Events from 1 April 2002 to 30 April 2002 13 Mar 2002 - 30 May 2002 Exhibition TITLE: 西部風情 - 晉守賢攝影展 Splendors of the West - Photographs by Jin Shouxian SPEAKER: Nil TIME: Mon-Fri: 8am-11pm, Sat: 9am-7pm, Sun: 1-9pm VENUE: University Library, Ping Yuan and Kinmay W Tang Gallery ORGANISER: Library ENQUIRY: Ms Alice Ho, Library, tel : 2358 6707 AUDIENCE: All are welcome FEE: Nil REMARKS: Preview and reception at 4:30 pm on 12 March 2002 19 Mar 2002 - 2 Apr 2002 Photo Exhibition TITLE: Land & People - HKUSTSU Photographic Society Photo Exhibition 大地與人 - 科大學生會攝影學會作品展 TIME: From 19 March 2002 at 2pm to 2 April 2002 (Full Day's Opening) VENUE: Chia Wei Woo Academic Concourse ORGANISER: Center for the Arts ENQUIRY: Ms Jeddy Mok, tel: 2358 6149 HYPERLINK: http://www.ust.hk/cfa AUDIENCE: All are welcome. FEE: Free admission REMARKS: HKUST Arts Festival 2002 Program Series 20 Mar 2002 - 10 Apr 2002 Seminar Series TITLE: Solitonic Connections with Continuum Mechanics SPEAKER: Prof. Colin Rogers, University of New South Wales, Australia & HKUST TIME: 5-6:20pm VENUE: Room 1505, Academic Building, (via lifts 25-26), HKUST ORGANISER: Department of Mathematics ENQUIRY: Ms. Janette Cho, tel: 2358 7440 LANGUAGE: English REMARKS: Dates only on every Monday & Wednesday, 20th, 25th & 27th March and 3rd, 8th & 10th April 2002 2 Apr 2002 (Tuesday) Lie Group Seminar TITLE: Non-abelian Hypercohomology with Applications to Galois Cohomology of Reductive Groups SPEAKER: Prof. J.P. Labesse, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu (Paris VI & VII) TIME: 4-5pm VENUE: Room 3412, Academic Building, (near Lift 17-18), HKUST ORGANISER: Department of Mathematics ENQUIRY: Ms. Janette Cho, tel: 2358 7440 LANGUAGE: English Guitar Recital TITLE: Afternoon Duo Guitar Recital 午間結他二重奏 TIME: 1-2pm VENUE: Exposition Hall, HKUST ORGANISER: Center for the Arts ENQUIRY: Ms Jeddy Mok, tel: 2358 6149 LANGUAGE: English & Cantonese HYPERLINK: http://www.ust.hk/cfa AUDIENCE: Children under 6 are not admitted. FEE: Free admission. REMARKS: Artist: Tina Karen Lo & Terry Graves 2 Apr 2002 - 19 Apr 2002 One-World-Fountain Photo Contest TITLE: One-World-Fountain Photo Contest ORGANISER: Office of University Development and Public Affairs ENQUIRY: Ms Ada Lee, tel: 2358 6308 AUDIENCE: (Eligible Contestants) HKUST faculty, staff, students, alumni and their family members REMARKS: 2 photo categories (Color prints & B/W prints). One overall top winner (HK$1,500), 2nd prize (HK$1,000), 3rd prize (HK$500) and 3 merit awards for each category 3 Apr 2002 (Wednesday) Civil Engineering Seminar TITLE: Tunnelling in the Urban Environment SPEAKER: Dr Trevor Addenbrooke, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK TIME: 11am-12noon VENUE: Room 3574 (via lifts 27-28) ORGANISER: Department of Civil Engineering ENQUIRY: Ms Rebecca Yau, tel: 2358 7164 LANGUAGE: English HYPERLINK: http://www.ce.ust.hk/event_view.asp Civil Engineering Seminar TITLE: Finite Element Analysis of Slope Failure and Infiltration SPEAKER: Professor David Potts and Mr. Philip Smith, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK TIME: 2:15-3:30pm VENUE: Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT H) ORGANISER: Department of Civil