Date :

 07-10,December 2007

Place :

 07, 10 December 2007: The auditorium on 1st floor, Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica, Taipei

 08-09 December 2007: Room B03 of Science Building, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Chungli

 National Center for Theoretical Sciences (Critical Phenomena and Complex Systems Focus Group)

 Department of Physics, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Chungli

 Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica (Taipei)

    Welcome to attend "2007 NCTS December Workshop on Critical Phenomena and Complex Systems" at Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica on 7 and 10 December 2007 and Chung-Yuan Christian University (CYCU) on 8 and 9 December 2007.  If you will attend the workshop and/or you need a hotel room at  Academia Sinica (for the nights of 6 and 7 December) or CYCU (for the night of 8 December), please send a message and your contact information to Miss Shumin Yang 楊淑閔 (E-mail: shumin@phys.sinica.edu.tw, phone: 02-27822467, 0921-990-461) on or before 5 December 2007.
   At 8:20 on 8 December 2007, a minibus will park in the front of Academic Activity Center of Academia Sinica. The bus will leave for National Palace Museum at 8:30 on 8 December 2007. A free guided tour of National Palace Museum will take place from 9:20 to 11:10. The bus will leave National Palace Museum for Chung-Yuan Christian University at 11:20. The talks at CYCU will begin at 14:00 on 8 December in room B03 (in basement) of Science Building (Building 30 in the map http://www.cycu.edu.tw/cycu/newcycu/main/campus.html). If you will attend the workshop at CYCU and will take the minibus, please send a message to Miss Shumin Yang on or before 5 December 2007. If you will not attend the workshop at CYCU, please do not take the mini-bus.
   After the workshop on 9 December at CYCU, the minibus will take the participants back to Taipei.

 Miss Chia-Chi Liu (Secretary, Physics Division, NCTS)
 Tel:(886)-2-33665566; Fax:(886)-2-33665565; E-mail: ccliu@phys.ntu.edu.tw

 Miss Shu-Min Yang (Assistant of LSCP, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)

 Tel: (886)-2-2782-2467, or (886)-2-27880058 ext. 6012; FAX: (886)-2-2782-2467; E-mail: shumin@phys.sinica.edu.tw

Schedule :

 7 December (Friday) 

Prof. Zbigniew Struzik

(Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN; E-mail: zbigniew.struzik (a) gmail.com)

Increased Complexity of Heart Rate in Fatal Heart Failure

[Abstract]

Prof. Chung-Yuan Mou

(Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, TAIWAN; E-mail: Cymou@ccms.ntu.edu.tw)

Experimental Studies on Deeply Cooled Water

[Abstract]

Dr. Pradeep Kumar

(Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University, USA; E-mail: pradeep.kumar@rockefeller.edu)

Anomalies of Liquid Water

[Abstract]

Applying Nonlinear Measurements to Analyze EEG Signals

[Abstract]

Prof. Zbigniew Struzik

(Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN; E-mail: zbigniew.struzik (a) gmail.com)

Criticality Singnatures in Human Behavioral Organization

[Abstract]

 8 December (Saturday) 

A free guided tour of National Palace Museum

Bus from National Palace Museum to Chung-Yuan Christian University

Prof. Chi-Tin Shih

(Department of Physics, Tunghai University, TAIWAN; E-mail: ctshih@thu.edu.tw)

Point Mutations Effects on Charge Transport Properties of the Tumor-Suppressor Gene p53

[Abstract]

Tea Break

Dr. D. B. Saakian

(Yerevan Physics Institute, ARMENIA; E-mail: saakian@mail.yerphi.am)

Solution of the Evolution Model with Deletions and Insertions for the Case of General Fitness

[Abstract]

Dr. N. Sh. Izmailian
(Yerevan Physics Institute, ARMENIA; E-mail: izmailan@phys.sinica.edu.tw)

Universal Amplitude Ratios in the Ising Model: Effect of Boundary Conditions

[Abstract]

Prof. Piotr E. Marszalek

(Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, USA; E-mail: pemar@duke.edu)

Mechanical Unfolding and Refolding Reactions of Proteins by Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy

[Abstract]

 9 December (Sunday) 

Prof. Piotr E. Marszalek

(Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, USA; E-mail: pemar@duke.edu)

Nanoscale DNA Diagnostics by AFM

[Abstract]

Dr. Pradeep Kumar

(Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University, USA; E-mail: pradeep.kumar@rockefeller.edu)

Hydration Water and Protein-Glass Transition

[Abstract]

Prof. Zbigniew Struzik

(Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN; E-mail: zbigniew.struzik (a) gmail.com)

Beyond Multifractals and Multiplicative Cascades

[Abstract]

Prof. Hawoong Jeong
(Dept. of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KOREA; E-mail: hjeong@kaist.ac.kr)

Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks (Part I)

[Abstract]

Prof. Hawoong Jeong
(Dept. of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KOREA; E-mail: hjeong@kaist.ac.kr)

Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks (Part II)

[Abstract]

Tea Break

Prof. C.-L. Wu

(Department of Physics, Chung-Yuan Christian University, TAIWAN; Department of Physics, Xiamen University, CHINA; E-mail: cwuhan@hotmail.com)

Fermi Arcs in Cuprate Pseudogap States --- The Recent Development in the SU(4) Model of High-Temperature Superconductivity

[Abstract]

 10 December (Monday) 

Prof. Chia-Fu Chou

(Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, TAIWAN; E-mail: cfchou@phys.sinica.edu.tw)

Single Molecule Analysis in Nanofluidic Channels-How Far Can We Go?

[Abstract]

Prof. Piotr E. Marszalek

(Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, USA; E-mail: pemar@duke.edu)

Investigating Novel Conformations of Sugars by Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy and Computational Methods

[Abstract]