Programme
Programme

Day 1 - Tuesday January 8

8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:40 Opening Ceremony and Group Photo
9:40-11:00 Lecture 1A (Chairman: P Goodwin)
S Sorooshian, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine; Member, NAE; PSIPW# Awardee (2010)

- State of-the-art of hydroclimate modeling for water resources applications: Challenges in predicting the future trends and extremes
11:00-11:20 Tea Break
11:20-12:40 Lecture 1B (Chairman: P Goodwin)
S Sorooshian, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine; Member, NAE; PSIPW# Awardee (2010)

- Hydroclimate modeling requirements: Data and parameterization issues
12:40-13:40 Lunch
13:40-15:10 Lecture 2* (Chairman: S Simonovic)
J Hall, Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks, Oxford University; Fellow, RAE; PSIPW# Awardee (2018)

- Water resources systems and climate risks to water supply
15:10-15:30 Tea Break

15:30-16:30

16:30-17:00

17:00-17:30
Special Contribution 1 (Chairman: AW Jayawardena)
G Austin, Emeritus Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Urban rainfall measurement and prediction: uncertainties and opportunities
V Nguyen, Chair Professor, McGill University, Canada
- A decision support tool for assessing the climate change impacts on urban water infrastructure design and management
DH Bae, Professor and President, Sejong University, Korea
- Scientific & technical issues on climate change adaptation of Korean water resources
18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception

#PSIPW: Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water
*Lecture co-sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study, HKUST


Day 2 - Wednesday January 9

9:00-10:30 Lecture 3 (Chairman: R Falconer)
P Goodwin, Professor and President, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USA

- Water security and ecosystem services
10:30-10:50 Tea Break
10:50-12:20 Lecture 4 (Chairman: JHW Lee)
GQ Wang, Professor, Tsinghua University; Member, CAS

- "Sky River Project": Concept, theory and experiment
12:20-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Lecture 5 (Chairman: K Fraedrich)
Z Kapelan, Chair and Professor of Urban Water Infrastructure, Delft University of Technology

- Advanced technologies for smart water and wastewater management in future cities
15:00-15:20 Tea Break

15:20 - 15:50

15:50 – 16:20

16:20 – 16:50

16:50 – 17:20
Special Contribution 2 (Chairman: Z Kapelan)
M Ghidaoui, Chinese Estates Professor of Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
- Recent advances in leak detection methods for urban water supply systems
K Yum, Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
- Smart water grid for water security – Korean experience
ZY Wang, Professor, Tsinghua University, China
- Energy dissipation of stream flow and geo-hazard mitigation
AW Jayawardena, Adjunct Professor, University of Hong Kong
- Conventional wisdom and artificial intelligence in water resources management
17:50-18:30 Departure for dinner
18:30-21:00 Dinner (by invitation)

Day 3 - Thursday January 10

9:00-10:30 Lecture 6* (Chairman: A Mynett)
R Falconer, Emeritus Professor, University of Cardiff, UK; Fellow, RAE.

- Integrated water resources modelling and management from cloud to coast
10:30-10:50 Tea Break
10:50-12:00 Lecture 7 (Chairman: JHW Lee)
H Tiessen, Director Emeritus, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Uruguay; Humboldt Science Awardee

- Science and Policy from a sustainability perspective
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Lecture 8 (Chairman: G Austin)
K Fraedrich, Emeritus Professor, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and University of Hamburg, Germany

- Analyzing land surface climates: change and attribution

14:30-15:00
Special Contribution 3 (Chairman: G Austin)
G Stelling, Emeritus Professor, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
- Modelling the “Sponge City”: On the integration of rainfall, infiltration, overland flow, sewers and ground water
15:00-15:20 Tea Break

15:20-15:50
Special Contribution 4 (Chairman: ZY Wang)
HW Tang, Professor and Council Chairman, Hohai University, China
- Water resources management of Huai River (TBC)

15:50-16:10

16:10-16:30

16:30-16:50
Contribution Session 1 (Chairman: ZY Wang)
IW Seo, Professor, Seoul National University
- River alarm system against hazardous spill for protection of drinking water supply in Korea
JJ Jiao, Professor, University of Hong Kong
- Submarine groundwater discharge and its impact on phytoplankton community structure in Tolo harbour, Hong Kong
CP Kuang, Professor, Tongji University, China
- Morphodynamic responses of Caofeidian channel-shoal system to different SLR processes

16:50-17:10

17:10-17:30

17:30-17:50
Contribution Session 2 (Chairman: ZY Wang)
QW Chen, Professor, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, China
- Urban runoff-diffusive pollution modeling by cellular automata
W Zhou, Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong
- Historical change and future scenarios of sea level rise in Hong Kong and the adjacent waters
MTF Chui, Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong
- Implementation of low impact development practices: from small-scale design to large scale optimization

*Lecture co-sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study, HKUST


Day 4 - Friday January 11

8:30-10:30 Lecture 9 (Chairman: J Hall)
S Simonovic, Professor, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

- A system approach to modeling water-energy-food nexus – the ANEMI Integrated Assessment model
10:30 – 10:45 Tea Break

10:45 - 11:05

11:05 - 11:25

11:25 - 11:45
Contribution Session 3 (Chairman: V Nguyen)
J Huang, Professor, Nankai University, China
- Spatiotemporal Trends Analysis for precipitation in China and its implication for water security
J Chen, Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong
- Global water security: socioeconomic drought and dam development
A Mynett, Emeritus Professor, IHE Delft & Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
- CEWP - China-Europe Water Platform: On the implementation of Sponge City concepts
11:45-12:15 Wrap up (Chairman: JHW Lee)
12:15-13:00 Transport to site visit (Sandwich provided)
13:00-18:00 Field trip:
- Happy Valley Underground Storage Scheme
- Hong Kong West Drainage Tunnel intakes
- Smart Urban Water Supply Systems Field Testing Facility, Beacon Hill Intermediate Level Reservoir, Kowloon