Engineering ENQUIRY: Ms Rebecca Yau, tel: 2358 7164 LANGUAGE: English HYPERLINK: http://www.ce.ust.hk/event_view.asp 4 Apr 2002 (Thursday) IT Training Workshop - Authoring Language TITLE: IT Training Workshop - Authoring Language SPEAKER: Mr Morris Jong TIME: 9am-5:30pm VENUE: Rm 3005 (via lift 4) ORGANISER: Center for Enhanced Learning & Teaching ENQUIRY: Gloria LO, tel: 2358 6318 LANGUAGE: Cantonese FEE: $600 per head 8 Apr 2002 (Monday) CS Seminar TITLE: An End-to-End Adaptation Protocol for Layered Video Multicast SPEAKER: Dr. Bo Li, Dept. of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology TIME: 4-5pm VENUE: Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theater (LT F), near lifts 25-26, HKUST ORGANISER: Department of Computer Science ENQUIRY: tel: 2358 7008 LANGUAGE: English Humanities Lecture TITLE: The Formation of a Printing Genre - Drama Miscellanies in the Late Ming SPEAKER: Yuming HE, University of California, Berkeley TIME: 3-5pm VENUE: Room 3362 (via lifts 13-15) ORGANISER: Division of Humanities ENQUIRY: Prof. Karl Kao, tel: 2358 7768) LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: Internal Event Artistic Creativity through Theatre Production TITLE: Artistic Creativity through Theatre Production SPEAKER: Mr Ko Tin-Lung, 古天農先生 TIME: 1-2pm VENUE: Citibank Lecture Theater (LT A) ORGANISER: Center for Enhanced Learning & Teaching ENQUIRY: [email protected] LANGUAGE: Cantonese HYPERLINK: http://www.ust.hk/celt/seminar AUDIENCE: For internal only. 9 Apr 2002 (Tuesday) Lie Group Seminar TITLE: Index Theorems for Locally Symmetric Spaces and the Trace Formula. The Non Compact Case SPEAKER: Prof. J.P. Labesse, Institut de Mathematiques, de Jussieu (Paris VI & VII) TIME: 4-5pm VENUE: Room 3412, Academic Building, (via lifts 17-18), HKUST ORGANISER: Department of Mathematics ENQUIRY: Ms. Janette Cho, tel: 2358 7440 LANGUAGE: English 9 Apr 2002 - 11 Apr 2002 English Language Training (Tue & Thu) TITLE: Effective English Writing Skills for Technical Support Staff SPEAKER: 1. Mrs Diane FEAST 2. Mr Patrick MEGAN TIME: Group 1: 10am-12noon; Group 2: 2-4pm VENUE: Room 3027 (via lift 1), PTC, HKUST ORGANISER: Personnel Office ENQUIRY: Miss Jolie CHEUNG, tel: 2358 6593 LANGUAGE: English HYPERLINK: http://www.ab.ust.hk/po/shtm/stnd.html AUDIENCE: Internal - staff only (by enrolment) REMARKS: The workshop will be held during the period from 9 April 2002 to 9 May 2002 9 Apr 2002 (Tuesday) HKUSTSU Wind Ensemble Annual Performance 科大學生會管樂週年表演 TITLE: Enchanting Wind 醉人管樂 TIME: 7:30-9pm VENUE: Exposition Hall, HKUST ORGANISER: Center for the Arts ENQUIRY: Ms Jeddy Mok, tel: 2358 6149 LANGUAGE: Cantonese HYPERLINK: http://www.ust.hk/cfa AUDIENCE: Children under 6 are not admitted. FEE: Free Admission. 