MIST 2017 Junior Colloquium (September– December, 2017) This series of colloquium are designed mainly for undergraduate students in their 3rd/4th years, but all are welcome. Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm Venue: 502a, Academic Building No. 1, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Tea reception: 5:00pm - 5:30pm Every Tuesday Date Speaker Title 9/19 Mu Tao WANG The role mathematics plays in general relativity 9/26 --- --- --- (Cancelled) 10/3 --- --- --- (Cancelled) 10/12 (Thursday) Matthew YOUNG Topological quantum field theory 10/17 --- --- --- (No Talk) 10/24 --- --- --- (No Talk) 10/31 Conan LEUNG Special Geometry 11/7 Martin LI Critical points and how to find them 11/14 Tom WAN Minimal Surfaces and Harmonic Maps 11/21 Kwok Wai CHAN Mirror Symmetry 11/28 Luen Fai TAM Noether's theorem and conservation laws 12/5 Zhongtao WU An introduction to DNA topology Poster: Please click here Enquiry: Ms. Caris CHUNG (email address: caris@ims.cuhk.edu.hk)