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Table of Content Message from the Director 2 Vision and Mission 3
An Intellectual Hub 4 IAS Director and Executive Director IAS PROFESSORS IAS Visiting Professors IAS Senior Visiting Fellows IAS AFFILIATE MEMBERS AND IAS VISITING FELLOWS IAS Fellowship Program for HKUST Faculty
A PLATFORM FOR SYNERGY AND CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH 17 IAS Programs Gordon Research Conferences
AN INCUBATOR FOR NEW INITIATIVES 21
A New Home 23
Donors 25
Appendices 26 I. IAS International Advisory Board II. IAS Academic Working Group III. IAS Events since June 2006
1 MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Welcome to the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)!
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. It aims to MESSAGE nurture gifted students and postdoctoral fellows in the pursuit of knowledge. It raises community interest in the latest scientific and FROM THE technological discoveries.
DIRECTOR The Institute recruits top-notch scholars as IAS Professors to further elevate the academic standing of HKUST and Hong Kong, invites intellectual leaders in their respective areas to visit and interact with the local academic community, and engages outstanding HKUST faculty to lead frontier research projects. It champions collaborative research across disciplines and institutions. It supports initiatives that are important for the advancement of HKUST and Hong Kong. It organizes and sponsors activities ranging from lectures and forums, conferences and workshops, to topical research programs. It forges strong relationships with leaders from a diversity of backgrounds to make a difference in the academic world.
Henry Tye
2 VISION AND MISSION
The HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) champions frontier research and provides a platform in Hong Kong for intellectual interactions among the world’s foremost scientists and scholars. It is IAS’s goal to help transform Hong Kong and the Greater China region into a global source of creative and intellectual power.
The Institute aims to: • stimulate catalytic interaction among the scholars with different expertise to create enduring knowledge; • spearhead both fundamental and applied research relevant to the region’s socio-economic development; VISION AND • nurture the most gifted students and postdoctoral fellows in the pursuit of knowledge; • ignite innovation and technology development, and raise the long-term competitiveness of Hong Kong MISSION and the region; • forge strong relationships with academic, business, community, and government leaders to make a difference in the academic and scientific world; • excite public interest in the latest scientific and technological discoveries.
VISION IAS is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge to meet the great challenges of the 21st century. Located at the crossroads of the world’s most dynamic region, the Institute will bring together the most brilliant minds to drive cutting-edge discovery and scholarship for the betterment of mankind.
MISSION Set within HKUST, the Institute’s goal is to be a premier intellectual center in Hong Kong, Asia and beyond. It will be a trailblazer in the frontiers of knowledge; a global incubator of scientific breakthroughs and intellectual leaders; a platform for innovation, scientific and economic development in Hong Kong and the Greater China region; and an active participant in building a highly educated, vibrant and humane society.
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AN INTELLECTUAL HUB
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IAS recruits top talents at all levels, internal and external, local and global. Regardless of their background and experience, IAS people are provided with an enabling research environment. Faculty with different expertise can team up to achieve synergy. They have ample opportunities to start and develop new research initiatives based on the IAS platform. They can leverage on the established IAS visitor network to materialize international research collaborations. They are physically and financially resourced by the University to realize innovative research ideas.
The Director of IAS is the academic leader of IAS. Under the general direction of the Director, the Executive Director of IAS provides internal administrative leadership. Both as active researchers, they make every effort in fostering an exciting atmosphere of scholastic research and intellectual interactions within IAS.
Before joining HKUST as the Director of IAS and Chair Professor of Physics in 2011, Prof Henry Tye was the Horace White Professor of Physics at Cornell University. Prof Tye’s research interest is in theoretical particle physics and cosmology. He studies the structure of matter at the sub-atomic level and the fundamental forces in nature. In cosmology, he studies the origin of our universe as well as the properties of today’s universe. He applies superstring theory to link the smallest to the biggest. With the advance of modern science and technology, a number of predictions he made in cosmology may be tested via observation in the near future.
