Click here for : Current Students Prospective Students Faculty and Staff Alumni Media Visitors Industry Partners
Contact Us Sitemap 繁體 简体 About HKUST
Welcome from the President Mission and Strategy Governance Senior Administrators Facts and History Rankings and Awards
Global Partnership and Presence University Publications
What's New, Speeches and Lectures Up-coming events
About the Campus
Teaching and Learning Research and Development Studying at HKUST Administration Library Giving to HKUST Quick link
Home > About HKUST > What's New, Speeches and Lectures > What's New What's New Speeches Lectures
16/01/2008 HKUST Hosts First UK-Hong Kong Frontiers of Science Symposium
HKUST is hosting Hong Kong's first Frontiers of Science Symposium jointly sponsored by the Royal Society of Britain and the Croucher Foundation, covering key research areas such as stem cell research and infectious diseases.
Acting President of HKUST Prof Roland Chin welcomed the young scientists attending UK-Hong Kong Frontiers of Science Symposium. The conference organizers invited 70 of the best and brightest young scientists
from the UK and from local universities for three days (16-18 January) of scientific dialogue and discussions.
The Frontiers of Science is an important platform for bilateral sharing of major scientific ideas and techniques between countries, cities or regions. The US and the UK have each organized a series of such bilateral conferences with other countries or regions in recent years.
Many famous British universities are represented here, including scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, Bath, Bristol Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, St Andrews, Warwick, and Imperial College.
They come from different disciplines, from nanoscience to neurobiology, from biomedical imaging to biochemical engineering. Speaking at the symposium, Prof Roland Chin, Acting President of HKUST, expressed the hope that this will be the beginning of similar symposiums with scientists from Japan, India or other Asian and European countries. As Hong Kong transforms itself into a knowledge society, science should be a major item on its menu.
The opening ceremony was presided over by Prof Chin and Prof Lorna Casselton, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society of Britain. Founded in 1660, it is the oldest learned society for science in continuous existence in the world.
All News More News at Media Information Center For media enquires, please feel free to contact :
Luk Kam Wing Tel: 2358 6306 Email: kluk@ust.hk Donna Wong Tel: 2358 6317 Email: donnaw@ust.hk Top Copyright © 2007 HKUST. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel: (852) 2358 6000
