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Institute for Advanced Study at HKUST Inaugural Series - 11 & 13 September 2006 IAS S S Chern Lecture Speaker: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (University of Edinburgh) Date: 11th September 2006 Sir Michael Francis Atiyah is widely considered to be one of the greatest geometers of the 20th and the 21st century. In 1966, when he was 37 years old, he was awarded the Fields Medal for his work in developing K-theory and the Atiyah-Singer theorem, for which he also won the Abel Prize in 2004 jointly with Isadore Singer Sir Michael is President of the Royal Society of Scotland and has taught at Cambridge and Oxford. He has been the recipient of many honours and awards, including knighthood in 1983 and the Order of Merit in 1992. Shaw Prize Lecture in Life Science and Medicine Speaker: Prof Xiaodong Wang (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) Date: 13th September 2006 Prof Wang graduated in Biology from Beijing Normal University in 1984 and attained his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1991. Currently the George L MacGregor Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, he was elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2004. For his discovery of the biochemical
basis of programmed cell death, a vital process that balances cell
birth and defends against cancer, Prof Wang won the Shaw Prize in
Life Science and Medicine 2006. IAS Roundtable Date: 13th September 2006 Prof Paul
C W Chu (HKUST) In 1979, he joined the University of Houston as Professor of Physics. Prof Chu served as Director of the Solid State Physics Program at the National Science Foundation in 1986-87. He gained international renown with his outstanding achievements in the field of superconductivity and was selected as The Best Researcher in the US in 1990 by the US News and World Report. Prof Chu has received numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science, the International Prize for New Materials, the Comstock Award, the Texas Instruments' Founders' Prize, the John Fritz Medal, and the Freedoms Foundation National Award.
Prof Chen-Ning Yang (Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tsinghua University) Prof Yang received his PhD degree at the University of Chicago in 1948. He was associated with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton from 1949 to 1966. Prof Yang has made fundamental contributions in two fields: statistical
mechanics and symmetry principles. Widely considered one of the most important physicists living today, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957.
IAS Distinguished Lecture Speaker: Dr Kai-Fu Lee (Google Inc.) Date: 13th September 2006 Dr Kai-Fu Lee is a Vice President of Engineering at Google Inc. and Co-President of Google Greater China. He joined Google in 2005 to start Google’s operations in China. Prior to joining Google, Dr Lee had worked in top management for a number of IT giants like Microsoft, Cosmo Software and Apple. He joined Microsoft in 1998 and
was the founder of Microsoft Research Asia, which has since become
one of the best research centers in the world. From 1996 to 1998,
Dr Lee was the President of Cosmo Software, a subsidiary of Silicon
Graphics, Inc. (SGI). Before joining SGI, Dr Lee spent six years
at Apple, where he served as vice president of the company's interactive
media group. HKUST Distinguished Lecture Speaker: Dr Kai-Fu Lee (Google Inc.) Date: 13th September 2006 Dr Kai-Fu Lee is a Vice President of Engineering at Google Inc. and Co-President of Google Greater China. He joined Google in 2005 to start Google’s operations in China. Prior to joining Google, Dr Lee had worked in top management for a number of IT giants like Microsoft, Cosmo Software and Apple. He joined Microsoft in 1998 and
was the founder of Microsoft Research Asia, which has since become
one of the best research centers in the world. From 1996 to 1998,
Dr Lee was the President of Cosmo Software, a subsidiary of Silicon
Graphics, Inc. (SGI). Before joining SGI, Dr Lee spent six years
at Apple, where he served as vice president of the company's interactive
media group.
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