##Update (Sep. 16): Premiere delayed. New time will be announced shortly.
Opening Ceremony: Friday, September 16th, 2022 || 9:30-10:30 Arizona Time
Welcome and Introduction
Jiang Wu (Director, Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Arizona)
Speakers:
Robert C. Robbins (President, University of Arizona, USA)
Chin-Shing Huang (Chair of PNC & Vice President, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Kimberly A. Jones (Vice Dean, Academic Affairs in the College of Humanities, University of Arizona, USA)
Bryan Heidorn (Director, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies, School of Information, University of Arizona, USA)
Hsi-Yuan Chen (CEO of PNC & Director, Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures (ASCDC), Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Keynote Speech 1: Friday, September 16th, 2022 || 11:15-12:00 Arizona Time
Keynote Speaker: Academician Pao K. Wang
Pao K. Wang received his BS degree in Meteorology from National Taiwan University and MS and PhD in atmospheric sciences from University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). He joined the faculty of University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor in 1980 and was prompted to associate professor and full professor in 1984 and 1988, respectively. He served as the Chair of Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in 1994-1997 and the first Chair of Air Resources Management Program in 1998-2002, both in UW-Madison. He had been a visiting professor of UCLA, MIT, National Taiwan University, Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, University of Mainz, and University of Ferrara. He became the Director of Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica in 2013 and a visiting chair in 2020. Since 2021 he has been a Distinguished Visiting Chair of Aeronautics and Astronautics in National Cheng Kung University. He has received research grants from NSF, EPA, NOAA, DOE, NASA, and MOST (Taiwan) and served in the advisory committees of ESA- and EU-sponsored research projects.
Title of Speech: Why Clouds Are Not Innocent
Silvery colored and puffy, white clouds floating effortlessly in the blue sky have inspired many beautiful literature and poems East and West, and phrases such as “freely drifting clouds and flowing water” or “floating clouds and wild crane” have been used approvingly to describe lucid writing or unrestrained life style. But do we really know what clouds are?
We will begin by examining what casual bare eye observations reveal about the many characteristics of clouds and how people study them. Then we will delve into the interior of these clouds to see what clouds are really made of and try to find secret recipes mother nature uses to produce clouds.
The above investigation will not be sufficient to pass a verdict on clouds. We will need to look into what clouds have conducted in influencing the affair of global climate. Here we will see that clouds are not some innocent bystanders that are just hanging leisurely in the sky watching the show– they are one of the most active actors in shaping the energy balance that is what climate is all about.