Headliners at HKUST

Gu Binglin  The renowned physicist and new president of Tsinghua University headed a major delegation to HKUST.

Harvey Brightman   The Regent's Professor Emeritus of Decision Sciences at Georgia State University and expert in adult education held teaching workshops for faculty and doctoral students.

Mary Harney   Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland. Ms Harney led a delegation to HKUST.

Anthony J Leggett   John D and Catherine T MacArthur Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, whose pioneering work in superfluidity gained him the Nobel prize in 2003. His visit was sponsored by the Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund.

Nicholas Negroponte   Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at MIT and founding chairman of MIT's Media Laboratory gave a talk on 'The Future of Telecommunications'.

Vernon Smith   The Nobel Laureate (2002 Economics) spoke at a lunch to mark the Center for Experimental Business Research's second Asian conference.