Venue: National Chekiang University Hall, 3rd floor, Campus Library, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Axel SchneiderProfessor, Focus on chinese History & Politics and Board Director of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Venue: Room 357, Mong Mai Wai Building, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Prof. LI Shanjun, Associate Professor, Faculty Co-Director of the Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER), ISS Theme Project Faculty Fellow and Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Agricultural Economics and Public Policy, Cornell University

Venue: Room 701, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. YONG Kol Jia, Senior Tutor, Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Venue: Room 254, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Prof. Bin LIU, head of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore

Venue: Room 250, Mong Mai Wai Building, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Joel S. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.Abstract:At the heart of state capacity—the ability to see policies through to fruition, to being implemented faithfully—is the question of how authority is established. When and how do states succeed in shaping people’s behaviour, in prompting citizens to obey the state’s rules? Rulemaking is a complicated undertaking, involving numerous parties, coming with different agendas. Implementation of the rules, or laws, is even more complicated, given the diverse stakeholders, each seeking to establish authority. These stakeholders clash, cooperate, and compromise as they hammer out the definitive guidelines about how others should act.

Venue: Room 200-9, Run Run Shaw Business Administration BuildingSpeaker: Dr. Bangti Jin received Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008. Previously, he was an assistant Professor of mathematics at University of California, Riverside (2013-2014), a visiting assistant professor at Texas A&M University (2010-2013), an Alexandre von Humboldt Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bremen (2009-2010). He is currently a Reader in inverse problems in the Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, U.K. His research interests include computational inverse problems and numerical analysis of differential equations.Abstract:Electrical impedance tomography is a noninvasive medical imaging modality, which aims at recovering the conductivity from the boundary electrode voltage measurements. Most reconstruction techniques employ Tikhonov regularization with different penalties, and then discretize the optimization by means of finite element methods. In this talk, I will describe finite element approximations on both uniform and adaptive meshes, and discuss their convergence properties. I will illustrate the discussions with numerical experiments.

Venue: Qiushi Hall, 3rd floor, Qizhen Hotel, Zijingang CampusTalk 1: Functional characterization of oncogenic mutant in MAPK pathway and its therapeutic inhibitionDr. GAO Yijun, Research Fellow at Sloan Kettering InstituteTalk 2: Target discovery for leukemia therapyDr. DENG Mi，Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center at DallasTalk 3: Targeting LSD1 for cancer immunotherapyDr. SHENG Wanqiang, Research Fellow at Harvard Medical SchoolTalk 4: Identification of separate pathways that drive sustained pain versus defensive reactionsDr. HUANG TianwenTalk 5: Biophysics in the Cell - use MS-CETSA to deconvolute drug-targets in situ and monitor protein- interaction states changeDr. DAI Lingyun, Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological UniversityTalk 6: The Yin-Yang of Cell and Tissue MorphogenesisDr. TEE Yee Han, Research Fellow at Mechanobiology Institute at National University of SingaporeTalk 7: Membraneless Organelle, 3’UTRs, and the Organization of Cellular ProcessesDr. MA Weirui, Postdoctoral Fellow at Sloan Kettering Institute

Venue: Room 418, School of Economics, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Dr. Huang Wei is the President’s Assistant Professor in the Department of Real Estate and Department of Strategy and Policy at National University of Singapore. Abstract:This paper investigates how households adjust to local labor market shocks caused by trade liberalization in urban China. Exploiting regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from the WTO accession, we find that regions that initially specialized in industries facing larger tariff cuts experienced relatively larger wage declines. Households responded to the shock in several ways, including more female household members working, more young adults co-residing with parents, and households saving less. These findings suggest an insurance role of households against trade-induced labor market shocks. 

Venue: Room 702, Library & Information Center Building C, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Han Xing, University of Otago