Release of new VI system of the Future Science Prize

The Charm of Mathematics: from Geometry to Number Theory – Joint Academic Conference by The Future Science Prize and The University of Hong Kong

Opening Remarks

- Max SHEN, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Hong Kong

Welcoming Remarks

- Shou-Wu ZHANG, Sub-Committee Chair, Mathematics and Computer Science Prize of the Future Science Prize; Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University; Member, U.S. Academy of Arts and Sciences

Keynote Speech - “Journey to the World of Numbers through Complex Geometry”

- Ngai-Ming MOK, Laureate, 2022 Future Science Prize – Mathematics and Computer Science; Edmund and Peggy Tse Professorship in Mathematics & Professor; Chair of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong

Invited Speech - “Global Non-Deformability of Irreducible Compact Hermitian Symmetric Manifolds”

- Yum-Tong SIU, William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University

Invited Speech - “Enumerative Geometry on Moduli Spaces”

- Wei-Ping LI, Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Invited Speech - “Periods”

- Dr. Gisbert WÜSTHOLZ, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Roundtable Discussion: "Cross-fertilization in Mathematical Research"

Moderator:

- Patrick Tuen-Wai NG, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong

Panelists:

- Ngai-Ming MOK, Laureate, 2022 Future Science Prize – Mathematics and Computer Science; Edmund and Peggy Tse Professorship in Mathematics & Professor; Chair of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong

- Yum-Tong SIU, William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University

- Gisbert WÜSTHOLZ, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

- Bao-Hua FU, Morningside Center of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Future Science Prize Lecture in Life Science

Chemistry: Nano Catalysis and Materials                

Session Chair

- Jianhua Lin, Co-chair, Program Committee of Future Prize Week 2022; Former President of Peking University; Director of Peking University Research Center for Future Education Management

Keynote Speech 1 

- Yadong Li, Professor, Deputy Director of the Academic Committee, Tsinghua University; Liyun Professor, Beijing Normal University; President, Anhui Normal University; Academician, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member, the World Academy of Sciences

Keynote Speech 2: Functional Ordered Mesoporous Materials: Present and Future 

- Dongyuan Zhao, Dean of the School of Chemistry and Materials at Fudan University; Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Keynote Speech 3: Harnessing of Excited States - From Molecular Design To Supramolecular Assembly, Nanostructures and Functions

- Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Chemistry and Energy; Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong; Academician, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member, the World Academy of Sciences; Foreign Member, U.S National Academy of Sciences; Foreign Member, Academia Europaea; Founding Member, the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences

Panel Discussion

Moderator: 

- Shaojun GUO, Boya Distinguished Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University; Fellow, the Royal Society of Chemistry

Panelists:

- Yadong Li, Dongyuan Zhao, Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

Life Science: Epigenetics               

Session Chair

-  Bing Zhu, Deputy Director, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences               

Keynote Speech 1: Dissecting the epigenetic regulation of human germline cell development using single cell omics sequencing approach

-  Fuchou Tang, Professor at BIOPIC, School of Life Sciences, Peking University; Investigator, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG)           

Keynote Speech 2: Computational Modeling of Epigenetics and Gene Regulation

-  Xiaole Shirley Liu, Member, Program Committee of the Future Science Prize Week 2022; Co-founder and CEO, GV20 Therapeutics

Keynote Speech 3: Chromatin Structure in Human Health and Disease

-  Guohong Li, Investigator, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Panel Discussion

Moderator: 

- Chongzhi Zang, Associate Professor, Public Health Genomics, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia (UVA)

Panelists:

- Fuchou Tang, Xiaole Shirley Liu, Guohong Li

Mathematics: Fluid and Power Systems

Session Chair

- Gang Tian, Member, Member, Steering Committee of the Future Science Prize Week 2022; Member, Future Forum Council; Director, Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Foreign member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Keynote Speech 1: The dynamical method in the study of combinatorial number theory

-   Xiangdong Ye, Professor, University of Science and Technology of China; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Keynote Speech 2: One-dimensional linear skew-products over circle expanding maps

- Weixiao Shen, Professor, Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University; Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University

