Bulletin Number Four 1985

Professor B aysung Hsu Professor Y.W. Chan There is also theoretical research on the scat­ tering o f hadrons and nuclei, and on the onset o f chaos. Career o f graduates Some twenty percent o f the BSc graduates go on to graduate studies, both in the Department and abroad. The largest percentage o f graduates are employed as teachers in secondary schools, but many have entered a variety o f professions, including scientific careers at the Observatory, in tertiary institutions, in technical sales and in the electronic and computer industries. Future development The Department is now mature, and no further growth in student or staff number in the full-time programmes is expected in the near future. Future development is likely to be in the part-time degree programme, towards which the Department w ill cooperate closely w ith other Science Departments. Professor Baysung Hsu Professor o f Physics Professor Baysung Hsu received his degrees o f BSc and PhD from the University o f Manchester and is a Fellow o f the Institute o f Physics. He has pursued an academic career ever since graduation, starting w ith research at universities and research institutes in the United Kingdom, mainly on polymer physics and fibre science, w ith many papers published in various international journals. Professor Hsu was appointed to the founding Chair o f Physics o f this University in 1964, and has led the Department o f Physics since then. Besides being the Chairman o f the Physics Department, Professor Hsu has served in many university-wide positions. He was elected Dean o f the Faculty o f Science thrice between 1966 and 1979. Among other positions, he served as the Chairman o f the University lib ra ry Committee in the late sixties when the four libraries in the University were brought together into a single library system. Through the Joint Universities Committee on Student Finance Professor Hsu played a key role in the setting up and implementation o f the Government financial assistance scheme o f grant and loan, which ensures that no student who is offered a university place should be unable to accept it because o f lack o f financial means. He has been appointed concurrently Pro-Vice- Chancellor since 1979. Professor Y.W. Chan Professor o f Physics Professor Y.W. Chan obtained his PhD from the University o f California, Berkeley and is a Fellow o f the American Physical Society. Professor Chan studied Physics at Lingnan University, Canton, China, and obtained his BS and MS degrees in 1950 and 1952. He taught at the University o f Hong Kong from 1952 to 1958. Before joining this University in 1971 ， Professor Chan worked in the Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) from 1963 to 1971 in the field o f experi mental atomic beam magnetic resonance, theoretical problems o f secular equation and the interaction o f coherent radiation w ith charged particles. Soon after joining this University, Professor Chan started his experimental research in the inter action o f laser w ith matter. Since 1976 he has been working w ith Dr. David Yew o f the Faculty o fMedi cine to study the interaction o f laser w ith visual system. Professor Chan's main interest in theoretical physics is the deterministic process o f electrodynamics and the theory o f free electron laser and the associated phenomena. He has developed a self-consistent theory o f inertial transformation. The evolution o f scientific thought is also part o f his research interest. In the field o f humanistics, he is interested in developing, on the basis o f scientific approach, a workable theory to explain or to predict the characteristics and behav­ iour o f a society in terms o f some basic properties o f human beings and the natural and cultural environ­ ments. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 19