We’re thrilled to invite you to Nature Detectives, a fun and hands-on nature exploration experience! Join us to relax in the nature amid the work and study commitments and discover the wildlife along our campus trail.

• Explore local wildlife with experts from OWLHK

• Help document wlidlife near campus

• Claim 3 hours for HMAW 1905

• Enjoy a refreshing outdoor experience with friends and colleagues

We’re thrilled to invite you to Nature Detectives, a fun and hands-on nature exploration experience! Join us to relax in the nature amid the work and study commitments and discover the wildlife along our campus trail.

• Explore local wildlife with experts from OWLHK

• Help document wlidlife near campus

• Claim 3 hours for HMAW 1905

• Enjoy a refreshing outdoor experience with friends and colleagues

The Finance Insight Exchange is an engaging series that brings together industry professionals to share valuable insights and experiences in finance. Each session will focus on a different topic, fostering meaningful dialogue and knowledge sharing.

Title: Understanding the Role and Importance of Compliance and Financial Crime Risk Management in a Financial Institution
Speakers: Mr. Jacky LEUNG; Mr. Horace KWAN
Date: October 24, 2025 (Fri)
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Venue: LSK Case Room 1003, HKUST

Remarks:
• The venue can accommodate 70 people. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Late arrivals may need to stand at the back of the room.
• This is a recognized event for FINA3001 (Learning). To receive 1.5 hours, you must attend the event in full and miss no more than 10 minutes.
• This is a recognized event for FINA3111 (Acquire). To receive the credit, you must attend the entire event and miss no more than 10 minutes.
• This is a HMAW1905-recognized event in the "Personal Enrichment & Community Service" category under the "Self-directed Experience" of HMAW1905: Behaviroral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. To receive 1.5 hours, you much attend the event in full and miss no more than 10 minutes.

For inquiries, please contact Ms. Miki YEUNG at mikiyeung@ust.hk.

Abstract

Heat transfer in a macroscopic system follows three principles: (1) Fourier Law of heat conduction: heat flux density is proportional to the product of temperature gradient and thermal conductivity, where the later depends on materials composite and temperature, it is independent of system size and geometry; (2) Reciprocal Principle: when the temperature gradient is reversed, the amplitude of heat current density remains the same; (3) Positive differential thermal resistance: the larger the temperature gradient the larger the heat current density.

In this lecture, the speaker will discuss in detail how these three basic principles can be broken in low dimensional micro and nano systems. They call the thermal transport violating these three principles anomalous thermal transport, and will show that the anomalous in micro and nano scale is quite general, and moreover these anomalities can be used to build thermal diode and thermal transistor to control heat flux.

About the Speaker

Prof. LI Baowen is currently a Chair Professor jointly appointed by the Department of Physics and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). Before joining SUSTech, he served as an endowed Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 2015 to 2023, and as a Professor in the Department of Physics at the National University of Singapore (NUS) from 2000 to 2015.

Prof. Li has been a pioneer in the research of micro and nano scale heat conduction and the field of Phononics. His group at NUS had developed innovative devices such as thermal diodes, thermal transistors, thermal logic gates, and thermal memory. He has published over 400 papers in prestigious journals, including Reviews of Modern Physics and Physical Review Letters. His work has been cited more than 37,000 times and he has an H-index of 100.

Prof. Li is an elected member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of American Physical Society. He is the recipient of 2005 Singapore National Science Award, 2005 Achievement in Asia Award from the Overseas Chinese Physics Association, and 2017 Brillouin Medal from the International Phononic Society. 

For Attendees' Attention

Seating is on a first come, first served basis.

Abstract

Most gravitational-wave signals detected by the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA network originate from binary black-hole coalescences. The newly formed black hole is highly distorted immediately after the merger and gradually settles into a stationary state by emitting gravitational waves. These waves exhibit a discrete set of exponentially decaying frequencies known as quasinormal modes. The corresponding phase, called the ringdown, encodes the unique fingerprint of the final black hole. Analyzing quasinormal modes provides a powerful avenue to probe fundamental physics, including stringent tests of general relativity in the strong-field regime. However, obtaining the quasinormal-mode spectrum of generic black holes presents severe mathematical challenges, as it requires solving a complex system of coupled partial differential equations. In this talk, the speaker will introduce METRICS, Metric pErTuRbations wIth speCtral methodS, a spectral formalism that overcomes these difficulties and enables precise computation of quasinormal-mode spectra for general black holes. He will demonstrate how METRICS can be applied to a range of modified gravity theories motivated by high-energy physics, including axi-dilaton, dynamical Chern–Simons, and Einstein–scalar–Gauss–Bonnet theories, to conduct ringdown-only tests of gravity. These analyses yield, among other results, the first observational constraints on axi-dilaton gravity. The speaker will conclude by outlining future applications of METRICS for extracting new insights into fundamental physics through black-hole ringdowns.


About the Speaker

Dr. Adrian Ka-Wai CHUNG is a Herchel Smith Fellow at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. An astrophysicist, his research focuses on analysing gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time that can be produced by the collisions of black holes and neutron stars, to probe fundamental physics, including the limits of Einstein’s general relativity, the nature of dark matter, and the expansion rate of the Universe. Dr. Chung earned his BSc and MPhil in Physics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He completed his PhD in Physics at King’s College London in 2022, and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2022 to 2025 before joining Cambridge.


About the Center for Fundamental Physics

For more information, please refer to https://cfp.hkust.edu.hk/.


For Attendees' Attention

Seating is on a first come, first served basis.

The event is only available in Chinese.

Interested in learning about entrepreneurship?

The Entrepreneurship Center is partnering with China Prosperity Capital (國宏嘉信資本), a private equity fund focusing on investments in mobile internet, particularly in the pan-entertainment sector in Greater China, to host a startup talk on 3 November 2025 (Monday) from 6 PM to 8:30 PM. The event will feature Mr. King Ma, the Founding Partner of China Prosperity Capital, who will share his insights on entrepreneurship and startup experiences, along with tips for success. This will be followed by a panel discussion with HKUST entrepreneurs who will share their technology entrepreneurship journeys. In addition, there will be HKUST startup teams pitching their ideas.

Supporting Art Club to engage with student for act activity

Supporting Art Club to engage with student for act activity

Event: HKUST Connect - Connect ACE : WS4 Service Idea Pitching Night

Date: 19 Nov 2025 (Wed)

Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm

Venue: Room 1104

Event: HKUST Connect - Connect ACE : WS3 Activity Design & Planning

Date: 5 Nov 2025 (Wed)

Time: 6:30 - 8pm

Venue: Room 1104