Distinguished Visiting Scholars

Year
2019/20

Professor Stephen FIGLEWSKI

New York University Stern School of Business

Visitation: Oct 2019 Discipline: Business

Lecture Topics:

Volatility and Stock Options Extracting Market Expectations and Risk Premia from Stock Index Options

Year
2018/19

Professor Paul PHAROAH

University of Cambridge

Visitation: Nov 2018 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Understanding why cancer tends to run in families? Are we ready for genetic testing in the populations?

Year
2017/18

Professor Erkko AUTIO

Imperial College Business School, London

Visitation: Oct 2017 Discipline: Business

Lecture Topics:

Digitalisation, entrepreneurship, and the economy of the future What does internationlization mean in the digital age?

Year
2016/17

Professor Steven CHU

Stanford University

Visitation: Oct 2016 Discipline: Physics

Lecture Topics:

A Random Walk in Science Energy, Climate Change and Low Cost Path Forward

Year
2015/16

Professor Inez FUNG

University of California, Berkeley, USA

Visitation: Oct 2015 Discipline: Atmospheric Sciences

Lecture Topics:

CO2 Life Fantastic: The Global Carbon Cycle Plants, Water and Climate

Year
2014/15

Professor David C GEARY

University of Missouri

Visitation: Oct 2014 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

Early Predictors of Mathematics Achievement and Achievement Growth Evolution of Trait Vulnerability

Year
2013/14

Professor Shu CHIEN

University of California

Visitation: Oct 2013 Discipline: Medicine/Engineering

Lecture Topics:

Perspectives in Biology, Medicine and Engineering Interplays between Biology - Medicine - Engineering and Humanities - Societies

Year
2012/13

Professor CHEN Yuan-tsong

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Visitation: Nov 2012 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Preventing Drug Toxicity with a Gene Test Challenges of New Drug Development: From Laboratory to Clinic to Hollywood

Year
2011/12

Professor Herman S. CHEUNG

University of Miami

Visitation: Oct 2011 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Advances and challenges of stem cell-based regenerative medicine Can entrepreneurship co-exist with academia research?

Year
2010/11

Professor Sam GLUCKSBERG

Princeton University

Visitation: Oct 2010 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

Moral Hazards and Media Hazards: How Metaphors Shape Thought and Social Policy

Year
2010/11

Professor Kay DEAUX

City University of New York

Visitation: Oct 2010 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

To Be an Immigrant: Changing Places and Faces

Year
2008/09

Professor QIN Dahe

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Visitation: Oct 2008 Discipline: Meteorology

Lecture Topics:

Global warming and the socio-economic development of China

Weather hazards in a changing climate and their relevance to China's sustainability

The first Chinese at South Pole: Global warming from the perspective of polar exploration

Year
2007/08

Professor ZHANG Yaping

Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS

Visitation: Nov 2007 Discipline: Zoology

Lecture Topics:

The origin and evolution history of Chinese: insight from DNA

Mitochondrial population genomics of Asian

Year
2006/07

Professor YUAN Longping

China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center

Visitation: Mar 2007 Discipline: Biology

Lecture Topics:

Progress in Breeding of Super Hybrid Rice

Year
2006/07

Professor F Sherwood ROWLAND

University of California (Irvine), USA

Visitation: Oct 2006 Discipline: Chemistry

Lecture Topics:

Stratospheric Ozone Depletion

Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming and Climate Change

Year
2005/06

Professor Stanley N COHEN

Stanford University, USA

Visitation: Nov 2005 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Knowledge and Fear of Knowledge: Dual Legacies of the New Genetics

Discovering and Inactivating Host Cell Genes Exploited by Infectious Microbes

Year
2005/06

Professor Peter C ORDESHOOK

California Institute of Technology, USA

Visitation: Mar 2006 Discipline: Political Science

Lecture Topics:

Theoretical Underpinnings of Constitutional Design for New Democracies

The Uses and Misuses of Game Theory in Political Science

Year
2004/05

Professor Michael C CORBALLIS

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Visitation: Feb 2005 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

Where did language come from?

Why is our right brain different from our left brain?

Year
2004/05

Professor Yuk-ling YUNG

California Institute of Technology, USA

Visitation: Oct 2004 Discipline: Planetary Science

Lecture Topics:

Are We Alone in the Universe? Did the Sunspot Cycle Cause the Fall of the Ming Dynasty?

Year
2003/04

Professor QIAN Zeng-yi

Shandong University, PRC

Visitation: Mar 2004 Discipline: Chinese Language

Lecture Topics:

Man Tan Fang Yang. Fan Yan Xie

Year
2003/04

Professor DONG Zhi-an

Shandong University, PRC

Visitation: Mar 2004 Discipline: Chinese Language

Lecture Topics:

漫談我國古代典籍的保存與古文獻學的學科建設

Year
2002/03

Professor Yuan T LEE

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Visitation: Mar 2003 Discipline: Chemistry

Lecture Topics:

Global Trends in Educational Reform Molecular Beams/Chemical Dynamics

Year
2002/03

Professor Tony F. CHAN

University of California (LA), USA

Visitation: Nov 2002 Discipline: Mathematics

Lecture Topics:

Geometry, PDEs, Fluid Dynamics and Image Processing

What's Math got to do with it?

