calendar of events for march 95
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Calendar of Events for March 95
1 March (Wednesday)
(1) Physics Seminar TITLE: Quantum Cosmology and Mesoscopic Physics SPEARER: Professor Bei-Lok Hu, Department of Physics of University of
Maryland; School of Natural Sciences of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; as Visiting Professor in Department of Physics of HKUST
TIME: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre E ORGANISER: PHYS INFO: Miss Jacma Said, x-7501
(2) Mathematics Colloquium TITLE: Some Recent Developments of Nonstationary Time Series SPEARER: Dr N H Chan, Department of Mathematics, HKUST TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre F ORGANISER: Math INFO: MS Janette Cho, x-7440
2 March (Thursday)
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Gallery Talk in connection with the Library exhibition “The Ceaseless Line : Recent Works by Chu Ko” TITLE: The Artist and the Dao SPEARER: Dr Peter C Sturman TIME: 3:00 pm VENUE: Room 7332, via lifts 13 - 15 ORGANISER: Library INFO: MS Alice Ho, x-6707
Physics Seminar TITLE: Low-Energy Wavefront Reconstruction: Beyond Gabor’s
Principle of Holography SPEAKER: Professor David S Y Tong, Department of Physics, The
University of Hong Kong TIME: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre G ORGANISER: PHYS INFO: Miss Jacma Said, x-7501
(3) Seminar on Scientific Computation TITLE: Scale disparity and spectral transfer in isotropic and anisotropic
numerical turbulence
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SPEAKER: Dr Ye Zhou, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, U. S .A.
TIME: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm VENUE: Room 5506 (near Phase II, Lifts 25 & 26) ORGANISER: MATH INFO: MS Janette Cho, x-7440
Public Affairs Forum TITLE: Education Policies of the Democratic and Liberal Parties SPEAKERS: The Hon Mr Henry Tang, Liberal Party
Mr Ip Kin Yuen, Democratic Party TIME: 5 pm to 630 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre D ORGANISERS: SOSC, PAO, SU INFO: Dr Steven Kong, x-6303
2 March to 28 April
Library Exhibition TITLE: The Ceaseless Line : Recent Works by Chu Ko TIME: Monday - Friday 890 am - 1190 pm
Saturday 9:00 am - 790 pm Sunday 190 pm - 7:00 pm
VENUE: Library Gallery ORGANISER: Library INFO: MS Alice Ho, x-6707
3 March (Friday)
Information and System Management Seminar TITLE: Performance Effects of Innovative IT Applications over Time SPEAKER: Dr Ken Peffers, Department of Computer Science, The
University of Hong Kong TIME: 10:30 am - 11:30 am VENUE: Room 3311 (Lifts 17-18) ORGANISER: ISMT INFO: Miss Winnie Lee, x-7633
4 March (Saturday)
Arts Forum TITLE: Forum on Antonio Mak’s Art SPEAKERS: Dr David Clarke, Lecturer of Fine Art, HKU
Mr Oscar Ho, Exhibition director of HK Arts Centre Mlr Yank Wong, Artist
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TIME: 2:30 pm VENUE: University Expo Hall
ORGANISER: HKUST Arts Endowment Committee INFO: Mr Howard Chan, x-6311, Fax:2358-0537
4 to 26 March
Arts Exhibition TITLE: The Art of Antonio Mak Hin-yeung -- a Retrospective
Exhibition TIME: Tue - Fri: lpm-5pm
Sat & Sun: loam-6pm VENUE: University Expo Hall ORGANJSERS: HKUST Arts Endowment Committee, HK Arts Centre,
HK Arts Festival Society Co. INFO: Mr Howard Chan, x-6311, Fax: 2358-0537
6 March (Monday)
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Tertiary Teaching and Learning Research in Hong Kong TITLE: Lectures in a second language: Lecturers and students
perceptions SPEAKER Dr John Flowerdew and Mr Lindsay Miller, City University TIME: 12:30 noon - 1:30 pm VElWJE: Room 3027 (Lift 1) ORGANISER: ETC INFO: Dr Mavis Kelly, x-6803
