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
The Shaw Prize Lecture in Life Science and Medicine 2024
November 13, 2024
3:00 - 5:00pm
Shaw Auditorium
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration
November 18, 2024
4:00 - 5:30pm
Room 2405 (2/F via Lifts 17-18), Academic Building, HKUST
IAS Nobel Lecture
Multidisciplinary Revolution in Biology and Artificial Intelligence
Prof. Michael LEVITT
November 21, 2024
4:00 - 5:30pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS / School of Science Joint Lecture
Leveraging Protein Dynamics Memory with Machine Learning to Advance Drug Design: From Antibiotics to Targeted Protein Degradation
November 22, 2024
3:00 - 4:30pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Mathematics Grapples with Infinity, from Achilles to Woodin
November 22, 2024
3:00 - 4:30pm
Lee Wing Tat Lecture Theater (LT-D), HKUST
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Rereading Su Dongpo, Thirty Years Later
November 26, 2024
3:00 - 5:00pm
Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), 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
人工智能與文學變革
November 27, 2024
4:30 - 6:00pm
香港科技大學 6591室(31-32號電梯至6樓)
IAS Distinguished Lecture
Single Cell Genomics: Technological Revolution, Scientific Advances and Medical Applications
December 02, 2024
4:00 - 5:30pm
Lee Wing Tat Lecture Theater (LT-D), 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

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 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
Interim Director of IAS; 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

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