210605 Killing the Oblivious: A Scientific Analysis of the Incompetent to be Executed

Title:
Killing the Oblivious: A Scientific Analysis of the Incompetent to be Executed

Speaker:
蘇怡安（I-An Su), PhD student, Cornell University

Time:
06/05 (Sat.) 5 pm PDT, 6 pm MDT, 7 pm CDT, 8 pm EDT
06/06 (Sun.) 2 am CEST, 8 am Taiwan
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Keywords:
law, empirical legal studies, capital punishment, competency for execution, law and psychology

Abstract:
While there is growing research on criminal competencies concerning capital punishment from legal and psychological approaches, studies on competency for execution (CFE) can scarcely be found. Previous studies have primarily focused on its pertinent legal arguments, whilst little is known about the demographic, social/legal, and psychological/psychiatric variables that contribute to evaluating and determining the competency for execution. The ongoing study aims to continue constructing and analyzing the Killing the Oblivious database (Blume et al., 2014) and investigate the patterns behind the judicial decision-making process concerning the Ford/Penneti claims. Relationships among competency for execution and adjunctive competencies will be discussed.

210522 The Invisible Risk: The Data Sharing Activities of Data Brokers and Information Leakage

Title:
The Invisible Risk: The Data Sharing Activities of Data Brokers and Information Leakage

Speaker:
王大維 (Tawei (David) Wang), PhD, DePaul University (Chicago, IL, USA)

Time:
05/22 (Sat.) 7 am PDT, 8 am MDT, 9 am CDT, 10 am EDT, 4 pm CEST, 10 pm Taiwan
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Keywords:
accounting information systems, information security management

Abstract:
Data brokers are the major players in the market of collecting, selling, and sharing user information. This paper considers data brokers’ data sharing activities as a co-opetition between data brokers and investigates how the information collecting and sharing activities may lead to information leakage on the dark web. We further examine whether the data broker registration law can deter such relationship. Using all the registered data brokers and their competitors as the sample, we find that data brokers’ co-opetition data sharing activities are positively related to information leakage on the dark web. In addition, the unregistered data brokers have higher information leakage compared to the registered data brokers. Our study provides an initial evidence on the consequences of data brokers’ data sharing activities and the potential effect of the new regulations.

210514 兒童發展之基因環境交互作用 GxE Effects on Child Development/ 醫學資訊設計 Information Design for Healthcare

Title:
兒童發展之基因環境交互作用 GxE Effects on Child Development/ 醫學資訊設計 Information Design for Healthcare

Speaker:
姚乃嘉 (Nai-Jia Yao), PhD,National Taiwan University/World Confederation for Physical Therapy

Time:
05/15 (Sat.) 8 pm PDT, 9 pm MDT, 10 pm CDT, 11 pm EDT
05/16 (Sun.) 5 am CEST, 11 am Taiwan
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Keywords:
physical therapy, child development, information design, early intervention, gene-environment interaction, health promotion, cognitive development, motor development, behavioral development, health education

Abstract:
1. 兒童發展之基因環境交互作用 GxE Effects on Child Development：主要針對早期療育介入以及多巴胺相關基因對兒童發展（包括認知、動作、行為層面）與父母親親職壓力的影響，也探討基因與環境交互作用，期待長遠的未來能設計出個人化醫療方案。2. 醫學資訊設計 Information Design for Healthcare：致力於醫學資訊設計與科普教育，透過社群平台或活動推廣醫學知識給一般大眾。希望能和大家分享目前常見的數位行銷內容（例如：https://youtu.be/FHTu_cfzLNI），並一起討論更多可能的發展。

210508 Building protective superconducting qubits with granular Al superinductors

Title:
Building protective superconducting qubits with granular Al superinductors

Speaker:
呂文森 (Wen-Sen Lu), PhD, Rutgers University

Time:
05/08 (Sat.) 6 pm PDT, 7 pm MDT, 8 pm CDT, 9 pm EDT
05/09 (Sun.) 3 am CEST, 9 am Taiwan
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Keywords:
physics, condensed matter physics, superconducting qubits, cryogenic microwave circuits

Abstract:
Superinductors are an essential element of a novel qubit that we developed – the so-called bifluxon. The qubit consists of a superconducting loop formed by a Cooper-pair box (CPB) with low-E_J Josephson junctions shunted by a superinductor based on the granular Aluminum films, in which low-E_J Josephson junctions are realized between nanoscale grains. When the qubit loop is threaded by the magnetic flux Φ=Φ_0/2 (Φ_0 is the flux quantum), the bifluxon offers exponential suppression of energy decay from charge and flux noises, and dephasing from flux noise. We observed an increase of the energy relaxation time by two orders of magnitude, up to 100μs, by turning on the protection. In this talk I will discuss the general idea for building a protective superconducting qubit and dive into the experimental realization of superinductors and protective superconducting circuits.