THE HONG KONG

12 November. Agricultural biochemist S

hang-Fa

YANG of the

University of

California at Davis delivered a lecture on the research that won him the 1991 Wolf Prize, considered the equiva

lent of the Nobel Prize in

the field of agricul-ture. Professor Yang's

lectu re, entitled "B iosynthesis

of the Gaseous Plant

Horm

one Ethylene and Its Regulation", was the second

in

the series of Distin-gu

ish

ed Lectures

in Science.

9-11 December.

Th

e School of Engineering Academic Advisory Committee

met

on campus under the chairmansh

ip

of Sir Eric AS

H,

Rector of the

Imp

erial Co

llege of Science,

Technology and Medicine. Members of the Committee are drawn from the U.S., U.K., Japan, and Canada. Its report resulted from intensive meetings w

ith HKUST

personnel.

10 December. Professor

Leo

Ou-fan LEE of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California at Los Angeles delivered

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the first of four Distinguished Lectures in Humanities on the topic "Modernity and Its Discontents: Rethinking the May Fourth Tradition in Chinese Literature and Thought". Professor Lee's series of lectures extended through the next week and ended on 8 January with a talk on '''Multiculturalism' and 'Cultural Studies':

Recent Debates on the Study of Humanities and Social Sciences".

11 December. Mr CHEN Ziying, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong-Macau Affairs Office of the Chinese Government, visited the campus.

16 December. The Division of Humanities sponsored a "Symposium on Mod-ern Chinese Literature" which brought together a number of distinguished scholars and writers, both local and international.

19-20 December. The Research Centre, in collaboration with the California Institute ofTechnology and the University of Southern California, organised the International Workshop on Technology for Hong Kong's Infrastructure Develop-ment. Some 80 researchers and international experts from 10 countries con-vened to discuss technical issues relating to Hong Kong's Port and Airport Development Scheme. As a result, the University's Research Centre has begun work on establishing an Infrastructure Development Research Programme, incorporating the suggestiOns put forward during the conference.

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January. Mr. LU Ping, Director of the Hong Kong-Macao Affairs Office of the Chinese Government, visited the campus and spoke to reporters on the importance of education and technology. and thus the new University. to Hong Kong's continued prosperity.

14 January. A 14-member delegation from the Science, Space, and Technol-ogy Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives visited the campus. Four Congressmen, including tile Committee Chairman, Mr George Brown, were part of tile delegation.

17 January. Professor Chen-Ning YANG, Director of the Institute for Theoreti-cal Physics at tile State University of New York and 1957 Nobel laureate in physics, delivered the third of the Distinguished Lectures in Science. Entitled

"Physics in the 20th Century", the lecture provided an overview of the concep-tual revolutions and technological advances that have transformed the world over the past century.

29 January. Yuet-wai I<AN, the Louis K. Diamond Professor of Hematology at the University of California at San Francisco and winner of the 1991 Lasker

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Award in clinical medical research, delivered a lecture entitled "Newer Insights in the Control of Globin Gene Expression". The fourth of the Distinguished Lectures in Science, the lecture summarized progress in developing treatments for thalassemia, a major genetic disease affecting Southeast Asian populations.

10 March. Mr Nigel FRENCH, Secretary-General of the UPGC, visited the campus and toured teaching and research facilities. He also

met

with senior staff during his visit.

10 March. Renowned mathematician Wu-chung HSIANG, Professor of Math-ematics at HKUST, delivered the fifth of the Distinguished Lectures in Science.

Entitled "What Is Geometry?" the lecture discussed progress in modern geom-etry and topology.

16 March. Roman L. WElL, Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago, delivered a Distinguished Lecture in Business on the topic of "Accounting Applications in Consulting Using the Methods of Accounting and Microeconomics to Solve Problems Facing Business Consultants".

20 March. The University opened its first art exhibition, "Recent Works by HUANG Miaozi and YU Feng", with a reception in the Library Gallery.

Huang and Yu are husband and wife, ca lligra-pher and painter, who have collaborated in exh i-bitions in Hong Kong, Sydney, Taipei, and Seoul since 1988. This exhibition was the first of many which the University will present in seeking to promote a climate of cultural appreciation and creativity on a technOlogy-oriented campus.

20 March. The Research Centre hosted a symposium of oceanographers from Hong I(ong, China, and Taiwan as prelude to a research expedition conducted jointly by vessels from the National Taiwan University Institute of Oceanography

and the South China Sea Institute of Oceanography.

24 March. Lord MACLEHOSE, the former Governor of Hong Kong, accompa-nied by Lord GEDDES and Lord MARLESFORD, visited the campus and toured several research laboratories, the Materials Characterisation and Preparation Centre, and the Library.

1-3 April. The University Council

met

in plenary session to receive progress reports from Council committees. Consideration was also given to the policy of the University regarding intellectual property rights, and a revised role for, and membership of, the Campus Planning and Estates Management Committee.

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3 April.

The

subcommittee for Physics was the

first of the four subcommittees

of the School of Science Advisory Committee

to meet

on campus

during the period under review. The

subcommittee

for

Mathematics

met on 28-29 May.

and

the subcommittee for the Biological Sciences met on 22-23 June.

6 April.

Ruth I<UOK and Chye I<UOI< of the Zheng Ge Ru Foundation and Joyce M Kuok Foundation appeared at a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Joyce

M.

Kuok Laser

and Photonics Laboratory and the Zheng Ge Ru Thin

Film Physics Laboratory. both made

possible

by

a jOint $20

million donation from the two Foundations.

9 April. Chih-Yung CHIEN, Professor of Physics at HKUST, delivered the sixth in

the

series of Distinguished

Lectures in

Science. Entitled 'The World Is Our

Playpen: Fun

with

Physics", the lecture included

a

description of the large

electron

positron

accelerator which

Professor

Chien

has

been

involved

with

designing

and building

in

Geneva.

14 April.

Theodor DIENER, Distinguished Professor of Botany at the University

of Maryland and winner of the Wolf Prize, delivered the seventh Distinguished

Lecture in Science on the topic of viroids-particles even smaller than viruses.

Entitled 'The

Frontier of Life:

Viroids and Satellites",

the lecture discussed the

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