Chemical Engineering Seminar TITLE: Removal of Pollutants from Wastewaters by Adsorption SPEAKER: Dr Gordon McKay, Senior Process/Environmental Specialist,
Project Management, Dublin TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre G ORGANISER: CENG INFO: Miss P H Mak, x-7120
Special Math Seminar TITLE: Quantum Computers SPEAKER: Dr Hoi-Kwong Lo, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm VENUE: Room 5506 (Lifts 25 & 26) ORGANISER: Math INFO: MS Janette Cho, x-7440
6 to 31 March
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*Dental Health Campaign March 95 EVENT: Exhibition on Dental Health TIME: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm VENUE: Academic Concourse (outside LTB & C) ORGAN-ISERS: Dental Clinic, Student Health Centre & Student Affairs
Office INFO: Dental Clinic, x-8580
7 March 95 (Tuesday)
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Computer Science Seminar TITLE: Phonological Parsing for Bi-directional
Letter-to-Sound/Sound-to-Letter Generation SPEAKER: Miss Helen Meng, Spoken Language Systems Group,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology TIME: 290 pm to 3:00 pm VENUE: Room 1504 (Lifts 25 & 26) ORGANISER: COMP INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008
Gallery Talk in connection with the Library exhibition “The Ceaseless Line : Recent Works by Chu Ko” TITLE: The Path of the Brush SPEAKER: Dr Hui-shu Lee, Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities TIME: 3:00 pm VENUE: Room 7332, via lifts 13 - 15 ORGANISER: Library INFO: MS Alice Ho, x-6707
Computer Science Seminar TITLE: Active Database Systems - The SAMOS Approach SPEAKER Prof Klaus R D&rich, Institut fur Informatik, University of
Zurich TIME: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre E ORGANISER: COMP INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008
Briefing Meeting of National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) TITLE: The work of NSFC and its awards SPEAKERS: Representatives of the NSFC TIME: 4:00 pm VENUE: Room 7341 (Lifts 13-15) LANGUAGE: Putonghua ORGANISER: OAPA INFO: Miss Jenny Ng, x-6 137
7-9 March
EXHIBITION --- STRESS “EASY GO” TITLE: Survey on Mental Health of the First Year Tertiary Institution
Students VENUE: Academic Concourse ORGANISER: Student Counselling Service
8 March (Wednesday)
(1) *Dental Health Campaign March 95 EVENT Dental Clinic Open Day TIME: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm VENUE: Dental Clinic (LGl via Lift 4) ORGANISERS: Dental Clinic, Student Health Centre & Student Affairs
Office INFO: Dental Clinic, x-8580
(2) *Dental Health Campaign March 95 EVENT: Talk - Periodental Disease TIME: 990 am - 5:00 pm VENUE: Dental Clinic (LGl via Lift 4) ORGANISERS: Dental Clinic, Student Health Centre & Student Affairs
Office INFO: Dental Clinic, x-8580
(3) Mathematics Colloquium TITLE: New Problems at the Interaction of General Relativity, Field
Theory and Statistical Mechanics SPEAKER: Prof Bei-Lok Hu, Department of Physics, University of
Maryland, IAS Princeton and HKUST TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre F ORGANISER: Math INFO: MS Janette Cho, x-7440
9 March (Thursday)
(1) STRESS “EASY GO” TALK TITLE: How to Support Distressed Students? SPEAKER: MS Alice Leung, Education Officer, The Samaritans TIME: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm VENUE: Citibank Lecture Theatre (LTA) LANGUAGE: Cantonese ORGANISER: Student Counselling Service INFO: Miss Karie Lau , x-6694
