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News

January 2020: Prof Lei-Han TANG is appointed as the Director of ICTS, replacing Professor Michel A VAN HOVE.
September 2014: Dr Xiaoming YUAN is appointed as the Associate Director of ICTS, replacing Prof Michael Ng.
September 2014: Dr Changsong ZHOU is appointed as the Deputy Director of ICTS.
September 2012: ICTS appointed three Research Assistant Professors, jointly with HKBU departments and the Faculty of Science: Dr Yutian LI (with Mathematics), Dr Xiang WAN (with Computer Science) and Dr Yi WANG (with Computer Science).
1 July 2012: HKBU appointed the Director of ICTS: Chair Professor Michel A VAN HOVE (also affiliated with the HKBU Department of Physics)

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About ICTS

The Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies was established in 2011 to enhance inter-disciplinary research on computational and theoretical studies, and attract overseas research groups for interdisciplinary and collaborative research, so as to create a critical mass which can conduct research of higher impact. Its specific objectives are:

to enlarge our research platform with different research groups to facilitate interdisciplinary and collaborative group research
to increase contacts with international/regional scholars toward collaborative research
to promote academic exchange activities building on existing research strengths
to enhance interest from potential donors with a research institute of larger scale

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Advisory Committee

The Members of the ICTS Advisory Committee are:

Professor Weinan E, Princeton University and Peking University, Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Zhiming MA, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Professor Steven G LOUIE, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Member of US National Academy of Sciences
Dr Yuhai TU, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Peking University, Fellow American Physical Society
Professor Guoliang CHEN, Shenzhen University, Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Zuowei SHEN, National University of Singapore, Fellow of Singapore National Academy of Sciences

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Management Committee

Director:

Professor Lei-Han TANG (Physics)

Deputy Director:

Professor Changsong ZHOU (Physics)

Associate Directors:

Professor Xue-Cheng TAI (Mathematics)
Professor Yiu Ming CHEUNG (Computer Science)

Members:

Chair Professor Jianhua ZHANG (Dean, Faculty of Science)
Chair Professor Lixing ZHU (Mathematics)
Chair Professor Jiming LIU (Computer Science)

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Constituent Research Centres

The Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies was formed by consolidation of the following Research Centres established by the University and the Faculty of Science.

The Beijing-Hong Kong-Singapore Joint Centre for Nonlinear and Complex Systems (BHS)
Institute for Computational Mathematics (ICM) (Dissolved in 2014)
Centre for Health Informatics (CTTR)
High Performance Cluster Computing Centre (HPCCC)
Centre for Mathematical Imaging and Vision (CMIV)
Centre for Nonlinear Studies (CNS)
Peking University - Hong Kong Baptist University Joint Research Institute for Applied Mathematics (JRIAM)
Centre for Quantitative Systems Biology (CQSB)
Statistics Research and Consultancy Centre (SRCC)
Research Centre for Ubiquitous Computing (RCUC)

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People -- Core and Associate Members

Core Members:

Professor Michael KP NG (Dir CMIV)
Chair Professor Tao TANG (Dean Sci, Dir JRIAM, Mbr BHS, Mbr CNS)
Assistant Professor Xiaoming YUAN (Mbr CMIV)
Assistant Professor Tieyong ZENG (Mbr CMIV)
Chair Professor Lixing ZHU (Hd MATH, Dir SRCC, Mbr JRIAM)
Assistant Professor Tiejun TONG (Mbr SRCC)
Professor Li Zhi LIAO (Mbr HPCCC)
Chair Professor Michel A VAN HOVE (Dir ICTS)
Professor Lei-Han TANG (Dir CQSB, Dir HPCCC, Mbr BHS, Mbr CNS)
Associate Professor Changsong ZHOU (Dir BHS, Dir CNS, Mbr CQSB, Mbr HPCCC)
Assistant Professor Jade Jue SHI (Asso Dir CQSB)
Professor Yiu Ming CHEUNG (Mbr CHI)
Chair Professor Jiming LIU (Asso Dean Sci, Dir CHI, Mbr CQSB, Mbr RCUC)
Professor Joseph Kee Yin NG (Dir RCUC, Mbr CHI)
Associate Professor Xiaowen CHU (Mbr CHI, Mbr RCUC)
Assistant Professor Yutian LI (HKBU Mathematics)
Research Assistant Professor Xiang WAN (HKBU Computer Science)
Research Assistant Professor Yi WANG (HKBU Computer Science)

Associate Members:

Associate Members of ICTS include all other members of the ten Constituent Research Centres:

