Speaker: Michael DevittHost: LI ZhongweiVenue: Room 429, Building 4, Chengjun Court, Zijingang CampusAbstract: The ostrich nominalism is a derogatory term coined by Armstrong (1978) for Quine's response to the ancient one over many problem. Different from realists and traditional nominalists, ostrich nominalists do not attempt to solve this problem but dismiss it as a pseudo-problem. This lecture will explore the early responses to Armstrong in the academic community. These responses target Armstrong's requirements for ontological commitment. And Armstrong's truthmaker requirement - this requirement has dominated the later discussions. Truthmaking is usually semantically understood as a version of the correspondence theory, but it can also be understood from a metaphysical perspective. From a semantic level, ostrich nominalists believe that Armstrong's requirement is an attempt to wrongly infer metaphysics from semantics. When considered as an appeal to grounding from a metaphysical level, ostrich nominalists reject it again, arguing that this is another non-natural metaphysical appeal. This lecture will defend this rejection stance through the discussions by Rodriguez-Pereyra (2000, 2005). This lecture will also examine the priority nominalism proposed by Imaguire (2018).

Speaker: Dónal O'CarrollVenue: Lecture Hall 205, Comprehensive Building of the School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusAbstract: The germline is the immortal lineage,the cells that transcend generations and initiate the cycle of life.The mammalian germline is subject to major and essential epigenetic reprogramming.Processes that ensure germ cell development,epigenetic integrity, genomic stability and reproductive lifespan are essential for the long-term health and success of a species, or society in a human context. Our research helps understand the basis of infertility and diseases that arise by germline mutation or epimutation.

Speaker: James KungVenue: The Golden Hall, Building C, Chengzhang Building, Zijingang CampusAbstract: A predominant feature of Chinese civilization is the widely-diffused respect for learning. We argue that this is due to the effect of China’s civil service examination system (keju), an incredibly long-lived institution in Chinese history. Using the variation in the density of jinshi across 278 Chinese prefectures in the Ming-Qing period (c. 1368-1905) to proxy for this effect, we provide evidence showing that a doubling of jinshi per 10, 000 population leads to an 8.5% increase in years of school ing in 2010. Our evidence thus suggests how in some cultures it is education rather than material wealth that is considered important as a transfer to the next generation. While the pers-istent effect of keju can be attributed to a multitude of factors including educational infrastructure, social capital, and so forth cultural transmission represents a key channel through which the widely-diffused respect for learning is transmitted across generations.

Speaker: Min-Chun HongVenue: 2-210, Haina Court, Zijingang CampusAbstract: In this talk, we establish a parabolic version of the gauge fixing theorem on the Yang-Mills flow and apply itto prove the maximal existence of weak solutions of the Yang-Mills flow in vector bundles over a compactn-dimensional manifold with initial value Ao having the curvature Fao in L2(M) for n 4. In particular, wegive new proofs on uniform estimates of α Fa by improving Moser's iterations and an idea of Hamilton onthe Ricci flow. Furthermore, we investigate the blow-up of the Yang-Mills flow at the maximal existence time. Finally, we improve an asymptotical result on the Yang-Mills flow in my early work with Tian.(This is a joint work with my PhD students Jared Casey and Chak Hoi Chan).

Speaker: ZHANG MingxuVenue: A123, ZJE Building, Haining CampusAbstract: Basic principles and application with high-content imaging system

Speaker: Dónal O'Carroll FRSE, Ramesh PillaiHost: Prof. Wanlu Liu, BSI, Prof. Di Chen, RCTVenue: A203-1, ZJE Building, Haining Campus

Speaker: Jennifer EichmanVenue: 1213 Chengjun Court, Zijingang CampusAbstract: This seminar will explore in great depth the use of academic footnotes and their relationship to research and documentation. What information belongs in the body of an article or chapter and what information should be relegated to a footnote? Are footnotes only for documenting sources? What types of explanations might one fruitfully add to a footnote? Moreover, what constitutes good academic documentation? Do scholarly standards for documenting classical Chinese sources constantly change? What are the different methods of documentation? What do academics think? What do publishers accept? We will discuss some modern standards, but we will also look at the work of two great Chinese scholars, the historian Chen Yuan 陳垣 (1880-1971) and the encyclopedist Chen Yuanlong 陳元龍 (1652-1736) and discuss what the standards of citation were in their time. Our brief discussion of Chen Yuanlong  and Chen Yuan should help sharpen our analytical skills as we think comparatively about standards of documentation in Chinese and Western journals.

Speaker: Professor Suling Liu, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan UniversityVenue: A203-1, ZJE Builiding, Haining CampusAbstract: Prof. Suling Liu received her PhD. from Ohio State University, She conducted postdoctoral research on cancer stern cells at the University of Michigan Cancer Center and served as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Medical School from 2010 to 2012. Currently, she is the professor in the Institutes of Biomedical Sciences at Fudan University. Prof. Liu is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the National High-Level Talents Special Support Program, the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, and Shanghai Leading Talent honors the Susan G.Komen Cancer Foundation Postdoctoral Award, the Arnerican Cancer Society Merck Scholar Award, and the USCACA-NFCR Academic Award. Her research focuses on breast cancer stem cell heterogeneity origins, tumor microenvironment interactions, immune regulation, and the development of novel therapeutic strategies targeting cancer stem cells. In the past five years, she has published 25 papers in international journais including Nature Cell Biology Advanced Science, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Cancer Res, Plos Biology, Clinical Cancer Res, and Molecular Cancer, She has published a total of 7B SCI papers with a total impact factor exceeding 500 and over 10, 000 citations.

Speaker: Ngaiming MOK, The University of Hong KongVenue: 210 Haina Complex Building 2, Zijingang CampusAbstract: In this lecture.I will focus on characterization problems involving VMRT's and sub-VMRTs. This includes the problem of rigidity under projective deformation of rational homogeneous spaces X= G/P of Picard number 1 (Hwang-Mok 2005). the Recognition Problem for the characterization of X = G/P by its VMRT Cx(X) c PTx(X) at a general point(Mok 2008. Hong-Hwana 2008. Hwang-Li 2021) and the problem in algebraic geometry of characterizing certain projective subvarieties of X such as smooth nonlinear Schubert cvcles Hong-Mok 2013. 2021:Mok-Zhang 2019). In addition, we give applications of our study of sub-VMRT structures to rigidity problems conceming proper holomorphic maps on the interface of several complex variables and Cauchy-Riemann geometry (Kim-Mok-Seo 2023) and to the characterizationof certain holomorphic isometric embeddings of the complex unit ball in Kähler geometry(Mok-Yang)