Starting Tomorrow, Ajou University 50th Anniversary Event... Lectures by Eminent Scholars Including 'Nobel Laureates' Continue

Ajou University is celebrating its 50th anniversary by hosting a five-day festival starting tomorrow. The event will feature lectures by two Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry and other world-renowned scholars, along with various conferences in emerging industries such as artificial intelligence (AI), mobility, and biotechnology.

On the 9th, Ajou University President Ki-Joo Choi announced that the "Ajou University 50th Anniversary Commemorative Week Festival" will be held from the 10th to the 14th at the campus in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province. On the 10th and 11th, a commemorative pre-festival with local residents will take place, along with the publication celebration of the 50-year history book and the AI and 6th Generation Mobile Communication (6G)-AI Convergence Colloquium series.

The commemorative ceremony will be held on the 12th, the university’s founding anniversary, at 2 p.m. in the Yeonam Hall auditorium. Starting at 4 p.m., the "50th Anniversary International Conference" will be held under the theme "Talking about the Future of Universities," divided into three sessions. Famous futurist Thomas Frey and university officials from Korea and abroad will present topics and engage in intense discussions.

On the morning of the 13th at 10 a.m., the Energy Materials Symposium will feature Professor David MacMillan, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, who will give a lecture titled "The Development of Organocatalysis and the Road to the Nobel Prize." His talk will cover not only research areas such as asymmetric organocatalysis but also his experiences, trials and errors on the way to winning the Nobel Prize, and advice for junior researchers.

The AI Semiconductor Conference will include speakers such as Sung-Mo Kang, former president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), along with other AI and system semiconductor experts. The Mobility Conference will feature world-renowned transportation scholars, Professor S.C. Wong from the University of Hong Kong and Professor Mohamed Abdel-Aty from the University of Central Florida.

On the 14th, the Yeonam Hall auditorium will host the "Ajou Bio-Health Science Research Fair." Professor Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, the 2022 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, will deliver a lecture titled "Bioorthogonal Chemistry ? From Basic Science to Clinical Translation." Following her lecture, nine domestic and international researchers will present and discuss topics including anticancer drugs, drug delivery technologies, and treatments and drug development utilizing big data and AI.

Meanwhile, Ajou University was founded in 1973 as Ajou Technical Junior College based on cooperation between the Korean and French governments. In December of the same year, it was upgraded to the College of Engineering, and in March 1980, it became a comprehensive university. The graduate school was established in 1981, followed by the founding of the College of Medicine in 1988. In the 2000s, the College of Nursing and College of Pharmacy were added. Ajou University also established the only law school in Gyeonggi Province, which opened in 2009.

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