Up-to-date names are listed on the websites of the individual constituent Research Centres above

Further Associate Members:

Assistant Professor Jack Tsz Fai NG (HKBU Physics)
Assistant Professor Kin Yiu WONG (HKBU Physics)
Professor Ruiqin ZHANG (City University of Hong Kong, Department of Physics and Materials Science)
Professor Walter GANDER (ETH Zurich, Department of Computer Science)
Professor Werner SOMMER (Humboldt University, Berlin, Institute for Psychology)
Professor Roger J HOSKING (University of Adelaide, School of Mathematical Sciences)
Professor David SY TONG (South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen)
Professor Ravindra E AMRITKAR (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad)
Professor Miquel SALMERON (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley)
Professor Warren PICKETT (University of California at Davis, Department of Physics)
Dr Lin-Wang WANG (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley)
Professor Kai-Ming HO (University of Iowa at Ames, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Ames Laboratory)
Professor Klaus HERMANN (Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society, Department of Inorganic Chemistry)
Dr Ching-Ming WEI (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences)

Associate membership is open to other interested colleagues at HKBU and other institutions, including visitors to ICTS and experimentalists: names may be submitted to icts@hkbu.edu.hk, stating grounds for interest, institutional affiliation, personal website and email address.

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ICTS Seminars/Lectures

Links to full lists of seminars/lectures/colloquia of the HKBU Departments of: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics (Seminars / Lectures), Physics

Below are seminars/lectures/colloquia of special interest to ICTS:

