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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170726
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170728
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SUMMARY:Computer Vision and Human-Machine Interaction Summer Camp 20172017計算機視覺與人機交互夏令營
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170726
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170729
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
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SUMMARY:Green Vehicle Summer Camp 2017環保交通工具夏令營 2017
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170726
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170729
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20170726T040657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043750Z
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SUMMARY:Wireless Technology Study Summer Camp 2017無線技術研習夏令營 2017
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URL:/academics/summer-camp/summer-camp-2017/wireless-technology-study-summer-camp-2017/#new_tab
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170726T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170726T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20170726T070025Z
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SUMMARY:Contract-Based Model of Evolving Architecture for Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Zhiming LIU\nCentre for Research and Innovation in Software Engineering (RISE)\nSouthwest University\, Chongqing\nChina \nAbstract\nThe sustainable development of most economies and the quality of life of their citizens largely depend on the development and application of evolutionary digital ecosystems. The characteristic features of these systems are reflected in the so called Internet of Things (IoT)\, Smart Cities\, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)\, Systems of Human-Machine-Things\, and Data Centers. Compared to the challenges in traditional ICT applications that engineers used to face\, system and software development is to develop and integrate new components or subsystems\, new applications and front end services that depends on the infrastructures of existing systems. This has to deal with the complexity of ever evolving architectures digital components\, physical components\, together with sensors and smart devices controlled and coordinated by software. The architectural components are designed with different technologies\, run on different platforms and interact through different communication technologies. Software runs in these systems for data processing and analytics\, computation\, and intelligent control. However\, the critical requirements of applications of these systems should not be compromised\, and thus critical components need to be “provably correct”. In this talk we discuss\, for development software in these emerging systems\, the need of a foundation for the combination of traditional software engineering\, AI (or knowledge-based engineering) and the emerging Big Data technologies. We show how an interface theory could play a core role in this foundation for seamless combination of different models\, methods and tools for software development\, AI and Big Data\, as well as for system integration. \nBiography\nZhiming Liu is known for his work on real-time and fault-tolerant program design\, verification\, and schedulability analysis by transformations that established a theory of real-time and fault-tolerant refinement; probabilistic duration calculus for system dependability specification and analysis\, and his work on the rCOS formal method of model-driven design. The key bibliographic database lists over 130 of his peer reviewed publications in recognized outlets. These include papers published in the top journals on formal methods\, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages\, Formal Aspects of Computing\, Science of Computer Programming and Theoretical Computer Science\, as well as mainstream conferences. He received a 2nd prize in natural science of Science and Technology Award from Macao SAR in 2012 for his work on the rCOS method. He joined Southwest University in Chongqing (China) as a full-time professor in January 2016\, and he is now leading to build the Centre for Research and Innovation in Software Engineering. Zhiming Liu received his PhD in 1991 from the University of Warwick (UK)\, and then worked there for three more years as a postdoc research fellow till 1994. After that\, he worked during 1994-2005 at the University of Leicester as lecturer. Between 2002 and 2013\, he worked for the United National University – International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST\, Macau) as a research fellow and then senior research fellow. Then he worked from 2013 to 2015 at Birmingham City University as Professor of Software Engineering before he returned back China to take his current position. Zhiming Liu is a member of CCF\, a Fellow of British Computer Society\, and a senior member of ACM. He also a founder of the international conferences ICTAC\, SEFM\, FACS and SETTA. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/contract-based-model-of-evolving-architecture-for-intelligent-cyber-physical-systems/
LOCATION:E11-4045 (University of Macau)
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170727
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170729
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20170727T030523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043750Z
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SUMMARY:3D reconstruction with Quadcopters Summer Camp 20172017四軸飛行器三維重建夏令營
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URL:/academics/summer-camp/summer-camp-2017/3d-reconstruction-with-quadcopters-summer-camp-2017/#new_tab
CATEGORIES:activities,event_list
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170727
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170729
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20170727T030839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043749Z
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SUMMARY:Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Summer Camp 20172017 機器人與人工智能夏令營
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/academics/summer-camp/summer-camp-2017/robotics-and-artificial-intelligence-summer-camp-2017/#new_tab
CATEGORIES:activities,event_list
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170731T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170731T110000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20170731T020031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043749Z
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SUMMARY:Research of key technology of primary mirror hydraulic supporting system
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Xiongbin PENG\nAssistant Professor\nDepartment of Mechatronics Engineering\nShantou University\nChina \nAbstract\nLarge scale reflecting telescope is a technology-intensive equipment in many fields such as national security\, space detection\, universe exploration. They are usually equipped with large diameter primary mirrors\, which guarantee them with stronger light gathering power and high resolution\, to explore instant galaxies from hunderds of millions of light year away. In this context\, this talk will firstly introduce the difficulties when designing a hydraulic support system for large scale primary mirrors. Secondly\, the supporting stiffness of a hydraulic support system is analyzed. Thirdly\, the methodology for the precise position control of a support system shall be discussed. Finally\, the future directions with critical research areas in field of hydraulic support system for a primary mirror shall be highlighted. \nBiography\nDr. Xiongbin Peng is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechatronics Engineering at Shantou University. He received his PhD degree in Mechatronic Engineering from Zhejiang University\, Hangzhou\, China in 2016. His main research interests include Thermal Management Design for Energy Storage Systems\, Position Control of Primary Mirror Hydraulic Support System. He has worked jointly with Changchun Institute of optics\, fine mechanics and physics\, Chinese Academy of Sciences for 2 years on high stiffness design and precise position control of primary mirror hydraulic support system. He is the co-founder of Product Design Research Groups (PDRG\, www.pdrg-group.org) involving collaborators from 12 countries. Through his research group\, he has experience of supervising 3 undergraduate and 2 post graduate students. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/research-of-key-technology-of-primary-mirror-hydraulic-supporting-system/
LOCATION:E11-1009
CATEGORIES:cee_events,event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170731T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170731T120000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20170731T030019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043749Z
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SUMMARY:Recent Trends and Challenges in Energy Storage Systems