10 Apr 2002 (Wednesday) 32nd School Colloquium TITLE: Why are there males? SPEAKER: Prof. Jeffrey R. Chasnov, Department of Mathematics TIME: 4:30pm VENUE: Cheung On Tak Lecture Theater (LT E) ORGANISER: Office of the Dean of Science, Department of Mathematics ENQUIRY: Rosita Shek, tel: 2358 7261 LANGUAGE: English HYPERLINK: http://science.ust.hk/new/index.html REMARKS: Light refreshment will be served at 4:15pm outside LT E. 11 Apr 2002 (Thursday) Civil Engineering Seminar TITLE: Collapse of the Highland Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 11, 1993 SPEAKER: Prof Delwyn G Fredlund TIME: 3-4pm VENUE: Room 3574 (via lifts 27-28) ORGANISER: Department of Civil Engineering ENQUIRY: Rebecca Yau, tel: 2358 7164 LANGUAGE: English HYPERLINK: http://www.ce.ust.hk/event_view.asp AUDIENCE: All are welcome! Social Science Faculty Seminar TITLE: Crisis and Transformation in the Hong Kong SAR: Toward Soft Authoritarian Developmentalism? SPEAKER: Prof Alvin Y So, Head and Professor, Division of Social Science, HKUST TIME: 12noon-1:30pm VENUE: Rm 3362 (via lifts 13-15) Academic Complex ORGANISER: Division of Social Science ENQUIRY: Peggy, tel: 2358 7822 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: open to public FEE: N/A REMARKS: Discussant: Professor Ngok Ma 文化研究中心論壇--夢縈中國: 民族主義的反思與挑戰 TITLE: 「夢縈中國: 民族主義的反思與挑戰」論壇 SPEAKER: 1. 李澤厚 (香港城市大學) 2. 劉再復 (香港城市大學) 3. 陳 來 (北京大學/香港科技大學) 4. 張 灝 (香港科技大學) 5. 主持：余珍珠 (香港科技大學) TIME: 3:45pm--茶點招待 4:00pm--論壇 VENUE: 香港科技大學大學中心會堂 ORGANISER: 香港科技大學文化研究中心 ENQUIRY: 葉曼丰, tel: 2358 8025 LANGUAGE: Putonghua HYPERLINK: http://www.ust.hk/~webccshs/ AUDIENCE: All are welcome. FEE: Free. Chinese Nationalism: Reflections and Challenges TITLE: Chinese Nationalism: Reflections and Challenges SPEAKER: 1. Panelist: Prof. Li Zehou 2. Panelist: Prof. Chang Hao 3. Panelist: Prof. Liu Zaifu 4. Panelist: Prof. Chen Lai 5. Moderator: Prof. Angelina Yee TIME: 3:45pm Reception, 4-6pm Forum VENUE: University Center Multipurpose Room, HKUST ORGANISER: Office of the Dean of Humanities & Social Science ENQUIRY: Gordon Yip, tel: 2358 8025 or e-mail: [email protected] LANGUAGE: Putonghua AUDIENCE: public FEE: n/a REMARKS: Languages: Lead discussants will use Putonghua. General discussion in Cantanose, Putonghua and English. The forum is sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies, HKUST 12 Apr 2002 (Friday) Mathematics Colloquium TITLE: Langlands Functoriality: Examples, Results, Methods and Problems SPEAKER: Prof. J.P. Labesse, Institut de Mathematiques, de Jussieu (Paris VI & VII) TIME: 4:30-5:30pm VENUE: Room 2406, Academic Building, (via lifts 17-18), HKUST ORGANISER: Department of Mathematics ENQUIRY: Ms. Janette Cho, tel: 2358 7440 LANGUAGE: English Seminar on Geometry/Topology TITLE: Complete K\aher Manifold with Positive Curvature SPEAKER: Professor Zhu Xi-Ping, Department of Mathematics, Zhongshan University, China & IMS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong TIME: 3-4pm VENUE: Room 4480, Academic Building, (via lifts 25-26), HKUST ORGANISER: Department of Mathematics ENQUIRY: Dr. W.P. Li/Ms. Janette Cho, tel: 2358 7432/2358 7440 LANGUAGE: English Humanities Lecture TITLE: An Erotic Immortal: The Double Desire in a Ming Novella SPEAKER: Dr. Richard Gang WANG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong TIME: 4-6pm VENUE: Room 3362 (via lifts 13-15) ORGANISER: Division of Humanities ENQUIRY: Prof. Karl Kao, tel: 2358 7768 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: Internal Event Marketing Seminar TITLE: "Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves without Stable Preferences SPEAKER: Prof Dan Ariely, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts