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Zenway.com Financial Network is pleased to invite you
to join us at:
THE 2006 SPRING RECEPTION
of Chinese Association of Science & Technology
(CAST-GNY)
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2006
Time: 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Place: Rockefeller University, 500 East 63rd Street,
38th floor (penthouse), NYC at the Southeast corner of
63rd Street and York Avenue. You can take subway 6, or
F. The campus has limited Parking spots. You may have
to use street parking.
PROGRAMS:
2:00 pm: Site open, Name Tag pick up and Social
Networking
2:15 pm: Openning remarks
2:30 pm - 3:00pm Investment talk:
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"Superinvestor Warren Buffett's Secret of Success"
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by Brian Zen, CFA, PhD
10 minutes recess Q&A
3:10 pm - 3:40pm Advanced Technology Talk:
"Smart Video Surveillance"
by Dr. Ying-Li Tian, RSM, IBM
10 minutes recess
3:50 pm - 4:20pm Business Talk:
"Conduct Cross Border Business: USA & China"
by Dr. Xiaolin Zhou
10 minutes recess
4:30 pm - 5:00pm: TBA
5:00 pm - 5:30pm Social Networking Program
*Drinks and Snacks will be provided during social
networking
The event is free but seats are limited and prior
registration is required. To register, please visit:
http://castusa-gny.org/new/main.php?page=registration
You can also register by calling: 646-388-0887 or
email your name and phone number to:
zenway...@yahoo.com
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Appendix: Speakers' Bios
Dr. Ying-Li Tian received her PhD from the Chinese
University of Hong Kong in 1996 and her BS and MS from
TianJin University, China in 1987 and 1990. She is
experienced in computer vision topics ranging from
object recognition, photometric modeling and shape
from shading, to human identification, 3D
reconstruction, motion/video analysis, and facial
expression analysis. After she worked in National
Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing, China, Dr. Tian joined the Robotics
Institute in Carnegie Mellon University as a
postdoctoral fellow. She focused on automatic facial
expression analysis. She proposed and developed robust
and powerful methods for facial feature detection,
tracking, and automated facial expression analysis.
Since 2001, Dr. Tian is working at IBM T. J. Watson
Research Center and focusing on moving object
detection, tracking, and event and activity analysis.
She is one of the inventors of the IBM Smart
Surveillance System (S3). Dr. Tian published more than
50 papers in journals and conferences. She is a senior
member of IEEE.
Dr. Xiaolin Zhou received his Doctor of Juridical
Science degree (SJD) and Master of Laws degree (LLM)
from Harvard Law School and is a graduate of Institute
of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
Dr. Xiaolin Zhou is licensed to practice law in China
and the State of New York, and admitted before the
Federal (Southern District and Eastern District of New
York) and state courts in the State of New York. He
has over 20 years of legal experience both in
government and in private practice. As managing
partner of the firm's New York Office, he focuses his
practice on advising and assisting clients doing
business with/in China and helping clients resolve
legal and business problems in their operations in
China. His clients include many Fortune 500 industrial
and business corporations, banks, insurers, foreign
law firms and international organizations, as well as
many small and medium sized companies. He also
regularly advises Chinese entities and individuals on
doing business in the U.S. Prior to entering private
legal practice, Dr. Zhou served for seven years as
Head of International Law Division, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of China. He also served as advisor to
the Chinese Delegation to the UN General Assembly and
Chinese delegate to the UN Legal Committee,
Outer-space Legal Subcommittee and UN Charter
Committee. He has participated in numerous
international negotiations and was involved in
handling major judicial and arbitration cases
involving government agencies and enterprises in
Chinese and foreign courts as well as international
arbitration tribunals.
Dr. Brian Zen is the founder of Zenway.com Inc., an
investment research firm that publishes Superinvestor
Digest and provides training and advisory services to
investors and analysts. He also serves as Executive
Vice President at Univest Securities, Inc. Previously,
he served as vice president and portfolio manager at
Janney Montgomery Scott and Prudential-Bache
Securities. As a Becker Scholar and a Bernard Baruch
Fellow, Brian graduated Summa Cum Laude from Bernard
M. Baruch College, City University of New York. He is
a guest professor of finance at St. John's University.
As an ardent disciple of superinvestor Warren Buffett,
Brian has been compiling "billion dollar mental
models" by combining the Western wisdom of money
masters with the Eastern philosophy of Confucius, Lao
Tzu and Buddha. Using both historical and current
real-time case studies, Brian runs investment research
workshops to re-program investors' money mind with a
highly structured system of procedures, filters, value
calculations, and risk control rules.
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