(2) Materials Characterisation and Preparation Centre Lecture TITLE: Ion Beam Probing of Solid Surfaces
(Dynamic, Static and Time-of Flight SIMS) SPEAKER: Mr Brad Phillips, Philcraft Associates Minneapolis, Mn. USA TIME: 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre B ORGANISER: MCPC INFO: MS Athene Hui, x-6852
10 March (Friday)
(1) Information and Systems Management Seminar TITLE: ConceptBase - a Meta Data Base Manager SPEAKER: Dr Manfied A Jeusfeld, Dept of Information & Systems
Management, HKUST TIME: lo:oo am - 11:30 am VENUE: Room 4116 (Workstation lab), (Lift 19) ORGANISER: ISMT INFO: Miss Winnie Lee, x-7633
(2) Accounting Seminar 1994-95/15 TITLE: Corporate Governance in Hong Kong: An Empirical Analysis SPEAKER: Dr Rohit Jain, City University of Hong Kong TIME: lo:30 am - 12:00 noon VENUE: Room 3308 (Lifts 17-18) ORGANISER: ACCT INFO: Dr Joseph Aharony, x-7567
(3 Information and Systems Management Seminar TITLE: Optimization in Action SPEAKER: Dr Hongtao ZHANG, Asst. Prof., ISMT TIME: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm VENUE: Room 3308 (Lifts 17-18) ORGANISER: ISMT INFO: Ann Ho, x-7733
Seminars on Micro Electra Mechanical Systems (MEMS) TITLE: MEMS: AN INTRODUCTION TOPICS: Historical review
MEMS technology Bulk micromachining method Surface micromachining method LIGA Wafer bonding
Current & prospective applications Market Successfully commercialized devices Potential winners
SPEAKERS: Professor Chi-Min Ho, UCLA Professor Yu-Chong Tai, Caltech
TIME: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm VENUE: Room 3027 (Lift 1) ORGANISER: MECH INFO: Miss Kandus Lau, x-7 184
11 March (Saturday)
Humanities Seminar TITLE: Chinese in Vietnam SPEAKER: Mr Serizawa Satohiro, PhD Candidate in Anthropology,
University of Osaka, Japan TIME: 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Room 3362 (Lifts 13-15) LANGUAGE: Cantonese ORGANISERS: HUMA, Dept of History, CUHK and College of
Education, CUHK INFO: Miss Cindy Chan, x-7800
12 March (Sunday)
Information Seminar TITLE: Postgraduate Programmes 95/96 TIME: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm VENUE: Room 3362 (Lifts 13-15) ORGANISER: HUMA INFO: Miss Cindy Chan, x-7800
13 March (Monday)
(1) Electrical & Electronic Engineering Seminar TITLE: IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs: Performance Evaluation and
Interconnection SPEAKER: Dr Sanjay Gupta VENUE: Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26) TIME: 11:00 am -12:00 noon ORGANISER: ELEC and Hongkong Telecom Institute of Information
Technology INFO: Miss Avy Man, x-7032
(2) Seminars on Micro Elects0 Mechanical Systems (MEMS) TITLE: MEMS TECHNOLOGIES TOPICS: Bulk micromachining
Surface micromachining wet etching
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LIGA/SLIGA Wafer bonding: anodic bonding
fusion bonding SPEAKERS: Professor Chi-Min Ho, UCLA
Professor Yu-Chong Tai, Caltech TIME: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm VENUE: Room 3027 (Lift 1) ORGANISER: MECH INFO: Miss Kandus Lau, x-7 184
Computer Science Seminar TITLE: Recent Trends in Transaction Processing SPEAKER Dr C Mohan, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose,
California, U.S.A. TIME: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre G ORGANISER: COMP INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008
14 March (Tuesday)
(1) Physics Seminar TITLE: Quantum Cosmology and Mesoscopic Physics (Part II) SPEAKER: Professor Bei-Lok Hu, Visiting Professor of Physics, HKUST TIME: 12:30 noon - 1:30 pm VENUE: Room 3598 (Lifts 27-28) ORGANISER: PHYS INFO: Miss Jacma Said, x-7501
(2) *Talk on Travelling Medicine TITLES: How to adjust time lag?