Prof Tye was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. He graduated from California Institute of Technology in 1970 and received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974. He did research at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory before moving to Cornell in 1978, where he stayed until last year. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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IAS Executive Director Prof Che Ting Chan received his BSc degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1980 and his PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. Prof Chan is currently a Chair Professor of Physics at HKUST.
Prof Chan’s primary research interest is the theory and simulation of material properties. He is now working on the theory of a variety of advanced materials, including photonic crystals, metamaterials and nano- materials. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1996. He received the Achievement in Asia Award of the Overseas Chinese Physics Association (2000) and Croucher Senior Research Fellowship (2010). He received the Michael Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching at HKUST (1999) and is a co-recipient of Brillouin Medal for his research in phononic metamaterials (2013).
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IAS Professors are distinguished scholars of the international academic community. Their appointments put HKUST and IAS in the world academic scene. They connect the foremost scholars around the world with HKUST and Hong Kong. To fully integrate into the present faculty, IAS Professors hold a joint appointment with an appropriate academic department. In their role at IAS, IAS Professors do not have formal teaching responsibility. They devote more time in research, advise postdoctoral fellows and mentor top PhD students. Working collaboratively with their fellow faculty, IAS Professors lead cutting-edge research projects and programs and actively seek for funding opportunities. IAS has successfully appointed three world acclaimed scholars as its faculty members. They are:
Prof Sir Christopher Pissarides, IAS Helmut & Anna Pao Sohmen Professor-at-Large
Prof Sir Christopher Pissarides is the first Nobel laureate appointed to HKUST faculty. Prof Pissarides is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Athens, He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Prof Dale the Academia Europaea and several other learned societies, and he is a Lifetime Mortensen of Northwestern University and Prof Peter Diamond of the Massachusetts Honorary Member of the American Economic Association. He has been honored Institute of Technology, for his work in the economics of labor markets, especially by several universities worldwide with doctorates or professorships. In 2011 he his work on markets with frictions and unemployment. Prior to that, in 2005, he received the Grand Cross of the Republic of Cyprus, the highest honor of the became the first European economist to win the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, Republic. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013. sharing it again with his collaborator Prof Dale Mortensen. Prof Pissarides has written extensively in professional journals, magazines and the Prof Pissarides received his PhD in Economics in 1973 from the London School of press. His book Equilibrium Unemployment Theory is an influential reference in Economics and Political Science (LSE) and has been on its faculty since 1976. He the economics of unemployment that has been translated into many languages. is the Regius Professor of Economics at the LSE, the Professor of European Studies He is frequently quoted in the press on issues concerning the Eurozone and the at the University of Cyprus, and the Chairman of the Council of National Economy future of European integration. of the Republic of Cyprus.
In 2011, Prof Pissarides served as the President of the European Economic Association. Between 2000 and 2007 he was the external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Cyprus, which brought the euro to Cyprus. He has also been consultant on matters concerning the euro to the British Treasury and the Swedish Commission on the euro. He has also been consultant at the European Commission, World Bank and OECD on matters related to employment and macroeconomic policy.
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Ching W. Tang, IAS Bank of East Asia Professor (joined with the Departments of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics)
Prof Ching W. Tang’s research interests lie in the general areas of chemical and condensed matter physics, and in particular in organic electronics. He has been recognized for the invention of the high-efficiency Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED). Internationally known as “Father of OLED”, the Hong Kong born and raised Prof Tang is the first Chinese recipient of the highly reputable Wolf Prize in Chemistry. The award is for his discovery of OLED, which is starting to replace Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) in smart phones, computers, and televisions. The Wolf Prizes in physics and chemistry are often considered the most prestigious awards in those fields after the Nobel Prize. Based on this key invention, a superior flat-panel display technology has been developed for electronics display applications from cellular phones to large-area high-definition television screens. Prof Tang has also been recognized for the discovery of the organic hetero-junction diode. This discovery has been recognized as a milestone contribution to the field of organic electronics and opto-electronics. The hetero-junction device structure has been found to be the key to obtaining high performance in organic-based, thin film devices including OLED and solar cells.
