Theme: Force

TEDxUniversityofMacau is put together by a group of passionate people on campus. Our theme this year is Force.

In physics, a force is any interaction that will change the motion of an object when there is an opposition. A force can cause an object with mass to change its velocity, so as its acceleration. In a fast growing city Macau where we are surrounded by different forces from different directions in different magnitudes, under what circumstance can forces be in synchronization?

In TEDxUniversityofMacau 2017, we hope that this magnet can synchronize all the attracted forces and create a resonance and beyond.

Our registration for seat opens on 1 December 2016. Seats are limited to 100 persons (in addition to 100 persons as viewing party).

The venue is the Student Activity Center - Theatre on the Ground floor of the E31 Building at the University of Macau.
Our event location is in Hengqin Campus (not the old campus shown on the map).

Email: umpa.hsps@umac.mo

University of Macau
University of Macau
University of Macau
Macau, Macao, 99999
Macao

Chi Ian (Cherry) Wong 黃芷欣

High-school student

She is the winner of Macau Outstanding Youngster hold by YMCA Macao in 2016. She is someone who won't disappoint you.

Chon Meng (Joe) Chan

Teacher/green activist

Dr Cong Meng Chan is an active environmentalist in Macau who believes that green culture should start from the young through education. He leads the co-working space called "1930 Dream Corner". Joe teaches natural science at Macau Anglican College and sustainable resource and ecological science course at the Institute of Polytechnic Macau. Simplicity is his motto.

Chuan Sheng Liu

Professor/physicist

Prof. Liu Chuan Sheng is a renowned physicist and a leader in higher education and controlled fusion research. He has made groundbreaking contributions to the theory of laser-plasma interaction, basic plasma physics and nuclear fusion. He has served as Chairman of Plasma Physics Division of American Physical Society and as Chairman of Plasma Science Subcommittee and a member of the Committee on Physics and Astronomy of National Research Council, USA. His research interest has been in laser acceleration of changed particles, particularly laser proton acceleration for cancer therapy. Prof. Liu is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland’s Department of Physics where he served as a professor for 40 years and twice served as the Department Chair and Interim Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate School at the U. of Maryland. He was President of the Central University in Taiwan. He retired to be the founding Master of Chao Kuang Piu College at the University of Macau.

Leonardo (Don) A.N. Dioko

Professor/economist

Prof. Leonardo (Don) Dioko is at the Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau (IFT) and is the Director of IFT’s Tourism Research Centre (ITRC), which principally conducts policy research commissioned by the Macau SAR Government. The most significant of these studies is the Centre’s long-running annual study on Macau's Tourism Carrying Capacity, which began in 2003 and continues today to inform much of what we know about how Macau’s residents and its millions of visitors think, feel, and react to the tremendous change brought about by the almost inscrutable and oft-misunderstood force of tourism. Having arrived in Macau 25 years ago when visitors numbered only 6M/year, Don’s work and core research have allowed him and his colleagues to systematically and continuously observe some of the most important long-term socio-economic trends in Macau driven by rapid tourism growth. His work has led Don to believe that tourism growth can be a force for good as much as it can be a force for harm.

Rostam J. Neuwirth

Associate Professor/lawyer

Rostam J. Neuwirth is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Law of University of Macau (UM). He also serves as Program Coordinator of Master of International Business Law in English Language. Before his appointment at UM in 2007, he was an Visiting Professor at West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata and Hidayatullah National Law University in Raipur, India. Prior to teaching, he worked for 2 years in the Völkerrechtsbüro (International Law Bureau) of Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs in connection with the Austrian EU Presidency. Rostam received his PhD from the European University Institute in Italy and holds a Master’s degree in Law from Faculty of Law of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He spent his undergraduate at University of Graz in Austria and Université d’Auvergne in France. As a lawyer, his research interests cover a wide spectrum, ranging from international and local laws and their relations to society, cognition and technology.

Xin Chen

Professor/physician

Dr. Xin Chen joined the University of Macau as a professor of Biomedical Sciences at State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences since 2014. He was a research physician at the Shenzhen Institute of Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine, Shenzhen 2nd People’s Hospital for 8 years. In 1998, Dr. Chen decided to translate his fields of research from clinically-orientated studies into fundamental laboratory research in immunology using his strong background of alternative medicines. He started his post-doctoral training at the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK. He then joined the Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Frederick, NIH, USA, as a Visiting Fellow. Dr. Chen was then a Senior Scientist in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation of the Basic Science Program at SAIC-Frederick, Inc in NCI-Frederick.

Zihao (Michael) Li

Assistant Professor/dancer

When a dancer executes a pirouette (turn), the harder he pushes (force), the faster he spins (velocity). Forces generated from the spine axis helps him spin up and turn more.Then comes balance. Static balance means net force is zero and he might fall. Meanwhile, any move while balancing causes quick fall or more turns. In life, when do we push and how do we balance? What is the equation of force (action vs. inaction)? How do we deal with expected opportunities and challenges? Dr. Li presents his embodied equation on force and draws connections between dance and life. Li has performed with world-class dance companies in China, Hong Kong (HK), Canada, and Germany. He has taught dance at all levels worldwide and he contributes to an array of conferences/publications. He won multiple awards including the Silver Award at the International E-Learning Competition in 2016. Li is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Macau (UM) and directs the UM Dance Troupe.