Need to take vaccination before travel? How to avoid frequently encountered medical problem abroad? How to deal with minor medical problem in travel?
SPEAKER: Dr Y S Lee, Medical Clinic TIME: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm VENUE: LG5 Student Canteen ORGANl[SER: Medical Clinic, Student Health Centre & SAO INFO: Miss Angela Ho, x-6689
(3) *Workshops on Lexis/Nexis TITLE: Introductory Lexis/Nexis (Introductory) TIME: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm VENUE: Library Classroom, LG 1 REGISTRATION: By Email to LBCLUNCE with your name, phone name,
email a/c, date, and time for the class you wish to take.
(Classes are limited to 15 people and is first come, first served!)
ORGANISER: LIB INFO: MS Carol Lunce, x-6758
(4) Seminars on Micro Electra Mechanical Systems (MEMS) TITLE: TOPICS:
MEMS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Micro fluid mechanics Micro solid mechanics Micro material properties Professor Chi-Min Ho, UCLA Professor Yu-Chong Tai, Caltech 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm Room 3027 (Lift 1)
SPEAKERS:
TIME: VElSJUE: ORGANISER: MECH INFO: Miss Kandus Lau, x-7 184
(5) Computer Science Seminar TITLE: Object-Oriented Approach to Multimedia Data Management SPEAKER: Prof M Tamer Ozsu, Dept of Computing Science, University of
Alberta TIME: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre E ORGANISER: COMP INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008
(6) *Dental Health Campaign March 95 EVENT: Talk - Carries/Root Canal Treatment TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Dental Clinic (LGl via Lift 4) ORGANISERS: Dental Clinic, Student Health Centre & Student Affairs
Office INFO: Dental Clinic, x-8580
15 March (Wednesday)
(1) Seminars on Micro Electra Mechanical Systems (MEMS) TITLE: MEMS APPLICATIONS TOPICS: Sensors
Actuators systems Worldwide research activities
SPEAKERS: Professor Chi-Min Ho, UCLA Professor Yu-Chong Tai, Caltech
TIME: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm VEMIPE: Room 3027 (Lift 1) ORGANISER: MECH INFO: Miss Kandus Lau, x-7 184
(2) Mathematics Colloquium TITLE: A decomposition theorem for h-cobordant smooth
simply-connected compact 4manifolds SPEAKER: Prof Hsiang Wu-Chung, Department of Mathematics, HKUST
& Princeton University TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre F ORGANISER: Math INFO: MS Janette Cho, x-7440
(3) Civil & Structural Engineering Seminar TITLE: Civil Engineering Education and Research for the 21st Century SPEAKER: Professor A H-S Ang, Department of Civil Engineering,
University of California, Irvine TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm VENUE: Room 2504 (Lifts no. 25 to 26) ORGANISER: CIVL INFO: MS Yvonne Mok, x-7164
16 March (Thursday)
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*Workshops on Lexis/Nexis TITLE: Introductory Lexis/Nexis (Advanced) TIME: lo:OO am - 1l:OO am VENUE: Library Classroom, LGl REGISTRATION: By Email to LBCLUNCE with your name, phone name,
email a/c, date, and time for the class you wish to take. (Classes are limited to 15 people and is first come, first served!)
