Department of Mathematics, HKU

2002

Date	31 Dec 2002 (Tue)
Title	Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Biology 30/12/2002 - 31/12/2002

Date	20 Dec 2002 (Fri)
Title	Optimization of Treatment Planning via Mixed Integer Programming
Speaker	Prof. Eva K. Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University School of Medicine)

Date	13 Dec 2002 (Fri)
Title	Special Session in Algebraic Geometry
Speaker	Xiaotao Sun (HKU) and Fu Lei (Nankai University and IMS, CUHK)

Date	12 Dec 2002 (Thu)
Title	Recreational OR/MS
Speaker	Prof. Moshe Sniedovich (The University of Melbourne)

Date	07 Dec 2002 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium
Speaker	Professor Fu Lei (Nankei U & CUHK) and Professor Vikram B. Mehta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Date	06 Dec 2002 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Self-Normalized Limit Theorems, Moment Bounds and Exponential Inequalities
Speaker	Professor Tze Leung Lai (Statistics, Stanford U and C.V. Starr Professor at HKU)

Date	29 Nov 2002 (Fri)
Title	Special Session in Algebraic Geometry
Speaker	Professor Ngaiming Mok (HKU) and Professor Sheng-Li Tan (East China Normal U, Shanghai & IMS, CUHK)

Date	29 Nov 2002 (Fri)
Title	Some Applications of Sieve Method
Speaker	Professor Ming-Gao Lu (Shanghai University)

Date	28 Nov 2002 (Thu)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Introduction to algebraic surfaces (Lecture 5)
Speaker	Dr. Xiaotao Sun (HKU)

Date	27 Nov 2002 (Wed)
Title	Working Seminar - Conceptualized Biology: first steps to define what life is (2nd Series - Meeting 9)
Speaker	Professor Antoine Danchin (HKU-Pasteur Research Centre)

Date	22 Nov 2002 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Mathematical Study of Integro-Differential Equations and Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
Speaker	Professor Jean-Michel Roquejoffre (Mathematics for Industry and Physics Laboratory, The Mathematics Institute of Toulouse, France)

Date	21 Nov 2002 (Thu)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Introduction to algebraic surfaces (Lecture 4)
Speaker	Dr. Xiaotao Sun (HKU)

Date	20 Nov 2002 (Wed)
Title	Working Seminar - Conceptualized Biology: first steps to define what life is (2nd Series - Meeting 8)
Speaker	Professor Antoine Danchin (HKU-Pasteur Research Centre)

Date	14 Nov 2002 (Thu)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Introduction to algebraic surfaces (Lecture 3)
Speaker	Dr. Xiaotao Sun (HKU)

Date	13 Nov 2002 (Wed)
Title	Working Seminar - Conceptualized Biology: first steps to define what life is (2nd Series - Meeting 7)
Speaker	Professor Antoine Danchin (HKU-Pasteur Research Centre)

Date	07 Nov 2002 (Thu)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Introduction to algebraic surfaces (Lecture 2)
Speaker	Dr. Xiaotao Sun (HKU)

Date	06 Nov 2002 (Wed)
Title	Working Seminar on Conceptualized Biology: Codon usage of Escherichia coli - Factorial Correspondence Analysis (2nd Series - Meeting 6)
Speaker	Géraldine Pascal (HKU-Pasteur Research Centre)

Date	02 Nov 2002 (Sat)
Title	Joint France/Hong Kong Image Processing Seminar
Speaker	Dr. Pierre Kornprobst (INRIA, Odyssee Lab, France), Dr. Michael K. Ng (HKU), Dr. Mila Nikolova (CNRS, France) and Dr. Siu Pang Yung (HKU)

Date	31 Oct 2002 (Thu)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Introduction to algebraic surfaces (Lecture 1)
Speaker	Dr. Xiaotao Sun (HKU)

Date	30 Oct 2002 (Wed)
Title	Working Seminar on Conceptualized Biology: An Introduction to Cryptography and Error Correcting Codes II (2nd Series - Meeting 5)
Speaker	Dr. Nam-Kiu Tsing (HKU)

Date	26 Oct 2002 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium
Speaker	Professor Chin-Lung Wang (National Tsing Hua U, Taiwan) and Professor Weiping Zhang (Nankai U, Tianjin)

Date	24 Oct 2002 (Thu)
Title	From Path Tree To Frequent Patterns: A Framework for Mining Frequent Patterns
Speaker	Dr. Jeffrey Yu (CUHK)

