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

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

    All interested are welcome