Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - 2022

2022

Date Seminars and Talks Remarks
24 Sep 2022 C N Yang Lecture in Physics (In Honor of Professor Yang Chen Ning's 100th Birthday) - Quantum Matter, Clocks, and Fundamental Physics
By Professor Jun Ye (JILA and University of Colorado Boulder)

Time: 08:50 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Poster
26 Aug 2022 A Leaky Himalaya? Streamflow Composition and Dynamics Affected by Rifts and Faults in the Yarlung Zangbo River in Northern Himalayas
By Dr. FAN Linfeng (Southern University of Science and Technology)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Poster
23 Aug 2022 Recent advances in mediation analysis with high-dimensional omics mediators
By Professor Peng Wei (Department of Biostatistics,The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Poster
3 Aug 2022 Resolved Simulations of Cosmic Ray Hydrodynamics in CGM and ICM Contexts
By Mr. Navin TSUNG (Department of Physics, The University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Poster
2 Aug 2022 Many-Body Quantum Chaos, Spectral Form Factor, and Ginibre Ensemble
By Dr. Amos CHAN (Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, USA)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Poster
21 Jun 2022 Probing and Tuning the Charge-spin Stripes in Cuprate Superconductors
By Dr. Qisi WANG (Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Poster
20 Jun 2022 Interactions behind High-temperature Superconductivity Probed by X-ray and Neutron Scattering
By Dr. Qisi WANG (Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Poster
17 Jun 2022 The 2022 Tonga Volcanic Tsunami: Lessons from a Global Event
By Dr. Adam Devlin (School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, China)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK and ZOOM (Mixed-mode)
Poster
27 May 2022 Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery Systems: Therapeutic Potentials and Challenges
By Professor Aviva S. F. CHOW (Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, The University of Hong Kong)

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Rm 311, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
Poster
27 May 2022 Pushing boundaries: Nonadiabatic dynamics simulations of solvent-supported electronic states
By Professor William Glover (Department of Chemistry, New York University Shanghai)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Poster
20 May 2022 Triaminotriborane(3): A Homocatenated Boron Chain Connected by B-B Multiple Bonds
By Prof. Yohsuke Yamamoto (Department of Chemistry, Hiroshima University)

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Poster
17 May 2022 An algorithmic view of ℓ2 regularization and some path following algorithms
By Dr. Yunzhang Zhu (Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University)

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Poster
17 May 2022 Chiral and Odd Dynamics in Living Matter
By Dr. Tzer Han TAN (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
 Poster
16 May 2022 Symmetry Breaking in Living Active Matter
By Dr. Tzer Han TAN (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
 Poster
11 May 2022 Ultrafast Phototransient Holographic Imaging and Spectroscopy
By Dr. Matz LIEBEL (ICFO -The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Poster 
10 May 2022 Modern Holography, from Fundamental Adventures with Incoherent Light to Clinical Applications
By Dr. Matz LIEBEL (ICFO -The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain)

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Poster 
22 Apr 2022 Novel Physics of a Dilute p-wave Quantum Gas
By Professor Shizhong ZHANG (Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Poster
14 Apr 2022 AoE/CCDB Zoom seminar Series 2022 - An Auxin Saga Emerges from the Surface and Continues
By Prof. Zhenbiao YANG (University of California, Riverside and Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster
13 Apr 2022 Towards Exciton Optomechanics in Suspended 2D Semiconductors
By Dr. Hongchao XIE (University of Michigan, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster
12 Apr 2022 Probing and Engineering 2D Magnetism in Magnetic Atomic Crystals
By Dr. Hongchao XIE (University of Michigan, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster
8 Apr 2022 Active Topology
By Professor M. Cristina MARCHETTI (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Poster
8 Apr 2022 Cosmic Rays In and Around Star-Forming Galaxies: Observational Signatures and Physical Effects
By Dr. Ellis OWEN (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Poster
7 Apr 2022 AoE/CCDB Zoom seminar Series 2022 - Leveraging Evolutionary Diversity to Discover New Autophagy Mechanisms in Plants and Humans
By Prof. Yasin DAGDAS (Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology)

Time : 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Poster
31 Mar 2022 AoE/CCDB Zoom seminar Series 2022 - Adding complexity to the plant ER-membrane contact site: cytoskeleton arrangement and selective autophagy
By Prof. Pengwei WANG (Huazhong Agricultural University)

Time : 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster
29 Mar 2022 Mechanical Stress Fluctuations in Myxococcus xanthus Monolayers Revealed by Traction Force Microscopy
By Dr. Endao HAN (Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster
28 Mar 2022 Mechanics of Complex Materials: From Particulate Suspensions to Bacterial Colonies
By Dr. Endao HAN (Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster
24 Mar 2022 AoE/CCDB Zoom seminar Series 2022 - Autophagy, the master of selective and bulk recycling
By Prof. Richard D. VIERSTRA (Washington University in St. Louis)

