CityUHK Undergraduate Info Day 2024
CityUHK Undergraduate Info Day 2024 will be held on 5 October (Saturday) from 9:00am to 5:30pm on campus. There will be a variety of activities, including admissions talks, admissions consultations, exhibitions, campus and facility tours and demonstrations, and student and alumni experience sharing. For details, please visit here.
CityUHK Alumni Homecoming 2024
In celebration of CityUHK’s 30th Anniversary, Alumni Homecoming 2024 will be held on 2 November (Saturday) to encourage alumni to come back to campus and reconnect with the CityUHK community. A wide range of activities, including networking reunions, seminars, workshops and tours will be held. For details, please visit here.
10th Anniversary of the CityUHK Arts Festival
2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the CityUHK Arts Festival, CityUHK's annual flagship arts event. The theme for this year, “What's NEXT?”, reflects on the Festival's long years of success and looking forward to prospects for the future with unlimited possibilities, as CityUHK performers take a great leap to a higher artistic arena. The Festival will be held from October to November. For details, please visit here.
HKIAS Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Étienne Ghys, Emeritus Research Director at The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Permanent Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences and Member of Academia Europaea, will give a lecture titled “Soccer Balls: Their History, Geometries, and Aerodynamics” on 30 October. Professor Ghys will examine the structure of soccer balls and their geometry. He will also discuss the “drag crisis phenomenon”, a concept well-known in fluid dynamics. For more information, please visit here.
HKICE Distinguished Lecture
Professor Chen Wei, Provost’s Chair Professor in both the Chemistry and Physics departments, and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS), will conduct a lecture titled “Interface Engineered Nanocatalysis for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction” on 9 October. In the talk, Professor Chen will summarise and discuss their recent work on the development of interface-controlled nanocatalysis for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction enabled by renewable electricity. For more information, please visit here.
Kudos
Mr Liu Fei, PhD student in the Department of Computer Science, in collaboration with Professor Zhang Qingfu, Professor Lu Zhichao and five other scholars, won the Champion award in IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter Postgraduate Student Research Paper Competition 2024. Their paper, titled “Evolution of Heuristics: Towards Efficient Automatic Algorithm Design Using Large Language Model”, proposes the Evolution of Heuristic (EoH), a novel evolutionary paradigm that leverages both Large Language Models (LLMs) and Evolutionary Computation (EC) methods for Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD). The heuristic generated by EoH with a low computational budget significantly outperforms human hand-crafted baseline algorithms for solving the online bin-packing problem.