中国科学院大学 国际学院

Time: April 13th,2015 13:30-16:50

Venue: Teaching building in Zhongguancun campus, UCAS

Summary

Theme1. Material Science & Nano Science

1) Title: Advanced nanomaterials forsustainability

Lecturer: Associate Professor Takuya Tsuzuki, RSE,CECS

2) Title: Low-Cost Rapid Fabrication ofUltra-Porous Nano-Devices

Lecturer: Dr Antonio Tricoli, RSE, CECS

3) Title: Semiconductor Nanowires forOptoelectronics and Energy Applications

Lecturer: Professor Chennupati Jagadish, RSPE, CPMS

4) The determination of atomic structure atthe different length scales to correlate structure and function of matters

Lecturer: Professor Yun Liu, RSC, CPMS

Theme2. Astronomy and Astrophysics

5) Title: The Evolution of the Milky WayEcosystem: walking Australia and China’s shared path to the Square KilometreArray

Lecturer: Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths, RSAA,CPMS

6) Title: Probing Planetary formation and theangular resolution frontier

Lecturer: Dr Michael Ireland, RSAA, CPMS

Theme3. Life Sciences, Earth and Environment

7) Title: Mud, magnetism and microbes

Lecturer: Professor Andrew Roberts, Dean, CPMS

8) Title: Experimental rock physics at ANUwith applications to seismology and geodynamics

Lecturer: Professor Ian Jackson, Director, RSES, CPMS

9) Title: Protein aggregation: its involvementwith disease and its mitigation via molecular chaperones

Lecturer: Professor John Carver, Director, RSC, CPMS

Theme4. Medical Research

10) Title: Trends in health and medicalresearch in Australia over the last decade and ANU's response

Lecturer: Professor Nick Glasgow, Dean, Medical School

11) Title: New approaches to antimalarial drugdevelopment

Lecturers: Professor Kiaran Kirk, Dean, CMBE andProfessor Simon Foote, Director, JCSMR, CMBE

12) Title: Sustainable control and eliminationof infectious disease in China

Lecturer: Professor Archie Clements, Director, RSPH,CMBE

13) The following 3 topics are proposed by Professor Michael Kyrios, Director, RSP,CMBE (please pick one)

a. Understanding& treating Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

b. e-based psychological treatments

c. Thetreatment of pre-diabetes and psychological factors predicting outcome

Theme1. Material Science & Nano Science

Title: Advanced nanomaterials for sustainability

Lecturer: Associate Professor Takuya Tsuzuki

Research School of Engineering

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Abstract:

Nanomaterialshave the potential to revolutionize all aspects of our lives. In particular,nanomaterials are expected to make significant contributions to health, energyand environment for the sustainability of our future. At the ANU ResearchSchool of Engineering, we focus on the development of advanced nanomaterialsfor sustainability using a holistic approach. Our research not only targetsnanotech applications in health, energy and environment but also looks at theissues from a viewpoint of life-cycle-thinking including raw materials,production, and end-of-life processes. This talk reviews the current researchactivities in nanomaterials science and engineering at the ANU Research School ofEngineering. It also introduces otherresearch expertise in the School to identify potential collaborationopportunities with Pekin University.

Title: Low-Cost Rapid Fabrication of Ultra-PorousNano-Devices

Lecturer: Dr Antonio Tricoli

Research School of Engineering

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Materials for extreme environments, low-densitymaterials, materials chemistry, nanoelectronics, sensors

NanotechnologyResearch Laboratory, Research School of Engineering, College of Engineering andComputer Science, The Australian National University, R210 Ian Ross Building,North Road, Acton, 2001 ACT, antonio.tricoli@anu.edu.au

Nanostructuredmetal-oxides have the potential to significantly enhance the performance ofseveral devices as successfully demonstrated for dye-sensitized solar cells,chemical sensors and fuel cells. Recently, this has resulted in a gold rushtoward novel applications ranging from flexible electronics to portablenanogenerators. However, integration of nanostructures in commercial devices ischallenging and their assembly in suboptimal structures may drastically limitthe final performance considerably below the sum of the individualnano-components. Here, we will first present the fabrication of3D-nanostructures composed of multi-metal oxide nanoparticles by rapid flamesynthesis. The feasibility of capturing metastable phases and uniquemorphologies will be discussed along the example of TiO₂ and WO₃nanoparticles. Thereafter, we will present the integration of these tailoredmaterials in highly performing devices by aerosol deposition of aerogel-likefilms. The main mechanisms controlling the self-assembly of thesenanostructures will be shortly reviewed with respect to the feasibility ofcontrolling key structural properties such as porosity. The potential of thisapproach will be discussed through the fabrication of optimal morphologies fornon-invasive medical diagnostics and super-hydrophilic coatings.

