2020

Venue: Henry Cheng International Conference Centre (HCICC),Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK

The Virtual Symposium on Statistics and Risk Management 2020

Time : 8:25 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. (via ZOOM)

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.

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.

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.

Tunneling into Emergent Topological Matter
By Dr. Jiaxin YIN (Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA)
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

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.

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

Online Conference - Impacts of fault zone structure and fluid injection on earthquakes

Time: 9:00 a.m. -11:40 a.m. (via ZOOM)

Online Conference - Impacts of fault zone structure and fluid injection on earthquakes

Time: 9:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m. (via ZOOM)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mini Impact Symposium - From Research to Entrepreneurship

Time : 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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