Faculty of Science E-newsletter

This year, the Information Day has employed a digital alternative. The Faculty and programmes had also turned their booths into virtual ones with a wide array of live admission talks and chat sessions staged online.

Prospective students, their parents and teachers joined the Virtual Information Day on 10 October, 2020. Professor Wong Hoi Ying, Associate Dean (Student Affairs) and Professor Shannon Au, Assistant Dean (Student Affairs) introduced the Faculty and gave an overview of the admission requirements of SCIENCE programme, they also shared the diverse exchange and research opportunities available, information of Science, Technology And Research Stream (STARS), and career prospects of our graduates to prospective students.

The Faculty grasped the opportunity to organise a talk titled “High-performance Computing in CUHK Forefront Research” to allow secondary school students to have a taste of research. Professor Chu Ming Chung of Department of Physics invited four CUHK scientists to share how they use high-performance computer in their forefront research, they are:

Speaker	Topic
Professor Chan Ting Fung School of Life Sciences	High-performance Computing in Genome Science
Professor Patrick Lee Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering	Network Coding in Data Storage Applications at Data Centers
Professor Amos Tai Earth System Science Programme	Saving the Earth with Supercomputing
Dr. Lin Lap Ming Department of Physics	When Einstein meets Supercomputing

And they talked about how high-performance computing plays a vital role when handling and analysing massive amount of data in the emerging field of interdisciplinary research. Full video of the Talk is now available on YouTube.

Units and programmes also offered admission information through their virtual booths and consultation sessions. Some of them also organised online laboratory tours, experiment demonstration, and virtual field trips online, connecting participants from all over the world.