Bulletin No. 2, 2015

Lam Woon-kwong on the Bounty The Honourable Lam Woon-kwong, Convenor of the Non-official Members of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, delivered a lecture entitled ‘The Mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789: A Justifiable Rebellion? ’ at the Shaw College Assembly on 23 October. Mr. Lam shared his views on this historical event from various perspectives with more than 1,000 students. Kepler’s Originator Hunts for Planets Like Our Own Principal investigator of NASA’s Kepler mission and Shaw Laureate in Astronomy 2015, Mr. William J. Borucki came to Shaw College at CUHK on 25 September to deliver a lecture entitled ‘Kepler Space Mission: A Step in the Search for Life in our Galaxy’. Kepler was the brainchild of Borucki that ‘was designed to find out whether Earth-size planets are rare or common in our galaxy.’ Kepler has discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets since 2009. To detect alien worlds, Borucki thought the best hope lies in finding a planet of similar size to the Earth that orbits a sun like our own. News in Brief 47