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
Lectures and Other Activities
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Lipid Control of Membrane Dynamics in Health and Disease
December 05, 2023
3:00 - 4:30pm
Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theater (LT-G), HKUST
IAS Program on Particle Theory
Digital Cosmology: Decoding the Universe
December 06, 2023
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Program on Inverse Problems, Imaging and Partial Differential Equations
Harmonic Functions and their Analogues in Inverse Problems
December 06, 2023
4:00 - 5:00pm
Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT-H), HKUST
IAS Program on Particle Theory
The Cosmological Bootstrap and the Analytic Wavefunction
December 11, 2023
10:30 - 11:30am
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Program on Particle Theory
Modular Flow and Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction in JT Gravity
December 11, 2023
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS / School of Engineering Joint Lecture
Towards Practical, Scalable and Private Management of Cloud Data
December 13, 2023
4:00 - 5:30pm
Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT-H), Academic Building, HKUST
HKUST Red Bird Visiting Scholars Lecture Series
Fundamentals of Satellite Communications and Integrated Terrestrial-Satellite Networks
December 15, 2023
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS 4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Fermat's Last Theorem Looking Back after 30 Years
December 19, 2023
3:00 - 4:30pm
Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theater (LT-G)
HKUST Red Bird Visiting Scholars Lecture Series
New Advances on Code-Domain Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Communications
December 21, 2023
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS 2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST

Facts & Figures

Creating Innovations and Inspiring the Community
260+
Postdoctoral researchers & Visiting Scholars have joined the IAS community since IAS' inception
1600+
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

May 02, 2023
IAS Members Elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences
September 29, 2022
IAS Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture YAN Lianke Has Been Awarded the 6th Lee Hochul Literary Prize for Peace for His Great Contribution and Significance in Literature
September 15, 2022
Prof. Tom DANIEL Appointed CEO of the Washington Research Foundation
March 15, 2022
IAS Members to Receive Honorary Doctorates from the University of Helsinki
May 10, 2021
Prof. Evelyn HU Receives the 2021 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal

“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 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

“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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