NCTS Weekly Announcement(Mar.5-10,2017 )

National Center for Theoretical Sciences Weekly Announcement
March 5-March 11

NCTS Teatime
Time Tue./Wed./Thu./Fri. 15:00-15:30
Venue Rm 204, NCTS (Astro-Math Bldg., NTU)
NTU Math Teatime
Time Mon. 15:00-15:30
Venue 5F (Astro-Math Bldg., NTU)

NCTS 2017 Spring Day
Speaker Daniel Spector (NTHU)
Chang-HongWu (NUTN)
Fu-TsuiWei (NCU)
Yu-Yen Chien (NCTS)
Jia-Rui Fei (NCTS)
Nadim Rustom (NCTS)
Tomohiro Uchiyama (NCTS)
Chih-Whi Chen (NCTS)
Yong-JieWang (NCTS)
Tsz-On Mario Chan (NCTS)
Hiep Dang (NCTS)
Zheng-Yu Hu (NCTS)
Chih-Wei Chen (NCTS)
Catalin Ion Carstea (NCTS)
Chien-Hao Huang (NCTS)
Manas Kar (NCTS)
Tien-Tsan Shieh (NCTS)
Gyeongha Hwang (NCTS)
Jimbo Yoshinori (NCTS)
Yun-Chang Seol (NCTS)
Edward Ho (NCTS)
Yang-Kai Lue (NCTS)
Chi-Kwong Fok (NCTS)
Time 3/4 (Sat.) 9:00-18:10
Venue Rm 202, NCTS (Astro-Math Bldg., NTU)
Organizer Jungkai Chen (NCTS)

NCTS Reading Seminar on Kinetic Theory
Speaker Jin-Cheng Jiang (NTHU)
I-Kun Chen (Kyoto University)
Title 1. The Milne and Kramers Problems for the Boltzmann Equation
of a Hard Sphere Gas (1)
2. The Milne and Kramers Problems for the Boltzmann Equation
of a Hard Sphere Gas (2)
3. Recent Progress on Boltzmann Equation
Time From 2/20 (Mon.) to the end of Sept., Every 2Weeks
2/20 (Mon.) 11:00-12:30, 13:30-15:00
3/2 (Thu.) 11:00-12:30, 13:30-15:00
3/13 (Mon.) 11:00 12:30, 13:30 15:00
The upcoming meetings are to be arranged.
Venue Meeting Room, Dept. of Math, NCKU
Organizer Kazuo Aoki (Kyoto University)
Kung-ChienWu (NCKU)

2017 Spring ProbabilityWorkshop
Speaker Van Hao Can (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology)
Guan-Yu Chen (NCTU)
May-Ru Chen (NSYSU)
Yuki Chino (Universiteit Leiden)
Ryoki Fukushima (RIMS, Kyoto University)
Jesse Goodman (University of Auckland)
Jyy-I Hong (NSYSU)
Chien-Hao Huang(NCTS
Panki Kim (Seoul National University)
Takashi Kumagai (RIMS, Kyoto University)
Yi-Shen Lin (AS)
Gi-Ren Liu (NCKU)
Shang-Yuan Shiu (NCU)
Kenkichi Tsunoda (Kyushu University)
JianWang (Fujian Normal University)
Xian-YuanWu (Capital Normal University)
Time 3/6-8 (Mon.)-(Wed.)
Venue Lecture Hall, 6F, Astro-Math Bldg., NTU
Organizer Chii-Ruey Hwang (AS)
Yuan-Chung Sheu (NCTU)
Shuenn-Jyi Sheu (NCU)
Akira Sakai (Hokkaido University)
Lung-Chi Chen (NCCU)

