Annual Report 1993-94

24 理學院重要發展 Major Events in the Faculty of Science •生物化學系、生物系及化學系聯合開設環境科學本科課程。 •生物化學系及生物系聯合開設食品科學本科課程。 •學院正積極籌劃開辦環境科學及食品科學兩學科之碩士及哲學博士學位課程。 •數學硏究所正式成立，楊振寧教授及丘成桐教授獲委爲首任所長。數學硏究所之宗旨包括促進 多個有關領域的跨學科硏究，包括純數學、科學電算、圖像處理、數學物理學、統計學等。 • The Departments of Biochemistry, Biology, and Chemistry jointly offered an undergraduate programme in environmental science. • The Departments of Biochemistry and Biology jointly launched an undergraduate programme in food science. • Plans to introduce master and PhD programmes in environmental and food science were underway. • The Institute of Mathematical Sciences was formally inaugurated w i th Prof. C.N. Yang and Prof. S.T. Yau as founding directors. The institute has been established to promote interdisciplinary research covering a variety of fields: pure mathematics, scientific computation, image processing, mathematical physics, and statistics. 爲慶祝數學研究所開幕，數學系於九三年十二月十八至廿一日舉辦大型國際學術會議，研討費馬最後猜想。 An international conference on 'Fermat's LastTheorem'was held on campus from18th to 21st December1993to inaugurate the Institute of Mathematical Sciences.