Hangzhou University, People’s Republic of China. He was a visiting fellow at the University of Sussex and University of Warwick in the United Kingdom in the early and late 1990s. He published widely in the areas of comparative education, higher education policies, and teacher education.Venue: Tecent MeetingLink: https://meeting.tencent.eom/s/St7wcMvs5mpy (Meeting ID: 749 952 506； Password: 0610 )

Speaker: Prof. Eduardo Alonso (UPC Barcelona Tech, Spain)Biography:  Eduardo Alonso has been Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the Civil Engineering School of UPC since 1986. He is a past Dean of the School and a past Vice-Rector for research at UPC. His main research interests have focused on the stochastic analysis of soil heterogeneity, unsaturated soil mechanics, rockfill mechanics, dam engineering, coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical analysis and some chemo-mechanical interactions. He has maintained a special interest in landslide phenomena, a subject which involves the disciplines of engineering geology, rock mechanics and soil mechanics.Recently he has contributed to the development of a computational technique, the Material Point Method, capable of addressing the static and dynamic aspects of landslide instability. He has lectured in many countries and he has also acted as a consultant on a variety of geotechnical engineering projects in several countries. He is member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and he is the current editor of ICE journal Géotechnique. Past honorary lectures include Coulomb, Buchanan, Sowers, Croce, Heim, Kezdi, Rocha and BGA Touring lectures.Introduction to the Lecture:The Lecture is inspired by the construction of a railway tunnel line very close to the well known Sagrada Familia temple in Barcelona (A UNESCO world heritage monument). The presentation discusses the available procedures to protect existing structures against deformations induced by tunneling. Some analytical solutions for concentrated loads in a half-space and the presence of volume loss or volume increase at any point serve to develop generalized procedures to analyze in detail the three-dimensional interaction between tunneling and compensation grouting on pile foundations.Venue: ZoomLink: https://zoom.us/j/833 418 9280 (Zoom ID:833 418 9280)

Host： Professor Junfeng JiSpeaker: Janet Rossant FRS, Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, CanadaBiography:  Dr. Janet Rossant is a  Senior Scientist in the Developmental & Stem Cell Biology program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), and is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Toronto (U of T). Her research interests centre on understanding the genetic control of normal and abnormal development in the early mouse embryo using both cellular and genetic manipulation techniques. Her interests in the early embryo have led to the discovery of a novel placental stem cell type, the trophoblast stem cell. Rossant is also the Director of the newly formed Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Rossant trained at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, United Kingdom and has been in Canada since 1977, first at Brock University and then at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, from 1985 to 2005.  Rossant has been recognized for her contributions to science with many awards, including the 10th ISTT Prize, from the International Society for Transgenic Technologies, the Ross G. Harrison Medal (lifetime achievement award) from the International Society of Developmental Biologists, the Killam Prize for Health Sciences, the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology, the Conklin Medal from the Society for Developmental Biology, and the CIHR Michael Smith Prize in Health Research, Canada’s most prestigious health research award. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Societies of London and Canada, and is a foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Science.  Most recently it was announced that Rossant will receive the 2015 Canada Gairdner Wightman Award, the first female to do so.Rossant is actively involved in the international developmental and stem cell biology communities and has contributed to the scientific and ethical discussion on public issues related to stem cell research. She chaired the working group of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research on Stem Cell Research, which came up with guidelines for CIHR funded research in this area.Rgistration：Venue: ZoomScan the QR code of Zoom

Host： Professor Dante NeculaiSpeaker:  Dr. Sergio Grinstein, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada，Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto.Biography:  Dr. Sergio Grinstein is a senior scientist in the The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute and a professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto. He is internationally recognized for his research in two areas: the control of intracellular pH and the elucidation of mechanisms underlying the microbicidal response of macrophages and neutrophils.Dr. Grinstein completed his PhD in 1976 at the Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados in Mexico City. He then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology at Sick Kids, followed by a year in the Department of Biochemistry at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He has been an International Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Distinguished Scientist Award and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.Rgistration：Venue: ZoomScan the QR code of Zoom

Speaker: Professor James L. Kirtley Jr.  Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering / Life Fellow, IEEE / Professor, MITBiography:James L. Kirtley Jr. is of Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was with General Electric, Large Steam Turbine Generator Department, as an Electrical Engineer, for Satcon Technology Corporation as Vice President and General Manager of the Tech Center, as Chief Scientist and as Director Dr. Kirtley was Gastdozent at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (ETH).Dr. Kirtley attended MIT as an undergraduate and received the degree of Ph.D. from MIT in 1971. Dr. Kirtley is a specialist in electric machinery and electric power systems. He served as Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion from 1998 to 2006. Dr. Kirtley was made a Fellow of IEEE in 1990. He was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium medal in 2000 and the Nikola Tesla prize in 2002. Dr. Kirtley was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering in 2007. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Massachusetts.Venue:DingtalkScan the QR code of DingTalk

Speaker: Terry Flew, Professor of Communication and Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaBiography:Terry Flew is Professor of Communication and Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and a researcher with the Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society & Technology. He is the author of 13 books (four edited), including Understanding Global Media, Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia, Media Economics and Global Creative Industries. He has authored 63 book chapters, 100 refereed journal articles, and 16 reports and research monographs.He has been the President of the International Communications Association (ICA) during 2019-2020, and organized the 69th ICA Annual Conference in Washington DC in 2019. He has been an Executive Board member of the International Communications Association since 2013, and was President of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) in 2009-10. In 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.He has been involved in research activities that have generated over $7 million in research income. Grants include ARC Discovery projects on creative industries in China, digital platform governance and the future of media policy, creative industries in suburban areas, and east Asian media production, as well as ARC Linkage projects on citizen journalism, web counselling for young people, social media and crisis communication, and creative industries in regional Australia.  Venue: Dingtalk Scan the QR code of DingTalk