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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
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Intracellular Degradation by Autophagy and Its Related Pathways
September 18, 2025
9:30 - 11:00am
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
A Match Made in Silicon: The Co-Evolution of Systems and AI
September 18, 2025
4:00 - 5:30pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), 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
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Catalysis: Advancing Affordable and Clean Energy
September 19, 2025
4:30 - 5:50pm
Chiang Chen Lecture Theater (LT-J), HKUST
IAS / School of Engineering Joint Lecture
Making Serverless Computing Efficient, Scalable and Secure
September 22, 2025
11:30am - 1:00pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, 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
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Small-scale Medical Robots Down to Cell Size Inside Our Body
October 22, 2025
3:30 - 5:00pm
Chiang Chen Lecture Theater (LT-J), HKUST
The Shaw Prize Lecture in Mathematical Sciences 2025
From Shape to Space
October 22, 2025
3:00 - 4:30pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS / School of Engineering Joint Lecture
Data Management Strategies for Space-Efficient Decoding and Planning
November 03, 2025
11:00am - 12:30pm
Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT-H), Academic Building, HKUST
Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
Future Large Circular Colliders
November 04, 2025
3:00 - 4:00pm
IAS1038, 1/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
Low Energy Neutrino and Dark Matter Physics with the TEXONO + CDEX Research Programs
November 07, 2025
3:00 - 4:00pm
IAS4042, 4/F, 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 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

“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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