Seminar Date and Time	Venue	*Speaker* / Affiliation	Sponsors / Title
*2019*
22 May 2019 11:00 - 12:00	FSC1014	*Dr. Ryohei Seto* Beihang University, Beijing, China	PHYS/ICTS: "Shear Thickening of Dense Suspensions" Poster is available here
*2018*
29 November 2018 16:30 - 17:30	RRS905	*Prof. Hao Li* University of California San Francisco, USA	PHYS/ICTS: "Systems Biology of Cellular Aging" Poster is available here
28 November 2018 16:00 - 17:00	SCT909	*Prof. Sir John B. Pendry* The Blackett Lab, Imperial College, UKniversity, Canada	PHYS/ICTS: "Compacted Dimensions & Singular Plasmonic Surfaces" Poster is available here
11 September 2018 10:30 - 11:30	SCT909	*Prof. Hong Guo* Center for the Physics of Materials and Department of Physics, McGill University, Canada	PHYS/ICTS: "Materials Informatics: The 4th paradigm" Poster is available here
11 September 2018 15:00 - 16:00	SCT909	*Dr. Guancong Ma* Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University	PHYS/ICTS: "Novel Ways of Sound Field Control with Acoustic Metamaterials" Poster is available here
17 August 2018 11:00 - 12:00	FSC703	*Dr. Zhu Yang* State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Hong Kong Baptist University	BIOL/ICTS: "Quantitative Phosphoproteomics and Its Application in the Study of Plant Signaling" Poster is available here
6 July 2018 16:00 - 17:00	SCT501	*Prof. Rama Chellappa* Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, USA	COMP/ICTS: "Deep Representations, Adversarial Learning and Domain Adaptation for Some Computer Vision Problems" Poster is available here
26 June 2018 11:00 - 12:00	RRS905	*Prof. Yuhui Shi* Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China	COMP/ICTS: "Developmental Brain Storm Optimization Algorithms" Poster is available here
6 June 2018 10:30 - 11:30	RRS905	*Prof. Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan* School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	COMP/ICTS: "Non-iterative Learning Methods" Poster is available here
24 May 2018 10:30 - 11:30	RRS905	*Prof. Yaochu Jin* Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, UK	COMP/ICTS: "Data-driven Evolutionary Optimization – Integrating Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Sciences" Poster is available here
10 April 2018 16:30 - 17:30	RRS905	*Prof. Christian S. Jensen* Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark	COMP/ICTS: "Enabling High-Quality and Efficient Vehicle Routing using Massive Trajectory Data" Poster is available here
8 March 2018 10:30 - 11:30	RRS905	*Prof. Edwin R. Hancock* Principal Investigator - Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data and Brain Computing & Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK	COMP/ICTS: "Entropic Analysis of Time Evolving Networks" Poster is available here
23 January 2018 16:30 - 18:00	WLB109	*Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu* Founding Director & Chief Scientist, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, University of California Berkeley, USA	COMP/ICTS/KTO: "How to Achieve Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in X - Learning from Experiences at UC Berkeley" Poster is available here
10 January 2018 11:00 - 12:00	CVA111	*Prof. Joseph A. Konstan* Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA	COMP/ICTS: "Recommender Systems: Beyond Machine Learning" Poster is available here
*2017*
21 November 2017 16:30 - 17:30	WLB210	*Prof. Pascal Poupart* David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada	COMP/ICTS: "Personalized Transfer Learning" Poster is available here
27 October 2017 12:45 - 14:15	ACC209	*Prof. Tao Zhou* Director of the Web Sciences Center; Director of the Big Data Research Center; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	CHTL/ICTS: "How Artificial Intelligence Has Changed and Will Change Our World, Including Education" Poster is available here
19 October 2017 11:00 - 12:00	SCT909	*Dr. Tjonnie G.F. Li* Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong	PHYS/ICTS: "Gravitational Waves: A New Window on the Universe"
16 August 2017 14:30 - 15:30	FSC1014	*Prof. Yuhai Tu* Physical Sciences Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center & Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University, China	PHYS/ICTS: "Nonequilibrium Physics in Biology"
31 July 2017 16:00 - 17:00	SCT909	*Prof. Qing-Hu Chen* Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, China	PHYS/ICTS: "Zeno and Anti-Zeno Effect in an Open Quantum System in the Ultrastrong-Coupling Regime"
31 May 2017 14:30 - 16:30	SCT909	*Prof. Sir John B. Pendry* Department of Physics, Imperial College, UK	PHYS/ICTS: "Transformation Optics, Surface Plasmons, and Metasurfaces"
14 March 2017 16:00 - 17:00	SCT909	*Prof. Xiaodong Su* Biodynamics Optical Imaging Center, Peking University, China	PHYS/ICTS: "Protein Structure, Function, and the Peptide Universe"
*2016*
9 December 2016 15:30 - 16:30	SCT909	*Dr. C. Mathew Mate* formerly with Western Digital Corporation San Jose, California, USA	PHYS/ICTS: "Why Lquid Droplets Spread like Pancakes rather than Diffuse like Molecules"
8 December 2016 15:30 - 16:30	SCT909	*Dr. Peter beim Graben* Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany	PHYS/ICTS: "Emergent Quantun Properties in Classical Dynamical Systems" Poster is available here
7 Sept 2016 15:30 - 16:30	SCT909	*Dr. He Daihai* Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	PHYS/ICTS: "Modeling the Spread of Infectious Diseases - Measles and Influenza as Examples" Poster is available here
