Calendar of Events for July 1999

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[evdate 1999-07-31] Events in July 1999

23 Apr 1999 - 5 Jul 1999

Exhibition TITLE: 水色印象-蔣智南水彩作品展 Impressions of Light and Shadow : An Exhibition of Watercolors by Zhinan Jiang TIME: Library opening hours VENUE: University Library Gallery ORGANISER:Library ENQUIRY: Ms Alice Ho, HKUST Library, Tel: 2358 6707 AUDIENCE: All are welcome FEE: Nil REMARKS: Opening Reception on 22 April 1999 at 4:30 p.m.

2 Jul 1999 (Friday)

MPhil Thesis Seminar TITLE: The Ordering Process of Two-Dimensional Colloidal Particles at Liquid-Vapor Interface SPEAKER: Mr Hokwing YAU, Department of Physics, HKUST TIME: 10:00 am - 11:00 am VENUE: Room 4472 (lifts 25-26), Academic Building, HKUST ORGANISER:Department of Physics ENQUIRY: Miss Jacma SAID, Tel: 2358 7501 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: Internal departments, and the Physics Departments of other institutions

Talk by Prof Susan Standford Friedman TITLE: Locational Feminism: Gender, Cultural Geographies, and Geopolical Literacy in a Global Age SPEAKER: Prof Susan Standford Friedman TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm VENUE: Seminar Room 3362 ORGANISER:Office of the Dean of Humanities & Social Science ENQUIRY: Arthur Chin, Tel: 2358 7814 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: All are welcome

5 Jul 1999 - 9 Jul 1999

Physics Summer School 1999 TITLE: Physics Summer School 1999 TIME: 09:30-17:30 (07/05/1999 - 07/09/1999) VENUE: to be determined ORGANISER:Department of Physics ENQUIRY: Dr. Wing Yim TAM, 2358-7490 or the Physics Department, 2358-7501 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: Potential Form 6 students

5 Jul 1999 (Monday)

Seminar TITLE: Incentive Effects Favor Non-Consolidating Queues in a Service System: The Principal-Agent Perspective SPEAKER: Dr Z Kevin Weng, School of Business, University of Wisconsin - Madison TIME: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm VENUE: Room 3405, Academic Building, HKUST (near Lifts 17-18) ORGANISER:Department of Information & Systems Management ENQUIRY: ISMT Department, Tel: 2358 7733 LANGUAGE: English

6 Jul 1999 (Tuesday)

Physics Seminar TITLE: Circular Waveguide - A Possible Gravitational Wave Antenna SPEAKER: Prof Mengxi Tang, Department of Physics, Zhongshan University, China TIME: 4:00 - 5:00 pm VENUE: Rm 1401 ORGANISER:Department of Physics ENQUIRY: Miss Louiza Law, Tel: 2358 7506 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: internal and physics departments of other institutions FEE: Nil

7 Jul 1999 - 11 Jul 1999

Science Summer Camp TITLE: Science Summer Camp ORGANISER:Office of the Dean of Science, Science Student Societies ENQUIRY: Rosita Shek, Tel: 2358 7261 LANGUAGE: Cantonese AUDIENCE: Students from secondary schools

7 Jul 1999 (Wednesday)

Physics Seminar TITLE: A Microscopic Model for High Temperature Superconductivity SPEAKER: Prof K W Wong, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, USA TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Room 1401 ORGANISER:Department of Physics ENQUIRY: Miss Louiza Law, Tel: 2358 7506 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: Internal and Physics Departments of other institutions FEE: Nil

9 Jul 1999 (Friday)

Social Science Seminar TITLE: Science, Politics, and the Global Environment SPEAKER: Prof Sheila Jasanoff, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University TIME: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm VENUE: Conference Room 3362 (near lifts 13-15) ORGANISER:Division of Social Science ENQUIRY: Dr Govindan Parayil of Social Science Division, Tel: 2358 7828 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: Internal event REMARKS: - This seminar is co-sponsored by the Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development - SHEILA JASANOFF is Professor of Science and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and the School of Public Health at Harvard University. Previously, she was Professor of Science Policy and Law and the founding chair of the Development of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University

12 Jul 1999 (Monday)

Physics Seminar TITLE: Superparamagnetic Clustering of Data - Method and Applications SPEAKER: Prof Eytan Domany, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT H) ORGANISER:Department of Physics ENQUIRY: Miss Louiza Law, Tel: 2358 7506 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: Internal and Physics Departments of other institutions FEE: Nil

Physics Seminar TITLE: Random Walk in Random Magnetic Flux SPEAKER: Dr Derek Lee, Imperial College, University of London, UK TIME: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon VENUE: Room 4472, HKUST ORGANISER:Department of Physics ENQUIRY: Miss Louiza Law, Tel: 2358 7506 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: Internal and Physics Departments of other institutions FEE: Nil

