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Date Seminars and Talks Remarks
21 Dec 2018 Quadratic forms over function fields of p-adic curves
By Prof. Raman Parimala (Emory University, USA)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
20 Dec 2018 Upscaling and deep learning
By Mr. CHEUNG Siu Wun (Texas A&M University, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
20 Dec 2018 Frontiers in Free-Energy Calculations of Biological Systems: Discoveries with a Computational Calorimeter
By Prof. Christophe CHIPOT (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Research, Université de Lorraine, France)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
20 Dec 2018 [Faculty Distinguished Lecture Series] Thoughts about Science Careers and Publishing
By Prof. David G. DRUBIN (Co-Chair of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,Ernette Comby Chair in Microbiology, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA )

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Venue: LT1, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK

Poster
19 Dec 2018 The Dangerous Liaisons between Detergents and Membrane Proteins: Understanding Detergent-Induced Structural and Dynamic Perturbations
By Prof. Christophe CHIPOT (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Research, Université de Lorraine, France)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 311, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
18 Dec 2018 Mixture Inner Product Spaces and Application to Functional Data
By Prof. YAO Fang (Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 104, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
18 Dec 2018 The general 4-dimensional light bulb theorem
By Prof. David Gabai (Princeton University, USA)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
17 Dec 2018 Electronic Structures and Lattice Dynamics of Energy Materials
By Prof. CHEN Yue (Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong)

Time: 3:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 
Venue: G26, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
17 Dec 2018 Decoupling and efficient congruencing in two dimensions -Part II
By Mr. LI Zane  (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
14 Dec 2018 Selective Metalation of N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Based Pincer Ligands and Catalytic Applications
By Prof. Pierre Braunstein (University of Strasbourg – CNRS, France)

Time: 4:30 p.m. 
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
14 Dec 2018 Microscopic View of Lipid Modulation of Free Energy Landscapes Governing Membrane Protein Function
By Prof. Emad TAJKHORSHID (Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
14 Dec 2018 Rapid molecular detection of CITES-listed endangered sharkfins
By Dr. WU Hoi Yan (Institute of Chinese Medicine, CUHK)

Time: 2:30 p.m. 
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
14 Dec 2018 Application of Pharmacogenomics to Research and Clinical Care
By Prof. Bani Tamraz (Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
13 Dec 2018 Decoupling and efficient congruencing in two dimensions -Part I
By Mr. LI Zane  (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
13 Dec 2018 Error Bounds in Local Limit Theorems Using Stein's Method
By Prof. Nathan Ross (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Australia)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Lai Chan Pui Ngong Lecture Theatre, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
13 Dec 2018 New of Fluoroalkylating Reagents: Design, Preparation and Reactivity
By Prof. SHEN Qilong (Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
13 Dec 2018 The enigmatic ribosome stalk
By Prof. Anders Liljas (Professor em Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University, Sweden)

Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Venue: LT, Basic Medical Sciences Building, CUHK

Poster
13 Dec 2018 Synthetic Biology: Putting Synthesis into Biology
By Prof. ZHAO Huimin (Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular, Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
12 Dec 2018 Greenization for Organic Synthesis
By Prof. JIANG Xuefeng (School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, China)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
12 Dec 2018 Probing the Majorana Nature of Neutrinos with nEXO
By Dr. Raymond Hei Man TSANG (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the nEXO Collaboration, USA)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Venue: Room 311, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
11 Dec 2018 Upgrading Cross Coupling for Biaryl Syntheses
By Prof. SHI Zhangjie (Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, China)

Time: 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

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11 Dec 2018 Cell dynamics as key determinants of health and disease
By Prof. DENG Linhong (Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences, Changzhou University, China)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
10 Dec 2018 The realization problem of prism manifolds
By Prof. Yi NI (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
7 Dec 2018 The Analytical Chemistry of Stradivarius violins: solving a 300-year-old mystery
By Prof. TAI Hwan Ching (Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L4, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
7 Dec 2018 Full Quantum Nature of Interfacial Water
By Prof. WANG Enge (International Center for Quantum Materials and School of Physics, Peking University, & Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

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5 Dec 2018 Mechanical Engineering of Protein-based Biomaterials: from single molecule features to macroscopic traits
By Prof. LI Hongbin (Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Canada)

Time: 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
3 Dec 2018 Determining Whether Given Large Numbers Are Primes II
By Prof. YU Jing (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: LT3, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
30 Nov 2018 Topological Trio
By Prof. ZHAI Hui (Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
30 Nov 2018 Determining Whether Given Large Numbers Are Primes I
By Prof. YU Jing (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: LT3, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
30 Nov 2018 Symposium on Statistics and Risk Management Science: Data Analytics

AM Session
Time: 8:55 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: LT, William M W Mong Engineering Building, CUHK

PM Session
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: LT6, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

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Poster 

26 Nov 2018 Classical Challenges in the Physical Chemistry of Polymer Networks: Topology, Elasticity and Percolation
By Prof. WANG Rui (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G03, Y.C. Liang Hall, CUHK

 Poster
23 Nov 2018 Towards the Accurate Yet Efficient Molecular Modelling of Large Systems from First Principles
By Prof. XU Xin (Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, China)

Time: 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
23 Nov 2018 Mathematical Theory of Deep Learning
By Prof. ZHOU Ding Xuan (City University of Hong Kong)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
23 Nov 2018 Nematic Phase Transition at the Onset of Pseudogap in Cuprates
By Prof. Shigeru KASAHARA (Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
21 Nov 2018 Medical Physics in Hong Kong
By Dr. WU Po Man (Hong Kong Sanatorium Hospital)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
20 Nov 2018 Hausdorff dimension of self-similar measures with complicated overlaps
By Prof. Balázs Bárány (Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
20 Nov 2018 General Optimal Benchmark for Adaptive Dose Finding Clinical Trials
By Prof. CHEUNG Ying Kuen, Ken (Professor of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
20 Nov 2018 The Role of Magnetic Fields during the Evolution from the DR21 Filament to Massive Dense Cores
By Dr. CHING Tao Chung  (Interstellar Medium Group, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, China)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room G26, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
14 Nov 2018 Jump inequalities via real interpolation
By Prof. Pavel Zorin-Kranich (University of Bonn, Germany)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

 Poster
12 Nov 2018 Swarming models with local alignment effects: phase transitions & hydrodynamics
By Prof. Jose Antonio Carrillo (Imperial College London, UK)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
12 Nov 2018 MBT 20th Anniversary Symposium

Time: 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

 Poster
9 Nov 2018 Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acids
By Prof. ZHOU Xiang (College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, China)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
9 Nov 2018 Exploring the Epigenetic Landscape: Heritable Changes and Innate Immunity

By Prof. Frederick MEINS (Friedrich-Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
9 Nov 2018 Convergence to the Mean Field Game Limit: A Case Study
By Prof. Marcel Nutz (Department of Statistics, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT3, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
9 Nov 2018 MBT 20th Anniversary Symposium

Time: 1:30 p.m. 
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
9 Nov 2018 Large Geometry Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer in Geoscience: Methodology Development and Applications
By Prof. XIA Xiaoping (Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

 Poster
8 Nov 2018 Convergence to equilibrium for the solution of the full compressible Navier-Stokes equations
By Prof. ZI Ruizhao (Central China Normal University)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
7 Nov 2018 Sparse Compression of Expected Solution Operators
By Prof. Daniel Peterseim (University of Augsburg, Germany)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
6 Nov 2018 New HSIC-based Tests For Independence Between Two Stationary Multivariate Time Series
By Dr. ZHU Ke (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Lai Chan Pui Ngong Lecture Theatre, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster 
5 Nov 2018 Combined Multi-scale Modeling and Experimental Study of Roles of Cell-Matrix Interactions
By Prof. Mark ALBER (Department of Mathematics & Bioengineering, Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology, University of California Riverside, USA)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: L4, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
2 Nov 2018 Two-Dimensional Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites: Fundamental Understanding towards High Photovoltaic Efficiency
By Prof. YOU Wei (Department of Chemistry & Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
2 Nov 2018 Hong Kong Probability Seminar
By Prof. XIONG Jie (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT1, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

(Jointly Hosted by City Univeristy of Hong Kong, The Chinese Univeristy of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
 
30 Oct 2018 Quantum Dynamics and Control for Emerging Quantum Technologies
By Prof. Christiane KOCH (Department of Physics, University of Kassel, Germany)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 311, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
29 Oct 2018 From Nuclear Physics to LIDAR Technology in Hong Kong Science Park
By Prof. CHEUNG Nim Kwan (Honorary Professor, Faculty of Engineering, CUHK) & Mr. CHOW King Wai (Principal Engineer, AIphotonics Limited)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
26 Oct 2018 External Control in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
By Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
26 Oct 2018 Perovskite Solar Cells – Opportunities and Challenges
By Prof. CHENG Yi-Bing  (State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
26 Oct 2018 Optical Tweezers and the Ponderomotive Force
By Prof. Kenneth YOUNG (Department of Physics, CHUK)

Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
23 Oct 2018 Mixing and Ventilation in Urban Areas
By Prof. Keith NGAN (School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong)

Time: 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Oct 2018 Catalytic cross-couplings from C-H bonds and Fast Modifications of P & N ligands
By Prof. Pierre H. Dixneuf (UMR 6226 CNRS-Université de Rennes, France)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: LT4, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Oct 2018 Sparse Operator Compression for Higher Order Elliptic PDEs and Graph Laplacians with Rough Coefficients
By Prof. Thomas Y. HOU (Applied & Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Room C1, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Oct 2018 Genetic Studies on the Plant Endomembrane System
By Prof. Enrique Rojo (Department of Molecular Plant Genetics, CNB-­CSIC, Spain)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 128, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
19 Oct 2018 Magnetometry with NV Color Centers in Diamond: Application to Nanophysics and High-Pressure Physics
By Prof. Jean-François ROCH (ENS Paris-Saclay, France)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
15 Oct 2018 Hydrodynamic Noise of Dirac Fluid in Graphene
By Dr. FONG Kin Chung (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
15 Oct 2018 青藏高原多年凍土與氣候
By Prof. ZHAO Lin (Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
15 Oct 2018 Do plants feel pain? Stress signaling in Arabidopsis.
By Prof. Simon Gilroy (Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
12 Oct 2018 Modeling Plant Biophysics to Better Forecast Climate, Air Pollution and Food Security
By Prof. TAI P. K. Amos (Earth System Science Programme, CUHK)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
11 Oct 2018 Bayesian Revisit of the Relationship between the Total Field Strength and the Volume Density of Interstellar Clouds
By Dr. JIANG Hangjin (Department of Statistics, CUHK)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room G26, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
10 Oct 2018 Sunney & Irene Chan Lecture in Chemical Biology : CRISPR Biology Guides the Future of Genome Editing
By Prof. Jennifer A. Doudna (Professor of Chemisrty, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Professor in Biomedical and Health, University of California at Berkeley, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: LT2, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK

(Jointly Hosted by School of Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry , CUHK and the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

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5 Oct 2018 Air-Sea Exchange of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs): A Missing Link between the Sea Surface Carbon Pool and the Reactive Carbon in the Atmosphere
By Dr. WANG Siyuan (Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling,National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 705, 7/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

 Poster
5 Oct 2018 Energy Failure as the Central Mechanism in Neurodegeneration: Potential Opportunities for Mitochondrial Medicine
By Dr. CHOW Hei Man (School of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
2 Oct 2018 AI Application at Didi Chuxing
By Prof. ZHU Hongtu (Department of Biostatistics and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Lai Chan Pui Ngong Lecture Theatre, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
28 Sep 2018 Toward High-Energy-Density Energy Storage: Redox Processes and Design Strategies
By Prof. LU Yi Chun (Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, CUHK)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
22 Sep 2018 10th Anniversary Symposium - Cell and Molecular Biology Programme

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: LT1, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK

