B71 #6: MacArthur Foundation (message from CY Lam)

Terry Tao, son of classmate Grace Leung, has been elected a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, just weeks after the Fields Medal.

Follow the link: http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2070789/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={6DBB4260-1605-496C-8311-36328C702E50}&notoc=1

Congrutulations to the Taos!

Chiu Ying

B71 #5: Lunch on September 28, 2006

Sin Wing Sang is organizing a lunch. The details are given below. The original is in Chinese but I am still struggling with Blogger.com to get it through. So, sorry, it is a poor English equivalent.

If you are coming, please notify him at his usual e-mail address (or as an experiment, leave a comment), hopefully by September 25.

He intends to publish the final participation list by 5:30 pm on
Sept 26.

Chiu Ying

Time: 12:45 p.m. 28 September 2006

Restaurant: Chuen Cheung Kui

489 Hennessy Road - 8th floor, Causeway Bay Plaza Phase One

Cost: about $100

Tel: 2577 3833

B71 #4: Fields Medal (message from CY Lam)

Terry Tao, the son of 1st-class-honours classmate Grace Leung and husband Billy Tao, recently won the Fields Medal which is treated by many as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics.

Half of Terry's genes came from Grace, according to biological textbooks. So we may proudly consider that there is half a Fields Medal in the class.

See the notes given in the website of the Australian Mathematical Society:

http://www.austms.org.au/Publ/Gazette/2006/Jul06/Supplement/

B71 #3: Click to magnify (message from CY Lam)

Some people said that they could not read the names of the students in the letter.

I found that with Internet Explorer, you could magnify the letter image by clicking, maybe doubly, to get an icon which when clicked would enable the magnification.

Good luck.

Chiu Ying

B71 #2: BSc 1971 awards (message from CY Lam)

We created the BSc Class of 1971 Prize a long time ago. It is awarded to the best students finishing their second year of studies in the Faculty of Science.

I have recently received a letter from the Faculty announcing the results of this year. Please have a look at the letter.

Chiu Ying

B71 #1: Experimental site (message from CY Lam)

This is an experimental site to facilitate the sharing of information among HKU BSc 1971 classmates.