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HKU weekly notice

04 Aug 2017

 

HKU partners with Cyberport to set up the HKU x Cyberport Digital Tech Entrepreneurship Platform for developing a new digital tech entrepreneurship ecosystem

To foster talents and co-developing an innovative FinTech ecosystem, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony between the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited (Cyberport) will be held on 8 August 2017 (next Tuesday) to setup the “HKU x Cyberport Digital Tech Entrepreneurship Platform” (Platform).

The Platform is the first-of-its-kind collaboration between HKU and Cyberport aiming to form a closer partnership between the two parties to build a digital tech entrepreneurship platform. By leveraging the unique capabilities of both HKU and Cyberport, a unique digital tech entrepreneurship ecosystem for Hong Kong in the aspects of human capital, innovation and technologies, entrepreneurship, as well as legal and business expertise will be developed.

The “HKU x Cyberport FinTech Nucleus” will also be launched on the same day. Through this FinTech Nucleus, HKU will deploy its very own unique cybersecurity technology “SHIELD” at Cyberport and offer 50 units of SHIELD for a one-year free trial to the FinTech start-ups and companies in the community. SHIELD is developed by one of the research labs at HKU – CISC (Center for Information Security and Cryptography). The CISC team led by Dr Chow Kam-pui, Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, HKU, will demonstrate how the system works in a media tour held after the MoU signing ceremony.

In addition to SHIELD, HKU will showcase a powerful portfolio optimization software “PORTimizer®” and a MPF mobile app “MPF Optimal Allocation (MPF OpAl)” developed by Dr Philip Yu Leung-ho of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Faculty of Science, at the FinTech Nucleus.

Several Cyberport start-ups and tech companies will also introduce their FinTech solutions, including TNG Wallet, APrivacy, Privé Managers and Taiger.

Members of the media are cordially invited to cover the Ceremony and the media tour. Details are as below:

Date: 8 August 2017 (next Tuesday)

Time: 2p.m. – 4p.m.

Venue: Smart-Space FinTech, Level 4, Core E, Cyberport 3 

Officiating guests:

Professor Peter Mathieson, President and Vice-Chancellor, HKU

Professor Paul Tam Kwong-hang, Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, HKU

Professor Andy Hor Tzi-sum, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), HKU

Dr. Lee George Lam, Chairman, HKCMCL

Mr. Herman Lam Heung-yeung, Chief Executive Officer, HKCMCL

Dr. Toa Charm Ka-Ieong, Chief Public Mission Officer, HKCMCL

Media enquiry:
HKU Communications and Public Affairs Office:

Ms Rhea Leung (tel: 2857 8555/ 9022 7446; email: rhea.leung@hku.hk)

Ms Grace Ng (tel: 2241 5257/ 6347 2221; email: gracesk@hku.hk)

Cyberport

Ms Tiffany Lau (tel: 3166 3905 / 9809 1800; email: tiffanylau@cyberport.hk)

Ms Cynthia Chan (tel: 3166 3711; email: media@cyberport.hk)

The Stephen Hui Geological Museum to present the largest exhibition on private mineral collections in Hong Kong

Period:  Now till August 31, 2017

This exhibition will showcase over 200 precious minerals from 18 collectors from Hong Kong homes. Highlights are the infinite variety of minerals on display including one of the best gemmy single crystals of Tanzanite from Merelani Mine, a very rare large gem quality Aquamarine on Albite with large fluid inclusions from Balochi, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan and a 18 cm large gemmy Rhodochrosite on Quartz from the famous Sweet Home Mine in Colorado, U.S.A.. The mineral display cabinet of the late Dr Stephen Hui Sze-fun with a selection from his private collection is also included.

Details of the Exhibition:
Venue:  1/F, Stephen Hui Geological Museum, James Hsioung Lee Science Building, Main Campus, the University of Hong Kong
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed on Saturdays and Sundays, University and Public Holidays
Free Admission

Special Weekend Openings from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on:
August 12/13, 2017

General Enquiries:
Tel: (852) 22415472  / Email: shmuseum@hku.hk

Media Enquiries:
HKU Communications and Public Affairs Office Rhea Leung (Tel: 2857 8555/ 9022 7446; Email: rhea.leung@hku.hk)

UMAG exhibitions
1. Hong Kong in Ink and Colour: Contemporary Chinese Paintings from the University Museum's Collection witnesses the changing cityscape

Period: Now till August 27, 2017 (Sunday)

Hong Kong’s steady development is mirrored at UMAG by its collection of Hong Kong art. This exhibition exemplifies the fascination of local artists with the ever-changing landscapes and seascapes. Furthermore, the variety of media employed — ink, watercolour and oil — reveals the talents and interest of the artists in exploring various techniques to best record lifelike and abstract depictions.

Over the years documented by a collection of selected paintings, Hong Kong has grown into a celebrated international art scene. Many of the artists exhibited in the collection have contributed to the development of local culture and to the training of aspiring students in Hong Kong and abroad. At the same time their artworks exemplify the materials, techniques and stylistic features that are receptive of, as well as influential in, a diversity of artistic environments.

Venue: Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

2. Ying Tianqi: What Remains in Ruins -- Questioning the ethics of deconstructing architectural heritage

Period: Now till August 27 2017 (Sunday)

Ying Tianqi was born in 1949 in Wuhu, a city located in southeastern Anhui Province. The public presentation of these artworks translates the artist’s nostalgia for and contemplation of two unique and emotionally charged ancient sites in Anhui province that are celebrated for their historic architecture. Within his visual language, images of ruins are embedded in abstract or geometric forms with textural surfaces and colours that inspire associations with architectural frames and fragments, as well as traces of bricks and tiles from Anhui’s architectural heritage.

Both an artist and activist, Ying Tianqi continues to be socially engaged in the process of heritage preservation and the reconstruction of the ancient city of Wuhu. In 2014, his heritage proposal to the government was centred around the concept of ‘Remains—Rebirth’. As part of this initiative, he mobilised thousands of villagers to retrieve bricks in order to rebuild his home town. Through this action he directly questioned the widely accepted practice of re-building rather than conserving and restoring built environments. The UMAG exhibition visually and critically contemplates decay and reconstruction, bridging the past and the future. 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of lectures, guided tours and workshops highlighting aspects of the transformation of our ever-developing built environments.

Venue: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

Opening Hours:
09:30 – 18:00 (Monday to Saturday)
13:00 – 18:00 (Sunday)
Closed on University and Public Holidays

Tel/Email: (852) 2241 5500 (General Enquiry) / museum@hku.hk
Admission: Free

Media enquiries:
UMAG Communications Officer Miss Elena Cheung, Tel: (852) 2241 5512, Email: elenac@hku.hk
UMAG Programme Assistant Miss Chelsea Choi, Tel: (852) 2241 5509, Email: cchelsea@hku.hk