15 Jul 1999 (Thursday)

Physics Seminar TITLE: Nanocrystal Assembled Structures SPEAKER: Prof Zhong-Lin Wang, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA TIME: 3:00 - 4:00 pm VENUE: Rm 1504 ORGANISER:Department of Physics ENQUIRY: Miss Louiza Law, Tel: 2358 7506 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: internal and physics departments of other institutions FEE: Nil

20 Jul 1999 - 23 Jul 1999

Spatial Databases TITLE: 6th International Symposium on Spatial Databases TIME: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm ORGANISER:Department of Computer Science ENQUIRY: Dimitris Papadias, Tel: 2358 6971 LANGUAGE: English HYPERLINK:http www.cs.ust.hk/~ssd99/ AUDIENCE: Academics

22 Jul 1999 - 28 Jul 1999

Children's Choral Gala Camp 1999 TITLE: Children's Choral Gala Camp 1999 VENUE: HKUST Campus ORGANISER:Co-presented by the HKUST Center for the Arts and the Hong Kong Children's Choir ENQUIRY: Ms Jeddy Mok, Tel: 2358 6149 LANGUAGE: Cantonese AUDIENCE: Participants: Members of the Hong Kong Children's Choir

22 Jul 1999 - 9 Aug 1999

Art and Technology Camp 1999 - Black Box Camp TITLE: Black Box Excercise Exhibition TIME: Monday to Friday: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm; Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday: Closed; on 9 August: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm VENUE: HKUST Exposition Hall ORGANISER:Co-presented by the HKUST Center for the Arts, the Black Box Exercise Art Education Association and the Fringe Club, supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council ENQUIRY: Jeddy Mok, Tel: 2358 6149 LANGUAGE: Cantonese AUDIENCE: All are welcome FEE: Free of charge

26 Jul 1999 (Monday)

HLTC Seminar TITLE: Recent Progress in Developing Conversational Systems SPEAKER: Dr Stephanie Seneff and Dr Victor Zue, Spoken Language Systems Group, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science TIME: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm VENUE: Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theatre (LT-G), Academic Concourse (near lifts 25-26), HKUST ORGANISER:Department of Computer Science ENQUIRY: Tel: 2358 7008 LANGUAGE: English

27 Jul 1999 (Tuesday)

Physics Seminar TITLE: Fractal Dimension of Patterns related to a Representation of Under-represented Strings in Bacterial Complete Genomes SPEAKER: Prof Bai-Lin Hao, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Room 1401, HKUST ORGANISER:Department of Physics ENQUIRY: Miss Louiza Law, Tel: 2358 7506 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: Internal and Physics Departments of other institutions FEE: Nil

Children's Choral Gala Camp 1999 TITLE: Young Singers in Concert TIME: 5:30 pm VENUE: HKUST Exposition Hall ORGANISER:Co-presented by the HKUST Center for the Arts and the Hong Kong Children's Choir ENQUIRY: Ms Jeddy Mok, Tel: 2358 6149 LANGUAGE: Cantonese, Putonghua & Russian AUDIENCE: All are welcome FEE: Free of charge

Refresher Workshop on Customer Service Skills TITLE: Workshop on Customer Care Skills SPEAKER: Miss Jolie CHEUNG TIME: 9:30 am - 11:30 am VENUE: Room 3027, ETC (Lift 1), HKUST ORGANISER:Personnel Office ENQUIRY: Miss Jolie CHEUNG, Tel: 2358 6593; Ms Polly TSE, Tel: 2358 6609 LANGUAGE: Cantonese HYPERLINK:http www.ab.ust.hk/po/stnd.html AUDIENCE: Internal - staff only (by enrolment)

28 Jul 1999 (Wednesday)

Social Science MPhil Thesis Seminar TITLE: Being Global v. Being Chinese: A Case Study of Returned Students in Hong Kong SPEAKER: Ms Lai Wan Wa TIME: 10:00 am - 12:00 noon VENUE: Room 3362 (Lift 13-15), HKUST ORGANISER:Division of Social Science ENQUIRY: Dr Kimberly A CHANG, Tel: 2358 7784 LANGUAGE: English AUDIENCE: Internal event

30 Jul 1999 (Friday)

Seminar in Analysis TITLE: Boundary regularity of degenerate Monge-Amp\'ere equations SPEAKER: Prof Guan Pengfei, Department of Mathematics, McMaster University TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Room 3494 (Lifts 25-26), HKUST ORGANISER:Department of Mathematics ENQUIRY: Dr X P Wang, Tel: 2358 7438 LANGUAGE: English