Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2003

University, sponsored by the Hong Kong College of Radiologists. Lectures We i Lun Lectures • Prof. Ewald M. Hennig, professor of biomechanics of the University of Essen, Germany, spoke on ‘The Human Foot During Locomotion — App l i ed Research for Footwear', on 10th October 2002. • Prof. Reinhard Selten, Nobel laureate in economic sciences 1994 and professor emeritus of economics of the University of Bonn in Germany, spoke on ‘Game Theory' on 15th October 2002. • Prof. Chen Mingzhe, vice-dean of medicine at Tsinghua University, spoke on ‘The Development of Tsinghua University Medical School and Its Role in 21st Century China' on 12th November 2002. O t h e r Lectures • Mr. Anthony Wu, chairman of Ernst & Young, andMr. Clement Kwok, managing director and CEO of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, were invited to speak on the second and third EMBA Forum on 3rd October 2002 and 16th January 2003 respectively. • Prof. Denton A. Cooley of the Denton Cooley Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas was invited by the Department of Surgery to give the inaugural David P.W. Chan Professorial Lecture on 24th October 2002. • Prof. Michael Dempster, professor of management studies (finance andmanagement science) at the University of Cambridge, gave the L i Ka Shing Foundation Exchange Programme public lecture entitled ‘Global Asset Liability Management' on 31st October 2002. • Mr. Francis Yuen, deputy chairman of PCCW Ltd., andMr. Joe Yiu, corporate vice president and general manager o f Mo t o r o la Semiconductors Hong Kong Ltd., were the guest speakers of the programme ‘Talking to CEOs' on 2nd and 16th March 2003 respectively. ‘Talking to CEOs' is jointly organized by the Executive MBA Programme of the University and Radio Television Hong Kong. • Prof. Benjamin W. Wah, Robert T. Chien Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign andpast president of IEEE Computer Society, delivered a lecture entitled ‘ I n t e l l i gent M i n i ng for Time Series Predictions' on 21st March 2003. • Dr. Han Qi, researcher, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was invited by the Centre for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society of Chung Chi College to give a public lecture on ‘Between Sciences and Religion: Jesuit Joachim Bouvet's Research on Yi Jing (The Book of Changes)' on 25th March 2003. Visiting Scholars • Prof. Tony F. Chan, dean of the Division of Physical Sciences, College of Letters and Science, University of California at Los Angeles, visited United College from 3rd to 10th November 2002 as the college's first Distinguished Visiting Scholar 2002-3. During his visit, Prof. Chan delivered two lectures entitled 'What's Math Got to Do with It?' and ‘Geometry, PDEs, Fluid Dynamics, and Image Processing', on 5th and 7th November 2002 respectively. • Prof. Hugh D.R. Baker, professor emeritus of Chinese of the University of London, visited The Chinese University in November 2002 as Wilson T.S. Wang — New Method College Visiting Professor in Language Education, and gave a public lecture entitled ‘Ren Zhi Huan, on 27th November 2002. • Prof. Chen Yi, a world-renowned Chinese- American music composer and Cravens/ Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor of Music, Conservatory of the University of Missouri-Kansas, visited Chung Chi College as its Siu Lien Ling Wong Visiting Fellow 2002-3 from 9th to 16th February 2003. News in Brief 37