Student: Mr. Ka Ki TUNG Department: Department of Chemistry, HKUST Supervisor: Professor Wan CHAN

Student: Miss Yat Hing HAM Department: Department of Chemistry, HKUST Supervisor: Professor Wan CHAN

Speaker: Dr. Tengteng CHEN Institution: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, USA Hosted By: Professor Wa Hung LEUNG  

Student: Mr. Long JIN Department: Department of Chemistry, HKUST Supervisor: Professor Wan CHAN

Student: Mr. Chi Kong CHAN Department: Department of Chemistry, HKUST Supervisor: Professor Wan CHAN

Speaker: Professor Zhongxing HUANG Institution: State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong Hosted By: Professor Yangjian QUAN   Abstract

Coupling methods provide a powerful toolbox for the quantitative analysis of the long-time behaviour of Markov processes. In particular, coupling by reflection allows to establish sharp exponential convergence results in