Prof Tang received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Cornell University in 1975. He then worked in Eastman Kodak and was named Distinguished Fellow of the Kodak Research Laboratories in 2003. He joined the University of Rochester as the Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Chemical Engineering in 2006, and has joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Prof Tang was elected to the fellowship of the American Physical Society in 1998, and membership of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2006. He has received honorary degrees from Shanghai University, and South China Technology University. In addition to the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Prof Tang has received many other awards including the Eastman Kodak Innovation Award (2000), the Jack Rajchman Prize of the Society of Information Display (2001), the Carothers Award of the American Chemical Society (2001), the Rochester Law Association Inventor of the Year Award (2002), the Humboldt Research Award (2005), the Daniel E. Noble Award (2007) and the Eduard Rhein Award (2013).
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Gunther Uhlmann, IAS Si Yuan Professor designate (joined with the Department of Mathematics)
Prof Gunther Uhlmann is the world’s leading mathematician on inverse problem – which is about determining the identity of an object by measuring how the object scatters incoming light, sound waves or other types of waves. Such problems are of immense interest to mathematicians, scientists and engineers and have important applications in daily life. One of Prof Uhlmann’s seminal contribution to mathematics is that he proved in 2003 that by measuring the scattered waves at a boundary, a person may not be able to tell what that object is as he can construct two different objects that give exactly the same scattering. That literally means that it is possible for two objects to appear exactly the same when a person takes a picture of them even though they have different identities. His theorem actually implies that Harry Potter’s cloak can become real. Indeed shortly after his work, physicists proved (independently) in 2006 that the mathematical transform introduced by Prof Uhlmann can be used to design Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak.
Prof Uhlmann obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. After postdoctoral positions at Harvard University, the Courant Institute and MIT, he was on the MIT faculty from 1980 to 1984. He joined the University of Washington in 1984, where he is Walker Family Endowed Professor in Mathematics.
Prof Uhlmann has received several honors for his research including a Sloan Fellowship in 1984 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2001. In 2001 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics since 2004. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and a SIAM Fellow in 2010. He was named a Highly Cited Researcher by ISI in 2004. In 2011, he was awarded the prestigious Bocher Memorial Prize (awarded once every three or five years) by the American Mathematical Society and the Kleinman Prize (awarded to one person every other year) by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
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IAS VISITING PROFESSORS
IAS has been successful in inviting scholars of the highest caliber who are willing to make a shorter term of commitment to take up the IAS Visiting Professorships. The program attracts a group of internationally renowned scholars whose interests and expertise can evolve over time to adapt to the challenges of new intellectual discoveries and directions. IAS has an unparalleled team of 36 IAS Visiting Professors, of whom over two-thirds were joined in the past three years. Two are Nobel Laureates and most are members of national academies or of equivalent stature.
