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CHING-HWA KIANG

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RECENT INVITED TALKS

• "Single-Molecule Studies of Virus Assemblies," in Part Three: Frontier of Emerging Biotechnologies. Track 2: Proteomics, in BIT Life Sciences' 3rd Annual World Congress of Gene-2009. Theme: March into New Era of Bio-Economy, Foshan, China, 1-7 December, 2009.
• "Protein Interaction Forces Studied with Single-Molecule Manipulation," in Track 1-2: Proteomics and Medical Implications, in The 4th China Medical Biotech Forum. Theme: Translating Bio-Innovations Into Industrialization, Dalian, China, 8-10 2009.
• "Single-Molecule Manipulation of Biological Molecules," in OCPA6 conference on Physics Education and Frontier Physics, Lanzhou, China, 3-7 August 2009.
• "Nonequilibrium Experiments on Single Molecules," 3 lectures in 2009 Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Fundamental Problems and Applications, organized by Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Boulder, CO, 6-24 July 2009.
• "Using Single-Molecule Manipulation to Probe the Dynamics of Protein and DNA Molecules," Seminar in Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 15 June 2009.
• "Probing Protein and DNA Potentials with Single-Molecule Manipulation," Seminar in Physics, Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza,'' Rome, Italy, 8 June 2009.
• "Single-Molecule Manipulation of DNA," in From DNA-inspired Physics to Physics-inspired Biology, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste-Miramare, Italy, 1-5 June 2009.
• "AFM Studies of the Resistance to Unfolding of Titin and von Willebrand Factor (VWF)," inTrack 2-2: Biological Significances of Protein Aggregation, Folding/unfolding, and Signaling, in BIT Life Sciences' 2nd annual PepCon-2009. Theme: Life, Knowledge & Bio-Economy, Seoul, South Korea, 2-4 April 2009.
• "Seeing Biological Interactions at the Nanometer Scale," seminar in Physics, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX, 3 March 2009.
• "Velocity Convergence of Protein Folding Free Energy Surfaces Using Jarzynski's Equality," The 4th Cross Strait Conference on Statistical Physics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 14-17 July 2008.
• "Free Energy Surfaces of Protein Unfolding Determined Using Jarzynski's Equality," The 9th Taiwan International Symposium on Statistical Physics (StatPhys-Taiwan-2008), Taipei, Taiwan, 8-12 July 2008.
• "Phase Behavior of DNA-Linked Gold Nanoparticle Assemblies," Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS2008), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2-6 July 2008.
• "Biological Physics at the Nanometer Scale: DNA Nanoparticle Assemblies and Protein Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," seminar in Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 7 November 2007.
• "Sequence-Dependent Phase Transition of DNA-Linked Gold Nanoparticle Assemblies," Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS2007), Prague, Czech Republic, European Union, 27-30 August 2007.
• "Probing Molecular Biophysics of DNA and Proteins Through Nanobiology," Seminar in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, 16 March 2007.
• "From DNA Nanoparticle Self-Assembly to Protein Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," Seminar in Chemistry, National DongHua University, Hualien, Taiwan, 18 December 2006.
• "Nanoscale Measurements of Biological Physics," Physics Colloquium, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 11 December 2006.
• "Observation of Biological Physics at the Nanometer Scale," Physics Colloquium, Brown University, Providence, RI, 20 November 2006.
• "Direct Reconstruction of the Free Energy Surface for Mechanical Unfolding of Proteins," The 2006 Carolina Biophysics Symposium: Biology from Single Molecules: Bridging the Gap Between Observation and Mechanism, Research Triangle Park, NC, 1-3 November 2006.
• "Direct Reconstruction of the Free Energy Surface From Single-Molecule Mechanical Unfolding of Proteins Using AFM," European Centre of Atomic and Molecular Computations (CECAM) workshop: Theory of Single Molecule Force Experiments and Simulations, Lyon, France, 26-29 September 2006.
• "Single-Molecule Studies of Human Cardiac Titin," seminar in Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology (AVB), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 14 September 2006.
• "Mechanical Properties of Human Cardiac Titin from Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," SCBA Texas Chapter Annual Symposium, Houston, TX, 29 April 2006.
• "Disorder and Defects in DNA-Linked Nanoparticle Assemblies," The 3rd Annual Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architecture and Devices (FNANO06), Snowbird, Utah, 23--27 April 2006.
• "Single-Molecule Studies of Human Cardiac Titin," seminar in Graduate Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics (SCBMB), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 12 April 2006.
• "Biological Physics at The Nanometer Scale: DNA Nanoparticle Assemblies and Protein Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," Physics Colloquium, The University of Houston, Houston, TX, 7 March 2006.
• "What Do We Learn from Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy?" TX-UK-IBB Workshop, Houston, TX, 16 February 2006.
• "Free Energy Landscapes from Single-Molecule Dynamic Force Spectroscopy," seminar in Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, 3 February 2006.
• "Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," 2005 CMB/SCBMB Research Conference , Galveston, TX, 28--29 October 2005.
• "Nanoscale Manipulation and Spectroscopy of Single Protein Molecules," Whitaker Nanobioengineering Symposium, Associated Nanotechnology Congress 2005 , Houston, TX, 10--11 October 2005.
• "Nanoscale Biological Physics: From DNA Nanoparticle Assemblies to Protein Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," seminar in Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 5 October 2005.
• "Protein Unfolding Free Energies From Jarzynski's Equality," The 2005 Summer Symposium on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (StatPhys-Taiwan 2005), Taipei, Taiwan, 31 July-6 August 2005.
• "Protein Folding Pathways Studied with Single-Molecule Atomic Force Microscopy," The 2005 NCTS July Workshop on Macromolecules and Biological Systems , Taipei, Taiwan, 27-29 July 2005.
