Calendar of Events for November 1995

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Calendar of Events for November 95

15 September - 31 January 19% Library Exhibition

TITLE: . China in Maps : 16th - 19th Century

TIME: Monday - Friday 8:OO am - 11:00 pm

Saturday 9:00 am - 7~00 pm

Sunday 1:00 pm - 7:OO pm

VEISJUE: Library Gallery ORGANISER: Library INFO: MS Alice Ho, x-6707

l-9 November 1995

Exhibition of Installation Art

TITLE: Black Box Exercise III

TIME: 1O:OO am to 600 pm (1-5 Nov 95) 1:OO pm to 6:00 pm (6-9 Nov 95) VENUE: Exposition Hall

ORGANISER: The Arts Endowment Committee, OPA and Visual Arts Society

INFO: Howard Chan, x-6319; Alison MO, 7893-7693 a/c-123

2 November 1995 (Thursday)

*Electrical & Electronic Engineering Seminar

TITLE: Globally Convergent Algorithms for Robust Pole Assignment by State Feedback

SPEARER: Prof Andre Tits TIME: 11:OO a.m.

VENUE: Room 5510 (Lift 25 & 26)

ORGANISER: ELEC

INFO: Dr Li QIU, x-7067

3 November 95 (Friday)

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Accounting Seminar 1995-9616

TITLE The Economic Consequences of Alternative Auditor Liability and Legal Cost Allocation Rules: An Equilibrium Analysis SPEAKER: Dr Derek Chan

TIME: lo:oO am - 11:30 am VENUE: Room 3416 (Lift 17/l@

ORGANISER: ACCT

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*Educational Technology Centre Seminar

TITLE: How Can “MULTIMEDIA” Help My Teaching?

SPEAKER Dr John Barrett, Educational Technologist I, PDQS, City University of HR

TIME: 12:30 noon - 2:00 pm VENUE: Room 3027 (Lift 1)

ORGANISER: ETC

REGISTRATION: All faculty and TAs are welcome. Please send an email to “etycw” or “etwinnie” to reserve a seat

INFO: Karen Chua, x-6803 .

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Special Seminar

TITLE: Remarks on quantum mechanics, determinants, and zeta functions

SPEAKER: Prof Floyd L Williams, University of Massachusetts TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

VENUE: Room 5564 (Lifts 27 & 28)

ORGANISER: MATH

INFO: Janette Cho, x-7440

6 November 95 (Monday)

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Computer Science Seminar

TITLE: A Scalable Continuous Media File Server

SPEARER: Dr Norman Hutchinson, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia

TIME: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon VENUE: Room 3501 (Lift No. 25-26)

ORGANISER: COMP

INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008

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Physics Seminar

TITLE: Tribology at the Atomic Scale

SPEARER: Professor Miquel Salmeron, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California

TIME: 3:30 pm - 4%) pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre C

ORGANISER: PIIYS

INFO: Miss Helen Chan, x-7502

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Special Seminar

TITLE: Structure theorems and n-cohomology of derived fimctor modules

SPEARER: Prof Floyd L Williams, University of Massachusetts TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

ORGANISER: MATH

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Chemistry Seminar

TITLE: Development of Chiral Separation of Drugs with Capillary Electrophoresis

SPEARER: Professor Lin Bincheng, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

TIME: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm VENUE: Room 4504 (Lift 25-26)

ORGANISER: CHEM

INFO: MS Doris Lee, x-7358

7-10 November 95

Special Seminar on Pure Mathematics

TITLE: OntheRie mannn-Zeta function and the disproof of the RH SPEAKER Prof J S Hwang, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sin&x,

Taipei

TIME: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

ORGANISER: MATH

7 November 95 (Tuesday)

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Information & Systems Management Seminar

TITLE: Low Earth Orbit Satelite Systems - Research Issues

SPEAKER Professor Bezalel Gavish, Gwen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University

TIME: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon VENUE: Room 5510 (Lifts 25-26)

ORGANISER: ISMT

INFO: Winnie Lee, x-7633

Forum on Software Engineering - An Industrial Perspective PROGRAMME & SCHEDULE:

Talk 1 --- Time: 2:00 - 2~45 p.m.

