The two-day virtual Science Festival will be scheduled for 29-30 June 2021. Science Festival is the annual flagship community programme organised by the Faculty of Science to arouse public interest in the world of wonders and discovery. We will hold an array of stimulating talks, workshops and lab demonstrations, to nurture students' interest and curiosity in science and technology. Let's Explore, Discover and Experience FUN in Science!
29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1] | |
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10:00 - 11:00 | Converting Food Waste to Renewable Energy |
11:00 - 11:45 | Admission Talk for Department of Biology |
11:30 - 13:00 | Smart IoT Weather Station |
13:00 - 13:45 | Bioresource Management and Sustainable Agriculture |
13:00 - 14:00 | Building a Smart City: From the Fusion of Technology and Big Data, to IoT, FinTech and Beyond |
14:00 - 14:45 | Math Romance |
14:00 - 17:00 | Building a smart Chatbot assistant |
15:00 - 15:45 | New Tricks to Control Sound |
15:30 - 16:30 | Chemistry in Life – Food, Biomedicine and Cosmetics |
30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2] | |
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10:00 - 13:00 | Building a smart Chatbot assistant |
10:30 - 11:15 | Green Energy Innovation Towards a Sustainable Future |
12:00 - 13:00 | Chemistry Magic Show |
13:00 - 15:00 | Monte Carlo Method for Some Problems in Probability |
13:15 - 14:00 | Programme Briefing for BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and Science Talk: Engaging Society in Science and Technology |
14:00 - 15:30 | Smart IoT Weather Station |
15:00 - 16:30 | Understanding GM Food: Exploring DNA technology in Food Safety |
About one third of the world’s food, nearly 1.3 billion tons is wasted annually and mostly ending in landfills causing air and water pollution along with health hazards to human. In addition, continuous production of energy and chemical fertilizer is depleting natural resources. In fact this food waste can be used as nutrient resource to produce bioenergy (biogas) from anaerobic digestion and biofertilizer (compost) from composting technologies. These bio refinery approaches produce clean energy and organic fertilizer to combat the climate change effectively. Replacing food waste for energy production, resource recovery and carbon sequestration can be sustainable solution for future world.
Unit Faculty of Science |
Type Opening & Talk |
Language Cantonese |
Speaker Professor Jonathan Wong |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
10:00 - 11:00
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Remark Target: Public |
Similar to how humans see the world through our eyes, mobile phone can also "see" the world through its camera. It understands the environment, such as depth and lighting information, by detecting feature points in the captured images. With the help of existing APIs, we can build mobile app that can understand the world and interact with information, which is so called Augmented Reality (AR). For example, we can place a virtual kitten in the real world and watch it moving around. In this workshop, participants will develop a mobile app that can provide AR experiences.
Unit Computer Science |
Type Workshop |
Language Cantonese, supplemented with English material |
Speaker Dr. Jacky Chan |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
10:00 - 13:00
30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
14:00 - 17:00
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Remark Target: F.4 - F.6 Students Quota: 30 |
The admission talk is an introduction to the two Major programmes, BSc (Hons) in Applied Biology and BSc (Hon) in Bioresource and Agricultural Science and the admission requirements.
Unit Biology |
Type Talk |
Language Cantonese |
Speakers Dr. Patrick Yue and Dr. Anna Leung |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
11:00 - 11:45
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Remark Target: Public |
Department of Physics will introduce Scanning Electronic Microscope, Fuel Cell and Solar Tracking System in the lab demonstrations.
Unit Physics |
Type Lab Demonstration |
Language Cantonese |
Speaker Scientific Officer of Department of Physics |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
11:00 - 11:30
30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
15:30 - 16:00
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Hands-on workshop to develop a smart device that can detect and monitor temperature, humidity etc.
Unit Physics |
Type Workshop |
Language Cantonese |
Speaker Dr. Mau Hing Chan |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
11:30 - 13:00
30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
14:00 - 15:30
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Remark Target: F.4-F.6 Students (with basic C/C++ programming experience) Quota: 15 (School-based) Computer with Arduino IDE - Integrated Development Environment installed is required. |
Amid the outbreak of coronavirus and the adoption of quarantine measures by some countries, food security and the importance of sustainable agriculture is becoming more widely recognised at the global level. This thematic talk aims to raise students’ awareness of food and agriculture issues related to the sustainability of our daily life and to highlight the importance of bioresource management in safeguarding people from environmental risks.
Unit Biology |
Type Talk |
Language English |
Speaker Dr. Anna Leung |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
13:00 - 13:45
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Remark Target: Public |
The speaker will introduce the hot issues on Fintech and IoTs. The talk will also include the programme briefing of Business Computing and Data Analytics, the public may have a better understanding on what students would learn and practice in the programme.
Unit Computer Science |
Type Talk |
Language Cantonese and English |
Speaker Professor Joseph Ng |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
13:00 - 14:00
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Remark Target: Public |
The Department of Mathematics has recently launched a campaign, called Math Romance, aimed at promoting young people’s awareness and interest in mathematics. The theme of the campaign is “mathematics and romantic love”, which is composed of a series of short films, educational videos, blog posts, and social media pages. The campaign includes a love comedy called The Love Formulas, which is about a nerdy math student striving for his love journey, and how he out-smarts his romantic rivals using knowledge in mathematics. In this talk, the speaker will briefly explain some of mathematical concepts featured in these short films.