Robert Austin Steven DenBaars Professor of Physics, Princeton University (NAS; AAAS) Mitsubishi Chemical Chair in Solid State Lighting and Displays, University of California, Santa Barbara (NAE) Édouard Brézin Professor Emeritus, École Normale Supérieure (French Academy of Sciences, Weinan E Foreign Associate of NAS) Professor, Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University (CAS) Arup Chakraborty Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry and John Ellis of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (NAE; AAAS) Clerk Maxwell Chair of Theoretical Physics, King’s College London and Physicist, CERN (2005 Paul Dirac Medal & Prize (IOP); FRS; CBE) Aaron Ciechanover Distinguished Research Professor, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Jianqing Fan Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Frederick L. Moore ‘18 Professor of Finance, Professor of Statistics and Foreign Associate of NAS) Chairman of Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University (AAAS; Academia Sinica) Marvin Cohen
University Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (2001 US National Medal of Science; NAS; AAAS; American Philosophical Society)
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Richard C. Flagan Evelyn Hu Irma and Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemical Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and of Electrical Engineering, Engineering and Professor of Environmental Science & Engineering, Harvard University (NAS; NAE; AAAS; Academia Sinica) California Institute of Technology (NAE) Tony Hunter Roland Glowinski American Cancer Society Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Cullen Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, Renato Dulbecco Chair, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (FRS; NAS; IOM; University of Houston (Academia Europaea) AAAS) Chih-Ming Ho Thomas K. Kuech Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Chair Professor, Henry Samueli School of Milton J. and A. Maude Shoemaker and Beckwith-Bascom Professor, Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin- (NAE; Academia Sinica) Madison (NAE) Thomas Y. Hou Hau L. Lee Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, California Institute of Technology (AAAS Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (NAE)
Roger E. Howe William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics, Yale University (NAS; AAAS) 11 AN INTELLECTUAL HUB HKUST JOCKEY CLUB INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY 2013
Patrick A. Lee George Papanicolaou William and Emma Rogers Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University (NAS; AAAS) Technology (2005 Dirac Medal (ICTP); NAS) Sir John Pendry Steven G. Louie Chair Professor in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London (1996 Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (NAS; AAAS; Academia Dirac Medal & Prize (IOP); FRS; Knight Bachelor) Sinica) Paul Schimmel Yiu-Wing Mai Ernest and Jean Hahn Professor of Molecular Biology and Chemistry, The Skaggs University Professor and Personal Chair in Mechanical Engineering, The University Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute (NAS; AAAS; of Sydney (Royal Society; FREng; AAS) American Philosophical Society; Institute of Medicine) Eric S. Maskin Surendra Shah Adams University Professor, Harvard University (Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; Walter P. Murphy Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NAS; AAAS) Northwestern University (NAE; Foreign Member of CAE) Shuji Nakamura Yuen-Ron Shen Cree Chair of Solid State Lighting and Displays, University of California, Santa Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley Barbara (2006 Millennium Technology Prize; NAE) (NAS; AAAS; Academia Sinica) Elaine Oran Bright Sheng Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, Department of Aerospace Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Composition, University Engineering, University of Maryland (NAE; AAAS) of Michigan (2001 MacArthur fellow) Stanley Osher Pravin Varaiya Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (NAS; AAAS) Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (NAE; AAAS)
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Jeff Wu IAS Visiting Professors share their latest research findings through various formats, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor of Industrial and Systems for instance, Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (NAE; Academia Sinica) • co-organizing IAS topical research programs Eli Yablonovitch • co-organizing international conferences, symposiums and workshops James and Katherine Lau Chair in Engineering, Department of Electrical • teaching credit-bearing PG courses and non-credit bearing short courses Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (NAE; • giving distinguished lectures NAS; AAAS; Foreign Member of the Royal Society) Shou-Wu Zhang They also collaborate with HKUST faculty to apply for major research grants Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University and Professor of Mathematics, and develop research projects, as well as provide academic and research advice Columbia University (AAAS) to HKUST management, faculty and students. Their association and actual visits promote academic and research excellence at HKUST and beyond. Ya-Qin Zhang Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation In 2012 and 2013, IAS hosted the visits of 19 and 24 IAS Visiting Professors, respectively. More than half of the IAS Visiting Professors visit IAS at least once a year. They together with the well-established IAS platform help attract top counterparts from around the world to visit IAS and interact with HKUST faculty.
