HPC Projects 2009

Major projects related to HPCPOWER system (2009)

Biochemistry

SONG Yiu-Qiang -
Integrate large genotype datasets for genome imputation and meta-analysis
["IGG3: a tool to rapidly integrate large genotype datasets for whole-genome imputation and individual-level meta-analysis" Bioinformatics , 25, pp 1449-1450 (2009); DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp183]

Chemistry

AN Huiying -
Phototrigger Compounds TS Calculation
["Resonance Raman Characterization of Different Forms of Ground-State 8-Bromo-7-hydroxyquinoline Caged Acetate in Aqueous Solutions" J. Phys. Chem. A, 113 (12), pp 2831-2837 (2009); DOI:10.1021/jp809586h]

CHU Keung Ivan, Dominic C.M. NG & SONG Tao -
Formation and Fragmentation for Peptide Radical Cations
["Experimental and Computational Studies of the Macrocyclic Effect of an Auxiliary Ligand on Electron and Proton Transfers Within Ternary Copper(II)-Histidine Complexes" J Am Soc Mass Spectrom , 20(6), pp 972-984 (2009); DOI:10.1016/j.jasms.2009.01.007]
["Formation, Isomerization, and Dissociation of α-Carbon-Centered and π-Centered Glycylglycyltryptophan Radical Cations" J. Phys. Chem. B, Article ASAP ; DOI:10.1021/jp908599a]

GUAN Xiang-Guo -
Water Assisted dehalogenation of SOCl₂

KOO Siu-Kong -
Theoretical Study for Emerging electronic Devices via Computational Simulations

Kwok Chi Ho -
Computational Studies on the Electronic and Phototphysical Properties of the Platinum Complexes

LAM Wai-Han -
Compuational Studies on the Photophysical Properties of the Photochromic Compounds
["Design and Synthesis of a New Class of Photochromic Diarylethene-Containing Dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]pyrroles and Their Switchable Luminescence Properties" Chem. Eur. J., 15 (39), pp 10005-10009 (2009); DOI:10.1002/chem.200900581]

LI Wen -
Time-resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopic and DFT Study of the Photochemistry of BP

MAK Shuk-Kwan -
Design and Synthesis of Small Molecular Functional Materials for Photovoltaic Applications

Phillips David Lee -
Density Functional Theory Calculations for selected atom and group transfer Chemical reactions
["Density Functional Theory and Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Investigation of the Photocyclization of 2-Pyridyl Phenyl Ketone in Acid Solution" J. Phys. Chem. A, 113(10), pp 1999-2003 (2009); DOI:10.1021/jp808532n]
["Resonance Raman Characterization of Different Forms of Ground-State 8-Bromo-7-hydroxyquinoline Caged Acetate in Aqueous Solutions" J. Phys. Chem. A, 113(12), pp 2831-2837 (2009); DOI:10.1021/jp809586h]
["DFT Study on the Mechanism and Regioselectivity of Gold(I)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Highly Substituted Furans Based on 1-(1-Alkynyl)cyclopropyl Ketones with Nucleophiles" Organometallics, 28 (3), pp 741-748 (2009); DOI:10.1021/om800751u]
["Photochemistry of Iodoform in Methanol: Formation and Fate of the Iso-CHI₂-I Photoproduct" Chem. Phys. Chem. , 2009, 10(11), pp 1895-1900 ; DOI:10.1002/cphc.200900122]
["Influence of Water Hydrogen Bonding on the Reactions of Arylnitrenium Ions With Guanosine: Hydrogen-Bonding Effects Can Favor Reaction at the C8 Site" J. Phys. Chem. B, 113 (18), pp 6528-6532 (2009); DOI:10.1021/jp8104584]
["Time-Resolved Resonance Raman and Density Functional Theory Investigation of the Photoreactions of Benzophenone in Aqueous" J. Phys. Chem. A, 113(14), pp 3344-3352 (2009); DOI:10.1021/jp811173x]
["Time-Resolved Resonance Raman and Density Functional Theory Investigation of the Photochemistry of (S)-Ketoprofen" J. Phys. Chem. B, 113(30), pp 10530-10539 (2009); DOI:10.1021/jp903234m]
["Time-resolved spectroscopy studies of the photodeprotection reactions of p-hydroxyphenacyl ester phototrigger compounds" Curr. Sci, 97(2), pp 202-209 (2009)]
["Resonance Raman Characterization of the Different Forms of Ground-State 8-Substituted 7-Hydroxyquinoline Caged Acetate Compounds in Aqueous Solutions" J. Phys. Chem. A, 114 (2010); DOI: 10.1021/jp911143e ]

