Programme

Date: 22 October 2009 (Thursday)
Venue: Wei Hing Theatre

8:30am	Registration
9:00 - 9:30am	Opening Ceremony
Session 1	Moderator: Chair Professor Moshe Zukerman, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
9:30 am	Professor Andrew Chi-chih Yao "The Science behind Information Technology"
10:20 am	Professor Alfred Y Cho "How a Crystal Growth Technology Called Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) was Invented and its Applications to Industry"
11:10 am	Tea Break
11:30 am	Professor Suo Zhigang "Soft Active Materials"
12:20 pm	Professor Chun-yen Chang "Nurturing World Class Scientists in the 21st Century: Re-thinking and Re-shaping Education"
1:10 pm	Lunch
Session 2	Moderator: Chair Prof Michel Van Hove, Head, Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong
2:15 pm	Professor Albert Fert "Spintronics, when Physics and Technology Meet"
3:05 pm	Professor Marvin L Cohen "Einstein, Condensed Matter Physics, Nanoscience, and Superconductivity"
3:55 pm	Tea Break
4:15 pm	Professor Sir John Pendry "Invisible Cloaks and a Perfect Lens"
Session 3	Moderator: Professor Andrew Chi-chih Yao, Professor of Computer Science, Tsinghua University
5:05 pm	Panel Discussion: "Can Education Policy Spawn Great Scientists?"
6:30 pm	End of Programme

8:30am	Registration
Session 1	Moderator: Chair Professor Istvan Horvath, Head, Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong
9:00 am	Professor K Barry Sharpless "Applied Chemistry: Back to the Future"
9:50 am	Professor Robert H Grubbs "The Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules Using Olefin Metathesis Catalysts"
10:40 am	Tea Break
11:00 am	Professor John T Yates. Jr "Surface Chemistry — An Engine of Modern Technology Also at Work amongst the Stars"
11:50 am	Professor Tak W Mak "Biological and Medical Sciences in the 21st Century: The Era of Testing No Hypotheses with New Technologies?"
12:40 pm	Lunch
Session 2	Moderator: Chair Professor Philippe G Ciarlet, Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong
2:00 pm	Professor Yum-tong Siu "A Marriage between Algebra and Analysis"
2:50 pm	Professor Pierre-Louis Lions "Mean Field Games and the Modelling of Collective Behaviours"
3:40 pm	Tea Break
4:00 pm	Professor Stephen Smale "Computation and Science"
Session 3	Moderator: Professor Marvin L Cohen
4:50 pm	Panel Discussion: "Impact of Science on Society"
6:15 pm	End of Programme