Venue: University Council Chamber

Speaker: Kouichi Kishida, Technical Director, SRA, Inc., Secretary General, SEA

Topic: Software Engineering Technology Transfer in Japan

Talk 2 --- Time: 2:45 - 3:30 p.m.

Venue: University Council Chamber

Speaker: Kazunori Shioya, Technical Manager, SRA, Inc. Topic: An Industry view: Applying Software

Engineering concept in CALS Talk 3 --- Time: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

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Speaker: Alexander Ran, Software Technolgoy Lab of Nokia Research Centre, Finland

Topic: Practical Software Architecture and Patterns of Design

ORGANISER: COMP and IEEE Computer Society (HK Chapter) INFO: Dr Shing-Chi Cheung (Tel: 2358-7016 / e-mail: [email protected])

or Mr Isaac Ma (Tel: 2358-7000 / e-mail: [email protected]) or Miss Lily Ghan, x-7008

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Physics Seminar

TITLE: Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization

SPEARER: Dr Xi Xiang Zhang, Department of Physics, University of Barcelona

ORGANISER: PHYS

8 November 95 (Wednesday)

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Special Seminar in Statistics

TITLE: Sequential change point detection in quality control and dynamical systems

SPEAKER: Prof T L Lai, Stanford University TIME: 2:00 pm - 3:OO pm

ORGANISER MATH

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Physics Seminar

TITLE: Type-V Intermittency - A New Kind of Universal Transition Behavior Between Order and Chaos in Relaxation Oscillators SPEAKER Prof Bing-Hong Wang, Department of Modem Physics and The

Center of Nonlinear Science, University of Science and Technology of China

ORGANISER: PHYS

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Chemical Engineering Seminar

TITLE: Using Sol-Gel Chemistry to Understand Catalyst Preparation and Catalytic Phenomena

SPEAKER: Prof Edmond I Ko, Visiting Professor from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm VENUE: Room 3007 (Lift 3)

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INFO: Dr Furong Gao, x-7139

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Mathematics Colloquium

TITLE: Topologically Necessary Singularities in the Theory of Wave Front Propagation

SPEARER: Prof Vladimir I Arnold, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, CEREMADE, Universite Paris - Dauphine

TIME: 4:30 pm. - 5:30 pm

ORGANISER MATH

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Lectures on Micro Electra Mechanical Systems

SPEARER: Prof Richard Muller, University of California, Berkeley TIME & TOPIC:

lo:oo am - 11:30 am Overview of MEMS I - Silicon base II - Non-silicon base 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Micromachining

I - Silicon bulk micromachining II - Silicon surface micromachining VENUE: Room 3027 (Lift 1)

PARTICULARS: Lecture notes of Prof Muller will be prepared for any interested party with HK$lOO per copy at his/her request.

ORGANISER: MECH

INFO: Dr Zoher via e-mail: MEZOHAR, Miss Kandus Lau, x-7184

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TITLE: Boundary crossing probabilities with applications to time series and sequential analysis

SPEAKER: Prof T L Lai, Stanford University TIME: 2:OO pm - 3:00 pm

ORGAN-ISER: MATH

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Physics Seminar

TITLE: An Optimization Method for Designing Diffractive Phase Elements

SPEAKER: Professor Guozhen Yang, Beijing Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

ORGANISER: PHYS

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TITLE: The Omega Key Management Service

SPEAKER Dr Rebecca Wright, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

VENUE: Room 1511 (Lift No. 27-28)

ORGANISER: COMP

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Special Seminar

TITLE: Higher Specht polynomiOals for symmetric groups SPEAKER: Prof Hirofumi Yamada, Tokyo Metropolitan University TIME: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

VEMITE: Room 5510 (Lifts 25 & 26)

ORGANISER: MATH

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Lectures on Micro Electra Mechanical Systems

SPEAKER Prof Richard Muller, University of California, Berkeley TIME & TOPIC:

10:00 am - 12:00 noon Case Studies

I - Microresonators &

Microaccelerometers II * Microphotonics 2:00 pm - 4:OO pm Perspectives 82 Prospects of MEMS

Open discussion VENUE: Room GO24A (Lift 1)

PARTICULARS: Lecture notes of Prof Muller will be prepared for any interested party with HK$lOO per copy at his/her request.

