The President's Lecture Series – online
Many material properties depend on their structure at a scale much larger than atoms and electrons, i.e. microstructure. Controlling microstructure evolution is one of the main challenges of materials science. In the talk “How Materials Evolve: a defective story” on 20 March, Professor David Srolovitz, Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Senior Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, will show how we learned to understand one type of microstructure evolution from the atomic to the continuum scales. The talk is part of the President's Lecture Series: Excellence in Academia.
The Lecture will be broadcasted live. Online participants will be allowed to ask questions during the Q&A session.
Appointment
Professor Wang Wenxiong has been appointed Chair Professor of Environmental Toxicology. Professor Wang, who assumed duty on 31 January 2020, received his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Prior to joining CityU, he was Chair Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests focus on metal ecotoxicology, nanotoxicology, and estuary pollution and he is the editor of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (ET&C), associate editor of Environmental Pollution, and a member of the editorial boards of other top-tier international journals. He is also an elected Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science, and Technology and the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
CityU Walk Contest
Using the “CityU Walk” mobile application, the contest takes place for the whole of March. CityU staff, students, alumni and friends can join. Prizes go to the top three individuals and teams. The app pedometer records your daily total step counts, the distance walked and calories burned. The contest is part of a Wellness For All programme held from 1 to 31 March. To get started, please visit website.
Kudos
A team of BSc Computer Science students from the Department of Computer Science (CS) won the Bronze Medal in the 44th ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest Asian Regional Contest (Nanchang) 2019 in Nanchang, China in November 2019. The team, comprising Dong Qihua, Zhai Xingyu and Zheng Leqian, was supervised by Dr Li Minming, Associate Professor in CS, and Dr Kenneth Lee Ka-chun, Instructor in CS. Zhai Xingyu and Zheng Leqian, together with Wu Tongwen, a PhD student from the Department of Management Sciences, won the Bronze Medal in the 2019 ICPC Asia Hong Kong Regional Contest held from 30 November to 1 December 2019 in Shenzhen.