Programme Abstract

Conference Program

registration
9:00am - 10:00am
Level 3, outside room 321 and 322
Registration
welcome speech
10:00am - 10:10am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Opening talk

Conference co-chairs (W. Vincent Liu and Jiangbin Gong)

Plenary Session Chair: W. Vincent Liu
Plenary
10:10am - 10:40am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (Jie Zhang, SJTU)

Laser Fusion: Lighting the Future

President of Chin Phys Soc

Plenary
10.40am - 11:10am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (Cheng Chin, U Chicago)

Quantum Simulation with Atoms and Molecules: From Cosmology to Quantum Chemistry

Plenary
11:10am - 11:40am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (Samuel CC Ting, MIT)

Live Remote Talk: Encounters with Particle Physics - on the ground and in space

Nobel Laureate

break
11:40am - 12:00pm
Picture taking
meal
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Lunch (not provided)

You may explore various FnB outlets at Suntec City.

talk
1:30pm - 3:30pm
13 parallel sessions

See detailed timetable

break
3:30pm - 3:50pm
Room 321 and 322
Coffee Break
talk
3:50pm - 5:50pm
13 parallel sessions

See detailed timetable

meal
9:00am - 9:30am
Room 321 and 322
Morning breakfast (Catered at SCC)
Plenary (CN Yang memorial) Session

(Chair: Ngee-Pong Chang)

Plenary
9:30am - 9:40am
A tribute to Prof. C.N. Yang (Ngee-Pong Chang, OCPA)
Plenary
9:40am - 10:10am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (Yu Shi, USTC)

C. N. Yang: Seeking Truth Through Beauty

Plenary
10:10am - 10:40am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (Bang-fen Zhu, Tsinghua)

Chinese Roots and the Soul of Science—Remembering Professor Chen Ning Yang

Plenary
10:40am - 11:10am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (KK Phua, World Scientific)

The Brief History of IAS at NTU from 2005 to 2018

Plenary
11.10am - 11:40am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (OH Choo Hiap, NUS)

Prof CN Yang and Physics Education/Research in Malaysia and Singapore

Plenary
11:40am - 12:10pm
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (Ling-Lie Chau, UC Davis)

Remembering Prof. Yang, Chen Ning: A Great Physicist of the 20th Century, A Mentor and A Friend

meal
12:10pm - 1:30pm
Lunch (not provided)

You may explore various FnB outlets at Suntec City.

talk
1:30pm - 3:30pm
13 parallel sessions
break
3:30pm - 3:50pm
Room 321 and 322
Afternoon Coffee Break (Catered at SCC)
talk
3:50pm - 5:50pm
13 parallel sessions
meal
9:00am - 9:30am
Room 321 and 322
Morning breakfast (Catered at SCC)
Plenary Session Chair: Tu-Nan Chang
Plenary
9:30am - 10:00am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (Maw-Kuen Wu, Academia Sinica)

From Superconductivity to Battery-A Personal Research Journey

Plenary
10:00am - 10:30am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (Keh-Fei Liu, U Kentucky)

Pressure-energy equations of state of hadrons, superconductor vortices and the cosmos

Plenary
10:30am - 11:00am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (Kam-Biu Luk, HKUST/UC Berkeley)

Neutrino Oscillation: Past, Present, and Future

Plenary
11.00am - 11:30am
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (You-Hua Chu, Academia Sinica)

Searching for Bubbles Blown by Stars - Classical Astronomy in a Modern Era

Plenary
11:30am - 12:00pm
Summit 1. Enter from room 321 and 322.
Plenary talk (Keqing Xia, SUSTech)

Mechanism of Symmetry Restoration in Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection

meal
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Lunch (not provided)

You may explore various FnB outlets at Suntec City.

talk
1:30pm - 3:30pm
13 parallel sessions
break
3:30pm - 3:50pm
Room 321 and 322
Afternoon Coffee Break (Catered at SCC)
talk
3:50pm - 5:50pm
13 parallel sessions
transport
9:00am - 9:30am
Med- Sci Library
Transfer to NUS

One-way transfer to NUS is available from the Suntec Convention Centre Drop-off Point .

Kindly gather at the designated pick-up point 10 minutes prior to your departure time. The bus will depart promptly according to the schedule below:

  • 1st Bus: 8:50 AM
  • 2nd Bus: 9:00 AM
  • 3rd Bus: 9:10 AM
Plenary Session Chair: Nai-Chang Yeh
Plenary
9:30am - 10:00am
LT 27
Plenary talk (Brad Marston, APS president)

Waves of Topological Origin in the Fluid Earth System and Beyond

Plenary
10:00am - 10:30am
LT 27
Plenary talk (Chen-Yu Liu, UIUC, National Academy of Sciences Member)

Neutron Lifetime Puzzle

Plenary
10:30am - 11:00am
LT 27
Plenary talk (Chien-Cheng Kuo, President of Phys. Soc. Taiwan)

How atomic-scale probes uncover the essential physics of low-dimensional systems

Plenary
11.00am - 11:30am
LT 27
Plenary talk (Mei-Yin Chou, Vice President of Academia Sinica)

Prospects of First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations: Past, Present and Future

Plenary
11:30am - 12:00pm
LT 27
Plenary talk (Qihua Xiong, Tsinghua)

Manipulating Polariton Condensates and Their Ultrafast Dynamics at Room Temperature

meal
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch (not provided)

You may explore various FnB outlets at LT 27.

Poster session
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Med-Sci Library
break
3:30pm - 3:50pm
Med-Sci Library
Afternoon Coffee Break
Poster session
3:50pm - 5:20pm
Med-Sci Library
dinner
6:30pm onwards
KR Guild House
Banquet dinner
transport
9:00am - 10:00am
Med- Sci Library
Transfer to NUS

One-way transfer to NUS is available from the Suntec Convention Centre Drop-off Point .

Kindly gather at the designated pick-up point 10 minutes prior to your departure time. The bus will depart promptly according to the schedule below:

  • 1st Bus: 8:50 AM
  • 2nd Bus: 9:00 AM
  • 3rd Bus: 9:10 AM
award
10:00am – 11:30am
LT 27
OCPA/APS Conference Poster Awards presentation + Closing (Jiangbin Gong (NUS), Chen-Yu Liu (OCPA/UIUC), Brad Marston (APS))
meal
11:30am – 1:30pm
Lunch (not provided)

You may explore various FnB outlets at LT 27.

excursion
1:30pm – 5:00pm
NUS (program TBC)
Sign-ups – Group tours

  1. Various laboratories (CQT, CIBA, CA2DM, SSL, SSLS, T-Lab, NanoLab, etc)
  2. LKC Natural History Museum
  3. Campus tour

Sign-up

excursion
9:00am - 12:00pm
Half day heritage tour


Heritage Tour Pick-Up Information

Guests Staying at UTown or The Ridge
Pick-Up Location Pick-Up Time
UTR (UTown) 9:00 AM
The Ridge 9:10 AM


Guests Staying at City Hotels
Pick-Up Location Pick-Up Time
PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay 9:00 AM

Please arrive at your designated pick-up point at least 10 minutes before the scheduled departure time.

meal
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch (not provided)

List of sessions and Scientific Program Committee (SPC) organizers

Plasma Physics

  • LIM, Kyungtak (NTU)
  • XU, Shuyan (NTU)

A special memorial session in honor of Prof. Chen-Ning Yang

Chair
  • TBA

Organised By:

NUS
NTU

Supported by:

SECB
SG Passion Made Possible