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
Keeping Neurons in Shape: Roles for Phospholipid Asymmetry and Extracellular Vesicles
December 11, 2024
10:30am - 12:00pm
Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT-H), HKUST
IAS Program on Particle Theory
Is Genesis Possible in the Framework of Horndeski Gravity?
December 11, 2024
2:00 - 3:00pm
IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Neuronal Stress-Sensing Kinase Signaling: From Worm to Mammal
December 13, 2024
3:30 - 5:00pm
Padma and Hari Harilela Lecture Theater (LT-C)
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Breaking the Lifetime Barrier for Deep Blue Phosphorescent OLEDs
December 17, 2024
10:00 - 11:30am
Rm 6602 (6/F via Lifts 31-32), Academic Building, HKUST
IAS Nobel Lecture
Gravitational Wave Astronomy with KAGRA
January 16, 2025
4:00 - 5:30pm
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

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
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 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

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