Unit Mathematics |
Type Talk |
Language Cantonese |
Speaker Dr. Mark Lau |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
14:00 - 14:45
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Remark Target: Public |
In this workshop, participants will develop a chatbot that recommends a restaurant to the customers. Through the development, participants will gain a glimpse of knowledge on Machine Learning and particularly how it is being applied in Natural Language Processing (NLP), a current hot topic in artificial intelligence (AI).
Unit Computer Science |
Type Workshop |
Language Cantonese |
Speakers Ms. Rosita Lee and Ms. Florence Fok |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
14:00 - 17:00
30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
10:00 - 13:00
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Remark Target: F.4 - F.6 Students Quota: 30 |
Cutting-edge technologies to control and manipulate sound
Unit Physics |
Type Talk |
Language Cantonese |
Speaker Dr. Guancong Ma |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
15:00 - 15:45
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Remark Target: Public |
Chemistry plays important roles in different areas of our daily lives, including food, biomedicine and cosmetics. In this talk, examples of food trivia in everyday life will be presented, in which students can understand the respective food chemistry knowledge behind. Students will have an overview on how chemists could foster the advancement of biomedicine research, such as drug and vaccine discoveries for cancers, infectious and neurodegeneration diseases in both academic and corporate industries. Moreover, small molecules used in skincare products, including the chemical formula of synthetic and natural ingredients, such as botanicals, retinoids, vitamins, antioxidants and anti-inflammatories will be presented.
Unit Chemistry |
Type Talk |
Language Cantonese and English |
Speakers Dr. Gray Ho, Dr. Catherine Hor and Dr. Wang Jun |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
15:30 - 16:30
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Remark Target: Public |
In this workshop, participants will develop a chatbot that recommends a restaurant to the customers. Through the development, participants will gain a glimpse of knowledge on Machine Learning and particularly how it is being applied in Natural Language Processing (NLP), a current hot topic in artificial intelligence (AI).
Unit Computer Science |
Type Workshop |
Language Cantonese |
Speakers Ms. Rosita Lee and Ms. Florence Fok |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
14:00 - 17:00
30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
10:00 - 13:00
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Remark Target: F.4 - F.6 Students Quota: 30 |
Overview of green technologies in renewable energy and improving energy efficiency
Unit Physics |
Type Talk |
Language Cantonese |
Speaker Dr. Jade Shi |
Date & Time 30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
10:30 - 11:15
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Remark Target: Public |
Introduction of BSc (Hons) in Physics and Green Energy
Unit Physics |
Type Talk |
Language English |
Speaker Professor Changsong Zhou |
Date & Time 30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
11:30 - 12:15
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The chemistry magic show is one of the attracting events of the annual Science Festival of the Faculty of Science. Our demonstration team will select some interesting and amazing chemistry experiments, and share the fun of chemistry with audiences of different ages with simple techniques and simple explanations.
Unit Chemistry |
Type Lab Demonstration |
Language Cantonese |
Speaker Mr. Hung Po Yeung |
Date & Time 30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
12:00 - 13:00
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Remark Target: Public |
Some simple probability problems may be difficulty to solve by mathematical equations. By writing computer programs implementing Monte Carlo method, those problems can be easily solved. Monte Carlo method is a numerical approximation based on the simulations using random numbers. In this workshop, the implementation of Monte Carlo method by Python programming language will be introduced.
Unit Mathematics |
Type Workshop |
Language Cantonese |
Speaker Dr. Liu Kwong Ip |
Date & Time 30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
13:00 - 15:00
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Remark Target: Public Computer with Anaconda installed is required. |
Through the programme briefing and alumni sharing, the public may have a better understanding of what students would learn and practice in CS programme. Participants may also perceive a stimulating experience when going through the showcase of student projects.
Unit Computer Science |
Type Talk |
Language Cantonese and English |
Speaker Dr. Byron Choi |
Date & Time 30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
13:15 - 14:00
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Remark Target: Public |
Hands-on workshop to develop a smart device that can detect and monitor temperature, humidity etc.
Unit Physics |
Type Workshop |
Language Cantonese |
Speaker Dr. Mau Hing Chan |
Date & Time 29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
11:30 - 13:00
30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
14:00 - 15:30
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Remark Target: F.4-F.6 Students (with basic C/C++ programming experience) Quota: 15 (School-based) Computer with Arduino IDE - Integrated Development Environment installed is required. |
Similar to how humans see the world through our eyes, mobile phone can also "see" the world through its camera. It understands the environment, such as depth and lighting information, by detecting feature points in the captured images. With the help of existing APIs, we can build mobile app that can understand the world and interact with information, which is so called Augmented Reality (AR). For example, we can place a virtual kitten in the real world and watch it moving around. In this workshop, participants will develop a mobile app that can provide AR experiences.
Unit Computer Science |
Type Workshop |
Language Cantonese supplemented with English |
Speaker Dr. Jacky Chan |
Date & Time 30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
14:00 - 17:00
29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
10:00 - 13:00
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Remark Target: F.4 - F.6 Students Quota: 30 |
This workshop will focus on the application of biotechnology to food safety by demonstrating how to extract DNA from food products.
Unit Biology |
Type Workshop |
Language Cantonese supplemented with English |
Speaker Dr. Patrick Yue |
Date & Time 30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
15:00 - 16:30
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Remark Target: Public |
Department of Physics will introduce Scanning Electronic Microscope, Full Cell and Solar Tracking System in the lab demonstrations.
Unit Physics |
Type Lab Demonstration |
Language Cantonese |
Speaker Scientific Officer of Department of Physics |
Date & Time 30 Jun (Wed) [Day 2]
15:30 - 16:00
29 Jun (Tue) [Day 1]
11:00 - 11:30
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