Date	23 Oct 2002 (Wed)
Title	Working Seminar on Conceptualized Biology: An Introduction to Cryptography and Error Correcting Codes (2nd Series - Meeting 4)
Speaker	Dr. Nam-Kiu Tsing (HKU)

Date	09 Oct 2002 (Wed)
Title	Working Seminar - Conceptualized Biology: first steps to define what life is (2nd Series - Meeting 3)
Speaker	Professor Antoine Danchin (HKU-Pasteur Research Centre)

Date	05 Oct 2002 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium
Speaker	Professor Günther Trautmann (Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany) and Dr. Jianhua Lu (HKU)

Date	02 Oct 2002 (Wed)
Title	Working Seminar - Conceptualized Biology: first steps to define what life is (2nd Series - Meeting 2)
Speaker	Professor Antoine Danchin (HKU-Pasteur Research Centre)

Date	25 Sep 2002 (Wed)
Title	Working Seminar - Conceptualized Biology: first steps to define what life is (2nd Series - Meeting 1)
Speaker	Professor Antoine Danchin (HKU-Pasteur Research Centre)

Date	13 Sep 2002 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - 'Algorithmic mathematics' and 'dialectic mathematics' : The 'Yin' and 'Yang' in mathematics education
Speaker	Professor Man-Keung Siu (HKU)

Date	12 Sep 2002 (Thu)
Title	Profit In The Fast Lane: Role of Mathematician in Business Marketing in Telecommunication Industry
Speaker	Dr. Issic Leung (PCCW)

Date	05 Sep 2002 (Thu)
Title	Zero-Sum Problems
Speaker	Dr. R. Thangadurai (Indian Statistical Institute)

Date	09 Aug 2002 (Fri)
Title	Some Applications of Inequalities of Nonlinear Type
Speaker	Professor Anthony Weston (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Canisius College)

Date	17 Jul 2002 (Wed)
Title	Workshop on Probability with Applications to Finance Insurance 15/07/2002 - 17/07/2002

Date	28 Jun 2002 (Fri)
Title	Workshop on Data Mining and Modeling 27/06/2002 - 28/06/2002

Date	27 Jun 2002 (Thu)
Title	Higher-dimensional algebra: how and why?
Speaker	Dr. Eugenia Cheng (Cambridge University)

Date	26 Jun 2002 (Wed)
Title	Operations Research Group (Data Mining Seminar)
Speaker	Mr. Andy Yip (UCLA), Mr. Edmond Wu (HKU), and Dr. Tuen Wai Ng (HKU)

Date	17 Jun 2002 (Mon)
Title	Colloquium - The Riemann Hypothesis
Speaker	Professor Heini Halberstam (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Date	13 Jun 2002 (Thu)
Title	Conference on Combinatorial and Computational Algebra 13/06/2002

Date	10 Jun 2002 (Mon)
Title	Mini-series on Multiple Objective Programming: First Talk - Distance Metric Optimisation: Theory and Application
Speaker	Dr. Dylan Jones (University of Portsmouth, UK)

Date	10 Jun 2002 (Mon)
Title	Mini-series on Multiple Objective Programming: Second Talk - Distance Metric Optimisation: Recent Trends and Advances
Speaker	Dr. Dylan Jones (University of Portsmouth, UK)

Date	01 Jun 2002 (Sat)
Title	International Conference on Structured Matrices (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong) 29/05/2002-01/06/2002

Date	16 May 2002 (Thu)
Title	A Simple Method to Rank Warrants
Speaker	Dr. Wai-Yan Cheng (City U)

Date	03 May 2002 (Fri)
Title	Evolutionary Computations in Optimization and Inverse Problems
Speaker	Prof. Zhijian Wu (State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University & IMR, CUHK)

Date	02 May 2002 (Thu)
Title	Integrated Planning of Location, Routing and Assignment in Delivery Services with Cost and Workload Balancing Criteria
Speaker	Dr. C.K.Y. Lin (City U)

Date	18 Apr 2002 (Thu)
Title	Configuring a Manufacturing Firm's Supply Network with Multiple Suppliers
Speaker	Prof. Janny Leung (CUHK)

Date	09 Mar 2002 (Sat)
Title	數趣漫話 -- 數理與創意思考（陳載禮博士）
Speaker	Dr. C.L. Chan (HKU)

Date	08 Mar 2002 (Fri)
Title	Is it difficult to learn abstract algebra ? What can be done about it ?
Speaker	Prof. M.K. Siu (HKU)