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15/OCT.
15/OCT.
Lecture on "Cross Cultural Adjustment and Emotional Wellbeing"
Speaker:Minyue Zhai, LMHCDate:October 15, 2019Time: 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.Location:501, Tuxi Building, Baotuquan CampusSponsor:SDU Student Counseling CenterOrganizer:Student Affairs Office, Cheeloo College of Medicine & School of Basic Medical SciencesAbstract:Cross Cultural Adjustment is a process that every international student has to go through in his experience of studying abroad. Besides the...
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11/OCT.
11/OCT.
Introduction to Exponential Sums and An Application to Digits
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Stoll, FranceDate: October 11, 2019Time: 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.Location: Room 1044, Block B, Zhixin Building, Central CampusAbstract:This mini-course is a (gentle) introduction to exponential sums with the aim to give an application to a problem concerning digits of integers. In the first four lectures, I will develop the classical theory, such as Weyl's differencing method,...
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15/OCT.
15/OCT.
Lecture on the Adaptive Complexity for Submodular Optimization
Speaker:Xu Dachuan, Professor, College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of TechnologyDate:Oct. 15, 2019Time:9:00am–10:30amLocation:Conference Room 202, Software CampusAbstract:Balkanski and Singer (STOC'18) initiate the study of adaptivity (or parallelism) for maximizing a submodular function with a cardinality constraint. This work invokes subsequent improvements or extensions for subm...
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25/SEP.
25/SEP.
Lecture on a Dynamic Mean-Variance Analysis for Log Returns
Speaker:Dai Min, National University of SingaporeDate: Sept. 25, 2019Time:4:00pm-5:00pmLocation:Lecture Hall 1238, Block B, Zhixin Building, Central CampusSponsor:the School of MathematicsAbstract:We propose a dynamic portfolio choice model with the mean-variance criterion for log-returns. The model yields time-consistent portfolio policies and is analytically tractable even under some incompl...
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26/SEP.
26/SEP.
Lecture on the Sign-changing Solutions for Nonlinear Elliptic Problem with Carrier Type
Speaker:Yan Baoqiang, Professor, Shandong Normal UniversityDate:Sept. 26, 2019Time:9:00am-10:00amLocation:Lecture Hall 1032, Block B, Zhixin Building, Central CampusSponsor: the School of MathematicsAbstract:In this talk, using the fixed-point index method, we are concerned with the existence of sign-changing solutions of the nonlinear elliptic problem with Carrier type.For more information, p...
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03/SEP.
03/SEP.
Lecture on Geometry Using GPU – A Look into Generating Quality Triangulations
Speaker:Tan Tiow Seng, National University of SingaporeDate:Sept. 3, 2019Time:2:00pm-3:30pmLocation:Room 310, Third Floor, Office Building, Software CampusAbstract:This talk is about the use of parallel computational power of GPU to speedup geometric computation. In particular, computation of quality triangulations that are often used in various engineering and scientific applications such as f...
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03/SEP.
03/SEP.
Lecture on G3P3U – Geometry, Graphics and Game (or, P3G3U – Post-graduate & U)
Speaker:Tan Tiow Seng, National University of SingaporeDate: Sept. 3, 2019Time:9:00am-10:30amLocation: Room 310, Third Floor, Office Building, Software CampusAbstract:This is a light/fun talk to demystify (and encourage) young mind on doing (academic) research. We will go through the “principles” (P3: Problem, Process, Product) of research with examples from Geometry, Graphics and Game (G3). ...
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06/SEP.
06/SEP.
Lecture on "Surface Hopping Description of Nonadiabatic Dynamics in Extended Systems"
Speaker:Linjun Wang, Professor,Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang UniversityDate:September 6, 2019Time: 10:00 amLocation:Hall 1113, Block C, Zhixin Building, Central CampusSponsor:the School of PhysicsAbstract:Due to the ease of implementation and good balance between efficiency and reliability, surface hopping has become one of the most widely used mixed quantum-classical methods for studying g...