聖程 10/28/06

Time: Saturday (10/28) 2PM
Location: UTC 3.102.
Speaker: Sheng-Cheng Huang (School of Information).
Topic: A Semiotic View of Information: Semiotics as a Foundation of LIS Research
in Information Behavior.

Traditional information behavior studies in library and information science (LIS) research have focused on primarily two trends: one is to provide physical access to material objects and the other is to direct users to certain thoughts and ideas. Both focuses are two sides of the same problem that LIS researchers have worked to address: how to provide a better system or service to accommodate people's need for information. Among the domains of users, material objects, and meaningful ideas, applying the concept of information as sign with semiotics not only joins these two trends in the analysis of the pragmatic-syntactic relationship and the pragmatic-semantic relationship, but it also gives an additional focus on the syntactic-semantic relationship. It is this additional focus that helps LIS professionals/researchers understand an individual's states of knowing and ways of obtaining knowledge through physical and mental interactions with informative objects. The author conducts a review of information studies, the epistemological concerns and pragmatic traditions in LIS, and semiotics in an attempt to seek a holistic principle that will incorporate both the traditional trends of LIS research and provide an additional awareness in assisting users to make connections between material objects and ideas in information behavior studies. By applying a semiotic view of information and the concept of information as sign, LIS researchers of information behavior will find semiotics a useful epistemological framework.


台灣聊天室；
1) “王建民現象“.
我們可延伸討論運動產業的國際化與在地化，台灣職棒的生存～Lanew熊封王的職業觀效應，媒體與巨蛋迷思，甚至分享看過的大聯盟與小聯盟經驗。
2) 討論下學期 Schedule.

凱滿 10/21/06

Time: Saturday 10/21 2-4PM
Location: UTC 3.102
Speaker: 張凱滿 (Kai-man Chang), the expert of director Tsai
Synopsis:
看蔡明亮的電影，我常會覺得自己好像被迫去注視一具具無言的軀體，平凡卻又詭異的空間，和永無止境的孤寂。看完後我又不自覺不停地去思索電影中想要呈現的是什麼。看似簡單的故事，為何會讓許多人看不懂，又為何會讓我頭殼壞掉地去拿他的電影來寫論文。歡迎TT-Forum的朋友們一起來探討和分享看蔡明亮電影的經驗。我的報告會簡單介紹一些西方學者對身體性別和空間的論述，並播放電影“河流” 和“不散” 中的一些片段來分析身體和空間之間情慾交流與對話的可能性。

關於蔡明亮導演： imdb; wikipedia

天明 10/07/06

Location: RLM 13.202

Title: Myth & Misunderstanding in Daily Physics生活中的物理誤解與迷思

微波爐可以加熱水嗎？微波加熱的水有害健康？什麼是MRI?天空為何是藍色的？

For slides, click here

Pictures of 9/16 Open House

[Open House at SSB]承甫 09/16/06 語言學：空間與時間的相度

各位台灣同學：

本週六下午Taiwan Texas Forum（TT Forum）將舉辦Open House及公開演講（免費入場），現場備有茶點，歡迎各位同學踴躍參加。相關細節及TT Forum簡介如後。

----時間----
09/16/2006 (Saturday), 2:00pm

----地點----
SSB G1.310

----主講人----
陳承甫，現為UT語言學研究所博士候選人，研究專長為句法學及語意學，目前從事台灣原住民語言的研究。

----講題----
語言學：空間與時間的相度

----提要----
在UT你我或許都聽過下面這樣的對話：
蕭告同學：「學妹，請問你們唸甚麼？」
西詩同學：「我念語言學校。」
刁纏同學：「我念語言學。」
蕭告同學：「刁纏，那你是學甚麼語言呢？」

蕭告假設西詩來UT學英語；餓肚子的刁纏小姐則需要解釋自己念的是甚麼，因此感到有些困擾。

語言學探討不同種類語言之間共通或特殊的法則。其涵蓋範圍甚廣，基本語法面向包括：語音學、音韻學、構詞學、語意學以及句法學。本講題將簡介這些基本語法面向並探討蕭告同學可能會有的迷思，如：中文是否沒有文法，以及少數民族語言是否比較簡單等等。我們將從空間跟時間的觀點出發，看看台灣原住民語言（魯凱語）、中文以及世界其他語言所呈現的有趣的面貌。

----聯絡人----
徐翰（Ph.D. candidate, Department of Physics, UT Austin）
hanhsu@physics.utexas.edu

