Venue: Room 1102, Library & Information Center Building C, Zijingang CampusSpeaker:Stephen M. Gilbert is a Professor of Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Chair of the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management. Professor Gilbert holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford, and a Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T.  His current research focuses on issues of coordination in supply chains especially in the presence of strategic consumers.  His publications have appeared in Operations Research, Management Science, Marketing Science, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, and elsewhere.  Currently he serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science, as a Senior Editor for POMS. In addition, he is a past President of the MSOM Society of INFORMS.Abstract: Manufacturer encroachment is the practice of a manufacturer selling through a reseller as well as through a direct channel. The talk will provide an overview of the research that has been done on this topic, nearly all of which has focused on settings in which the reselling channel sells only the product of the encroaching manufacturer. It will also include new results for a setting in which the reseller has the ability to sell the product of another manufacturer. It turns out that this outside option for the reseller can dramatically alter the interactions between a manufacturer and the reseller. For instance, the reseller's benefit from the development of a direct channel disappears when the product substitutability exceeds a threshold. In addition, we find that the non-encroaching manufacturer can benefit from her rival's direct channel.  Finally, we find that even when the encroaching manufacturer’s direct channel is more efficient than the reseller’s channel, the encroaching manufacturer will nevertheless continue to sell through the reseller when there is a highly substitutable product available.

Venue: Lecture Hall, 4th floor, Sir Run Run Shaw Business Administration Building, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: David Saintillan, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San DiegoAbstract:The spontaneous emergence of large-scale coherent motions and patterns is a striking feature of many active soft matter systems and often results from long-ranged hydrodynamic interactions driven by internal active forces. In the first part of my talk, I will focus on bacterial suspensions, where hydrodynamic instabilities are known to arise due to the force dipoles exerted by motile microorganisms which couple to their orientations through the flows they generate. Using both continuum modeling and numerical simulations, I will analyze the interplay between these instabilities and geometrical confinement, where an apparent transition to superfluidity can be harnessed to drive unidirectional streaming flows. The second part of the talk will address the seemingly very different – yet perhaps related – case of chromosomal dynamics inside the nucleus during cell interphase, where experiments recently revealed coherent motion on large length and time scales. A model of chromatin dynamics as a confined polymer chain acted upon by molecular enzymes exerting force dipoles will be discussed, where hydrodynamic interactions emerge once again as a potential mechanism for coherent motions and large-scale self-organization.

Venue: Lecture Hall, 4th floor, Sir Run Run Shaw Business Administration BuildingSpeaker: Irene M. Gamba, Professor in Mathematics, W.A. Tex Moncreif, Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences III. Leader for the ICES Applied Mathematics Group, the University of Texas at AustinAbstract:We look into the Cauchy problem for Homogeneous Boltzmann problems without initial bounded entropy and solve by means of theorem for ODE systems in Banach spaces. The technique works for collision frequencies satisfy that the larger the relative momentum the higher rate of interactions (i.e. hard potential) types with integrable angular cross section, and initial data the allows for a lower bound on the total collision frequency.This functional analysis, initially proposed for the Boltzmann equation, provides for a good tool works for a large variety of models, namely, the Cauchy problem  for the classical elastic Boltzmann monoatomic gas model for hard potential and integrable angular cross sections, as well as for the multi-component monatomic gas mixture model in a full non-linear binary interactions. In addition, we used it for the quantum Boltzmann equation for a system with a BEC condensation, and the wave turbulence model proposed by  Luov, Newell and Zacharov'95. 

Venue: Lecture Hall, 4th floor, Sir Run Run Shaw Business Administration Building, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Luis A. Caffarelli, Sid Richardson Chair, the University of Texas at AustinAbstract:We will discuss three type of fully on linear integral equations related to the Monge-Ampere equation: An infimum over affine transformation of determinant one of the fractional Laplacian, an infimum among measure preserving transformation, and equations for which the kernels involved adapt point by point to the structure of the sections of a solution to Monge Ampere.

Venue: Room 349, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zijingang CampusDr. Alex L. Kolodkin is a Charles J. Homcy/Simeon G. Margolis Professor of Neuroscience, in the Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.Dr. Kolodkin’s research is focused on understanding how neuronal connectivity is established during development. His lab investigates the function of extrinsic guidance cues and their receptors on axonal guidance, dendritic morphology, and synapse formation and function.For over 20 years, his lab has investigated how neural circuits are formed and maintained through the action of guidance cues that include semaphorin proteins, their classical plexin and neuropilin receptors, and also novel receptors. His lab employs a cross phylogenetic approach, using both invertebrate and vertebrate model systems, to understand how guidance cues regulate neural circuit assembly and function.Dr. Kolodkin has published a number of outstanding papers on Cell, Nature, Science and Neuron. He is a Board of Reviewing Editor of Science since 2014 and an associate editor of Neuron since 2004.

Venue: Room 701, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusYibin Kang (康毅滨) is a Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University.Dr. Kang's research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of breast cancer metastasis. His laboratory applies a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the molecular basis of cancer metastasis, combining molecular biology and genomics tools with animal models and advanced in vivo imaging technologies. Dr. Kang has published over 100 original articles in leading journals including Cell, Cancer Cell, and Nature Medicine. His work discovered new genes that promote recurrence, metastasis and chemoresistance of breast cancer, delineated tumor-stromal interactions that are essential for metastatic growth, and identified novel regulators with dual functions in mammary gland cell fate determination and tumor progression. 

Venue: Room 426, Main Teaching Building, Xixi CampusArmida de la Garza is Director of International Strategy for the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, and Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities.She is interested in research on Internationalisation in Higher Education; Screen Media and their relation to culture, industry and education; and on collaborative, interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap between science and the arts.

Venue: Zijingang Hall, 3rd floor, Alumni Center, Zijingang CampusJoachim Messing is a biologist recognized for work in genomics and biotechnology. The shotgun DNA sequencing method and the M13mp/pUC/JM cloning kits made him the most frequently cited scientist in the world for the eighties. Messing made his innovations freely available, ensuring rapid advances in all life sciences. With contributions to plant genomics he focuses on raising the nutritional quality of food.

The event will take place in Qizhen Room, on the third floor of Qizhen Hotel, Zijingang Campus. It is organized by ZJU's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and National Science Park.Adeo Ressi is CEO of the Founder Institute, a startup launch program that operates in nearly 200 cities worldwide, and he is a recognized mentor for fast-growing technology businesses. He has pioneered innovations in the protection of founder rights, the raising of early-stage capital and the scaling of new businesses.Previous to the Founder Institute, Adeo has helped to create nearly $2 billion in shareholder value by founding or running nine businesses, including TheFunded, Game Trust, Xceed and Total New York. In addition, the Founder Institute has helped to create approximately $25 billion more in shareholder value by launching nearly 3,000 technology companies that have raised an estimated $1 billion from investors.Adeo previously served on the Board of the X Prize Foundation to pursue his interests in space exploration and techniques to motivate human achievement. He studied architecture and spent time living on a commune to explore his interests in designing better ways to live. Adeo is passionate about inspiring people to achieve greatness.