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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-PHYS Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
Searching for Cosmological Collider Signals in the CMB Data
IAS/ School of Engineering Joint Lecture
Discovering Magnetoelasticity in Soft Matter for Bioelectronics
IAS-PHYS Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
Phase-transitioning from the Primordial Universe: from Non-Gaussianity to Cold Dark Matter Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity
IAS / School of Science Joint Lecture
Shaping Tumor Cell Plasticity and Therapy Resistance in Glioblastoma
HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study 20th Anniversary Concert
香港科技大學賽馬會高等研究院成立二十周年音樂會
Together We Celebrate: Bright Sheng & Beethoven Across Time
「盛宗亮與貝多芬跨越時空共慶」
IAS-PHYS Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
Extending EFT of Inflation/Dark Energy to Arbitrary Background
Facts & Figures
Creating Innovations and Inspiring the Community
280+
Postdoctoral researchers & Visiting Scholars have joined the IAS community since IAS' inception
1900+
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
February 06, 2026
Globally-esteemed Scientists Illuminate New Frontiers in Science at IAS Nobel Symposium
“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
“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
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