Schedule

  • 09:00-10:05
    Opening Remarks & Special Lecture Speech Topic: Decoding Academia Sinica: Its Philosophy, Strategy, and Recent Progress
    James C. Liao International Conference Hall, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB)

    Speaker: James C. Liao

    Title: President

    Language: Chinese

    Description: What has AS accomplished in recent years? To get a glimpse of its current status, I will describe my view/vision of its philosophy, goals and strategies as well as how the institution has designed systems to achieve these goals. The implementation of these strategies has helped shape the research advancement and the recent achievements AS has attained will also be discussed.

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  • 10:05-10:40
    Global Taiwan as a Counter-Concept to Global China
    Jieh-Min Wu International Conference Hall, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB)

    Speaker: Jieh-Min Wu

    Title: Distinguished Research Fellow

    Language: Chinese

    Description: "Global China" has emerged as a pivotal academic concept in the wake of China's rise. In an era of rapidly shifting geopolitical dynamics, Taiwan’s global importance and contributions are gaining unprecedented visibility. This talk introduces "Global Taiwan" as a critical conceptual counterpart to Global China—one that not only underscores Taiwan’s strategic position in the intensifying U.S.-China rivalry, but also foregrounds its evolving role as a resilient democracy, a chip-making powerhouse, and a key player in the global order.

  • 11:00-11:35
    Decoding the Melody of Life: Unlocking New Horizons in Disease Diagnosis through Proteomic Technologies
    Yu-Ju Chen International Conference Hall, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB)

    Speaker: Yu-Ju Chen

    Title: Distinguished Research Fellow

    Language: Chinese

    Description: Proteins are the notes in life’s symphony. Advances in mass spectrometry enable deep decoding of the human proteome and disease mechanisms. This talk highlights our cross-disciplinary journey- from technological innovation to launching the Taiwan Cancer Moonshot, revealing the pathogenesis of non-smoking lung cancer and driving progress in precision oncology.

  • 11:35-12:10
    Precision Medicine in Taiwan: Past, Present, and Future
    Pui-Yan Kwok International Conference Hall, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB)

    Speaker: Pui-Yan Kwok

    Title: Academician/Visiting Professor

    Language: Chinese

    Description: Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (TPMI), a consortium consisting of researchers from Academia Sinica and 16 Medical Centers across Taiwan, has built a cohort of 500,000 participants and analyzed their clinical and genetic data to produce polygenic risk scores (PRS) for risk predictions of many complex diseases. The results of this study will lead to disease prevention and precision health management.

  • 12:10-12:45
    The Architecture of Taiwan's Biodiversity: Tracing Evolution through Ancient Lineages
    Sheng-Feng Shen International Conference Hall, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB)

    Speaker: Sheng-Feng Shen

    Title: Research Fellow

    Language: Chinese

    Description: Taiwan, as a continental island, exhibits biodiversity shaped not only by historical land bridges but also by repeated cycles of isolation and reconnection. I proposes a new framework—the East Asian Continental Islands system—that redefines Taiwan’s ecological and evolutionary significance in the context of dynamic biogeographic processes.

  • 🍽 Lunch Break (self-arranged)
  • 13:30-14:00
    AI and Digital Humanities: The Pre-WWII World Travel Experiences of Taiwanese Islanders—Using Digital and AI tool to Transcribe and Translate Overseas Travel Accounts in the Newspaper Taiwan Hsin Min Pao Institute of Taiwan History
    Conference Room 1, Academic Activities Center

    Language: Chinese

    Description: Speaker: Dr. Li-chiao Wang (Senior Research Specialist and Director of Archives)

    Taiwan Hsin Min Pao, the only newspaper published independently by the Taiwanese during the Japanese Colonial Period, was launched by young intellectuals who had learned from the newspaper publishing experiences of modern advanced countries. They used the newspaper as a medium for knowledge dissemination to promote political awakening and cultural enlightenment among Taiwanese people. The Archives of the Institute of Taiwan History at Academia Sinica is testing and applying mature digital and AI tools available in the market to establish a digital processing workflow for digital archives, text recognition, and Chinese translation, aiming to rapidly generate vast amounts of full-text historical materials that can be used for cross-language analysis and thematic research. Beyond completing the construction of a pre-war Taiwanese newspaper corpus, the cross-disciplinary collaboration and human-machine interaction experience can also contribute to developing a language model with distinctive features of Taiwan history.