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Akhil GARG\nAssociate Professor\nDepartment of Mechatronics Engineering\nShantou University\nChina \nAbstract\nIn the recent years\, Energy storage systems such as battery packs/fuel cells used in Electric vehicles (EVs) has been extensively promoted in developing economies where the environmental burden due to extensive production exists. In this context\, this talk will firstly introduce the four main research problems undertaken. The development of evolutionary algorithms with applications in fuel cells is illustrated. Secondly\, the experimental methodology of using mechanical parameter such as the stack stress to estimate the state of health of battery shall be discussed. The methodology for solving the design optimization problem of battery pack enclosure shall be discussed. \nBiography\nDr. Akhil Garg is currently working as an Associate Professor in Department of Mechatronics Engineering at Shantou University. He received his PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU)\, Singapore in 2015. His main research interests include Design for Energy Storage Systems\, Applications of AI in Sustainable manufacturing\, Robust Optimization\, Evolutionary algorithms. He has worked jointly with Aerospace Industry Rolls-Royce Singapore for 2 years on Design optimization of finishing process. He has published over 25 SCI Journals in field of sustainable manufacturing\, cleaner energy systems and artificial intelligence. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/recent-trends-and-challenges-in-energy-storage-systems/
LOCATION:E11-1009
CATEGORIES:cee_events,event_list,seminarslectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170822T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170822T113000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20170822T023030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043748Z
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SUMMARY:Physically-based Realistic Hair Dynamics Simulation
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Bin SHENG\nDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering\nShanghai Jiao Tong University\nShanghai\nChina \nAbstract\nRealistic hair simulation is essential in many fields such as Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality. Currently\, many models have successfully made progress in high-quality hair simulation. However\, the computation cost of these models is very high and is not suite for realtime simulation and rendering. In order to simulate realistic hair in a very short time\, we introduced a data-driven reduced hair model solution. Our approach captured a small set of guide hair and the corresponding interpolation relationship using a list of precomputed full simulation hair movement sequences. In simulation step\, we only simulated the guide hair with a mass-spring model and interpolated the rest hair strands using the interpolation relationship we extracted from the full simulating data. Furthermore\, we used a signed distance field to resolve the hair-body collision and introduced an improved hair-hair correction model based on “Position Based Dynamic” framework. Our model successfully simulate 40K hair strands in real-time with very high quality with complex head movement\, which can also be applied to different hairstyle and hair geometry. \nBiography\nSHENG Bin received his BA degree in English and BE degree in computer science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2004\, and MS degree in software engineering from University of Macau in 2007\, and PhD Degree in computer science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. He is currently an associate professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He serves on the editorial board of IET Image Processing. His research interests include virtual reality\, computer graphics and image based techniques. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/physically-based-realistic-hair-dynamics-simulation/
LOCATION:E11-4045 (University of Macau)
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170823T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170823T113000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20170823T023055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043748Z
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SUMMARY:The Skew diffusion processes and their applications in finance
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Yongjin WANG\nProfessor\nSchool of Business\nNankai University\nChina \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, we begin with the Ito & McKean[1965]’s construction of Skew B.M. (via the Brownian excursions)\, and introduce a class of the so-called Skew diffusion processes. Specifically\, our considerations are limited on the Skew O-U processes and the Skew Feller-branching processes (the latter are also called Skew CIR processes). For those two processes we first give the explicit expressions on the transition densities\, in term of classical Special Functions. Next we study the hitting times of the processes up (or down) crossing some given levels\, and we obtained the Laplace Transforms expressions of those random stopping times. These results are fundamental for the quantitative analysis of the processes. On the other hand\, some observations from the FX market data show that\, the special structures of Skew O-U processes can capture the important “sticky” phenomena\, which frequently appeared in the market while the FX prices go up (down) to some specific level. Whereas the usual Geometric BM or Geometric O-U processes fails to do. So with the good tractable characters the Skew O-U procesess can be significantly introduced to model some FX and other assets price dynamics\, alternatively we can proceed to the derivative securities pricing with such new models. \nBiography\nProf. Yongjin Wang was awarded his PhD at Nankai University in 1992 and is currently a full professor at Nankai University. He has published more than 50 high quality papers about probability and mathematical finance. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/the-skew-diffusion-processes-and-their-applications-in-finance/
LOCATION:E11-1012
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170830T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170830T110000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20170830T020048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043748Z
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SUMMARY:Granular micromechanics: a paradigm for micromorphic continuum mechanics
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Anil Misra\nProfessor\nDepartment of Civil\, Environmental and Architectural Engineering\nThe University of Kansas\, Lawrence\, Kansas\, U.S.A. \nAbstract\nGranular materials take a variety of forms\, spanning the spectrum from highly consolidated dense solids formed of particulate precursors to confined packing of non-cohesive particles. In all their forms\, these materials are characterized by complex structures and compositions. More importantly\, they share the common trait that their behavior at the macro-scale\, that contains large numbers of grains (>106)\, is profoundly affected by the grain-scale interactions. For many important problems in engineering and science\, continuum description of their mechanical behavior is desired. Discrete atomic or coarse-grained models often pose insurmountable challenges. Granular micromechanics method is a practical approach for continuum modeling these materials. In this approach\, the material representative volume element (RVE) is modeled as a collection of grains which are interacting with each other through different inter-granular mechanisms. The resultant models offer the versatility of investigating the influence of both the macro-scale parameters and the grain-scale parameters on the overall stress-strain response by incorporating the effect of nearest neighbor grain interactions through the inter-granular force-displacement relationship and orientation vector. We have been developing the granular micromechanics approaches since 1980s. In their earlier formats\, the models based upon granular micromechanics were successful in describing the small strain behavior. In recent years\, these models have undergone further refinement and have been successfully applied to model a number of phenomena exhibited by granular geomaterials. In particular\, the models have been shown to successfully describe the damage and softening in cementitious materials [1]. The approach also leads to a 2nd gradient continuum theory involving strain gradient and its conjugated double stresses useful for modeling shear bands [2]. The method has also been extended to include rate effects [3]\, incorporate thermomechanical consistency [3\,4] and develop efficient numerical scheme [5] that can be implemented into finite element formulation. The model predictions have shown both quantitative and qualitative consistency with the observed behavior for asphalts and cementitious materials [3-5\, 9]. Recently\, the method has been extended to include non-classical terms which lead to micromorphic models [6\,10]. The derived model has been applied to study the wave dispersion relationships and topology optimization [8]. Method for identifying elastic constants for the derived model has been demonstrated for regular and irregular grain assemblies by performing discrete simulations [7]. In the proposed presentation\, we will describe some of the recent developments in granular micromechanics. \nBiography\nAnil Misra received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology\, Kanpur\, India\, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is currently a Professor in the Civil\, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department of the University of Kansas\, Lawrence. He also serves as Associate Director of the University of Kansas Bioengineering Research Center (KU-BERC). Dr. Misra has a broad research interest that spans topics covering both basic and applied aspects of mechanics of geomaterials\, interfaces and biomaterials\, including analytical\, computational and experimental granular micromechanics\, particle and atomistic methods\, multi-scale modeling\, constitutive behavior\, micro-macro correlations\, and multi-modal material characterization using high resolution techniques. He has co-edited three books; guest edited three journal special issues; and authored more than 200 papers in journals\, edited books and conference proceedings. He has made more than 100 presentations of his research results at national and international fora. His research has been funded by a variety of sources\, including the United States National Science Foundation\, National Institute of Health\, and private industry. He is active in various professional societies and serves as reviewer and editorial board member of a number of journals. (webpage: http://people.ku.edu/~amisra/) \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/granular-micromechanics-a-paradigm-for-micromorphic-continuum-mechanics/
