Indian Philosophy
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2019-04-20
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Speaker: Prof. Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Harvard UniversityTime and venue:April 24-25, 14:05-15:40, Room 1-204, West Teaching Building, Zijingang CampusApril 26, 14:05-15:40, Room 1-207, West Teaching Building, Zijingang CampusApril 29-30, 14:05-15:40, Room 1-203, West Teaching Building, Zijingang CampusContent:1.Philosophy in Classical IndiaPart 1.What is Indian PhilosophyPart 2.Sources of Knowledge2.How to Argue with a BuddhistPart 1.InferencesPart 2.God?3.Words and Sentences4.Aesthetics,Language,and EmotionPart 1.How words workPart 2.Why (some)people like horror movies5.Reading Philosophy--Dignāga and the basis of consciousness
Prof. Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Harvard University
Parimal Patil
2019-04-24 09:52:47
Zijingang Campus
Topological properties of Jackie-Rebbi zero-mode
15:30-16:30
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2019-04-11
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Venue: Room 201, No. 12 Teaching Building, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Prof. XIE Xin-chengProf. Xie obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1988 and became a faculty member in Department of Physics at Oklahoma State University in USA in 1991 and was named Regents Professor in 2004. He worked as Chief Scientist and Director of Laboratory of Condensed Matter Theory and Computation at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2005 to 2010. Professor Xie joined Peking University in 2010 as Chair Professor and Founding Director of International Center for Quantum Materials. In 2011 he was appointed as the Dean of School of Physics at Peking University. Professor Xie assumed the role of Divisional Director of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2016, and Vice President of NSFC in 2018.Professor Xie’s main research interests include quantum Hall effect, quantum transport, topological matter and strongly correlated electron systems. He is an editorial board member of several international peer-reviewed journals, such as a Divisional Associate Editor for Condensed Matter Division of Physical Review Letters (PRL) and the Editor-in-Chief of Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy. He also serves on the international advisory committees of many international conferences and institutes. Professor Xie was elected as a Fellow of American Physical Society in 2008, a Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015 and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2018. Abstract:Ever since its first proposal in 1976, Jackiw-Rebbi zero-mode has been drawing extensive attention for its charming properties including charge fractionalization, topologically protected zero-energy and possible non-Abelian statistics. We investigate these properties through the Jackiw-Rebbi zero-modes in quantum spin Hall insulator. Though charge fractionalization is not manifested, Jackiw-Rebbi zero-mode’s zero-energy nature leads to a double-frequency Aharonov-Bohm effect, implying that it can be viewed as a special case of Majorana zero-mode breaking particle-hole symmetry. Such relation is strengthened since Jackiw-Rebbi zero-modes also exhibit non-Abelian braiding properties in the absence of superconductivity, and the symmetry-protected degeneracy of both Jackiw-Rebbi and Majorana zero-modes is proved to be equally important as the topological gap for their non-Abelian statistics.
Prof. XIE Xin-cheng is Vice President, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Dean, School of Physics, Peking University
XIE Xin-cheng
2019-04-19 09:21:23
Yuquan Campus
Media coverage and debt financing
10:00-12:00
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2019-04-10
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Venue: Room 236, No. 14 Teaching Building, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Dr. Liangliang (Lilian) Jiang is an Associate Professor at the School of Accounting & Finance, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Her research interests include banking and financial institutions, accounting and auditing in corporate governance, economics of regulation and corruption, and environmental economics. Her papers are published or forthcoming in the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics, and others. Her works and views have been presented in major finance conferences such as American Finance Association annual conference (AFA), Western Finance Association annual conference (WFA), European Finance Association annual conference (EFA) and various conferences held by institutions such as Hong Kong Monetary Authority, National Bureau of Economic Research and covered by VoxEU and World Economic Forum, etc.
Dr. Liangliang Jiang is an Associate Professor at the School of Accounting & Finance, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).
Liangliang Jiang
2019-04-19 14:35:13
Yuquan Campus
Relation between blood pressure and pulse wave velocity for human arteries
10:00-11:00
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2019-04-10
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Venue: Room 118, No. 12 Teaching Building, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Yonggang Huang, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern UniversityAbstract:Continuous monitoring of blood pressure, an essential measure of health status, typically requires complex, costly, and invasive techniques that can expose patients to risks of complications. Continuous, cuffless, and noninvasive blood pressure monitoring methods that correlate measured pulse wave velocity (PWV) to the blood pressure via the Moens−Korteweg (MK) and Hughes Equations, offer promising alternatives. The MK Equation, however, involves two assumptions that do not hold for human arteries, and the Hughes Equation is empirical, without any theoretical basis. The results presented here establish a relation between the blood pressure P and PWV that does not rely on the Hughes Equation nor on the assumptions used in the MK Equation. This relation degenerates to the MK Equation under extremely low blood pressures, and it accurately captures the results of in vitro experiments using artificial blood vessels at comparatively high pressures. For human arteries, which are well characterized by the Fung hyperelastic model, a simple formula between P and PWV is established within the range of human blood pressures. This formula is validated by literature data as well as by experiments on human subjects, with applicability in the determination of blood pressure from PWV in continuous, cuffless, and noninvasive blood pressure monitoring systems.