Poster
21 Sep 2018 Topological Quantum Field Theory in 3+1D and the Emergence of Quantum Gravity
By Prof. GU Zhengcheng (Department of Physics, CUHK)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
18 Sep 2018 Dynamics of Submarine Volcanic Eruptions
By Dr. TAN Yen Joe (Ph.D. Marine Geophysics/Seismology, Columbia University, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m. 
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
14 Sep 2018 The Last Jigsaw Piece of Phase Diagrams of Polymer Solutions - Universal Scaling
By Prof. WU Chi (Department of Chemistry, CUHK)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: LT1, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
14 Sep 2018 Natural Hazards in a Changing Climate: Floods, Landslides, and Permafrost Degradation
By Dr. TAO Jing (Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
10 Sep 2018 A Hydroclimatological Perspective of Past and Future Tropical Cyclone Activity: the Role of Extratropical Transition
By Dr. LIU Maofeng (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
30 Aug 2018 Volatility and Arbitrage
By Prof. Johannes Ruf (Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics, UK)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G04, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
25 Aug 2018 Large-time behavior in hypocoercive BGK-models
By Prof. Anton Arnold (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Aug 2018 The Synergistic Effect of Host Immunity with Phage and Probiotic Therapy against Bacterial Pathogens
By Dr. LEUNG Chung Yin Joey (School of Biological Sciences and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
20 Aug 2018 The Hausdorff dimension of multiply Xiong chaotic sets
By Prof. Jian LI (Shantou University, China)

Time: 4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

 Poster
20 Aug 2018 Special Flow, Weak Mixing and Complexity
By Prof. Wen HUANG (University of Science and Technology of China)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
16 Aug 2018 Does Dark Matter Interact with Dark Energy?
By Dr. ZHANG Jiajun (Department of Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

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16 Aug 2018 Using the Heegaard Floer d-invariants to obstruct surgery
By Prof. Margaret DOIG (Creighton University, USA)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
15 Aug 2018 Taylor's Law via Ratios, for Some Distributions with Infinite Mean
By Prof. Mark BROWN (Department of Statistics, Columbia University, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT3, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
15 Aug 2018 Interplay of Superconductivity and Magnetism in Cr- And Mn- Based Materials
By Prof. Jianlin LUO (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
14 Aug 2018 New Views of Bio Systems with NV Centres in Diamond
By Dr. Liam HALL (Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology, School of Physics ,The University of Melbourne, Australia)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 311, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
13 Aug 2018 Harmonic analysis approaches to the Falconer distance conjecture
By Dr. LIU Bochen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
13 Aug 2018 New bounds for equiangular lines and spherical two-distance sets
By Prof. YU Wei-Hsuan  (National Central University, Taiwan)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

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13 Aug 2018 A neural network approach to recognize Floer simple manifolds
By Mr. Antony FUNG (University of Cambridge, UK)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
9 Aug 2018 An unoriented skein relation for bordered sutured Floer homology
By Dr. Mike WONG (Louisiana State University, USA)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
8 Aug 2018 Cross curvature flow
By Prof. HO Pak Tung (Sogang University, Korea)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
6 Aug 2018 Quantifying and Controlling Microbial Community Dynamics
By Prof. YOU Lingchong (Biomedical Engineering Faculty, Duke University, USA)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
6 Aug 2018 An introduction to bordered sutured Floer homology
By Dr. Mike WONG (Louisiana State University, USA)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
3 Aug 2018 Ultrafast Laser-Driven Self-Assembly and Self-Organization Far From Equilibrium
By Prof. Serim ILDAY (National Nanotechnology Research Center and Institute of Materials Science and Technology Bilkent University, Turkey)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
3 Aug 2018 A sharp Schrodinger Maximal estimate in R^2
By Mr. LI Jianhui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
2 Aug 2018 GRID invariants obstruct decomposable Lagrangian cobordisms
By Dr. Mike WONG (Louisiana State University, USA)

Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
1 Aug 2018 Scattering by curvatures, radiationless sources, non-radiating waves and transmission eigenfunctions, and beyond
By Prof. LIU Hongyu (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

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1 Aug 2018 Mathematical Imaging
By Prof. Habib Ammari (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
31 Jul 2018 Finite Morse index implies finite ends
By Prof. WEI Jun-cheng (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
31 Jul 2018 Heterogeneous Chemistry of Sulfur Dioxide in the Atmosphere
By Prof. Arthur CHAN (Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada)

Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
30 Jul 2018 Combinatorial invariants of transverse links via cyclic branched covers
By Dr. Mike WONG (Louisiana State University, USA)

Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
26 Jul 2018 Uniqueness theorems for non-compact mean curvature flow with possibly unbounded curvatures
By Prof. John MA (Rutgers University, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
18 Jul 2018 Portfolio diversification and model uncertainty: a robust dynamic mean-variance approach
By Prof. ZHOU Chao (National University of Singapore)

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
17 Jul 2018 Optimal Change Point Detection in Sparse Dynamic Networks
By Dr. YU Yi (School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 104, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
11 Jul 2018 A restriction estimate in R^3 using brooms
By Ms. WANG Hong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
11 Jul 2018 Discrete analogues in harmonic analysis and variation-norm estimates
By Prof. Joris ROOS (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
10 Jul 2018 Simultaneous shrinking target problems for ×2 and ×3
By Prof. LI Bing (South China University of Technology, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

 Poster
10 Jul 2018 On variations of the Fourier dimension
By Prof. Jörg Schmeling  (Lund University, Sweden)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

 Poster
9 Jul 2018 High Pressure Freezing – discovering the universe inside cells
By Ms. Julia KONIG (Specialist in Electron Microscope Sample Preparation for Cryo workflows, Leica Microsystems Ltd.)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
3 Jul 2018 Pricing and Hedging Insurance Risks Using Principle of Equivalent Forward Preferences
By Prof. CHONG Wing Fung (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 104, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
27 Jun 2018 191. Directed Synthesis and Assembly of Plamonic Nanoparticles
By Prof. Luis M. LIZ-MARZÁN (CIC biomaGUNE and CIBER-BBN, Spain, Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Spain, Ciber BBN, Spain)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
27 Jun 2018 Smart Nanomedicine based on Hydroxyethyl Starch
By Prof. LI Zifu (College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
27 Jun 2018 Advances in Translation Cancer Nanomedicine
By Prof. YANG Xiangliang (College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
22 Jun 2018 A New Point Process Model with Application to Social Media User Content Generation
By Prof. ZHANG Jingfei (School of Business Administration, University of Miami, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 103, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster 
22 Jun 2018 UNAVCO and Its Role Supporting Global Geodesy for Science and Hazards: Some Recent Examples and Outlook for the Future
By Dr. Glen S. Mattioli (Director of Geodetic Infrastructure, UNAVCO, Inc., Adjunct Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Jun 2018 A Receptor kinase - GPI-anchored Protein Partnership in Plant Signal Transduction
By Prof. WU Hen Ming (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
22 Jun 2018 Clustering Model for Seismicity Data Analysis: Earthquake Declustering, Seismicity Anomaly Detection, and Model Extension
By Prof. ZHUANG Jiancang  (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, and Department of Statistical Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster 
22 Jun 2018 FERONIA and Her Pals: Regulators of Male-Female Interactions in Plant Reproduction
By Prof. CHEUNG Alice Y (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
22 Jun 2018 Symposium: From Shaw's Lab to Multidisciplinary Research

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
21 Jun 2018 Change Point Detection for Dynamic Functional Brain Connectivities
By Prof. LIN Zhenhua (Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 103, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster 
21 Jun 2018 First Principles Study on Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Correlated Magnetic Materials
By Dr. ZHANG Shunhong (Institute for Advanced Study Tsinghua University, China)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room G26, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
20 Jun 2018 Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics with Effective Spin Measurements
By Mr. NG Kwan Yeung Ken (Institute for Advanced Study Tsinghua University, China)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 311, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
15 Jun 2018 Main-Group Strategy toward NIR and Photostable Fluorescent Dyes
By Prof. Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Research Center of Materials Science and Department of Chemistry, Nagoya University, Japan)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

 Poster
15 Jun 2018 On The First 5 Seconds Post GW170817
By Prof. Maurice VAN PUTTEN (Department of Astronomy, Sejong University, South Korea)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
11 Jun 2018 Science Faculty Research Day 2018

Time: 9:15 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. 
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

From Fundamental Research to Popular Products
By Prof. WANG Jun (Founder and CEO of GeneHarbor (Hong Kong) Biotechnologies Ltd.)

Soybean Stress Tolerance Research – From Laboratory to Field
By Prof. LAM Hon Ming (School of Life Sciences, CUHK)

Cu(InGa)Se2 Solar Cells – From Laboratory Research to Commercialization
By Prof. XIAO Xudong (Department of Physics, CUHK)

A Memory Reduction Method in Pricing American Options
By Prof. CHAN Hon Fu Raymond (Department of Mathematics, CUHK)

From Lab to Market
By Prof. YU Chai Mei Jimmy (Department of Chemistry, CUHK)

Website
8 Jun 2018 Physical Behaviors of Biopolymers: Fundamental Physics Problems, Biological Implications and Technological Applications
By Dr. DAI Liang (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 311, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
7 Jun 2018 Pot Economy in the Synthesis of Prostaglandin and Estradiol Methyl Ether
By Prof. Yujiro Hayashi (Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Japan)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
4 Jun 2018 Organocatalyst in the Total Synthesis
By Prof. Yujiro Hayashi (Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Japan)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
1 Jun 2018 Pulsation Pair-Instability Supernova: Connection to Massive Black Hole, Circumstellar Medium and Collapsa
By Dr. LEUNG Chi Shing (Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
31 May 2018 The Fittest Survive: Complex Flow Simulations with Advanced Lattice Boltzmann Models
By Prof. Ilya KARLIN (Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
31 May 2018 Computer-Aided Nanomaterial and Nanostructure Design: Nanoice, Gold-clusters, Superhydrophobicity, and Two-Dimensional Materials
By Prof. ZENG Xiao Cheng  (Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
29 May 2018 Seismological Constraints on Interactions between the Solid Earth and the Antarctic Ice Sheet
By Prof. Douglas A. Wiens (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
25 May 2018 Calibration Estimation for the Matched Sample after Sample Matching
By Prof. LIU Zhan (Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, Hubei University, China)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

 Poster
24 May 2018 The GUIDE Approach to Missing Data
By Prof. LOH Wei Yin (Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

 Poster
23 May 2018 The Multigenerational Oxidative Evolution of Atmospheric Organic Carbon
By Prof. Jesse H. Kroll  (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
11 May 2018 Nano-Oxides, Engineering Their Bond Length, Elastic and Thermal Properties by Controlling Their Crystallite-Size
By Prof. CHAN Siu Wai (Materials Science Division, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, USA)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
10 May 2018 Delta Boosting Machine
By Mr. Simon LEE (Chief Data Scientist at AXA Hong Kong)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
10 May 2018 Mini-Symposium in Honor of the Retirement of Prof. Henry Wong

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Details
3 May 2018 Mini-lecture on the Tomas-Stein Theorem
By Mr. YANG Tongou (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Venue: Room C3, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
3 May 2018 From Hadrons to Quark-Gluon Plasma: A Guided Tour
By Dr. LO Pok Man (Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, Poland)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
2 May 2018 Assisted Analysis of Gene Expression Data
By Prof. MA Shuangge (Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
2-6 May 2018 The 12th Cross-strait Symposium on Optoelectronics

Venue: Science Centre, CUHK

Details 
27 Apr 2018 Plasmonic Nanostructures for Molecular Sensing and Spectroscopy
By Prof. Mikael KÄLL (Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L4, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
27 Apr 2018 Hong Kong Probability Seminar 

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: LT3, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Random perturbation of low-rank matrices and applications
By Prof. WANG Ke (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Approximation of stable law in Wasserstein distance by Stein's method
By Prof. XU Lihu (University of Macau)