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IAS Senior Visiting Fellows
Distinguished full professors outside of Hong Kong who are willing to spend up to a year at IAS may be appointed IAS Senior Visiting Fellows. Some take up teaching and conduct research or work together with our faculty to develop new research projects. Like IAS Visiting Professors, IAS Senior Visiting Fellows gives talks during their visits. The four IAS Senior Visiting Fellows are:
Eric Anslyn University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Norman Hackerman Professorship in Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin (AAAS) Malcolm Bolton Director of Schofield Centre, Head of Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, Professor of Soil Mechanics, University of Cambridge (FREng) Jason Ho Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The Ohio State University Zaifu Liu Visiting Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder
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IAS Affiliate Members and IAS Visiting Fellows
IAS Visiting Fellows are external to HKUST whereas IAS Affiliate Members can either be HKUST or external faculty. They may be the research collaborators of the IAS Professors and IAS Visiting Professors, the Principal Investigators of research projects, or directors of research centers associated with IAS. IAS will also engage them to run topical research programs. The affiliation recognizes their important role.
Xiren Cao Professor, Antai College of Economics and Management and School of Electronic, Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Professor Emeritus, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, HKUST Michael Loy Chair Professor, Department of Physics, HKUST Rachel Ngai Reader in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science Xiang-Lei Yang Associate Professor of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute
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IAS Fellowship Program for HKUST Faculty
Apart from expanding the visitor program, IAS launched a fellowship program in 2012 to engage HKUST faculty members with outstanding accomplishments in research and mentoring. In particular, those who are currently active in research are strongly valued as the University can continue to promote excellence in research and education, as well as to solidify its leadership role in the academic community. The program helps build clusters of research activities in IAS and new initiatives at HKUST; recruit, retain and recognize outstanding faculty members who demonstrate excellence in scholarship of discovery; and create an environment conducive to promoting interdisciplinary, synergistic research on campus.
IAS Senior Fellows and IAS Fellows help maintain a vibrant scholarly atmosphere at HKUST and IAS, lead frontier research projects that echo the mission of IAS and to promote research interaction between IAS and academic departments. They contribute to and participate in IAS activities, e.g., to lead and help organize appropriate research endeavors, meetings and workshops, as well as running IAS programs. Some are research center/institute directors associated with IAS.
IAS has 14 Senior Fellows and 2 IAS Fellows.
IAS Senior Fellows Bozhong Li Ben Zhong Tang Chair Professor, Stephen Kam Chuen Cheong Professor of Science, Songnian Chen Division of Humanities Department of Chemistry Chair Professor, Department of Economics Jian-Shu Li Mingjie Zhang Albert Ha Chair Professor, Kerry Holdings Professor of Science, Wei Lun Foundation Professor of Business, Department of Mathematics Division of Life Science Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management Charles W. W. Ng Tong-Yi Zhang Chair Professor, Fang Professor of Engineering, James Kai-Sing Kung Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Yan Ai Foundation Professor of Social Science, Engineering Division of Social Science Albert Francis Park Chair Professor, Division of Social Science and Hoi-Sing Kwok Professor, Department of Economics IAS Fellows Dr William M W Mong Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering Ping Sheng Xuhua He Dr William M W Mong Professor of Nanoscience, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics Chung-Yee Lee Department of Physics Cheong Ying Chan Professor of Engineering, Daniel Palomar Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Gary Shiu Associate Professor, Department of Electronic and Management Chair Professor, Computer Engineering Department of Physics
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A PLATFORM FOR SYNERGY AND CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH
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As a platform to attract talents, an incubator of new ideas and a meeting place for brilliant minds, IAS has sponsored distinguished speakers and visitors to give lectures and conduct seminars and workshops. These events have stepped up both in quality and quantity over the years. In their aggregate, such visits, talks and workshops create an intellectual environment indispensable to a University aspiring to be truly world-class in sciences, engineering, business and management, and humanities and social sciences. They also raise the visibility of HKUST to the global academic community.
