This paper proposes that speakers of languages with strong honorific rules are more deferential to existing ideas and are less likely to initiate new ideas.

Dr. Han is a materials chemist and his research focuses on nanoporous and nanostructured materials for novel applications in gas adsorption/separation, heterogeneous catalysis, and nanophotonics.

Assistant Professor of Finance and William W. Alberts Endowed Professor at the University of Washington PhD in Finance and Economics, 2012 - 2017, Columbia University Research: money and banking, payment, network, asset pricing, macroeconomics

This talk is mainly expository with the purpose of demystifying the Riemann-Roch theorem for Deligne-Mumford (DM) stacks.

In this paper, we give upper bounds for the Hadwiger's covering functional of the simplex and the cross-polytope.

Wenlan Qian is Professor of Finance and Real Estate, and Ng Teng Fong Chair Professor in Real Estate at the NUS Business School. She is fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research, Luohan Academy at Alibaba Group, and the Homer Hoyt Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics. Currently, Wenlan Qian is editor of Real Estate Economics and associate editor of Financial Management.

Yihang Zhu is an assistant professor at University of Maryland. He received his phd at Harvard University under Mark Kisin, and was Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University before joining Maryland. His research interest includes Shimura varieties and affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties.

Dr. George Shan is an Associate Professor in the Accounting and Finance Discipline of the Business School at The University of Western Australia. He holds Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Applied Finance, Master of Commerce (Accounting) and completed his PhD in Accounting and Corporate Governance.

Patrick Bolton, Visiting Professor of Finance at Imperial College London, Past president of the American Finance Association

Speaker:Dr. Ali Matin NazarVenue:Room 429, Chengjun Building 4, West Section, Zijingang Campus

Do financial market developments matter for rank-and-file workers? We find that equity options or credit default swaps (CDS) trading on a firm improves employee welfare ratings. The results are robust to alternative welfare outcome measures including a firm’s selection into ``Best Companies to Work for'', workplace safety, pay inequality and pay level. We further find that derivatives trading decreases managerial short-termism by stimulating informed trades.

Pro. DENG Dongling, an assistant professor of Tsinghua University, focusing on quantum artificial intelligence, quantum information and computation, topological phases of matter, cold atoms and quantum nonequilibrium systems.

Jipeng Zhang is a Professor of Economics and a Research Fellow of the lnstitute of State Governance at the Shandong University. His research interests are public economics, migration and urban development, with a focus on China’s public finance, Hukou reform, and poverty alleviation resettlement.

Motivated by our collaboration with one of the largest fast-fashion retailers in Europe, we study a (in-season) inventory management problem for fast fashion industry when the demand distribution is unknown. This system has a central warehouse that receives an initial replenishment and distributes its inventory to multiple stores in each time period during a finite horizon.

David H. Zhu is a Professor in Management and Entrepreneurship and Dean’s Council Distinguished Scholar at the Arizona State University. His research builds on behavioral theories to examine strategic decision making of top executives and entrepreneurs, innovation, corporate governance, digitalization, and corporate strategy. He also studies the structure of corporate elite networks and resource exchange networks.

Dr. Kim earned PhD in economics from Stanford University. He has taught at various schools including National University of Singapore, Korea and Sogang Universities in Korea, Southern Illinois University, and American University of Sharjah. He joined the Gatton College, University of Kentucky in 1991.

Speaker:Ouyang Fan，ZJU 100 Young Professorand Doctoral supervisorVenue: East 5 Teaching Building, Room 201, Zijingang Campus

Speaker: AcademicianYANG ShufengAcademician of the Chinese Academy of SciencesProfessor of the School of Earth Sciences of ZJUDirector of the Research Center of Petroleum BasinStructure of the Ministry of Education of ChinaVenue: North Teaching Building A105, International Campus

Speaker: Julius Schönherris an assistant professor at Peking University. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 2019 with a thesis on social coordination and the problem of other minds. His research, which has been published in journals such as Philosophical Studies, Synthese and the British Journal of the Philosophy of Science, spans a wide range of topics in social epistemology, the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy. His current focus is on issues concerning epistemic injustice.

Tianyu Wang, an associate professor of Finance at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, mainly researches the asset pricing, financial intermediation and international finance.