ORGANISER: MECH

INFO: Dr Zoher via e-mail: MEZOHAR; Miss Kandus Lau, x-7184 Brown Bag Lunch Seminar

TITLE: Impacts of Institutional and Economic Reforms on Fertility and Family in Rural and Urban Areas in China

SPEAKER: Professor Zeng Yi, Director and Professor, Institute of Population Research, Peking Universty

TIME: 12:30 noon - 2:30 pm VENUE: Room 3362 (Lift 13-15) ORGANISER: sosc

INFO: Dr Edward Tu, x-7776

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Chinese Language Seminar Series II

TITLE & SPEAKER: The Use of Chinese Characters

By : Professor Zhu Yongjie, University of Shantou

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How to Improve Students’ Listening Ability BY : Professor Zhang Rui, Beijing Normal University

TIME: 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm VENUE: Room 3408

ORGANISER: LANG

INFO: MS Candice Poon, x-7850 Civil and Structural Engineering Seminar

TITLE: Damage Detection of a Bridge - Modal Analysis

SPEARER: Prof Ming L Wang, Dept of Civil Engineering, The University of New Mexico

ORGANISER: CIVL

INFO: Cheryl Tang, x-7164 Computer Science Seminar

TITLE: Interplay Between Security and Fault Tolerance

SPEARER: Dr Li Gong, Computer Science Laboratory, SRI International TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

ORGANISER: COMP

INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008 Chemistry Seminar

TITLE: The First Cholineargic Tropane Alkaloid from Chinese Medicinal Plants of Genus Erycibe

SPEARER: Professor Chen Ze-Nai, Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Second Medical University

TIME: 5:00 pm - 6:OO pm VENUE: Room 4475 (Lift 25-26)

ORGANISER: CHEM

11 November 95 (Saturday) _

*Chemical Engineering Teachers’ Day (Second Session) TIME: 9:15 am

VENUE: Lecture Theatre E

ORGANISER: CENG

INFO: Miss P H Mak, x-7120

13 -23 November 95 *Exhibition

TITLE: Bone Marrow Donation 1995

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Academic Concourse (Outside Lecture Theatre A) TIME: VENUE: ORGANISER: SAO INFO: Tel.: 2358-6655 13 November 95 (Monday)

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Economics Seminar

TITLE: Does Monetary Policy Cause Recessions SPEAKER: Prof Christopher Sims, Yale University TIME: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

VENUE: Room 2397 (Lift 17-18)

ORGANISER: ECON

INFO: Miss Julie Wong, x-7621

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Chemistry Seminar

TITLE: PP-Elastomer-Filler Hybrids: Processing, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties

SPEAKER: Dr Long Yu, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology TIME: 5:00 pm - 6:OO pm

ORGANISER: CHEM

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Information & Systems Management Seminar

TITLE: Supporting Organizational Memory and Organizational Learning with Information Systems

SPEARER: Professor Vladimir Zwass, Fairleigh Dickinson University TIME: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

VENUE: Room 3301 (Lifts 17-18)

ORGANISER: ISMT

INFO: Winnie Lee, x-7633 *Biochemistry Seminar

TITLE: Carbohydrate Deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome and the role of N-glycans in development

SPEAKER Prof Harry Schachter, Department of Biochemistry, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children

TIME: 2:30 pm

VENUE: Classroom 3412 (Lift 17-18)

ORGANISER: BICH

INFO: MS Can Fung, x-7300 Computer Science Seminar

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SPEAKER: Prof Omar Rafiq, Department of Computer Science, University of Pau, France

TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Lecture Thea&e E

ORGANISER: COMP

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Special Seminar

TITLE: Value Sharing and Uniqueness of Mermorphic Functions SPEAKER: Mr P Li

TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

ORGANJSER: MATH

7 15 November 95 (Wednesday)

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Management of Organizations Seminar

TITLE: Diffusion of Self-Managing Teams: The American Experience SPEAKER Prof Hank Sims

TIME: 9:30 am - 11:30 am

ORGANISER: MGTO

INFO: Karina, x-7722

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Marketing Seminar

TITLE: Obtaining Attitude Persistence and Attitude Resistance in Low Involvement Advertising Situations

SPEAKER Mr Jaideep Sengupta, PhD Candidate, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles

TIME: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm VENUE: Room 4379 (Lifts 17-18)

