Introduction

The 19th PSHK Conference will be hosted and is being co-organised by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in June 2016. It will be a two-day conference also featuring the AGM of the PSHK, which has been extended from the traditional one-day format to facilitate more science talks. We welcome participants from Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China and even from other parts of the world.

Symposium Themes Covered by Conference

1. Soft matter & biophysics

2. Condensed matter & device physics

3. Other physics (such as astronomy, theoretical physics and chemical physics)

We look forward to meeting you at the 19th PSHK Conference this coming June!

Important Dates

*Late submissionsare acceptable butwill be excluded from award selections. Submissions later than May 20th will be considered for poster presentations only.

Conference Venue

The conference will be held in Meng Wah Complex, on the Main Campus of the University of Hong Kong.

• MWT2 (for Opening, Plenary and Theme 1 sessions, AGM, Award Presentation, as well as Closing)

• MWT5 (for Theme 2 sessions)

• MWT6 (for Theme 3 sessions)

Campus of the University of Hong Kong

Transportation

MTR

1. Take the Island line MTR to HKU Station

2. Take the A1/A2 Exit, then the lift up to the HKU campus (Haking Wong Building)

3. Turn left, walk along University Street. You’ll pass a number of key buildings (e.g. Run Run Shaw Building, Rayson Huang Theatre) and HKU branch of HSBC on your right.

4. Take the escalators in the Chong Yuet Ming Amenities Centre all the way to the top

5. Turn right

Bus

Map

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Catering

Lunch Arrangement

Lunch will be provided on site for those who have paid the registration fee.

Tea Refreshments

During coffee breaks, refreshments will be served to the conference participants. Also, coffee and tea will be offered for the entirety of the event at a location readily accessible for the attendees.

Prize

Student Best Presentation Award and Best Poster Award

We will offer PSHK Best Student Presentation Awards and PSHK Best Student Poster Awards. The first prize respectively carries HK$3,000- and HK$500 (in terms of book vouchers). Book prizes will be given to runners up. A PSHK certificate will also be issued to each winner.

Eligibility:

Any postgraduate student studying any physics-related discipline in Hong Kong who is selected to give a talk or presents a poster is eligible to be considered for these prizes.

Sponsors and Exhibitors

Plenary Speakers

• Sir Arnold Wolfendale (Durham University, UK): "A Century of Cosmic Ray Research: what has been discovered and where do we go from here?"
• Zikang Tang (UM, Macau): "Stable ZnO ultraviolet light-emitting devices after a breakthrough of stable p-n junction"
• Wenlong Zhan (CAS, China): "Nuclear & Material Research Center in Huizhou, Guangdong"
• Michel A. Van Hove (HKBU): "Mechanisms of Molecular Machines"

Invited Speakers

Theme 1: Soft Matter & Biophysics

• Hao Yuan Kueh (Caltech): "Chance and individuality in mammalian cell fate decisions"
• Jiangwen Zhang (HKU): "Identification of DNA methylation Events Driving Cancer Progression"
• Changsong Zhou (HKBU): "Stochastic oscillation in self-organized critical states of small systems: sensitive resting state in neural systems"
• Leihan Tang (HKBU): "Plateau behaviour in the violation spectrum of the fluctuation-response relation in nonequilibrium systems with time-scale separation"
• Xuhui Huang (HKUST): "Investigation conformational changes of biological macromolecules using kinetic network models"
• Yi Wang (CUHK): "Cellular entry of nanodiamonds explored via molecular dynamics simulations"
• Yang Lu (CityU): "Mechanically assisted self-healing of ultrathin gold nanowires"
• Jianbin Xu (CUHK): "Graphene-like materials and the related photonic devices"
• Yuen Hong Tsang (PolyU): "Optical limiting properties engineering for the novel two dimensional nanomaterials"
• Yuda Zhao (PolyU): "Layer-dependent metal-semiconductor transition in two-dimensional PtSe2"
• Jiandong Huang (HKU): "
• Role of Anterograde Motor Kif5b in Clathrin-coated Vesicle Uncoating and Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis—How Is Plasma Membrane Protein Homeostasis Maintained?

