Summary of Academic Activities - Plenary talks or invited talks at international or national conferences

1. "Geometrical Theory of Phase Transitions" at Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of the Republic of China (Taiwan), 28 January 1986, Taichung, Taiwan.
2. "Geometrical Factors, Cluster-size Distributions, and Phase Transitions in Spin Models: A Brief Review" at the Second Univ. of California Conference on Statistical Mechanics, 26-29 March 1986, Davis, California, U.S.A.
3. "Percolation and the Scaling Law for Magnetic Systems" at the 3rd Annual Symposium on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 24-25 April 1987, Taipei, Taiwan.
4. "Percolation Renormalization and Simulation Studies of the Potts Model" at the Third Univ. of California Conference on Statistical Mechanics, 27-30 March 1988, Davis, California, U.S.A.
5. "Percolation and Phase Transitions of Interacting Systems" at the Third Asia Pacific Physics Conference, 20-24 June 1988, Hong Kong.
6. "Correlated Percolation: An Alternative Approach to Critical Phenomena" at the 5th ROC-ROK Symposium on Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical Mechanics, 11-12 July 1988, Seoul, Korea.
7. "Recent Developments in the Percolation Theory of Critical Phenomena" at 17th. IUPAP International Conference on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, 31 July - 4 August 1989, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
8. "Percolation Theory of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena" at the 4th. Asia Pacific Physics Conference, 13-17 August 1990, Seoul, Korea.
9. "Boundary Conditions, Lattice Shapes, and the Scaling Functions of Phase Transition Models", Annual Meeting of Phys. Soc. of ROC, 19-20 January 1995.
10. "Universal Scaling Functions for Percolation on Planar Lattices" at the First Tohwa University Statistical Physics Meeting, 7-10 November 1995, Fukuoka, Japan.
11. "Histogram Monte Carlo Simulation Methods and Their Applications to Condensed Matter Theory" at IUPAP Third International Conference on Computational Physics, 13-17 November 1995, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
12. "Universal Scaling Functions for Numbers of Percolating Clusters and Quantum Hall Effects" at Pacific Conference on Condensed Matter Theory", 2-5 December 1995, Seoul, Korea.
13. "Real-space Renormalization Group Approach to Percolation and Phase Transition Models", plenary talk presented at The Third International Conference: Renormalization Group-96, 26-31 August 1996, Dubna, Russia.
14. "Calculations of Entropy and Critical Phenomena by Monte Carlo Methods", Key lecture presented at International Conference: Computational Modelling and Computing in Physics, 16-21 September 1996, Dubna, Russia.
15. "Universal Critical Exponents and Scaling Functions in Continuum Percolation", at Symposium'97 on Theoretical Solid State Physics, 3-5 February 1997, Taejon, Korea.
16. "Monte Carlo Approaches to Universal Finite-size Scaling Functions", at the 1997 Tenth Annual Workshop: Recent Developments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics, 24-28 February 1997, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
17. "Recent Developments in Universal Finite-size Scaling Functions", at New Developments in Statistical Physics, 25-26 March 1997 at Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
18. "Histogram Monte Carlo Simulations and Their Applications", at The IMS Asian and Pacific Regional Meeting Joint with CIPS and CSA, 7-9 July 1997 at Acad. Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
19. "Physics and Physics Education in Taiwan", at IUPAP International Conference "Creativity in Physics Education", 19-23 August 1997, Sopron, Hungary.
20. "Universal Finite-size Scaling Functions in Static and Dynamic Critical Phenomena", at "International School: Strongly Correlated Systems and Critical Phenomena", 26 August-5 September 1997 at JINR, Dubna, Russia.
21. "Universal Finite-size Scaling Functions: Some Recent Developments", at the 2nd. Tohwa University International Meeting on Statistical Physics, 4-7 November 1997, Fukuoka, Japan.
22. "Universal Finite-size Scaling Functions in Critical Phenomena" at the 78th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers Univ., 14-16 December 1997, USA.
