WORKSHOP ON
THE FOUNDATION OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
AND RELATED EXPERIMENTS

Date : May 27, 1995

Scope

Programme

Venue

Sponsor

Organising Comittee

All are Welcome

SCOPE

To discuss recent developments in general relativity, quantum gravity and related experiments.


PROGRAMME

8:45  Registration (Tea and refreshments) 

9:00  Opening session 
      Chairman: Dr. Fred J. Hickernell 
                Head of Math. Dept., HKBU 
      Welcoming Speech: 
         Prof. Ching Fai Ng 
         Dean of Science Faculty, HKBU 

9:10  Morning session (I) 
      Chairman: Dr. Chung Yin Lo 
                University Fellow of HKBU 

9:10  Prof. Kenneth Young, CUHK 
      Late time tail of wave propagation on curved spacetime 

9:55  Prof. Alfred Yu, HKPU 
      Theoretical problems in the foundation of general relativity 

10:40 Tea break 

11:00 Morning session (II) 
      Chairman: Prof. Alfred Yu, HKPU 

11:00 Dr. Chung Yin Lo, University Fellow of HKBU 
      The binary stars radiation experiments and the question of 
      singularity in spacetime 

11:45 Discussion 

12:30 Lunch 

13:30 Afternoon session 
      Chairman: Prof. Kenneth Young, CUHK 

13:30 Dr. Chi Au, HKPU 
      Soliton and exact (3+1) dimensional gravitational solitons to
      the Einstein equation 

14:15 Dr. Sze Kui Ng, HKBU 
      New symmetry model for quantum gravity realizing the thought of 
      Leibniz and Mach 

15:00 Tea Break 

15:15 Discussion 

16:00 Close 

VENUE

Council Chamber, 9/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building,
Hong Kong Baptist University

SPONSORS

  • Department of Mathematics, HKBU
  • Department of Applied Mathematics, HKPU

  • ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

    Dr. Sze Kui Ng, Dept. of Mathematics, HKBU

    (Tel. 2339 7018, Fax. 2336 1505)

    Prof. Alfred Yu, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, HKPU

    (Tel. 2776 6981, Fax. 2764 4382)

    All interested are welcome