The City
Hong Kong, known as the Pearl of the Orient, is one of the most exciting and beautiful cosmopolitan cities in the world. It is situated on the southern coast of China and is geographically the center of East Asia. Occupying an area of slightly over 1,000 sq. km, it has a population of around 7 million people. There are 9 universities and colleges in the territory, of which 6 offer programs in physics and/or applied physics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.


Conference Site
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) () sits on a hill in the northeast part of the New Territories, occupying an area of over 130 hectares and commanding a scenic view of Tolo Harbor. It has a Kowloon-Canton Railway (KCR) () station so that it makes the traffic to the nearby Shatin () and the downtown very convenient. Since its inception, it has adopted bilingualism and biculturalism as the basis of its teaching, emphasizing both Chinese and English languages and Eastern and Western cultures. It is a comprehensive university of 7 faculties, with a staff body of over 2 thousands and a student population of around 17 thousands, of which about 45% are graduate students. To know more about the culture of this University, simply click on the link and take the "CU Culture Trail" guided tour.


Conference Venue
Lecture Theatre, Science Centre (). Please refer to the campus map for the location.


Oral Presentation
The workshop venue is equipped with a build-in computer, a LCD projector, an overhead projector and a visual presenter. Common computer softwares such as MS Office are available. To be safe, if use PowerPoint, postscript or PDF files, we recommend you to send the files to us by e-mail for testing first.


Poster Presentation
Each poster board is of an area of 86cm x 120cm, enough for 16 sheets of paper of the A4 size. Authors are reminded to put the materials on the poster boards during tea break (10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.) and lunch time (12:00 - 2:00 p.m.) on December 7 (for Poster Session on Dec. 7 and 8); and between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on December 9 (for Poster Session on Dec. 10 and 11).


Department Facilities
The general office of the Physics Department is located in Room 107, Science Centre North Block, is about 20 meters apart from the workshop venue. Please refer to the campus map for the location. Facilities for photocopying or transparency making are available for use at nominal charges.

E-mail room is located in Room G25 and Room 216, Science Centre (North Block). Please be advised that not to exceed 15 minutes for each use.

Reading room is located in Room 126, Science Centre (North Block) provides space for a short rest, discussions or reading magazines/newspapers.


Bank, Bookstore and Supermarket
The Hang Seng Bank, the University Book Store and the Park'n Shop Supermarket are located at the John Fulton Centre () near to the Benjamin Franklin Centre (). Please refer to the campus map.


Banquet
Banquet will be held on Saturday evening at the Star Seafood Restaurant () in Shatin (). At there you can enjoy the magnificent view of Shing Mun River. Coaches will be arranged to take participants from the CUHK to the restaurant and back to the hotels after banquet. Accompanying people are welcome to join the banquet at a price of HK$300 per person.


Meals
There are several eating places on campus. The two nearest ones are the canteen in the Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building () and the restaurant complex in Benjamin Franklin Centre (). Please refer to the campus map for the locations. We will provide light breakfasts (cakes, sandwich and drinks) and lunches to the participants during the workshop.

Canteens

Business hours

Canteen in Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical
Sciences Building		 07:45 - 18:00, Monday to Saturday
Benjamin Franklin Centre Coffee Corner 07:30 - 19:30, Monday to Saturday
Benjamin Franklin Centre Staff Canteen 11:00 - 15:00 and 17:00 - 21:00,
Monday to Sunday
Benjamin Franklin Centre Student Canteen 07:00 - 21:00, Monday to Friday and Sunday
Benjamin Franklin Centre Fast Food Shop 07:30 - 21:00, Monday to Saturday
New Asia College Staff Restaurant
in Staff Student Centre ()		 11:00 - 20:00, Monday to Saturday
New Asia College Student Canteen
in Staff Student Centre ()		 11:00 - 14:30, Monday to Friday
Shaw College Staff Dining Restaurant 11:30 - 21:00, Monday to Friday; 18:00-21:00, Sunday
Shaw College Student Dining Canteen 07:30 - 21:00, Monday to Sunday


Payment Methods
For payment of room charges in the NTT International House, cash (in HKD only) and credit cards are acceptable. Regal Riverside Hotel and Royal Park Hotel accept cash (in any currency) and credit cards. Most fast food shops in Hong Kong and canteens in CUHK campus accept cash in HKD only. (Personal cheques are generally not acceptable.)


Sight-Seeing
One-day Hong Kong tours will be arranged with the China Travel Service (H.K.) Ltd. on December 11. This tour is exclusively for the ASI participants and their accompanying relatives. The tentative itinerary is as follows: Stanley Market - Victoria Peak - Hong Kong WinterFest in Central - Avenue of Stars in Tsimshatsui. Cantonese style lunch will be served. The tour fee is ~HKD140/RMB150/USD19 (subject to moderate adjustment for possible change of itinerary) per person (excluding tip). The suggested tip to each tour guide is HKD20 per person. Departure is based on 20 participants at the least. To make reservation, please send email to Miss P.Y. Ho stating the number of tickets you want no later than November 26. We will collect the fee (we accept cash in HKD, RMB or USD NOTES only) during registration.

You can browse this website for more information on many other attractive sights to arrange your own tour.


Local Transportation
1. Coaches are arranged to take participants from the hotels to the workshop venue in the morning and back to the hotels in the evening.
(i) NTT International House (8:00 am) CUHK
CUHK (6:00 pm and 7:00 pm)* NTT International House
(ii) Regal Riverside Hotel (8:00 am) CUHK
CUHK (6:00 pm and 7:00 pm)* Regal Riverside Hotel
(iii) Royal Park Hotel (8:15 am) CUHK
CUHK (6:00 pm and 7:00 pm)* Royal Park Hotel
* The first bus leaves 6:00 pm, while the second one leaves 7:00 pm for people who prefer to dinning at the University.
2. Special Event: Banquet (Saturday)
Science Centre (5:30 pm) Banquet
Banquet hotels (Departure time to be announced.)