Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - 2018

2018

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

 Poster
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

 Poster
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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Poster

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

 Poster
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

 Poster
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

 Poster
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