DST MCP High Table Dinner
Dear DST Year 1 students,
High Table Dinner is a practice in line with UIC’s Liberal Arts spirit, Whole Person Education and Four Point Philosophy. The 81st high table dinner online registration will be opened. There are 150 spaces for DST Year 1 students. All applicants can get registration rules on the high table dinner home page. Specific rules of this dinner are as follows:
First, for 81st high table dinner, the registration offers 150 seats to DST Year 1 students.
Second, online registration is available at http://mis.uic.edu.cn from 17:00 on 25th April, 2016 to 23:55 on 27th April, 2016.
Third, first come first served.
All the successful registration students will receive an automatic reply email from MIS email.
The seating plan will be sent by HTD email before 17:00, 13rd May, 2016.
Please note that the students who attend the High-table Diner are required to attend the training session from 18:30 to 20:00 at B201 on 12nd May, 2016. If you are absent from the Training session, you will be disqualified to attend the Dinner. Please check your timetable before registration.
Appendix:
The 81st High Table Dinner
Date: 18 May 2016
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: B102 (Banquet Hall)
MC: To be confirmed
Chairman: Prof. Stephen Chung
Guest Speaker: Prof. Donald Chang，Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor in the Division of Life Science in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Speech Topic: Macro-Science --- Seeing the big picture of our world
AGENDA
17:00 - 17:45 Tea Reception (B101, Attending Guest)
17:30 - 17:45 Attending Guests Enter the Hall (B102)
17:50 - 18:00 High-Table Guests Line up (in front of the gate of B102)
17:50 - 18:00 Students Enter the Hall (B102)
17:45 - 18:00 MC. 1) Announce the high table dinner etiquette;
2) Ask all to rise, welcome high-table guests
18:00 - 18:02 High-Table Guests Procession
18:02 - 18:05 MC: Opening announcement and introducing the High-Table Guests
18:05 - 18:10 Chairman: Welcoming Speech and Introduction of Guest Speaker
18:10 - 18:40 Speech by Guest Speaker
18:40 - 18:55 Questions and Answers session
18:50 - 18:55 Souvenir Presentation to Guest Speaker
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner Time
20:00 - 20:05 Closing Remarks and recession of High Table Guests (all stand)
20:05 - 20:15 Sending off High Table Guests
DRESS CODE for the High Table Dinner:
for men: dark suit, shirt and tie, leather shoes
for women: semi-formal dinner dress or traditional Chinese Qipao, proper shoes.
(Inappropriate wearing not admitted)
Notes:
1. Entering time:
for Attending Guests: Entering the high table banquet hall before 17:45;
for High-Table Guests: 17:50 for line-up,
18:00 for entering the high table banquet hall (should arrive 20 minutes in advance for dressing in B101).
2. No entry and departure will be allowed when the dinner begins.
3. Keep your mobile phone silent.
4. Do not take pictures during the dinner.
Guest Speaker: Professor Donald Chang
Prof. Chang obtained a Bachelor degree from the Taiwan University and Master and Doctoral degrees (in physics) from Rice University in the USA. He was Assistant Professor and Associated Professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics of Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas, USA). In 1991, he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as a founding faculty member. He was appointed Professor and later Chair Professor. Prof. Chang was a Summer Investigator in Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab (1975-1995), Visiting Professor in Peking University (1981) , Tsinghua University (1986), and University of California at San Diago (1996). He is currently Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor in the Division of Life Science in HKUST.
Prof. Chang was the founding President of the Hong Kong Biophysical Society. He was also the Vice President of Hong Kong Institution of Science (HKIS), Council Member of the Asian Biophysical Association, Associated editor of the journal Biophysics, and a Corporate Member of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole (USA). Prof. Chang was elected a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Science in 2009.
Prof. Chang has very broad research interests, including biophysics, fundamental physics and macro-science. He has published three books and over 100 papers in international journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS and Biophys J. He also has about twenty international patents.
Research Interests:
Foundation of quantum physics
Molecular biophysics and biotechnology
Signaling mechanisms in living systems
Principles of social development and moral values
Macro-Science --- Seeing the big picture of our world
With the rapid rise of China, we should start building a new culture of scientific research. Besides technological development, we need to develop a new perspective in science and education. This will help us to broaden our view of this world, and may even help us to find new directions in our explorations of truth in the future. Many leading universities in the world are aware of the importance of promoting cross disciplinary studies of science in a broader view. For example, Yale, Stanford, Harvard and Cambridge universities all have some sort of research programs that are interested in issues at the intersection of science, technology, and humanity. Their common goals are to break down the barriers that separate scholars specialized in different fields. Hopefully, through an integrative study of science on the macroscopic level, we can see a bigger picture of our world.