ORGANISER: LIB INFO: MS Carol Lunce, x-6758
Seminars on Micro Electra Mechanical Systems (MEMS) TITLE: UCLA-CALTECH MEMS RESEARCH TOPICS: Neural prosthetic devices
Micromotors for hard disk drives Pressure, shear stress, velocity sensors Electra-magnetic actuator Large scale integrated systems
SPEAKERS: Professor Chi-Min Ho, UCLA Professor Yu-Chong Tai, Caltech
TIME: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm VENUE: Room 3027 (Lift 1) ORGANISER: MECH INFO: Miss Kandus Lau, x-7 184
(3) Seminar on Statistics TITLE: The role of IS0 9000 within the movement to TQM
SPEAKER: Mr Y C Tsim, Co-Director, Quality & Reliability Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
TIME: 390 pm - 4:00 pm VENUE: Room 5506, (Lifts 25 & 26) ORGANISER: Math INFO: MS Janette Cho, x-7440
(4 *Seminar TITLE: Modeling Frame Losses in a Two-Hop ATM Network SPEAKER: Prof Zsehong Tsai TIME: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Room 5560, (Lifts 27 and 28) ORGANISERS: ELEC, Hongkong Telecom Institute of Information
Technology & PHYS INFO: MS Amy Lau, x-7087
(5) Computer Science Seminar TITLE: Sound Synthesis and Virtual Environment Research at NCSA SPEAKERS: Robin Bargar, NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MS Insook Choi, NCSA, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
TIME: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre G ORGANISER: COMP INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008
(6) Special Mathematics Colloquium TITLE: Russian school of Mathematics in this Century SPEAKER Professor Valentin A Skvortsov, Moscow State University TIME: 4:00 pm- 5:00 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre F (Lifts 25 & 26) ORGANISER: Math INFO: MS Janette Cho, x-7440
(7) Chemistry Seminar TITLE: New Facet of Photochemical Isomerization of Unsaturated
Bonds; Finding and Development of Novel Adiabatic One-Way Isomerization
SPEAKER: Professor Katsumi Tokumaru TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre B ORGANISER: CHEM INFO: MS Doris Lee, x-7358
(8) Humanities Seminar TITLE: Hong Kong Archives and Documents SPEAKER: Mr Simon Chu, Archivist, Public Records Office, HK TIME: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
VENUE: Lecture Theatre G LANGUAGE: Cantonese ORGANISER: HUMA INFO: Miss Cindy Chan, x-7800
16 March - 11 May (Every Monday & Thursday)
Special Lectures in Pure Mathematics TITLE: Schur-Weyl Duality SPEAKER: Prof Olivier Mathieu, Department of Mathematics, HKUST and
Universite Luois Pasteur, Strasbourg, France TIME: 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm (staring from 23 March 95, the time will be
changed to 4:00 pm - 5:20 pm) VENUE: Room 4408 (near Lifts 25 & 26) ORGANISER: MATH INFO: MS Janette Cho, x-7440
17 March (Friday)
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*Educational Technology Centre Workshop TITLE: Designing and Producing Learning Materials for Students SPEAKERS: Dr Mavis Kelly
Mr Thomas Ng TIME: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm VENUE: Room 3027 (Lift no. 1, next to Bank of China) ORGANISER: ETC INFO: MS Connie Yue, x-681 1
Civil & Structural Engineering TITLE: Numerical Studies on Bond Strength of Reinforced Concrete
Specimens Exlposed to Fire SPEAKER: Dr V Chandrasekaran, Manager of Research Projects, Fire
Sience & Technology Centre, Division of Building Construction & Engineering, Sydney, Australia
TIME: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm VENUE: Room 1504 (Lifts no. 25 and 26) ORGANJSER: CIVL INFO: MS Yvonne Mok, x-7164
Civil & Structural Engineering Seminar TITLE: An Approach for Systematic Determination of Risks for