17 May 2016 15:15 - 16:15	SCT909	*Prof. Karl-Heinz Ernst* Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology & Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich	PHYS/ICTS: "Broken mirror symmetry and inelastic electron tunneling: single – molecular dynamics and unidirectional motors at surfaces " Poster is available here
*2015*
18 December 2015 16:00 - 17:00	SCT714	*Dr. Haiguang Liu* Beijing Computational Science Research Center	PHYS/ICTS: "X-ray free electron laser diffraction from inorganic nanoparticles " Poster is available here
25 November 2015 16:00 - 17:00	SCT716	*Professor Sir John Pendry FRS* Co-Director, Centre for Plasmonics & Metamaterials The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK	PHYS/ICTS: "The sub nanoscale optical response of plasmonic materials " Poster is available here
24 November 2015 15:15 - 16:15	SCT909	*Prof. Quentin A Parker* Department of Physics University of Hong Kong	PHYS/ICTS: "Kathryn's Wheel: a spectacular galaxy collision discovered in the Galactic neighbourhood" Poster is available here
30 October 2015 16:00 - 17:00	SCT716	*Dr. Julien Tailleur* Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes complexes, Université Paris Diderot	PHYS/ICTS: "Active matter: moving and pushing together " Poster is available here
29 June 2015 10:00 - 11:00 (Lecture 1) 11:15 - 12:15 (Lecture 2)	FSC1217	*Prof. Roland Potthast* Deutscher Wetterdienst DWD and BMVBS Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, Germany and University of Reading, United Kingdom	ICTS: "Lecture 1: Survey about Global and Regional Numerical Weather Prediction Lecture 2: Ensemble and Particle Filters for Large-Scale Data Assimilation" Poster is available here
12 June 2015 15:00 - 16:00	SCT716	*Prof. Hans A. Braun* Neurodynamics Group, Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology Philipps University of Marburg (Germany)	PHYS/ICTS: "Determinism, Randomness and the Question of the “Free Will” " Poster is available here
6 May 2015 11:00 - 12:00 (Lecture 1) 14:00 - 15:00 (Lecture 2)	FSC1217	*Dr. Martin Weissmann* Hans-Ertel-Centre for Weather Research, Meteorologisches Institut, LMU, Germany	ICTS: "Lecture 1: Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation Lecture 2: The Assimilation of Novel Remote-Sensing Instruments in Km-Scale Weather Prediction Models " Poster is available here
20 April 2015 10:00 - 11:00 (Lecture 1) 11:30 - 12:30 (Lecture 2)	FSC1217	*Prof. Takemasa Miyoshi* RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science Japan	ICTS: "Lecture 1:Numerical Weather Prediction: Chaos, Predictability, and Data Assimilation Lecture 2: Data Assimilation Toward Big Data and Post-Peta-Scale Supercomputing: A Personal Perspective " Poster is available here
9 April 2015 10:00 - 11:00 (Lecture 1) 11:30 - 12:30 (Lecture 2)	FSC1217	*Dr. Chian-Yi Liu* Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research National Central University Taiwan	ICTS: "Lecture 1: Introduction to Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation Lecture 2: The Impact of Advanced Infrared and Microwave Soundings on Short-term Weather Forecast " Poster is available here
5 Mar 2015 16:00 - 17:00	SCT909	*Prof. Chen Qing-hu* Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, China	PHYS/ICTS: "Exact Solvability and Non-integrability of the Dicke Model " Poster is available here
13 Feb 2015 10:30 - 11:30	SCT909	*Prof. Klaus Hermann* Inorg. Chemistry Dept., Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin (Germany)	PHYS/MATH/ICTS: "Periodic Overlayers, Interference Lattices, and Moiré Patterns: a unified theoretical treatment " Poster is available here
20 Jan 2015 11:30 - 12:30	1/F Shiu Pong Hall	*Prof. Jianqing Fan* Professor of Statistics Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance Chair, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University	MATH/ICTS/SRCC: "Latent Graphical Model for Mixed Data" Poster is available here
8 Jan 2015 17:00 - 18:00	1/F Shiu Pong Hall	*Prof. Tony Cai* Dorothy Silberberg Professor and Professor of Statistics The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	MATH/ICTS/SRCC: "Robust Recovery and Detection of Structured Signals" Poster is available here
*2014*
12 Dec 2014 14:30 - 15:30	FSC1014	*Prof. Henri Orland* Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay, France	PHYS/ICTS: "Searching for Knots and Pseudoknots in RNA "
19 Nov 2014 16:30 - 17:30	1/F Shiu Pong Hall Function Room	*Dr. Y. Tony Song* NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA	MATH/ICTS: "GPS-Aided Tsunami Early Detection System"
18 Nov 2014 16:00 - 17:00	FSC1014	*Prof. Michael Lässig* Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany	PHYS/ICTS: "Fitness seascapes and adaptive evolution of the influenza virus"
17 Nov 2014 15:30 - 16:30	SCT 909	*Prof. Albert Diaz Guilera* Guilera Facultat de Fisics, Universitate de Barcelona, Spain	PHYS/ICTS: "Dynamics in Multiplex Networks " Poster is available here
14 May 2014 14:30 - 15:30	SCT 909	*Prof. Yia-Chung Chang* Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan	PHYS/ICTS: "Modeling of Nanoscale Electronics " Poster is available here
13 May 2014 15:30 - 16:30	SCT 909	*Prof. Klaus E. Hermann* Inorganic Chemistry Department, Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Germany	PHYS/ICTS: "Structure and Reactivity in Biocatalytic Centers: DFT Studies on Vanadium Oxo-peroxo Species" Poster is available here