First of its kind in Hong Kong, IAS Programs attract top talents around the world to gather at IAS for extended visits to find solutions to the most challenging problems in various disciplines. An IAS Program lasts for a number of weeks to a full term. It usually consists of short courses, workshops, and in some cases postdoc-led / postgraduate student-led discussion sessions. Participants from overseas, of whom the majority of those are prominent scholars, will be in residence at IAS to interact with local academics and students. Innovative ideas and projects naturally emerge under such an embracing atmosphere. Bringing this form of mind- opening learning experience to Hong Kong help nurture our young scholars and postgraduate students to become world-class scholars and innovative entrepreneurs for the future Hong Kong society. In less than 3 years, IAS has been developing itself as a hub for program running. Eight programs concluded successfully, one is ongoing and five will take place in the coming months. Some of these activities have lasting impact, e.g. inspired by the discussion in the IAS Program on Arithmetic Geometry and Representation Theory, one of the program participants subsequently made a breakthrough in a 1040-year mathematics problem.
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• IAS Program on Cosmology and String Theory • IAS Program on Statistical Physics and Computational Neuroscience (Jan - Aug 2011) (Jul 2013) • IAS Program on Arithmetic Geometry and Representation Theory • IAS Program on Chinese Creative Writing (Dec 2011 - Jan 2012) (Fall Term, 2013) • IAS Program on Metamaterials, Plasmonics and Transformation Optics • IAS Program on Frontiers of Soft Matter Physics: from Non-equilibrium (Oct - Nov 2012) Dynamics to Active Matter • IAS Program on Topological Materials and Strongly Correlated Electronic (Jan 2014) Systems • IAS Program on Topological Matter, Superconductivity and Majorana (Dec 2012 - Jan 2013) (Jan 2014) • IAS Program on Particle Theory • IAS Program on Special Cycles and p-adic L-functions (Feb - Dec 2013) (Jan 2014) • IAS Program on Human Resources and Economic Development • IAS Program on Metamaterial (Jun - Jul 2013) (Jan - Jun 2014) • IAS Program on Gromov-Witten Theory and Quantization • IAS Program on Representation Theory (Jul 2013) (Jun 2014)
Compared to IAS Programs which provide an excellent platform for in-depth discussion and brainstorming of ideas among groups of researchers for an extended period of time, international conferences, symposiums and workshops are effective channels for information exchange at which speakers and attendees gather for a few days for a compact schedule of talks. Complementing with the well-received IAS Visiting Professorship Program, the three schemes advance scholarly research and further academic excellence in Hong Kong.
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GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES 2013 GRCs @ IAS • Posttranslational Modification Networks First organized in 1931, the reputable US based Gordon Research Conference • Nano-Mechanical Interfaces (GRC)’s meetings have been recognized as the world’s premier scientific • Marine Molecular Ecology conferences, where leading investigators from around the globe spend 5 days together to discuss their latest work and future challenges in a uniquely • Spin Dynamics in Nanostructures informal, interactive format. Beginning this summer, IAS has become a 2014 GRCs @ IAS long-term partner of GRC in Hong Kong. Each GRC meeting brings to HKUST 100-200 younger and established scientists with a combination of • Hybrid Electronic & Photonic Materials and Phenomena geographic and gender diversity. • Molecular & Cellular Neurobiology • Genomic Instability: Mechanisms that Cause DNA Damage and Related Diseases • Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure Development
In the last 12 months, IAS organized 89 scholarly events, including 2 President’s Forums, 59 lectures, 12 seminars, 10 conferences/workshops/symposiums and 7 IAS Programs. IAS also hosted 4 GRC meetings. These events attracted an attendance of approximately 8,500. The video recordings of many of these activities are uploaded to the IAS Channel, a publicly accessible Web portal, to promote transmission of knowledge beyond time and geographical limits.