• "Single-Molecule Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Protein Unfolding," seminar in Physics and National Center of Theoreical Sciences, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 26 July 2005.
• "Single-Molecule Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Protein Unfolding," Seminar in Center of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 21 July 2005.
• "Mechanical Properties of Human Cardiac Titin Studied by Single-Molecule Atomic Force Microscopy," Seminar in Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taiepi, Taiwan, 20 July 2005.
• "Single-Molecule Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Protein Unfolding," Seminar in Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 14 July 2005.
• "Single-Molecule Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Human Cardiac Titin," Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering Annual Research Colloqium , Rice University, Houston, TX, 7 July 2005.
• "Single-Molecule Imaging of Biomolecules," Seminar in Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 14 July 2004.
• "Disorder in DNA-Linked Colloidal Gold Assemblies," Seminar in Physics and National Center of Theoreical Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 12 July 2004.
• "Biological Physics," Lectures in Physics and Center of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 5-9 July 2004.
• "DNA-Linked Colloidal Gold Self-Assemblies," The 7th Taiwan International Symposium on Statistical Physics (StatPhys-Taiwan 2004) : Biologically Motivated Statistical Physics and Related Problems, Taipei, Taiwan, 24-26 June 2004.
• "DNA-Based Nanostructures," Future Directions in Statistical Physics: Soft Materials and Biological Systems, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 6-7 March 2004.
• "Phase Transition in the DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," Physics Colloquium, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, 5 November 2003.
• "The AA and AB Systems of DNA-Coated Nanogold Networks," Seminar in Physics, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 19 September 2003.
• "A DNA-Coated Nanogold Network for DNA Detection," First Annual SPRING Meeting, Austin, TX, 25-27 August 2003.
• "Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Protein Structure and DNA-Gold Nanoparticle Assembly for DNA Detection," Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Minisymposium on Interdisciplinary Biosciences at Rice University, Houston, TX, 10 January 2003.
• "The Percolation Transition in the DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," Physics Colloquium, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 25 October 2002.
• "The Percolation Transition in the DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," Seminar in Physics, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," Rome, Italy, 9 October 2002.
• "The Percolation Transition in the DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," Seminar in Physics, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 7 October 2002.
• "The Percolation Transition in the DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," Seminar in Physics, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany, 2 October 2002.
• "Percolation Transition of DNA-Gold Nanoparticles and Single Particle Study of Protein Assembly," Physics Colloquium, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 27 September 2002.
• "Phase Transition of DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," The 2nd APCTP and 6th Taiwan International Symposium on Statistical Physics StatPhys-Taiwan-2002: Lattice Models and Complex Systems Taipei, Taiwan, 26 May-1 June 2002.
• "Phase Transition, Self-Assembly, and Interaction of Biological Molecules," Physics Colloquium, California State University, Northridge, CA, 20 February 2002.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Molecular Nanowires," in AIChE 2001 Annual Meeting, Reno, NV, 5-9 November 2001.
• "Protein Structure and DNA Dynamics," in Winter School on Biocomplexity, Seoul, Korea, 6-8 February 2001.
• "Single Molecule Studies of Biological Macromolecular Assemblies," seminar in Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 23 January 2001.
• "Carbon Nanotubes," seminar at Union Chemical Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, 5 September 2000.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," Seminar at General Motors Company, Detroit, MI, 13 April 2000.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," Seminar at the Joint American Vacuum Society / Michigan Catalysis Society meeting, Detroit, MI, 12 April 2000.
• "Molecular Nanowires of 1 nm Diameter from Capillary Filling of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," in Fullerenes '99-A Workshop on Nanotubes and Fullerenes Chemistry, Castera-Verduzan, France, 29 August-2 September 1999.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI, 19 May 1999.
• "Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," in Commercialization Advances in Large-Scale Production of Carbon Nanotubes, Washington DC, 22-23 April 1999.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar in Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, 23 November 1998.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at The Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, 23 October 1998.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 22 May 1998.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at MER Corporation, Tuscan, AZ, 5 March 1998.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at NASA, Moffett Field, CA, 3 March 1998.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at HRL, Malibu, CA, 9 January 1998.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at NEC Corporation, Tsukuba, Japan, 29 September 1997.
• "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar in Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., 24 September 1997.
• "Single-Layer Carbon Nanotubes," seminar in Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 16 April 1996.
• "Synthesis and Characterization of Nanotubes and Nanoparticles," seminar at Hyperion Catalysis International, Cambridge, MA, 12 February 1996.

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