11 Mar 2014 15:30 - 16:30	SCT 909	*Dr Jichen Li* Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Manchester, United Kingdom	PHYS/ICTS: "Water – Weird or What? Neutron Scattering Investigation of Water and Water around Biomolecules" Poster is available here
21 Feb 2014 16:00 - 17:00 CANCELLED	FSC 1014	*Prof Yi Qin Gao* Changjiang Professor, Director, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University	ICTS: "Sequence coded DNA shape" Poster is available here
11 Feb 2014 11:00 - 12:00	FSC 1014	*Dr Lin-Tai Da* Department of Chemistry HKUST	ICTS: "Millisecond Dynamics of the RNA Polymerase II Backtracking Elucidated by Markov State Models" Poster is available here
27 Jan 2014 11:00 - 12:00	SCT 909	*Prof Jürgen Kurths* Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Humboldt University Berlin Institute of Physics, Germany	PHYS/ICTS: "How Basin Stability Complements the Linear-Stability Paradigm " Poster is available here
14 Jan 2014 16:30 - 18:00	LT 2	*Prof Itai Cohen* Cornell University	PHYS/ICTS: "Flight of the Fruitfly" Poster is available here
*2013*
30 Dec 2013 11:00 - 12:00	RRS 905	*Prof Jooyoung Lee* Center for In Silico Protein Science and School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study	PHYS/ICTS: "Global Optimization by Conformational Space Annealing and its Applications to Various Biological Systems" Poster is available here
11 Dec 2013 10:30 - 11:30	SCT 909	*Dr Sutapa Mukherji* Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India	PHYS/ICTS: "Boundary layer analysis for driven many particle systems" Poster is available here
3 Dec 2013 15:45 - 16:45	SCT 909	*Prof. Christian Minot* Laboratoire de Chime Theorique, Universite de Paris VI, P. et M. Curie, France	PHYS/ICTS: "Theoretical Modeling and Metal Oxide Chemistry" Poster is available here
11 Nov 2013 10:30 - 11:30 (Lecture 1) 14:30 - 15:30 (Lecture 2)	FSC1217	**Prof Adrian Sandu** Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech	CMIV/ICTS: "Lecture 1: Fundamentals of Data Assimilation I -- Ensemble Based Methods Lecture 2: Fundamentals of Data Assimilation II -- Variational Methods "
29 Oct 2013 15:15 - 16:15	SCT 909	**Prof Wolfgang Moritz** Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	PHYS/ICTS: "Interface magnetism in Fe-Ti oxide films" Poster is available here
7 June 2013 16:30 - 17:30	LMC 509	*Prof Stephen WRIGHT* University of Wisconsin-Madison SIAM Fellow	CMIV/ICTS: "Parallel Randomnized Algorithms in Optimization" Poster is available here
4 June 2013 15:15 - 16:15	SCT 909	*Prof Michel A VAN HOVE* Instititute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, HKBU	PHYS/ICTS: "C60, symbol of nanoscience: bonding properties on metal surfaces" Poster is available here
29 May 2013 17:00 - 18:30	WLB 104	*Prof Michel A VAN HOVE* Instititute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, HKBU	IoC/ICTS: "May We Change Nature or Must We Change Ourselves?" Poster is available here
14 May 2013 16:00 - 17:00	RRS 905	*Prof Sir John PENDRY* Centre for Plasmonics & Metamaterials, The Blackette Lab, Imperial College London	PHYS/IAM/ICTS: "Transformation Optics Shapes Metamaterials" Poster is available here
10 May 2013 16:00 - 17:00	RRS 905	*Dr Yu LUO* The Blackett Lab, Imperial College London	PHYS/IAM/ICTS: "Controlling Light at Subwavelength Scales: The Nonlocal and Quantum Tunnelling Effects" Poster is available here
18 Mar 2013 16:00 - 17:00	SCT 716	*Prof Hong GUO* Department of Physics, McGill University & AoE, University of Hong Kong	PHYS/ICTS: "Quantum Transport Modeling from Atomistic First Principles"
23 Jan 2013 15:00 - 16:00	WLB 109	*Prof Klaus E. HERMANN* Leader Theoretical Support, Fritz-Haber Institue Berlin	CHEM/PHYS/ICTS: "Structural Analysis of Silica-Supported Tansition Metal Oxide Catalysts by X-ray Absorption: Theoretical Cluster Studies" Poster is available here
16 Jan 2013 11:00 - 12:00	FSC 1217	*Dr Anita T. Layton* Duke University, USA	MATHS/ICTS: "Mathematical modeling of renal hemodynamics: Feedback dynamics and coupled oscillators" Poster is available here
*2012*
17 Dec 2012 15:15 - 16:15	SCT 909	*Dr Vimal KISHORE* Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India	PHYS/CNS/ICTS: "Network Vulnerability to Extreme Events" Poster is available here
11 Dec 2012 11:30 - 12:30	RRS 905	*Prof Zuowei SHEN* National University of Singapore and Singapore National Academy of Science	MATHS/ICTS: "Image restoration: Wavelet frame approach, total variation and beyond" Poster is available here
4 Dec 2012 15:15 - 16:15	SCT 909	*Prof Warren Pickett* University of California at Davis and National University of Singapore	PHYS/ICTS: "Semi-Dirac, semi-Weyl semi-halfmetal in oxide nanostructures" Poster is available here
30 Nov 2012 14:30 - 15:30	SCT 909	*Dr Lin-Wang WANG* Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory-Berkeley	COMP/MATHS/PHYS/ICTS: "GPU implementation of a plane wave pseudopotential density functional theory code: PEtot" Poster is available here
9 Nov 2012 11:00 - 12:00	SCT 909	*Prof Miquel Salmeron* Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California-Berkeley	PHYS/ICTS: "Electronic transport in organic molecular films for solar cell applications" Poster is available here
8 Nov 2012 15:00 - 16:00	SCT 909	*Prof R.E. Amritkar* Physical Research Laboratory India	PHYS/ICTS: "Extreme events on complex networks and network failure" Poster is available here
2 Nov 2012 17:00 - 18:00	WLB 205	*Prof David SY Tong* SUSTC Shenzhen and PHYS/ICTS/HKBU	PHYS/ICTS: "Photocatalysis of metal oxide surfaces" Poster is available here

