Singapore–MIT Alliance
| Date | Title | Details | |
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| Day 1 - Monday January 19, 2004 |
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| 8:15 - 9:00 am | Registration / Refreshments | ||
| 9:00 - 9:15 am | Opening Remarks | Chair: Professor Robert A
BROWN Provost, MIT Speaker: Ambassador Frank L LAVIN United States Ambassador to Singapore |
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| 9:15 - 9:20 am | Memento presentation | Memento presentation to Ambassador
Frank L LAVIN by: Professor Robert A BROWN |
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| 9:20 - 9:40 am | Keynote Speaker | Chair: Professor SHIH Choon
Fong President, NUS Speaker: Mr Tharman SHANMUGARATNAM Acting Minister for Education, Singapore |
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| 9:40 - 9:45 am | Memento presentation | Memento presentation to Mr
Tharman SHANMUGARATNAM by: Professor SHIH Choon Fong |
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| 9:45 - 9:55 am | Directors' Message | Professor Andrew NEE Yeh
Ching SMA Co-Director, Singapore Professor Steven R LERMAN SMA Deputy Co-Director, MIT |
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| 9:55 - 10:05 am | Distinguished Fellow Award | Chair: Professor Andrew NEE
Yeh Ching SMA Co-Director, Singapore Honoring : Professor HANG Chang Chieh Faculty of Engineering, NUS Professor Merton FLEMINGS Director, Lemelson-MIT Program, Toyota Professor Emeritus of Materials Processing, MIT |
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| 10:05 - 10:20 am | Break and Poster Sessions | ||
| 10:20 - 10:40 am | Tribute to Associate Professor LEE Kwok Hong | Speakers: Professor Jacob WHITE, MIT Professor KHOO Boo Cheong, Singapore Melvyn SIM, SMA Alumni |
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| 10:40 - 11:10 am | Distinguished Speakers Topic: Beyond the Human Genome Project |
Chair: Dr Edison LIU Executive Director for the Genome Institute of Singapore Speaker: Dr Eric S LANDER Founder and Director of the Whitehead Institute Center for Genomic Research, MIT |
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| 11:10 - 11:40 am | Topic: Entrepreneursim in the New Global Economy | Chair: Professor Thomas L
MAGNANTI Dean of the School of Engineering, MIT Speaker: Dr Desh DESHPANDE Founder and Chairman of Sycamore Networks, Inc. |
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| 11:40 - 11:45 am | Memento presentation | Memento presentation to Dr
Eric S LANDER and Dr Desh DESHPANDE by: Professor Thomas L MAGNANTI |
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| 11:45 - 12:35 pm | Lunch | ||
| 12:35 - 1:00 pm | Transportation to Traders Hotel for the Technical Parallel Sessions | ||
| 1:00 - 5:00 pm | Technical Parallel Sessions | ||
| 1:00 - 1:30 pm | Registration and Poster Session | ||
| 1:30 - 3:30 pm | Presentations | ||
| 3:30 - 3:45 pm | Break | ||
| 3:45 - 5:00 pm | Presentations | ||
| 5:00 pm | End of Day 1 | End of the Technical Sessions
at Traders Hotel Dinner hosted by individual Programmes |
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| Day 2 - Tuesday January 20, 2004 |
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| 8:30 - 12:00 noon | Technical Parallel Sessions | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00 am | Registration and Poster Session | ||
| 9:00 - 10:30 am | Presentations | ||
| 10:30 - 10:45 am | Break | ||
| 10:45 - 12:00 noon | Presentations | ||
| 12:00 noon | End of Day 2 | End of the Technical Sessions at Traders Hotel |
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