LOCATION:E11-1042
CATEGORIES:cee_events,event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170911T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170911T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20170911T070044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043747Z
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SUMMARY:Enhancing Video Coding by Data-driven Techniques and Advanced Models
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. KWONG Tak Wu Sam\nHead and Professor of the Department of Computer Science\nCity University of Hong Kong\nHong Kong\nChina \nAbstract\nIn June 6th 2016\, Cisco released the White paper[1]\, VNI Forecast and Methodology 2015-2020\, reported that 82 percent of Internet traffic will come from video applications such as video surveillance\, content delivery network\, so on by 2020. It also reported that Internet video surveillance traffic nearly doubled\, Virtual reality traffic quadrupled\, TV grew 50 percent and similar increases for other applications in 2015. The annual global traffic will first time exceed the zettabyte(ZB;1000 exabytes[EB]) threshold in 2016\, and will reach 2.3 ZB by 2020. It implies that 1.886ZB belongs to video data. Thus\, in order to relieve the burden on video storage\, streaming and other video services\, researchers from the video community have developed a series of video coding standards. Among them\, the most up-to-date is the High Efficiency Video Coding(HEVC) or H.265 standard\, which has successfully halved the coding bits of its predecessor\, H.264/AVC\, without significant increase in perceived distortion. With the rapid growth of network transmission capacity\, enjoying high definition video applications anytime and anywhere with mobile display terminals will be a desirable feature in the near future. Due to the lack of hardware computing power and limited bandwidth\, lower complexity and higher compression efficiency video coding scheme are still desired. For higher video compression performance\, the key optimization problems\, mainly decision making and resource allocation problem\, shall be solved. In this talk\, I will present the most recent research results on machine learning and game theory based video coding. This is very different from the traditional approaches in video coding. We hope applying these intelligent techniques to vide coding could allow us to go further and have more choices in trading off between cost and resources. \nBiography\nSam Kwong received the B.Sc. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo\, Buffalo\, NY\, in 1983\, the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo\, Waterloo\, ON\, Canada\, in 1985\, and the Ph.D. degree from the Fernuniversität Hagen\, Hagen\, Germany\, in 1996. From 1985 to 1987\, he was a Diagnostic Engineer with Control Data Canada\, where he designed the diagnostic software to detect the manufacture faults of the VLSI chips in the Cyber 430 machine. He is the associate editor of the IEEE transactions on Evolutionary Computation\, the Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics\, the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics\, and the Journal of Information Science. Currently\, he is the Head and Professor of the department of Computer Science\, City In terms of professional services\, he was General Chair of IEEE SMC 2015 and gained the right to host the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Systems\, Man\, and Cybernetics at CityU on October 9-12\, 2015\, with nearly 600 scholars from around the world participating. He is also the Vice President for IEEE Systems\, Man and Cybernetics for conferences and meetings from 2014 till present. Prof. Kwong was elevated to IEEE fellow for his contributions on Optimization Techniques for Cybernetics and Video coding in 2014. He is also appointed as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE SMC society from March 2017. In his more recent work\, Prof Kwong has also proposed a number of optimization techniques for video coding\, including developing efficient algorithms to address the high computational complexity problems for mode decision and this enables adaptive thresholds to be derived to make intelligent decisions for mode decision and motion estimation\, thus significantly reducing the computational complexity in H.264 encoding in a clever way. In addition\, this enables the practical implementation of video coder to industry. His innovations have already inspired the publication of a number of top-ranked journal papers (IEEE Transactions on Image Processing\, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems for Video Technology\, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting\, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia\, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics). His discoveries have also been patented in the US from 2011 to 2017. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/enhancing-video-coding-by-data-driven-techniques-and-advanced-models/
LOCATION:E11-1041 (University of Macau)
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170928T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20170928T153000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20170928T063045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043747Z
UID:6167-1506609000-1506612600@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Collaborative Editing Research: from Academic Curiosity to Real-World Applications
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Chengzheng SUN\nNanyang Technological University\nSingapore \nAbstract\nNowadays\, collaborative editing systems\, such Google Docs\, Microsoft Office Online\, Dropbox Paper\, Box Notes\, and CodoxWave (for supporting read-time editing in a wide range of existing web browser-based editors\, including Gmail\, Wikipedia\, Evernote\, and WordPress)\, are ubiquitous and commonly used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Research on collaborative editing\, however\, started in the 1980s as a niche area (with a small number of persistent researchers) in the field of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)\, and was driven mainly by academic curiosity. This niche area has been continuously evolving for over 3 decades and eventually resulted in a large scale adoption in major industry products in recent years. In this talk\, the speaker will reflects on the evolution of collaborative editing research and application\, including representative academic research projects\, industrial products\, and open source projects. He will also share his insights on conducting impactful research in this area\, and on current trends\, opportunities and challenges in future collaborative editing research and real-world applications. \nBiography\nDr. Chengzheng Sun is a full professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore (www.ntu.edu.sg/home/czsun). In over two decades\, Dr Sun has been an active researcher\, leader and chief designer of a number of collaborative editing system projects\, including CoWord\, CoPowerPoint\, CoMaya\, etc. and the underlying Operational Transformation (OT) technology\, which have made important contributions to the theory and practical implementation of collaborative computing systems. He has also acted as an advisor for several industrial collaborative editing system projects. Prof Sun obtained a PhD in computer engineering from National University of Defense Technology\, China in 1987\, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Amsterdam\, Netherlands in 1992. His current research lies at the intersections of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and distributed/cloud computing systems. Dr Sun has published extensively and delivered seminars and tutorials on collaborative editing techniques and systems widely at major international conferences\, universities\, and industrial research labs. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/collaborative-editing-research-from-academic-curiosity-to-real-world-applications/
LOCATION:E11-4045 (University of Macau)
