Higher education in China and India
16:00-17:00
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2019-05-13
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Venue: Room 520, Tin Ka-ping Building, Xixi CampusSpeaker: Ruth Hayhoe, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Ruth Hayho, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Ruth Hayhoe
2019-05-17 13:44:15
Xixi Campus
Deciphering glucoside transport in juvenile leaf beetles by omics-methods
10:00
Talk & Lecture
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2019-05-12
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Venue: Room E316, College of Animal Sciences, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Boland, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Boland, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Wilhelm Boland
2019-05-18 09:50:14
Zijingang Campus
Gravitational wave detection event GW170817 rules out general relativity in favor of vector gravity?
14:00-15:00
Talk & Lecture
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2019-05-11
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Venue: Room 201, No. 12 Teaching Building, Yuquan CampusSpeaker:Dr. Anatoly Svidzinsky is now a research associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University. He obtained his Ph. D of physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia in 1997 and Stanford University, USA in 2001. He conducted his post-doctoral research at Stanford University, University of Delaware and Texas A&M University from 2001-2007. Dr. Svidzinsky has a variety of broad interests including Quantum optics, Bose-Einsten condensation, Superconductivity, Chemical physics and Astrophysics. He is a Fellow of the American Optical Society (2018) and has 110 publications with citation over 3500 and H-index 32.Abstract:The observation of gravitational waves by the three LIGO-Virgo interferometers allows the examination of the polarization of gravitational waves. We analyze the binary neutron star event GW170817, whose source location and distance are determined precisely by concurrent electromagnetic observations. Applying a signal accumulation procedure to the LIGO-Virgo strain data, we find ratios of the signals detected by the three interferometers. We conclude that the signal ratios are inconsistent with the predictions of general relativity, but consistent with the recently proposed vector theory of gravity [1,2]. Moreover, we find that vector gravity yields a distance to the source in agreement with the astronomical observations. If our analysis [3,4] is correct, Einstein’s general theory of relativity is ruled out in favor of vector gravity and future gravitational wave detections by three or more observatories should confirm this conclusion with higher precision.
Dr. Anatoly Svidzinsky is now a research associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University.
Anatoly Svidzinsky
2019-05-17 09:54:10
Yuquan Campus
The longitudinal effects of activity tracking and social sharing on fitness improvement: A field experiment on personal training app
10:00-11:30
Talk & Lecture
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2019-05-11
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Venue: Room 1004, Library & Information Building C, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Ben Choi, the Nanyang Technological UniversityBen Choi is an assistant professor in Information Technology and Operations Management at the Nanyang Technological University. He was previously a faculty at the University of New South Wales. Ben received his B Sci and PhD in Information Systems from National University of Singapore. He has been named the Reviewer of the Year 2016 at MIS Quarterly. He has published multiple papers in premier information systems journals including, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems. His research interests focus on mobile healthcare and analytics, information privacy, and social media.Abstract:The growing availability of mobile health technologies, such as activity trackers and mobile apps, have given rise to cost-effective ways to promote regular physical activity. Despite the popularity, the effects of personal training app on improving fitness remains largely mixed. Extending the activity theory to the context of personal training app usage and integrating it with the self-quantification and self-presentation literature, we examine two popular app features, namely activity tracking and social sharing on fitness improvement over time. We also posit that the effects of these features on fitness improvement will interact with in-app achievement frequency, which is expected to reduce over time. To operationalize the study, we conducted a field experiment involving 647 subjects and observed their app usage as well as captured their fitness levels over an 18-month period. Results reveal that personal training app is generally helpful to improving fitness and social sharing enables greater fitness improvement compared with activity tracking. Furthermore, we found that in-app achievement frequency declines over time and this decline diminishes the effects of personal training app on fitness improvement in the long run. We discuss how these findings contribute to the self-quantification literature in information systems and self-presentation research in the human-computer interaction field. We also discuss implications for practice and provide suggestions for future works.
Extending the activity theory to the context of personal training app usage and integrating it with the self-quantification and self-presentation literature, we examine two popular app features, namely activity tracking and social sharing on fitness improvement over time.