  • 13:30-15:30
    Let's have some LLMs today! Institute of Information Science, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation
    Conference Room 1, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB)

    Language: Chinese

    Description: 13:30-14:00 Hen-Hsen Huang (IIS) Evolving with the Times: Adapting Large Language Models to the Changing World
    14:00-14:30 Chien-Yao Wang (IIS) Toward Real-Time Multimodal Foundation Models
    14:30-15:00 Chuan-Ju Wang (CITI) A Decade of Financial Text Analytics: Advancing from Sentiment Analysis to LLMs and Beyond
    15:00-15:30 Panel Discussion: Multimodal Generative AI: Revolutionizing Industries in a Dynamic World (by Hang-Hsuan Huang, Chien-Yao Wang, Chuan-Ju, Li Su, Lun-Wei Ku

  • 13:30-15:30
    Long Live Longevity, The Entelechy of Rejuvenation: A Scientific and Literary Exploration of the Multi Facets and Meanings of Aging and Death Institute of Molecular Biology, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy
    Conference Room 2, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB)

    Language: Chinese

    Description: This forum aims to explore how individuals and societies confront issues of aging and death through an interdisciplinary approach that integrates literature, philosophy, and scientific research.

  • 13:30-16:05
    Career Development Networking Event for PhD Professionals in Statistics and Computational Science Institute of Statistical Science
    Recreation Hall, 2F, Institute of Statistical Science

    Language: Chinese

    Description: 【Participating organizations】
    1.Ingrasys
    2.Parexel
    3.Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development, National Science and Technology Council
    4.Institute of Statistics and Data Science, National Tsing Hua University
    5.Institute of Statistics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    6.MediaTek Research
    7.Department of Statistics, National Taipei University
    8.Graduate Institute of Statistics of NCU
    9.Cathay Life Insurance

    【Organizer】
    Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica

    【Co-organizers】
    Chinese Statistical Association (Taiwan)
    The Chinese Institute of Probability and Statistics
    Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development, National Science and Technology Council

  • 13:30-16:30
    Political and Moral Values Survey in Taiwanese Society, The History of Comparative Political Thought, The Intellectual Landscape of Chinese Society: Changes and Controversies Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences
    Conference Room, 1 and 2, RCHSS, Academia Sinica

    Language: Chinese

    Description: The Center for Political Thought, RCHSS

  • 13:30-17:30
    Geothermal Energy Institute of Earth Sciences
    2nd Floor Lecture Hall, Institute of Earth Sciences

    Language: Chinese

    Description: The agenda covers achievements in geothermal research related to geophysics, seismology, and geology.
    It also includes two 45-minute panel discussions with direct interaction with the audience.

  • 14:00-16:00
    Geopolitics and the Maritime World Institute of History and Philology, Institute of Modern History, Institute of Taiwan History
    Conference Room 1, Academic Activities Center

    Language: Chinese

    Description: Host: Sean Hsiang-lin LEI (Research fellow and Director, IMH)
    Speakers:
    1. KJ Chen, "The Cold War in East Asia as Seen from the Western Pacific: The United States, Geopolitics, and a Restless International Order"
    2. Sheng-hsiung Su, "Why War Becomes Irreversible: Rethinking the Outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War through Military Institutions and Thought"
    3. Wei-chung Cheng, Hidden Abilities Unlocked: Taiwan and the People of the East Asian Seas in the 17th Century
    4. Yu-ju Lin, “The Maritime Nature of Taiwanese Society: Ports, Cities, and Regional Construction”

  • 14:00-16:00
    The National Security Law: Its Impact on the Rule of Law, Freedoms, and Everyday Life in Hong Kong Institute of Sociology
    8F, Room802, Institute of Sociology, South Wing, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

    Language: Chinese

    Description: Host: Jieh-Min Wu (Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology)

    Speaker:
    1. Yu-Jie Chen(Associate Research Professor, Institutum Jurisprudential): Law Enforcement, Intimidation, and the Chilling Effect under Hong Kong's "Dual National Security" Regime.
    2. Wen-Chin Wu (Research Fellow, Institute of Political): Hongkongers' Adaption and Resistance under the National Security Law.
    3. Kin-Man Chen (Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology): Hongkongers' Adaption and Resistance under the National Security Law.

