Horror Autoinflammaticus
16:00
Talk & Lecture
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2018-07-11
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Venue: Zijingang Hall, 3th floor, Alumni Center, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Daniel Kastner, scientific director of National Human Genome Research Institute.Dr. Daniel Kastner obtained his A.B. summa cum laude in philosophy from Princeton University and a Ph.D. and M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine. After completing an Internal Medicine residency and chief residency also at Baylor, Dr. Kastner moved to the NIH in 1985. He completed clinical Rheumatology training in the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), and then rose through the NIAMS faculty ranks to become NIAMS Clinical Director from 2005 to 2010. From 2008 to 2011 he was also the first NIH Deputy Director for Intramural Clinical Research. Since late 2010 he has served as Scientific Director of the Division of Intramural Research of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Throughout his career at the NIH Dr. Kastner's research has focused on using genetic and genomic strategies to understand inherited disorders of inflammation, often stimulated by patients seen at the NIH Clinical Center. Dr. Kastner's laboratory identified the gene mutated in familial Mediterranean fever by positional cloning, discovered the genetic basis for a second recurrent fever syndrome they named TRAPS (TNF receptor-associated periodic syndrome), and made seminal genetic discoveries that establish other distinct illnesses as disorders of the IL-1 pathway, thus helping to define the role of IL-1 in human biology and establishing the conceptual basis for therapeutic trials with IL-1 inhibitors. More recently his laboratory has utilized genomic approaches in genetically complex disorders, such as Behçet's disease, and Dr. Kastner continues to maintain a very active clinical research program. His group also proposed the now widely accepted concept of autoinflammatory disease to denote disorders of innate immunity. Dr. Kastner has won a number of awards and honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010 and to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2012.
Dr. Daniel Kastner, scientific director of National Human Genome Research Institute, the United States.
Daniel Kastner
2018-07-17 09:28:20
Zijingang Campus
Nanomaterials for Image Guided Cancer Nanomedicine
10:00
Talk & Lecture
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2018-07-10
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Venue: Room 225, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Northwestern University
Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim is Assistant Professor of Radiology at Northwestern University.
Dong-Hyun Kim
2018-07-16 10:14:23
Zijingang Campus
Universities in Eastern Europe after World War II
9:00-11:00
Talk & Lecture
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819487
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2018-07-04
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Venue: Room 228, Tin Ka-ping Building, Xixi CampusSpeaker: Adam R. Nelson, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Adam R. Nelson is Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Adam Nelson
2018-07-13 08:55:42
Xixi Campus
Forecasting New Product Life Cycle Curves: Practical Approach and Empirical Analysis
9:30-11:30
Talk & Lecture
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819651
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2018-07-04
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Venue: Room 1002, Library & Information Center Building C, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Kejia Hu is an Assistant Professor at Owen Graduate School of Management from Vanderbilt University. Her research interests are empirical research in service management, supply chain management and sustainability. She obtains her Ph.D. from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She has published her research in peer-reviewed journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Energy Policy and others.Abstract:We present an approach to forecast customer orders of ready-to-launch new products that are similar to past products. The approach fits product life cycle (PLC) curves to historical customer order data, clusters the curves of similar products, and uses the representative curve of the new product's cluster to generate its forecast. We propose three families of curves to fit the PLC: Bass diffusion curves, polynomial curves and simple piecewise-linear curves (triangles and trapezoids). Using a large data set of customer orders for 4,037,826 units of 170 Dell computer products sold over three and a half years, we compare goodness-of-fit and complexity for these families of curves. The fitted PLC curves of similar products are clustered either by known product characteristics or by data-driven clustering. Our key empirical finding is that, for our large data set, data-driven clustering of simple triangles and trapezoids, which are simple-to-estimate and explain, performs best for forecasting.
We present an approach to forecast customer orders of ready-to-launch new products that are similar to past products.
Kejia Hu
2018-07-11 15:00:10
Zijingang Campus
How "Funny" is the Cardiac Pacemaking? The Theory and Future Applications
10:00
Talk & Lecture
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819649
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2018-07-04
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Venue: Room 245, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Mirko Baruscotti, Department of Life Sciences, University of Milan
Speaker: Mirko Baruscotti, Department of Life Sciences, University of Milan
Dr. Baruscotti
2018-07-10 13:31:24
Zijingang Campus
Fetal Tissue Engineering: Repairing Disease Before Birth
9:00
Talk & Lecture
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819381
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2018-07-03
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Venue: Room 705, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Diana L. Farmer, chair of the Department of Surgery, UC Davis Health
Dr. Diana L. Farmer, chair of the Department of Surgery, UC Davis Health.
Diana L. Farmer
2018-07-06 10:09:02
School of Medicine
The Impact of Uncertainty of the Emergence of Dominant Platform on Complementors' Across Platform Mobility: A Study of Google's Android and Apple's IOS
12:00-13:00
Talk & Lecture
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2018-07-03
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Venue: Room 1102, Library & Information Center Building C, Zijingang CampusSpeaker:Lori Qingyuan Yue, Marshall Dean’s Associate Professor in Business Administration and Associate Professor of Management and Organization at USC-Marshall School of Business.Abstract:The surpassing of a competing platform over the focal platform in installed bases creates uncertainty surrounding the emergence of a dominant platform. This in turn triggers complementors’ anxiety and thus increases their migration to the competing platform. However, as platform competition evolves and demonstrates that multiple platforms with strategic differentiation (e.g., quality- versus quantity-driven) could coexist, the migration tendency recedes. Consistent with our argument, we find that the increasing gap between installed bases of Android and iOS has an inverted-U effect on iOS developers’ likelihood of moving to Android, and that low performers and free-app developers have been the primary contributors to the inverted-U shaped pattern. App developers that migrate to Android at a highly uncertain time also experience a high rate of product failure.
Lori Qingyuan Yue is Marshall Dean’s Associate Professor in Business Administration and Associate Professor of Management and Organization at University of South California-Marshall School of Business.
Lori Yue
2018-07-05 09:38:38
The History of Cryptography Leading to Blockchain
08:45
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2018-07-02
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Venue: Qiushi Hall, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Whitfield Diffi, one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographickeys, that helped solve key distribution—a fundamental problem in cryptography. Their technique became known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. The article stimulated the almost immediate public development of a new class of encryption algorithms, the asymmetric key algorithms.
Whitfield Diffi, one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography and the 2015 A.M. Turing Award Laureate.
Whitfield Diffi
2018-07-05 11:24:47
Zijingang Campus
Function and Repair of Corticospinal System
10:00
Talk & Lecture
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818854
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2018-07-01
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Venue: Room 715, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Xuhua Wang, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Xuhua Wang is a postdoctoral research fellow from Prof. Zhigang He's Lab at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Xuhua Wang
2018-07-04 16:17:45
School of Medicine