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2024 未來科學大獎

2024 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.

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2 November, 2024
Hong Kong Science Museum
9:30AM to 6:00PM
Agenda

Agenda

09:30-09:35

Welcome Message by Program Committee Co-Chair: Douglas Nelson Chao LIN
09:35-12:00
Physics Session - Quantum Information
Introduction by the Convener
  • Douglas Nelson Chao LIN, Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz; Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Tsinghua University; Member, U.S. Academy of Arts and Sciences; Member, Science Committee of the Future Science Prize

Keynote Speech 1: Quantum Simulation with Atoms and Ions

  • Peter ZOLLER, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, and IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria; Member, German National Academy of Sciences; Wolf Prize Laureate in Physics 2013; Dirac Medal Laureate 2006

Keynote Speech 2: Origin of Light (and other Elementary Particles) from Qubits -- an Unification of Matter and Quantum Information

  • Xiao-Gang WEN, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT; Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Dirac Medal Laureate 2018; Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize Laureate 2017

Keynote Speech 3: Learning in the Quantum Universe

  • Hsin-Yuan HUANG (Robert), Assistant Professor, Theoretical Physics at Caltech in 2025; Visiting Scientist, MIT; Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

Keynote Speech 4: Progress of Chinese Pulsar Timing Array

  • Kejia LEE, Professor, Peking University; Researcher, National Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Moderator
  • Douglas Nelson Chao LIN
Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)
  • Hsin-Yuan HUANG (Robert)
  • Kejia LEE
  • Xiao-Gang WEN
  • Peter ZOLLER
12:00 -13:30
Luncheon
13:30-15:35
Mathematics Session - Insights into Mathematics
Introduction by the Convener
  • Xuhua HE, Chair Professor and New Corner Stone Investigator, Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong

Keynote Speech 1: A Glimpse at Statistical Physics from Percolation

  • Jian DING, Chair Professor, Peking University

Keynote Speech 2: From Natural Numbers to Infinity Categories

  • Yifeng LIU, Chair Professor, Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Zhejiang University; SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Laureate 2018

Keynote Speech 3: 3d Quantum Field Theories and Langlands Duality

  • Hiraku NAKAJIMA, Professor, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), the University of Tokyo; President, International Mathematical Union (IMU)
主持致辭
  • 黃定發，香港浸會大學常務副校長、電腦科學系講座教授，美國電腦協會會士，美國電機及電子工程師學會和香港工程科學院院士
主旨演講 1
  • 王曉剛，香港中文大學電子工程系教授，商湯科技聯合創始人、首席科學家

Keynote Speech 4: Evariste Galois and Communication Technology

  • Efim ZELMANOV, Director, Shenzhen International Center for Mathematics, Southern University of Science and Technology, China; Member, U.S. National Academy of Science; Member, U.S. Academy of Art and Science; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Fields Medal Laureate 1994
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Moderator
  •  Xuhua HE
Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)
  • Jian DING
  • Yifeng LIU
  • Hiraku NAKAJIMA
  • Efim ZELMANOV
15:35-15:50
Tea Break
15:50-18:00
Computer Science Session - AI & Chips
Introduction by the Convener
  • Yuan XIE, Chair Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Keynote Speech 1: Delivering Compute for AI in a Post-Moore’s World

  • Gabriel LOH, Senior Fellow, AMD Research and Advanced Development at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Keynote Speech 2: Memory-Centric Computing

  • Onur MUTLU, Professor of Computer Science, ETH Zurich; Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Member, Academy of Europe

Keynote Speech 3: Towards Energy Efficient Circuit and System Design for AI 2.0 Era

  • Yu WANG, Professor, Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University; Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Keynote Speech 4: Pursuing the Nature of Intelligence

  • Yi MA, Professor, The University of Hong Kong; Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Moderator
  • Yuan XIE
Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)
  • Gabriel LOH
  • Yi MA
  • Onur MUTLU
  • Yu WANG
主旨演講 2
  • 賈佳亞，香港中文大學電腦科學與工程系教授，思謀集團創始人及董事長，美國電子電氣工程師學會會士
主旨演講 3
  • 周以真，哥倫比亞大學常務副校長兼電腦科學教授
主旨演講 4:加速計算和數據訪問助力人工智能應用爆炸式增長
  • 胡文美，英偉達（NVIDIA）高級傑出研究科學家和高級研究主任，伊利諾大學厄巴納-香檳分校AMD Jerry Sanders特聘講座教授，美國電腦協會會士，美國電子電氣工程師學會會士
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2 November, 2024

Science Symposium II

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