Protective Structural Design Against Natural Hazards SPEAKER: Professor A H-S Ang, Department of Civil Engineering,
University of California, livine TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Room 2504 (Lifts no. 25 and 26) ORGANISER: CIVL
INFO: MS Yvonne Mok, x-7164
18 March (Saturday)
(1) Computer Science Seminar TITLE: Recent Topics in Speech Recognition Research at N’IT
Laboratories SPEAKER: Dr Sadaoki Furui, N’IT Human Interface Laboratories, Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Japan TIME: 10:30 am - 11:30 am VENUE: Room 2407 (Lift nos. 17 & 18) ORGANISER: COMP INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008
(2) *HK Post-Secondary Colleges Volleyball Competition TIME: 6:30 pm VENUE: Hong Kong Baptist University
Wai Heng Sports Centre MATCH: HKUST Vs HKPU
20 March (Monday)
Colloquium on Information Science, a HKUST Library Series: Scholarly Communications
TITLE: Changing Patterns in Scholarly Communications SPEAKER: Ann Okerson, Director of the Office of Scientific & Academic
Publishing, Association of Research Libraries
TITLE: Perceptions of the Library from Classical through Modem Times
SPEAKER: James O’Donnell, Professor of History/Classics, University of Pennsylvania, Editor of Three Electronic Journals
TIME: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm VENUE: Chow Tak sin Lecture Theatre (LT G) ORGANISER: LIB INFO: MS Alice Ho, x-6707
21 March (Tuesday)
(1) *Electrical & Electronic Engineering Seminar TITLE: Slotted Aloha With Estimated Arrival Rate: An Averaging An
Analysis SPEAKER: Professor Victor Solo, Dept of Statistics, Macquaire University,
Australia
TIME: 10:00 am VENUE: Room 4472 (Lifts 25 - 26) ORGANISER: ELEC INFO: MS Stella Yu, x-8511
(2) Information & Systems Management TITLE: Dual and Artificial Likelihood SPEAKER: Dr Per Mykland, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago TIME: 11:OO am - 12:00 noon VENUE: Room 3412 (Lifts 17-18) ORGANISER: ISMT INFO: Ann Ho, x-7733
(3 DEC Roadshow Seminar TITLE: 1. 64-bit Computer Architecture (0 1 :OOpm-02:OOpm)
- Chip Architecture - Clustering - Alpha Architecture
2. Chinese Computing (02:OOpm-03:OOpm) - Digital UNIX - Windows NT
3. Video-On-Demand (O3:OOpm-O4:OOpm) 4. Switched Virtual Network (04:OOpm-05:OOpm) 5. Disk RAID Technology (OS:OOpm-06:OOpm)
- Various RAID levels - Modular Storage Technology
VENUE: Seminar: Lecture Theatre A (0 1 :OOpm-06:oOpm) Exhibition & Demonstration: (09:OOam-O6:OOpm) Room 4475 & Room 4480, Lift 25/26
ORGANISER: CCST & Digital Equipment Hong Kong Limited INFO: Mr Steve Yau, x-6242
(4 Computer Science Seminar TITLE: Managing Infoware on Information Superhighway SPEAKER: Professor Su-Shing Chen, Program Director, Information
Technology & Organizations Program, National Science Foundation, USA
_ TIME: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre E ORGANISER: COMP INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008
(5) *Dental Health Campaign March 95 EVENT: Talk - How to Rebuild my Teeth? TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Dental Clinic (LGl via Lift 4) ORGANISERS: Dental Clinic, Student Health Centre & Student Affairs
Office INFO: Dental Clinic, x-8580
22 March (Wednesday)
(1) Colloquium on Information Science, a HKUST Library Series: Scholarly Communications
,--1 TITLE: Who’s Doing What in Full-Text Electronic Information: / /” g r An Academic Perspective
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I Publishing, Association of Research Libraries
TITLE: Being an Academic Electronic Journal Editor: What am I really?