ORGANISER: MARK

INFO: Miss K Y Lee, x-771 1

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Economics Seminar

TITLE: Error Bands For Impulse Responses SPEAKER: Prof Christopher Sims, Yale University TIME: 12:30 pm

ORGANISER: ECON

INFO: Miss Julie Wong, x-7621 Physics Seminar

TITLE: Preparation and Properties of Superconducting Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Ablation

SPEAKER: Professor Guozhen Yang, Beijing Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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TIME: 12:30 noon - 1:30 pm VENUE: Room 1403 (Lift 25-26)

ORGANISER: PHYS

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TITLE: Estimation and modeling of stochastic systems with time-varying parameters

SPEAKER: Prof T L Lai, Stanford University TIME: 290 pm -3:00 pm

VENUE: Room 3006 (Lift 3)

ORGANISER: MATH

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Chemical Engineering Seminar

TITLE: Using Cognitive Psychology to Improve Teaching

SPEAKER: Prof Edmond I Ko, Visiting Professor from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

TIME: 490 pm - 5:30 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre C

ORGANISER: CENG

INFO: Miss P H Mak, x-7120

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Special Seminar in Probability

TITLE: Decoupling inequalities and Wald’s equation for U-Statistics SPEAKER Prof T L Lai, Stanford University

TIME: 290 pm - 3:00 pm VENUE: Room 3006 (Lift 3)

ORGANISER: MATH

INFO: Janette Cho, x-7440 Management of Organizations Seminar

TITLE: Cognitive Resource Theory: Increasing the Effective Use of Leader’s Intellectual Abilities and Experience

SPEAKER: Prof Fred E Fiedler TIME: 490 pm - 5:30 pm VENUE: Room 2397 (Lift 17-18)

ORGANISER: MGTO

INFO: Noreen, x-772 1 Chemistry Seminar

TITLE: Structure and Property Relationship of Polymers SPEAKER: Mr Lor Sze Keung, PhD Candidate

TIME: 5:00 pm

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Accounting Seminar 1995-%/7

TITLE: Low Balling, Legal Liability, and Auditor Independence SPEAKER: Prof Jevons Lee

TIME: lo:oo am - 11:30 am VENUE: Room 3416 (Lift 17/18)

ORGANISER: ACCT

INFO: Dr Mark DeFond, x-7582

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*Biochemistry Seminar

TITLES: 1. Structure-function and Signal Transduction between Inerleukin-2 and Its Receptor

2. Discovery, Active Center and Pathway of Analgesic Effect of Interleukin-2

SPEAKER Prof Xin-Yuan LIU, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Academia Sinica

TIME: 10:30 am

ORGANISER: BICH

INFO: MS Can Fung, x-7300

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Physics Seminar

TITLE: Remarks on Application of Migdal-Kadanoff Bond-moving Renormalization Group Approach to Fractal Lattices

SPEAKER Professor Zhan-Ru Yang, Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University

TIME: 3:OO pm - 4:OO pm VENUE: Room 3416 (Lift 17-18)

ORGANISER: PHYS

INFO: Miss Helen Chan, x-7502 *Biochemistry Seminar

TITLE: The machinery of cell crawling and its implications for medical therapy

SPEAKER Prof Thomas P Stossel TIME: 4:00 pm

VENUE: Lee Wing Tat Lecture Theatre (LTD)

ORGANISER: BICH

INFO: MS Lorita Li, x-7300

20-23 November 95 *Blood Test

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TIME: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

VENUE: Academic Concourse (Gutside Lecture Theatre A)

ORGANISER: SAO INFO: Tel.: 2358-6655 21 November 95 (Tuesday)

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*Electrical & Electronic Engineering Seminar

TITLE: Low Order Linear Periodic Pole Placement Compensators SPEAKER: Dr Daniel E Miller

TIME: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon VENUE: Room 5510 (Lift 25-26)

ORGANISER: ELEC

INFO: Dr Li Qiu, x-7067

Physics Seminar

TITLE: Formation and Photoluminescence of Quantum Dot Structures on (OOl), (lll)A, (31 l)A and (411)A GaAs Surfaces by MBE SPEAKER: Professor Zhan-Guo Wang, Laboratory of Semiconductor