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171005T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171005T113000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101654
CREATED:20171005T023013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043747Z
UID:6169-1507199400-1507203000@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Video Distractor Detection with Applications
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Shimin HU\nTsinghua University\nBeijing \nAbstract\nIn recent years\, with the rapid development of digital technology\, the public can capture and produce high-quality visual media conten. However\, the current visual media processing techniques cannot satisfy the increasing demands of automatically organize\, understand and enhance the media data according to the human intentions and potentially billions of personalized editing. So we focus on how to analysis the images and videos in a perception-oriented way. Personal videos often contain visual distractors\, i.e. objects that are accidentally captured that can distract viewers from focusing on the main subjects. We propose methods to automatically detect and localize these distractors. A rule-based method is firstly proposed to detect common distractors. Then a learning based framework is proposed with a manually-labeled dataset. To achieve spatially- and temporally-coherent detection\, we propose to extract features at the Temporal-Superpixel (TSP) level in a traditional SVM-based learning framework. We have also experimented with end-to-end learning with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)\, which achieve slightly higher performance. The classification result is further refined in a post-processing step based on graph-cut optimization. Experimental results show that our method achieves an accuracy of 81% and a recall of 86%. We demonstrate several ways to remove the detected distractors to improve the video quality\, including video hole filling; video frame replacement; and camera path re-planning. \nBiography\nShi-Min Hu is currently a professor in the department of Computer Science and Technology\, Tsinghua University\, Beijing. He received the PhD degree from Zhejiang University in 1996. His research interests include digital geometry processing\, video processing\, rendering\, computer animation\, and computer-aided geometric design. He has published more than 100 papers in journals and refereed conference. He is Editor-in-Chief of Computational Visual media (Springer)\, and on editorial board of several journals\, including IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics\, Computer Aided Design (Elsevier) and Computer & Graphics (Elsevier). \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/video-distractor-detection-with-applications/
LOCATION:E11-1009 (University of Macau)
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171111T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171111T233000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20171111T023026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043746Z
UID:6173-1510396200-1510443000@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Design of thermo-active piles
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/design-of-thermo-active-piles/
LOCATION:E11-1009
CATEGORIES:cee_events,event_list,seminarslectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171120T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171120T161500
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20171120T073043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043746Z
UID:6179-1511191800-1511194500@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Smart Data Analysis – from Data to Insights and Actions
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nMr. Jian-Guang LOU\nMicrosoft Research Asia \nAbstract\nThe value of BigData lies in the insights we can obtain from the data to help our business. But\, big data by itself does not directly tell you any insights. Data analysis is a key step to extract valuable insights from data. However\, given the size and large number of dimensions in the data\, data analysis is often very expensive\, labor intensive\, and inefficient. There is a great demand of smart analysis tools to help data scientists or analysts to discover and explore insights from data efficiently. Can we automate or semi-automate data analysis with the help of AI technologies? In this talk\, we will introduce the technologies that Software Analytics group in Microsoft Research Asia has been innovating in the area of auto-data insights\, data visualization\, conversational data analysis\, etc. Most of these technologies have been integrated with Microsoft’s products including Quick Insight in PowerBI\, Auto Insight in Excel\, Conversational data analysis in PowerBI\, and AnnaTalk in Excel. A set of demos in this talk will show you how AI technologies can help users to quickly explore their data\, automatically discover insights from data\, drive actions through natural and intuitive interactions (e.g.\, natural language conversation). \nBiography\nJian-Guang Lou is now a senior researcher in the Software Analytics Group\, Microsoft Research Asia. He joined Microsoft Research in 2003. During the past decade\, he has worked on a set of cross-discipline research projects. He designed the world’s first interactive multi-view video system in 2005\, and developed a large scale peer-to-peer streaming system for CCTV.com to broadcast 2008 Olympic game to millions of concurrent online users in China. His research on data driven service analytics (e.g.\, anomaly detection\, auto-diagnosis\, log mining and failure prediction) has been applied and deployed in different Microsoft product teams (such as SharePoint online\, Exchange online\, and\, Window Azure) for online service management. His current research mainly focuses on machine learning and data mining algorithms for software and service analytics\, business intelligence\, and conversational data analysis. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/smart-data-analysis-from-data-to-insights-and-actions/
LOCATION:E11-4045 (University of Macau)
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171120T161500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171120T165000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20171120T081504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043746Z
UID:6182-1511194500-1511196600@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:A glimpse of Microsoft Research Asia
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nDr. Winnie Cui\nMicrosoft Research Asia \nAbstract\nMicrosoft Research Asia is Microsoft’s fundamental research arm in the Asia Pacific region. Today\, with more than 200 researchers and developers and more than 300 visiting scientists and students\, the lab conducts basic and applied research in areas central to Microsoft’s long-term strategy and future computing vision. It also collaborates with many universities in Asia. How does it collaborate? Does it have internship program? Who qualifies for its Fellowship award? I’ll tell you more in this quick update about MSRA. \nBiography\nWinnie Cui is a senior manager in the Academic Outreach organization at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)\, responsible for promoting and championing academic collaborations and partnership between MSRA and top-tier universities in Hong Kong\, Taiwan and Singapore. Since joining Microsoft in 2006\, Winnie has served in various positions\, including Area Manager for North Asia in Microsoft IT and Principal Solution Manager. Prior to joining Microsoft\, she worked at GE Healthcare leading the global IT excellence in product digitization and optimization. Winnie also co-authored the chapter “Fluid Dynamics and Thrombosis” in the book “Advances in Cardiovascular Engineering” published by Springer. Winnie conducted her postdoctoral research at the University of Southern California and holds MS and PhD degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of Tennessee in the United States. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/a-glimpse-of-microsoft-research-asia/
LOCATION:E11-4045 (University of Macau)
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171204T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171204T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20171204T070002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043745Z
UID:6184-1512399600-1512403200@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Exploration for Offshore Sand in Hong Kong: Detailed Surveys\, Dredging and Environmental Assessments