----TT Forum 簡介----
TT Forum成立於2004年春，是由一群不想在星期六下午從事研究工作的台灣研究生所組成的非正式（未在UT註冊）社團。Diversity是我們最大的特點：我們的成員來自UT各個學院，背景涵蓋了人文、科學、社會、工程、教育、傳播、商學。我們的另一特點是：喜歡把自己的研究、生活、甚至旅遊經驗跟大家分享。因此，我們組成了TT Forum這個團體，每兩個星期聚會一次，每次大約兩個小時。第一個小時由Forum的一位成員進行presentation，內容不拘，但通常是其專業研究的通俗版；型式不拘，但通常比照seminar：一個人在上面滔滔不絕，底下的人猛吃點心之餘也很努力的專心聽講，並嘗試跟台上的那位講者互動。第二個小時則就主持人所選定的主題（生活、時事等）大家各自發表高見，並不時岔題進入閒哈啦的狀態，最後在一片歡樂中（因為哈啦得太過高興）結束一次的聚會。

今年TT Forum有不少成員即將畢業，因此我們決定舉行公開演講，讓大家認識我們，也讓我們藉此機會認識到一些樂於把自己的研究及生活經驗與大家分享的朋友。我們誠摯歡迎大家前來聆聽本週六精彩的演講，並盼望在之後的活動中能繼續見到各位。

明倫 05/07/06

Title: From Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Approaches/Methods to My Current Study

Outline:
I. How do we learn our first language?
II. How do you learn your second language (Taiwanese, maybe)?
III. How do you learn English?
IV. Different types of ways to learn a second/foreign language.
V. Output Theory
VI. Computer-Mediated Communication, CMC

齊華04/22/2006

Location: RLM 13.202

Title: 植物復育下微生物族群之分析: 生物技術應用於環境工程領域

Abstract: 植物復育是利用綠色植物降解土壤污染的一種技術, 這種非破壞性的技術不但成本低廉,在復育土壤的同時也可以重新引進生態資源; 利用微生物技術及分子生物技術可以進行深入的研究,探討微生物組成于植物復育過程的變化可以讓我們更加了解如何最佳化週邊條件而達到最大復育成效.

Slide: Download
Host: 天明

一帆04/08/06

Location: UTC 2.11
Topic: Web-based instructional technologies and their applications
Outlines:
1. The current instruction theories and their influences on learning, a.k.a. what's going on in current learing sciences
2. The current web-based technologies, a.k.a. what's going on of the latest web development
3. The connections of these two concepts, a.k.a. what's hell of my research interests

維邦03/04/06

Location: UTC 2.112
Topic: Sociology of Health slides
Outline:
1. What is the sociology of health and illness?
2. Cross-sectional ex! ample: education and health in Taiwan.
3. Longitudinal example: education and depression among Taiwanese elderly.

The NYtimes SES link




Host:明倫山莊楊莊主

德生02/18/06

春季第二次聚會: 心心相印大作戰

2/18 的台德論壇 用心的德生將帶領甜心的妳/你 在日時 "10:00 AM - 11:00AM" 於生理學實驗室 ESB 203 進行一場真心的大冒險, 妳/你 不僅能看到真實的心臟, 聽到自己的心跳與脈搏,知道自己的ECG measures, 更能讓你知道如何與自己的心肝心曠神怡伴一生!!
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Time: Saturday (2/18) 10:00 AM - 11:00AM
Place: ESB 203

Speaker: Teh-Sheng Ma
Title:From sweetheart to real heart: a hands-on experience on anatomy and physiology
of the heart.

Abstract:
Due to the switching of my lab, from a bat lab to a rat lab, my
ac

ademic story hasn't quite built completely up to this point. My
talk, instead of focusing on my research work, will be more related
to the interesting TA work that I am involved in: a physiology lab.
Because of this unique opportunity, I will show you what a real heart
looks like, and walk you through the important anatomy structures
around and within the heart which makes you function normally everyday.
You will also have the opportunity to listen to your own heart sound
through a stethoscope(the ear piece that doctors use to hear your
breathing), measure your pulse rate with a light sensor(oximeter),
and also see your own ECG measured through sensors attached to the body.
The human body is an amazing artwork, after this talk, you will learn
more of how your heart functions, and also appreciate and maintain
this little pump as it accompanies you throughout your life.

The time and place for the talk will be slightly different from
previous talks due to the special requirements needed for the talk.


Host:維邦

文宏02/04/06

開春第一會!

地點：UTC 3.102 or 3.104
主講人：文宏
題目："Psychology Knows What? Categorization-How People Learn Bats Are Not Birds?

台灣聊天室：2006 schedule;瑜容明倫台灣訂婚習俗分享



Host: 一帆

2006 Schedule

06 Spring
Date/ Speaker / Host
2/4 文宏 / 一帆
2/18 德生 / 維邦
3/4 維邦 / 明倫
3/25 宜芬 / 齊華
4/8 一帆 / 承甫
4/22 明倫 / 瑜容
5/6 齊華 / 天明

06 Fall
Date/ Speaker/Host
9/2 (host 湘韻)
9/16 承甫/徐翰 Open house
9/30 天明/齊華
10/14 凱滿/家誠
10/28 聖程/龍男
11/11 力榕/維邦
12/9 畢業典禮---歡送畢業生 farewell party