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Oct 11th 9:00-9:10 |
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Prof. Hongwu Tang |
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Personal Profile: Prof. Hongwu Tang, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and doctoral supervisor, currently serves as the Chairman of Administrative Committee of Hohai University and holds concurrent posts of the Vice President of Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society and the President of Jiangsu Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Prof. Hongwu Tang has been committed to talent training, scientific research and engineering practice in the field of hydraulics and river mechanics, with a remarkable contribution in the study and application of plain hydrodynamics and river and lake treatment as an academic leader of this field. He has successively presided over and undertaken more than 150 projects under various programs such as National Programs for Science and Technology Development, key research project of National Natural Science Foundation, National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program), Introducing Advanced Water Science and Technology to China Program by Ministry of Water Conservancy (948 Program) as well as provincial and ministerial projects for science and technology development and other key (major) projects. These projects provide innovative solutions to vital scientific and technological problems in key (major) river management projects for Huai River, Yangtze River, Pearl River, Gan River and other water areas; the solutions have been applied and promoted in the design and operation of more than 100 water conservancy projects, with many globally advanced or leading research results. He received 4 second prizes of State Award for Science and Technology Progress, and 5 first and grand prizes of Provincial and Ministerial Awards for Science and Technology Progress; published 4 monographs, more than 200 papers, among which 136 papers were indexed by SCI/EI, and got one international paper award; authorized 45 patent inventions; edited 4 sets of industry standards and participated in the editing of one set. The team led by him has been rated as the Pioneer Team of Jiangsu Province by Jiangsu Higher Education System.
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Opening Ceremony
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Oct
11th 9:10-9:20
Prof. Joseph Hun-Wei Lee
Macau
University of Science and Technology
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Message
from IAHR
Personal Profile:
Prof. Lee grew up and attended high school in
Hong Kong. In 1969 he went to USA on a scholarship from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) where he obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees
in Civil Engineering (1969-1977). For his postgraduate studies he conducted
research in environmental hydromechanics under the supervision of Professor
Donald R. F. Harleman and Professor Gerhard H. Jirka. After three years of
teaching as Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of
Delaware he joined University of Hong Kong (HKU) as a Lecturer in 1980, where
he rose through the ranks (Senior Lecturer: 1987-1991; Reader: 1992-1994) to
Redmond Chair Professor of Civil Engineering in 1995. At HKU, he was Dean of
Engineering from 2000 to 2003, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President
(Staffing) from 2004-2010. He took office as Vice-President for Research and
Graduate Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(HKUST) in November 2010 and served in that capacity for six years. He was
Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2010-2018) and Elman
Family Professor of Engineering and Public Policy (2017-18). He is Senior
Advisor to the President and Chair Professor of the Guangzhou Fok Ying Tung
Research Institute of HKUST.
During his academic career in Hong Kong he
held various visiting appointments: as a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow
at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London (1985-86), Alexander
von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Hydromechanics at the
University of Karlsruhe (1992-93), and Erskine Fellow at the University of
Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (1998).
https://seng.ust.hk/about/people/faculty/joseph-hun-wei-lee?id=51
Prof. Gregory Pasternack
University
of California at Davis
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The IAHR Technical committee on ecohydraulics
aims to provide a professional home for the global community of scientists
working on the basic science of and practical solutions for addressing the
intertwined physical-ecological functioning of aquatic and riparian ecosystems.
For the 2020-2022 period, the technical committee was led by a leadership team
(LT) composed of 10 elected members from around the world, of which 40% were
women. Despite the challenging times of the covid pandemic, the LT engaged in a
large number of activities that helped both IAHR and the larger ecohydraulics
community. LT members play a large role in organizing technical sessions at
major conferences around the world. They also support the Journal of
Ecohydraulics, run a community website, provide content for a YouTube channel,
and distribute free merchandise. The next international symposium in
ecohydraulics will be held in Quebec City in 2024. There is a great need for
ecohydraulicists to help the world achieve several sustainable development
goals.
Personal Profile:
Gregory
Pasternack is a professor of hydrology at University of California at Davis. He
received M.S. in Environmental Water Resource Engineering at University of
California, Berkeley, and Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Engineering at
Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include geomorphic and
hydrologic characterization of the impacts of historic and modern human
activities on watershed and estuarine processes, river restoration,
watershed-estuarine interactions on multiple time scales, and wetland
restoration. His career goal is to help society manage and restore
hydrogeomorphic processes in support of enhanced ecosystem functioning. To
reach this goal, his team adopts a combination of measures including (i) basic
physical and ecological science to understand how the naturally complex
landscape works, (ii) development of methods and software for designing more
natural, functional environments, and (iii) technology transfer to get
concepts, methods, and results into the hands of practitioners, regulators, and
stakeholders. He is the current president of the Committee on Ecohydraulics of
IAHR. The orientation of the committee consists in close collaborations with
other international associations working in the field of aquatic ecosystems, in
setting up speciality working groups on specific themes, and in working on
state-of-the-art papers, monographs, guidelines for “end users”. The general
aims are to bring specialists together in order to discuss, compare and
evaluate methods in these fields, and to propose with recommendations for the
end-users.
Opening Ceremony Speech
Oct 11th 9:25-9:35
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Opening Ceremony Speech |
Oct 11th 9:35-9:50 |
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Prof. Zhiyu Zhong
Ministry of Water Resources of China |
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Personal Profile:
Dr. Zhiyu Zhong is the Chief
Engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources of China and
the Vice Chairman of Hubei Provincial Committee of
Jiusan Society. He is engaged in the research on the Yangtze River Basin and
the planning and design of major water conservancy projects for long term,
responsible for the preparation of integrated planning, flood control planning,
and water resources planning for the Yangtze River Basin, and in charge of many
national key research & development, and technological difficulty tackling
projects, such as the Technology for Multi-objective Combined Dispatching of
Cascade Reservoirs in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River. In recognition of
his key contributions to the Yangtze River management, he has won several
high-level honors, such as the Top Ten Outstanding Youths of Organs of Hubei
Province, Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions of Hubei
Province, Qian Ning Award for Sediment Sciences, Liu Guangwen Award for
Engineering Technology, etc.
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