Newsletter No. 17

CUHK Newsletter No.17 Apr. 1991 University Instructional Media Services (UIMS) Reorganized F rom 1st April, the UIMS has been dissolved with its two service components reorganized: the production team has become the Audio-visual Division of The Chinese University Press; the audio-visual technical service team has been subsumed under the Technical Services Unit. The Audio-visual Division of The Chinese University Press will engage in the production of audio-visual programmes for commercial distribution, and the provision of the following services to academic and administrative departments under a new charging system: a. production of overhead projector transparencies and audio/video programmes for academic and public relations purposes; b. audio studio recording services; and c. duplication of audio and video tapes. Photographic services for functions and the production and duplication of slides and view-graphs have been discontinue The Chinese University Press may undertake piecework assignments at commercial rates if they have spare capacity. The audio-visual technical services team of the Technical Services Unit will continue to manage and maintain the audio-visual equipment in classrooms, lecture theatres, conference rooms, language laboratories and the loan pool in the Pi Ch'iu Building. Both teams will continue to operate in the Pi Ch'iu Building for the time being. The Audio-visual Division is expected to move with the Press to their new office in the Hui Yeung Shing Building on the Chung Chi campus towards the end of the year. Professor of Physics Gives Inaugural Lecture P rof. Kenneth Young gave his inaugural lecture on 'Disorder and Dissipation in Physics, on 22nd March 1991. In his lecture Prof. Young pointed out that although science is often regarded as the search for order in Nature, there has been considerable interest in recent years in the appearance of disorder in deterministic systems. Disorder leads to loss of information, or increase in entrophy, providing an arrow of time. This arrow of time is related to dissipation 一 the ‘loss' of energy, probability, or information. On the other hand, dissipation apparently conflicts with quantum mechanics, which is needed for describing small systems. Prof. Young further illustrated such concepts with research work on condensed matter physics, optics, and cosmology carried out at the Physics Department of the University. Conference on Gender and Society T h e Gender Research Programme of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies organized an international conference entitled ‘Gender and Society: The Pacific Rim Experience' on campus from 21st to 22nd March. The objective was to study the relationship between social development and gender issues. Apart from local academics, over 10 scholars and experts from the Pacific Rim countries such as USA, Taiwan, mainland 2

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