Yonggang Huang, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Yonggang Huang
2019-04-18 09:11:06
Yuquan Campus
What China needs to know about Brexit
18:30-20:30
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2019-04-10
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Venue: Room 250, Mon Mai Wai Building, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Professor Bill DurodieProfessor Durodie is chair of Risk and Security in International Relations, as well as a former head of the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, at the University of Bath in the UK. He was educated at Imperial College London, the London School of Economics and New College Oxford. He obtained his PhD through the Centre for Decision Analysis and Risk Management of Middlesex University.His main research interest is to examine the causes and consequences of contemporary perceptions of risk, as well as how these are framed and communicated across a range of issues relating to security, science and society.Abstract:Brexit appears to confuse, divide and anger people alike. But is it the cause of this, or the consequence of other processes?Certainly, many associates it with the advent of Trump and the rise of so-called populist parties across Europe and beyond.What does this all mean for a China that is growing and looking for predictability in the world order?Britain is not some third-rate power but remains one of the world's largest economies. Now the EU Council have agreed to allow yet another extension to this exhausting and inflammatory process - to 31 October. But it need not end there. Meanwhile many enterprises complain about being in limbo. And next month, the people of Europe, including the UK now, will get a chance to get their voices heard in European Parliament elections. Already Marinne Le Pen in France, the leader of the nationalist Front Nationale, is campaigning on the basis of the EU not allowing the UK to leave. Of course, all of this had been made worse by a fundamental divide between the people, who voted to leave, and their leaders who do not want to. So what, if anything, ought China to know or learn from all this? Are their important lessons in maintaining popular support that even non-democratic countries ought to head?
Professor Durodie is chair of Risk and Security in International Relations, as well as a former head of the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, at the University of Bath in the UK.
Bill Durodie
2019-04-18 09:04:46
Zijingang Campus
Extracting and utilizing in-consumption moment-to-moment dynamics: The case of movie appreciation and live comments
10:00-12:00
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2019-04-10
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Venue: Xixi Hall, 1st floor, Alumni Center, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Yuxin Chen is the Dean of Business and the Distinguished Global Professor of Business at NYU Shanghai, with an affiliation with Stern School of Business, New York University. Prior to NYU Shanghai, Dr. Chen was the Polk Brothers Professor of Retailing and Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and was a tenure professor at NYU Stern. The primary research interests of Dr. Chen include data-driven marketing, Internet marketing, pricing, retailing, competitive strategies, structural empirical models, Bayesian econometric methods, behavioral economics, and marketing in emerging markets. Dr. Chen received his B.S. in Physics from Fudan University, a MSBA and a Ph.D. in Marketing from Washington University in St. Louis. He also studied in Computer Science department in the Graduate School of Zhejiang University. Abstract:This research develops a new approach for in-consumption social listening and demonstrates its value in the context of online movie watching wherein viewers can react to movie content with live comments. Specifically, we propose a novel measure, moment-to-moment synchronicity (MTMS), to capture consumers’ in-consumption engagement. MTMS refers to the synchronicity between temporal variations in the volume of live comments and those in movie content mined from unstructured video, audio, and text data from movies. We demonstrate that MTMS has a significant impact on viewers’ post-consumption appreciation of movies, and it can be evaluated at finer level to identify engaging content. Finally, we discuss the relation between MTMS and existing in-consumption measures and the value of integrating supply-side content information into in-consumption analysis.
This research develops a new approach for in-consumption social listening and demonstrates its value in the context of online movie watching wherein viewers can react to movie content with live comments.
Yuxin Chen
2019-04-18 15:29:51
Alumni Center
Fluorescent chemosensors and imaging agents
13:30
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2019-04-09
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Venue: Room 225, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Tony D James
Tony D James is a Professor at the University of Bath and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and holds a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
Tony D James
2019-04-17 10:21:58
Zijingang Campus
An unforeseen metabolic function for phospholipid and histone methylation
16:00
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2019-04-09
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Venue: Room 457, Nano Building, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Cunqi Ye, Assistant Instructor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Cunqi Ye is an Assistant Instructor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Cunqi Ye
2019-04-15 10:56:24
Nano Building
Informational intervention in mobile banking adoption: Evidences from a randomized field experiment
12:00-13:00
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2019-04-08
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Venue: Room 418, School of Economics, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Christina Li works as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge since 2017. She obtained her PhD degree in real estate finance and economics from the University of Hong Kong in 2017. Christina’s research areas include behavioural economics, household finance, real estate and urban economics, and public policies. She has published in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. She is currently working on a collaborative project between the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) on behavioral sciences and rural finance in China. With the cooperation of local banks, she has been conducting field experiments to help consumers develop good financial habits in rural China.Abstract:As an important part of the development of financial inclusion, mobile banking offers an alternative interface for engaging with bank accounts, which allows customers to access various payment services, such as account bank enquiry, remittance, bill payment and financial management. This functionality provides bank account users in less developed areas great convenience by freeing them from temporal and spatial constraints and enabling them to use bank services at anytime from anywhere. Given these substantial benefits, this paper analyses a randomized field experiment to shed light on the role of information in customers’ decisions to adopt mobile banking via smart phones. By cooperating with a Rural Commercial Bank in China, we randomly introduced specific information regarding mobile bank to customers and examined whether it is possible to affect their behaviours using such a relatively inexpensive informational intervention. We find substantial effects of our relatively mild intervention: the participants that received specific information about mobile bank are more likely to actively use mobile bank to manage their financial services than the participants who received none. We also find that, in comparison to non-users or inactive users, active mobile bank users consume less, which requires fewer remittances and deposits to make ends meet.
By cooperating with a Rural Commercial Bank in China, we randomly introduced specific information regarding mobile bank to customers and examined whether it is possible to affect their behaviours using such a relatively inexpensive informational intervention.
Christina Li
2019-04-12 14:06:23
Yuquan Campus