Issue No. 177Time: October 26, 2026, 15:00Location: B-518 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Chao SunAbstract:From marine litter to ice floes, natural bodies of water are often populated with floating objects that span vast ranges of size, shape and concentration. Predictin…

Issue No. 176Time: October 12, 2026, 15:30Location: B-518 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Qiang Yao, Prof. Yuanyuan DuanAbstract:The emerging role of hydrogen in the energy transition is discussed widely with numerous applications being under consideration. These include…

Issue No. 175Time: August 31, 2026, 10:00Location: A-459 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Chao SunAbstract:Dense suspensions are known for their ability to resist flow due to interactionsbetween particles. For instance, attractive interactions favor the emergence of ayiel…

Issue No. 174Time: September 1, 2026, 15:00Location: B-518 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Xuefei XuAbstract:Since Tully’s 1971 seminal paper of development of trajectory surface hopping method to simulate nonadiabatic processes of two electronic state system, using and…

Issue No. 173Time: August 20, 2026, 10:00-11:00Location: B-518 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Wenkai LiangAbstract:Self-propelled droplet jumping has widespread applications in surface cleaning, condensation heat transfer, hydrogen production, and triboelectric nanogene…

Issue No. 172Time: August 7, 2026, 15:00Location: B-515 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Xuefei XuAbstract:Aqueous interfaces play a central role across chemistry, biology, and materials science, yet the microscopic origins of their unique physicochemical properties remai…

Issue No. 171时间: 2026年7月2日(周四)下午15:00地点: 李兆基科技大楼会议室B515邀请人: 杨斌 教授报告人: 任伟 教授报告摘要:激光诊断技术因具备非接触、高灵敏度等显著优势，已成为燃烧等复杂过程高精度诊断与实时监测的核心手段。近年来，新型光源的涌现、光谱方法的革新以及多领域应用需求的拓展，正持续驱动该技术…

Issue No. 170Time: 9:30 a.m. June 5Location: B-518 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyAbstract:Turbulence is inherently a multiscale phenomenon, in which nonlinear cascades redistribute energy across scales and govern key flow characteristics, including dissipation, scalar mixing, and …