This lecture is designed to support international students navigating the challenges of adjusting to a new academic and cultural environment. It will introduce effective coping strategies and practical self-regulation techniques to promote mental well-being. Attendees will gain valuable insights to help them thrive during their transition and beyond.

Professor Michael L. Dustin is a world-leading immunologist and cell biologist whose pioneering work has transformed our understanding of T cell activation and immune cell communication. He developed fluorescence microscopy and introduced supported lipid bilayers as surrogate antigen-presenting cells, enabling quantitative visualization of receptor-ligand interactions and the dynamic architecture of immunological synapses.

Digital Healthcare Engineering (DHE) provides an innovative intelligent management framework to address challenges such as the ageing of ships and offshore engineering assets, operational and maintenance difficulties, and insufficient personnel support.

The integration of a variety of functional materials within thermal-drawn fibers has emerged as a versatile platform for the fabrication of advanced functional fiber electronics. This approach exploits the thermal drawing of a macroscopic preform, where functional materials or prefabricated devices are arranged at a prescribed position, yielding kilometers of fibers with a sophisticated architecture and complex functionalities in a very simple and scalable manner.

Wojciech Kopczuk is currently a professor in the Department of Economics and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief (2017–present) of the Journal of Public Economics, a leading journal in the field of public economics, and as the Honorary President (2024–present) of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF).

This research explores innovative approaches to sustainability in the construction sector through the integration of recycled and advanced materials. Key areas include the reuse of industrial waste—such as sewage sludge, brick fragments, glass, plastic, marble cuttings, within concrete formulations and structural components.

Professor Che Ting CHAN, PhD, is the Interim Director of the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, the Daniel C K Yu Professor of Science, a Chair Professor of Physics, and the Director of the Joint Laboratory for Wave Functional Materials Research.

Professor Eva Olsson is a distinguished scholar at Chalmers University of Technology, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and serves on the Nobel Committee for Physics, representing the pinnacle of scientific achievement in Sweden and beyond.

Professor Alan S. Goldman is a Distinguished Professor at Rutger University's Department of Chemistry.

This talk will introduce a suite of originally developed, multidimensional spatial-omics technologies that break through these barriers.

This perspective brings intuitionistic mathematics closer to the frameworks used by physicists, bridging the gap between mathematical formalism and the dynamic nature of physical reality.

Dabei erweisen sich die drei philosophischen resp. phänomenologischen Ansätze bis heute als sowohl grundlegend wie inspirierend für das philosophische Selbstverständnis der Gegenwart im globalen Maßstab.

Renaud Barbaras, a renowned French phenomenologist, has held the prestigious Chair of Contemporary Philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University since 2002.

This presentation analyzes the development of phenomenology resulting from its engagement with East Asian thought, with a specific focus on Japanese philosophy.

This paper examines the causal impact of Berkeley’s sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax on beer purchases and prices using scanner data from 2014–2015.

The talk describes how the ALPACA and ALPACA Plus Joint Industry projects, led by Imperial College London and Oxford University ran from 2017 to 2022 to investigate the behaviour of piles driven in chalk, a very weak limestone.

Our findings highlight the heterogeneous response of households to the Brexit vote, offering a potential explanation for why many economists' pessimistic forecasts regarding Brexit’s short- and medium-term economic con sequences have not fully materialized.

The report will explore how phenomenology can be most effectively applied and which topics are most worthy of phenomenological intervention.

This paper presents an argument to the conclusion that machines can acquire human mindedness, that is, they can be intelligent, conscious, sentient, etc.

Viviparity is widespread among animals, with many species nurturing their offspring in the uterus via a placenta. This process requires adaptive modifications to ensure the embryo’s development within the mother.