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nPaul Chi Tak CHEUNG\nChairman\nProfession Branch\nGeological Society of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nHong Kong used about 270Mm3 of marine dredged sand from 1990 to 2003 to form land for the Chek Lap Kok Airport and port facilities\, roads and various new town developments for housing and industry. The main sand reserves are Pleistocene fluvial deposits\, the upper portions of which were largely reworked and laterally transported by early Holocene tidal currents. Economic sand reserves mostly occur where later Holocene mud deposition has been restricted by high tidal flows. Sand dredging proposals have been subjected to the environmental impact assessment process and in some instances the decision was taken not to extract certain sand deposits for environmental\, ecological and socio-economic reasons. Detailed dredging assessments have been undertaken to quantify economic reserves. The key are the overburden ratio and a means to economically dispose of the overburden. Empty sand borrow pits were used for cost effective mud disposal while at the same time reinstating the seabed. The marine sand search study in 1990 was to locate and investigate all major offshore deposits of sand and gravel that could be used as reclamation fill in Hong Kong. The study comprised a two-stage offshore investigation of geophysical surveys and drilling followed by borehole logging and laboratory testing. The study had identified 14 potential marine sand areas with a combined volume of approximately 588Mm3. \nBiography\nMr. Paul Cheung is currently the Chairman of Profession Branch of Geological Society of Hong Kong. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Geology in National Taiwan University and University of Windsor\, Ontario\, respectively. He is a chartered engineer\, geologist\, and scientist of UK. He had conducted many geological related projects in Hong Kong. In particular\, he was involved with the “Exploration for Offshore Sand in Hong Kong” while he was working for the Civil Engineering Development Department of HKSAR. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/exploration-for-offshore-sand-in-hong-kong-detailed-surveys-dredging-and-environmental-assessments/
LOCATION:E12-G020
CATEGORIES:cee_events,event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171212T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20171212T120000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20171212T030048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043745Z
UID:6187-1513076400-1513080000@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Interpretation Of CPTu in Consolidating Soils
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Paulus P. Rahardjo\nProfessor of Geotechnical Engineering Division\nFaculty of Engineering\nUniversitas Katolik Parahyangan (Unpar)\nIndonesia \nAbstract\nThe interpretation of CPTu for normally consolidated clay soils and slightly\, or strongly overconsolidated soils have been published in many papers. For both conditions of soils (normally consolidated and overconsolidated clay)\, there is hydrostatic pore water pressure\, however no initial excess pore water pressure exists. Hence the assumption that excess pore water pressure due to cone penetration only is valid. In soils where consolidation still on going which could be due to natural deposition of the soils or soft soils under reclamation fill material\, the excess pore pressure still exists\, which means that pior to penetration testing\, the initial excess pore pressure has not completely diminished. In this case\, the measured excess pore water pressure shall be interpreted as combined existing pore water pressure and the additional excess pore water pressure due to cone penetration. In case of testings conducted at certain interval time such as during the course of consolidation in reclamation area\, then the excess pore pressure response as well as the tip resistance and the frction ratio will change toward a normally consolidated condition. This paper represents research results of CPTu in reclaimed soils and the authors have developed methods for interpretation of these combined excess pore water pressures. In the end\, the methods can separate between the excess pore water pressure due to penetration and the prior existing pore water pressure. The methods include the use of Schmertmaan method (which is found not suitable for reclamation case histories)\, the Use of Bq value and the dissipation curve with considering the existing excess pore water that still exists. The tip resistance in underconsolidating soft soils subjected to fill placement will not form a linear tip resistance (not straight line) when carefully examined (Schmertmann assumption not applicable in such cases) and hence the interpretation were done considering the initial (remaining) excess pore pressure or the effective stress at certain time. The methods have been proved to be consistent and has the potensial for more accurate interpretation. \nBiography\nProf Paulus P. Rahardjo completed undergraduate study at Universitas Katolik Parahyangan (Unpar) and since then has been faculty members at the university. He pursued graduate study in highway engineering at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)\, then Master’s Degree and Ph.D degree from Virginia Tech (USA). He has been actively engaged in teaching\, research as well as hundreds of geotechnical consultancy. He works for design and advising clients on many geotechnical problems including building foundations\, highways\, tunnels\, bridges\, jetys and wharfs\, dams\, coal minings etc. Among his specialies with intense experience in research and practice are in the field of insitu testings and landslides or slope protections. He has written more than 200 articles/ papers\, research reports and manuals. He has served the university as Department Head\, Vice Dean of Faculty of Engineering\, Director of the Graduate Program and Vice Rector for Academic Affairs. Currently\, he is the coordinator of Geotechnical Engineering Division and Director of Research Center for Infrastructure and Urban Development. His affiliation include the Indonesian Geotechnical Society (HATTI)\, American Society of Civil Engineers in the Geo-Institute\, the Indonesian Experts on Disasters (IABI) and Board Representative of International Consortium on Landslides (ICL)\, currently responsible for project IPL-195 Study for Mitigation and Recovery of Mud Eruption Disaster in East Java and Modeling for Risk Reduction Mudflow Hazards. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/interpretation-of-cptu-in-consolidating-soils/
LOCATION:E11-G015
CATEGORIES:cee_events,event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180104T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180104T113000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20180104T023035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043745Z
UID:6178-1515061800-1515065400@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Learning to see: from Big-data driven to X-Data driven
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Shiguang Shan\nInstitute of Computing Technology (ICT)\nChinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) \nAbstract\nAI needs to see the world as human beings in order to complete its missions smoothly. In the last 5 years\, Computer Vision has made remarkable progress by leveraging ABC engines: Algorithms\, Big-data\, and Computing. In this talk\, I will firstly introduce the recent progress in computer vision\, which are mainly achieved by deep learning from big-data on GPU. Then\, I will analyze that the ABC methodology is not enough to develop a seeing AI. We need learning algorithms that can learn from more complex data conditions\, which is called by me X-data driven methods with X-data standing for small data\, noisy data\, weakly supervised data\, semi-supervised data\, and self-created or adaptively collected data. Some of the efforts to this direction in my lab will be introduced for discussion. \nBiography\nShiguang Shan is now a Professor with the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT)\, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)\, where he received the Ph.D. in computer science in 2004. He is now the deputy director of the Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing of CAS. He is also the founder/Chairman/CTO of Seeta Tech. Inc. He published more than 200 academic papers in refereed journals and proceedings in the areas of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition\, and his work has been cited more than 12\,000 times in Google scholar. He especially focuses on face recognition and deep learning related researches. He has served as Area Chair for a number of international conferences including ICCV’11\, ICPR’12\, ACCV’12\, FG’13\, ICPR’14\, ICASSP’14\, ACCV’16\, and FG’18. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Image Processing\, the Neurocomputing\, the Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding\, and Pattern Recognition Letters. He is the winner of the China’s State Natural Science Progress Awards in 2015 for his work on non-linear visual modeling and learning\, the China’s State Scientific and Technological Progress Awards in 2005 for his work on face recognition technologies\, and the Best Student Poster Award Runner-up in CVPR’08. He also won the NSFC excellent young scientific fund in 2012 and the CCF young scientist award in 2015. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/learning-to-see-from-big-data-driven-to-x-data-driven/
LOCATION:E12-G004
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180111T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180111T110000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20180111T020045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043705Z