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ICTS Monday Lunch Talks

The purpose of ICTS Monday Lunch Talks is to promote interactions across departments/schools and disciplines. The format of the lunch talk is a relatively short presentation of recent and current interests by experts in various fields, for a broad audience, followed by an extended discussion.

ICTS Monday Lunch Talks are sponsored by the Institute of Creativity (IoC) and the Hung Hin Shiu Charitable Foundation.

Date and Time	Venue	*Speaker* / Affiliation	Title
*2019*
30 September 2019 12:15	SCT909	*Prof. Leihan Tang* Department of Physics, HKBU	"R&D Opportunities in the Pearl River Delta from the Eyes of an Academic" Poster is available here
19 August 2019 12:15	SCT909	*Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang* U.S.-China Friendship Exchange, Inc.	"Did Admiral Zheng He explore America long before Christopher Columbus "discovered" it?" Poster is available here
6 May 2019 12:15	SCT909	*Prof. Donggen Wang* Department of Geography, HKBU	"Future Cities: Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Studies" Poster is available here
29 April 2019 12:15	SCT909	*Prof. Pong Chi Yuen* Department of Computer Science, HKBU	"Face Biometric: From Recognition to Presentation Attack" Poster is available here
8 April 2019 12:15	SCT909	*Dr. Celine Song* Department of Journalism, HKBU	"Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Societal Concerns: Opportunities and Challenges" Poster is available here
25 March 2019 12:15	SCT909	*Prof. Zhaoxiang Bian* School of Chinese Medicine, HKBU	"Gut Microbes with Our Daily Life" Poster is available here
11 February 2019 12:00	SCT909	*Prof. Xue-Cheng Tai* Department of Mathematics, HKBU	"A Survey on Image Segmentation Methods" Poster is available here
28 January 2019 12:00	SCT909	*Prof. Jiming Liu* Department of Computer Science, HKBU	"From AI to Epidemic Intelligence" Poster is available here

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Regional Meetings -- ICTS-sponsored & other

Links to full lists of conferences/workshops of the HKBU Departments of: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics

Below are meetings of special interest to ICTS:

Meeting Dates	Venue	Title	Organizers, Sponsors
*2019*
*21-22 June 2019*	FSC1014 HKBU	*ICTS Workshop "Hong Kong - Korea Exchange of Multidisciplinary Scientific Research"*	*HKBU/ICTS/IoC/Hung Hin Shiu Charitable Foundation*
*2018*
*29-30 November 2018*	RRS905 HKBU	*ICTS Workshop on Cellular Biophysics and Microbiome Studies 2018*	*HKBU/ICTS/IoC/Hung Hin Shiu Charitable Foundation*
*16 April 20*18	FSC1014 HKBU	ICTS Mini Symposium on Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Active Matter	*HKBU/ICTS/HKBU PHYS/IoC/Hung Hin Shiu Charitable Foundation*
*8-12 January 20*18	*AAB504/505*	*ICTS Workshop: Architecture of Deep Neural Networks*	*HKBU/ICTS/IoC/Hung Hin Shiu Charitable Foundation*
*2017*
*29 November - 1 December 20*17	RRS905 & SCC201 HKBU	*International Symposium on Nanomachines: Powering Molecules*	*HKBU/ICTS/HKBU PHYS/CITYU PHYS/IoC/Hung Hin Shiu Charitable Foundation/Croucher Foundation*
*6 June 20*17	FSC1014 HKBU	*ICTS Workshop on Nonequilibrium StatMech and Biophysics*	*HKBU/ICTS*
*2016*
*14-17 December 2016*	WLB HKBU	*DDAP9: 9th Dynamics Days Asia-Pacific*	*HKBU/ICTS/PHYS*
3-4 June 2016	HKU	19th Conference of The Physical Society of Hong Kong	PSHK/HKU
6 January 2016	RRS 905, HKBU	2nd Symposium on Biophysics Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong	HKBU/PHYS
*2015*
*15 July 20*15	*HKBU*	*ICT*S focused workshop “Cell migration and neural connectivity in C. elegans”	*HKBU/ICTS*
*13-17 April 20*15	IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST	*Computational Neuroscience: A Bridge to Artificial Intelligence*	*HKBU/ICTS*
*21 Jan 20*15	SCT909 HKBU	*EEG/ERPs in Language and Face Cognition: New Methods and Findings*	*HKBU/ICTS*
*2014*
*13-16 Dec 2014*	HKBU & CityU Hong Kong	International Workshop on Computational Science and Engineering (IWCSE 2014)	*HKBU/ICTS*
*8-12 Dec 2014*	*HKBU*	5th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations (SCPDE14)	*HKBU/HKMS/ICTS*
*10 Nov 2014*	*HKBU*	*Mini-workshop on "Brain Imaging and Image Processing"*	*HKBU/ICTS*
*9-13 Nov 2014*	*HKBU*	Workshop on Numerical Methods and Theory for Fractional Differential Equations	*HKBU/ICTS*
*2013*
*20-23 Dec 2013*	HKBU Hong Kong	*The Ninth ICSA International Conference: Challenges of Statistical Methods for Interdisciplinary Research and Bid Data*	*HKBU MATH/ICTS*
15-19 Dec 2013	WLB104 HKBU Hong Kong	International Conference on Interdisciplinary Nanoscience for Energy, Life and Environment (INELE)	ICTS/HKBU PHYS
7-9 Nov 2013	WLB106 HKBU Hong Kong	The 4th Symposium on Computational Systems and Synthetic Biology (Tri-sys)	HKBU/ICTS
*2 Oct 2013*	FSC 1217 HKBU Hong Kong	HK-Berlin Half-Day Numerical Analysis	*HKBU MATH/ICTS*
4-9 Aug 2013	HKUST Hong Kong	Nano-Mechanical Interfaces: Multiphysics Theory and Experiments Poster is available here	GRC/ITC
22-26 July 2013	Seoul National University Korea	XXV IUPAP International Conference on Statstical Physics	Korea Inst for Advanced Study/Seoul Natioal Univ/Postech/Myongi Univ
2-19 July 2013	HKUST Hong Kong	Statistical Physics and Computational Neuroscience	HKUST/IAS Program
6-9 May 2013 Advertisment flyer is available here	CityU Hong Kong	Photonics of Functional Nanomaterials	CityU/HKU
*22 Jan 2013*	HKBU Hong Kong	All-atom and coarse-grained models of molecular motors and machines: structure and dynamics	*HKBU PHYS/ICTS*
*7-12 Jan 2013*	HKBU Hong Kong	*8th International Conference on Computational Physics (ICCP8)*	*HKBU/ICTS*
*2012*
19-20 Dec 2012	Shatin Hong Kong	2012 International Conference on Biomaterial and Bioengineering (ICBB 2012)
12-14 Dec 2012	HKUST, HKBU & PolyU Hong Kong	International Conference on Imaging Science 2012	HKUST/HKBU/PolyU
*10-14 Dec 2012* Program rundown is available here	HKBU Hong Kong	*Workshop on Dynamics and Regulation of Biomolecular Networks*	*HKBU/ICTS*
10-14 Dec 2012	HKBU Hong Kong	EL2012: 16th Int'l Workshop on Inorganic and Organic Electroluminescence	HKBU
9-13 Dec 2012	CityU Hong Kong	Workshop on Multifunctional Surface Engineering for Advanced Energy Applications	CityU/IUVSTA
5-7 Dec 2012	Macau	20th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'12)	HKBU/...
*3 Dec 2012* Program rundown is available here	HKBU Hong Kong	*Research Symposium Celebrating Centenary of Alan Turing's Birth: Promises and Challenges of Future Computing and Informatics*	*HKBU COMP/ICTS*
*1-3 Dec 2012*	HKBU Hong Kong	*WFTCPC'12:* *12th Workshop on Frontiers of Theoretical and Computational Physics and Chemistry*	*ICTS*
11-15 Nov 2012	Tsimshatsui Hong Kong	8th Int'l Workshop on LEEM/PEEM	HKUST
3-7 Oct 2012	HKUST Hong Kong	New Materials and New Concepts for Controlling Light and Waves	HKUST/IAS Croucher ASI
*2-5 Oct 2012* Workshop report is available here	HKBU Hong Kong	*Germany-HK Joint Workshop on Biological basis of individual differences in human social communicative abilities - quantitative experiments, computational methods and modeling*	*ICTS/CNS*
20 Aug 2012	HKBU Hong Kong	Workshop on Image Processing	HKBU MATH

We welcome new and updated listings of regional (SE Asia) scientific meetings related to ICTS interests: please send meeting dates, organizing institution, meeting title and website to icts@hkbu.edu.hk.

