Meeting of Chinese Physicists Worldwide Opens in HK

3rd Joint Meeting of Chinese Physicists Worldwide Held in Hong Kong

The Third Joint Meeting of Chinese Physicists Worldwide opened Monday at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

During the five-day meeting, over 300 Chinese scientists, including Nobel laureates C. N. Yang, T. D. Lee and Samuel C. C. Ting, will exchange ideas around the theme of "Role of Physics in the New Millennium: Research, Education and Society."

The meeting has a total of seven plenary sessions of which three will be respectively dedicated to the memory of T. Y. Wu, C. S. Wu and Xie Xide, three renowned Chinese physicists of the century.

In addition, there are 60 parallel sessions focusing on 12 areas of physics: accelerator physics; astrophysics, atomic, molecular, optical and chemical physics; biophysics; computation physics; condensed matter experiment; condensed matter theory; high energy physics; particle and nuclear physics; plasma physics; statistical mechanics; and theoretical physics.

"At the dawn of a new millennium, this meeting has a particular significance for Hong Kong, as our economy is undergoing a major transformation, guided by the Chief Executive's vision of developing Hong Kong into an innovation-led, technology-intensive economy in the 21st century," said Fanny Law, secretary for education and manpower of Hong Kong at the opening ceremony.

The first such meeting was held in Shantou of China's Guangdong Province in 1995 while the second one was held in Taipei in 1997.