题目 Title: Energy options for the 21st century
日期 Date: 2017.12.22 (星期五Friday) 时间 Time: 10:30 am – 11:30am 地点 Venue: A405
演讲人 Speaker: 黄敬立教授 Prof. King-Lap Wong (已荣休 Retired)
所属大学 Affiliations: 普林斯顿大学 Princeton University (1976 - 2011)
香港中文大学The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2013 – 2015)
内容摘要 Abstract: This talk gives an overview of today’s energy industry from the speaker’s perspective. It begins with an outline of the major events since the OPEC oil embargo of 1973. The driving forces that influence government decisions on energy policies will be identified. In such a dynamic and diversified field, this talk will briefly describe the physics of climate change and new developments in renewable energy research, namely, biomass energy, wind energy, solar energy and the smart grid. More emphasis will be placed on issues pertinent to China and the USA – the two major energy consumers on our planet today.
讲者简介 Biography: Dr. King-Lap Wong graduated from the physics department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1968. He obtained a MS degree in experimental nuclear physics from University of Delaware (USA) in 1970, and a PhD degree in experimental plasma physics from University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA) in 1975. After one year as a postdoctoral research associate in Columbia University (USA), he went to work for Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) at Princeton University from March 1, 1976 until he retired in December 2011 at the rank of principal research physicist. PPPL is a US Department of Energy premier laboratory managed by Princeton University. It has been dedicated to the development of controlled nuclear fusion energy since 1954, and Dr. Wong spent his entire research career there. After leaving PPPL, he became a professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from March 2013 to June 2015 teaching energy technology. Dr. Wong was elected as a fellow member of the American Physics Society in 1993. He was a co-winner of the John Dawson Award in 2004, awarded by the American Physics Society for important breakthrough research in plasma physics. Although Dr. Wong’s expertise is in nuclear fusion energy research, he maintains a broad interest in all forms of energy technologies and various climate change issues.