SONG Kesheng -
Quantum Calculation on Chemical Reaction
["The Effect of Backbone Stereochemistry on the Folding of Acyclic 2, 3-Aminoxy Peptides" Chem. Eur. J., 16 (2), pp 577-587 (2010); DOI:10.1002/chem.200901471]

SUN Jian -
Drug Design for Influenza Virus

SUN Zenning -
Theoretical Study on Chemistry

WONG Man-Chung -
Computational Studies on the Photophysical Properties of the Transition Metal Alkynyl Complexes
["A Luminescent Trinuclear Platinum(II) Pt₃C₂ System with a "Naked" C≡C^2- Ligand That Fluctuates amongst Three Unsupported Platinum(II) Moieties" Chem. Eur. J., 14(35), pp 10928-10931 (2008)]

XU Minjie -
Formation and Fragmentation for Peptide Radical Cations
["Experimental and Computational Studies of the Macrocyclic Effect of an Auxiliary Ligand on Electron and Proton Transfers Within Ternary Copper(II)-Histidine Complexes" J Am Soc Mass Spectrom, 20(6), pp 972-984 (2009); DOI:10.1016/j.jasms.2009.01.007]
["Formation, Isomerization, and Dissociation of α-Carbon-Centered and π-Centered Glycylglycyltryptophan Radical Cations" J. Phys. Chem. B, Article ASAP ; DOI:10.1021/jp908599a]

Zhang Chunlei -
Theoretical Investigation of Bacterial Flagellar Motor

Civil Engineering

LI Qing-Lan -
Investigation of urbanization effect on climate change

NIU Jun -
Dominant Hydrologic Processes for floods and drougts over the Pearl River basin in Southern China
["Application of VIC and a routing scheme to Pearl River basin in South China" 16th IAHR-APD 2008 and 3rd IAHR-ISHS Congress]
["Terrestrial Hydrological features of the Peral River basin in Southern China" Journal of Hydro-environment Research 2009]

Community Medicine

WONG Oi-Ling -
Health Care Financing Study

Earth Science

Lemke Kono Heinz -
Thermodynamic stability of hydrogen bonded clusters

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

QIN Jianzhao -
Scene Categorization Based on Advanced Visual Words
["Scene categorization with multiscale category specific visual words" Proc. SPIE Vol. 7252, 72520N (2009) ; DOI:10.1117/12.805850]
["Scene categorization with multiscale category specific visual words" Opt. Eng. 48(4), pp 047203 (2009)]
["Scene Categorization by Introducing contextual information to the visual words." Advanced in Visual Computing, 297-306 (2009)]
["Scene categorization via contextual visual words" Pattern Recognition 43(5), pp 1874-1888 (2010); DOI:10.1016/j.patcog.2009.11.009]

WEI Sha -
Fast and Efficient Algorithm for Computational Electromagnetics
["High Frequency scattering by an Impenetrable Sphere" Progress In Electromagnetics Research, PIER 97, pp 291-325 (2009); DOI:10.2528/PIER09100102]

Genome Research Centre

BAO YunJuan -
De novo transcriptome

Mechanical Engineering

WONG Ching-Chi -
Large-eddy Simulation of pollutant transports in the urban canopy layer