2017 NCTSWorkshop on Applied Mathematics at Tainan
Speaker Yan-Yu Chen (TKU)
Chien-Hong Cho (NCCU)
Daisuke Furihata (Osaka University)
Takeshi Gotoda (Kyoto University)
Tetsuya Ishiwata (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
Tatsuki Kawakami (Osaka Prefecture University)
Toshiko Ogiwara (Josai University)
Masahiko Shimojo (Okayama University)
Chi-Jen Wang (THU)
Time 3/6 (Mon.) 10:00-17:10
Venue Gezhi Science Hall C305, Dept. of Applied Math, NUTN
Organizer Jong-Shenq Guo (TKU)
Yin-Liang Huang (NUTN)
Tetsuya Ishiwata (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
Chang-HongWu (NUTN)
Tzung-Shin Yeh (NUTN)

Taipei Postdoc Seminar
Speaker Saud Hussein (AS)
Title Sieve Methods in Analytic Number Theory
Time 3/8 (Wed.) 11:00-12:30
Venue Rm 202, NCTS (Astro-Math Bldg., NTU)
Organizer Yu-Yen Chien (NCTS)
Jyun-Ao Lin (AS)

2017 Conference on Advanced Topics and Auto Tuning in High-Performance Scientific Computing (ATAT 17)
Speaker Ray-Bing Chen (NCKU)
Nan-Yow Chen (National Center for High-Performance Computing)
Minghung Chen (NTU)
Cheng-Ying Chou (NTU)
Yung-Yu Chuang (NCU)
Paul G Crumley (IBM Research)
Ryusuke Egawa (Tohoku University)
Akihiro Fujii (Kogakuin University)
Efstratios Gallopoulos (University of Patras)
Feng-Nan Hwang (NCU)
Akihiro Ida (University of Tokyo)
Toshiyuki Imamura (RIKEN)
Hsueh-Fen Juan (NTU)
Takahiro Katagiri (Nagoya University)
Kazuhiko Komatsu (Tohoku University)
Cheng-Ying Kuo (NUK)
Tsung-Lin Lee (NSYSU)
Te-Sheng Lin (NCTU)
Koki Masui (Nagoya University)
Toru Nagai (Nagoya University)
Kengo Nakajima (University of Tokyo)
Junji Nakano (Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
Satoshi Ohshima (University of Tokyo)
Wen-Chih Peng (National Chiao Tung University)
Reiji Suda (University of Tokyo)
Daisuke Takahashi (University of Tsukuba)
Hiroyuki Takizawa (Tohoku University)
Teruo Tanaka (Kogakuin University)
WeichungWang (NTU)
Time 3/10-11 (Fri.)-(Sat.)
Venue Rm 202, NCTS (Astro-Math Bldg., NTU)
Organizer Takahiro Katagiri (Nagoya University)
Reiji Suda (University of Tokyo)
WeichungWang (NTU)

NCTS Seminar on Mathematical Biology
Speaker Chang-HongWu (NUTN)
Title Free Boundary Problems Arsing in Mathematical Ecology
Time 3/10 (Fri.) 14:30-16:30
Venue Lecture Room B, 4th Floor, The 3rd General Bldg., NTHU
Organizer Sze-Bi Hsu (NTHU)
Feng BinWang (CGU)

Course
2017 NCTS Spring Course: Topics on Abelian Varieties and Shimura Varieties
Instructor Chia-Fu Yu (AS)
Time 2/14-6/13, Every (Tue.) 9:00-12:00, and (Fri.) 10:10-12:00
Venue Rm 609, Astro-Math Bldg., NTU
Organizer Chia-Fu Yu (AS)
An Introduction to Equivariant Cohomology
Instructor Loring Tu (Tufts University)
Reference Raoul Bott and Loring W. Tu, Elements of Equivariant Cohomology,
to be published by Springer. Manuscript available from the
instructor.
Time 15:30-17:20 (Mon.), and 12:20-14:10 (Fri.), 9 weeks starting from 2017/2/20
Venue Rm 440, NCTS (Astro-Math Bldg., NTU)
2/20 (Mon.), 2/24 (Fri.), 3/3 (Fri.) Online Meeting, Lecture Room
B, 4th Floor, The 3rd General Bldg., NTHU
Organizer Jungkai Chen (NTU)

