The Zhu Kezhen Annual Distinguished Lectureship was established in 1997. The lectures, over several days, disseminate the latest scientific advances, discus the future trends, and address the University community at large. The lectureship is named after Dr. Zhu Kezhen. Thus, the occasion is also an opportunity to remember and honor Dr. Zhu.
2019
Neil D Pearson
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Chinese Stock Market Dynamics: Insights From Recent Research
• What Mistakes Will You Make? Lessons From Behavioral Finance for Young (and Older) Investors
Charles Bernstein
University of Pennsylvania
• Joker: Poetry, Irony, Solidarity
Past Lecturers
2018
Thomas Dunne University of California, Santa Barbara • Sediment Source of Amazon Floodplains: Environmental Implications
David Kastan Yale University • Who's Shakespeare? Whose Shakespeare?
Harry M Liebersohn University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign • What is Global History? Recent Debates and Emerging Trends
2017
Bruce Rittmann Arizona State University • Opportunities in Microbial Bioenergy • Understanding the Biofilm Anode in Microbial Electrochemical Cells (MXCs)
Stephen P. Goff Columbia University • Transcriptional Silencing of Retroviral DNAs in Embryonic Cells
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University • Materials beyond cyclodextrins: emergence opens up a whole new world • The mechanical bond - Minding art with science
Jill Pipher Brown University • Cryptography: from ancient times to a post-quantum age • Dyadic harmonic analysis
2016
David Jerison Massachusetts Institute of Technology • How smooth is a chemically polished surface? • Energy-minimizing configurations and free boundary problems
P. R. Kumar Texas A&M University • The Opportunities and Challenges of Cyber-Physical Systems • Challenges Towards Increasing Penetration of Renewable Sources of Energy
Liqun Luo Stanford University • Great Discoveries in Neuroscience • Assembly of Neural Circuits
Carol Steiker Harvard University • Respecting Human Dignity: Social Inequality and Mass Incarceration in the United States • The Rise of Mass Incarceration in the United States: Causes, Critiques, and Current Changes
2015
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University • Interrogating Our Microbiome for Personal and Environmental Health
Shu Chien University of California, San Diego • 谈美国一流大学学科建设—以生物医学工程为例
2014
Harry Klee University of Florida • The chemistry and genetics of tomato flavor: what makes us like what we eat
Alice Chang Princeton University • How can you tell if it is a sphere? • Conformal Invariants: Some Geometric and Analytic Aspects
William R. Wagner University of Pittsburgh • Regenerative medicine for people and economies: A case study of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine • Cardiac wall injection therapy to treat ischemic cardiomyopathy
2013
Tom Ginsburg University of Chicago Law School • 作为宪法的产品 • 交叉学科新视角下的国际法研究
Yusuf A. Hannun Stony Brook University School of Medicine • Sphinx, sphingolipid metabolism and cell regulation
Lawrence Craig Evans University of California, Berkeley • Hidden Convex Structures In Nonlinear Problems • Infinity Laplacian Operator and Related Equations
2012
Christos Cassandras Boston University • Cooperative Control and Optimization in an Uncertain Asynchronous Wireless Networked World • Joys and Perils of the Cyber-Physical World
2011
Mu-ming Poo University of California, Berkeley • Development of Neuronal Polarity • On Science and Scientific Life
John Barceló III Cornell University • 国际商事争端解决 - 仲裁作为经济发展之路径 • Cap and Trade Border Measures and WTO Law
R. Graham Cooks Purdue University • Mass Spectrometry: Science, Technology and Molecular Analysis • Ambient Ionization and Miniature Mass Spectrometers: Applications in Disease Diagnosis, Food Analysis, Environmental Science and On‐line Monitoring
2010
Pol D. Spanos Rice University • Wavelets: A Mathematical Microscope for Applications in Engineering and Science • Pragmatic methods for nonlinear stochastic dynamics
Thomas Dunne University of California, Santa Barbara • River Restoration in the United States: Research Challenges for Scientists and Engineers” • 河流的演变
Luis A. Caffarelli University of Texas at Austin • Surfaces minimizing nonlocal energies • Homogenization of nonlinear problems
2009
Linda Saif Ohio State University • Mucosal immunity to enteric viruses: Gut reactions to rotavirus vaccines • Animal Coronaviruses: Lessons for SARS • Comparative aspects of enteric virus infections • Cruising for noroviruses and animal disease models
Stephen Quake Stanford University • Biological large scale integration • Precision measurements in biology
Carlos Kenig University of Chicago • 临界非线性色散方程与波动方程解的整体性质 • 调和分析与偏微分方程
2008
Raymond L. Erikson Harvard University • The Role of Protein Kinases in Cell Signaling and Cancer • The Function of Polo-like Kinases in Cell Proliferation
Marshall W. Meyer University of Pennsylvania • China’s Second Economic Transition
Zhigang Suo Harvard University
Yu Xie University of Michigan • Three Principles in Social Science
2007
Philip Benfey Duke University • Systems biology and development • Getting to the root of cell identity
2006
Xiaodong Wang University of Texas • 细胞凋亡的生化研究 • 中国生命科学研究发展趋势
2005
Barry S. Cooperman University of Pennsylvania • The dynamics of protein synthesis • Ribonucleotide Reductase: a chemotherapeutic target
Shu Chien University of California, San Diego
Klaus Schulten University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign • Towards Understanding Membrane Channels • Mechanical Functions of Proteins
2004
Chih-Ming Ho University of California, Los Angeles
Van C. Mow Columbia University • Rigorous Engineering Analyses of Human Joint Function and Etiology of Osteoarthritis • The Role of Biomechanics in Functional Tissue Engineering (FTE) of Articular Cartilage
B.F. Spencer, Jr. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign • Smart Structures Technology: Challenges and Opportunities • The George E. Brown Jr. Network of Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) • Structural Health Monitoring for Civil Engineering Applications
Kang G. Shin University of Michigan • 关于传感器网络的介绍 • Secure Management of Sensor Networks for Monitoring Environments
2003
Chenming Hu University of California, Berkeley
Eicke R. Weber University of California, Berkeley
Zhenan Bao Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
2002
Charles Lieber Harvard University • Nanotech in Today's World
2001
Guoqiang Tian Texas A&M University • Incentives, Information, and Economic Mechanism Design
2000
Larry Yuchi Ho Harvard University • Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Ordinal Optimization, and Computational Intelligence
1999
Umit Ozguner Ohio State University
Masayoshi Tomizuka University of California, Berkeley
J. Karl Hendrick University of California, Berkeley
Pitu Mirchandani Arizona State University
Chuck Thorpe Carnegie Mellon University • Theory and Practice of Intelligent Transportation Systems
1998
Alexander M. Meystel National Institute of Standards and Technology and Drexel University
1997
George T. Tsao Perdue University • Renewable Resources Engineering