23. "Recent Developments in Monte Carlo Approach to Percolation", at the First International Conference: Modern Trends in Computational Physics, 15-20 June, 1998, Dubna, Russia.
24. "Universal scaling functions and quantities in percolation models", at International Conference on Percolation and Disordered Systems: Theory and Applications, 14-17 July, 1998, University Giessen, Germany.
25. "A percolation model for hydrogen bonding in water", at Gordon Research Conference: Water and Aqueous Solutions, 2-7 August, 1998, Holderness School, N.H., USA.
26. "Percolation and Phase Transitions: Mathematics, Physics, and Simulations" at Interface of Mathematics and Statistical Physics, 2-7 August 1999, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
27. "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Semiconductor Devices", at Second International Conference "Modern Trends in Computational Physics", July 24 -29, 2000, Dubna, Russia.
28. "Universal Scaling Functions and Amplitude Ratios for Critical Systems: A Brief Review" at the IUPAP 21th International Symposium on Group Theoretical Method in Physics, 31 July-5 August 2000, Dubna, Russia.
29. "Multicanonical Parallel Simulation of Proteins and related Parallel Computers at Academia Sinica in Taipei" at the 3rd. OCPA Conference, 31 July-4 August 2000, Hong Kong.
30. "Synchronization in Coupled Map Lattices" at the 8th. Asian Pacific Physics Conference, 7-10 August 2000, Taipei, Taiwan.
31. "Universality in Critical Phenomena" and "Synchronization in Coupled Map Lattices" at International Conf. on Econophysics., 21-26 September 2000, Hefei, China.
32. "Multicanonical Parallel Simulations of Proteins in PC Clusters" at Fourth International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, 27 November-1 December 2000, Hong Kong.
33. "Universal scaling functions for bond percolation on planar random and regular lattices with multiple percolating clusters", at Workshop on Computational Physics, 16 December 2000, Univ. of Leipzig, Germany.
34. "Synchronization in Thermodynamic Coupled Nonlinear Systems", at The 3rd. Workshop on Nonlinear Physics, National Chung Hsin Univ., 16-18 March 2001, Taichung, Taiwan.
35. "Low Temperature Properties of a Spin Model with Varying Ferromagetic and Antiferromagetic Couplings", at Nato Advanced Research Workshop: New kinds of phase transitions: Transformations in disordered substances, 24-28 May 2001, Volga River, Russia.
36. "Exact Phase Diagram for an Asymmetric Avalanche Process" at The Second International Workshop and Conference on Complexity Science and Econophysics: Theory and Applications, 22-26 August 2001, at Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi Province, China.
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"Universality and Finite-size Corrections in Critical Lattice Systems" at APCTP - Nankai Joint Symposium on Lattice Statistics and Mathematical Physics, 7-14 October 2001, Tianjin, China.
38. "Universality and Scaling in Complex Systems" at Horizons in Complex Systems, 5-8 December 2001, Messina, Italy.
39. "Universality in sandpile models" at the Fourth Kolkata International Conference on Statistical Physics, 14 - 19 January 2002, Kolkata, India.
40. "A Dynamical Model for Stock-stock Correlation" at The International Econophysics Conference, 29-31 August 2002, Bali, Indonesia.
41. "Synchronization in Nonlinear Coupled Systems" at V International Congress on Mathematical Modelling, 30 Sep-6 Oct. 2002, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia.
42. "Simulations of Proteins in Parallel Computers" at Workshop on Molucular Science, 17 December 2002, Hsinchu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
43. "A Stochastic Dynamic Model for Stock-stock Correlations" at The 4th. Workshop on Nonlinear Physics, National Chung Hsin Univ., 20-22 December, Taichung, Taiwan.
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"A Stochastic Dynamic Model for Stock-stock Correlations" at The First Cross Strait Conference on Statistical Physics, 28-31 August 2003, Yangzhou, China.
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"Universality and Scaling in Critical Systems" at International Conference on Statistical Physics and Dynamic Systems: theory and applications, 18-23 September 2003, Nor-ambed, Armenia.