Speaker: Dr. Chi-Wen Chen Title: Landslides in relation to earthquakes and climate change. Time: Sept. 29, 11:00 Location: R213 Meeting Room, Department of Geosciences

Speaker: Dr. Liang-Chi Wang (汪良奇) Dept. of Earth and Environment Sciences, National Chung Cheng University Title: Paleo-typhoon evidence in lacustrine sediment records in Taiwan Time: Sept. 18, 11:20 to 12:10 Location: R213 Meeting Room, Department of Geosciences

Speaker: Prof. Toru Takeshita Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University Title: Development and movement histories of the Median Tectonic Line (MTL): constraints from structural geology and isotopic dating Time: Jan 9th, 11:00 to 12:00 Location: R213 Meeting Room, Department of Geosciences

Speaker: Dr. Yen-Yu Lin Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Science, National Central University Title: Earthquake source investigations: Links between observations and source modeling Time: Nov 29th, 11:00 to 12:00 Location: R213 Meeting Room, Department of Geosciences

Speaker: Prof. David Mainprice Géosciences Montpellier UMR CNRS, Université Montpellier 2, France (www.gm.univ-montp2.fr/PERSO/mainprice/) Title: What role can minerals play in subduction Time: Nov 8st, 11:00 to 12:00 Location: R213 Meeting Room, Department of Geosciences

Speaker: Dr. Yin-Tung Yen Disaster Prevention Technology Research Centre Title: The application of ground motion simulation in civil engineering and hazard mitigation Time: Nov 1st, 11:00 to 12:00 Location: R213 Meeting Room, Department of Geosciences

Speaker: Dr. D. Justin Yeh (葉多涵) Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Title: Modelling the evolution of culture: divergence through birdsong and homogenization through linkage Time: Oct 8th, 11:00 to 12:00 [Tuesday] Location: R213 Meeting Room, Department of Geosciences Host: Prof.…

Speaker: Sin-Mei Wu PhD candidate, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah Title: Studying ongoing eruptive systems at high spatiotemporal resolution using temporary dense geophone arrays Time: Oct 4th, 11:00 to 12:00 Location: R213 Meeting Room, Department of Geosciences Host: Prof. Shu-Huei Hung

Speaker: Sophie Nuber, PhD Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University (UK) Title: The Indian Ocean Salt Pump - high resolution trace element and stable isotope records from the Mozambique Channel Time: Aug 29th, 11:00 to 12:00 Location: R213 Meeting Room, Department of Geosciences Host: Prof. Abby Ren

Speaker: Dr. John C. H. Chiang Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley Title: What do cave T18O records tell us about East Asian paleoclimate? Location: R213 Meeting Room, Department of Geosciences Host: Prof. Chuan-Chou SHEN