QCIS Five-year Celebration
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QCIS Five-year Celebration P2
This short video was shot on the occasion of QCIS' Fifth year celebration on 12th April 2013. The occasion was hosted by Professor Vicky Sara, the Chancellor of UTS, and Professor Attila Brungs, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) of UTS. Guests at the Celebration included: all members of the QCIS International Advisory Board, seven members of the Australian Research Council's panel for Engineering, Mathematics, and Informatics, representatives from QCIS' five international joint research centres, and sixty other guests from Europe, The United States, South America, Middle East, and Asia. The video shows:
- Professor Mary-Anne Williams, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, UTS, chairing the Australian Research Council's panel
- Professor Vicky Sara, Chancellor of UTS, Professor Attila Brungs, Deputy Vice Chancellor UTS, Professor Samson Abramsky, University of Oxford UK, Professor Chengqi Zhang, Director of QCIS, and others at the official celebration.
Formalities at the anniversary celebration included speeches by: Prof Vicki Sara, UTS Chancellor; Prof Mary O'Kane, NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer; Prof Samson Abramsky, Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society; and Prof Chengqi Zhang, Director of QCIS. They ended with an unveiling ceremony of plaques representing the five joint research centres established over the last two years:
2011:
- UTS and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Research Centre for Intelligent Systems, unveiled by Prof Xiaokang Yang, with Prof Chengqi Zhang
- UTS and Beijing Institute of Technology Joint Research Centre for Data Mining and Service Technology, unveiled by Prof Qinglin Wang, with Mr Leo Mian Liu and Prof Chengqi Zhang
2012:
- UTS and Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS), Chinese Academy of Science Joint Research Centre for Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Processing, unveiled by Prof Shunlong Luo, with Prof Mingsheng Ying and Prof Chengqi Zhang
- UTS and Tsinghua University Joint Research Centre for Quantum Computation and Artificial Intelligence, unveiled by Prof Xiaoyan Zhu, with Prof Mingsheng Ying
- UTS and Huazhong University of Science and Technology Joint Research Centre for Cyber-Physical Authentication, unveiled by Prof Yong Yang, with Prof William Purcell