EVENTS
Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions @HKU Science 2025
Yuet Ming Fountain Area, outside Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building & Run Run Shaw Podium
The HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2025 will be held on October 25 (Saturday). On Information Day, five departments/school in the Faculty of Science — the School of Biological Sciences, Departments of Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and the School of Biomedical Sciences from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, will take this opportunity to introduce the new initiatives in our Science curricula, our academic programmes and learning experiences offered to prospective students and the public. Information booths for each of our Science majors and programmes, such as Science Master Class, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws, as well as a game booth to test your science knowledge and let you know more about our programmes in a fun way, will be set up at the Yuet Ming Fountain Area. Don't forget to stop by our Faculty Information booth at Run Run Shaw Podium to learn what we have offered. Come and visit us on October 25. All are welcome! Admission Talks on Science Programmes and Majors View talk schedule Exhibitions, Guided Tours to laboratories and other departmental facilities View activity schedule
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THE SHAW PRIZE LECTURE IN ASTRONOMY 2025
Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, HKU, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Established under the auspices of Mr Run Run Shaw, the Prize honours individuals who are currently active in their respective fields and have achieved significant breakthroughs in academic and scientific research or applications, whose work has resulted in a positive and profound impact on humankind. The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2025 is awarded in equal shares to John Richard Bond, Professor of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and University Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada and George Efstathiou, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, UK, for their pioneering research in cosmology, in particular for their studies of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. Their predictions have been verified by an armada of ground-, balloon- and space-based instruments, leading to precise determinations of the age, geometry, and mass-energy content of the universe. Abstract The cosmic microwave background (CMB) — the afterglow of the Big Bang — has transformed our understanding of the Universe. Tiny temperature fluctuations in the CMB have provided a gold mine of information about the early Universe. Observations of the CMB have led to very strong evidence that the Universe experienced an inflationary period of rapid expansion at early times, and that at late times it is dominated by dark matter and dark energy. These features have led to the emergence of the ΛCDM model as the standard model of cosmology, with parameters exquisitely defined by the Planck satellite and ground-based experiments. Yet the component parts of the ΛCDM model are still not understood at a fundamental level. In the first part of this lecture, Professor Efstathiou will review the prospects of learning about inflation, dark matter and dark energy over the next few years, with particular emphasis on recent claims that dark energy may be evolving. In the second part, Professor Bond will focus on the transport of photons, neutrinos, and gravitational waves from the early Universe to now and results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), complementing Professor Efstathiou’s emphasis on Planck and ΛCDM. Please visit the lecture's website for additional details and registration information.
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