Introduction to Particle Physics College of Science Pre-requisit: Modern Physics and Quantum Physics Some background with Relativistic QM and QFT will be useful STATHES PAGANIS Thursday 789 Phys5013 3

This course is designed to introduce students to computational methods in Astroparicle Physics. The course begins with review of Cosmic Rays. After brief introductions to basic of computer programming, the course will cover Mote Carlo simulation and data analysis technique for cosmic rays. Through this course, students will understand air shower production, and detection mechanism. Students also will gain various practical skills in Linux operation system, C/C++ programing, and data analysis base on ROOT. The course consists of lectures and self-practice, which requires students to bring his/her own laptop computer. College of Science General Physics and Modern Physics JIWOO NAM Wednesday 789 Phys5054 3

Computer simulations have become an integral part of contemporary basic and applied physics, and have been serving as a bridge between theoretical and experimental physics. This course introduces computational methods for solving problems in physical sciences whose complexity or difficulty places them beyond analytic solution or human endurance. Fundamental programming techniques in C; Basic Mathematical Operations; Integration and Differentiation; System of Linear Equations; Matrix Operations; Differential and Integral Equations; Probability and Statistics; Monte Carlo Methods; Ising model; Lattice QCD; Partial Differential Equations. College of Science Each student is required to attend the lectures, to work out the problem sets (70%), plus a term project (30%). TING WAI CHIU Thursday 234 Phys7030 3

The course requires students’ teamwork to accomplish projects of topics in response to current crop production inquires based on their accumulated knowledge taught in other courses. After taking this course, the students will have a better understanding about the current status of agriculture industries and will be better equipped with problem-solving skills. The possible project topics include (1) crop production and management, (2) crop physiology and biotechnology, (3) genetics and molecular breeding, and (4) biometrics and bioinformatics. College of Engineering The students will be grouped into teams to plan and implement the project together under instructors’ supervision. There are three progress checkpoints throughout the semester and the team members have to present their results at the end of the semester. Evaluations on the progress at three checkpoints _ 20% each; evaluations on the final project _ 40%. FENG-HUEI LIN Monday 789 Biomed5002 3

Chemical kinetics and reactor design considering the influence of mass and heat transfers, and the process optimization. Students will gain the knowledge of chemical kinetics and reactor design, including the heterogeneous catalysis, analysis of reaction data, the effects of mass and heat transfers, and the chemical process optimization in a industrial plant. Thus, students are capable to solve the problems, to coordinate a team and to have creativity in order to apply, evaluate and design the reaction process in chemical industry. College of Engineering Elements of Reaction Kinetics

1.Conversion and Extent of Reaction

2.Complex reaction

3.Influence of temperature

4.Determination of kinetic parameters Kinetics of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions

1.Adsorption of solid catalyst

2.Rate equations

3. Hougen-Watson (or Langmuir-Hinshelwood) Models

4.Model discrimination and parameter estimation
5.Differential and integral methods of kinetic analysis Transport Processes with Reactions Catalyzed by Solids

1.Catalyst structure

2.Pore diffusion

3.Diffusion and reaction

4.Concept of effectiveness factor

5.Criteria of diffusion limitation

6.Generalized Thiele modulus

7.Non-isothermal particles Gas-Liquid Reactions

1.Two-film theory

2.Surface renewable theory

3.Utilization and enhancement factors

4.Surface renewable theory Analysis of Ideal Type Chemical Reactors

1.Batch and semi batch reactor

2.Plug flow reactor

3.Perfectly mixed flow reactor Fixed Bed Catalytic Reactors

1.Importance and scale of fixed bed catalytic process

2. Factors in the preliminary design Nonideal Flow Patterns

1.Age distribution functions

2.residence time distribution

3.Micro and macro mixing Fluidized Bed and Transport reactors

1.Features of fluidization

2.Fludized catalytic cracking Special Topics

Evaluation and Assessment: Midterm 30%, Final 30% Homework 25% (including problem solving using computer programs), and Final project 15% CHENG-CHE HSU Monday 34 Thursday 2 ChemE7004 3

The course credit will not be granted to student who miss more than three lectures. Organizer Dr. Nan-Shih Liao College of Medicine Homework or in-class quiz assigned by each lecturer SHU-CHUN TENG Monday 89 PTMP8013 2

Classroom: IBMS TIGP classroom (8F, New Building) Coordinator:徐志文 College of Medicine SHU-CHUN TENG Tuesday 67 PTMP8011 2

In the first semester: ?? Learn the background knowledge of information retrieval. ?? Learn the knowledge about Naive Bayes classification. ?? Be able to extract blog entries; identify opinion words and sentences. ?? Prepare training instances for the recommendation engine. ?? In the second semester: ?? Develop the recommendation engine. ?? Develop a fancy web interface. College of Management LING-CHIEH KUNG IM4001 2