SPEAKER: James O’Donnell, Professor of History/Classics, University of Pennsylvania, Editor of Three Electronic Journals
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TIME: 390 pm to 5:00 pm VENUE: Lam Woo Lecture Theatre (LT B) ORGANISER: LIB INFO: MS Alice Ho, x-6707
Civil & Structural Engineering Seminar TITLE: Development of Risk-Based Cost-Effective Criteria for Design
and Upgrading of RC Structures SPEAKER Professor A H-S Ang, Department of Civil Engineering,
University of California, Irvine TIME: 490 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Room 1505 (Lift no. 25/26) ORGANISER: CIVL INFO: MS Yvonne Mok, x-7164
(3) Computer Science Seminar TITLE: Overview of Sentinel: An Active Object-oriented DBMS SPEAKER: Prof Sharma Chakravarthy, Computer and Information Sciences,
Department and Database Systems Research and Development Center, University of Florida
TIME: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre E ORGANISER: COMP INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008
(4) Chemistry Seminar TITLE: Bioorganic Studies of Visual Pigments; Bacteriorhodopsin and
Sensory Rhodopsin and Associated Material Science Studies SPEAKER: Professor Robert Shing-Hei Liu, Dept of Chemistry, University
of Hawaii TIME: 4:30 pm- 5:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre F ORGANISER: CHEM
INFO: MS Doris Lee, x-7358
23 March (Thursday)
(1) Colloquium on Information Science, a HKUST Library Series: Scholarly ,/-- -\ ,A
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Academe in the 90s i ’ SPEAKER: Ann Okerson, Director of the Office of Scientific & Academic
Publishing, Association of Research Libraries
TITLE: Teaching, Learning, and MOO&g; Distance Education on the Internet
SPEAKER: James O’Donnell, Professor of History/Classics, University of Pennsylvania, Editor of Three Electronic Journals
TIME: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm VENUE: Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theatre (LT G) ORGANISER: LIB INFO: MS Alice Ho, x-6707
(2) Computer Science Seminar TITLE: Exploration of the Power of Attribute-Oriented Induction in
Data Mining SPEAKER: Dr Jiawei Han, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser
University TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Room 2302, (Lift nos. 17 & 18) ORGANISER: COMP INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008
24 March (Friday)
(1) Accounting Seminar 1994-95/17 TITLE: Experimental Economics as a Do-It-Yourself Data Construction
Kit: An Alternative Methodology in Research SPEAKER: Dr Patrick J Harvey, University of Hong Kong TIME: lo:oo am - 11:30 am VENUE: Room 4472 (Lifts 17 & 18) ORGANISER: ACCT INFO: Dr Joseph Aharony, x-7567
(2) Finance Seminar TITLE: Ownership dispersion, costly information, and IPO underpricing SPEAKER: Dr James R. Booth, Arizona State University TIME: lo:30 am - 12:00 noon
VENUE: Room 2412 (Lifts 17 & 18) ORGANISER: PINA INFO: MS Elaine Cheung, x-7669
(3) *Seminar TITLE: Preparing and Evaluating Teaching Portfolios SPEAKER: Dr Ron Smith, Concordia University, Canada TIME: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm VENUE: Room 3027 (Lifts 1) ORGANISER: ETC INFO: MS Connie Yue, x-681 1
Mathematics Colloquium TITLE: Computational number theory with an emphasis on elliptic
curves SPEAKER: Professor Horst G Zimmer, University of Saarland, Germany TIME: 4:30 pm- 5:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre G (Lifts 25 & 26) ORGANISER: Math INFO: MS Janette Cho, x-7440
27 March (Monday)
*Information & Systems Management Seminar TITLE: Multimedia Database SPEAKER: Dr Arun Sood, Professor (Computer Science), Director of
Centre for Image Analysis, George Mason University TIME: lo:OO am - ll:oo am VENUE: Room 3408 (Lifts 17-18) ORGANISER: ISMT INFO: Miss Winnie Lee, x-7633
28 March (Tuesday)
(1) Public Affairs Luncheon Lecture TITLE: Corporate Leadership in the 2 1st Century SPEAKER Mr Martin Tang, HKUST Council Member TIME: Lunch 12:15 noon - 1:00 pm
Lecture 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm VENUE: Staff Restaurant (LGl) SIGN UP: Required; please purchase tickets at the Information Centre
(Room G027, Piazza right next to the Security Office) on or before 25 March 1995
ORGANISERS: PAO, SOSC, SU INFO: Dr Steven Kong, x-6303
(2) Social Science Seminar
TITLE: Guangdong’s Policy Towards Resource Allocation Since 1978 SPEAKER: Dr Peter T Y Cheung, Lecturer, Department of Politics and
Public Administration, University of Hong Kong TIME: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm VENUE: Room 3362 (Lifts 13-15) ORGANISER: sosc INFO: Miss Vicky Woo, x-78 12
Physics Seminar TITLE: Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses Using
Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating SPEAKER: Dr Kenneth DeLong, Sandia National Laboratories l/J-s 9. TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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VENUE: Lecture Theatre F ORGANISER: PHYS INFO: Miss Jacma Said, x-7501
*Dental Health Campaign March 95 EVENT: Talk - Trouble of Wisdom Teeth! TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Dental Clinic (LGl via Lift 4) ORGANISERS: Dental Clinic, Student Health Centre & Student Affairs
Office INFO: Dental Clinic, x-8580
29 March (Wednesday)
A---- (1) *Workshop TITLE: Introductory Lexis/Nexis TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Library Classroom, LGl ORGANISER: LIB INFO: Tom Lundstrom, email a/c: LBTOML (Please make sure you
give name, telephone number, email account, date and time for the class you wish to take.)