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AN INCUBATOR FOR NEW INITIATIVES
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IAS facilitates the activities of research clusters, centers and initiatives which are in line with its mission and vision and in particular those that can make major contribution to the creation of new knowledge or create a high impact to our society. Emphasis goes to interdisciplinary research across schools / departments / institutions. IAS also welcomes the formation of centers that create additional external funding opportunities. Working together with IAS, the leaders of the research clusters, centers and initiatives associated with IAS are expected to organize activities which benefit a larger academic community. They are also expected to establish and maintain a congenial platform to gather talents across physical and academic boundaries and be international leader in their area. For example, IAS took an active role in sponsoring the activities of the Institute for Emerging Market Studies when it was being formed. Other areas include System Biology and Human Health, Super-resolution Microscopy, Soft Condensed Matter, Metamaterial, Pure Mathematics, LED, Bio-statistics, etc.
Quantitative Finance and Statistical Sciences are two other examples in which different schools and departments on campus have expertise. It is natural for IAS to play some role in these inter-disciplinary areas.
IAS also intends to support intellectual activities for the whole of Hong Kong. IAS Commons is a novel concept to gather faculty and students from all Hong Kong universities to interact and work on common research areas. IAS also plays a critical role to place Hong Kong in a more prominent position on the world map of research, as evidenced by its push for the formation of the Joint Consortium for Fundamental Physics (JCFP) among HKUST, the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. JCFP draws the physicists of the three top universities in Hong Kong together to formulate a more detailed proposal for participation in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN (CERN stands for the European Organization for Nuclear Research. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter).
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The IAS building capital project is funded by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. Emblematic of the lofty vision and broad inclusiveness of IAS, the building is located atop the Lee Shau Kee campus commanding a spectacular sea and main campus view.
The five-story iconic building houses a 200-seat lecture theater, an open auditorium, three seminar rooms, one conference room and about 100 offices. The facilities make the place an ideal home for face-to-face intellectual interactions and IAS activities.
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IAS has succeeded in securing government seed funding and support for capital construction as well as funding support from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. In addition, the Institute received enthusiastic support from the community, with Dr Lee Shau Kee being its Founding Patron and donations and pledges received from Dr Larry Yung, Lo Ka Chung Charitable Foundation Limited, Dr Helmut Sohmen and Mrs Anna Sohmen, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Global Foundation, Si Yuan DONORS Foundation, The Bank of East Asia Limited, Tin Ka Ping Foundation, and United Company RUSAL. Donations are vital in furthering the development of IAS.
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Appendices
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IAS International Advisory Board
Guidance for the development of IAS is provided by an International Advisory Board chaired by Nobel Laureate C. N. Yang. The other members are:
Alexei Abrikosov Alan Heeger Argonne National Laboratory; 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics University of California, Santa Barbara; 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Sir Michael Atiyah H. Robert Horvitz University of Edinburgh; 1966 Fields Medal Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
David Baltimore Neal Lane California Institute of Technology; 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine Rice University; Former US Presidential Advisor
Steven Chu Y. T. Lee Stanford University; 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics Academia Sinica; 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Aaron Ciechanover Ferid Murad Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry George Washington University; 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Tord Claeson Douglas Osheroff Chalmers University of Technology; Former Chair, Physics Panel, Stanford University; 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize Committee Samuel Ting Marvin Cohen Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics University of California, Berkeley; 2001 US National Medal of Science Andrew Yao Peter Goddard Tsinghua University; 2000 Turing Award Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; 1997 Dirac Prize
David J. Gross University of California, Santa Barbara; 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
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IAS Academic Working Group
Appointed by the Director of IAS in consultation with the President and the Provost, the IAS Academic Working Group assists in implementing plans and strategies developed by the Director; helps identify and recruit, and give advice on the appointment of IAS Members at all levels; and vets program proposals and recommend funding levels.
