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The HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is committed to providing a platform for catalytic interaction among the world's foremost scientists and scholars to pursue enduring knowledge. It spearheads both fundamental and applied research relevant to the region's socio-economic development.
Latest Events
Programs & Conferences
Lectures and Other Activities
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Debates on the Ethical Status of Animals between Confucians, Catholics, and Buddhists
IAS / School of Science Joint Lecture
Pushing the Limit of Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy for Molecular Surfaces/Interfaces Studies
[Event Date Updated] Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
What Can We Learn about New Physics from Jupiter?
Facts & Figures
Creating Innovations and Inspiring the Community
270+
Postdoctoral researchers & Visiting Scholars have joined the IAS community since IAS' inception
1750+
International events conducted since the IAS Inaugural Lecture in 2006
40+
Projects received support by General Research Fund (GRF) over the past 5 years
Latest News & Media
October 17, 2024
IAS Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture YAN Lianke Has Been Awarded the 2024 Hsing Yun Global Chinese Literary Prize
June 25, 2024
IAS Senior Fellow Prof. DAI Xi Wins Tan Kah Kee Science Award and Highest Honor of State Natural Science Award
“This is my third time coming to the Gordon Research Conferences held at the IAS. Collaborations often happen after people return to their home institutions and continue the discussion and exchange of ideas.”
Prof. Patrick Lee
William & Emma Rogers Professor of Physics; IAS Senior Visiting Fellow
“The programs and workshops organized by the IAS provide a good platform for bringing theorists, experimentalists and accelebrator physicists together to interact.”
Prof. LUK Kam-Biu
IAS Paul C W Chu Professor
“The IAS offers me much more support than I could ask for and has a diverse student body. The Institute values the importance of literature and creative arts.”
Prof. YAN Lianke
IAS Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture
“Our goal is to offer students hands-on experience in music and the arts, to help them understand what it means to be a creative artist.”
Prof. Bright SHENG
IAS Helmut & Anna Pao Sohmen Professor-at-Large
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