Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2000

2000, by the Hon g Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies; • N ew Asia College Go l d en Jubilee Conference Series: Workshop on the Treatment of Cancer Using Traditional Chinese Medicine, 20th April 2000, jointly organized with the Institute of Chines e Medicine and the School of Chinese Medicine; - S y m p o s i u m on 'Hospice Care an d Palliative Ma n a g eme n t ' , 2nd May 2000, jointly organized with the Society for Promotion of Hospice Care; • International Teaching Symposium on Atherosclerotic Diseases , 24th to 29th Ap r il 2000, by t h e Ce n t r e for Atherosclerosis Studies of the Faculty of Medicine, the Council on Clinical Ca r d i o l o gy of the Wo r l d He a r t Federation, and the Chinese Society of Cardiology of the Chines e Medical Association of China; • Semi n ar o n ' Po s t -Di vo r c e Co-parenting', 29th April 2000, by the Fami ly Socia l Work P r a c t i c e a n d Research Project of the Department of Social Work; • The third meeting of the Asia Pacific Musculoskeletal Tumor Society, 3rd and 4th May 2000, by the University; • Workshop on 'Ecological Village 2000', 9th to 13th Ma y 2000, by the Centre for En v i r o nme n t a l S t u d i es a nd t h e Department of Geography; • Symposium on Emerging Issues of Women's Health, 27th May 2000, by Chung Chi College and the Programme in Epidemiology and Biostatistics; • Conference o n 'Methodological Issues in Epidemiological Studies of Small Risks', 26th May 2000, by Postgraduate P r og r amme s in Ep i demi o l ogy an d Biostatistics of the Faculy of Medicine, s pon s o r ed by the Research Grant s Council's Postgraduate Conferenc e Grants; • Brain Tumou r Telemedicine Course, 27th May 2000, by the Brain Disease L a b o r a t o r y of the D e p a r t me n t of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, and the Hong Kon g Division of the International Academy of Pathology, sponsored by Hua Xia Foundation and Li Ka Shing Foundation; • Conference on 'Global Transformation After the Asian Economic Crisis', 27th and 28th May 2000, by the Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, the Guanghua School of Management and the China Centre of Ec onomi c Re s e a r c h of P e k i n g Un i ve r s i t y, s p o n s o r e d by t he International Economics and Finance Society (Hong Kong Chapter); • The C r o u c h e r Ad v a n c e d S t u dy Institute on Neural and Evolutionary C omp u t a t i o n s for Spatia l Da t a Analysis, 12th to 17th June 2000, by the Department of Geography, sponsored by the Croucher Foundation; • I n t e r n a t i o n al Co n f e r e n c e on 'Communication Frontiers in the New Millennium', 24th to 26th July 2000, by t he School of J o u r n a l i sm a nd Communication in celebration of its 35th Anniversary; • Th i r d Joint Me e t i n g of Ch i n e se Physicists Wo r l dw i de on 'Role of Phy s i c s in the N e w Mi l l e n n i um : Research, Education, and Society', 31st July t o 4th A u g u s t 2000, by t h e University an d the Overseas Chinese Physics Association; • I n t e r n a t i o n al Conferenc e on Globalization and Women's Health: Challenges in a Ch a ng i ng Asia, 30th a nd 31st August 2000, by the Gender Researc h Centre, the School of Public Health, and the Centre for Environment, Gender, and Development in Singapore; News in Brief 5 9