Materials Science, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences

ORGANISER: PHYS

INFO: Miss Helen Chan, x-7502 Computer Science Seminar

TITLE: Searching for the Shortest Network SPEAKER: Prof Ron Graham, AT&T Bell Labs TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

VENUE: Lecture Theatre E

ORGANISER: COMP

INFO: Miss Lily Chan, x-7008 Special Seminar

TITLE: Complex dynamics SPEAKER Mr K K Poon TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

ORGANISER: MATH

22 Nov 95 - 10 Dee 95 Exhibition

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CONTENT: Installation and mixed-media works by 12 local artists: HUI Yan-shing, CHEUNG Sin-ye-e, Grace, TSANG Wai-hang, Repheal CHAN, WONG Shun-kit, PUN Sing-h& Bobby NG, TO Wun, Kin-Kin, YUEN Kwok-chung, Tim YU, Desmond KUM

TIME: 1 - 5 p.m. (Tue - Fri), 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. (Sat & Sun) VENUE: University Exposition Hall

OPENING CEREMONY: 25 Nov (Sat), 3 p.m. (All are welcome) SEMINAR: 9 Dee (Sat), 3 p.m. (All are welcome)

PRESENTERS: HKUST Arts Endowment Committee, Young Artists Association

INFO: TSANG Wai-hang, 110729791; Desmond KUM, 1103311 AC8210 22 November 95 (Wednesday)

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Management of Organizations Seminar

TITLE: Managing Structural Decline: Institutional Influences On Capacity Adjustment Strategies In The Japanese Aluminum Smelting Industry

SPEAKER: Dr Mahesh Rajan, Australian Graduate School of Management, University Of New South Wales

TIME: 9:30 am - ll:oo am

ORGANISER: MGTO

INFO: Karina, x-7722 *Biochemistry Seminar

TITLE: Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase: X-ray Studies of the Catalytic Cycle and its inhibition

SPEAKER Prof Charles W Carter, Jr TIME: 10:30 am

ORGANISER: BICH

INFO: MS Lorita Li, x-7300 *Marketing Seminar

TITLE: The Illusion of Delayed Incentives

SPEAKER: Mr Dilip Soman, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago

TIME: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm VENUE: Room 4379 (Lift 17-18)

ORGANISER: MARK

INFO: Terry Law, x-7700 ’ Brown Bag Lunch Seminar

TITLE: Demographic Transition and Its Future Prospect in Taiwan SPEAKER: Dr Jack Ming-cheng Chang, Director, Taiwan Provincial,

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TIME: 12:30 noon - 2:30 pm VENUE: Room 3362 (Lift 13-15) ORGANISER: sosc

INFO: Dr Edward Tu, x-7776

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TITLE: Statistical analysis of censored and truncated data I: Nonparametric estimation and regression

SPEAKER: .Prof T L Lai, Stanford University TIME: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

ORGANISER: MATH

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Economics Seminar

TITLE: Asymmetric Liquidity Effects Across Monetary Policy Stances SPEAKER: Dr Woon Gyu Choi

TIME: 3:30 pm VENUE: Room 2397

ORGANISER: ECON

INFO: Julie, x-762 1

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Civil & Structure Engineering Seminar

TITLE: Transportation Management in the United States: Systems Architecture and Transportation Management Centers

SPEAKER: Dr Hong Lo, Assistant Research Engineer with the PATH program, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley

ORGANISER: CIVL

INFO: Cheryl Tang, x-7164

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*Electrical & Electronic Engineering

TITLE: Identification and Adaptive Tracking for Stochastic Systems SPEAKER Han-Fu Chen, Institute of System Science, Chinese Academy of

Science

TIME: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon VENUE: Room 5510 (Lift 25-26)

ORGANISER ELEC

INFO: Dr Xiren Cao, x-7048 (Wendy, x-7034)

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*Chemical Engineering Seminar

TITLE: A Knowledge Based Pollution Prevention Tool for Conceptual Design of Continuous Chemical Processes

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SPEAKER: Mr David-William Pennington TIME: 2100 pm - 390 pm

VENUE: Room 4572 (Lifts 27-28)

ORGANISER: CENG

INFO: Miss P H Mak, x-7 120

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Special Seminar in Probability

TITLE: Martingale theory and asymptotically efficient adaptive choice of control laws in controlled Markov chains

