Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2006

News in Brief 57 Exhibition of Early Hong Kong and Macau Publications Conferences/Workshops/Seminars • The Summer Course 2006 in Microbiology, 13 to 27 June, by the Department of Microbiology; • ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications VRCIA Conference, 14 to 17 June, by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering; • The Fifth Seminar on Moral Education, 2 to 10 July, coorganized by New Asia College and Beijing Oriental Morality Institute, supported by the trustees of NewAsia College, Mr. Liu Shang Chien and Mr. Chan Chi Sun; • The Sixth Seminar on Traditional Chinese Culture, 12 to 18 July, coorganized by New Asia College; • Conference on East Asian Anthropology/Anthropology in East Asia, 13 to 16 July, jointly sponsored by the Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, the Department of Anthropology of CUHK, and the Hong Kong Anthropological Society; • The 27th Asian Medical Students’ Conference 2006 (AMSC), 23 to 30 July, organized by the Asian Medical Students’ Association Hong Kong, supported by The University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine of CUHK; • The 5thHongKong International Model UnitedNations, 3 to 6August, jointly organized by the Hong Kong International Model United Nations Association and the Centre for University and School Partnership of CUHK; • The SecondAnniversary Symposiumof the Croucher Laboratory for Human Genomics, 11 September, by the Croucher Laboratory for Human Genomics of the Department of Biochemistry; • The Twelfth Meeting of the Regional Working Group Meeting on Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Satellite-based Positioning, the EleventhMeeting of the Regional Working Group Meeting on Meteorological Satellite Applications and Natural Hazards Monitoring and the Regional Workshop on Regional Cooperative Mechanisms on Space Information for Drought Disaster Reduction of UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 25 to 28 September, hosted by the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science of CUHK, under the auspices of the National Remote Sensing Centre of China; • The 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 3 to 6 October, jointly organized by the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, sponsored by the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly and the K.C. Wong Foundation; T he Exhibition of Early Hong Kong and Macau Publications, jointly organized by theUniversity Library System of CUHK and the University of Macau Library was held at the University Library of CUHK and the University of Macau Library in September and November respectively. The event also featured the official launchof theHongKongMacauPeriodicals Network ( www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/Exhibition/ HKMacauPub/) . The database provides an index to over 300 Chinese and bilingual publications published in Hong Kong and Macau and with over 450,000 records focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Most of the periodicals indexed start from 1980, but important academic journals are indexed starting from the very first issue.