8 Dear Professor Dyson World Scientic Publishing to issue proceedings for Memorial Meeting Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and for Nobel Laureate Professor Abdus Salam’s 90th Birthday Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life Edited by: Dwight E Neuenschwander(Southern Nazarene University, USA) 10 In honour of one of the most prolific and exciting scientists of the second half of the last century, the Institute of AdvancedStudies Brief Newsletter from World Scientific at Nanyang Technological University organised the Memorial Meeting for Professor Abdus Salam’s 90th Birthday in January 2016. As an internationally celebrated mathematician, physicist, author, futurist, and March 2016 Salam believed that “scientific thought is the common heritage of all mankind” and that the developing world should play its part, government advisor, for many decades Freeman Dyson’s speeches and books for not merely by importing technology but by being the arbiter of its own scientific destiny. That belief saw him rise from humble the general public have raised penetrating questions about science, technology, beginnings in a village in Pakistan to become one of the world’s most original and influential particle physicists, culminating in ethics, education, culture, war and peace, international relations, religion, social the 1979 Nobel Prize (shared with Glashow and Weinberg) for contributions to electroweak unification, which forms an integral justice, and the future. part of the Standard Model. Nobel Laureates Books For over twenty years, Professor Dyson has corresponded with undergraduate World Scientific is proud to announce the publication of the proceedings of the event which saw many distinguished scientists students attending a small college in Oklahoma in a “Science, Technology, and participating as speakers. Society” (STS) course. Their STS discussions seek to understand life’s difficult 2 questions, rather than construct pat answers to them. Such questions include List of Speakers 1 matters of war and peace; wealth, poverty, and social justice; our ethical 1994 Nobel Prize in NAME INSTITUTION responsibilities towards other cultures, other species, the environment, and future 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics Economic Sciences generations. In his responses to class letters, Professor Dyson does more than Ahmed Ali DESY answer the students’ questions; he sees deeper issues behind each question. 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Arnulfo Zepeda Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics Brief Newsletter Mar 2016_ENG.indd 1-3 1/4/16 3:53 PM 6 7 Singapore’s 50 Years of Nation-Building New Titles Women, Work and Welfare in the In Celebration of Singapore’s 50 years of Nation-Building Drivers of Competitiveness Middle East and North Africa 5 Edu-Renaissance: Notes From a Globetrotting Higher Educator World Scientific Proudly Presents 27 Volumes on The Role of Socio-demographics, by Feng Da Hsuan (Director of the Global Affairs Office and Special Advisor to Rector at the University of Macau) By: Diego Comin (Dartmouth College, USA) Entrepreneurship and Public Policies Culture, Community & Security, Economic Development & Real Estate, Edited by: Nadereh Chamlou (Former Senior Advisor, The World Bank), Massoud Karshenas (University of London, UK & New York University, USA) International Relations, Science, Technology & Healthcare, and Urban Planning, Environment & Transportation Edu-renaissance: Notes from a Globetrotting Higher Educator brings together 50 of Professor Feng Da Hsuan’s speeches, articles and reviews from the last decade and a half. They cover Recommended in this issue a wide range of ever-relevant topics such as the value of higher education in society, the role Asian universities have in the world, and hot topics like university ranking. Professor Feng 50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore also shares his new ideas and insight on promising young universities and higher education Singapore’s Health Care System in the 21st century. This volume is ideal for readers who are part of a global community concerned about one of the most important issues in the world today — education. 3 4 50 Years of Urban Planning Singapore’s Health Care System in Singapore “If universities are indeed the institutional Rosetta Stones of our “While his academic focus was in basic science, Feng Da Hsuan defies Edited by: Chien Earn Lee (Changi General Hospital, Singapore), time, then Feng is arguably the sector’s Jean-Francois Champollion.” categorization. He is both an effective multi-lingual communicator Edited by: Chye Kiang Heng (NUS, Singapore) K Satku (National University Health System, Singapore) C. David Naylor and a tireless connector of people and institutions. Somewhat President Emeritus, The University of Toronto improbably, Feng also has a diplomat’s grasp of nuance, a lawyer’s eye for detail, and a journalist’s gift for synthesis and story-telling.” “This is a must-read book for all!” Fu-Jia Yang “An inveterate globetrotter with an extraordinary ability to forge Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences relationships among people and institutions, Feng has an eagle eye Former President, Fudan University for cultural differences and strategic strengths and weaknesses in The forthcoming title focuses on technology and seeks to In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, and in light of socio- Former Chancellor, University of Nottingham institutions and systems.” analyse its impact on productivity and competition, while economic and geopolitical challenges facing governments C. David Naylor examining the dynamic relationships between different old and new,