MIT Node Distinguished Speaker Series: How to Evaporate Water without Heat

Join us on Jan 10, 2025 to discuss the research by Professor Gang Chen on Photomolecular Effect: How to evaporate water without heat at the MIT Node Distinguished Speaker Series. This groundbreaking discovery helped to unravel an 80-year old puzzle and led to many new applications in energy and clean water.

This event is free of charge.

We're excited to see you!

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Gang Chen is the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained his PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC Berkeley under the guidance of then Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien. He was a faculty member at Duke University and UCLA, before joining MIT in 2001. He served as the Department Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT from 2013 to 2018 and he serves on the board of Asian American Scholar Forum. He received an NSF Young Investigator Award, an R&D 100 award, an ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, an ASME Frank Kreith Award in Energy, a Nukiyama Memorial Award by the Japan Heat Transfer Society, a World Technology Network Award in Energy, an Eringen medal from the Society of Engineering Science, and the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellences in Mentoring and Advising from MIT, the American Courage Award from Asian American Advancing Justice, and the Steven Chu Medal from Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering. He is a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is an academician of Academy Sinica, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

SCHEDULE | Jan 10, 2025 (HONG KONG TIME)

04:45 PM - Registration

05:00 PM - Sharing | Speaker: Professor Gang Chen

06:15 PM - Q&A

06:30 PM - End of Event

WHERE:

In-person: MIT HK Innovation Node, 1/F, Hong Kong Productivity Council, 78 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong
Enquiries: [email protected]

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Host or Publisher MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node