Year
2001/02

Professor Richard J. ESTES

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Visitation: Mar 2002 Discipline: Social Work

Lecture Topics:

Trends in World Social Development: Implications for Hong Kong and Other Well-Off Societies

Threats to World Social Development: Obstacles and Opportunities at the Beginning of a New Century

Year
2001/02

Professor M. Frederick HAWTHORNE

University of California (LA), USA

Visitation: Nov 2001 Discipline: Chemistry

Lecture Topics:

Roles of Boron Chemistry in Medicine

Why I Chose Chemistry?

Year
2000/01

Professor Paul. M. VANHOUTTE

Institut de Recherches Internationale Server, France

Visitation: Mar 2001 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

From Gas to Intercellular Message: Nitric Oxide

Drug Discovery: The Ultimate Pharmacological Challenge

Year
2000/01

Professor Kenneth A. DODGE

Duke University, USA

Visitation: Nov 2000 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

How Aggressive Behavior Develops in Children and Adolescents

The Prevention of Chronic Violence in Adolescents

Year
1999/00

Professor Arthur B. ELLIS

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Visitation: Feb 2000 Discipline: Material Science

Lecture Topics:

Customizing Materials for the 21st Century

Teaching Science and Engineering through Materials Science

Year
1999/00

Professor Janice M. MORSE

University of Alberta, Canada

Visitation: Nov 1999 Discipline: Nursing

Lecture Topics:

The Contribution of Qualitative Inquiry to Health Care Research

The Hope Project Research to Understand, Assess and Intervene

Is There Anything New to Learn about Suffering?

Year
1998/99

Professor Harry HARDING

The George Washington University, USA

Visitation: Mar 1999 Discipline: Political Science

Lecture Topics:

The U.S. and Asia: Trans-Pacific Relations Towards a New Century – Security

The U.S. and Asia: Trans-Pacific Relations Towards a New Century – Economics

Year
1998/99

Professor Marilyn S. ALBERT

Harvard Medical School, USA

Visitation: Oct 1998 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

Cognitive Change in Normal Aging

Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementing Disorders

Correlates of Cognitive Function in Relation to Aging and Dementia: A Review of Findings on MRI, qEEG, PET, SPEC and MRI

Year
1997/98

Professor John W. REPS

Cornell University, USA

Visitation: Mar 1998 Discipline: Architecture

Lecture Topics:

Canberra 1912: Lost Plans and Forgotten Contestants of an International Planning Competition

Making the American Capital: The Planning and Development of Washington, D.C.

Cutting Down the Hills and Pushing Back the Sea: American Experience with Reclaiming Land for Development

Year
1997/98

Dr. David Da-i HO

Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, USA

Visitation: Dec 1997 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

The AIDS Epidemic and Prospects for Control

Year
1996/97

Professor Gillian BROWN

Cambridge University, UK

Visitation: Mar 1997 Discipline: English Language

Lecture Topics:

English as an International Language - What Does It Mean?

Developments of Listening Comprehension in the Last Thirty Years

Interpretation and Context

Year
1996/97

Dr. Leroy CHIAO

NASA Space Center, USA

Visitation: Nov 1996 Discipline: Space Science

Lecture Topics:

My Experiences as a NASA Astronaut

Year
1996/97

Professor Chia-ying YEH

University of British Columbia, Canada

Visitation: Oct 1996 Discipline: Chinese Language

Lecture Topics:

The Development of the Song Lyric from Five Dynasties to C'hing Dynasty

Attitudes Toward the Song Lyric During the C'hing Dynasty

Major Song Lyric Writers of C'hing Dynasty

Year
1995/96

Professor Shupeng CHEN

Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Visitation: Mar 1996 Discipline: Science

Lecture Topics:

Current Remote Sensing Applications in China

Geo-informatics for Regional Modeling Analysis

Coastal Zone and its Sustainable Development

Year
1995/96

Professor Graham J. FISHBURNE

University of Alberta, Canada

Visitation: Nov 1995 Discipline: Education

Lecture Topics:

Key Teaching Behaviours for Effective University Teaching

Ideas to Enhance Teacher Development at the University Level

Developmentally Appropriate Physical Education for Children

Year
1994/95

Professor James CAHILL

University of California, USA

Visitation: Mar 1995 Discipline: Art History

Lecture Topics:

Poetic Painting in Sung-dynasty China

Poetic Painting in Late Ming China

Poetic Painting in Edo-period Japan

Year
1994/95

Professor Feng-sheng HE

Institute of Occupational Medicine, PRC

Visitation: Nov 1994 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Chemical Toxicity on the Nervous System Recognition and Prevention

"Biomarkers" in Monitoring Occupational and Environmental Chemical Exposure

Current Global Needs in Occupational Health

Year
1993/94

Professor Janos KORNAI

Harvard University, USA

Visitation: Mar 1994 Discipline: Finance

Lecture Topics:

