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.

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