This event will showcase the research findings of postgraduate students, post-docs and RAPs who are working in the domain of Science of Learning across all Faculties in the University. We invite young researchers to present their recent research work including published data. The format will be 15 minutes presentation with 5 minutes of QA. Time limits will be strictly enforced by the Chair of the Session. Submissions will be blind reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the Science of Learning Strategic Research Theme. Abstracts should be no longer than 200 words. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Friday, February 6th at midnight. Each abstract must include the name of the speaker, the name of their supervisor and full contact details for correspondence including no more than two references presented in APA format. Please email your abstract to Dr. Loan Vuong by the deadline (lcvuong@hku.hk).
Welcome Message by Prof. Brendan Weekes
I am delighted to welcome you to the Spring Symposium for Young Researchers in the Science of Learning hosted by the Laboratory for Communication Science, the Strategic Research Theme in Science of Learning (SoL) and the Faculty of Education.
The goal of the SoL is to establish an Area of Excellence that will be the first in Asia. To achieve this goal we are actively developing cross-disciplinary collaborations with groups of researchers across campus.
Our strategy aims to synthesize expertise from Faculties to ignite innovation and build a platform for research development in the Community. Our collaborations with Healthy Aging, Neuroscience, Public Health and Law and Literature illustrate our success as do our projects, publications and funding achievements with colleagues in Dentistry; Diagnostic Radiology; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Institute for Human Performance; Linguistics; Neurology; Neuroscience; Nursing; Oncology; Orthopaedics and Traumatology; Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine; Psychology; Psychiatry; the State Key Laboratory for Brain and Cognitive Science; Social Work; and Surgery. The Faculty of Education and specifically the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences (SHS) has developed a niche in the study of skilled and impaired reading and spelling in a range of languages including Cantonese, Greek, Mongolian, Persian, Putonghua, Russian, Spanish, Slovakian, Swedish and Turkish. In less than five years we have established an international reputation for cross-linguistic work on literacy making the Faculty a global hub for the study of reading across language groups (Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan). We are privileged to host talented HKPF PhD students, Post-Doctoral Fellows and Research Assistant Professors as well as junior research scientists. A strategic goal is develop expertise in Semitic and African languages and here we look to colleagues in our highly ranked (RAE) English and Linguistics Departments who have expertise in these languages as well issues reflecting the range of languages in our such as Asian Englishes, Superdiversity and others. We are delighted to welcome our guests today.
Chair Professor Brendan Weekes, PhD
Co-convenor of the Strategic Research Theme in the Science of Learning (HKU)
Director of the Laboratory for Communication Science
Key member and Coordinator, Strategic Research Theme in Neuroscience, HKU
Principal Investigator in the State Key Laboratory for Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professorial Fellow School of Psychological Science, University of Melbourne
Visiting Fellow Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
About the keynote speakers
Prof. Jubin Abutalebi, Associate Professor of Neuropsychology, The Faculty of Psychology, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Professor Jubin Abutalebi, MD, PhD is Consultant Cognitive Neurologist in the Department of Neurology of the University Vita Salute San Raffaele and the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press).
Prof. Dekai Wu, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Professor Dekai Wu is the Founder of the Human Language Technology Center at HKUST. He has served as Associate Editor of AI Journal and ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing and is on the Editorial Boards of Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation and the Journal of Natural Language Engineering.Prof. Andrew Tolmie, Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Dean of the Doctoral School, Institute of Education, UCL, University of London
Professor Andrew Tolmie is Chair of Psychology and Human Development. He is also Deputy Director of the joint IOE/UCL/Birkbeck Centre for Educational Neuroscience, and was Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology from 2007-12.
Symposium Schedule
Day 1 February 278.30-8.45 Registration8.45-9.00 Opening RemarksNew Methods in the Science of Learning09.00-09.30 Dr Andy Gao (Education)09.30-10.00 Dr Cathryn Donohue (Linguistics)10.00-10.30 Mr Steve Roberts (EPSU)Break 15 minutesPost-Doc Presentations10.45-11.05 Dr Elizabeth Barrett (SHS)11.05-11.25 Dr Junling Gao (Medicine)11.25-11.45 Dr Kati Keuper (Psychology)11.45-12.05 Dr Andy Tse (IHP)12.05-12.25 Dr Cherry Yum (SHS)12.25-12.45 Dr Linda Zhang (Radiology)Lunch 12.45-14.00Graduate Student Presentations I (14.00-15.40)Break 20 minutesStudent experience in the Science of Learning16.00-16.30 Dr Cecilia Chan (CETL)16.30-17.00 Dr Lisa Lim (English)Keynotes17.00-17.40 Professor Jubin Abutalebi (San Rafaelle) 17.40-18.20 Professor Dekai Wu (HKUST) 18.20-19.00 Professor Andy Tolmie (UCL)Day 2 February 28Impact in the Science of Learning09.00-09.30 Dr Janet Hsiao (Psychology)09.30-10.00 Dr Kofi Yapko (Linguistics)10.00-10.30 Dr Olga Zayts (English)Break 15 minutesGraduate Student Presentations II (10.45-12.45)Close (12.45-13.00)
Registration
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Now we invite participation in the event. (Abstracts should be no longer than 200 words. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Friday, February 6th at midnight, to Dr. Loan Vuong (lcvuong@hku.hk). Should you have any enquiries, please contact Dr. Loan Vuong or Prof Brendan Weekes, Director of the Laboratory for Communication Science.
Please download program and abstracts here