UID:6175-1515664800-1515668400@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:A Conceptual Framework for Multi-sourced Event Management and Multi-dimensional Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Qing LI\nCity University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nThe publicly available data such as the massive and dynamically updated news and social media data streams (a.k.a. big data) covers the various aspects of social activities\, personal views and expressions\, which points to the importance of understanding and discovering the knowledge patterns underlying the big data\, and the need of developing methodologies and techniques to discover real-world events from such big data\, to manage and to analyze the discovered events in an efficient and elegant way. In this talk we introduce techniques of discovering events from the multi-modal big data and building an event cube model to support event queries and analysis\, by addressing the tasks of data cleansing\, data fusion\, event detection and modeling. Preliminary experimental results on some of the tasks will be reported. We further explore and connect the important events discovered in a multimodal collection of inputs from various public sources\, uncover their co-occurrence and track down the spatial and temporal dependency to answer the challenging questions of “how” and “why”. A novel event cube (EC) model is devised to support various queries and analysis tasks of events; such events include those discovered by techniques of untargeted event detection (UED) and targeted event detection (TED) from multi-sourced data. More specifically\, based on essential event elements of 5W1H\, the EC model is developed to organize the discovered events from multiple dimensions\, and to operate on the events at various levels of granularity\, which facilitates analyzing and mining hidden/inherent relationships among the events effectively. \nBiography\nQing Li is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science\, and the Director of the Engineering Research Centre on Multimedia Software at the City University of Hong Kong\, where he joined as a faculty member since Sept 1998. He received his B.Eng. from Hunan University (Changsha)\, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles)\, all in computer science. His research interests include multi-modal data management\, conceptual data modeling\, social media and Web services\, and e-learning systems. He has authored/co-authored over 400 publications in these areas. He is actively involved in the research community and has served as an associate editor of a number of major technical journals including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)\, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)\, Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE)\, World Wide Web (WWW)\, and Journal of Web Engineering\, in addition to being a Conference and Program Chair/Co-Chair of numerous major international conferences. He also sits in the Steering Committees of DASFAA\, ER\, ACM RecSys\, IEEE U-MEDIA\, and ICWL. Prof. Li is a Fellow of IET (UK)\, a senior member of IEEE (US) and a distinguished member of CCF (China). \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/a-conceptual-framework-for-multi-sourced-event-management-and-multi-dimensional-analysis/
LOCATION:E11-4045 (University of Macau)
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180111T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180111T120000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20180111T030001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043705Z
UID:6172-1515668400-1515672000@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Smart Medicine: Medical Data Mining and Innovative Applications with Patient Monitoring and Whole-life Cycle Management
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Yanchun ZHANG\nVictoria University\, Austria\nFudan University\, China \nAbstract\nDue to the recent development or maturation of database\, data storage\, data capturing\, and sensor technologies\, huge medical and health data have been generated at hospitals and medical organizations at unprecedented speed. Those data are a very valuable resource for improving health delivery\, health care and decision making and better risk analysis and diagnosis. Health care and medical service is now becoming more data-intensive and evidence-based since electronic health records are used to track individuals’ and communities’ health information (particularly changes). These substantially motivate and advance the emergence and the progress of data-centric health data and knowledge management research and practice. \nIn this talk\, we will introduce several innovative data mining techniques and case studies to address the challenges encountered in e-health and medical big data. This includes techniques and development on medical data streams\, correlation analysis\, abnormally detection and risk predictions with patient monitoring and aging care applications. \nBiography\nYanchun Zhang is a Professor and Director of Centre for Applied Informatics at Victoria University since 2004. Dr Zhang obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from The University of Queensland in 1991. His research interests include databases\, data mining\, web services and e-health. He has published over 300 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings including ACM Transactions on Computer and Human Interaction (TOCHI)\, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)\, VLDBJ\, SIGMOD and ICDE conferences\, and a dozen of books and journal special issues in the related areas. Dr. Zhang is a founding editor and editor-in-chief of World Wide Web Journal (Springer) and Health Information Science and Systems Journal (Springer)\, and also the founding editor of Web Information Systems Engineering Book Series and Health Information Science Book Series. He is Chairman of International Web information Systems Engineering Society (WISE). He was a member of Australian Research Council’s College of Experts (2008-2010)\, and also serves as expert panel member at various international funding agencies such as National Natural Science Fund of China (NSFC)\, “National 1000 Talents Program” of China\, the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund and National Natural Science Fund of China (NSFC). He is one of the National “Thousand Talents Program” Experts in China since 2010 (currently with Fudan University). \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/smart-medicine-medical-data-mining-and-innovative-applications-with-patient-monitoring-and-whole-life-cycle-management/
LOCATION:E11-4045 (University of Macau)
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180122T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180122T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20180122T070047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043705Z
UID:6165-1516633200-1516636800@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Hybrid Methods Guide Structure Based Vaccine Design for Picornaviruses
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nDr. Abhay KOTECHA\nDivision of Structural Biology\nUniversity of Oxford \nAbstract\nThe physical properties of viral capsids are major determinants of vaccine efficacy for picornaviruses which impact on human and animal health. Current vaccines are produced from inactivated virus. Inactivation often reduces the stability of the virus capsid\, causing a problem for Foot and Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV) where certain serotypes fall apart into pentameric assemblies below pH 6.5 or at temperatures above 37°C\, destroying their effectiveness in eliciting a protective immune response. As a result\, vaccines require a cold chain for storage and animals need to be frequently immunised. Globally there are seven FMDV serotypes: O\, A\, Asia1\, C and SAT-1\, -2 and -3\, contributing to a dynamic pool of antigenic variation. We sought to rationally engineer FMDV capsids either as infectious copy virus or recombinant empty capsids with improved thermo-stability for improved vaccines. Here we used in-silico MD simulations\, molecular modelling\, free energy calculations\, X-ray crystallography\, Cryo-electron microscopy (CryoEM) and various biochemical/biophysical techniques to design and help characterise the improved capsids. For the most unstable FMDV serotypes (O and SAT2)\, panels of stabilising mutants were characterised. Promising candidates were then engineered and shown to confer increased thermo- and pH-stability. Thus\, in-silico predictions translate into marked stabilisation of both infectious and recombinant empty capsids. \nAn in-situ diffraction method was used to determine crystal structures to verify that no unanticipated structural changes have occurred as a consequence of the modifications made. Where it was difficult to obtain crystals/diffraction\, structures were determined by high-resolution CryoEM (with the best electron density maps reaching 2.7Å resolution). The structures of the wildtype and two of the stabilised mutants for three different serotypes of FMDV showed the mutations made predicted interactions and the antigenic surfaces remained unchanged. \nAnimal trials showed stabilised particles can generate improved neutralising response compared to the traditional vaccines. Similar approach applied to the polio virus successfully produced antigenic VLPs using the plant based expression system. CryoEM reconstruction of polio VLPs produced 3.6Å resolution maps and the structure analysis suggested the plant based polio particles are identical to the native virus. We have successfully used a structure based rational engineering approach to increase the stability of viral capsids without affecting the antigenicity