Prof. Tony Chan, assistant director of the National Science Foundation's largest directorate and a former dean in the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, has been appointed the next president of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Full Strory

Prof. M. Ng has been selected as a plenary speaker of SIAM conference on Applied Linear Algebra that will be held at Embassy Suites Hotel Monterey Bay-Seaside, Seaside, California, 26-29 October 2009.