The Evolution of Financial Discipline in Postsocialist Transition

Transformational Recession

Year
1993/94

Professor Sidney GREENBAUM

University College London, UK

Visitation: Nov 1993 Discipline: English Language

Lecture Topics:

English as an International Language

Corpus Linguistics

The English Language in Britain Today

Year
1992/93

Professor Richard PORTES

University of London, UK

Visitation: Mar 1993 Discipline: Economics

Lecture Topics:

A Difficult Departure

Proposals for Progress

Year
1992/93

Professor Kwang-chung YU

Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Visitation: Feb 1993 Discipline: Chinese Language

Lecture Topics:

杖底煙霞－中國山水遊記的藝術

藝術的美與醜

Year
1991/92

Professor Jonathan SPENCE

Yale University, USA

Visitation: Mar 1992 Discipline: History

Lecture Topics:

China in the West: Coming to Terms with the New

China in the West: System Building and Imagination

Year
1991/92

Professor B. SCHLESINGER

University of Toronto, Canada

Visitation: Oct 1991 Discipline: Social Work

Lecture Topics:

One Parent Families in Cross-Cultural Perspectives

The Sandwich Generation: Three Stresses and Satisfactions

Families That Last

Year
1990/91

Professor Wlodzimierz BRUS

Oxford University, UK

Visitation: Nov 1990 Discipline: Sociology / Economics

Lecture Topics:

Concept: Marxist Claim to Superiority

Reality: Experience of Eastern Europe

Prospects: Reformor Replacement?

Year
1989/90

Professor Jan. SVARTVIK

Lund University, Sweden

Visitation: Nov 1989 Discipline: English Language

Lecture Topics:

Is There a Place for Grammar in a Communicative Approach to Language Teaching?

On the Study of Spoken English

Corpus Linguistics: The Compilation, Distribution and Use of Machine-Readable Texts in the English Language

Year
1988/89

Professor Ky FAN

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Visitation: Apr 1989 Discipline: Mathematics

Lecture Topics:

Game Theory and its Influences

Analytic Functions of Linear Operators

Convexity Theorems in Fixed Point Theory

Year
1988/89

Professor Robin M. NORRIS

Auckland University, New Zealand

Visitation: Nov 1988 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Coronary Heart Disease: A Changing Perspective

Acute Myocardial Infraction: A Disease of the Twentieth Century

Disorders of Function due to Myocardial Ischaemia: Myocardial Stunning and Postsystolic Shortening

Year
1987/88

Professor Norton GINSBURG

East-West Center, USA

Visitation: Jan 1988 Discipline: Geography

Lecture Topics:

Precepts and Problems Regarding American Cities

Emerging Regions of Rural-Urban Interaction in Asia

Peking and Tientsin: The Problem of Water Supply in Chinese Cities

Year
1986/87

Dr. Franklin CHANG-DIAZ

NASA Plasma Fusion Center, USA

Visitation: Nov 1986 Discipline: Space Science

Lecture Topics:

Space Shuttle Program

Year
1986/87

Professor Shing-shen CHERN

Nankai University, PRC

Visitation: Nov 1986 Discipline: Mathematics

Lecture Topics:

What is Geometry?

My Teaching Experience: Development of Mathematics in China in the Past Sixty Years

Differential Geometry and Theoretical Physics

Year
1986/87

Professor K.C. CHANG

Harvard University, USA

Visitation: Sep 1986 Discipline: Archaeology

Lecture Topics:

Art of the Chinese Bronze Age

Shamanism and Politics in Ancient China

A New Paradigm For the Rise of Civilizations

Year
1985/86

Professor Lawrence J. LAU

Stanford University, USA

Visitation: Mar 1986 Discipline: Economics

Lecture Topics:

Relationships Among Macro Variables

Identifying the Parts From the Sum

Models of Macro and Micro Behavior

Year
1984/85

Professor Peng-yuan CHANG

Taiwan Normal university, Taiwan

Visitation: Apr 1985 Discipline: History

Lecture Topics:

近代中國的政治領導階層

Year
1984/85

Professor Samuel FINER

Oxford University, UK

Visitation: Dec 1984 Discipline: Political Science

Lecture Topics:

Intervention

Power

Abdication

Year
1983/84

Professor Ezra VOGEL

Harvard University, USA

Visitation: Jan 1983 Discipline: Sociology

Lecture Topics:

The Recent Rise of Japan

The World's Response to Japan's Rise

The New Stage of Industrial Societies

Year
1982/83

Professor Stuart SCHRAM

University of London, UK

Visitation: Apr 1982 Discipline: History

Lecture Topics:

The Apprenticeship of a Revolutionary

A Quarter Century of Achievement

The Final Phase: From Apotheosis to Oblivion

Year
1981/82

Professor C.N. YANG

State University of N.Y, USA

Visitation: Jan 1982 Discipline: Physics

Lecture Topics:

Symmetry and th Physics of the Twentieth Century

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