Past Events

RISUD: The International Symposium on Reclamations Using Local Dredged Sediments was successfully held

The International Symposium on Reclamations Using Local Dredged Sediments was successfully held on Friday 26 January 2024, with the great effort of the co-organizations, the Geotechnical Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of PolyU. The Symposium was greatly supported by ASCE Greater China Section, Hong Kong Geotechnical Society, Institution of Civil Engineering Hong Kong, Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS) and Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) of PolyU.

RISports: Former Olympic diving gold medallist WANG Xin Speaks at Distinguished Elite Athletes Seminar

Former Olympic diving gold medallist WANG Xin speaks at Distinguished Elite Athletes Seminar. The Research Institute for Sports Science and Technology (RISports) co-organised the inaugural Distinguished Elite Athletes Seminar on 24 January 2024, in collaboration with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, PolyU–Samaranch Sports Development Centre and PolyU–HKSI Research Centre.

The Photonics Research Institute (PRI) Distinguished Seminar was successfully held

Prof. Yun-Feng XIAO delivered an insightful distinguished seminar on the topic of Ultra-high-Q microcavity optics and photonics.

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