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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
Event Series
Lectures and Other Activities
Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
Quantum and Holographic Aspects of Spacetime Anisotropy
August 07, 2025
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Neuronal Cell Biology, Stress Response and Neurodegeneration
August 21, 2025
3:00 - 4:30pm
Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theater (LT-F), HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
From Classification to Precision: Building a Framework for Precision Psychiatry in Bipolar Disorder
September 22, 2025
3:30 - 5:00pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
Causality and Solar System Bounds, Implications for Testing General Relativity
July 18, 2025
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS / School of Science Joint Lecture
Boron Clusters
July 14, 2025
10:30am - 12:00pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
Status of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) and the European Strategy for Particle Physics Process
August 14, 2025
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Curious Conclusions: On the Singularity of Literature as Response and Appeal
September 19, 2025
4:00 - 6:00pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST

Facts & Figures

Creating Innovations and Inspiring the Community
270+
Postdoctoral researchers & Visiting Scholars have joined the IAS community since IAS' inception
1820+
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

March 31, 2025
Professor LUK Kam-Biu Elected 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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
June 14, 2024
Sir John PENDRY Wins the 2024 Kyoto Prize

“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

“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

“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

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