and demonstrated the direct application of structural biology and structure based design that has the potential to lead directly to a new generation of efficacious vaccines that can provide hope that the disease can be brought under control. \nIn addition\, using CryoEM\, CryoET and Focus Ion Beam milling of the infected cells\, we are working towards understanding the picronavirus life cycle in molecular details. To this end\, using localised reconstruction\, we have determined the interaction between αvβ6 and two FMDV strains at high resolution. In the preferred mode of engagement the fully open form of the integrin\, hitherto unseen at high-resolution\, attaches to an extended GH loop via interactions with the RGD motif plus downstream hydrophobic residues. In addition\, an N-linked sugar of the integrin attaches to the previously identified HS binding site\, suggesting a functional role. Finally using Ion Beam milling\, we have begun to visualise and understand the formation of virus production factories inside the infected cells. In-situ high resolution structures will allow us to see the virus life cycle in its native state and also lead to potential new targets for next generation vaccine design. \nBiography\nAbhay Kotecha is a senior research associate at the Division of Structural Biology\, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine\, University of Oxford\, UK. Dr. Kotecha obtained his Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Cell and Molecular Biology from Oxford Brookes University\, Oxford in June 2008 and his DPhil in Clinical medicine from University of Oxford in March 2013. During his studies\, Dr. Kotecha worked in several world class laboratories and received many fellowships\, including EMBO summer research studentship to learn advanced electron microscopy techniques at the Electron Microscopy Core Facility\, EMBL\, Heidelberg\, Germany. BBSRC/STFC research fellowship to spend a year at Science and Technology Facilities Council\, Synchrotron light source\, Daresbury\, UK where he worked on membrane protein X-ray crystallography of light harvesting complexes. Undergraduate research studentship\, Imperial College\, London. Dr. Kotecha was awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust DPhil studentship in structural biology at the University of Oxford and the Clarendon Fund Scholarship from Oxford University Press to study viruses in atomic details. His research interests are on structure based vaccine design for infectious viruses using X-ray crystallography and Cryo-Electron Microscopy. His work funded by The Wellcome Trust Translational Award and Gates Foundation aimed at developing stable synthetic vaccines. He has successfully developed novel empty particle vaccines for FMDV which is now being taken up by commercial partners for industrial production. This work has a very broad national and international impact and may also be applicable across a range of human and animal pathogens. Dr. Kotecha has published more than 20 papers in high impact journals most of which has received national and international media coverage. \nHe is now investigating the stabilised virus particles in cellular context to understand the virus receptor interaction\, disassembly of stabilised viruses and the genome release as well as the assembly of newly synthesised particles to generate new targets for next generation of vaccines. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/hybrid-methods-guide-structure-based-vaccine-design-for-picornaviruses/
LOCATION:E12-G004
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180205T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20180205T073058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043704Z
UID:6158-1517844600-1517851800@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Behaviours and related three-dimensional modelling of deep excavation\, tunneling and embedded track slab base in soft ground
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Benson Bin-Chen HSIUNG\nAssociate Professor\nNational Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology\nTaiwan \nAbstract\nIn the first part of the presentation\, behaviours of deep excavations in loose to medium dense sand and Jakarta clay which have not been explored before were examined and discussed and three- dimensional modelling of excavations were conducted associated with observational data to define certain key soil properties\, such as soil stiffness at various stress and strain level. Also by three- dimensional modelling\, plane strain ratio (PSR) chart which could assist to transfer displacements induced under plane strain condition to the one under three- dimensional condition was developed. Factors affecting PSR\, such as distance from the corner\, geometry of the excavation and ground conditions were reviewed. Further\, data about deformations caused by tunneling in loose to medium dense sand was collected and studied and it was found that the ground displacement is mainly caused by gap at shield tail and no consolidation settlement is seen. Through three- dimensional modelling\, vertical displacements in both transverse and longitudinal directions were simulated successfully. Influences from operation parameters\, such as face and backfill grouting pressure were evaluated and stress status and strain level during various construction stages were discussed too. The importance of nonlinearity and small strain characteristic of soils could be confirmed by these analyses also. Finally\, in terms of sustainable development\, a recycle material\, air- cooled furnace slags (ACFS) is used to replace granular materials as base of a special embedded track slab in soft ground. A series of lab/field tests and numerical analyses were thus delivered to validate properties and performance of ACFS base. \nBiography\nDr. Bin- Chen Benson Hsiung is from Taiwan and completed his 1st degree in Taiwan\, Master degree in University of Illinois\, Urbana- Champaign\, United States in 1996. After Dr. Hsiung graduated from US\, he came back to Taiwan and then joined an engineering consulting firm there as a geotechnical engineer for approximately 1 year before he went to University of Bristol to study for his PhD. Dr. Hsiung got his PhD at the end of 2001 and then moved to work for an international consulting firm\, Maunsell (now AECOM) for several large- scale infrastructure projects in both UK and Taiwan\, such as HS1\, Heathrow T5 and Taiwan High Speed Rail. Dr. Hsiung came back to Taiwan and joined Department of Civil Engineering\, National Kaohsiung of Applied Sciences (re-named as “National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology” after 1st of February\, 2018) as a full- time academic staff in August 2003. Dr Hsiung is a well- qualified British chartered civil engineer and also country representative in Taiwan of Institution of Civil Engineering. He was promoted to be associate professor in the university since 2010. From 2011 to 2015\, Dr. Hsiung was on leave for his replacement work in industry for 4 years\, mainly involved in promotion and operation of overseas projects\, such as Jakarta MRT in Indonesia also tenders for MRTs in other South and Southeast Asia countries. Dr. Hsiung’s main research interests are deep excavation\, TBM tunneling\, soil- structure interaction analysis and geotechnical monitoring etc.. Outside the university\, Dr. Hsiung currently takes several posts\, such as the secretary of Asian Technical Committee 6 “Urban GeoEngineering” under ISSMGE\, secretary of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) Geotechnical Society and deputy secretary of conference committee of 16th Asian Regional Conference of ISSMGE which will be held in Taipei\, Taiwan on October 2019. Up to now he has published approximately 50 international journal and conference papers and supervised more than 30 PhD & MSc students in total. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/behaviours-and-related-three-dimensional-modelling-of-deep-excavation-tunneling-and-embedded-track-slab-base-in-soft-ground/
LOCATION:E11-3033
CATEGORIES:cee_events,event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180302T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180302T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20180302T070045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043704Z
UID:6154-1520002800-1520006400@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Theory and Applications of a family of numerical methods : Discrete Element Method