High Performance Computing and Deep Learning
Instructor Part I:
Takahiro Katagiri (Nagoya University)
Kengo Nakajima (The University of Tokyo)
Part II:
Ting-Li Chen (AS)
Su-Yun Huang (AS)
WeichungWang (NTU)
Program Part I: High Performance Computing
2/21-24 (Tue.)-(Fri.) 9:10-12:00, 13:10-17:00
Part II: Deep Learning
3/23, 3/30, 4/6, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27 (Thu.) 12:20-15:10
Venue Part I: Rm 301, Astro-Math Bldg., NTU
Part II: Rm 202, NCTS (Astro-Math Bldg., NTU)
Organizer WeichungWang (NTU)

Upcoming Event
NCTS Data Science Forum
Speaker Yu-Te Wu (NYMU)
Title Quantification of Brain Magnetic Resonance Images and Applications
Time 3/30 (Thu.) 10:00-12:00
Venue Rm 440, NCTS (Astro-Math Bldg., NTU)
Organizer Jungkai Chen (NCTS/NTU)
WeichungWang (NTU)
HautiengWu (University of Toronto/NCTS)

NCTSWorkshop on Singularities, Linear Systems, and Fano Varieties
Speaker Florin Ambro (Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy)
Caucher Birkar (University of Cambridge)
Yifei Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Yoshinori Gongyo (University of Tokyo)
Jingjun Han (Peking University)
Zheng-yu Hu (NCTS)
Kenta Hashizume (Kyoto University)
Chen Jiang (Kavli Institute for The Physics and Mathematics of
The Universe)
Ching-Jui Lai (NTU)
Yusuke Nakamura (University of Tokyo)
Joe Waldron ( ´ Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne )
Jinsong Xu (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
Time 4/13-16 (Thu.)-(Sun.)
Venue Rm 202, NCTS (Astro-Math Bldg., NTU)
Reference [1] Anti-pluricanonical systems on Fano varieties
[2] Singularities of linear systems and boundedness of Fano varieties
[3] Effectivity oflitaka fibrations and pluricanonical systems of
polarized pairs
Organizer Caucher Birkar (University of Cambridge)
Jungkai Chen (NTU/NCTS)
Yujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo/NCTS)

InternationalWorkshop on Harmonic Analysis and Geometric Analysis
Speaker Sheng-Ya Feng (Fudan University)
Kenro Furutani (Tokyo University of Science)
Jin-Cheng Jiang (NTHU)
Ting-Jung Kuo (NTNU)
Sin-Hua Lai (NCU)
Ming-Yi Lee (NCU)
Jeng-Eng Lin (George Mason University)
Chin-Cheng Lin (NCU)
Irina Markina (University of Bergen)
D.H. Phong (Columbia University)
Wolfgang Schulze (University of Potsdam)
Daniel Spector (NCTU)
WeiWang (Zhejiang University)
Time 5/23-25 (Tue.)-(Thu.)
Venue Rm 440, NCTS (Astro-Math Bldg., NTU)
Organizer Der-Chen Chang (Georgetown University)
Chun-Yen Shen (NCU)

2017 NCTS Workshop on Dynamical Systems
Speaker Shigeki Akiyama (University of Tsukuba
Chih-Hung Chang (NUK)
Yi-Chiuan Chen (AS)
Huyi Hu (Michigan State University)
Yunping Jiang (The City University of New York)
Tomoki Kawahira (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Shin Kiriki (Tokai University)
Wei-Yuan Qiu (Fudan University)
Hiroshige Shiga (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Hiroki Takahasi (Keio University)
Jui-Pin Tseng (NCCU)
Masato Tsujii (Kyushu University)
Time 5/25-27 (Thu.)-(Sat.)
Venue Rm 202, NCTS (Astro-Math Bldg., NTU)
Organizer Jung-Chao Ban (NDHU)
Kuo-Chang Chen (NTHU)
Yi-Chiuan Chen (AS)
Cheng-Hsiung Hsu (NCU)
Ming-Chia Li (NCTU)