Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2003

• P r o f. E d i t h L a u , p r o f e s s or i n t he Department of Commun i ty and Family Medicine, was awa r ded the Fonterra Brighter Innovation Awa rd 2003 on 17th June 2003 for her excellent contribution to research i n osteoporosis. • Three members of the University have been selected O u t s t a n d i ng Y o u ng Persons for 2003 by the H o n g K o ng J u n i o r C h a m b er of C o mm e r ce i n r e c o g n i t i on of t h e i r p r o f e s s i o n al excellence and c o mm i t m e nt to the community. They are Prof. Agnes S.Y. Chan of the Department of Psychology, Prof. Chan Wai-man of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and Dr. Ma ry Wu of the Department of Music. The awa rd presentation ceremony was held on 28th November 2003. • A n article on ‘Loyalty to Supervisor and Trust i n Supervisor Workers i n Chinese Joint Ventures: A Test of Two Competing Models' w r i t t en by Dr. Yu i - t im Wong, Prof. Chi-Sum Wong, and Prof. Hang- Yue N g o of t he D e p a r t m e n t of Management was selected as one of the best 50 management articles by Emerald Management Reviews. The selected article is based on the doctoral dissertation of Dr. Yui-tim Wong, a Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Management. I ndependent reviewers evaluated 20,000 journal articles published i n the year 2002 f r om 400 journals i n various areas of management before deciding on the winners. • A p a p e r c o - a u t h o r ed b y t h r e e a c a d em i cs at t he D e p a r t m e nt of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Profs. Da v id Yao, Zhang Shuzhong, and Z h ou Xun y u, has been selected as the w i n n er of this y ea r 's S I AM Outstanding Paper Prize. Entitled ‘Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Control via Semidefinite Programming', the paper was published i n the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vo l ume 40 (2001). S I A M is an a b b r e v i a t i on f or the Society f or I n d u s t r i al a nd A p p l i e d Mathematics, wh i ch has a membership of 9,000 i n d i v i d u a l a nd 400 institutional members w o r l d w i d e. Three winners are selected each year among all the papers published i n the 13 S I AM journals i n the f our years p r i or to the year of the award. Distinguished Professor-at-Large P r o f . Y a u S h i n g - t u n g h as b e en appointed distinguished professor-at-large of the University from 1st October 2003. P r o f . Y a u received his Ph.D. i n m a t h e m a t i cs from the University of C a l i f o r n i a at Be r k e l ey i n 1971 a n d h i s D . S c . , honoris causa, f r om T h e C h i n e s e University i n 1980. He is honorary professor of Zhejiang University and Wi l l i am Casper Graustein Professor of H a r v a rd Un i ve r s i t y. F r om 1997 to 2000, he was Higgins Professor at Harvard University. He was also professor of mathematics of The Chinese University for the past 10 years. Prof. Yau's academic career is do t t ed w i t h ma ny prestigious honours and awards, of wh i ch the Fields Medal (1982) is the best well-known. News in Brief 67