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))

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)

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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)

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)

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Poster

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

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

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

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)

[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

Venue: Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK

(Jointly hosted by School of Life Sciences & The Crustacean Society)

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

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

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

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

[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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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 

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

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

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

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)

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Frontier in Healthcare - Gas Sensor Technology and Clinical Applications

Time: 8:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Venue: L5, Science Centre, CUHK

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

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)

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

[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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

[Faculty Distinguished Lecture Series] Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to S_N1 and S_N2 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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))

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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