Poster
27 Apr 2018 Advection-condensation of Atmospheric Moisture: Lagrangian Versus Eulerian Models
By Dr. TSANG Yue Kin (School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, UK)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
25 Apr 2018 Gamblet based mutligrid and its applications to eigenvalue problems
By Prof. ZHANG Lei (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
24 Apr 2018 Towards Efficient Model-Building of Complex Quantum Systems from Expectation Values
By Dr. Denys BONDAR (Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
20 Apr 2018 Cavity Spintronics
By Prof. HU Can Ming (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Canada)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
20 Apr 2018 Riemannian Optimization with its Application to Blind Deconvolution Problem
By Dr. HUANG Wen (Rice University, Germany)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
19 Apr 2018 Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - Rigidity of the minimal sphere in the Atiyah-Hitchin manifold
By Prof. TSAI Chung Jun (National Taiwan University)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster 
19 Apr 2018 Materials Science and Engineering Seminar II - Fabrication of Phosphate Glass-Ceramics Having Functional Crystalline Phases
By Prof. LIU Shiquan (School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Shandong, China)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
18 Apr 2018 Exploring new drug and drug mechanism via quantitative live-cell imaging
By Prof. SHI Jue (Department of Physics and Department of Biology (affiliated), Hong Kong Baptist University)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

(Jointly organized with RGC‐AoE Centre for Organelle Biogenesis & Function and Centre for Cell & Development Biology)

Poster
17 Apr 2018 Statistical Learning for Modal Regression
By Prof. FAN Jun (Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room C2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
17 Apr 2018 Materials Science and Engineering Seminar I - Modification of Silica Sand Having Nano-porous Coating toward the Removal and Re-utilization of Metal Ions in Wastewater
By Prof. LIU Shiquan (School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Shandong, China)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
16 Apr 2018 Fundamental Group -- the Intertwine of Arithmetic and Geometry
By Dr. ZHANG Lei (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
13 Apr 2018 Anomalous scattering of light by slit structures in metallic slabs
By Prof. ZHANG Hai (Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Room C3, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
13 Apr 2018 Observable set, observability, interpolation and spectral inequality for heat equation
By Prof. WANG Gengsheng (School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, China)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Room C3, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
13 Apr 2018 Single-Qubit Quantum Memory Exceeding 10-Minute Coherence Time
By Prof. KIM Kihwan (Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, China)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
13 Apr 2018 The Dynamics of the 2015 Nepal Gorkha Mw7.8 Earthquake
By Dr. WENG Huihui (Earth System Science Programme, CUHK)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
13 Apr 2018 Interior curvature estimate for scalar curvature equation
By Dr. QIU Guohuan (McGill University, Canada)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
13 Apr 2018 Mini-Symposium on Biocatalysis: From Green Synthesis to Bioenergy

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 
Venue: LT1, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Details
12 Apr 2018 Global estimation of air quality and the burden of disease associated with ambient air pollution
By Prof. Gavin Shaddick (Chair of Data Science and Statistics, Head of Department of Mathematics, University of Exeterm, UK)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
12 Apr 2018 Bergman kernel asymptotics for big and semi-positive line bundles
By Prof. HSIAO Chin Yu (Academic Sinica, Taiwan)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
11 Apr 2018 Mathematics at the University of Exeter: Addressing global challenges and real-world impact
By Prof. Gavin Shaddick (Chair of Data Science and Statistics, Head of Department of Mathematics, University of Exeterm, UK)

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
11 Apr 2018 Antibodies and Bicycles: Paradigm Shifts in the World of Medicines
By Prof. Sir Gregory Winter FRS (Master of Trinity College Cambridge)

Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK

(Jointly organized with School of Biomedical Sciences)

Poster
10 Apr 2018 Inhomogeneous coverings of topological Markov shifts
By Prof. Stéphane Seuret (Université Paris Est Créteil - Val de Marne)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
10 Apr 2018 The 4th Yen Kwo Yung Lecture in Life Sciences - Games Scientists Play: Benchmarking, Publications and Impact
By Prof. NG Peter K. L. (National University of Singapore)

Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: L4, Science Centre, CUHK

(Jointly organized with New Asia College)

Poster
9 Apr 2018 The 4th Yen Kwo Yung Lecture in Life Sciences - Trifecta?
By Prof. NG Peter K. L. (National University of Singapore)

Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Sir Run Run Shaw Hall, CUHK

(Jointly organized with New Asia College)

Poster
8 Apr 2018 The 4th Yen Kwo Yung Lecture in Life Sciences - Reflections of a Hunter-Killer: Passion versus Intelligence in Science
By Prof. NG Peter K. L. (National University of Singapore)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Science Museum, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon

(Jointly organized with New Asia College, in association with Hong Kong Science Museum)

Poster
6 Apr 2018 Heat kernels on manifolds with ends
By Prof. Alexander Grigorian (University of Bielefeld, Germany)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
4 Apr 2018 Bacterial Community Indicators to Monitor the Health of Our Changing Environment
By Prof. Gavin Lear (School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
29 Mar 2018 Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - Rigidity of Riemannian Penrose inequality for asymptotically flat 3-manifolds with corners
By Dr. WANG Wenlong (Peking University, China)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

 Poster
27 Mar 2018 I-Love-Q and Binary Love
By Prof. Nicolas YUNES (Department of Physics, Montana State University, USA)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
27 Mar 2018 Distinguished Lecture - Gradient Boosting: Overview, Theory and Applications to Big Data Analytics
By Prof. LAI Tze Leung (Department of Statistics, Stanford University, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: T. Y. Wong Hall, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building, CUHK

Poster
26 Mar 2018 How Do Galaxies Get Their Gas?
Dr. LIAO Shihong (National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Venue: Room 311, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
23 Mar 2018 East Asian Winter Monsoon: Ural Siberia Blocking and East Asian Trough
By Prof. ZHOU Wen (School of Energy and Environment, Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, City University of Hong Kong)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster 
23 Mar 2018 Dynamical Topology (Part II)
By Prof. Sergiy Kolyada (Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Ukraine)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Mar 2018 Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - Free boundary minimal hypersurfaces with least area
By Mr. WANG Zhichao (Peking University, China)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
21 Mar 2018 Dynamical Topology (Part I)
By Prof. Sergiy Kolyada (Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Ukraine)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
16 Mar 2018 Estimating Methane Emissions from Natural Wetlands: Model Development and Application
By Prof. ZHU Qiuan (Center for Ecological Forecasting, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, China)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster 
16 Mar 2018 Shrinking target problem on Bedford-McMullen carpets
By Prof. Michal Rams (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
16 Mar 2018 Metabolic control of T cell trafficking
Dr. CHEUNG Kenneth C.P. (William Harvey Research Institute, London)

Time : 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 128, Science Centre, CUHK

(Jointly organized with RGC‐AoE Centre for Organelle Biogenesis & Function and Centre for Cell & Development Biology)

Poster
16 Mar 2018 Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - Various results for singular perturbation problems of diffused interface
By Prof. Yoshihiro Tonegawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
15 Mar 2018 Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - Existence and regularity for the Brakke flow
By Prof. Yoshihiro Tonegawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
13 Mar 2018 Uniform boundedness principle for Sobolev maps between manifolds
By Prof. Jean Van Schaftingen (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
9 Mar 2018 The dimension spectrum of infinitely generated conformal dynamical systems
By Prof. Vasileios Chousionis (University of Connecticut, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
7 Mar 2018 Variable Selection for High-dimensional Data Using Known and Novel Graph Information
By Prof. LONG Qi (Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK

Poster 
6 Mar 2018 L2-invariants and knot concordance
By Dr. Min Hoon Kim (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
6 Mar 2018 Introduction of the SOGRO and Status of the Pilot Study in Korea
Dr. Chan PARK (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, South Korea)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
2 Mar 2018 Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection: Probing the Transition to the Rotation-Dominated Regime
By Prof. Herman CLERCX (Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 139, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
1 Mar 2018 Individual-based, genome-scale modeling of microbial ecology & evolution
By Prof. Ferdi Hellweger (Chair of Water Quality Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
28 Feb 2018 The 11th Lecture Series by Academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: CUHK Campus

Metallic Nano, Cluster, and Single Atom Catalysis
By Prof. LI Yadong (Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, China)

植物感知低溫分子機制與分子設計潛力
By Prof. CHONG Kang

Computational Seismology and Applications in Hazards Mitigation
By Dr. CHEN Xiaofei (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

Model Driven Deep Learning
By Prof. XU Zongben (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

(Jointly organized with Office of Academic Links (China))

Poster 
27 Feb 2018 Curvature and topology of manifolds
By Prof. Simon Brendle (Columbia University, USA)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Tse Chiu Kit Room, Chung Chi College Library, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

Poster
27 Feb 2018 TianQin Mission – A Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory
By Prof. YE Xianji (School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, China)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

 
Poster
20 Feb 2018 Inflation, Primordial Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves
By Dr. NG Kin Wang  (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
12 Feb 2018 Physics of Supernova Explosion
By Dr. LEUNG Shing Chi (Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 311, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
8 Feb 2018 Localization Diversity and Moonlighting Studies of Proteins and non-coding RNAs
By Dr. CHENG Lixin (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CUHK)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

(Jointly organized with RGC‐AoE Centre for Organelle Biogenesis & Function and Centre for Cell & Development Biology)

Poster
8 Feb 2018 Magnetorotational Instability in Eccentric Disks
By Dr. CHAN Edwin Chi Ho (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
6 Feb 2018 The J-PAS and J-PLUS Large Sky Surveys: An Unprecedented View of the Universe in Multi-Colors
By Prof. Javier CENARRO (Director, Centro de Estudios de Fisica del Cosmos de Aragón)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
5 Feb 2018 Cyber-security in a Quantum World
By Prof. LO Hoi Kwong (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Canada)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Venue: Room 311, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
2 Feb 2018 Dynamic Heterogeneity and Flow Dynamics of Polymer Films
By Prof. TSUI Ophelia K. C. (Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
1 Feb 2018 On hinges inside thin subsets of Euclidean spaces
By Dr. LIU Bochen (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
31 Jan 2018 Stochastic Analysis and Statistical Learning at Single-molecule and Single-cell levels
By Prof. HAO Ge (Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, Peking University, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 401, William M W Mong Engineering Building, CUHK

Poster
29 Jan 2018 Magnetic Fields and the Early Stages of Star Formation
By Prof. Richard M. CRUTCHER (Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Roomm G18, Basic Medical Sciences Building, CUHK

Poster
26 Jan 2018 LiTone : 5D Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy for Live-Cell Imaging
By Prof. DU Shengwang  (Department of Physics & Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & Light Innovation Technology (LiT) Ltd, Hong Kong)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
24 Jan 2018 Non-homogeneous harmonic analysis, Geometric Measure Theory and fine structures of harmonic measure
By Prof. Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University, USA)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Jan 2018 Distinguished Lecture - Statistical and Computational Limits for Submatrix Localization and Sparse Matrix Detection
By Prof. CAI Tony (Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: LT6, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
19 Jan 2018 Two-Dimensional Materials and Hetero Structures for New Topological Phases and Tailored Electronic Structures
By Prof. ZHOU Shuyun (Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
16 Jan 2018 Three Favorite Sites Occurs In nitely Often for One-dimensional Simple Random Walk
By Prof. DING Jian (Statistics Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 404, William M W Mong Engineering Building, CUHK

Poster
15 Jan 2018 Photopatterning of Molecular Orientations by Using Plasmonic Metamasks
By Prof. WEI Qi Huo (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: G26, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
13 Jan 2018 Distinguished Public Lecture - Heat Diffusion in Geometry
By Prof. Gerhard Huisken (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
12 Jan 2018 Gravitational Waves: Physics at the Extreme
By Prof. Dr. Jo van den Brand (National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef) and VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
11 Jan 2018 Mini-Symposium on Neurodegenerative Diseases II

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. 
Venue: G25, Science Centre, CUHK

FE65, APP processing and neurite outgrowth
By Prof. LAU Kwok Fai (School of Life Sciences, CUHK)

Failure of Protein Degradation and intracellular organelles in Alzheimer’s Disease
By Prof. CHANG Raymond (The University of Hong Kong)

The role of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease
By Prof. CHUNG Kenny (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

The secret lives of kinases - the non-nuclear roles of ATM and ATR
By Prof. Karl Herrup (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

CAG Repeat diseases
By Prof. CHAN Ho Yin Edwin (School of Life Sciences, CUHK)

Exploring the nexus between brain RNAse P and neurodegeneration
By Prof. Venkat Gopalan (The Ohio State University)

Poster
11 Jan 2018 Fructose-asparagine metabolism by Salmonella: new prospects for drug discovery
By Prof. Venkat Gopalan (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, USA)

Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. 
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
10 Jan 2018 ICCM Sze Lim Lecture - Mathematics and Science: The Abel and Nobel Prizes
By Prof. Bjorn Engquist (University of Texas at Austin)

Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Venue: LT3, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK

Poster
10 Jan 2018 Dynamic Role of SETD7 as a Transcriptional Activator in cardiomyocytes development
Dr. SHAO Ning Yi (Cardiovascular Institute, School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. 
Venue: LT1, 7/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
9 Jan 2018 Joint Colloquium with IMS - Seismic Imaging and the Optimal Transport
By Prof. Bjorn Engquist (University of Texas at Austin)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
9 Jan 2018 Gamma Degradation Model and Related Applications: From Light Intensity to Drug Dissolution
By Prof. NG Hon Keung Tony (Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 404, William M W Mong Engineering Building, CUHK

Poster
9 Jan 2018 Phase and Phase States of Secondary Organic Aerosol
By Prof. SONG Mijung (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chonbuk National University, South Korea)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
8 Jan 2018 A Lefschetz fibration structure on minimal symplectic fillings of a quotient surface singularity
By Prof. Jongli Park (Seoul National University, South Korea)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster

 

Date Seminars and Talks Remarks
27 Dec 2017 The Past, Present, and Future of 21cm Cosmology
By Dr. LIU Adrian (University of California, Berkeley, USA & McGill University, Canada)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
22 Dec 2017 Structure by Design towards Materials Discovery
By Prof. MA Yanming (State Key Lab of Superhard Materials College of Physics, Jilin University, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
22 Dec 2017 Towards a Continuous Atom Laser and Ultracold RbSr
By Dr. Florian SCHRECK (Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 
Venue: Room G26, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
22 Dec 2017 The Metric and Fractal Properties of Product of Partial Quotients of Continued Fractions
By Prof. WU Jun (Department of Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science apd Technology)

Time: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Dec 2017 PGL 2-crystalline local systems on the projective line minus 4 points and torsion points on the associated elliptic curve
By Prof. ZUO Kang (Institut für Mathematik Johannes Gutenberg-Universität)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Dec 2017 The Fractal Structure of Critical Points and Critical Values
By Prof. WEN Zhiying (Department of Mathematics, Tsinghua University)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
20 Dec 2017 Constraining Inflation with BICEP/Keck Array and the South Pole Telescope
By Dr. WU Kimmy (Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
19 Dec 2017 When Fuglede meets Gabor
By Prof. LAI Chun Kit (San Francisco State University)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
19 Dec 2017 Imaging Electric Polarization and Probing Domain Dynamics by Advanced Electron Microscopy
By Prof. PAN Xiaoqing (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California – Irvine, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
15 Dec 2017 Advancement of Transmission Electron Microscopy and its Application in Materials Research
By Prof. PAN Xiaoqing (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California – Irvine, USA)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
15 Dec 2017 A strange function space associated with positive semidefinite operators
By Prof. Lajos Molnar (University of Szeged)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
14 Dec 2017 Pointwise estimate for compressible Navier-Stokes
By Prof. YU Shih Hsien  (National University of Singapore)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
12 Dec 2017 Fast computation of the semiclassical Schrödinger equation
By Prof. Arieh Iserles (University of Cambridge, UK)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
12 Dec 2017 Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States: A 26 Years Journey from Theoretic Proposal to Experimental Confirmation
By Prof. WEN Xiao Gang (Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
12 Dec 2017 Careers in Biomedicine: do you have the right stuff
By Dr. Erik WONG (Consultant, Principal, Innovation and Program Management , EW Consulting, Ann Arbor, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. 
Venue: L4, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
12 Dec 2017 Heegaard Floer homology of L-space links with two components
By Ms LIU Beibei (University of California, Davis)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
12 Dec 2017 Quantum Gas Microscopy of Mott and Band Insulators
By Dr. CHEUK Lawrence (Department of Physics, Harvard University, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. 
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
11 Dec 2017 CN Yang Lecture in Physics - The Second Quantum Revolution: A Unification of Matter and Information
By Prof. WEN Xiao Gang (Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
6 Dec 2017 How do we do harmonic analysis in representation theoretic ways?
By Mr KWAN Chung Hang (University of Columbia)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
6 Dec 2017 Universal Knot Invariants
By Miss Danica Kosanovic (Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
5 Dec 2017 Sums, point counts and polynomial methods
By Mr KWAN Chung Hang (University of Columbia)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room C2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
4 Dec 2017 Imaging and Monitoring Large Crustal Fault Zones
By Prof. Yehuda Ben-Zion (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, USA)

Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
2 Dec 2017 CUHK Symposium on Statistics 2017

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 
Venue: LT4 & LT6, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Post-selection Inference on Regression-based Treatment Effects
By Prof. HE Xuming (University of Michigan)

Testing for Unit-root Non-stationarity against Threshold Stationarity
By Prof. TONG Howell (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / London School of Economics)

Some Statistical Models and Methods for Process Data
By Prof. YING Zhiliang (Columbia University)

Forecasting in a Data-Rich Environment
By Prof. TSAY Ruey S. (University of Chicago)

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1 Dec 2017 Fault Anatomy and Slip Dynamics along a Continental Plate Boundary: the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey
By Prof. Francois Renard (Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
29 Nov 2017 Salem sets with no arithmetic progression
By Mr. YANG Tongou  (University of British Columbia)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
24-25 Nov 2017 International Mini-Symposium on Genomics and Biotechnology cum 2017 SKL Conference on Agrobiotechnology

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute

(Jointly hosted by CUHK’s Partner State Key Laboratory (PSKL) of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University and CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute Peacock Program)

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24 Nov 2017 Electric-Field Control of Tri-State Phase Transformation with Selective Dual-Ion Switch
By Prof. YU Pu (Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
24 Nov 2017 The Tethyan Orogenic Belt - from Subduction to Collision: Scientific Issues and Challenges
By Prof. CHEN Ling (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Nov 2017 Air Quality -  Interactions with and Impacts on Society and the Earth System
By Prof. Steve Arnold & Prof. Dominick Spracklen (School of Earth and Environment, Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds)

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
21 Nov 2017 From Majorana Fermions to Topological Quantum Computation
By Prof. LAW Kam Tuen (Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
20 Nov 2017 Compact Objects and Gravitational Waves in Ricci-Based Theories of Gravity
By Dr. Diego RUBIERA-GARCIA (Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Lisbon University, Portugal)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
17 Nov 2017 Ultrafast Epitaxial Growth of Metre-Sized Single-Crystal Graphene on Industrial Cu Foil
By Prof. YU Dapeng (State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 710, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
14 Nov 2017 Chiral Majorana Fermion from Quantum Anomalous Hall Plateau Transitions
By Prof. WANG Jang (Department of Physics, Fudan University, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 331, Science Centre, CUHK

 Poster
13 Nov 2017 The Sunney and Irene Chan Lecture in Chemical Biology 2017

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK

Biology and Diagnostics Applications of Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma
By Prof. Dennis LO (Director, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, CUHK)

(Jointly organized with the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

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 10 Nov 2017 Quantum Cryptography with Imperfect Devices
By Prof. ZHANG Qiang (Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Science and Technology of China, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
10 Nov 2017 The Evolution of Data Science and its Impact on the Environmental Sciences
By Prof. William W. Hsieh (Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Canada)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

(Jointly organized with Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability IEES)

Poster
8 Nov 2017 Extratropical Cyclones and Weather Extremes
By Prof. CHANG Kar Man Edmund (School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, USA)

Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

(Jointly organized with Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability IEES)

Poster
7 Nov 2017 Searching for Additional Higgs bosons at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
By Prof. Trevor VICKEY (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Sheffield, UK)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
3 Nov 2017 Emerging Physics Properties of 2D Transition Metal DichalcogenidesInfection
By Prof. CUI Xiaodong (Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
24 Oct 2017 Modeling the Synergy between Phage and Host Immunity against an Antibiotic-Resistant Infection
By Dr. LEUNG Chung Yin Joey (School of Biological Sciences and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
 20 Oct 2017 Digital Laser Printing at the Nano-scale
By Prof. Anders KRISTENSEN (Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
17 Oct 2017 A Tale of Two Collaborations Towards the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy
By By Prof. IP Wing-Huen (Graduate Institute of Astronomy, The National Central University, Taiwan) and Prof. LI Guang Feng Tjonnie (Department of Physics, CUHK)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room LG23, Science Centre, CUHK

 Poster
10 Oct 2017 High-speed Force Microscopy and Holo 4π AFM
By Prof. Mervyn Miles (FRS, FInstP, CPhys) 
(Nanoscience & Quantum Information Centre, University of Bristol, UK)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 128, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
6 Oct 2017 The Tai Chi in Star Formation
By Prof. LI Hua Bai (Department of Physics, CUHK)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
29 Sep 2017 Symposium in Honour of the 95th Birthday of Professor YANG Chen Ning

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 6:10 p.m.
Venue: LT1, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
29 Sep 2017 Chinese Academy of Sciences Earth System Model (CAS-ESM) and Its Climate Sensitivity
By Prof. ZHANG Minghua (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Venue: LT7, 3/F, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK

Poster
28 Sep 2017 Single and Multiple Quantum Dots Made from Semiconductor Nanostructures for Quantum Information Processing
By Prof. XU Hongqi (Beijing Key Laboratory of Quantum Devices & Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, Peking University)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
26 Sep 2017 Composition and Alignment of Interstellar Dust Grains
By Prof. Giles NOVAK (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 101, Y.C. Liang Hall, CUHK

Poster
21 Sep 2017 Do the Laws of Physics Vary in the Presence of Strong Gravitational Fields?
By Prof. John WEBB (School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Australia)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, 
Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
15 Sep 2017 Topological Order: an Attempt at Demystification
By Dr. Christopher MUDRY (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
15 Sep 2017 Squashing the Digital Rock
By Prof. Ian Main FRSE (School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh, UK)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
15 Sep 2017 Temporal and Spatial Scaling of Rain and Rain Clusters: Critical Phenomena?
By Dr. Kevin CHEUNG (Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

(Jointly organized with Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability IEES)

Poster
6 Sep 2017 Sympathetic Cooling of Ions with a Laser-cooled Buffer Gas
By Prof. Matthias WEIDEMÜLLER
(Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, and
University of Science and Technology of China)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G26, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
5 Sep 2017 Wind Profiler – Atmospheric Remote Sensing in NCU
By Prof. CHU Yen-Hsyang (College of Earth Science, National Central University, Taiwan)

Time: 10:45 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

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1 Sep 2017 Collective Oscillation without Local Oscillators: Large-scale Oscillation of Bacterial Suspensions
By Prof. WU Yilin (Department of Physics, CUHK)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 710, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
29 Aug 2017 Turbulent Spot and Scalar Flash in Transitional Pipe Flow
By Prof. WU Xiaohua (NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics, New York University Shanghai)

Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room G26, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
25 Aug 2017 Self-healing polymers: introducing stress sensitivity and sensing in polymeric materials
By Prof. Wolfgang H. Binder (Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

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24 Aug 2017 Syntheses of thioethers, thiophosphates and thioesters
By Prof. LEE Chin-Fa (Department of Chemistry, National Chung Hsing University)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

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23 Aug 2017 Exploring New Methodologies to Enhance Synthetic Efficiency
By Prof MA Dawei (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: LT4, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

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11 Aug 2017 “Dry Gets Drier, Wet Gets Wetter”? A Study over the Arid Region of Central Asia
By Dr. HU Zengyun (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada)

Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
2 Aug 2017 Charge-transfer-driven Emergent Phenomena in Oxide Heterostructures
By Prof. CHEN Hanghui (NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics, New York University Shanghai)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G26, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
27 Jul 2017 Nonsymmorphic Superconductivity in UPt3 
By Prof. Youichi YANASE (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon 
Venue: LG23, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
13 Jul 2017 A Spherical Monte Carlo Simulation Approach with Applications in Finance
By Prof. TENG Huei-Wen (Department of Information Management and Finance, National Chiao Tung University)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room C1, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