(2) Mathematics Colloquium TITLE: Motion & deformation of rising bubbles SPEAKER: Dr Knud Lunde, Institute of Engery Technology, Norway TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre F (Lifts 25 & 26) ORGANISER: Math INFO: MS Janette Cho, x-7440
30 March (Thursday)
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TITLE: Can Communist Economies Transform Incrementally? China’s Experience
SPEAKER: Dr Inderjit Singh, Director, Transition and Macro-Adjustment Division, The World Bank
TIME: 2:00 pm - 490 pm VENUE: Room 3362 (Lifts 13-15) ORGANISER: sosc INFO: Miss Vicky Woo, x-7812
Information & Systems Management Seminar TITLE: New Approaches to Application Development: Ways to Escape
from the Burden of the Third Generation SPEAKER: Dr James C Emery, Professor of Information Systems, Naval
Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA TIME: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm VENUE: Room 3315 (Lifts 17-18) ORGANISER: ISMT Ilwo: Miss Winnie Lee, x-7633
Physics Seminar TITLE: Choas and Geometry of Multi&&on Production at High Energy SPEAKER Prof Xu Cai, Institute of Particle Physics, Hua-Zhong NormaI
University, Wuhan, P.R.C. TIME: 3:00 pm - 490 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre G ORGANISER: PHYS INFO: Miss Jacma Said, x-7501
Computer Science Seminar TITLE: Scheduling in Distributed Soft Real-Time Systems SPEAKER Benjamin Kao, Department of Computer Science, Princeton
University TIME: 490 pm to 590 pm VENUE: Rom 2302, (Lifts 17 & 18) ORGANISER: COMP INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008
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31 March (Friday)
(1) *Workshops TITLE: Advanced Lexis/Nexis
) (These will be offered later in the semester) TIME: lo:OO am - 1190 am VE~~sERLibraryLZZsroom, LGl
. INFO: Tom Lundstrom, email a/c: LBTOML (Please make sure you
give name, telephone number, email account, date and time for the class you wish to take.)
(3)
Accounting Seminar 1994-95118 TITLE: Low-balling and Efficiency in a Two-Period Specialization
Model of Auditing Competition SPEAKER: Mr Derek Chan, UBC TIME: lo:OO am - 11:30 am VENUE: Room 3301 (Lifts 17 & 18) ORGANISER: Dr Joseph Aharony, ACCT INFO: Miss Juno Tung, x-7555
Finance Seminar TITLE: Loggers vs. Campers: Compensation for the Taking of Property
Rights SPEAKER Dr. Ronald M. Giammarino, University of British Columbia TIME: lo:30 am - 12:00 noon VENUE: Room 2412 (Lifts 17 & 18) ORGANISER: FINA INFO: MS Elaine Cheung, x-7669
Special Seminar on Pure Mathematics TITLE: Symmetry approach to quantum integrable systems SPEAKER: Prof Michio Jimbo, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto
University TIME: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm VENUE: Room 3301 (Lifts 17 & 18) ORGANISER: Math INFO: MS Janette Cho, x-7440
* For internal only.
Unless otherwise specified, all lectures will be conducted in English.