2023 Future Science Prize Week
Science Symposium II
World-renowned scientists are invited to share scientific discoveries on cutting-edge topics and to explore interdisciplinary and innovative academic insights.
Date:
Location:
Time:
15 Oct, 2023
Hong Kong Science Park
9:25AM to 5:50PM
Science Symposium II Convener
Agenda
09:25-09:30
Welcome Message by Program Committee Co-Chair: Xueming YANG
09:30-12:30
Chemistry Session:
“From Theory, AI, Machine Learning to Experimental Realization”
Introduction by the Convener
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Vivian Wing-Wah YAM, Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Chemistry and Energy and the Chair Professor of Chemistry, the University of Hong Kong; Academician, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences; Foreign Member, Academia Europaea; Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences; Founding Member, The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
Keynote Speech 1: Computational Biology Applied Globally
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Michael LEVITT, Robert W. And Vivian K. Cahill Professor of Cancer Research And Professor, By Coutesy, of Computer Science, Stanford University; Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 2013
Keynote Speech 2: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion
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Sharon HAMMES-SCHIFFER, Sterling Professor of Chemistry, Yale University; Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Keynote Speech 3: First-Principles Theory for Water
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Donghui ZHANG, Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Keynote Speech 4: Towards accurate and efficient theoretical modelling of heterogeneous catalysis
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Xin XU, Professor, Depatment of Chemistry, Fudan University
Keynote Speech 5: Artificial Intelligence and Automation for Modern Chemistry
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Alán ASPURU-GUZIK, Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science, and Director, Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto
12:30 – 13:30
Luncheon
Location: HAPPINESS CUISINE|1/F, Hong Kong Science Park, Pak Shek Kok No.1 Science Park, West Avenue
13:30-15:30
Physical Science Session: “Quantum Computing”
Introduction by the Convener
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Jianwei PAN, Executive Vice-President, University of Science and Technology of China; Director, the CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics; Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences; The Future Science 2017 - Physical Science Prize Laureate
Keynote Speech 1: New Avenues for Quantum Simulations with Atoms, Molecules and Photons
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Immanuel BLOCH, Professor, the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich, Germany
Keynote Speech 2: Quantum Computation and Quantum Simulation with Strings of Trapped Ca+ Ions
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Rainer BLATT, Professor of experimental physics and head of the Quantum Optics and Spectroscopy group, the University of Innsbruck; Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Foreign member, US National Academy of Sciences; Foreign member, Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences
Keynote Speech 3: Scaling for trapped ion quantum computing
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Luming DUAN, Chair Professor of Fundamental Sciences, Tsinghua University
Keynote Speech 4: Quantum advantage with photons
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Chaoyang LU, Professor of Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China
Keynote Speech 5: The Widening Path of Quantum Computers: from Physics to Engineering to Applications
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Christopher MONROE, Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, Duke University; Member of US National Academy of Sciences
15:50-17:50
Mathematics Session:
“A Panoramic View of Mathematics: from Theory to Applications”
Introduction by the Convener
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Tong YANG, Chair Professor of Mathematical Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Foreign Member, Academia Europaea; Member, Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
Keynote Speech 1: Positivity in algebra and geometry
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Xuhua HE, Chair Professor of Mathematics and New Corner Stone Investigator at the University of Hong Kong
Keynote Speech 2: Data Science and Society
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Jianqing FAN, Frederick L. Moore Professor of Finance, Professor of Statistics, Former Chairman of Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and Director of Committee of Statistical Studies at Princeton University; Member of Academia Sinica
Keynote Speech 3: An Interface of Analysis, Algebra, Geometry and Logic
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Yum-Tong SIU, William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics, Havard University; Member of National Academy of Sciences; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member of the Academia Sinica, and Founding Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
Keynote Speech 4: Lattice-based Cryptography: From Theory to Practice
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Xiaoyun WANG, C. N. Yang Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University;Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; The Future Science Prize 2019 – Mathematics and Computer Science Prize Laureate