Dialogues

The Graduate School runs various non-discipline-based dialogue sessions throughout the academic year to offer opportunities for informal interactions between research postgraduate students and outstanding academics, researchers, entrepreneurs and professionals.  Through these exchanges, students hear invaluable experiences and insights from the speakers and gather useful information on how to get better prepared for a career in academia or an alternative academic path.  The Graduate School will issue bulk emails to students from time to time to announce the details of the dialogue sessions.

                                                                                                                                                    (Updated as of Nov 19, 2020)

Date and Time	Topic / Theme
Dec 4, 2020 (Fri) 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm	How to Pursue an Alternative Academic Path in Humanities and Sciences - Insights from AsiaGlobal Fellows

Dialogue sessions for the academic year of 2019-20 were as follows:  

Date and Time	Topic / Theme
Nov 21, 2019 (Thur) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	(Cancelled) Dialogues between Veteran and Aspiring Researchers - Professor Dr. Paul Embrechts, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Hung Hing Ying Distinguished Visiting Professor in Science and Technology, The University of Hong Kong
Nov 20, 2019 (Wed) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	(Cancelled) Dialogues between Veteran and Aspiring Researchers: Building a career in an increasingly knowledge-intensive world - Professor Edward Hak-Sing Ip, Professor, Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Oct 8, 2019 (Tue) 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm	How to Pursue an Alternative Academic Path in Humanities and Sciences - Insights from AsiaGlobal Fellows

Dialogue sessions for the academic year of 2018-19 were as follows:  

Date and Time	Topic / Theme
Nov 22, 2018 (Thur) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues with Croucher Innovation Awardees  - Dr. Shizhong Zhang
Oct 23, 2018 (Tue) 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm	How to Pursue an Alternative Academic Path in Humanities and Sciences - Insights from AsiaGlobal Fellows

 

Dialogue sessions for the academic year of 2017-18 were as follows:  

Date and Time	Topic / Theme
May 30, 2018 (Wed) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogue with the Technology Transfer Office @ HKU  - Mr Matchy Ma
Apr 18, 2018 (Wed) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues with Entrepreneurs - Dr Kenneth Lai, Executive Director/Founder of NOVUS Life Sciences
Mar 27, 2018 (Tue) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues between Veteran and Aspiring Researchers - Professor Jeremy Jackson, Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution; Emeritus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego - Professor Nancy Knowlton, Sant Chair in Marine Science, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Mar 21, 2018 (Wed) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues with Croucher Innovation Awardees  - Dr. Stephanie Ma
Mar 2, 2018 (Fri) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues between Veteran and Aspiring Researchers - Professor Andrew Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
Feb 7, 2018 (Wed) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues with Croucher Innovation Awardees  - Dr. Heming Cui
Jan 23, 2018 (Tue) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues between Veteran and Aspiring Researchers - Professor Helen Siu, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
Jan 19, 2018 (Fri)             12:45 pm - 1:45 pm	Dialogues with Entrepreneurs - Dr Florian Simmendinger, CEO & Founder, Soundbrenner
Nov 23, 2017 (Thur) 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm	How to Pursue an Alternative Academic Path in Humanities and Sciences - Insights from AsiaGlobal Fellows
Nov 16, 2017 (Thur) 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Dialogues between Veteran and Aspiring Researchers - Professor Weicai Yang, Director, Institute of Genetics & Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PRC
Oct 19, 2017 (Thu) 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm	Sharing Session with Professor Hans Clevers

 

Dialogue sessions for the academic year of 2016-17 were as follows:                                             

Date and Time	Topic / Theme
May 19, 2017 (Fri) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues between Croucher Innovation Awardees and RPg Students - Professor Wang YAO
Apr 28, 2017 (Fri) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogue with the Technology Transfer Office @ HKU  - Dr S. C. Kim
Apr 25, 2017 (Tue) 12:45 pm – 13:45 pm	Dialogues between Croucher Innovation Awardees and RPg Students - Dr Carmen Chak Lui Wong
Mar 23, 2017 (Thu) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues between Croucher Innovation Awardees and RPg Students - Dr Hayden Kwok-Hay SO
Mar 3, 2017 (Fri) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues between Veteran and Aspiring Researchers - Professor Timothy Oakes Director, Center for Asian Studies Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Visiting Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, HKU
Feb 17, 2017 (Fri) 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues between Croucher Innovation Awardees and RPg Students - Dr Ho Yu AU-YEUNG
Jan 10, 2017 (Tue) 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues between Veteran and Aspiring Researchers - Professor Robin Lovell-Badge Group Leader and Head of the Division of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics, The Francis Crick Institute, UK Visiting Research Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
Dec 2, 2016 (Fri) 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm	Dialogues between Veteran and Aspiring Researchers - Professor Garth Cooper, Professor in Discovery and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester, UK - PPT Presentation
Nov 18, 2016 (Fri) 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm	Dialogues between Veteran and Aspiring Researchers - Professor Jeremy Jackson, Senior Adjunct Scientist, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA - Professor Nancy Knowlton, Sant Chair in Marine Science, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA