Bulletin No. 2, 2014

32   Chinese University Bulletin No. 2, 2014 The Best and the Brightest CUHK Joins Top Nuclear Research Team of CERN A team of physicists from Hong Kong led by Prof. Chu Ming-chung (1st right), Department of Physics, CUHK, has joined one of the most prestigious physics experiments in the world—the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) Collaboration under the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Other than Professor Chu, members from CUHK included Luis Flores Castillo, assistant professor in the Department of Physics, two undergraduate students Tam Pok-ho (2nd left) and Chow Yun- sang (3rd left), two postgraduate students Tsui Ka-ming (3rd right) and Lu Haonan (1st left), and two research assistants Kwan Kin-keung and Chan Yat-long (2nd right). They worked as interns at CERN in Switzerland during the period from May to November 2014. CERN is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research and co-discovered the Higgs boson aka the ‘God Particle’.   Fresh Graduates Receive French Scholarships C han Hoi-lun Lune (centre), majoring in Cultural Studies, has been awarded the Studialis Group Graduate Program Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in contemporary art: sales, display & collecting, at the Institut d'Études Supérieures des Arts (IESA) in Paris in 2014–15. In the same academic year, Lam Hoi- ming (left), a physics student, is going to read the two- year Erasmus Mundus MSc in marine environment and resources in Universités de Bordeaux 1 with financial support from the Alexandre Yersin Scholarship.