Jack Needleman, Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman Chair in Health Policy and Management, UCLA

Zuofeng Zhang, Professor, Associate Dean for Research, School of Public Health, UCLA

Riichiro Saito, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Tohoku University

Stanton Gelvin, Edwin Umbarger Distinguished Professor of Biology, Purdue University

HU Feifang​, Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, George Washington University

Jane Mansbridge, Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School

Bjørn Ramberg​, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Oslo

LUO Yulei, Associate Professor, Economics, Hong Kong University

Dr. JIANG Chao, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics, Stanford University

Manyuan Long, Edna K. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago

Dr. WU Jianjun, Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center

John Makeham, Chair and Director, China Studies Research Centre, La Trobe University

Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider​, board director of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Dr. ZHANG Baile​ is an Associate Professor in the Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Nanyang Technological University.

Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider​, board director of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Prof. LI Shanjun​, Faculty Co-Director of the Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER) and Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Agricultural Economics and Public Policy, Cornell University

Dr. YONG Kol Jia, Senior Tutor, Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Venue:Room254,CollegeofPharmaceuticalSciences,ZijingangCampusSpeaker:Prof.BinLIU,headofDepartmentofChemicalandBiomolecularEngineering,NationalUniversityofSingapore

Joel S. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

In this talk, I will describe finite element approximations on both uniform and adaptive meshes, and discuss their convergence properties. I will illustrate the discussions with numerical experiments.