

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.
Date:
Location:
Time:
2 November, 2024
Hong Kong Science Museum
9:30AM to 6:00PM
Science Symposium II Guest Speaker
Agenda
09:30-09:35
Welcome Message by Program Committee Co-Chair: Douglas Nelson Chao LIN
09:35-12:00
Physical Session - Quantum Information
Introduction by the Convener
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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:
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Peter ZOLLER, Professor, Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck; Emeritus Research Director, Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information; 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
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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
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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
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Kejia LEE, Professor, Peking University; Researcher, National Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Moderator
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Douglas Nelson Chao LIN
Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)
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Hsin-Yuan HUANG (Robert)
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Kejia LEE
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Xiao-Gang WEN
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Peter ZOLLER
12:00 -13:30
Luncheon
13:30-15:35
Mathematics Session - Insights into Mathematics
Introduction by the Convener
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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
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Jian DING, Chair Professor, Peking University
Keynote Speech 2: From Natural Numbers to Infinity Categories
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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
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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
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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
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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: Mathematics: Beauty and Utility
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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
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Xuhua HE
Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)
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Jian DING
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Yifeng LIU
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Hiraku NAKAJIMA
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Efim ZELMANOV
15:35-17:40
Computer Science Session - AI & Chips
Introduction by the Convener
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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 2: Memory-Centric Computing
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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 1: Delivering Compute for AI in a Post-Moore’s World
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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 3: Towards Energy Efficient Circuit and System Design for AI 2.0 Era
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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
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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)
主旨演講 2
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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
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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
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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