Department of Physics, HKU

Department of Physics Newsletter (Apr 2019): Department of Physics Newsletter

Research Groups: Area of Excellence Project; Atomic and Quantum Physics Group; Astronomy and Astrophysics Group; HKU-UCAS Joint Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics at Hong Kong; Experimental Condensed Matter and Material Science Group; Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics Group; Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Group

Aug 22, 2019 (Thu) 2:30 p.m.: Topological Quantum Gas with Spin-Orbit CouplingProf. Shuai Chen

Aug 22, 2019 (Thu) 4:00 p.m.: Failure of Nielsen-Ninomiya Theorem and Fragile Band Topology of Twisted Bilayer GrapheneDr. Bohm-Jung Yang

Aug 23, 2019 (Fri) 10:00 a.m.: Public Seminar of PhD Candidate:
Hydrodynamic Studies of Spin-orbit-coupled Bose SystemsMr. Wai Ho TANG

Sep 2, 2019 (Mon) 11:30 a.m.: The Extragalactic Background Light In The Fermi-LAT EraDr. Alberto Dominguez

Sep 5, 2019 (Thu) 11:00 a.m.: Blazar OJ287 and Its Nano-Hertz GW Emitting Massive BH Binary Central EngineProf. A. Gopakumar

Sep 10, 11 & 13, 2019 (Tue, Wed & Fri): Hong Kong Computational Physics Study Group

Our Recent Achievements:

Three undergraduate students, Deng Jian Qiao, Wong Hong Tsun and Yeung Ryan Wai-Yen, teamed with two other students from the University of Oxford and Peking University, joined the online International Theoretical Physics Olympiad 2019 and ranked the top 10 out of 88 teams worldwide
A team of three undergraduate students, Gong Zhengyangguang, Ng Ka Wai and Wong Hong Tsun won a silver medal for the solar sailing problem in The University Physics Competition 2017
J.H.C. Lee received the HKU Outstanding Departmental Safety Representative (DSR) Award
X.D. Cui received the Outstanding Researcher Award 2016-17
S.Z. Zhang received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2016-17
X.D. Cui received the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2017
W. Yao received the Outstanding Researcher Award
Prof. K.B. Luk and the Daya Bay Collaboration (HKU Members: T. Kwok, M.K.P. Lee, J.K.C. Leung, K.Y. Leung, H. Liu, H.Y. Ngai, C.S.J. Pun, H.C. Wong) received the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Department of Physics Newsletter: Department of Physics Newsletter (Apr 2019)

: Why Studying Physics in HKU?
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is the oldest and well established university in Hong Kong. HKU students are allowed to major or minor in Astronomy or Physics, option of Major in Mathematics/Physics offered together with dept. of Mathematics is also available. The available options are very flexible in order to provide the opportunity to students to make the best possible choices ...
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: Itinerant quantum critical point with fermion pockets and hotspots Z.H. Liu, G.P. Pan, X.Y. Xu, K. Sun, Z.Y. Meng Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol.-, 1-8, 2019 Download

: A high-mass planetary nebula in a Galactic open cluster V. Fragkou, Q.A. Parker, A.A. Zijlstra, L. Crause, H. Barker Nature Astronomy, Vol.-, ---, 2019 Download