The Polar Silk Road: China's ambition to become an Arctic great power
13:30-15:00
Talk & Lecture
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2018-09-25
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Venue: Room 507, East 1A Building, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Thomas S. Axworthy is a distinguished senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Previously, he served as Senior Policy Advisor and Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In 1984, Dr. Axworthy joined Harvard University as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government.In 1999, he helped to create the Historica Foundation to improve the teaching and learning of Canadian history, becoming its Executive Director until 2005. To recognize his achievements in heritage education (he initiated the Heritage Minutes), civics, and citizenship, in 2003, he became Chair of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University. In 2009, he became President and CEO of the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation.He was awarded an honorary LLD from Wilfrid Laurier University (2003) and the Public Affairs Association Award of Distinction on November 26th, 2008 by the Public Affairs Association of Canada.
Thomas Axworthy, Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Thomas Axworthy
2018-09-26 15:38:41
Zijingang Campus
Radicals: your life is in their hands
09:30
Talk & Lecture
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2018-09-25
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Venue: Room 205, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: JoAnne Stubbe, the Novartis Professor of Chemistry & Biology at MIT and Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. She was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 2009.
JoAnne Stubbe, the Novartis Professor of Chemistry & Biology at MIT and Member of the US National Academy of Sciences
JoAnne Stubbe
2018-09-26 15:14:17
School of Medicine
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles
14:00-15:30
Talk & Lecture
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849818
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2018-09-18
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Venue: Room 418, School of Economics, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Hans Koster, Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamAbstract:Online short-term housing rental platforms such as Airbnb or Tujia.com, have grown spectacularly in recent years. We focus on Santa Monica, surrounded by the City of Los Angeles, which has severely restricted short-term rentals of entire homes and apartments. We apply a panel regression-discontinuity design around Santa Monica's border. Its 2015 Home Sharing Ordinance (HSO) reduced listings by 70% and prices of single-family homes by 5.5%, with stronger effects in locations attractive to tourists. We do not find that the HSO affected prices of apartments, which points to the presence of substantial negative external effects of short-term rentals within apartment buildings. These results explain why particularly cities with a high share of renters and apartments tend to oppose Airbnb.
Hans Koster, Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hans Koster
2018-09-21 09:08:48
School of Economics
From silk to silkologies: From a communication perspective
10:30-12:30
Talk & Lecture
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849955
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2018-09-17
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Venue: Room 426, the Main Teaching Building, Xixi CampusSpeaker: Daniel Raichvarg, Professor at University of Burgundy
Daniel Raichvarg, Professor at University of Burgundy
Daniel Raichvarg
2018-09-21 17:22:13
Xixi Campus
A network approach to autism neurobiology
10:00
Talk & Lecture
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2018-09-17
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Venue: Room 205, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Matthew P. Anderson, Associate Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology), Harvard Medical School
Matthew P. Anderson, Associate Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology), Harvard Medical School
Matthew Anderson
2018-09-17 15:26:25
School of Medicine
Prospects & challenges of blockchain and the Algorand solution
14:00-15:40
Talk & Lecture
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849036
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2018-09-11
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Venue: Room 211, Run Run Shaw Science Building, Yuquan CampusSpeaker:Silvio Micali, Ford Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Silvio Micali, Ford Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Silvio Micali
2018-09-16 09:53:56
Yuquan Campus
The neurobiology of pair bonding: Implication for autism
10:00
Talk & Lecture
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2018-09-11
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Venue: Room 705, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Larry Young, director of the Center for Translational Social Neuroscience and of the Silvio O. Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition at Emory University in Atlanta.
Larry Young, director of the Center for Translational Social Neuroscience and of the Silvio O. Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition at Emory University in Atlanta
Larry Young
2018-09-13 15:17:10
School of Medicine
Leptospirosis: From rats and urban slums to vaccine development
09:30
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2018-09-10
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Venue: Room 205, Administrative Building, School of Medicinie, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Albert Icksang Ko, Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale School of Public Health
Albert Icksang Ko, Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale School of Public Health
Albert Icksang Ko
2018-09-13 14:32:46
School of Medicine
Life after a nobel prize
10:30-12:00
Talk & Lecture
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2018-09-10
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Venue: Room 212, Run Run Shaw Science Building, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Sir James Fraser Stoddart, professor of chemistry and head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group at Northwestern University. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
Sir James Fraser Stoddart, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Fraser Stoddart
2018-09-12 09:20:00
Yuquan Campus