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30 Jun 2017 Probing Quantum Motion of Protons in Interfacial Water at Atomic Scale
By Prof. JIANG Ying (School of Physics, Peking University)

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: LG23, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
13 Jun 2017 Science Faculty Research Day 2017

Time: 9:15 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Experience Sharing on GRF Bio-Med Panel 
By Prof. CHEN Zhenyu (School of Life Sciences, CUHK)

Daily Life of a RGC Member: dos and don’ts for a RGC Proposal 
By Prof. CHAN Ngai Hang (Department of Statistics, CUHK)

My 16-year RGC Grant Applications 
By Prof. JIANG Liwen (School of Life Sciences, CUHK)

Three Journeys to CRF 
By Prof. MIAO Qian (Department of Chemistry, CUHK)

Experience Sharing on Preparing a GRF Grant Proposal 
By Prof. LEUNG Nai Chung Conan (Department of Mathematics, CUHK)

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8-17 Jun 2017 WUN Symposium cum Research Summit on Impacts of Grain Legume Research and Development in Developing Countries
Organized by Prof. LAM Hon Ming (Director of the Centre for Soybean Research)

Venue: CUHK Campus

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8 Mar 2017 Energy and Environment Growth Strategies
By Prof. Eurlng. Henry K. H. WANG (President, Gate International Ltd)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: TY Wong Hall LT, CUHK

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Date Seminars and Talks Remarks
20 Dec 2019

Model Reduction Techniques and Numerical Analysis in a nut shell 
By Dr. Simon Pun (Texas A&M University, USA)

Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 239, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
17-18 Dec 2019

International Statistical Conference in Memory of Professor Sik-Yum Lee

Venue: LT6, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Website
17 Dec 2019

Beyond 2D: Collective Patterning and Jamming in Epithelial Cell Migration
By Prof. Ian Y. WONG (School of Engineering & Center for Biomedical Engineering Brown University, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
16 Dec 2019

Frontier Technologies in Chemical Biology: Activity-Based Imaging (ABI) and Activity-Based Protein Profiling (ABPP)
By Dr. Clive Yik Sham CHUNG (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
13 Dec 2019

Simulating Dissipative Quantum Systems with Ultracold Fermi Gases
By Prof. Le LUO (School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, China)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
10 Dec 2019

Quantum Droplets and Supersolidity in a Dipolar Quantum Gas
By Prof. Dr. Tilman PFAU (5. Physikalisches Institut University of Stuttgart, Germany)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
10 Dec 2019

Conditional Quantile Random Forest
By Dr. ZHU Huichen (Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT6, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
5 Dec 2019

Random Concave Functions
By Prof. Ting-Kam Leonard Wong (University of Toronto, Canada)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
8 Nov 2019

The Deep Water Cycle at Subduction Zones
Prof. Julia Ribeiro (Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
7 Nov 2019

Synthetic Curvature-Dimension condition on Riemannian manifolds
By Dr. HAN Bangxian (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
7 Nov 2019

The conserved retinoblastoma tumor suppressor pathway controls cell size in Chlamydomonas
By Dianyi Liu (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)

Time : 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
30 Oct 2019

Material Consequences: Chinese Iron Ore Demand and Steel Supply in the Arctic
Dr. Mia Bennett (Department of Geography and School of Modern Languages & Cultures, The University of Hong Kong)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
29 Oct 2019

Development of new synthetic platforms for terpenoids preparation around the total synthesis of salvinorin A
By Prof. Gilles Hanquet (Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, France)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
29 Oct 2019

Total Synthesis of Mycolactone A/B, Toxin of Buruli Ulcer
By Prof. Nicolas Blanchard (Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, France)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
28 Oct 2019

Representations of the Nori fundamental group and variants
By Dr. Fabio Tonini (Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)

Time: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
28 Oct 2019

A non-abelian algebraic criterion for good reduction of curves
By Dr. Valentina Di Proietto (University of Exeter, UK)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
25 Oct 2019

Vacuum Noise Squeezing and Its Application to The Gravitational Wave Detector and On-Chip Quantum Circuits
By Prof. Ray-Kuang LEE (Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
25 Oct 2019

The Metabolic Pathways (i.e., lipid, glucose and oxidative metabolism) that Impact the Outcomes of an Immune Response
By Prof. Claudio Mauro (College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK)

Time : 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
18 Oct 2019

Nature and Ultrafast Dynamics of Elementary Excitations in Solar Materials
By Prof. Majed CHERGUI (Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy & Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
18 Oct 2019

Integrating Geospatial Technologies, Environmental Science, and Health Research
Prof. Mei-Po KWAN (Institute of Earth and Space Information Science & Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
17 Oct 2019

Mechanisms of protein secretion through the Golgi complex
By Dr. Seung-Yeol Park (Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)

Time : 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
11 Oct 2019

Cooperative Metal Catalysis for Efficient Organic Synthesis
By Prof. Yoshiaki Nakao (Department of Material Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
11 Oct 2019

Novel structure-based strategies for blocking IkappaB Kinase enzyme activity
By Prof. Tom Huxford (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University, USA)

Time : 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Venue: LT4, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
10 Oct 2019

Learning from The Last Few Milli-seconds of Binary Black Hole Mergers
By Dr. Juan CALDERON BUSTILLO (School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Australia)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
4 Oct 2019

Nonlinear Photonic Metasurfaces
By Prof. Guixin LI (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
4 Oct 2019

Smooth geodesics in the space of Kahler potentials
By Prof. Jingchen HU (ShanghaiTech University, China)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
27 Sep 2019

Single Cell Multi-Scale Bioimaging from Atomic Force to Nonlinear Microscopy. Applications to Neuro-Muscular Disorders and Cancer.
By Prof. Csilla GERGELY (Laboratoire Charles Coulomb University of Montpellier, France)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
25 Sep 2019

Critical Phenomena in The Yielding Transition of Amorphous Solids
By Dr. Jie LIN (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineeting and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA)

Time: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
24 Sep 2019

Growth at The Single-Cell Level and The Implications of Cell-To-Cell Variability On the Population Growth
By Dr. Jie LIN (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineeting and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA)

Time: 4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Venue: L4, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
23 Sep 2019

MV cycles and affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties
By Prof. Sian NIE (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Time: 3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
23 Sep 2019

The amplituhedron
By Prof. Huanchen BAO (National University of Singapore)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

 Poster
20 Sep 2019

Probabilistic Projection of the Dynamic Evolution of Hydrological Extremes in A Changing Climate
By Dr. Shuo WANG (Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
13 Sep 2019

Nanomechanics of Covalent Crystals (Si and diamond) and Their Elastic Strain Engineering
By Prof. Yang LU (Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
9 Sep 2019

The Next Generation of Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes Simulations: Accounting for Real-Earth Elastic Complexities
By Dr. Sui TUNG (School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, USA)

Time: 11:30 a.m. 
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
6 Sep 2019

Blazar OJ287 and Its Nano-Hertz GW Emitting Massive BH Binary Central Engine
By Prof. Achamveedu GOPAKUMAR (Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
4 Sep 2019

Bessel F- Isocrystals for reductive groups
By Dr. Daxin XU (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
3 Sep 2019

Modeling Gravitational Wave Signals from Non-Circular Compact Binaries
By Prof. Achamveedu GOPAKUMAR (Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
2 Sep 2019

Multicompartment Nanostructures of ABC Triblock Terpolymers Inspired by the Cell
By Prof. Axel H.E. Müller (Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany)

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
26 Aug 2019

Symmetric and Antisymmetric Linear Magnetoresistances
By Prof. Yejun FENG (Electronic and Quantum Magnetism Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
26 Aug 2019

Spin-Triplet Superconductivity and Field-Induced Phenomena in 5f Electron System
By Prof. Dai AOKI (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan, CEA-Grenoble, France)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
26 Aug 2019

Problem of evaporation-condensation for a two component gas in a bounded domain
By Prof. Stéphane Brull (Université de Bordeaux, France)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
23 Aug 2019

L-space surgeries on 2-component L-space links
By Ms. Beibei LIU (University of California, Davis, USA)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Aug 2019

The Milnor numbers and the Heegaard Floer homology
By Ms. Beibei LIU (University of California, Davis, USA)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
21 Aug 20119

The Heegaard Floer d-invariants of surgeries on links of linking number zero
By Ms. Beibei LIU (University of California, Davis, USA)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
20 Aug 2019

Crystal Growth in Solid State Physics: When Physics Meets Chemistry
By Dr. Kwing To Toby LAI (Department of Physics, CUHK)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
19 Aug 2019

Hyperbolicity is not an intrinsic property of knot graphs
By Ms. Beibei LIU (University of California, Davis, USA)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
19 Aug 20119

Ground Based Gravitational Wave Astronomy in the Asian Region
By Prof. David BLAIR (Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Physics, The University of Western Australia, Australia)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room G26, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
16 Aug 20119

Creation from Confusion: A Journey of Porphyrin Mutan
By Prof. Hiroyuki Furuta (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Mong Man Wai Building , CUHK

 Poster
15 Aug 2019

Algebraic Criteria for Lipschitz Equivalence of Dust-Like Self-Similar Sets
By Prof. Ying XIONG (South China University of Technology)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
15 Aug 2019

N-Confused Hexaphyrins: Versatile NIR Ligands for Bis-Metal Coordination
By Prof. Hiroyuki Furuta (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University)

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Room G04, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
14 - 15 Aug 2019

2019 NBER-NSF Time Series Conference
Venue: LT6, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK

(Jointly hosted by Department of Statistics, The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) & National Science Foundation (NSF))

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13 Aug 2019

Polynomial mean complexity and Logarithmic Sarnak conjecture
By Prof. Wen Huang (University of Science and Technology of China)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster   
13 Aug 2019

Entropy and Weak Horseshoe
By Prof. Wen Huang (University of Science and Technology of China)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 n.n.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster  
12 Aug 2019

Coupling of Reactive Chemistry in the Atmosphere with Global Climate
By Prof. Lee T. Murray (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester)

Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster 
9 Aug 2019

Halo-functionalizations of organic molecules enabled by unique organocatalysts
By Prof. Yoshitaka Hamashima (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 158, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
9 Aug 2019

Diophantine approximation problems related to fractals and dynamics (Part 2)
By Prof. Lei YANG (Sichua University)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 n.n.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
8 Aug 2019

Diophantine approximation problems related to fractals and dynamics (Part 1)
By Prof. Lei YANG (Sichua University)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
6 Aug 2019

Organofluorine chemistry: Synthetic methods and applications from a personal perspective
By Prof. Yoshitaka Hamashima (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G18, Basic Medical Sciences Building, CUHK

Poster
6 Aug 2019

Quantum Optics with Superconducting Artificial Atoms
By Prof. IoChun HOI (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 311, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
6 Aug 2019

Life and Death of the First Stars
By Prof. Alexander HEGER (Monash Centre for Astrophysics, Monash University, Australia)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 n.n.
Venue: Room 103, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
2 Aug 2019

Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - Recent Progress in Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangian Manifolds
By Prof. Jingyi CHEN (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
31 Jul 2019

Constructing minimal-genus Seifert surface
By Mr. Antony FUNG (CUHK)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
31 Jul 2019

Regularity for the gradient flow of a spinorial functional
By Prof. Fei HE (Xiamen University, China)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
30 Jul 2019

Probe the Galactic Centre Region Using Wavelets
By Prof. Chien-Chang YEN (Department of Mathematics, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 n.n.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
28 Jul -
1 Aug 2019
XXXI IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2019)

Venue: Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK

(Jointly hosted by International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The University of Hong Kong & Physical Society of Hong Kong)

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24 Jul 2019

Total Synthesis of Terpenoid Natural Products
By Prof. Peter Metz (Fakultät Chemie und Lebensmittelchemie, Organische Chemie I, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G03, Liang YC Hall, CUHK

 Poster
24 Jul 2019

Targeting Tumor Microenvironment for Immunotherapy
By Prof. Leaf HUANG (Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: L1, Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK

 Poster
22 Jul 2019

High-order Conservative Characteristic Methods for Environmental Modelling
By Prof. Dong LIANG (York University, Canada)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Jul 2019

Earth-Abundant Materials for Nanoplasmonics
By Dr. Emilie RINGE (Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy & Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

