Speakers

  • Robert Austin Professor of Physics, Princeton University; Member, US National Academy of Sciences

  • Paul Chu [朱經武] President, HKUST; Member, US National Academy of Sciences; 1988 US National Medal of Science

  • Aaron Ciechanover Distinguished Research Professor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Member (Foreign) US National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, Member, American Philosophical Society & Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican; 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  • Tord Claeson Professor, Chalmers University of Technology; Former Chair, Physics Panel, Nobel Prize Committee; Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

  • Marvin Cohen University Professor, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley; Member, US National Academy of Sciences; 2001 US National Medal of Science

  • Roland Glowinski Cullen Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston; Member, Academia Europaea, French National Academy of Sciences & French National Academy of Technology

  • Peter Goddard Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Fellow, Royal Society of London; 1997 Dirac Prize

  • Patrick Lee [李雅達] William & Emma Rogers Professor of Physics, MIT; Member, US National Academy of Sciences; 2005 Dirac Prize

  • Yuan-Tseh Lee [李遠哲] Distinguished Research Fellow & Former President, Academia Sinica; Member, US National Academy of Sciences; 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  • Fanghua Lin [林芳華] Silver Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 2004 Chern Prize

  • Douglas Osheroff J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor in Physics, Stanford University; Member, US National Academy of Sciences; 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics

  • George Papanicolaou Robert Grimmett Professor in Mathematics, Stanford University; Member, US National Academy of Sciences

  • John Pendry Chair Professor in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London; Fellow, Royal Society of London; 1996 Dirac Prize

  • Dahe Qin [秦大河] Director, State Key Laboratory of Cryoshperic Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Former Director, China Meteorological Administration

  • Paul Schimmel Ernest and Jean Hahn Professor of Molecular Biology and Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute; Member, US National Academy of Sciences

  • Yuen-Ron Shen [沈元壤] Professor of the Graduate School, Dept of Physics, UC Berkeley; Member, US National Academy of Sciences

  • Yigong Shi [施一公] Director of Center for Structural Biology and Vice Dean of School of Medicine, Tsinghua University

  • Lap-Chee Tsui [徐立之] Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Hong Kong; Member (Foreign), US National Academy of Sciences; Fellow, Royal Society of London & Royal Society of Canada

  • Henry Tye [戴自海] Horace White Professor of Physics, Cornell University; Fellow, American Physical Society

  • Yuanxi Wan [萬元熙] Head of HT-7U Superconducting Tokamak Project, Former Director, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Eli Yablonovitch Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley; Member, US National Academy of Engineering & US National Academy of Sciences

  • C. N. Yang [楊振寧] Professor, Tsinghua University and Distinguished Professor-At-Large, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Member, US National Academy of Sciences; 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics

  • Andrew Yao [姚期智] Professor, Tsinghua University; Member, US National Academy of Sciences; 2000 Turing Award