Speaker: Sir Michael BerryVenue: Lecture Hall 201, Faculty of Science, Western Campus, Zijingang CampusAbstract: Connections between physics and technological invention and aspects of human life that seem far from science are both unexpected and unexpectedly common. And rather than flowing one way - from physics to gadgets - the connections form an intricate web, linking all aspects of human culture, in ways that frustrate our convenient compartmentalisations and interventions aimed at promoting technology transfer. This lecture will discuss this theme not abstractly but with examples, ranging from music to the colour of gold, and explain how quantum technology helps me do quantum physics.

Speaker: XIONG WeipingVenue: Multifunctional Hall, Haining Campusy, Practice and Case Studies was selected as a key planning textbook for national higher education institutions.

Speaker: Professor Lasley StarkVenue: Seminar, 2A-203, ZJE Building, Haining CampusAbstract: Lesley Stark is Chair of Nucleolar signalling and Cancer Prevention at the University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics and Cancer. She is internationally renowned for her work on aspirin prevention of colon cancer and the links she has established between cancer prevention, the nucleolus and NF-kB signalling. Her lab established that aspirin causes degradation of a poll complex component, TIF-IA, which has profound affects on nucleolar structure in colon cancer cells and causes cell death through the NF-kB pathway. Identification of this novel mechanism of action has allowed her lab to develop a specific phenotypic drug screen which they are now using to identify agents that mimic the effects of aspirin on colon cancer cells. The interests of the lab in the link between the nucleolus and inflammation has now extended to senescence and aging. In a recent seminal study, they established that TIF-IA accumulation is key for the nucleolar phenotype observed in senescence and for the NF-kB-driven senescence associated secretory phenotype. They predict that this pathway contributes to colon cancer risk with age, which is an area of active investigation.

Speaker: Sir Peter Baron PiotVenue: Conference Room 205, 2nd Floor, Medical Comprehensive Building, Zijingang CampusAbstract: This lecture, with the theme of From Ebola to AIDS: My Research Journey on Epidemics and Viruses, is hosted by the Chan Chun Ha College of Integrated Health, Zhejiang University. It invites Sir Peter Baron Piot, who is an academician of the national medical academies of Belgium, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, an academician of the German Academy of Sciences, a Global Health Professor and former Dean of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and a visiting professor at the University of Leuven in Belgium and the National University of Singapore, to be the keynote speaker.The lecture will be held from 14:00 to 15:30 on April 3, 2025, in Conference Room 205, 2nd Floor, Medical Comprehensive Building, Zijingang Campus. In this lecture, Sir Peter Piot will share his global health journey spanning half a century. During his speech, he will look back on his half-century of experience, envision a new landscape of global health, and explain the important role that China plays in it.

Speaker: Prof. ZHANG XuegongVenue: Seminar, A203-1, ZJE BuildingAbstract: Large language models (LLMs) pretrained on massive data have shown their power as foundation models for pervasive tasks in natural language understanding and beyond.This inspired us to develop large cellular models (LCMs) to decipher the transcriptomic language of cells.We have developed LCMs for single-cell transcriptomics toward this goal using two approaches, which produced the two large models scFoundation and scMulan. With pretraining on tens of millions of human scRNA-seq data covering almost all known cell types and states, the models have shown ability of capturing complex context relations among gene expressions and meta-attributes of cells. Experiments showed that the pretrained model can achieve state-of-the-art performances in zero-shot manner or with light fine-tuning on a diverse array of single-cell analysis tasks such as data enhancement, drug-response prediction at tissue and single-cell levels, single-cell perturbation prediction, cell type annotation, gene module inference and conditional cell generation.

Speakers: Prof.ZHU Jian, Prof.ZHAO Chengtian, Prof.PAN Weijun, Prof.XU ChengranHost: XU SuhongVenue: 2A-203, ZJE Building, Haining Campus ·Prof. ZHU Jian Vice Dean of the School of Life Sciences, Peking University; Boya Distinguished Professor, Peking University·Prof. ZHAO Chengtian Deputy Director, Institute of Marine Biodiversity and Evolution, Ocean University of China; Zhufeng Distinguished Professor, Ocean University of China·Prof. PAN Weijun Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor; Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences·Prof. XU Chengran Boya Distinguished Professor, Peking University; Principal Investigator, Peking University-Tsinghua University Joint Center for Life Sciences

Speaker: Alexander ZenchukVenue: Room 206, No.2 Haina Building, Zijingang CampusAbstract: How to recover the quantum states sent remotely is an important research topic in quantum information theory. This report will introduce an important processing technique. Except possibly for the diagonal elements, the recovered quantum states are proportional to the corresponding elements of the initial states, and these elements satisfy the normalization condition. This method has important applications in the theory of quantum computing.

Speaker: Terry FlewVenue: 105,Building of School of Media and International Culture, Zijingang CampusAbstract: In this report, Professor Terry Flew will explore how the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by consumers and industries will transform our understanding of communication studies in terms of social practice and academic research. He will focus on three key issues: the evolving status of machines as communication participants, rather than merely platforms that assist human communication; the impact of the increasing reliance on automated information and decision - making systems on trust; and how global communication, as a field of study, will be challenged by the changing relationship between data and geopolitics.

Speaker: YUAN PingzhiVenue: 820 Haina Complex Building 2, Zijingang CampusAbstract: In this talk, we propose some new algebraic structures of permutation polynomials (PPs) over  finite fields. As two applications of these new algebraic structures, we give some classes of new PPs over  finite fields and answer an open problem raised by Charpin and Kyureghyan in their paper [Finite Fields Appl. 15 (2009), no. 5, 615-632], and we improve some results of Ding and Zieve. This talk is based on the results in [P. Yuan, Algebraic Structure of Permutational Polynomials over  finite fields, Commun Algebra, DOI: 10.1080/00927872.2025.2476727]