Antonio Tricoli received his master in Mechanical andProcess Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)in 2004. Immediately after, he joined the Renewable Energy Laboratory of ETHZurich where he worked on the production of solar hydrogen by two-step watersplitting cycles. He continued his PhD studies in 2005 at the ParticleTechnology Laboratory (ETH Zurich) researching the synthesis and self-assemblyof nanoparticle films by combustion of organometallic precursors. In 2010, hereceived his PhD in the field of Nanotechnology focusing on the self-assemblyof inorganic nanostructures for gas sensing. His thesis was awarded withseveral prizes including the 2010 HILTI award for the most innovative PhDthesis at ETH Zurich. He joined the Department of Mechanical and ProcessEngineering as research fellow and lecturer working on the flame synthesis ofmetastable nanoparticles and rapid fabrication of working electrodes for dye sensitizedsolar cells. In September 2012, he was awarded with a FERL fellowship from theResearch School of Engineering and joined ANU under a tenure-track position.Since then, he has established the Nanotechnology Research Laboratory and iscurrently the primary supervisor of 6 PhD students.

Title: Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronics andEnergy Applications

Lecturer: Professor Chennupati Jagadish, FAA, FTSE,FTWAS

Research School of Physics and Engineering

College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Abstract:

Semiconductors haveplayed an important role in the development of information and communicationstechnology, solar cells, solid state lighting. Nanowires are consideredas building blocks for the next generation electronics and optoelectronics. In this talk, I will introduce the importance of nanowires and their potentialapplications and discuss about how these nanowires can be synthesized and howthe shape, size and composition of the nanowires influence their structural,electrical and optical properties. I will present results on axial and radialheterostructures and how one can engineer the optical properties to obtain highperformance optoelectronic devices such as lasers, THz detectors, solarcells. Future prospects of the semiconductor nanowires will be discussed.

Title: The determination of atomic structure at thedifferent length scales to correlate structure and function of matters

Lecturer: Professor Yun Liu

Research School of Chemistry

College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Theme2. Astronomy and Astrophysics

Title: The Evolution of the Milky Way Ecosystem:walking Australia and China’s shared path to the Square Kilometre Array

Lecturer: Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths

Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics

College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Abstract:

Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, provides us with the closest laboratoryto study how galaxies are built and live their lives. New projects planned forradio telescopes in Australia and China are paving the path to the SquareKilometre Array, which will be the world’s most advanced radio telescope. Inthis talk I will review what we know about gas in the Milky Way and what wehope to learn from both the Five-Hundred-Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope(FAST) and the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) as we move towards the SquareKilometre Array.

Title: Probing Planetary formation and the angularresolution frontier

Lecturer: Dr Michael Ireland

Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics

College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Abstract

Direct detection of the infrared radiation from exoplanets and theirenvironment falls in an angular resolution niche: solar system scales for bothtypical Kepler space telescope targets and the nearest star forming regionsfalls right at the diffraction-limit of the world’s largest telescopes. Byfollowing-up Kepler space telescope “object of interests” at high angularresolution, I will show that multiple star formation at solar-system scalesstrongly suppresses terrestrial planet formation, with the curious exception ofstellar twins. At the youngest ages, I will show how radiation from planetarysystems in the process of formation can be directly imaged, focusing onmulti-epoch monitoring of the resolved emission seen within the disk gap ofLkCa 15. Finally, I will briefly describe the need for the PlanetFormation Imager project as a long-term vision for imaging exoplanet birth, andwhy this project can only be successful with a global scale.

Theme3. Life Sciences, Earth and Environment

Title: Mud, magnetism and microbes

Lecturer: Professor Andrew Roberts

Dean

College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Title: Experimental rock physics at ANU withapplications to seismology and geodynamics

Lecturer: Professor Ian Jackson

Director, Research School of Earth Sciences

College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Title: Protein aggregation: itsinvolvement with disease and its mitigation via molecular chaperones

Lecturer: Professor John A. Carver

Research School of Chemistry

College of Physical &Mathematical Sciences

Abstract

In vivo, protein aggregation and precipitation are often a consequence ofthe unfolding or incorrect folding of proteins. These processes have beencategorised by the term ‘protein misfolding’. A diversity of diseases resultfrom protein misfolding including cataract, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s andHuntington’s diseases and haemodialysis-related amyloidosis. Different proteins are associated with eachof these diseases. There are a variety of cellular mechanisms that minimiseprotein aggregation. Arguably, the most important of these is the expression ofmolecular chaperone proteins which interact with partially folded proteins toprevent their aggregation.

In thistalk, our work investigating the structure and function of molecular chaperoneproteins, and their interactions with aggregating proteins, will bedescribed. The research involves the useof a variety of biophysical, spectroscopic, protein chemical and cellbiological techniques, e.g. NMR, circular dichroism and fluorescencespectroscopy, mass spectrometry, dynamic light scattering and electronmicroscopy, and provides insights into the mechanism of chaperone action inaddition to potential avenues for the application of molecular chaperones inthe treatment of protein misfolding diseases.

Theme4. Medical Research

Title: Trends in health and medical research inAustralia over the last decade and ANU's response

Lecturer: Professor Nick Glasgow, Medical School

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