Speaker: Siegfried Roth (University of Cologne)Time: 10:00—11:30 a.m., April 2, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Room 101, Jinguang Life Science Building, PKUAbstract:Toll signaling plays a crucial role in pathogen defense throughout the animal kingdom. It was discovered, ho...

Speaker: Prof. Christian A. Nijhuis, Institute for Nanotechnology, University of TwenteTime: 16:00—17:30 p.m., April 1, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Room CB215, CCME, PKUAbstract:Our brains constitute a molecular computer that is able to process enormous amounts of infor...

Speaker: Professor Yuhai Tu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY USA, AAAS Fellow, APS Fellow, Chair of the APS Division of Biophysics (DBIO)Time: 13:00—14:00 p.m., April 1, 2024, GMT+8Venue: B101, Lui Che-woo Building, PKUAbstract:Learn...

Speaker: Prof. Yinyu Ye, Stanford UniversityTime: 14:00 p.m., March 31, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Room 204, Courtyard No.5, JingyuanAbstract:In a static Fisher market, agents (customers) spend a budget of (artificial) currency to buy goods that maximize their utilitie...

Speaker: Bo Zhu, Texas A&M UniversityTime: 09:00—10:00 a.m., March 30, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Zoom Meeting ID: 867 7258 6499 (Passcode: 188353)Abstract:This talk will focus on some metric invariants of Riemannian manifolds, which were introduced by Gromov in th...

Speaker: Pro. Gao Zhihua, Zhejiang UniversityTime: 13:00—14:30 p.m., March 29, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Youcai Deng Lecture Hall, School of Life Sciences, PKUAbstract:Microglia are the primary resident immune cells in the brain. They continuously survey the brain par...

Speaker: Guorong Dai, Fudan UniversityTime: 14:00-15:00 p.m., March 28, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Room 225, Siyuan Hall, Zhihua Building, PKUAbstract:In a nonparametric regression setting, we propose a novel concept of ''individual variable importance'', which refers...

Speaker: Fangzhou Xiao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Engineering, Westlake University, Principle Investigator of the Biomachine Architecture and Control (BMAC) groupTime: 11:00-12:00 a.m., March 28, 2024, GMT+8Venue: B101, Lui Che-woo Building, PKUAbstract:Th...

Speaker: Vlad Markovic (University of Oxford)Time: 15:30—16:30 p.m., March 27, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Room 77201, Jingchunyuan 78, BICMRAbstract:We will discuss the distribution of geometrically and topologically nearly geodesic random surfaces in a closed hyperbol...

Speaker: Prof. Josef Parvizi, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford UniversityTime: 13:00-14:30 p.m., March 26, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Room 1113, Wangkezhen Building, PKUAbstract:For any brain to operate, populations of neurons across anatomical structure...

Speaker: Douglas Hanahan, PhD, Professor, EPFL SwitzerlandTime: 15:00-16:30 p.m., March 25, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Zoom Meeting ID: 872 9350 8081 (Passcode: 725684)Abstract:Dr. Hanahan's research in the past four decades has tremendously shaped the current knowledg...

Speaker: Christopher Roberts, Assistant Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of LawTime: 12:15-13:30 p.m., March 25, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Room207, STL, PKUAbstract:This seminar will explore the history of vagrancy laws in England, the British Empi...