Recent Lectures/Seminars (K. N. Liou)

• Invited Speaker: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francico, December 11-14, 2006, "Radiative Transfer in Cirrus Clouds: Some Thought on Its Connection to Climate and General Ciculation Models."
  
  
• Keynote Speaker: Annual Meeting of the Meteorological Society of the Republic of China, Taipei, March 21, 2006, "Some Unsolved Problems in Atmospheric Radiation and Their Implications on Climate Research."
  
  
• Invited Speaker and Session Chair: Dickinson Symposium: 40 Years of Climate Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, October 17-18, 2005, "Some Radiative Forcing Issues of Mountain Surface and Aerosols/Cirrus Ralated to the Tibetan Plateau."
  
  
• Invited Speaker: Sino-US Workshop for Surface-Troposphere-Stratosphere Interaction Coorperation, Beijing, China, August 5, 2005, "Radiative Forcings of Thin Cirrus, Aerosols, and Mountain Surfaces over the Tibetan Plateau."
  
  
• Invited Speaker: Airborne Laser Workshop, Boston, May 26, 2005, "3D Laser Transmission/Backscattering through Inhomogeneous Cirrus in the Earth's Atmospheres."
  
  
• Invited Seminar: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, April 20, 2005, "Cirrus Clouds and Aerosols: Remote Sensing and Climate."
  
  
• Invited Seminar: California Institute of Technology, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, February 16, 2005, "Cirrus Clouds/Aerosols: Remote Sensing and Climatic Implication."
  
  
• Keynote Speaker: Remote Sensing and Atmospheric Sciences Workshop, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 17, 2004, "Satellite Remote Sensing of Cirrus/Aerosols and Its Climatic Implication."
  
  
• Invited Seminar: National Central University, Taiwan, December 15, 2004, "Some Issues of Clouds and Aerosols in Climate Research."
  
  
• Invited Speaker: International Symposium on Extreme Weather and Climate, Chinese Academy of Sciences, October 12-15, 2004, "Cirrus Clouds and Climate."
  
  
• Invited Seminar (by Graduate Students): University of Wisconsin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, September 20, 2004, "Cirrus Clouds: Remote Sensing and Climate."
  
  
• Invited Lecture: Computational Methods in Transport Workshop sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Tahoe City, California, September 20, 2004, "3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres: Diffusion Approximation and Monte Carlo Simulation for thermal Emission."
  
  
• Invited Speaker: International Radiation Symposium, Pusan, Korea, August 23-27, 2004, "On the Radiative Forcings of Cirrus Clouds and Nonspherical Aerosols."
  
  
• Invited Lecture: Chinese Young Scientists Discussion Forum for Climate and Climate Change, Beijing, China, June 29, 2004, "Clouds/Aerosols and Climate."
  
  
• Keynote Speaker: 2004 Chinese American Association for Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Meeting, Beijing, China, June 28, 2004, "Cirrus Clouds: Remote Sensing and Climate Radiative Forcing."
  
  
• Invited Seminar: University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, May 12, 2004, "Cirrus Clouds: Remote Sensing and Climate."
  
  
• Invited Seminar: National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, November 6, 2003, “Some Issues of Clouds and Aerosols in Remote Sensing and Climate Research.”
  
  
• Invited Lecturer: UCLA, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Inverse Problems Workshop: Deconvolution and Related Inverse Problems in Physical Sciences, October 17, 2003, “Remote Sensing of 3D and Inhomogeneous Cirrus Clouds in the Earth’s Atmosphere.”
  
  
• Invited Speaker: 26th Annual Review Conference on Atmospheric Transmission and Radiance Models, Lexington, Massachusetts, September, 24, 2003, “Laser Transmission though Thin Cirrus: An Overview.”
  
  
• Invited Lecturer: UCLA, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Inverse Problems: Computational Methods and Emerging Applications, September 10, 2003, “Introduction to the Fredholm Equation of the First Kind for Inversion of Aerosols and Temperature Profiles in the Atmosphere.”
  
  
• Invited Seminar: University of Maryland, Department of Meteorology, June 11, 2003, “Remote Sensing of 3D inhomogeneous Clouds.”
  
  
• Keynote Speaker: Goddard Space Flight Center, GEST Summer Student Seminar Series, June 10, 2003, “Overview of Contemporary Issues in Atmospheric Radiation.”
  
  
• Team Member Presentation: NOAA Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation Workshop on Radiative Transfer Model, June 2, 2003, “A Unified Vector Radiative Transfer Model for Application to Satellite Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation.”
  
  
• Harris Lecture: Texas A&M, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, March 4, 2003, “From Remote Sensing of 3D Inhomogeneous Clouds, Radiative Transfer to Climate Modeling.”
  
  
• Invited Seminar: Florida State University, Department of Meteorology, November 21, 2002, “Remote Sensing of Cirrus Clouds: A Global Perspective and Climatic Implication.”