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Celebration of Physics – Annual Symposium 2025

The Celebrations of Physics – Physics Annual Symposium 2025 will be held on 30 May 2025 (Friday).

The annual event is designed to connect our students and faculty members and celebrate their achievements in the past academic year, and it has become an essential and integral part of our department’s tradition. It is an annual signature event of the Department of Physics, CityUHK, since 2019. It not only provides a platform to showcase the research achievements of PHY students, but also promotes the collaborative research culture across the department.

 

Program Rundown

Morning Venue: B5-210 & B5-211, YEUNG

10:00 – 11:30

Poster Exhibition of UG, MSc, and PhD students.
PHY students will do presentation of posters on-site

Participants could cast votes for the Best Poster(s)
for groups UG, MSc, and PhD

 

Afternoon Venue: G7603, YEUNG

13:30 – 13:35

 Introduction
Prof. Yang REN
(Head of Department; Chair Professor of Physics,
CityUHK)
13:35 – 13:40 Welcoming remarks
Prof. Anderson SHUM
[Vice President (Research),
Chair Professor, Department of Chemical and
Biomedical Engineering, CityUHK]
13:40 – 13:45 Photo Session


Keynote Talk—Chair: Prof. Yang REN

13:45 – 14:45

Atomic Building Blocks for Silicon-Based Quantum
Devices
Prof. Sven ROGGE
(Dean of the Faculty of Science, 
University of New South Wales, Sydney)


Scientific Session (I)—Chair: Prof. Zhedong ZHANG

14:45 – 15:15

 Density matrix renormalization group
methods for quantum chemistry
Prof. Haibo MA (Professor, Shandong University)

15:15 – 15:45

 Correlated and topological states in slightly
charge doped rhombohedral multilayer graphene
Prof. Jianpeng LIU
(Associate Professor, ShanghaiTech University)


Student Awards

15:45 – 16:00

Announcement of FYP Awards
Prof. Xiao LI (Associate Professor, CityUHK)

Announcement of Poster Awards + Presentation
Prof. Haixing LI (Assistant Professor, CityUHK)

Announcement of Best Tutor Award
(2023-24 academic year)
Prof. Yang REN (Head of Department,
Chair Professor of Physics, CityUHK)

 

Coffee break and discussions (16:00 – 16:15)
 

Scientific Session (II)—Chair: Prof. Ge ZHANG

16:15 – 16:30

 Exploring novel quasiparticles in
quantum materials
Prof. Junzhang MA (Assistant Professor, CityUHK)

16:30 – 16:45

 Machine Learning phase transitions in
many-body systems
Prof. Wing Chi YU (Assistant Professor, CityUHK)


Departmental Service Award

16:45 – 17:00

Announcement of Departmental Service Award
Prof. Yang REN
(Head of Department; Chair Professor of Physics,
CityUHK)


Scientific Session (III)—Chair: Prof. Yiming ZHONG

17:00 – 17:30

 Recent progress in cosmological collider and
cosmological amplitudes
Prof. Zhongzhi XIANYU
(Associate Professor, Tsinghua University)

17:30 – 17:45

 Nonequilibrium Condensation of Bosons:
Lessons from algebraic graph theory
Prof. Zhedong ZHANG (Assistant Professor, CityUHK)
17:45 – 18:00 Soft Matter at Surfaces and Interfaces
Prof. Yu CHAI (Assistant Professor, CityUHK)

 

Free registration for ALL participants.

Please download the e-flyer here.
For enquiries please contact faculty member below of the Organizing Committee of PHY:

Prof. Xiao LI on [email protected]

Event Details
Speaker
PHY Faculties and some of the Best Physicists in the World

Date & Time
30 May 2025 10:00 am

Venue
Morning Venue: B5-210 & B5-211, YEUNG;
Afternoon Venue: G7603, YEUNG

Chair
Prof. Yang REN (Keynote Talk), Prof. Prof. Zhedong?ZHANG (Session I), Prof. Ge ZHANG (Session II), and Prof. Yiming ZHONG (Session III)