Bulletin Summer 1988

Conference Series 1988 Sports Medicine Conference The 1988 Sports Medicine Conference, 'The Olympics and You', was held on 17th April at Hotel Riverside Plaza, Shatin. Sponsored by the Amateur Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, the conference was jointly organized by the department of orthopaedic and traumatic surgery, the physical education unit and the department of extramural studies. Scholars and experts from China, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Greece, Japan, Australia and the United States gave plenary addresses on the development of sports medicine and sports science. The conference covered a wide range of topics discussing genetics and athletic performance, exercise physiology, overuse injuries in sports, elbow injury in sports, sports injury rehabilitation, update of arthroscopic surgery, and physical fitness. A technical exhibition on some of the recent technology advancement in sports science and sports medicine was also staged. International Confucian-Christian Conference The International Confucian-Christian Conference, organized by the departments of religion and philosophy in collaboration with the Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture, took place from 9th to 15th June at the Cho Yiu Conference Hall, as an activity in celebration of the University's 25th anniversary. The conference aimed to explore the similarities and differences between Confucianism and Christianity, to further interactions between the two traditions, and to become sensitive to their respective and joint roles in world civilization today. Attending the conference were scholars in related fields from China, Korea, North America, Singapore, Europe, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, including Archbishop Lo Kuang, President of Fujen University in Taiwan, and Bishop Jin Luxien, Rector of Sheshan Catholic Seminary in Shanghai. Conference on China's National Economic Development The Conference on China's National Economic Development, attended by scholars from Hong Kong, Beijing and the United States, was held at the Cho Yiu Conference Hall on 29th and 30th April. Jointly organized by the Chinese Economic Research Programme of the Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies and the Beijing Institute of Information and Control, the conference covered aspects on the reform of China's fiscal system, China's foreign trade and foreign exchange, China's industrial structure and multi-sector economic development model, the reform of China's money and banking system, and an analysis of China's consumption pattern and income distribution. The Third Asia-Pacific Physics Conference The Third Asia Pacific Physics Conference was held at the University from 20th to 24th June as part of the University's 25th anniversary celebration. About 250 participants from all over the world, mainly the Asia Pacific region, attended the conference. Among them were several Nobel Prize winners. Sir David Ford, the chief secretary, delivered the opening address. Professor C.N. Yang, distinguished professor-at-large and chairman of the international organizing committee, gave a welcoming speech. The programme of the conference included fifteen plenary lectures by distinguished speakers including one by the vice-chancellor, Professor Charles K. Kao. A special session was devoted to discussions on the recent progress in high temperature superconductivi Other plenary lectures covered the full range of current developments in physics. In addition, most participants delivered talks on their own research in parallel sessions. Several hundred talks were given. The conference was one of the most important regional activities in physics. The first and second onferences in the series were held respectively in Singapore in June 1983 and in India in January 1986. This conference was sponsored by the Winsor Education Foundation, the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation, the Wideland Foundation, the Croucher Foundation, the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics, the International Centre for 10