After Newman – The law of insider trading in the United States and what it means for China's developing securities lawVenue: Room 208, the Main Building, Zhijiang Campus Speaker:Nicholas Calcina Howson is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. A former partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, he worked out of that firm's New York, Paris, London and Beijing Offices, finally as a managing partner of the firm's Asia Practice based in the Chinese capital.During this time, he acted for clients in precedent-setting transactions, including the first SEC-registered IPO and NYSE-listing by a PRC-domiciled issuer and the first private placement of shares to foreign interests in a newly privatized PRC company limited by shares and subsequent IPOs on the domestic Chinese capital markets. Howson has also taught at the Berkeley (Boalt), Columbia, Cornell, and Harvard Law Schools, and served as a consultant on Chinese law matters to the Ford Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme, the Asian Development Bank, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and has advised the National People’s Congress of the PRC on the amendment of the PRC Company Law and the PRC Securities Law. Professor Howson is a designated foreign arbitrator for the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) in Beijing and the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHAIC).

About the role of lifelong learning in education policyVenue: Room 228, Tin Ka Ping Building, Xixi Campus Speaker: Arne Carlsen, former director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong LearningMr Arne Carlsen was Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) from June 2011 to June 2017, where he led UIL’s work in fostering lifelong learning in UNESCO’s 195 Member States. His career demonstrates a long-standing commitment to adult and continuing education.

Venue: Room 205, Administrative Building, School of MedicineSpeaker: Jean-Pierre Changeux, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the Institute Pasteur and College de France

Venue: Room 205, Administrative Building, School of MedicineSpeaker: Dr. Lei Cao, a tenured associated professor of College of Medicine in Ohio State University. Her research interest has been environment-gene interactions with specific focus on brain. Her recent work has revealed a brain-fat axis linking physical and social environment to the regulation of metabolism and cancer. She has published in leading journals including Cell, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, and Cell Metabolism. She also has patents of novel technology for gene therapy. She is currently principle investigator of four NIH grants.

Venue: Room 418, School of Economics, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Wolfgang Kuhle, senior research fellow, Max Planck SocietyAbstract：We study Bayesian coordination games where agents rely on diverse types of information: first, information over the game’s payoff coefficients. Second, information over the other players’ information. Third, information over the other players’ actions. For these different types of information, we characterize the equilibria that agents play. In particular, we study the information structures that ensure unique, respectively, multiple equilibria. Our results show that the traditional findings of the global games literature, Rubinstein (1989), Carlsson and van Damme (1993) and Morris and Shin (1998), which considers only information over payoffs, change substantially once agents can draw on diverse sources of information. In particular, the key global games result, namely that agents play unique equilibria when private information is very precise, reverses once agents draw on information over other players’actions.

Venue: Room 101, No.9 Teaching Building, Yuquan Campus

Venue: Room 520, Tin Ka Ping Building, Xixi CampusSpeaker: Cristina Ortega Nuere, Chief Academic and Operating Officer, World Leisure Organization

Venue: Room 457, Nano Building, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Jonathan Perreault, faculty member of Institute Armand-Frappier Research Centre, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique

Venue: Room 1004, Library & Information Center Building C, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Christian Ruff is the Chair Professor of Neuroeconomics and Decision Neuroscience at the University of Zurich. After undergraduate training in Freiburg/Germany and Vancouver/Canada, he completed his PhD and postdoc at University College London. His research investigates the brain mechanisms of decision making with a multi-methods approach that combines behavioral experiments and computational modelling with neuroimaging and brain stimulation. His work has been published in journals such as Science, PNAS, Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Neuroscience. His Google Citations is more than 6000, with a h-index of 41. Abstract:Social norms like honesty and fairness play a key role in social and economic life. Without such norms, promises are not kept, contracts are not enforced, and taxes remain unpaid. Despite this importance, it is largely unknown which personal and situational factors determine our ability to comply with social norms. Here I present brain stimulation studies identifying brain processes that are biological prerequisites for social norm compliance. These studies show that the human brain contains at least two mechanisms that are necessary for fair and honest behavior. These mechanisms either enhance the sensitivity to social incentives for norm-consistent behavior or they increase the weight of moral motives associated with norm-compliant actions. The properties of these brain mechanisms have interesting implications for the possibilities and limits of interventions designed to enhance norm-compliant behavior.