AFTERNOON (Second Floor)

1:30-2:00 pm

Registration for both Afternoon & Evening Sessions

2:00-5:00 pm

Community Enrichment Forums

- Science, Technology and Business Exchange Forum

- Medical Education Forum

- Business Trends & Entrepreneurship Forum

Career Fair & Vender Shows

Art Exhibitions & Sales (Haiti Earthquake Relief)

5:00-5:30 pm

Social Networking

EVENING (Grand Ballroom)

5:30-6:00 pm

Registration for Evening Session

6:00-7:15 pm

Sophia (Ye) Liu (中央电视台主持人);  Philip Zhang (Event co-Chair)

6:00-6:02 pm

Opening

Introduction of Participating Organizations

6:02-6:05 pm

Joint Greetings by Co-Chairs of Organizing Committee

Yihan Wang, Wan Wu, Philip Zhang, Jerry Zhu, Daryl Luk

6:05-6:07 pm

Remarks by Senator John Kerry (Citation)

By Joseph Mullin, Member of Massachusetts Democratic Committee

6:14-6:20 pm

Remarks by Governor Deval Patrick (Citation)

6:20-6:28 pm

Chinese New Year:  Celebrating a Great Culture

Robert Desimone, Director, McGovern Institute; The Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience, MIT

6:28-6:30 pm

Pauline Mak, Partner, KPMG

6:30-6:45 pm

U.S. and China:  New Cooperation, New Risks

William Overholt, Sr. Research Fellow, ASH Center, Harvard Kennedy School

6:45-7:05 pm

Developing Next Generation Scientists

Shing-Tung Yau, William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University; Fields Medalist

7:15-8:15 pm

Valentine's Night Dinner

8:15-9:30 pm

Chinese Cultural Performance   (MCs: Jing Ji & Sean Shen)                                             

9:30-11:30 pm

Karaoke, Dance & Social  (MCs: Sophia (Ye) Liu & Sean Shen)