Time : 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster
17 Mar 2022 AoE/CCDB Zoom seminar Series 2022 - Illuminating the Origin of Aneuploidy at the Beginning of Life
By Dr. Chun SO (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences)

Time : 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Poster
10 Mar 2022 AoE/CCDB Zoom seminar Series 2022 - Blobology 2.0 - Resolving the Molecular Sociology in Cells and Beyond
By Prof. Philipp Erdmann (Fondazione Human Technopole/ Research Department Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)

Time : 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Poster
8 Mar 2022 Estimating spatially varying health effects in app-based citizen science research
By Dr. Shu Yang (Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University)

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Poster
25 Feb 2022 Seismic Imaging of Partial Melting in the Tonga Mantle Wedge
By Professor Songqiao WEI (Michigan State University, U.S.A)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Poster
24 Feb 2022 AoE/CCDB Zoom seminar Series 2022 - The broad functions of BSU1 phosphatase and GSK3 kinase in cellular signaling
By Prof. Zhiyong WANG (Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science/ Department of Biology, Stanford University)

Time : 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster
22 Feb 2022 Narrowest Significance Pursuit: inference for multiple change-points in linear models
By Prof. Piotr Fryzlewicz (Department of Statistics, London School of Economics)

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Poster
19 Feb 2022

CUHK-CUHKSZ Academic Forum in Science and Engineering
Jointly hosted by Faculty of Science, CUHK, Faculty of Engineering, CUHK and School of Science and Engineering, CUHK(SZ)

Time: 9:05 a.m. - 4:05 p.m.

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18 Feb 2022 How to Make High-Mass Stars
By Professor Qizhou ZHANG (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, USA)

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Poster
18 Feb 2022 Finding New Compact Binaries Using High-Precision Photometry
By Prof. Pak-Hin TAM (Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Poster
11 Feb 2022 From Arecibo to FAST Array – The Voyage of Perseverance
By Professor Di LI (Radio Division, National Astronomical Observatories of China, FAST Operation Center)

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Poster
10 Feb 2022 AoE/CCDB Zoom seminar Series 2022 - Vacuolar Stress Signaling in Arabidopsis: from Submergence to Space
By Prof. Simon GILROY (Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Time : 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster
28 Jan 2022 Quantum Matter, Clock, and Fundamental Physics
By Prof. Jun YE (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA)

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
*This talk is postponed until further notice.
Poster
27 Jan 2022 AoE/CCDB Zoom seminar Series 2022 - Flattening the Curve: Mechanosensitive Ion Channels in Plant Cell Biology and Development
By Prof. Elizabeth HASWELL (Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar)

Time : 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster
26 Jan 2022 Testing Instrumental Variable Validity with High-Dimensional Data and Heteroskedasticity
By Dr. Qingliang FAN (Department of Economics, CUHK)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Poster
21 Jan 2022 MD Simulations, Free-Energy Calculations, and Machine Learning Applied to the SARS-Cov-2 Spike Protein
By Prof.James GUMBART (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Poster
14 Jan 2022 Design of Maruoka Catalyst as High-Performance Chiral Organocatalysts for Sterically Hindered Amino Acids and Peptides
By Prof.Keiji Maruoka (Kyoto University)

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m
Poster
14 Jan 2022 Confinement-Induced Columnar Crystals: A Route to New Architecture in the Scientific World
By Prof. Ho-Kei CHAN (School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China)

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Rm G25, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
Poster
14 Jan 2022 The Topology of Data: from String Theory to Cosmology to Phases of Matter
By Prof. Man Lai Gary SHIU (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster
7 Jan 2022 Multi-Scale Theoretical Simulations of Organic Photovoltaic and Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Materials
By Dr. Xiankai CHEN (Department of Chemistry & Department of Material Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Rm G26, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
Poster
6 Jan 2022 Remote Sensing of Land Deformation and Early Warning of Geo-hazards for Sustainable Development
By Dr. Peifeng MA (Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, CUHK)

Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK and ZOOM (Mixed-mode)
Poster
5 Jan 2022 Water-like High Dielectric Constant/Low Loss Polymer Dielectric Materials for Electrical Energy Storage
By Prof. Lei ZHU (Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University)

Time: 9:30 a.m.
Poster
5 Jan 2022 Nanophotonics in Multidimensional Platforms: From Artificial Metasurfaces To Natural Crystals
By Dr. Guangwei HU (Research Fellow, National University of Singapore)

Time: 2:00 p.m.
Poster
4 Jan 2022 Coupling Data Science and Numerical Simulations to Empower Atmospheric and Environmental Research
By Dr. Zhonghua ZHENG (Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, U.S.A.)

Time: 9:00 a.m.
Venue: Conference Room, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK and ZOOM (Mixed-mode)
Poster 
4 Jan 2022 Beyond Spiral Spin-Liquids: Novel Spin Correlations Probed By Neutron and X-Ray Scattering
By Dr. Shang GAO (Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Poster