Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2005

Con ferences/Workshops/Sem inars October to December 2004 • Conference on Regional Environmental Quality Change and Environmental Security in China, 22nd to 26th October, jointly organized by the University's Centre for Environmental Policy and Resource Management, the College of Environment, Peking University, and the Geographical Society of China; • Seminar on Operations and Supervision of Treasury Markets for Senior Officials, 25th October, hosted by the Asia-Pacific Institute of Business, co-organized by the Hong Kong Monetary Au thority and Treasury Markets Forum; • Eighth Executive Development Programme: In te rn a tio n a l C a p ita l M a rk e t and Its Development, 26th October to 3rd November, jo in tly organized by Asia-Pacific Institute of Business and China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd.; • Biannual Scientific Meeting of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists 'Innova tion and Development in Mental Health in the Pacific Rim', 28th to 31st October, organized by the Department of Psychiatry; • Tenth Annual Scientific Symposium of the Hong Kong Cancer Institute and the Second Pan Pacific Lung Cancer Conference, 6th and 7th November, jo in tly organized by Hong Kong Cancer Institute and U n ive rsity of California, San Francisco; • Third Asia Pacific Conference on Evidence- based Medicine, 26th to 28th November, jo in tly organized by the Chinese Cochrane Centre (Hong Kong branch), The Chinese U n iv e rs ity o f Hong Kong, the C lin ic a l Effectiveness Unit, Hospital Authority, Oxford Centre fo r Evidence-based M e d ic in e , University of Oxford, and Peking University Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, Peking University; • Translation Software: The State of the Art, 4th December, organized by the Department of Translation; • B ra in 200 4 , the Second Asia P a c ific Multidisciplinary Meeting for Nervous System Diseases, 10th and 11th December, jo in tly organized by the Department of Anatomical and C e llu la r Pathology; the D iv is ion of Neurology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics; D ivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery; the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging; and the Department of Clinical Oncology; • Airport Privatization and Deregulation: Theory and Empirical Evidence, 14th December, organized by the Aviation Policy and Research Centre; • The Third International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, 17th to 22nd December, jo in t ly o rg a n iz e d by the In s titu te o f Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Mathematics. January to March 2005 • The C linical Research Committee Training W orkshop and the C lin ica l Investigator Training Workshop, 21st and 22nd January, jo in tly organized by the Centre for Clinical Trials of the Faculty of Medicine and the Hospital Authority; • The International Conference on Corporate Governance Issues in China and Asia, 11th to 13th M a rch , jo in tly o rgan ized by the U n ive rs ity 's Centre fo r In stitu tion s and Governance and the School of Accountancy, and the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. News in Brief 5 5