Ben Choi
2019-05-17 09:30:30
Zijingang Campus
Effectuation, market ambidexterity and entrepreneurial performance: Evidence from China
09:30-11:30
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2019-05-10
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Venue: Room 1102, Library & Information Building C, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Qing Wang, Professor of Marketing and Innovation, Warwick Business SchoolAbstract:Effectuation plays an important role in decision-making and actions of new ventures, but there are still many inconsistencies in the theoretical understanding of its relationship between entrepreneurial performance. Applying the ambidexterity theory, market ambidexterity in new ventures is used as a mediator variable to explore the logical relationship between effectuation and entrepreneurial performance in the market level. Using data from 186 new enterprises, the empirical analysis shows that effectuation has a significant impact on the balance and interplay between market exploration and market exploitation, and its impact mechanism is different; effectuation also has positive effects on operating performance and growth performance; the balance of market ambidexterity has positive influence on operating performance, while the interplay of market ambidexterity has a significant effect on growth performance. The research conclusions provide several management implications for new ventures to apply effectuation to achieve market ambidexterity and improve entrepreneurial performance.
Qing Wang, Professor of Marketing and Innovation, Warwick Business School
Qing Wang
2019-05-16 10:45:56
Zijingang Campus
Signaling pathways in tumor and tumor immune environment: Insights into novel mechanisms and therapeutic approaches
10:00
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2019-05-09
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Venue: Room 349, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Jean Zhao, Professor, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical SchoolThomas M. Roberts, Professor, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
Jean Zhao & Thomas M. Roberts
2019-05-13 16:59:26
Zijingang Campus
G-quadruplex mediated shifting of mitochondrial heteroplasmy
10:00
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2019-05-09
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Venue: Room 716, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Neal SondheimerThe Hospital for Sick ChildrenStaff PhysicianClinical and Metabolic GeneticsResearch InstituteAssociate ScientistGenetics & Genome BiologyUniversity of TorontoAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Paediatrics
Dr. Neal Sondheimer, Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto
Neal Sondheimer
2019-05-16 14:43:11
School of Medicine
Gene-commensal interactions regulate intestinal barrier integrity
09:30
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2019-05-09
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Venue: Room 205, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Chuan Wu, Investigator, Center for Cancer Research, National Institute of Health
Dr. Chuan Wu, Investigator, Center for Cancer Research, National Institute of Health
Chuan Wu
2019-05-13 14:29:11
School of Medicine
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of small systems: Classical and quantum aspect
15:00-16:00
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2019-05-06
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Venue: Room 201, No. 12 Teaching Building, Yuquan CampusSpeaker:Prof. Haitao Quan (全海涛) obtained his bachelor's degree and his PhD from Central South University and the Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS in 2002 and 2007, respectively. From 2007 to 2012 he was a postdoctoral fellow in Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Maryland, College Park, respectively. He joined the School of Physics, Peking University as a junior faculty in Dec. 2012. He was promoted to full professor with tenure in Dec. 2018. His main research interests lie in statistical physics and quantum physics. He has published more than 40 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals with a total number of citations of more than 2600 times. He received numerous awards, including the National Natural Science Award (2008) and the Distinguished Yong Scholars of NSFC (2018).Abstract:The discovery of Fluctuation Theorems, which rewrite familiar inequalities of macroscopic thermodynamics as equalities, is widely regarded as one of the most prominent breakthroughs in the field of statistical physics in the past two decades. The thermodynamic second law is a simple corollary of fluctuation theorems, from which one can predict quantitatively how often nonequilibrium processes violate the law of entropy increase. Violations disappear in the thermodynamic limit, but can be observed reasonably well in small systems. In this talk, I will briefly introduce the stochastic thermodynamics and derive various Fluctuation Theorems, including their quantum extension. I will also discuss the experimental verification of the Fluctuation Theorems in both classical and quantum regimes.
Prof. Haitao Quan (全海涛), School of Physics, Peking University
QUAN Haitao
2019-05-10 13:49:24
Yuquan Campus