Venue: Qizhen Hall, Qizhen Hotel, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Rober C. Merton, Distinguished Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School & Nobel Laureate – Economics 1997Abstract:Digitalization of financial services, “FinTech”, offers enormous global opportunities for new and improved services and substantially lower costs, with disproportional improvements accruing to those who are underserved by current standards. Successful realization of these opportunities faces material challenges and there will definitely be financial service industry “winners” and “losers” from its successful implementation. FinTech innovations will create disruptive challenges for users, providers, advisors and regulators of financial services but also create potentially significant opportunities for them as well.Will today’s technology disruptions to current practice of existing financial-service providers lead to their displacement or will it create enhanced opportunities for them?

Venue: Room 401, Tin Ka Ping Building, Xixi CampusSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Lames, Chair of Training Science and Sport Informatics, Technische Universität München

Venue: Room 457, Nano Building, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Wolfgang PetiHomer C. and Emily Davis Weed Endowed Professor, University of Arizona ADA Pathway FellowAssociate Editor, Journal of Biological ChemistryResearch interest：The focus of the Peti laboratory is to understand the molecular:basis of essential biological processes. Signaling cascades direct information transmission and, in turn, function in processes as diverse as memory and muscle movement. These cascades are mediated by a network of highly specific and tightly regulated protein:protein interactions, including those made by serine/threonine kinases and serine/threonine phosphatases.His long-term goal is to achieve an in-depth understanding of signaling networks with a special focus on serine/threonine phosphatase signaling, by using chemical, biochemical, biophysical, structural biology, especially NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography, and in vivo technologies.

Venue: Room 222, No. 2 West Teaching Building, Xixi CampusSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Lames, Chair of Training Science and Sport Informatics, Technische Universität München

Venue: Room 211, No. 6 Teaching Building, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Ru-Shan Gao is a Supervisory Research Physicist and the Program Leader of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Atmospheric Compositions and Chemical Processes Group. He has significant experience with NASA and NOAA airborne science missions in instrument and mission science lead roles. His specialty is developing instruments for airborne in situ measurements of aerosol and gas-phase species in the troposphere and lower stratosphere.

Venue: Room 105, New Building of Institute of Industrial Process Control, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Professor Petros G. Voulgaris received the Diploma in AAechanical Engineering from the National Technical University, Athens, Greece, in 1986, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 and 1991， respectively. Since 1991, he has been with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois where he is currently a Professor (also appointments with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.) His research interests include optimal, robust and distributed control and estimation; networked control; applications of advanced control methods to engineering practice including, power systems, air-vehicle, nano-scale, robotic, and structural control systems. Dr. Voulgaris is a recipient of several awards including the NSF Research Initiation Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award and the UIUC Xerox Award for research. He has also been a Visiting ADGAS Chair Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2008-10). His research has been supported by several agencies including NSF, ONR, AFOSR, NASA, and Boeing totalling more than $12 million of funded projects. He is also a Fellow of IEEE.

Venue: Room A326, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Anzhong Building, Zijingang Campus

Venue: Room 205, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Stanley Qi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Chemical & Systems Biology at Stanford University. He is a core faculty scholar in Stanford ChEM-H Institute.

Venue: Room 201, No. 12 Teaching Building, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Dr. Norden E. Huang, Innovation Center, First Institute of Oceanography and Center for Nonlinear Sciences, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and TechnologyDr. Norden Huang holds a BS Engineering Degree from National Taiwan University (1960) and a PhD in fluid mechanics and mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University (1967). Currently, he is the founding directors for the Innovation Center and the Data Analysis Laboratory at the First Oceanographic Institute, SOA, Qingdao. He was also the founding directors of the Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis and Research Center for Dynamical Biomarkers and Translational Medicine at the National Central University, Zhongli, Taiwan, China (2006-2017). Most of his career is in NASA (1975-2006), where he had developed the adaptive Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT), designed to analyze nonstationary and nonlinear data. For this invention, he was awarded the 1998 NASA Special Space Act Award with the citation, ‘[Dr. Huang’s new method] is one of the most important discoveries in the field of applied mathematics in NASA history.’ ‘For contributions to the analysis of nonlinear stochastic signals and related mathematical applications in engineering, biology, and other sciences (NAE Citation),’ he was elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering, 2000; Academia Sinica, 2004; and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2006.Recently, he has developed the Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis (HHSA) and Intrinsic Probability Density distribution, which reveal new information on inter-wave interactions for nonlinear and nonstationary phenomena. Applications of HHSA on EEG and turbulence data are the areas of his active research, with the collaboration with Oxford University Center for Human Brain Activity and Harvard and Stanford Medical School.AbstractTraditionally, spectral analysis is defined as transform the time domain data to frequency domain. It is achieved through integral transforms based on additive expansions of a priori determined basis, under linear and stationary assumptions.  For nonlinear processes, the data can have both amplitude and frequency modulations generated by intra-wave and inter-wave interactions involving both additive and nonlinear multiplicative processes. Under such conditions, the additive expansion could not fully represent the physical processes resulting from multiplicative interactions. Unfortunately, all existing spectral analysis methods are based on additive expansions, based either on a priori or adaptive bases. While the adaptive Hilbert spectral analysis could accommodate the intra-wave nonlinearity, the inter-wave nonlinear multiplicative mechanisms that include cross-scale coupling and phase lock modulations are left untreated. To resolve the multiplicative processes, we propose a full informational spectral representation: The Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis (HHSA), which would accommodate all the processes: additive and multiplicative, intra-mode and inter-mode, stationary and non-stationary, linear and nonlinear interactions, through additional dimensions in the spectrum to account for both the variations in frequency and amplitude modulations (FM and AM) simultaneously. Applications to wave-turbulence interactions to brain electric waves will be presented to demonstrate the usefulness of this new spectral representation.