Seminar and Colloquium

• Seminar by Professor Qing-Hu Chen (Zhejiang Normal University) on "Quantum phase transitions in the Dicke model: Numerically exact study", September 17, 2009 (Thu) from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Wang-Kong Tse (University of Texas) on "Interaction Effects in the Optical Properties of Bilayer Graphene", August 19, 2009 (Wed) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Yung C. Lee (Nanjing University) on "Levitation and Suspension --Meissner Attraction and Dirty Superconductors", August 7, 2009 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at Rm 803, William M.W. Mong Engineering Building, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Shi-ning Zhu (Nanjing University) on "The Study of Optical Superlattice for Nonlinear Photonics, Laser and Quantum Optics", July 31, 2009 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Wei-Min Zhang (National Cheng Kung University) on "Physics behind Quantum Information Processing", July 17, 2009 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Shina Tan (Yale University) on "Exact Relations for a Strongly Correlated Fermi Gas and a Novel Mathematical Method", July 15, 2009 (Wed) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L4, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor John S. Tse (University of Saskatchewan) on "Working Under Pressure", July 6, 2009 (Mon) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK [Presentation file]
  
  
• Seminar by Professor Wai-Ning Mei (University of Nebraska at Omaha) on "PVDF- Ferroelectric Polymers- Applications and Theoretical Studies", July 2, 2009 (Thu) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Shirley Meng (University of Florida) on "Advanced Nanomaterials for Electric Energy Storage & Conversion", June 25, 2009 (Thu) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK [Presentation file]
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Wenxian Zhang (Fudan University) on "Spin Mixing Dynamics in an Atomic spin-1 Bose condensate", May 8, 2009 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Hai-bin SU (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) on "Multi-Paradigm Simulations at the Nanoscale: Methodology and Applications to Functional Carbon Materials", April 3, 2009 (Fri) from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Xiao-Jia CHEN (Carnegie Institution of Washington, US) on "Enhancement of Superconductivity in Cuprate Homologous Series", February 23, 2009 (Mon) from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. at L5, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Xiao-Jia CHEN (Carnegie Institution of Washington, US) on "Superconductivity Under Pressure", February 20, 2009 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Yun LIU (University of Maryland, US) on "Studying Physical Properties of Nano-scale Materials Using Neutron Scattering", February 16, 2009 (Mon) from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. at L5, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Yun LIU (University of Maryland, US) on "Hydrogen Adsorption Properties in Metal-organic Frameworks", February 13, 2009 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Xu-Hui HUANG (Stanford University, US) on "Drying and Hydrophobic Collapse of Nanoscale Plates and Protein Complexes", February 6, 2009 (Fri) from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Xu-Hui HUANG (Stanford University, US) on "Computational Tools for Enhancing Conformational Sampling of Biological Macromolecules", February 5, 2009 (Thu) from 10:30 - 11:30 p.m. at L5, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Jian-Guo HOU (President, University of Science and Technology of China, National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, USTC, Hefei) on "Quantum Controlling at the Molecular Scale", February 3, 2009 (Tue) from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at LT1, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Professor Mogens H. JENSEN (The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) on "Oscillation Patterns in Genetic Feed-Back Signalling", November 18, 2008 (Tue) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at Rm 128, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Yi-Long HAN (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) "Melting and Geometrical Frustration in Colloidal Crystals", November 14, 2008 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Kenneth YOUNG (CUHK) "Why Do We Exist? The Story of Three Mixed-up Generations & Half a Nobel Prize", November 21, 2008 (Fri) from 4:30 - 5:45 p.m. at TYW LT, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building, CUHK
  
  
• Joint Lectures by Prof. Lu-Jeu Sham (UCSD) on "Selected Topics in the Quantum Concepts Applied to Quantum Technology"
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Ludwig Faddeev (Shaw Laureates in 2008) on "History of Quantum Groups", September 11, 2008 (Thu) from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. at T. Y. Wong Hall, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building, CUHK
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. King-Man Cheung (National Tsinghua University) and Prof. Ming-Chung Chu (CUHK) on "Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Fields"
  