Keynote Speech 3: Global analysis for analytic one-frequency Schr\"odinger operator

- Lingrui Ge, Assistant Professor and Investigator, Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research

Panel Discussion

Moderator: 

- Gang Tian

Panelists:

- Xiangdong Ye, Weixiao Shen, Lingrui Ge

Quantum Nature of Chemical Reactivity - Joint Academic Conference by The Future Science Prize and Southern University of Science and Technology

Moderator:

- Donghui ZHANG，Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Remarks:

- Douglas Nelson Chao LIN, Rotating Chair, Science Commitee of the Future Science Prize 2022; Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz; Former Founding Director, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Remarks:

- Qi-Kun XUE, President, Southern University of Science and Technology; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 2016 Future Science Prize- Physical Science Prize Laureate

Keynote Speech 1:

- Xueming YANG, Vice President, Southern University of Science and Technology; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 2022 Future Science Prize- Physical Science Prize Laureate

Keynote Speech 2:

- Wei-Hai FANG，Professor, Beijing Normal University; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Keynote Speech 3:

- Mingfei ZHOU, Professor and chair of chemistry department, Fudan University

Roundtable Discussion:

Moderator:

- Yi LUO, Distinguished Chair Professor, Executive Dean of School of Emerging Technologies, Director of Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China.

Panelists:

- Xueming YANG, Vice President, Southern University of Science and Technology; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 2022 Future Science Prize- Physical Science Prize Laureate

- Wei-Hai FANG，Professor, Beijing Normal University; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

- Donghui ZHANG，Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

- Mingfei ZHOU, Professor and chair of chemistry department, Fudan University

- Shui-Ming HU, professor of the Department of Chemical Physics of USTC, the director of the Division of Advanced Measurement Instrument of the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and a director of the Chinese Society for Measurement.

Q&A

Astronomy: Big Science Facilities

Session Chair

- Xiangping Wu, Member, Steering Committee of the Future Science Prize Week 2022; President, China Association of Children's Science Instructors; Investigator, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

Keynote Speech 1: Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest in the Universe Using JWST

- Jian Ge, Investigator, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Keynote Speech 2: SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY: Exploring the Universe with the world's largest radio telescope

- Qian Zheng, Investigator, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Keynote Speech 3: The Discovery Space of China Sky Evey (FAST)

- Di Li, FAST Chief Scientist

Panel Discussion

Moderator: 

- Xiangping Wu

Panelists:

- Jian Ge, Qian Zheng, Di Li

Climate Change

Session Chair

- Jianhua Lin, Co-chair, Program Committee of the Future Science Prize Week 2022; Former President of Peking University; Director of Peking University Research Center for Future Education Management

Keynote Speech 1: Fossil fuel carbon emissions and terrestrial carbon sinks in China

- Jingyun Fang, Distinguished Professor, Peking University Boya Chair; President of Yunnan University; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member, The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries

Keynote Speech 2: An earth system perspective on reaching global net-zero emissions to stabilize the global climate

- Pep Canadell, Chief Research Scientist of CSIRO, Canberra, Australia; Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project of Future Earth and the World Climate Research Programme

Keynote Speech 3: The logic of energy transition in the context of zero carbon growth

- Junfeng Li, First Director General, National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC) ; Standing Director, China Energy Research Society (CERS)

Panel Discussion

Moderator: 

- Qiang Wang, Professor & Dean, the College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing Forestry University

Panelists:

- Jingyun Fang, Pep Canadell, Junfeng Li

Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

Session Chair

- Wen Gao, Computer expert; Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering; Director, Peng Cheng Laboratory; Peking University Boya Chair Professor

Keynote Speech 1 

- Weinan E, Professor, Peking University and Princeton University; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Keynote Speech 2: Trustworthy Federated Learning

- Qiang Yang, Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of WeBank and Chair Professor of CSE Department of Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech

Keynote Speech 3: Pricing in Data and Model Marketplaces

- Jian Pei, Professor, Duke University; Fellow, the Royal Society of Canada; Fellow, the Canadian Academy of Engineering

Panel Discussion

Moderator: 

- Kai Chen, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Panelists:

- Weinan E, Qiang Yang

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