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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
The Shaw Prize Lecture in Life Science and Medicine 2024
November 13, 2024
3:00 - 5:00pm
Shaw Auditorium
IAS Nobel Lecture
The Universality of Acid Catalysis
November 05, 2024
11:00am - 12:30pm
Chiang Chen Lecture Theater (LT-J), HKUST
Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
Gravitational Waves Astronomy by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA: Neutron Stars, Black Holes, and Exotic Objects
October 15, 2024
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Program on Chinese Creative Writing 中國文學創作研究專題
浪漫與偏見——紀念《中國現代作家的浪漫一代》出版50週年
Prof. LEE Leo Ou-fan
October 15, 2024
4:30 - 6:00pm
香港科技大學李兆基校園盧家驄薈萃樓佳兆業集團演講廳(高研院演講廳)
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Simplifying Synthesis with Electricity
October 18, 2024
3:00 - 4:30pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Fundamental Physics Seminar Series
Probing New Physics from Gravitational Wave Observation
October 18, 2024
4:00 - 5:00pm
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Program on Particle Theory
Indications for New Higgses at the LHC
October 18, 2024
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
The Hippo Signaling Pathway - Function, Regulation and Evolution
October 28, 2024
9:30 - 11:00am
Lee Wing Tat Lecture Theater (LT-D), Academic Building, HKUST
IAS Nobel Lecture
Genes, Cells, and Discovery in Basic Science and Disease
Prof. Randy SCHEKMAN
October 29, 2024
5:15 - 6:30pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS / School of Science Joint Lecture
Some Theorems in the Representation Theory of Classical Lie Groups
November 08, 2024
3:00 - 4:00pm
Lee Wing Tat Lecture Theater (LT-D), Academic Building, HKUST
IAS Program on Chinese Creative Writing 中國文學創作研究專題
花樣年華:我們在美國的歲月
November 12, 2024
4:30 - 6:00pm
香港科技大學李兆基校園盧家驄薈萃樓佳兆業集團演講廳(高研院演講廳)
IAS Program on Chinese Creative Writing 中國文學創作研究專題
人工智能與文學變革
November 20, 2024
4:30 - 6:00pm
香港科技大學李兆基校園盧家驄薈萃樓佳兆業集團演講廳(高研院演講廳)

Facts & Figures

Creating Innovations and Inspiring the Community
270+
Postdoctoral researchers & Visiting Scholars have joined the IAS community since IAS' inception
1700+
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

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
December 12, 2023
Prof. John BOWERS Receives the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal
May 02, 2023
IAS Members Elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences

“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
Interim Director of IAS; IAS Paul C W Chu Professor

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