  
• Seminar by Prof. Biao Wu (Institute of Physics, CAS) on "Anomalous Monopole in an Interacting Boson System", June 5, 2008 (Thur) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Prof. Wai-Yee Keung (University of Illinois at Chicago) on "High Energy Neutrinos from Dark Matter Annihilations in the Sun", May 28, 2008 (Wed) from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Science Lecture by Prof. Carl E. Wieman (Nobel Laureate in Physics 2001) on "Bose-Einstein Condensation: Quantum Weirdness at the Lowest Temperature in the Universe", May 22, 2008 (Thu) from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. at L1, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. Artem R. Oganov (ETH Zurich)
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Yujie Wang (Argonne National Laboratory) on "Ultrafast Synchrotron X-ray Phase-Contrast Imaging Study of Fluids", April 25, 2008 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Yujie Wang (Argonne National Laboratory) on "Ultrafast Phase-Contrast Imaging Study of Finite-time Singularities", April 23, 2008 (Wed) from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. at L4, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. Keith Burnett (Univ. of Sheffield) on "Many-Body Physics in Optical Lattices", March 26, 2008 (Wed) from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. William D. Phillips (Nobel Laureate in Physics 1997) on "A Bose Condensate in an Optical Lattice: Cold Atomic Gases as Solid State Systems", March 26, 2008 (Wed) from 10:30 to 12:00 noon at Room 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Prof. Michael Loewenhaupt (TU Dresden) on "Magnetic Properties of R2PdSi3 Compounds Studied by Laboratory Methods and Neutron Scattering", March 19, 2008 (Wed) from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Room 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Yanhong Xiao (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) on "Quantum Coherence in Atomic Ensembles", March 18, 2008 (Tue) from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Room 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Prof. Zhen-Ya Li (Suzhou University) on "Optical Magneto-electric Effect and Broken Time-spatial Symmetry", March 18, 2008 (Tue) from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Room 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Yanhong Xiao (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) on "Coherent Control of Atom-light Interactions for Multidisciplinary Applications", March 17, 2008 (Mon) from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at L3, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Carmel MCNAUGHT (Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research, CUHK)on "Using the Scholarship of Teaching to Build a Successful Academic Career", February 22, 2008 (Fri) from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Prof H. D. Ou-Yang (Lehigh University) on "Micromechanical Properties of Living Cells", February 21, 2008 (Thu) from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Room 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Xiangjun Xing (Syracuse University) on "Thermal Fluctuations and Rubber Elasticity", February 21, 2008 (Thu) from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at L5, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Benjamin M. W. TSUI (The Johns Hopkins University, USA) on "Research in Molecular Imaging Physics", February 01, 2008 (Friday) from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. Detlef Lohse (University of Twente) on "Bubble Puzzles", January 28, 2008 (Monday) from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at L3, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. King Man Cheung (National Tsing Hua University) on "Collider Phenomenology"
  