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Y.M. Cheng1\, and Dr. N Li2\n1:Associate Professor\, 2:PhD\nDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering\nThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University \nAbstract\nBased on the principle of molecular dynamics\, the American scholar Cundall proposed the discrete element method\, which is a discontinuous numerical simulation method for the analysis of geotechnical mechanics problems. The discrete element method is first proposed for the analysis of geotechnical mechanics\, and then it has developed rapidly and applied more and more widely. The discrete element method has a certain advantage in the analysis of discrete matter\, and has become an effective numerical simulation method to solve the problem of discontinuous medium in recent years. Today DEM is becoming widely accepted as an effective method of addressing engineering problems in granular and discontinuous materials\, especially in granular flows\, powder mechanics\, and rock mechanics. \nBiography\nDr. Cheng’s expertize includes numerical modeling of wide range of geotechnical engineering problems. In particular\, he has developed the software SLOPE 2000 and many other related software for slope stability analyses. Dr. Li is currently working on her PhD on application of DEM slope stability\, bearing capacity and lateral earth pressure. A brief introduction about Fundamental basis of Distinct Element Method- explicit and implicit formulation\, including types discrete element\, DDA\, NNM\, and some problems in numerical implementation will also be presented. Then\, a detailed discussion will be delivered on the actual operation: DEM model generation\, calibration(assign micro parameter)\, boundary condition of the model\, applications on slope stability\, bearing capacity and lateral earth pressure. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/theory-and-applications-of-a-family-of-numerical-methods-discrete-element-method/
LOCATION:E11-1006
CATEGORIES:cee_events,event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180315T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180315T153000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20180315T063001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043704Z
UID:6150-1521124200-1521127800@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Mechanical behaviors of track-bed materials at various inclusion (coarse-grain) contents
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nDr. Han-Lin WANG\nResearch Fellow\nCollege of Civil Engineering\, Hunan University \nAbstract\nFor the French conventional railway lines\, a layer\, namely interlayer\, was created in the substructure mainly by the interpenetration of ballast grains and subgrade soils. The in-situ investigation indicated that the content of coarse grains decreases over depth. In this presentation\, the mechanical behaviors of the unsaturated lower part interlayer soil were investigated at six volumetric inclusion contents fv (volumetric ratio of dry coarse grains to the whole sample) by carrying out monotonic and cyclic triaxial tests. The results reveal the existence of a characteristic fv-cha\, separating two zones of the variations of mechanical behaviors with different inclusion effects. To verify this observation\, X-ray microcomputed tomography (μCT) scans were conducted on as-compacted samples. The results obtained strongly support the existence of fv-cha: when fv ≤ fv-cha\, the matrix of fines constitutes the skeleton of the sample\, with inclusions floating in it. For this case\, the mechanical behaviors are dominated by the fines. By contrast\, when fv > fv-cha\, the inclusions dominate the skeleton of the sample\, thus mainly influencing the mechanical behaviors. \nBiography\nDr. Han-Lin Wang is now a research fellow of geotechnical engineering at Hunan University\, China. He got the BEng and Ph.D. degrees from Zhejiang University (2011) and (2017)\, respectively. In 2016\, he also worked as a joint Ph.D. candidate for one year at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)\, France. His research field focuses on TDR technology\, geosynthetic-reinforced pile-supported track-bed\, mechanical behaviors of track-bed materials and moisture migration in the track-bed. Depending on his research experiences\, he has authored 9 scientific journal papers\, including 3 papers under review. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/mechanical-behaviors-of-track-bed-materials-at-various-inclusion-coarse-grain-contents/
LOCATION:E11-1006
CATEGORIES:cee_events,event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180321T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180321T120000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20180321T030056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043703Z
UID:6144-1521630000-1521633600@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:Anomalous diffusions and fractional order differential equations
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Zhen-Qing CHEN\nProfessor of Department of Mathematics\nUniversity of Washington\nU.S.A. \nAbstract\nAnomalous diffusion phenomenon has been observed in many natural systems\, from the signalling of biological cells\, to the foraging behaviour of animals\, to the travel times of contaminants in groundwater. In this talk\, I will first discuss the interplay between anomalous diffusions and differential equations of fractional order. I will then present some recent results in the study of these two topics\, including the counterpart of DeGiorgi-Nash-Moser-Aronson theory for non-local operators of fractional order. No prior knowledge in these two subjects is assumed. \nBiography\nProf. Zhen-Qing Chen received his PhD at Washington University St. Louis in 1992\, and has been a full professor at University of Washington since 2003. He has published more than 100 papers on international journals such as Annals of Probability\, Probability Theory and Related Fields and so on. Prof. Chen is mainly working on probability theory and stochastic analysis\, he is now fellow of IMS and AMS and associated editors of the journals: Annals of Probability\, Annals of Applied Probability\, Probability Theory and Related Field\, Stochastic Processes and Their Applications and so on. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/anomalous-diffusions-and-fractional-order-differential-equations/
LOCATION:E11-1012
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180327T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180327T153000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20180327T063024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043703Z
UID:6129-1522161000-1522164600@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:The role of wind-structure interaction in air ventilation and air pollution dispersion in urban environment
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Kenny KWOK\nProfessor\nSchool of Civil Engineering\nUniversity of Sydney\nAustralia \nAbstract\nThe recent economic development in Asia is driven by unprecedented growth in industrial and manufacturing activities. The growth in wealth also witnesses a rapid urbanisation and widespread construction of high-density high-rise commercial and residential buildings in major cities around the world. The air pollution generated by these activities are often poorly control and result in a decline of air quality which is exacerbated by vehicular and other undesirable emissions. This presentation examines the role of wind-structure interaction in air ventilation and air pollution dispersion in urban environment. The results of studies of the pedestrian level wind conditions and dispersion of haze fog and communicable disease around buildings are presented and discussed. \nBiography\nProfessor Kenny Kwok is currently a Professor of Engineering at The University of Sydney. He was previously Professor of Engineering at Western Sydney University (2008 to 2017)\, Professor of Civil Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1998-2008) and Professor of Wind Engineering at The University of Sydney (1999-2002). Kenny is also Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 2008. His research interests include wind engineering\, structural dynamics\, vibration control\, human perception of motion\, and environmental fluid mechanics\, particularly with respect to the dynamic behaviour of tall buildings and flexible structures in strong winds. His research focuses on fundamental aspects of building aerodynamics and wind-structure-occupant-damper interactions\, and their practical applications to real life situations. He has published over 500 articles in journals\, book chapters\, invited and keynote papers\, and conference papers. He is a Life Member of the Australasian Wind Engineering Society\, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and Institution of Engineers\, Australia\, and a Scientific Advisor of the Hong Kong Observatory. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/the-role-of-wind-structure-interaction-in-air-ventilation-and-air-pollution-dispersion-in-urban-environment/
LOCATION:E11-G015
CATEGORIES:cee_events,event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180327T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180327T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20180327T063001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043703Z
UID:6134-1522161000-1522166400@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:IEEE Blockchain: Building Trust TogetherIEEE 區塊鏈: 共建信任
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/ieee-blockchain-building-trust-together-ieee-%e5%8d%80%e5%a1%8a%e9%8f%88-%e5%85%b1%e5%bb%ba%e4%bf%a1%e4%bb%bb/
LOCATION:E4-G051\, Macau
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180425T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20180425T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101655
CREATED:20180425T070015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043702Z
UID:6125-1524668400-1524672000@www.fst.um.edu.mo
SUMMARY:The Application of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Smart City地理資訊系統在智慧城市的應用
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/the-application-of-geographic-information-system-gis-in-smart-city/
LOCATION:E11-G015
CATEGORIES:cee_events,event_list,seminarslectures
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