  • 14:00-17:00
    Toward New Era in Molecular and Materials Science and Technology - Artificial Intelligence Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Institute of Physics, Institute of Chemistry, Research Center for Applied Sciences
    International Conference Hall, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB)

    Language: Chinese、English

    Description: Session A: (14:00-15:00)
    - Jer-Lai Kuo (IAMS)/ Examples of AI algorithms to enable new research in Physical Science
    - Chao-Ping Hsu (IoC)/ Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry: Application for charge transport dynamics
    Session B: (15:30-16:30)
    - Anatoli Fedynitch (IoP) / AI as a Daily Companion in Computational Science
    - David Wu (IoC) / Revealing Reactive Structural Transformations in Magnesium Oxide through AI-Accelerated Simulations
    Forum: (16:30-17:00)
    Chao-Ping Hsu (IoC)

  • 14:00-17:00
    The Many Faces of Linguistic Research Institute of Linguistics
    Conference Room 519, 5F, Institute of Linguistics, South Wing, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB)

    Language: Chinese

    Description: 講者: 吳瑞文研究員、江敏華研究員、齊莉莎研究員、林英津研究員
    主持人: 陳彥伶助研究員

  • 14:00-17:30
    Professor Ta-Chung Liu and Professor Sho-Chieh Chiang Memorial Symposium ─ The New Order of International Trade: The Role of Tariff and Exchange Rate Policies Institute of Economics
    Mo-Huan Auditorium, Institute of Economics

    Language: Chinese

    Description: Organizers:
    1. Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
    2. Ta-Chung Liu Educational and Cultural Memorial Foundation
    3. Sho-Chieh Tsiang Cultural and Educational Foundation

    ※ Registration website: https://www.econ.sinica.edu.tw/asc0630/posts/7616

  • 14:20-15:20
    New Opportunities in Taiwan with Simons Observatory's CMB Observations Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
    Room 1203 of the Astronomy-Mathematics Building, NTU

    Language: English

    Description: Speaker: Masashi Hazumi (KEK & NCU)

  • 15:30-17:00
    Key Issues in Taiwan's Politics Institute of Political Science
    IPSAS Conference Room A (5th Floor, North Wing, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences)

    Language: Chinese

    Description: Key Issues in Taiwan's Politics

    Moderator: Tse-Kang Leng (Research Fellow of IPSAS)
    Panelists:
    1. Nathan F. Batto (Associate Research Fellow of IPSAS):
    Chaos in the Legislative Yuan! The Formal and Informal Rules of Podium Occupations
    2. Wen-Chin Wu (Research Fellow of IPSAS):
    Military Training and the Willingness to Resist: Evidence from Taiwan
    3. Chung-li Wu (Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of IPSAS):
    Do the "Haves" Come Out Ahead? Resource Disparity in Public-Land Usurpation Litigation in Taiwan

    Google Meet link:https://meet.google.com/cfd-zsff-cvj

  • 15:30-17:30
    Aging Society: Sleep, Social Factors, and Late-life Planning among Older Adults Institute of European and American Studies
    1F Conference Room, Institute of European and American Studies

    Language: Chinese

    Description: Speakers:
    1. Hui Liu(Director of Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University):Online Engagement and Loneliness among Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    2. Chi-Tsun Chiu(Associate Research Fellow):Sleep quality and cognitive life expectancy in the United States
    3. Huijing Wu(Assistant Research Fellow):End-of-life planning preparation in later life
    4. Tuo-Yu Chen(Assistant Research Fellow):The relationship between poor multidimensional sleep health and social frailty by sex and race/ethnicity among community-dwelling older adults