CHENG Wai-Chi -
Larde-eddy Simulations of Flow and Pollutant Disperison in Urban Street Canyon with thermal Stratifications
["On the correlation of air and pollutant exchange for street canyons in combined wind-buoyancy-driven flow" Atmospheric Environment, 43(24), pp 3682-3690 (2009); DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.04.054]
["Computational formulation for the evaluation of street canyon ventilation and pollutant removal performance" Atmospheric Environment, 42(40), pp 9041-9051 (2008); DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.045]

CHEUNG On-Pong -
Building Interference and Natural Ventilation in a group of Buildings
["On the effects of building interference on Natural Ventilation of high-nise buildings" Joint Symposium 2008]

CHUNG Nga-Hang -
Large-Eddy Simulation and Wind Tunnel Experiments for the Transport of Chemically Reactive Air Pollutants in Urban Canopies

FAN Jing -
Effects of Microscale Physics on Macroscale Thermal Properties in Nanofluids
["Is Classical Energy Equation Adequate for Convective Heat Transfer in Nanofluids?" Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 719406 ; DOI:10.1155/2010/719406]
["Microstructural effects on macroscale thermal properties in nanofluids" NANO, (in press). ]

HONG Liang -
Domain Structures of Ferroelectric Nanoparticles

["Vortex structure transformation of BaTiO3 nanoparticles through the gradient function" J. Appl. Phys., 106(2), 024111 (2009); DOI:10.1063/1.3186038]
["Influence of size-dependent electrostatic energy on the ferroelectric nanodot domain structure by phase field method" J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 42(12) ,pp 122005-122009 (2009); DOI:10.1088/0022-3727/42/12/122005]

LIU Chun-Ho -
Large-Eddy Simulation of Air Pollutant Transport in Urban Area
["On the correlation of air and pollutant exchange for street canyons in combined wind-buoyancy-driven flow" Atmospheric Environment, 43(24), pp 3682-3690 (2009); DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.04.054]
["Large-eddy simulation of street canyon flow and pollutant transport in neutral and unstable stratifications" 16AIRPOL, AMS Conference 2010]

POON Hao Chi Cynthia -
Temperature, Humidity and Wind Flow Pattern within and above Vegetation Canopy

Shui Pei -
3D-Street Lamyen's Ventilation Simulation

TONG Yun-On -
A study of photochemical ozone formation in Pearl River Delta Region

Physics

Chen Chen -
Phase Fluctuation Superconductors

CHENG Kwong-Sang -
Relativistic Collapse

Jian Wang -
Orbital-free Density Functional Theory

JIANG Zhanfeng -
Manuplate of Topological Insulator

NGAI Ho-Yin -
Neutrino Oscillation Studies

Tibriu HARKO -
High Energy Radiation, Accretion And Cooling Of Strange Stars
["Can stellar mass black holes be quark stars?" Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 400(3),pp 1632-1642 (2009) ; DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15572.x]
["Thin accretion discs around neutron and quark stars" Astron. Astrophys, 500(2), pp 621-631 (2009); DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/200811412]

WU Haibin -
Large Scale many-body electronic states calculations by exact diagonalization

XU Fuming -
The Fluctuation of Dynamic Conductance

YU Hoi-Fung -
Gravitational Waves From Phase Transition-induced Collapse of Neutron Stars

Zhang Fu-Chun -
The Interaction between field and nanotube

ZHANG Yong -
Three-dimensional photoionization models of planetary nebulae
["Electron Temperatures of Planetary Nebulae Determined from the He I Discontinuities" ApJ, 695(1), pp 488-495 (2009); DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/695/1/488]

Statistics & Actuarial Science

Stephen M.S. LEE -
An omnibus procedure for robust depth-based confidence regions

Wan Wai Ming -
Factor Analysis for Paired Ranking Data

WONG Siu-Tung -
Extreme Value Analysis

Statistics

DING Xinli -
Bootstrap

SOLEYMANI Mehdi -
Bagging & Related Topics

WEI Bei -
Bootstrap and m out of n Bootstrap

ZHOU Feifei -
Research on Survival Analysis