IT IS NOW CLEAR THAT LOTS OF NON-CODING RNAS IN THE GENOME ARE FUNCTIONAL AND VERY POWERFUL IN REGULATING GENE ACTIVITIES AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS. DEPENDS ON THE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDENTS, AROUND 1/3 OF THE LECTURES WILL BE GIVEN BY THE INSTRUCTOR FOR INTRODUCING BASIC CONCEPTS IN NON-CODING RNA REGULATED GENE SILENCING, INCLUDING THE POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION BY SIRNA, MICRORNA AND REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN SPECIFIC PIRNAS. THESE WILL COVER THE PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS INCLUDING GENOMIC IMPRINTING, SEX CHROMOSOME COMPENSATION, SILENCING OF ENDOGENOUS RETROTRANSPOSONS AND STEM CELL BIOLOGY. IN ADDITION, THE INVOLVEMENT OF NON-CODING RNA RELATED REGULATORY MECHANISMS IN CARCINOGENESIS WILL BE DISCUSSED. FOR THE REST OF THE CLASSES, STUDENTS WILL BE ASSIGNED THE MOST UPDATED ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPERS AND CONFERENCE ARTICLES AS WELL AS THE MILESTONE PUBLICATIONS. THEY WILL BE RANDOMLY DIVIDED INTO 2 GROUPS FOR EACH ASSIGNMENT. ONE GROUP WILL BE PRESENTING THE ARTICLES AND STUDENTS IN THE OTHER GROUP ARE EXPECTED TO CHALLENGE THE PAPERS FROM THE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN, THE METHODOLOGY TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE DATA. STUDENTS IN THE 1ST GROUP SHOULD DEFEND FOR THE PAPERS AS IF IT’S THEIR MANUSCRIPT. STUDENTS FROM THE 2ND GROUP SHOULD ALSO PROVIDE CONSTRUCTIVE ADVICE AS HOW TO IMPROVE THE MANUSCRIPT SO THAT IT CAN BE PUBLISHED IN A HIGHER IMPACT JOURNAL. College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture PREFERABLY HAVING STUDIED ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS: (INTRODUCTORY) EPIGENETICS, SPECIAL TOPICS IN REPROGRAMMING, GENETICS AND EPIGENETICS IN GERM AND STEM CELLS Friday 34 Biot8014 2

COURSE DESCRIPTION: THIS HALF-YEAR GRADUATE COURSE AIMS TO INTRODUCE BASIC GENE SILENCING CONCEPTS AND RESEARCH TECHNIQUES AVAILABLE TO ADDRESS GENE SILENCING QUESTIONS IN PLANT AS WELL AS OTHER ORGANISMS. STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO CRITICALLY EVALUATE AND INTERPRET PUBLISHED RESEARCH ARTICLES. THEY WILL ALSO LEARN TO EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES BY LISTENING TO EXPERTS OF EACH FIELD INTRODUCING THEIR RESEARCH. OUTLINE: 1. INTRODUCTION – OVERVIEW 2. SENSE CO-SUPPRESSION IN PLANT 3. TRANSGENE CO-SUPPRESSION IN ANIMALS 4. PLANT VIRUS RESISTANCE VS. CO-SUPPRESSION 5. TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING (TGS) 6. POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING (PTGS) 7. VIRUS-INDUCE GENE SILENCING (VIGS) 8. SILENCING SIGNAL TRANSPORTATION 9. SMALL RNA 10. SIRNA PATHWAY 11. MIRNA PATHWAY 12. FUNCTION OF DICER 13. FUNCTION OF RNA-INDUCE SILENCING COMPLEX (RISC) 14. FUNCTIONS OF DICER-LIKE PROTEINS (DCLS) IN PLANT 15. DCL1 VS. MIRNA BIOGENESIS 16. FUNCTION OF DCL2 AND NAT-SIRNA 17. FUNCTION OF DCL3 AND DNA METHYLATION 18. FUNCTION OF DCL4 AND TRANS-SIRNA 19. ARGONATURE FAMILY 20. SUPPRESSION OF GENE SILENCING 21. RNAI TECHNOLOGY 22. MIRNA TECHNOLOGY College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Monday 234 Biot8016 3

THE ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY PART WILL PROVIDE STUDENTS A STATE-OF-THE-ART OF RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, AS WELL AS ITS APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, CELLULAR BIOLOGY AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION, STEM CELL BIOLOGY, APPLIED ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY, REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, AND CANCER BIOLOGY ETC. GUEST SPEAKERS WILL PLAN TO BE INVITED FOR THE LECTURES AS NECESSARY. THE PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY PART WILL PROVIDE STUDENTS MORE KNOWLEDGE IN PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, PLANT PATHOLOGY, AND PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY ETC. 動物組教師包括本所李宣書、林劭品老師及宋麗英老師，亦將邀請合聘張俊哲老師、丁詩同老師、_信志老師、楊寧_老師、楊淑美老師、楊文欽老師及蕭培文老師，或動物科技領域之校_外相關教師如李士傑老師與_益群老師等。 植物組教師包括本所林詩舜及陳仁治老師，亦將邀請合聘_鵬林、葉國禎、邱子珍、洪傳揚、常怡雍等老師進行授課。 COURSE TOPICS IN ANIMAL PART INCLUDING: 1. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 2. NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING 3. CELLULAR BIOLOGY 4. SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION 5. APPLIED ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY 6. STEM CELL BIOLOGY 7. CANCER BIOLOGY 8. REGENERATIVE MEDICINE COURSE TOPICS IN PLANT PART INCLUDING: 1. PLANT GENE TRANSFORMATION 2. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY RESEARCH RESOURCES 3. PHOTOSYNTHESIS & PHOTO-SIGNALING 4. PLANT NUTRITION 5. PLANT HORMONE 6. PLANT DEVELOPMENT 7. BIOTIC STRESS 8. ABIOTIC STRESS College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY Tuesday 234 Biot8019 3

This course will consist of two hours of lecture and one hour of writing exercises. Students will be assigned writing assignments, and at the end of the term. They should have been able to finish a draft of their research on a general topic, making use of the moves and techniques that they have learned from the course. In addition, they shall be required to give a 10-minute oral presentation of their paper. This course will train students to learn how to write an academic journal research paper. The course will consist of an introduction to academic English and to the framework of each part of an academic paper. Students will also be trained how to make an oral presentation of their research. College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture 1.Students are required to attend all classes. No more than three excused absences are permitted.

2.Active participation in class discussions is required.

3.Writing assignments are carefully scheduled as stages toward the fulfillment of the course’s objectives. Late assignments will not be accepted.
Friday 234 Biot7020 3