Poster
19 Jul 2019

Coalescence or Bounce? How Surfactant Adsorption in Milliseconds Affects Bubble Collision
By Prof. Qingxia LIU (Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 103, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
17 Jul 2019

Pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrroles - Electron-rich Functional Heterocycles
By Prof. Daniel Tomasz Gryko (Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 103, Liang YC Hall, CUHK

Poster 
17 Jul 2019

Introduction to Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangian submanifolds and a compactness theorem in 2 dimension
By Prof. John Man Shun MA (Rutgers University, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
15 Jul 2019

Design of Thienoacene Based Organic Semiconductors: from Molecules to Molecular Solids
By Prof. Kazuo Takimiya (Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Japan)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G04, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster 
12 Jul 2019

An introduction to additive combinatorics
By Dr. Changhao CHEN (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
12 Jul 2019

On the Frisch-Parisi conjecture
By prof. Julien Barral (Université Paris 13, France)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
12 Jul 2019

Enantioselective Functionalization of Fully Substituted C=N Double Bond
By Prof. Jian ZHOU (School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 103, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
12 Jul 2019

Spectral Cantor-Moran measures and a Bourgain Sum of Sine problem
By Prof. LAI Chun Kit (San Francisco State University, USA)

Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
11 Jul 2019

Tidal Disruption Events in Active Galactic Nuclei
By Dr. CHAN Chi-Ho (Racah Institute of Physics Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel & School of Physics and Astronomy Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

Poster
11 Jul 2019

Picking two out of three: visible light promoted dual C-F bond cleavage in a CF3 group
By Prof. Lei ZHOU (School of Chemistry and Chemical, Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 106, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
10 July 2019

Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - Ricci flows with unbounded curvature and their applications
By Dr. LEE Man Chun (University of British Columbia, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CUHK)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
10 July 2019

A talk of two halves: ligand redox noninnocence in highly oxidized carbodicarbene complexes, and exploring the oxidative reactivity of superoxocopper (II)
By Prof. Jason England (School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 106, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
28 Jun 2019

Proton Transfer Mechanisms and Developing Ring Formation Reactions
By Prof. Zhixiang YU (College of Chemistry, Peking University, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 104, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster 
27 Jun 2019

Thermodynamics and kinetics guided DNA probe design for uniformly sensitive and specific DNA hybridization without optimization
By Prof. Xianjin XIAO (Institute of Reproductive Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G06, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
26 June 2019

Bioanalytical development enabling studies of arsenic health effects
By Prof. LE Chris (Director, Analytical and Environmental Toxicology Division, University of Alberta, Canada)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 104, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

 Poster
25 June 2019

Diophantine Approximation on M0-sets with restricted denominators
By Prof. Sanju V elani (University of York, UK)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
24 June 2019

Infrared Investigations of Dirac/Weyl Semimetals under Pressure
By Dr. Ece UYKUR (Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Germany)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK 

Poster 
21 June 2019

Nano-Carbon Imides: Precise Synthesis and Applications
By Prof. Zhaohui WANG (Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 104, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

 Poster
21 June 2019

Polymer Brush-Grafted Silica Nanoparticles
By Prof. ZHU Lei (Department of Macromolecular and Chemical Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 106, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster 
20 June 2019

Decoding Brain Signals Based on Ultra-Flexible Bioelectronics
By Prof. WEI Xiaoling (State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G03, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
19 June 2019

Bioanalytical chemistry in living tissue
By Prof. Rebecca R. Pompano (Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 106, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster 
18 June 2019

Room-Temperature Single-Photon Sources Based On Colloidal Quantum Dots
By Prof. Wei FANG (College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: G26, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

Poster 
17 June 2019

Mechanisms of Self-Organization Behaviors in Myxococcus xanthus Bacteria
By Prof. Oleg IGOSHIN (Department of Bioengineering, Center for Theoretical and Biological Physics, Rice University, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

Poster 
14 June 2019

Iodine Reagents in Synthesis and Flow Chemistry
By Prof. Thomas Wirth (School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, UK)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 104, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster 
13 June 2019

Adsorption and Activation of O2 over Cu(I/II) Single-sites on CeO2
By Dr. WANG Feng Ryan (Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, UK)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 103, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
12 June 2019

Majoron Dark Matter (Decaying) and Structure Formation
By Prof. CHEUNG Kingman (Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

Poster
11 June 2019

X-MRIs and IMRIs – From Extremely Large To Intermediate
By Dr. Pau AMARO-SEOANE (Institute of Space Sciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

Poster
10 June 2019

Density Oscillations Induced By Individual Ultracold Two-Body Collisions
By Prof. Doerte BLUME (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, USA)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: G26, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

Poster
6 June 2019

[Faculty Distinguished Lecture Series] The Past and Future of HK Higher Education: Difficulties in Development of Science and Technology
By Prof. Shing Tung YAU (William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University, Distinguished Professor-at-Large, CUHK)

Time: 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Venue: LT5, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

(Jointly hosted by Department of Mathematics & The Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

Poster
5-7 June 2019 CUHK Mathematics Alumni International Conference in celebration of Professor Shing-Tung Yau's 70th birthday and the 55th anniversary of CUHK

5 June: Room 201 and LT9, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK
6 June: Room 201 and LT9, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK
7 June: Room 501A and 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Hosted by Department of Mathematics & The Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

Website

Poster

30 May 2019

Double Feature Allocation for Phenotyping with Electronic Health Records Data
By Dr. Yang NI (Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
30 May 2019

On The Dawn of Second Quantum Revolution (Part 2): Why Bosonic Devices Are Promising?
By Dr. LAU Hoi Kwan (Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, USA)

Time: 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

Poster
29 May 2019

On The Dawn of Second Quantum Revolution (Part 1): What Should We Care About Quantum Computers?
By Dr. LAU Hoi Kwan (Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, USA)

Time: 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Venue: LT, William M W Mong Engineering Building, CUHK

Poster
29 May 2019 Science Faculty Research Day 2019

Time: 9:10 a.m. - 12:35 p.m. 
Venue: LT1, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Talk 1: The Network for Asian Open Research (NAO): A BASF Academic Research Alliance
By Dr. Thomas Wesley HOLCOMBE (Group Leader, Functional Polymers Research Asia Pacific, Academic Research Alliance: Network for Asian Open-Research, BASF Advanced Chemicals Co. Ltd.)

Talk 2: Bacterial Self-organization in Space and Time: From Physical Forces to Chemical Signaling
By Prof. WU Yilin (Associate Professor, Department of Physics)

Talk 3: Precise Targeting in the Complex System: From Basic Science to Translational Research
By Prof. XIA Jiang (Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry)

Talk 4: Nexus of Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases – Enabling Research without Boundaries
By Prof. CHAN Ho Yin Edwin (Professor, School of Life Sciences)

Talk 5: Statistical Platform for Common Bioinformatics Analyses
By Prof. FAN Xiaodan (Associate Professor, Department of Statistics)

Talk 6: Integrated Earth System Modeling to Tackle Food-water-energy nexus and Sustain Planetary Health in the 21st Century
By Prof. TAI Pui Kuen Amos & Prof. TAM Chi Yung Francis (Assistant Professor, Earth System Science Programme)

Talk 7: How to Become Highly Cited
By Prof. YU Chai Mei Jimmy (Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry)

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28 May 2019

[Faculty Distinguished Lecture Series] Change-Point Detection: Past and Present
By Prof. David SIEGMUND (Department of Statistics, Stanford University, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT6, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
26 - 30 May 2019 The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting 2019

Venue: Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK

(Jointly hosted by School of Life Sciences & The Crustacean Society)

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24 May 2019

Phase Engineering of Novel Nanomaterials
By Prof. Hua ZHANG (Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 103, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
23 May 2019

Observation and Modeling of Mesoscale Convective Systems and their Large-scale Environments
By Dr. Ruby Lai-Yung LEUNG (Battelle Fellow, Earth Science Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

 Poster
22 May 2019

Structure and Dynamics of Topological Defects in Active Liquid Crystals
By Dr. Rui ZHANG (Institute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

Poster
22 May 2019

Quantum Optics with X-rays: Dynamical Control of Resonant Interaction
By Prof. Olga KOCHAROVSKAYA (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room G04, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

 Poster
21 May 2019

[Faculty Distinguished Lecture Series] Neutrino and Gravitational Wave Research In Kamioka
By Prof. Takaaki KAJITA (2015 Nobel Laureate, Director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: LT7, Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK

Poster
21 May 2019

[Faculty Distinguished Lecture Series] Global Warming and Extreme Events
By Dr. Ruby Lai-Yung LEUNG (Battelle Fellow, Earth Science Pacific Northwest National Laboratory USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: LT1, 7/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
20 May 2019

Gravitational Wave Astronomy with KAGRA
By Prof. Takaaki KAJITA (2015 Nobel Laureate, Director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: LT3, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK

Poster 
20 May 2019

Mid-IR to Thz Polaritons: Realizing Novel Materials for Nanophotonics
By Prof. Joshua D. CALDWELL (Mechanical Engineering Department, Vanderbilt University, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

Poster
17 May 2019

Design of Bifunctional Thiourea Catalysts for Asymmetric Reactions
By Prof. Yoshiji Takemoto (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G18, Basic Medical Sciences Building, CUHK

Poster 
16 May 2019

Preparation and properties of large oligopyrrolic pi-systems
By Prof. Hidemitsu Uno (Executive Director and Vice President Ehime University, Japan)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 106, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster 
15 May 2019

Organocatalyzed Reactions Directed Toward Natural Product Synthesis
By Prof. Yoshiji Takemoto (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 104, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
15 May 2019

Conditional Quantile Decision Trees and Forest with Its Application for Predicting the Risk (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) PTSD After Experienced An Acute Coronary Syndrome
By Prof. Ying WEI, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT3, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
15 May 2019

Developmental Origins of Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease
By Dr. Hein-Min TUN (Research Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: LT4, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
10 May 2019

Constructing Markov State Models to Elucidate the Functional Conformational Changes of Complex Biomolecules
By Prof. Xuhui HUANG (Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: LT1, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
10 May 2019

Quantifying and Understanding Variations in the Star Formation Process
By Dr. Sami Marcel DIB (Niels Bohr International Academy, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: LT6, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
9 May 2019

Why Does Plate Tectonics Occur On Earth But Not On Venus?
By Prof. Shun-Ichiro Karato (School of Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University, USA)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
8 May 2019

Higgs Physics and Future Opportunities
By prof. Kirill PROKOFIEV (Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

Poster
7 May 2019

High-Energy Astro-Particle Physics of the Sun
By Dr. Kenny Chun Yu NG (Department of Particle Physics and Astro Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Time: 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Venue: G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK

 Poster
6 May 2019

Dark Matter: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Dr. Kenny Chun Yu NG (Department of Particle Physics and Astro Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Time: 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Venue: LT1, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
3 May 2019

[Faculty Distinguished Lecture Series] Cleavage and Formation of Carbon-Carbon Bonds at Transition Metal Centers: Elucidating Factors that Control Selectivity
By Prof. William D. Jones (Charles F. HoughtoPostern Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, USA)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK 

Poster 
3 May 2019

Spatiotemporal Changes in Precipitation Extremes over Canada and Their Teleconnections to Large-Scale Climate Patterns
By Prof. Thian Yew GAN (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada)

Time: 11:00 a.m. 
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
25 Apr 2019

Topological Superconductor and Quantum Spin Liquid Study via Exactly Solvable Models
By Dr. Jianjian MIAO (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
18 Apr 2019

Impacts of Biostatistics on Advancing Human Health in the 20th Century: My Personal View
By Prof. LIANG Kung-Yee (President, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G18, Basic Medical Sciences Building, CUHK

Poster
18 Apr 2019

Dynamics of protein sorting zones on the trans-Golgi network (TGN) revealed by super-resolution confocal live imaging microscopy (SCLIM) in plant
By Prof. Tomohiro Uemura (Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences Ochanomizu University, Japan)

Time: 12:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G18, Basic Medical Sciences Building, CUHK
Poster
18 Apr 2019

Quantum Dynamics between Two Heteronuclear Single Atoms Trapped In an Optical Tweezers
By Dr. Xiaodong HE (Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
18 Apr 2019