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• Liming Bian (CUHK): "Functional biomaterials for regenerative medicine"
• Wei Huang (SUSTC): "Quantitative characterization of an mesenchyme pattern formation system"
• Yilin Wu (CUHK): "Motion in thin films of bacterial suspensions"

Theme 2: Condensed Matter & Device Physics

• Stephen Sai-Wing Tsang (CityU): "Photovoltage Loss in Excitonic Solar cells"
• Roy Vellaisamy (CityU): "Interface engineering for non-volatile memory devices"
• Kam Tuen Law (HKUST): "Ising Superconductivity and Majorana fermions in superconducting transition metal dichalcogenides"
• Ho Bun Chan (HKUST): "The Casimir force in silicon micromechanical systems"
• Yue Zhao (SUSTC, Shenzhen): "Creating and Exploring Graphene Electron Optics with Local Probes"
• Wang Yao (HKU): "Valley-spintronics in 2D semiconductors"
• Zhengcheng Gu (CUHK): "Emergence of topological superconductivity in 2D strongly correlated doped Dirac systems"
• Kwun Nam Hui (UM, Macau): "Porous materials for high-rate energy storage applications"
• Wenjie Li (SIAT, CAS): "Band alignment of CZTS at grain boundary"

Theme 3: Other Physics

• Jenny Lee (HKU): "_Exploring Novel Nuclear Structure using In-beam gamma Spectroscopy_"
• Tjonnie G.F. Li (CUHK): "_Dawn of gravitational-wave astronomy_"
• Jianfang Wang (CUHK): "_Colloidal Gold Nanocups with Orientation-Dependent Plasmonic Properties_"
• Zhifeng Huang (HKBU): "_Weakening chiroptical activity of plasmonic nanospirals induced by surface grafting with alkyl ligands_"
• Dangyuan Lei (PolyU): "_Plasmonic Fano Resonances in Metallic Nanoclusters for Ultrasensitive Biosensing and Efficient Second-harmonic Generation_"
• Feng Wang (CityU): "_Tuning lanthanide luminescence in core-shell nanoparticles_"
• Jinyao Tang (HKU): "_Sub-bandgap excitation of quantum dots sensitized graphene photodetector_"
• Hai-Feng Li (UM, Macau): "_Neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering studies of iron-based superconductors_"

https://www.pshk.org.hk/documents/2016PSHKAnnualConferenceProgram_final-MASTER.pdf

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)

1. Ruiqin Zhang (Chair) - City University of Hong Kong - [email protected]
2. J. H. Hao - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - [email protected]
3. X. Wang - City University of Hong Kong - [email protected]
4. X. M. Zhang - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - [email protected]
5. Q. A. Parker - The University of Hong Kong - [email protected]
6. J. Y. Zhu - The Chinese University of Hong Kong - [email protected]
7. Z. F. Huang - The Hong Kong Baptist University - [email protected]
8. N. Lin - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - [email protected]

Local Organising Committee (LOC)

1. Prof. Quentin Parker (Chair) - [email protected]
2. Dr. Shizhong Zhang - [email protected]
3. Dr. Pablo Saz Parkinson - [email protected]
4. Dr. Qianen Wang - [email protected]
5. Dr. SeyedAbdolreza Sadjadi - [email protected]
6. Kris O.-Y. Chui - [email protected]

Lunch Arrangement:

Lunch will be provided on site for those who have paid the registration fee.

Tea Refreshments:

During coffee breaks, refreshments will be served to the conference participants. Also, coffee and tea will be offered for the entirety of the event at a location readily accessible for the attendees.

Student Best Presentation Award and Best Poster Award:

We will offer PSHK Best Student Presentation Awards and PSHK Best Student Poster Awards. The first prize respectively carries HK$3,000- and HK$500 (in terms of book vouchers). Book prizes will be given to runners up. A PSHK certificate will also be issued to each winner.

Eligibility:

Any postgraduate student studying any physics-related discipline in Hong Kong who is selected to give a talk or presents a poster is eligible to be considered for these prizes.