Events

• NUS Lunchtime Forum: Conflicts and Challenges – Increasing Children's Capacity to Learn and Experience Life

  Improve Your Child’s Emotional Self-Regulatory Capacity to Respond to Life’s Experiences! Enhance their Attention Skills and Optimize their Quality of Life!

  When: 22 June 2009 | Where: Level 2 Auditorium, University Hall, Lee Kong Chian Wing, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077

• NUS Lunchtime Forum: Conflicts and Challenges – Developing an Undefeated Mind

  Learn to develop your personal resilience to deal with daily conflicts and challenges. Find out how you can enhance your interpersonal skills to overcome “STRESS!”, nurture your positive mental health and psychology and defeat your negative habitual thoughts and emotions.

  When: 30 April 2009 | Where: Level 2 Auditorium, Shaw Foundation Alumni House, 11 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119244

• NUS Lunchtime Forum: Featuring Dr Alan Wallace – Mental Resilience in Times of Crisis

  In these challenging times, how can we build up mental resilience to counter stress? Three experts from various disciplines shared with the NUS community their perspectives on this question, in a forum presented by the NUS Development Office and the Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

  When: 10 December 2008 | Where: Level 2 Auditorium, University Hall, Lee Kong Chian Wing, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077

• The NUS Breakfast Club – Conversations with Ernesto Zedillo Ponce De Leon (video)

  The third NUS Breakfast Club features the Former President of Mexico, Prof Ernesto Zedillo Ponce De León. He is the Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Professor in the field of international economics and politics at Yale University. This dialogue with Prof Zedillo is chaired by Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

  When: 11 September 2008 | Where: Nexus, University Hall, Level 6, National University of Singapore

• An NUS Endowment Lecture: Risky Business – Managing Portfolios in Volatile Times by Prof Robert Engle (video)

  Prof Robert Engle is the 2003 Nobel Laureate for Economics and the Michael Armellino Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He developed the concept of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) method for statistical modeling of time-varying volatility and demonstrated that these techniques accurately capture the properties of many time series. Listen and gain some valuable insights from his lecture on investing during these volatile times.

  When: 2 July 2008 | Where: The Tower Club

• The NUS Breakfast Club – Conversations with Michael Spence (video)

  Hear from Prof Michael Spence himself, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to the analysis of markets with asymmetric information in 2001 speak on the topic “Economic Growth in Developing Countries – Asia’s Success Stories, the Challenges Ahead and the Work of the Commission on Growth and Development” at the NUS Breakfast Club.

  When: 13 September 2007 | Where: Nexus, University Hall, Level 6, National University of Singapore

• The NUS Breakfast Club – Conversations With Myron Scholes (video)

  This inaugural session of the first in the series of breakfast talks organized by the NUS Development Office entitled The NUS Breakfast Club, features Professor Myron Scholes, Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-originator of the Black-Scholes options pricing model.

  When: 25 June 2007 | Where: Nexus, University Hall, Level 6, National University of Singapore