Past Events

Distinguished lecture on battery fast charging for sustainable electrification presented by Penn State's Prof. WANG Chao-yang

Prof. WANG Chao-Yang of The Pennsylvania State University delivered the 13th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “Battery Fast Charging for Sustainable Electrification” on 27 February 2024. The hybrid lecture attracted over 230 participants joining in person and online from more than 20 countries and regions across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America

RCMI hosted public lecture on long COVID

The Research Centre for Chinese Medicine Innovation (RCMI) organised a Public Lecture titled “Long COVID in Canada: CANCOV, RECLAIM & Long COVID Web” delivered by Prof. Angela CHEUNG, Professor of Medicine from the University of Toronto.

PAIR Distinguished Lecture Series by Professor Huayong YANG

Biomanufacturing of Functional Tissues and Organs: Exploration and Progress

WASCON2023 – Hong Kong

The 11th International Conference on the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction with Alternative Materials (WASCON2023) was successfully held from 13th to 16th December 2023 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). The conference was jointly organized by the International Society for the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction with Alternative Materials (ISCOWA), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the Research Centre for Resources Engineering towards Carbon Neutrality (RCRE) of PolyU.

20231213 MHRC Nobel Laureate Lecture by Prof SUDHOF

MHRC and the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences jointly organised a Nobel Laureate Lecture delivered by Prof. Thomas C. SÜDHOF, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2013), titled “The Molecular Architecture of Synapse Formation”

Renowned Chinese medicine scholar discourses on acupuncture development in United States

Prof. LAO Lixing, Professor and President of the Virginia University of Integrative Medicine, USA, delivered PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “Acupuncture in the United States: From Exploration to Accessibility” .

Turing Award Laureate Prof. Jack Dongarra enlightens 160+ audiences on high performance computing (HPC)

In his sharing, Prof. Dongarra highlighted how computing pervades all aspects of the society and cloud vendors are pursuing breakthroughs in computer architectures such as processors, accelerators, interconnects and operating systems, with a view to achieving high performance computing.

Triumphantly Executed: PAIR's Seminar on 'Chinese Medicine Research: Challenges and Opportunities'

Delivered by Prof. CHE Chun-Tao, , Harry H.S. Fong Professor of Pharmacognosy in the College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois Chicago

Prof KIM Chulhong from POSTECH enlightens on healthcare innovation

The 9th PAIR Distinguished Lecture on 27 October 2023 was a resounding success. Delivered by Prof. KIM Chulhong of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea, the lecture titled “Healthcare Innovation After the Pandemic: Engineering-based Medical Education and Efforts for Commercialization”

Successful PAIR Seminar showcases cutting-edge fog collection technology

The PAIR Seminar delivered by Prof. TAN Zhongchao, Founding Chair Professor, Vice Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs of the Eastern Institute of Technology in Ningbo, China, was held on 12 October 2023