Invited Talk----------------------------Speaker:Dr. Vera Schulte-PelkumUniversity of Colorado Boulder Title: Crustal seismic anisotropy, geological ground truth from the Canadian Shield, and application to Taiwan (in English) Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Friday, Nov 15th, 2013Location:  Room 213, Department of GeosciencesColloquium chair: Prof. Shu-Huei HungDear colleagues, Dr. Vera Schulte-Pelkum from U. of Colorado at Boulder is visiting Taiwan this…

Invited Talk----------------------------Speaker:陳柏淳 博士 Thermodynamic and Kinetic Studies of Gas Hydrate(in Chinese)   Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Friday, Nov 8th, 2013Location:  Room 213, Department of GeosciencesColloquium chair: Prof. Tai-Lin Tseng

Invited Talk----------------------------Speaker:Dr. Yuanyuan XIAO Post-doctoral Research FellowInstutute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica Title: Geochemical Consequences of Subduction-Zone Metamorphism: Evidence from Orogenic Belts, NW China (in English) Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Friday, Nov 1st, 2013Location:  Room 213, Department of GeosciencesColloquium chair: Prof. Tai-Lin Tseng

Invited Talk----------------------------Speaker:Mr. Wei-Li Hongnbsp;PhD candidateCollege of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University Title:The Application of Transport-Reaction Modeling in Understanding Marine Sediments Geochemistry  Time : 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., Friday, Nov 1st, 2013Location :  Room 213, Department of GeosciencesColloquium chair:  Prof. Tsanyao Yang

Invited Talk----------------------------Speaker:孟 令森博士 Earthquake Physics Postdoc FellowBerkeley Seismo LabUniversity of California-Berkeley Title:Application of Seismic Array Back-Projection to Earthquake Early Warning  Abstract: Earthquake early warning (EEW) systems that can issue warnings prior to the arrival of strong ground shaking during an earthquake are essential in mitigating seismic hazard. Many of the currently operating EEW…

Invited Talk----------------------------Speaker: Alexander Kunz Luminescence Dating LaboratoryDepartment of GeosciencesNational Taiwan University Title: Systematic study of OSL properties from sedimentary quartz in Taiwan  Time: 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013Location: Room 213, Department of Geosciences

Invited Talk----------------------------Speaker:Dr. Yaolin Shi Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics , CAS Title: How to advance earthquake prediction in China?  Time : 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Friday, Oct 18th, 2013Location :  Room 213, Department of Geosciences

Invited Talk----------------------------Speaker:Prof. Meng-Wang Yeh  Center for General Education, National Taiwan Normal UniversityTitle:Evidence for cool extrusion of the N China block along the ASRR shear zone: A Diancang Shan Prospective  Time : 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Friday, Oct 11th, 2013 Location :  Room 213, Department of Geosciences

Invited Talk----------------------------Speaker:Chung Huang (黃鐘)University of ConnecticutTitle:Tectonic evolution of a major tectonostratigraphic boundary fault in an active accretionary wedge: an example from the Tulungwan Fault, southern Taiwan Abstract:  The Taiwan orogeny is located in the convergent boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate and has grown during the…

Invited Talk----------------------------Speaker:Professor Chin-Wu Chen (陳勁吾) Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan UniversityTitle:On the origin of the High Lava Plains volcanic track, Oregon, USA: Seismic investigation and multidisciplinary interpretation  Time : 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Friday, Oct 4th, 2013 Location :  Room 213, Department of Geosciences