Mini-Symposium on Biomaterials for Cellular and Biomedical Applications - Disease Modeling and Drug Screening with Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessels
By Prof. Kam W. LEONG (Samuel Y. SHENG Professor of Biomedical Engineering , Professor of Systems Biology Columbia University, USA)

Time: 9:30 a.m.
Venue: LT2, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK

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Poster

 

17 Apr 2019

[Faculty Distinguished Lecture Series] Future Prospects of Biomaterials and Nanomedicine
By Prof. Kam W. LEONG (Samuel Y. SHENG Professor of Biomedical Engineering , Professor of Systems Biology Columbia University, USA)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
16 Apr 2019

Machine Learning the Universe: Opening the Pandora Box
By Dr. Shirley HO (Flatiron Institute/Princeton University, USA)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
16 Apr 2019

Dissecting pathogenesis of CNS-parasites by Cryo-electron tomography (Cryo-ET)
By Dr. Stella SUN (Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, USA)

Time : 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
15 Apr 2019

A new paradigm for Environmental Sciences?
By Prof. Alberto Arribas (Head of Met Office Informatics Lab, UK)

Time: 2:00 p.m. 
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
12 Apr 2019

Can We Send Relativistic-Speed Nanocrafts To Nearby Exoplanets? Challenges and Solutions
By Dr. Thiem HOANG (Center for Theoretical Astronomy, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Korea)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
12 Apr 2019

Genetic Regulation of Mammalian Sex Development
By Prof. Richard Behringer (Ben F. Love Chair for Cancer Research, Department of Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA)

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

(Jointly hosted by Natural Sciences Programme, School of Life Sciences & Centre for Cell & Developmental Biology)

Poster
11 Apr 2019

CMB Polarization Foregrounds for Primordial Gravitational Wave Detection
By Dr. Thiem HOANG (Center for Theoretical Astronomy, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Korea)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
11 Apr 2019

Immiscibility-driven Folding of Synthetic Polymers – Accessing sub-10 nm scale microphase separation
By Prof. S. Ramakrishnan (Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room C5, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
11 Apr 2019

Ubiquitin signaling in Immunity and Vesicle Trafficking
By Prof. Dr. Marco TRUJILLO (Institute of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany)

Time : 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Venue: Room G18, Basic Medical Sciences Building, CUHK

 Poster
10 Apr 2019

Statistical Methods for Selecting Best Treatment with High-Dimensional Data
By Prof. ZHOU Xiao-Hua (Department of Biostatistics, Peking University, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT7, Lee Shau Kee Building (LSK), CUHK

Poster
8 Apr 2019

Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry: Past Achievements and Future Directions
By Prof. Dr. Guy Brasseur (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Germany), and National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA))

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

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4 Apr 2019

Tracers Show Large-Scale Connectivity Across Landscapes: A Case Study of Watershed Development and Sediment Erosion Impacting Downstream Coastal Fisheries at Brisbane, Australia
By Prof. Brain Fry (Emeritus Professor, Griffith School of Environment, Australian Rivers Institute, Australia)

Time : 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Venue: Room 703, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
3 Apr 2019

New Frontier in Healthcare - Gas Sensor Technology and Clinical Applications

Time: 8:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

 Poster
2 Apr 2019

Zero-Inflated Generalized Dirichlet Multinomial (ZIGDM) Regression Model for Microbiome Compositional Data
By Dr. Zhengzheng TANG (Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
30 Mar 2019

The 5th Yen Kwo Yung Lecture in Life Sciences - Why You Should Embrace GMOs
By Sir Richard J Roberts (1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine)

Time : 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Science Museum

(Jointly hosted by New Asia College, School of Life Sciences & Hong Kong Science Museum)

Poster 
29 Mar 2019

Cluster Connectivity in Metallic Glass
By Prof. WANG Xun-Li (Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
29 Mar 2019

[Faculty Distinguished Lecture Series] Statistics: Genesis of Machine Learning and AI
By Prof. Jianqing FAN (Department of Operations Research and Financial, Engineering, Princeton University, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
29 Mar 2019

The 5th Yen Kwo Yung Lecture in Life Sciences - Why I Love Bacteria
By Sir Richard J Roberts (1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine)

Time : 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Venue: Sir Run Run Shaw Hall, CUHK

(Jointly hosted by New Asia College & School of Life Sciences)

Poster 
28 Mar 2019

The 5th Yen Kwo Yung Lecture in Life Sciences - Exploring Bacterial Methylomes
By Sir Richard J Roberts (1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine)

Time : 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

(Jointly hosted by New Asia College & School of Life Sciences)
Poster 
28 Mar 2019

The perfect marriage of bioelectronics and biomaterials via advanced manufacturing
By Prof. Tiger H. TAO (State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room C4, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
28 Mar 2019

Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - Stability on two types of partitioning problems
By Prof. XIA Chao (Xiamen University, China)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
27 Mar 2019 The 8th Lecture Series by Academia Sinica (AS) Academicians


Talk 1: New Horizon in Enzymology from Cryo-EM and X-ray Free-electron Laser (XFEL)
By Prof. TSAI Ming-Daw (Division of Life Sciences of AS)
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: LT1, 7/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Talk 2: Metal-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization for the Direct Synthesis of Pyridinium-Type Compounds and Their Application
By Prof. CHENG Chien-Hong (Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences of AS)
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

(Jointly hosted by Office of Academic Links (China), School of Life Sciences & Department of Chemistry)

 Poster
27 Mar 2019

Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - The isoperimetric inequality for minimal surfaces in a Riemannian manifold (Part II)
By Prof. Jaigyoung CHOE (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster 
26 Mar 2019

Multiplier Processes in Statistics: A New Multiplier Inequality and Implications
By Prof. Jon A. WELLNER (Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Washington, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
25 Mar 2019

[Faculty Distinguished Lecture Series] Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to SN1 and SN2 Reactions
By Prof. Gregory C. FU (Norman Chandler Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK

Poster
22 Mar 2019

A convergent evolving finite element algorithm for mean curvature flow of closed surfaces
By Prof. LI Buyang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Time : 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Mar 2019

Metal-Catalyzed C–F Bond Activation via Fluorine Elimination
By Prof. Junji Ichikawa (Department of Chemistry, University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
22 Mar 2019

Coherence Control of Complex Lasers
By Prof. CAO Hui (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, USA)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
22 Mar 2019

Analysis of a Mixed discontinuous Galerkin method for incompressible magnetohydrodynamics
By Prof. QIU Weifeng (City University of Hong Kong)

Time : 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Mar 2019

Improved Skill in Asian Monsoon Seasonal Forecasts Derived from Multi-satellite Snow Data Assimilation in Ungauged Eurasia
By Prof. YANG Zong-Liang (Director, CIESS and Jackson Chair in Earth System Sciences, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Time: 11:30 a.m. 
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
22 Mar 2019

Analysis of the roles of CSLD proteins during polarized plant cell wall
By Prof. Erik NIELSEN (Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, USA)

Time : 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
21 Mar 2019

Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - On positive solutions of semi-linear elliptic inequalities on Riemannian manifolds
By Prof. Alexander Grigor'yan (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
19 Mar 2019

An Overview of Neutrino Oscillations with the T2K Experiment
By Dr. TSUI Ka Ming (Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, UK)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
19 Mar 2019

Bayesian Estimation of Sparse Spiked Covariance Matrices in High Dimensions
Dr. Yanxun XU (Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
18 Mar 2019

A Nanoengineer’s View of Membrane Curvature in Cell Biology
By Prof. ZHAO Wenting (School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Time : 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
18 Mar 2019

Molecular condensation--mediated actin assembly through IDR
By Prof. MIAO Yansong (School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Time : 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

 Poster
15 Mar 2019

Visible Light Photocatalysis: Basic concepts, recent advances and future perspectives
By Prof. Burkhard König (Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Regensburg, Germany)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
13 Mar 2019

Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - The isoperimetric inequality for minimal surfaces in R³ (Part III)
By Prof. Jaigyoung Choe (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
12 Mar 2019

Large Scale Inference for Chi-squared Data
By Prof. Inchi HU (Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
8 Mar 2019 Talk 1: Carbohydrate Block Copolymer Self-Assemblies: Nanoparticles and Highly Nanostructured Thin Films 
By Prof. Redouane Borsali (University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, France)

Talk 2: Biomaterials based on carbon nanotubes and polymers for the design of electrochemical biosensors and enzymatic fuel cells
By Prof. Serge Cosnier (University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, France)

Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK
Poster 
8 Mar 2019

Low Rank Tensor Methods in High Dimensional Data Analysis
By Prof. Ming YUAN (Department of Statistics, Columbia University, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Swire Hall 1, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK

Poster
7 Mar 2019

Employing Self-Assembly For Biomedical Imaging Applications
By Prof. LIANG Gaolin (Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China)

Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 158, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
4 Mar 2019

Birational geometry of Kaehler 3-folds
By Prof. OU Wenhao (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
28 Feb 2019

Motility of Uni-Flagellated Bacteria
By Prof. Jay X. TANG (Department of Physics Physics and School of Engineering, Brown University, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. -11:30 a.m.
Venue: Room G26, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
27 Feb 2019

A Gravitational Wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant Following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO-Virgo
By Mr. Ignacio MAGANA HERNANDEZ (The College of Letters & Science - Physics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, US)

Time: 2:30 p.m. -3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 311, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
22 Feb 2019

Exploiting Optical and Thermophoretic Forces on Plasmonic Particles
By Prof. Dr. Jochen FELDMANN (Department für Physik und CeNS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
20 Feb 2019

Joint Geometric Analysis Seminar - Characterizations of the plane and the catenoid as capillary surfaces
By Dr. Eungbeom Yeon (Seoul National University, South Korea)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 502A, Academic Building No.1, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster 
20 Feb 2019

A multiscale finite element method for the Schrödinger equation with multiscale potentials
By Mr. MA Dingjiong (The University of Hong Kong)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
19 Feb 2019

Improving Attribute Classification Accuracy in High-dimensional Data: A Four-step Latent Regression Approach
By Prof. Jimmy, DE LA TORRE (Division of Learning, Development and Diversity, University of Hong Kong)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
19 Feb 2019

Holomorphic quadratic differentials on graphs
By Prof. Wayne Wai Yeung LAM (Brown University, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
18 Feb 2019

Replica Symmetry Breaking for mean field spin glass models
By Prof. ZENG Qiang (City University of New York, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
15 Feb 2019

Multiscale Simulation for Fluid Dynamics – Boundary Layer Correction
By Prof. Bjorn Engquist (The University of Texas at Austin)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Room C3, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

(Jointly organized with The Institute of Mathematical Sciences IMS)

Poster
15 Feb 2019

Two-Dimensional Materials for Spintronics - A Computational Materials Science Perspective
By Prof. Dr. Peter KRATZER (Faculty of Physics, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
14 Feb 2019

Hong Kong Probability Seminar - Wandering around the Asymptotic Theory
By Prof. SHAO Qi Man (Department Statistics, CUHK)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK

(Jointly Hosted by City Univeristy of Hong Kong, The Chinese Univeristy of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Poster 
1 Feb 2019

Quantum Computing for the Near Future
By Prof. YUNG Man Hong (Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
30 Jan 2019

Quantitative multiple pointwise ergodic theorem
By Prof. SHI Ronggang (Fudan University, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

 Poster
30 Jan 2019

Asymptotic behaviors of generalized Thue-More Trigonometric Polynomials
By Prof. SHEN Weixiao (Fudan University, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m..
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
30 Jan 2019

Uniform Functional Microparticles Tailored by Micro-Fluidic Spray Granulation Technology
By Prof. WU Duo (College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, China)

Time: 2:30 p.m. 
Venue: Room 158, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
30 Jan 2019

Re-balancing TGF-beta Signaling in Pulmonary Hypertension
By Dr. YUNG Lai Ming (Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
29 Jan 2019

The Mathieu Differential Equation and Generalizations to Infinite Fractafolds - Shiping Cao, Anthony Coniglio, Xueyan Niu, Richard Rand, Robert Strichartz
By Miss NIU Xueyan (The University of Hong Kong)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
28 Jan 2019

