10:30 am – 11:30 am

Symposium [Lam Woo Lecture Theater (LT-B)]
Opening: Mapping Frontiers of Science

• C N Yang Tsinghua University & CUHK
  "Hopes for the Future"

2:30 pm

Symposium [LT-B]
Session A: New Frontiers in Science

• Marvin Cohen UC Berkeley
  "Condensed Matter Physics: Concepts and Applications"
• Yuan Tseh Lee Academia Sinica
  "Dynamics of Molecular Dissociation Processes"
• Douglas Osheroff Stanford University
  "What Isn't Interdisciplinary Science?"
• Henry Tye Cornell University
  "The Birth of Our Universe: An Overview of Cosmology"

8:30 am

Symposium [Lee Wing Tat Lecture Theater (LT-D)]
Session B: Science of New Materials

• Tord Claeson Chalmers University of Technology
  "LaAlO₃ on SrTiO₃ Hetero-Interfaces"
• Patrick A Lee MIT
  "Emergent Properties in Condensed Matter Physics"
• Sir John Pendry Imperial College London
  "Metamaterials Open New Horizons in Electromagnetism"
• Yuen-Ron Shen UC Berkeley
  "Optical Characterization of Carbon Nanostructures"
• Eli Yablonovitch UC Berkeley
  "Nanophotonic Devices: Spontaneous Emission Faster than Stimulated"

Session C: New Frontiers in Life Science

• Robert Austin Princeton University
  "The Physics of Evolution"
• Aaron Ciechanover Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
  "From the Bench to the Bedside – the Journey to Novel Drug Development in Our Time"
• Paul Schimmel The Scripps Research Institute
  "Surprising Mutations Causing Neurological Disease and What They Tell Us"
• Yigong Shi Tsinghua University
  "Protein Phosphatases: Insights from Structural Biology"
• Lap-Chee Tsui University of Hong Kong
  "What Next after the Identification of a Disease Gene?"

2:00 pm

Symposium [LT-D]
Session D: Computation Science

• Roland Glowinski University of Houston
  "Adventures in Computing"
• Fanghua Lin Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  "Reflections on Current Developments of Partial Differential Equations"
• George Papanicolaou Stanford University
  "The Mathematics of Uncertainty Quantification"
• Andrew Yao Tsinghua University
  "The Science Behind Information Technology"

Session E: Emerging Technology for Energy

• Dahe Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences & China Meteorological Administration
  "Global Warming and Cryosphere Change"
• Yuanxi Wan Chinese Academy of Sciences
  "Fusion Energy, Tokamak EAST and Experimental Reactor ITER"
• Paul Chu HKUST
  "Superconductivity and Global Economic Sustainable Development"

Roundtable: Future Directions and Challenges

• Marvin Cohen (chair) UC Berkeley
• Aaron Ciechanover Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
• Peter Goddard Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• Sir John Pendry Imperial College London
• Andrew Yao Tsinghua University