  
• Seminar by Prof. Xin-cheng XIE (Oklahoma State University and Chinese Academy of Sciences) on "Quantum Coherence Effects in Electronic Transport through Nanomagnets", December 18, 2007 (Tuesday) from 10:30 to 12:00 at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. Shou-Cheng ZHANG (Stanford University, USA) on "Quantum Spin Hall Effect", December 14, 2007 (Friday) from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at L1, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. Fa-shen LI (Lanzhou University, P.R. China) on "Mossbauer Spectroscopy and its Applications", December 07, 2007 (Friday) from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at LG23, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. James E. Gubernatis (Los Alamos National Laboratory) on "Monte Carlo Sampler"
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. Yu-Liang Liu (Renmin University) on "Bosonization Method and Its Application in One-dimensional Electron Systems"
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Oscar GRIZZI (Centre Atomico Bariloche, Argentina) on "Studies of the Growth and Thermal Stability of Self-assembled Monolayers by Ion Scattering Spectroscopy", November 30, 2007 (Friday) from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. at L3, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Yeng-Long CHEN (Institute of Physics, Taiwan) on "Manipulating Macromolecules in Micro-confinement: Polymers in Microfluidic Flow", November 30, 2007 (Friday) from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Zi-jian ZHENG(University of Cambridge, UK) on "Printing for Surface Patterning and Applications in Polymer Electronics", November 26, 2007 (Mon) from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof David Ho-kwang Mao (Carnegie Institution of Washington) on "A Glimpse of New Physical Science Through Diamond Windows", November 23, 2007 (Fri) from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Wendy Li-Wen Mao (Stanford University) on "Hydrogen Storage in Molecular Compounds", November 21, 2007 (Wed) from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Room 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Xiangdong JI (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, USA) on "Neutrinos and Us", Nov 19, 2007 (Fri) from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Shi-he YANG (Department of Chemistry, HKUST) on "Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Physics of Fullerenes and Metallofullerenes", Nov 16, 2007 (Fri) from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr B. Grant LOGAN (US Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) on "Heavy-ion-beam-driven Research in Warm Dense Matter, and Applications to Fusion", October 29, 2007 (Mon) from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at L3, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Feng LIU (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, USA) on "Strain Engineering for Self-assembly of Nanoarchitectures and Tuning of SiGe Band Structures", October 26, 2007 (Fri) from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Ji-Ping HUANG (Department of Physics, Fudan University) on "Anisotropic Structure of Polydisperse Colloidal Ferrofluids", October 18, 2007 (Thu) from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at L4, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Shenghao HAN (Department of Physics, Shang Dong University, P.R. China), October 11, 2007 (Thu) from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at L4, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Bing XU (Department of Chemistry, HKUST) on "Synthesis and Applications of Biofunctional Nanoparticles", October 5, 2007 (Fri) from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Che-Ting Chan (Department of Physics, HKUST) on "Soft Material Stabilized by Light", September 28, 2007 (Fri) from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Jimmy Chai-mei Yu (Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science Programme, CUHK) on "Photocatalytic Nanomaterials", September 07, 2007 (Fri) from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• [Revised] Seminar by Dr. Mei-Yee Chan (City University of Hong Kong) on "Approaches for Enhancing the Performance of Organic Optoelectronic Devices", August 28, 2007 (Tue) from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Room 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Professor Michael N. Leuenberger (Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, USA) on "Berry-phase Oscillations of the Kondo Effect and Berry-phase Blockade in Single-Molecule Magnets", August 13, 2007 (Mon) from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 n.n. at L4, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Cheung King Man (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) on "Unparticle Physics"
  August 07, 2007 (Tue) from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Yuk-Tung LIU (University of Illinois) on "General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics and Its Applications to Astrophysics"
  July 19, 2007 (Thur) from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Room G25A, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. Lam Hui (Columbia Univ.) on "Modern Cosmology"
  Talk 1: "Dark Energy and the Homogeneous Universe", 5 July 2007 from 3:30-5:00p.m. at L3, Science Centre, CUHK
  Talk 2: "Dark Matter and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe", 11 July 2007 from 3:30-5:00p.m. at L3, Science Centre, CUHK
  Talk 3: "Inflation and the Early Universe", 18 July 2007 from 3:30-5:00p.m. at L3, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Clifford M. WILL (Washington University) on "The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment"
  July 4, 2007 (Wed) from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Room LG23, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Joint Lectures by Prof. Terrence Hwa (UC San Diego) on "Gene Regulation as an Information Processing System"
  
  
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• Seminar by Professor Xincheng Xie (Oklahoma State Univ. and Institute of Physics, CAS) on "The Heat Generation by an Electric Current in Nano-devices"
  June 20, 2007 (Wed) from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at L3, Science Centre, CUHK