SPEAKER: Prof T L Lai, Stanford University TIME: 290 pm - 390 pm

ORGANISER: MATH

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Physics Seminar

TITLE: Physics and Biology

SPEAKER: Professor Zhao-Ping Li, Dept of Computer Science, HKUST TIME: 390 pm - 4:00 pm

ORGANISER: PHYS

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TITLE: Logic Foundations of Secure Databases: A new model-theoretic approach to the definition of a static and dynamic semantics, and to the handling of confidentiality demands

SPEAKER Dr Adrian Spalka, Department of Computer Science III, University of Bonn, Germany

TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

ORGANISER: COMP

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Mathematics Colloquium

TITLE: Eigenvalues of graphs with applications

SPEAKER: Prof Fan R K Chung, University of Pennsylvania TIME: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

ORGANISER: MATH

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Chemistry Seminar

TITLE: Recent Developments in Radiationless Transitions

SPEAKER: Dr S H Lin, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica

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TITLE: Electron Beam Tomographic Determination of Magnetic Recording Head Fields

SPEAKER Professor R P Ferrier, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Glasgow

TIME: lo:oo am - ll:oo am VENUE: Room 3006 (Lift 3)

ORGANISER: PHYS

INFO: Miss Helen Chan, x-7502 Accounting Seminar 1995096/8

TITLE: Large Shareholder Expropriation and Corporate Ownership structure

SPEAKER: Dr Guochang Zhang TIME: lo:oo am - 11:30 am VENUE: Room 3416 (Lift 17-18)

ORGANISER ACCT

INFO: Dr Mark DeFond, x-7582 25 November 95 (Saturday)

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*ITM Forum

TITLE: Telecom Futures Hong Kong: Policy, Business and Social Issues in the Information Society

SPEAKER: Mr Alexander Arena, Telecommunications Authority, OFTA Mr Anthony Au, Managing Director, ABC Data and Telecom Ltd

Mr. James Chu, Chief Executive Officer, China Internet Corporation

Dr Justin Chuang, Reader, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, HKUST

Mr Henry Goldstein, Executive Director, Asia Link Holding Ltd Mr Leslie Harris, President, New T&T

Mr John Kwok, Director, Wing On Department Stores (Hong Kong) Ltd

Dr Clint Laurent, Managing Director, Asia Studies Ltd

Dr Sara Liao, Steering Group Telecommunications Policy, HK Consumer Council

Dr William Lo, Director of Multimedia Services, Hongkong Telecom

Mr Peter Lovelock, Associate, Telecommunications Research Project, HKU

Dr John Ure, Director, Telecommunications Research Project, HKU

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Prof Eugene Wong, Vice President for R&D, HKUST, Director of Asia Internet Holdings

PANEL CHAIRS: Dr Theodore Clark, Assistant Professor, Dept of ISMT, HKUST

Dr Ho Geun Lee, Assistant Professor, Dept of ISMT, HKUST

Dr Milton L. Mueller, Visiting Scholar, Dept of ISMT, HKUST

Dr Ben Petrazzini, Assistant Professor, Dept of ISMT, HKUST

TIME: 9:oo am - 5:30 pm 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm lunch VENUE: Lecture Theatre E

ORGANISER: ISMT

INFO: For registration, please call x-7633 Opening Ceremony of Exhibition

TITLE PRE ‘97 SPECIAL ARTS ZONE

CONTENT: Installation and mixed-media works by 12 local artists: HUI Yawshing, CHEUNG Sin-yee, Grace, TSANG Wai-hang, Repheal CHAN, WONG Shun-kit, PUN Sing-h& Bobby NG, TO Wun, Kin-Kin, YUEN Kwok-chung, Tim YU, Desmond KUM

TIME: 3 p.m. (All are welcome) VENUE: University Exposition Hall

PRESENTERS: HKUST Arts Endowment Committee, Young Artists Association

INFO: TSANG Wai-hang, 110729791; Desmond KUM, 1103311 AC8210-

27 November 95 (Monday) *Finance Seminar

TITLE: Why do Markets Move Together? An Investigation of U.S.-Japan Stock Return Comovements using ADRS

SPEAKER: Prof Rene M Stulz, Ohio State University TIME: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

ORGANISER: FINA

INFO: MS Elaine Cheung, x-7669

28 November 95 (Tuesday)

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*Information & Systems Management Seminar

TITLE: Rich Electronic Media and Information Superhighways SPEAKER: Dr Olivia R Liu Sheng

TIME: lo:30 am - 12:OO noon VENUE: Room 5510 (Lifts 25-26)

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INFO: MS Margaret Chan, Miss Florence Au, x-7723

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TITLE: Complexity in the Neuroscienes: Signals, Noise, Nonlinearity, and the Meanderings of a Theoretical Physicist

SPEAKER: Dr Adi Bulsara, Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, U.S.A.

TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm VENUE: Lecture Theatre E

ORGANISER: COMP

29 November 95 (Wednesday)

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*Chemical Engineering Seminar

TITLE: Design, Operation and Modeling of a Falling Film Photocatalytic Reactor

SPEAKER: Gianluca Li Puma TIME: lo:oo am - ll:oo am

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ORGANISER CENG

INFO: Miss P H Mak, x-7 120 *Marketing Seminar

TITLE: Corporate Image as a Stereotype: The Effects of Motivation and Information Type on Evaluations

SPEAKER: MS Zeynep Gurhan TIME: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm VENUE: Room 4379 (Lifts 17 & 18)

ORGANISER: MARK

INFO: Terry Law, x-7700 Special Seminar in statistics

TITLE: Statistical analysis of censored and truncated data II: Edgeworth expansion and bootstrap methods

SPEAKER: Prof T L Lai, Stanford University TIME: 2~00 pm - 3:00 pm

ORGANISER: MATH

INFO: Janette Cho, x-7440 Physics Seminar

TITLE: Implantation Induced Extended Defects and Point Defects in Silicon IC Processing

SPEAKER: Professor Kevin S Jones, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida

TIME: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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VENUE: Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theatre (G)

ORGANISER: PHYS

INFO: Miss Helen Chan, x-7502 *Information & Systems Management Seminar

TITLE: Nonparametric Regression using Bayesian Variable Selection SPEAKER: Prof Robert Kahn, Australian Graduate School of Management,

University of New South Wales TIME: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

VEm: Room 3401 (Lifts 17-18)

ORGANISER: ISMT

INFO: MS Margaret Chan, Miss Florence Au, x-7723 Chemical Engineering Seminar

TITLE: Faculty Roles and Rewards

SPEAKER: Edmond I Ko, Visiting Professor from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

TIME: 400 pm - 5:30 pm VENUE: Room 2303 (Lift 17-18)

ORGANISER: CENG

INFO: Miss P H Mak, x-7120 Mathematics Colloquium

TITLE: Spectral decomposition and Markov renewal theory SPEAKER: Prof Tze Leung Lai, Stanford University & HKUST TIME: 430 pm - 5:30 pm

ORGANISER: MATH

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TITLE: Smoothing and predication for finite dimensional point process observations

SPEAKER: Dr A H Tsoi TIME: 2:00 PM - 3:00 pm VENUE: Room 3006 (Lift 3)

ORGANISER: MATH

INFO: Janette Cho, x-7440 (2) Physics Seminar

TITLE: State-of-the-art of Single Crystals and Single Crystal Growth Techniques for Electrical and Electra-Optical Applications SPEAKER: Professor Tsuguo Fukuda, Institute for Materials Research,

Tohoku University TIME: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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ORGANISER: PHYS

INFO: Miss Helen Chan, x-7502 Civil & Structural Engineering Seminar

TITLE: Phenol Wastewater Treatment with Fenton’s Reagent Oxidation and Soil Adsorption with Bioaugmentation

SPEARER: Professor Yung-Tse Hung, Cleveland State University TIME: 3:00 pm - 4:OO pm

ORGANISER: CIVL

INFO: Rebecca Yau, x-7164 Humanities Seminar

TITLE: Informal Discussion

SPEARER: Professor Chang Hao (Professor of History, Ohio State f University, Ohio, USA; Fellow of Academia Sir&a), an

Authority in Modem Chinese Intellectual History TIME: 490 pm - 5:30 pm

VENUE: Room 3362 Conference Room (Lift 13 - 15) LANGUAGE: Putonghua

ORGANISER: HUMA

INFO: Teresa Wong, x-7800

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