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ICTS regular meetings

Below is the schedule of regular meetings of ICTS members:

Meeting Dates & Time	Venue	*Speaker* / Affiliation
*2013*
27 Sep 2013 (Fri) 10:30 - 12:30	Shiu Pong Hall	JRIAM Prof. YUAN Xiaoming (HKBU Mathematics) Prof. TANG Tao (HKBU Mathematics) Dr. ZENG Tieyong (HKUB Mathematics)
21 May 2013 (Tue) 10:30 - 12:30	*Shiu Pong Hall*	CNS Dr. ZHOU Changsong (HKBU Physics) Mr. Ouyang Guang (HKBU Physics) *Miss Chen Yuhan* (HKBU Physics) Dr. Yang Dongping (HKBU Physics)
15 Apr 2013 (Mon) 10:30 - 12:30	*RRS 905*	CHI Mr Feng Wang & Dr Li Chen (HKBU Computer Science) *Prof Clement Leung* (HKBU Computer Science) *Dr William Cheung* (HKBU Computer Science) *Dr Zhongqiu Zhao & Prof Yiuming Cheung* (HKBU Computer Science) *Mr Shang Xia & Prof Jiming Liu* (HKBU Computer Science)
8 Apr 2013 (Mon) 10:30 - 12:30	*WLB 206*	CMIV Dr Huibin Chang (HKBU Mathematics) *Dr Xile Zhao* (HKBU Mathematics) *Miss Xinxin Li* (HKBU Mathematics) *Mr Andy J Ma* (HKBU Computer Science)
20 Mar 2013 (Wed) 10:30 - 12:30	*Shiu Pong Hall*	SRCC Mr Xu Guo (HKBU Mathematics) *Mr Wenlin Dai* (HKBU Mathematics) *Mr Tao Wang* (HKBU Mathematics)
7 Mar 2013 (Thu) 15:30 - 17:30	AAB 708	*RCUC*
20 Feb 2013 (Wed) 10:30 - 12:30	*RRS 905*	*Dr Jade Shi* (HKBU Physics) *Dr Zhongying Zhao* (HKBU Biology) *Dr Xiang Wan* (HKBU Computer Science)
28 Jan 2013 (Mon) 10:30 - 12:30	*WLB 206*	*Dr Yutian Li* (HKBU Mathematics) *Dr Jack Ng Tsz Fai* (HKBU Physics) *Dr Alice Yi Wang* (HKBU Computer Science)

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Contact Us

Institute:

Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies (ICTS)
10/F, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus
Hong Kong Baptist University
224 Waterloo Road
Kowloon, Hong Kong

Email: icts@hkbu.edu.hk
Tel/Fax: (852) 3411-2760 / -2761
Website: http://www.icts.hkbu.edu.hk/

Director Prof. Lei-Han TANG:

Email : lhtang@hkbu.edu.hk
Tel/Fax personal: (852) 3411-2766 / -2786

Location and access:

- on 10th floor of Fong Shu Chuen Library Building on the Ho Sin Hang campus (at the + symbol at the center of this map);

- enter the building at plaza level (on 5th floor, reachable by external escalators from street level), then take the lift to 10th floor;

- approach by public transport:

take exit B or D or F from MTR Kowloon Tong Station
then take a frequent green-topped Public Light Bus 29A from here for about 5 minutes to Junction Road here (shout "next stop" as the bus enters Junction Road)
turn left at the next street, cross the small university garden straight ahead, and go up the external escalator
next turn right then left around the building to its entrance and lift lobby
finally take the lift to the 10th floor and ring the bell at the Institute's door
alternatively, it's an easy 10-15 minute walk from MTR Kowloon Tong Station to the Institute

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Useful links

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU): http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/
HKBU Faculty of Science: http://www.sci.hkbu.edu.hk/
HKBU Department of Physics: http://physics.hkbu.edu.hk/
HKBU Department of Mathematics: http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/
HKBU Department of Computer Science: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/
HKBU Department of Chemistry: http://chem.hkbu.edu.hk/
HKBU Department of Biology: http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~biol/
Da Tong Project: http://hkbu-edu.wix.com/da-tong-project

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Webmaster: icts@hkbu.edu.hk