Driving a Commitment to Excellence

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
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Ultrafast Dynamics of Complex Systems in Biology and Materials
May 29, 2025
3:30 - 5:00pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
A Match Made in Heaven: Linking Observables in Inflationary Cosmology
May 29, 2025
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
De Sitter Quantum Gravity and the Emergence of Local Algebras
May 30, 2025
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Nobel Lecture
A Random Walk through Physics to Nobel Prize
June 02, 2025
11:00am - 12:30pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Animated Slideshows and Creative Ecologies in Socialist China
June 09, 2025
4:30 - 6:00pm
Cheung On Tak Lecture Theater (LT-E), HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Conformal Bioelectronics for Human Machine Interface
June 09, 2025
4:00 - 5:30pm
Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theater (LT-G), HKUST
IAS / Division of Environment and Sustainability Joint Lecture
Field Chemical Characterization and Heterogeneous Reactivity of Markers of Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation and Fate
June 11, 2025
10:30am - 12:00pm
Mr and Mrs Lee Siu Lun Lecture Theater (LT-K), HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Beyond the Spectrum: Nanocrystals for Light Manipulation
June 13, 2025
3:00 - 4:30pm
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
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

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

“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

“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 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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