Issue No. 168Time: 10:00 a.m. April 24Location: B-515 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Xuefei XUAbstract:Owing to the impressive growth of computational power and of the development of novel computational techniques, including data-driven approaches, nowadays it is possib…

Issue No. 167Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m. April 15Location: B-518 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Chao SunAbstract:The freezing of water within porous media entails a variety of dynamics in which micro-and macro-scale phenomena blend. Among many, soil expansion, produced by ic…

Issue No. 166Time: March 25, 19:20Location: B-518 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Yixiang Shi and Prof. Ran SuiAbstract:The talk focuses on alternative electro- and thermo-catalytic pathways for the production and decomposition of ammonia related to its use as carrier of…

Issue No. 165时间: 2026年1月7日(周三)下午15:00地点: 李兆基科技大楼会议室B518邀请人: 张亮 副教授Abstract:以清洁电能为驱动的CO₂还原反应（CO₂RR）是实现“双碳”目标的潜在技术。随着气体扩散电极（GDE）的应用，CO₂RR反应速率已接近工业化水平。然而，受限于对GDE中反应物传输机制、催化剂表面微环境及高活性位…

Issue No. 164Time: 14:00-15:15 p.m. December 25Location: B-515 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Chao SunAbstract:Convection in rapidly rotating fluids and mixing through porous media are often treated as distinct problems: one is constrained by Coriolis forces and Ekman l…

Issue No. 163Time: 15:00 p.m. on November 11, 2025Location: B-518 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Chao SunAbstract:We show how to apply optimal control theory to catch a passive drifting target in a turbulent flow by an autonomous flowing agent with limited maneuverabili…

Issue No. 162Time: 14:00 p.m. on November 11, 2025Location: B-518 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Chao SunAbstract:Lagrangian turbulence lies at the core of numerous applied and fundamental problems. However, despite decades of theoretical, numerical, and experimental re…

Issue No. 161Time: 9:30 a.m. on November 11, 2025Location: B-518 Lee Shau Kee Building of Science and TechnologyHost: Prof. Chao SunAbstract:In physics, noise is usually associated with small, fast perturbations to the system under study — something we want to eliminate. However, in complex syste…