Professor Liang's areas of expertise include financial accounting, analyst forecasts, corporate governance, real estate and market anomalies. Her work has been published in the Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research and other leading industry journals. She is a member of the American Accounting Association. Professor Liang previously taught at George Washington University, Carnegie Mellon University and Georgetown University.

Charles Burnett (MA and PhD Cambridge), Emeritus Professor, Warburg Institute, London, has specialised in the transmission of Arabic science and philosophy to Western Europe, and its subsequent presence in European and world-wide culture. He has documented this by editing and translating several Arabic-Latin texts and original Latin texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and by describing their historical and cultural contexts.

Yucheng Quan is a PhD candidate in economics at HKU Business School, the University of Hong Kong, and was a visiting scholar at Duke University. He applies text-as-data and IO methods to study questions in environmental economics and political economy. Current projects focus on information frictions in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) industry, green certification schemes, and environmental regulation. His work appears in the Journal of Population Economics.

Phyllis Hanson is the Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan Medical School, where she has served as department chair since 2018. She earned a BA in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale and PhD degrees from Stanford, where she studied how autophosphorylation and Ca2+ regulate CaMKII. During postdoctoral work at Yale, she helped establish the parallel architecture of the SNARE complex and the role of NSF-driven disassembly in membrane fusion.

Monther Abu-Remaileh is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Genetics and an Institute Scholar of ChEM-H at Stanford University. He grew up in Palestine and earned his B.Sc. in Genetics from the Jordan University of Science and Technology before completing his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2014. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the Whitehead Institute at MIT before starting his lab at Stanford in 2019.

Alfonso Martinez Arias is currently ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He obtained a PhD from the University of Chicago (1983) and after a postdoc at the MRC Lab of Molecular Biology in Cambridge (UK) became affiliated with the University of Cambridge as a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow and, from 2001, as professor of Developmental Mechanic. In 2021 he moved to Barcelona.

Raphaël Rodriguez is a Research Director at the CNRS and a Principal Investigator at Institut Curie where he holds the Sklodowska-Curie Chair of Chemical Biology. He acquired the knowledge of chemistry and biology from several mentors in the United Kingdom. He leads the Biomedicine Laboratory at Institut Curie and investigates the molecular basis of cancer metastasis.

Peng Xiong received B.Sc. in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1987 and Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 1993. He then spent the next four years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Diego. He joined the Physics faculty of Florida State University in 1997. He is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, an APS fellow, and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University.

Exploiting the introduction of China’s 2018 Northbound Investor Identification System (NIIS) as an exogenous shock to insider trading incentives, we examine the impact of managerial insider trading incentives on firms’ disclosure quality. We find that when managers have lower incentives to engage in insider trading, they provide higher-quality disclosures, evidenced by more precise and accurate management earnings forecasts.

his paper proposes discrete-time approximations to rough continuous-time models of realized variance (RV). The leading rough models can be viewed as autoregressive processes driven by fractional Gaussian noise. We show that the Wold representation of this noise concentrates its dependence at the first lag when the Hurst parameter is below one half.

Prof. Buhui Qiu is Professor of Business and Finance and Head of School of Finance at the University of Sydney Business School. His research examines how technological change, labor-market conditions, information and disclosure, financial networks, and climate-related risks shape corporate behaviour and capital market outcomes. His recent research has a particular focus on corporate innovation and firms' responses to technological and labor-market change.

Ming Li is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests cover topics of the Chinese economy, political economy, and urban economics. Her current research focuses on industrial policy, internal migration and trade, and the political economy of firm dynamics in China. She received the Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Peking University and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Many online shopping platforms allow buyers to upload photos with their product reviews, giving prospective consumers access to visual information beyond seller-provided product images. Yet it remains unclear whether such buyer-generated images help or hurt subsequent sales. We examine the demand consequences of buyer review photos and how their effects depend on the visual information they provide relative to seller images.

For health conditions ranging from the common cold to cancer, patients often face a decision between conservative and aggressive options. For example, a person diagnosed with thyroid nodules might weigh watchful waiting against a minimally invasive thyroidectomy.

Laurent COGNET is a Research Director in Physics at CNRS and Principal Investigator in nanoscience and biophotonics. He is also the director of Laboratoire Photonique Numérique & Nanoscience (LP2N) the joint research Unit of Institut d’Optique Graduate School, CNRS and Univ.Bordeaux. He received his PhD in quantum physics in 1999 from Université Paris-Saclay under the supervision of Alain Aspect.

This lecture explores the stability of viscous incompressible fluids driven by buoyancy, using the Boussinesq equations as a mathematical model. The speaker will introduce a class of stationary fluid states with a strictly increasing background temperature and investigate how the fluid behaves under small perturbations of these states.

Dr. Hari Shroff received a B.S.E. in bioengineering from the University of Washington in 2001, and under the supervision of Dr. Jan Liphardt, completed his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. He spent the next three years performing postdoctoral research in Eric Betzig's lab at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus.

Paul Jackson is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on unemployment, skill mismatch, and life cycle dynamics. He is particularly interested in the relationship between educational attainment and labor market outcomes. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at from the University of California, Irvine in 2020. Since then, he has been an Assistant Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore.

Professor Robert West is Emeritus Professor of Health Psychology at University College London (UCL), founder of PRIME Theory of Motivation, and one of the key co-creators of the COM-B model and the Behaviour Change Wheel. His research has long focused on motivation, addictive behaviours, health behaviour change, and the theoretical development of behaviour interventions, and has had broad international influence in the fields of health psychology and behavioural science.

Professor Susan Michie is Professor of Health Psychology at University College London (UCL), Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change, Co-Director of the UK Behavioural Research Association, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (FSBM), a member of the UK Behavioural Science Policy Research Group.