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...

Speaker: Prof. Tao WANG, Nanjing UniversityTime: 15:30—16:30 p.m., March 21, 2024, GMT+8Venue: KIAA-AuditoriumAbstract:Almost every massive galaxy contains a supermassive black hole (BH) at its center. For decades, both theory and numerical simulations have su...

Speaker: Li Sai, Renmin University of ChinaTime: 14:00-15:00 p.m., March 21, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Room 225, Siyuan Hall, Zhihua Building, PKUAbstract:We study estimation and inference for high-dimensional linear models with two types of “proxy data”. The first ty...

Speaker: Stefano Olla (University of Paris-Dauphine, Paris & Gran Sasso Institute of Science, L’Aquila-Italy)Time: 16:00-17:00 p.m., March 19, 2024, GMT+8Venue: 77201, Jingchunyuan 78#, HuaixinyuanAbstract:We derive the heat equation for the thermal energy...

Speaker: Prof. Sergei Fedotov (University of Manchester)Time: 10:15-11:15 a.m., March 19, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Siyuan Hall, Zhihua Building, PKUAbstract:We present a random walk model that incorporates random transition probabilities among a heterogeneous populat...

Speaker: Sergei Fedotov（University of Manchester)Time: 14:00-15:00 p.m., March 18, 2024, GMT+8Venue: Siyuan Hall, Zhihua Building, PKUAbstract:In this talk, we discuss the non-Markovian random walk models involving directional persistence. We suggest several r...