Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2005

• The 20th International Workshop on Therapeuti c Endoscopy, 6th and 7th December , organized by the Endoscopy Centre; • Conference on the A r t of Ch en H o n g s h o u: Painting, Calligraphy, Seal Carving and Teapot Design, 10th December, jointly organized by the A r t Mu s e um and the H o n g Ko ng Mu s e um of A r t , sponsored by the K.S. Lo Foundation; • The Croucher A d v a n c ed S t u dy I n s t i t u te 一 Advances in Protein Sciences meeting, 12th to 17th December, organized by the Department of Biochemistry, sponsored by the Croucher Foundation; • The 13th International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing an d Communication Systems, 13th to 16th De c embe r, o r g a n i z ed by the D e p a r t m e n t of E l e c t r o n ic E n g i n e e r i n g, sponsored by United College and the IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing. Lectures • P r o f . H a u L. Lee, T h o m a P r o f e s s or o f Operations, Information and Technology a t the G r a d u a t e S c h o ol o f B u s i n e s s, S t a n f o r d University, delivered a L i & Fung Lecture on Commerce and Industry on 30th May 2005. The lecture was en t i t l ed 'Value-creatin g S u p p ly Chain Management'. • H i s E x c e l l e n cy M r . S h a u k ut A z i z , P r i me Minister of Pakistan, delivered a distinguished lecture entitled 'Pakistan's Vision for the Asian Century: Promoting Cooperation for Peace and Development' on 12th Augu st 2005. • Prof. Charles Ha rd Townes, the inventor of the laser and No b el laureate i n physics i n 1964, delivered a lecture entitle d 'The Laser' on 18th Au g u st 2005. • Prof. Robert J. Barro, professor of economics at Harvard University, delivered a lecture entitled 'Rare D i s a s t e rs a nd Asset Prices' on 2 nd September 2005. • Prof. A n d r ew John Wiles , w i n n er of the Shaw Prize in Mathematics 2005, delivered a lecture entitled 'Solving Equations ' on 3rd September 2005. • Prof. Thomas E. Brown, associate director of the Yale Clinic for Attentio n and Related Disorders o f t he D e p a r t m e n t o f P s y c h i a t r y, Yale Un i v e r s i ty School of Medicine, delivered the 4 0 t h A n n i v e r s a ry L e c t u re o f F a c u l ty o f Education on 'Attentio n De f i c i t / Hy pe r a c t i v i t y Disorder ( ADHD )' on 4th October 2005. • M r. Yang We n c h a n g, C omm i s s i o n er of the M i n i s t r y of Fo r e i gn A f f a i rs of the People's Republic of Chin a i n the HKSAR, delivered a lecture e n t i t l e d ' Ch i n a 's Road of Peaceful Development and Foreign Policy of Peace' on 12th October 2005. • M r . James B. Cunningham, US Consul General of H o n g Ko ng and Ma c au delivered a lecture entitled ' H o n g Ko ng and the Ma i n l a n d: N e w Stage, N ew Roles' on 9th November 2005. • Mr. Stephen Bradley, British Consul-General i n H o n g Kong, delivered a lecture entitled 'The U K i n the EU' on 1st Decembe r 2005. V i s i t i ng Scholars • The H o n . Dr. C a r o l yn Be n n e t t , C a n a d i a n M i n i s t er of State f or Pu b l ic He a l t h , a nd a Canadian delegation visited the School of Public Health of the University on 8th August 2005. • Prof. Stanley N. Cohen, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Genetics and professor of medicine, Stanford U n i v e r s i t y, v i s i t ed U n i t ed College i n early No v emb er as the college's firs t Distinguished V i s i t i ng Scholar 2005-06. D u r i n g his v i s i t, P r o f. Co h en d e l i v e r ed t w o p u b l ic lectures r e s p e c t i v e ly on ' K n o w l e d ge a nd Fear o f Knowledge: Dual Legacies of the N ew Genetics' and 'Discoverin g and I na c t i v a t i ng Host Cell Genes Exploited by Infectious Microbes'. Ob i t ua ry A s c o n f i rmed by D N A testing, Prof. Dennis Lo Yam Kuen of the Department of Physics passed awa y i n the t s u n ami i n Thailand i n December 2004. News in Brief 7 1