From Martingale Optimal Transport to McKean-Vlasov Control Problems
By Prof. TAN Xiaolu (University of Paris-Dauphine, France)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 219, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
25 Jan 2019

Where Do Our Materials Come From, and Where Do They Go?
By Prof. Bradley D. Olsen (Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
25 Jan 2019

Polymer Solar Cells: Efficiency, Stability and Applications
By Prof. YIP Hin Lap (State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
24 Jan 2019

Non-covalent Interactions in Enantioselectve C–H Transformations
By Prof. Masaya Sawamura (Department of Chemistry, Hokkaido University, Japan)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room C2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
24 Jan 2019

Cellular precision for cell fate control and surface integrity
By Prof. June M KWAK (Department of New Biology, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, Korea)

Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Venue: Room G18, Basic Medical Science Building, CUHK

Poster 
24 Jan 2019

Quantifying Molecular Defects and Relaxations in Polymeric Networks
By Prof. Bradley D. Olsen (Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
23 Jan 2019 The 12th Lecture Series by Academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Venue: CUHK Campus

The Foundation of Molecular Medicine: A Chemical Biology Approach
By Prof. TAN Weihong (Division of Chemistry, CAS)

Chemical Biology of Metals and Metallodrugs
By Prof. GUO Zijian (Division of Chemistry, CAS)

水稻細胞質雄性不育的分子機制和起源進化
By Prof. LIU Yaoguang (Division of Life Sciences and Medical Sciences, CAS)

Insight into cold sensing and its potential in rice breeding
By Prof. CHONG Kang (Division of Life Sciences and Medical Sciences, CAS)

計算電磁學中的數學方法
By Prof. CHEN Zhiming (Division of Mathematics and Physics, CAS)

(Jointly organized with Office of Academic Links (China))

Poster 
22 Jan 2019

Amyloid-Inspired Protein Assembly and Interfacial Materials
By Prof. YANG Peng (School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, China)

Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
22 Jan 2019

Non-standard Problems in Statistical Inference: Bartlett Identity, Boundary, Identi ability Issues
By Dr. CHEN Yong (Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
21 Jan 2019

Surface Science Meets Homogeneous Catalysis. Surfaces as Activators and Ligands
By Prof. Tobin J. Marks (Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA)

Time: 4:30 p.m. 
Venue: L1, Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK

Poster
21 Jan 2019

CN Yang Lecture in Physics - Quantum Leap: From Tests of Quantum Foundations to New Quantum Technologies
By Prof. PAN Jianwei (National Lab, for physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: LT5, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK

Poster
18 Jan 2019

MCMC with Sequential State Substitutions: Theory and Applications
By Prof. LAI Tze Leung (Department of Statistics, Stanford University, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster 
18 Jan 2019

Featuring Fault Zone Dynamics after A Large Earthquake from Crossing-Fault Vertical Borehole Seismic Array
By Prof. MA Kuo Fong (Earthquake–Disaster & Risk Evaluation and Management Center, Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University, Taiwan)

Time: 11:30 a.m. 
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
17 Jan 2019

[Faculty Distinguished Lecture Series] Physics beyond Ohm’s Law
By Prof. XUE Qikun (Professor and Vice President for Research of Tsinghua University, President of Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: LT1, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
15 Jan 2019

Modeling Maxima with Autoregressive Conditional Frechet Model
By Prof. ZHAO Zifeng (Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
11 Jan 2019

Unconventional Superconductivity and Hidden Quantum Critical Point in Al-Doped CrAs
By Prof. Tuson PARK (Department of Physics & Center for Quantum materials and Superconductivity, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster 
11 Jan 2019

Modulators of the Arabidopsis thaliana Innate Immunity Response
By Prof. Laurent Zimmerli (Professor and Principal Investigator, Institute of Plant Biology, Department of Life Science, The National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Time: 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
10 Jan 2019

One-point Function Estimates and Natural Parametrization for Loop-erased Random Walk in Three Dimensions
By Dr. LI Xinyi (Department of Mathematics, The University of Chicago, USA)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
9 Jan 2019

Hanessing extracellular vesicles from red blood cells for a novel RNA drug delivery platform
By Prof. LE Minh (Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong)

Time: 10:30 a.m.
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
8 Jan 2019

Phosphatriazenes: Versatile Ligands for Bio-active Molecules Modification via Sustainable Palladium Catalysis
By Prof. Anant Ramakant Kapdi (Department of Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology, India)

Time: 2:30 p.m. 
Venue: L3, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
8 Jan 2019

A Parsimonious Personalized Dose Finding Model via Dimension Reduction
By Dr. ZHU Ruoqing (Department of Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
4 Jan 2019

Observation of Broad High-Partial-Wave Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold 85Rb−87Rb Mixtures
By Ms CUI Yue (Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, China)

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

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Date Seminars and Talks Remarks
11-12 Dec 2020

The Virtual Symposium on Statistics and Risk Management 2020

Time : 8:25 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. (via ZOOM)

Poster
11 Dec 2020

The Journey of an Electron Knocked Out Of an Atom by Ultrafast Intense Laser: From Tunneling To Re-Collision
By Dr. Yu Hang Marco LAI (The GPL Photonics Laboratory Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Poster
4 Dec 2020

Bubble-Filament Paradigm of Star Formation
By Prof. Shu-ichiro INUTSUKA (Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Japan)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Poster
3 Dec 2020

Visualizing Cooper Pairing Engineering at Atomic-Scale
By Dr. Jiaxin YIN (Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA)
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Poster
2 Dec 2020

Tunneling into Emergent Topological Matter
By Dr. Jiaxin YIN (Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA)
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Poster
27 Nov 2020

Environmental Geomechanics for Cracking in Energy Resources Engineering
By Prof. Manman HU (Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong)

Time: 11:30 a.m.

Poster
13 -16 Nov 2020

2020 International Symposium on Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Time : 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Henry Cheng International Conference Centre (HCICC),Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK

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16 Nov 2020

Online Conference - Impacts of fault zone structure and fluid injection on earthquakes

Time: 9:00 a.m. -11:40 a.m. (via ZOOM)

Poster
14 Nov 2020

Online Conference - Impacts of fault zone structure and fluid injection on earthquakes

Time: 9:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m. (via ZOOM)

Poster
3 Nov 2020

First Galaxies in Cold, Warm, and Fuzzy Dark Matter Cosmologies
By Dr. Philip MOCZ (Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, USA)
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Poster
27 Oct 2020

Dark Matter
By Prof.Hai-Bo YU (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Poster
23 Oct 2020

Coronal Magnetic Activity in nearby Active Supermassive Black Holes
By Prof. Yoshiyuki INOUE (Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Japan)

Time : 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Poster
23 Oct 2020

Induced Seismicity and Casing Deformation Caused by Hydraulic Fracturing: A Case Study in Sichuan Basin, Southwest China
By Prof. Fengshou ZHANG (Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University)

Time: 11:30 a.m.

Poster 
9 Oct 2020

Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and  Global Groundwater
By Prof. Zheng-Tian LU (Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China)

Time : 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Poster
8 Oct 2020

Higher Dimensional Topological Order, Higher Category
By Dr. Tian LAN (Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada)
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Poster
7 Oct 2020

A "Periodic Table" of Topological Orders
By Dr. Tian LAN (Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada)
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Poster
6 Oct 2020

Taste of Saturn’s Rings and  Enceladus’ Ocean Water
By Dr. Hsiang-Wen (Sean) HSU (Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

Time : 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Poster
18 Sept 2020

Mini Impact Symposium - From Research to Entrepreneurship

Time : 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Poster
18 Sept 2020

Source Studies of Induced Earthquakes in Alberta (Canada) and Raton Basin (United States)
By Dr. RuijiaWANG (The University of New Mexico, USA)

Time : 11:30 a.m.

Poster
11 Sept 2020

Response of Tibetan Plateau Lakes to Climate Change: Trends, Patterns, and Mechanisms
By Prof. Guoqing ZHANG (Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Time : 11:30 a.m.

Poster
6 Jul 2020

Topology, Symmetry, and Locality in Quantum Materials
By Dr. Hoi Chun Adrian PO (Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Time : 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Poster
22 May 2020

Symmetry Indicators for Topological Materials
By Dr. Hoi Chun Adrian PO (Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Time : 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Poster
8 May 2020

Understanding Elementary Particles from  the Large Scale Features of the Universe
By Prof. WANG Yi (Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Time : 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Poster
17 Apr 2020

Turn Defects in Solids into Tools for Quantum Information Science
By Prof. YANG Sen (Department of Physics, CUHK)

Time : 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Poster
27 Mar 2020

The Dark Universe – Half of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
By Prof. CHU Ming Chung (Department of Physics, CUHK)

Time : 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Poster
29 Feb 2020

World Rare Disease Day 2020 Symposium - "Hong Kong Rare Disease Action Plan: Tripartite Collaborations"

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: LT1, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK

(Jointly Hosted by School of Life Sciences & Hong Kong Alliance for Rare Diseases)

Poster 
28 Feb 2020

World Rare Disease Day 2020 Symposium - "Hong Kong Rare Disease Action Plan: From Research to Clinic"

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Venue: LT1, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK

(Jointly Hosted by School of Life Sciences & Hong Kong Alliance for Rare Diseases)

Poster

22 Jan 2020

Mechanisms of plastid inheritance in plants
By Dr. CHUNG Kin Pan (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany)

Time : 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
21 Jan 2020

Characterization of stabilization by observability inequalities of stabilization
By Prof. Gengsheng WANG (Tianjin University, China)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
21 Jan 2020

Data Acquisition, Registration and Modelling for Multi-dimensional Functional Data
By Prof. SHI Jian Qing (School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics, University of Newcastle, UK, Alan Turing Institute, UK)

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue: LT5, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster
21 Jan 2020

Visualising Electron and Hole Dynamics in Organic Heterostructures
By Dr. Chi Yung Philip CHOW (Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Time: 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Venue: Room G25, Science Centre, CUHK

 Poster
20 Jan 2020

Optoelectronic Devices for Sustainability
By Dr. Chi Yung Philip CHOW (Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Time: 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Venue: L4, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
17 Jan 2020

Nucleic Acid based nanotechnology for transdermal drug delivery and bio sensing
By Prof. Chenjie XU (Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

 Poster
17 Jan 2020

Topological Phase Transitions: Topology, Edge, Bulk and Boundary-Bulk Correspondence
By Prof. Fei ZHOU (Department of Physics and Astronomy University of British Columbia, Canada)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
17 Jan 2020

High-Resolution Weather Predictions Using A Variable-Resolution Global Model
Mr. Raphael Yuk Sing LUI & Mr. Chris Chi Chiu CHEUNG (ClusterTech Limited, Hong Kong)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
16 Jan 2020

Metal Nanomaterials with Novel Crystal Phases: Synthesis and Catalytic Applications
By Dr. CHEN Ye (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Time: 9:30 a.m.
Venue: Room G04, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster
10 Jan 2020

Ancient Lakes and Seas on Mars
Dr. Joseph Michalski (Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

Poster
8 Jan 2020

Quantum Spin Liquids in Kitaev Spin-1/2 and Spin-1 Models
By Prof. Donna Dong-Ning SHENG (Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University Northridge, USA )

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: L1, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
7 Jan 2020

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Alkaloids with Chirality Economy
By Prof. Sanghee KIM (College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, South Korea)

Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 104, Liang YC Hall , CUHK

Poster 
7 Jan 2020

Development of Environmental DNA (eDNA) Protocol for Detection of Horseshoe Crabs
By Prof. Jerome Hui, Ms. Lee Hoi Ting, Mr. Wong Cheuk Fung (School of Life Sciences, CUHK)

Time : 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 297, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
3 Jan 2020

Towards a multi-scale analysis of translation dynamics and ribosomes: Integrating theory, sequencing and structural data
By Prof. Khanh Dao Duc (Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Zoology, University of British Columbia, Canada)

Time : 10:00 a.m.
Venue: L2, Science Centre, CUHK

Poster
2 Jan 2020

From two circles on a sphere to a Fukaya category and Khovanov homology
By Dr. Cheuk Yu MAK (University of Cambridge, UK)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 222, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

Poster