For release 18 June 1996
HKUST HOSTS FIRST ASIAN PHOTOCHEMISTRY CONFERENCE The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology will welcome more than 150 photochemists from Asia, Europe and North America later this month for the first Asian Photochemistry Conference. The conference will be held on the university’s campus from 23 to 26 June.
Conference delegates will discuss the latest advances in photochemistry, photophysics and related fields, with an emphasis on new discoveries that are both scientifically valuable and socially and industrially useful.
“Photochemistry and related fields have progressed rapidly in recent years, moving hand-in-hand with advances in laser techniques,” says Prof Hiroyuki Hiraoka, Professor of Chemistry at HKUST and chairman of the conference organizing committee.
“Nowadays, the principles of photochemistry, particularly laser-based technologies, are applied in a variety of areas, such as advanced materials, communications, computing, and chemistry and physics research. Photochemistry will continue to pla
and technology in x e 21st century,” says Prof Hiraoka. an increasingly important role in the development of science The keynote speech of the conference will be delivered by Prof Yuan-Tseh Lee, the 1986 Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Prof Lee will also give a public lecture on 25 June at Lecture Theatre B between 3-4 pm, entitled “Investigation of Elementary Chemical Reactions by Lasers and Molecular Beams”, as a part of HKUST’s Distinguished Lecture Series in science.
The conference is organized by the Department of Chemistry at HKUST and co-sponsored by the Hong Kong Chemical Society, Japan Photochemical Association, Institute of Photographic Chemistry of Academia Sinica and the Croucher Foundation.
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