7:00 – 8:30 pm

Evening Keynote:
Culture and Science: Chinese Contribution to the World of Science During the Last 100 Years Location: Student Union Theater

Presenter: Dr. Yuefan Deng, Associate Dean, International Academic Programs; Professor, Applied Mathematics Dept, SUNY, Stony Brook University

For more on Dr. Deng: http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~deng 

Yuefan Deng, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (1989), Columbia University:  World-renown researcher in supercomputer designs and applications in science, engineering, and finance.

Yuefan Deng, through Nobel laureate Professor T. D. Lee’s CUSPEA program, was admitted to Columbia University to study theoretical physics under the guidance of Professor Norman Christ on supercomputer designs and applications in theoretical physics. After a brief stay at the prestigious Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University after earning his Ph.D. in 1989, he joined the faculty at Stony Brook University where he studied with yet another Nobel laureate Professor C. N. Yang in physics and computational number theory. In 1999, he was promoted to full professor of applied mathematics. Dr. Deng spent his three sabbatical leaves at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab., and Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology.

Professor Deng has taught more than 3,000 undergraduate students and is one of the most popular professors at Stony Brook. He also has supervised nearly 30 doctoral theses. He has published more than 70 papers in such diverse areas as mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering

1:45 – 3:00 pm

Keynote: Living and Working in China – An Expatriate’s Perspective
Location: Student Union Theater

Presenter: Mr. Doug Smith, Senior VP Tech, The Timken Company

Douglas H. Smith is senior vice president – technology at The Timken Company.

Mr. Smith leads the company's technology function on a global basis, with ultimate responsibility for developing and maintaining core competencies, and deploying technical resources in the areas of product, process and materials technology for the company's broad portfolio of steel, power transmission and friction management products.

In 2007, Smith was named director – manufacturing – Asia. He was instrumental in expanding Timken's manufacturing operations in Asia, including new plants in Wuxi and Chengdu, China, and Chennai, India.

Mr. Smith joined Timken at the company's Technology Center in Canton, Ohio, in 1991. He has held a number of research and management positions, including manager of manufacturing integration and automation and manager of intelligent products and systems. His operations roles have included manager of manufacturing operations – rail and director of operations at the company's plant in Wuxi, China. He was named to his current position in early 2009. Smith holds bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. Smith will share thoughts and experiences from his recent four year assignment living and working in China for The Timken Company.  The discussion will explore the cross-cultural differences between Chinese and multinational firms including the challenges of brand building, intellectual property management, establishing supply chains and quality management systems, and the war for talent.  Mr. Smith’s comments will be set against the backdrop of The Timken Company’s meteoric rise in China leading up to the Beijing Olympics and the subsequent global economic collapse.  Join us for a lively presentation of one company’s journey in China as seen through the eyes of an expatriate.

7: 00 – 8:30 pm

Evening Keynote: China in the Passing Lane
Location: Student Union Theater

Presenter: Dr. Paul Weinstein, Professor and Coordinator of History And Culture, The University of Akron, Wayne College

For more on Dr. Weinstein:
http://www.wayne.uakron.edu/bio/weinstein.php http://gozips.uakron.edu/~pbweins/Site/Welcome.html 

7:30 - 8:30 pm

Evening Keynote: The World is Flat
Location: E. J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall

Tickets must be purchased through E J Thomas Hall 
PH: 330-972-7570

E J Thomas website:  www.ejthomashall.com

Presenter: Mr. Thomas Friedman, “New York Times” Columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of several best sellers including “The World is Flat”   

For more on Thomas Friedman:
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/

Thomas Friedman on outsourcing (YouTube video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8quDb3FIUuo

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

History of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?

In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.

7:00 – 9:30 pm

Evening Chinese Film Session

If You Are The One (2008) romantic comedy
Location: Student Union Theater
A love story directed by Xiaogang Feng. Starring You Ge and Qi Shu.

Qin Fen (Ge) is a man in his late 40s who returns to China after many years  overseas. He becomes a multimillionaire after selling an "innovative invention" to a high-profile (but foolish) angel investor (Fan). With his new fortune, Qin decides to put an end to his bachelor life and advertises open invitations to potential partners online, citing only "if you are the one", which actually means "don't disturb if not sincere".

Subsequently, he encounters various candidates from a homosexual former friend, a cemetery saleswoman, a pathological amnesiac, an ethnic minority pecking hen, an erotophobic widow, an expecting single mother to a stock-holding trader. Eventually, he crosses path with air stewardess Liang Xiaoxiao (Shu). While helping Liang get over her agonizing love affair with a married man (Fong), Qin strikes up an unexpected friendship with Liang, which eventually blossoms into love during a trip to Hokkaido.

Presenter: Dr. Chengxin Zhao, Chinese Director of Confucius Institute, Associate Dean and Professor in the International School for Chinese Language and Culture at Henan University, China.

For more on Henan University:
http://www.henu.edu.cn/en/Default.htm