Chair Henry Tye, Chair Professor of Physics, and Director of IAS
Members Khaled Ben Letaief, Chair Professor of Electronic & Computer Engineering, and Dean of Engineering Che Ting Chan, Chair Professor of Physics, and Executive Director of IAS Kalok Chan, Synergis-Geoffrey YEH Chair Professor of Finance, and Acting Dean of Business and Management Nancy Ip, The Morningside Professor of Life Science, and Dean of Science Hoi Sing Kwok, Dr William M. W. Mong Professor of Nanotechnology James Lee, Chair Professor of Humanities and Social Science, and Dean of Humanities and Social Science Francis Lui, Professor and Head of Economics Allen Moy, Chair Professor and Head of Mathematics Lionel M. Ni, Chair Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, and Dean of HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School Ping Sheng, Dr William M. W. Mong Professor of Nanoscience
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IAS Events since June 2006 Distinguished Lectures
June 15 The Origin of the Universe by 2006 Prof Stephen Hawking, University of Cambridge September 11 Mathematics: Invention or Discovery? by Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh September 13 Organizing the World’s Information by Dr Kai-Fu Lee, Google Inc. September 18 Photonic Band Gap Materials: Engineering the Fundamental Properties of Light by Prof Sajeev John, University of Toronto October 23 中國的節水型社會建設 by Minister Shucheng Wang, Ministry of Water Resources, People’s Republic of China November 6 Innovation Strategy of High-Tech Companies by Dr Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft Corporation November 9 Agri-energy: What Does the Future Hold by Prof Alan G. MacDiarmid; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry December 8 Nano Patterns, Global Patterns by Prof John Polanyi, University of Toronto; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
January 6, 8 &10 Universe in Our Laboratory – An Introduction to Contemporary Condensed Matter Physics by 2007 Prof Patrick A. Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof Xiaogang Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology April 10 Why Our Proteins Have To Die So We Shall Live by Prof Aaron Ciechanover, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry May 2 University Research and Connection to Biotechnology by Prof Paul Schimmel, The Scripps Research Institute May 14 Novel Spectroscopy for Probing Molecular Chirality by Prof Yuen-Ron Shen, University of California, Berkeley May 18 Computers and Mathematics: Problems and Prospects by Prof Ronald Graham, University of California, San Diego
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May 18 The Beauty of Computing by Prof Chung Laung Liu, National Tsing Hua University June 5 Openness, Technology Capital, and Development by Prof Edward Prescott, Arizona State University and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences June 6 Neurocorrelates of Reading Chinese Words in Texts without Word Boundaries: Evidence from the Educated Eyes to the Educated Brain by Prof Ovid J. L. Tzeng, Academia Sinica and National Yang-Ming University August 4 Material Discovery by Design by Prof Avelino Corma, Polytechnic University of Valencia August 13 The Future of Physics by Prof David Gross, University of California, Santa Barbara; Nobel Laureate in Physics August 14 Will a New Milli-Volt Switch Replace the Transistor? by Prof Eli Yablonovitch, University of California, Berkeley October 9 Numerical Simulation of Particle Clustering for Particulate Flow in a Spinning Cylinder by Prof Roland Glowinski, University of Houston
October 22 NF-kB, Inflammation and Cancer by Prof Michael Karin, University of California, San Diego October 26 New Directions in Science: The Search for Fractional Charge Particles by Prof Martin Perl, Stanford University; Nobel Laureate in Physics October 29 Entrepreneurship and Incentives by Prof James Mirrlees, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Cambridge; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences November 9 Reference Points and Theory of the Firm by Prof Oliver Hart, Harvard University November 10 The Secret Lives of Enzymes by Prof K. Barry Sharpless, The Scripps Research Institute; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry November 15 Transcellular Migration by Leukocytes and Integrin Signalling by Prof Timothy Springer, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University November 16 Steel and States by Prof Paul Romer, Stanford University November 27 The Importance of a Global Perspective: One View from Space by Prof Leroy Chiao, Louisiana State University December 5 Array Imaging by Prof George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
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January 22, 24 Graphene and the Physics of the Two-Dimensional Dirac Spectrum by 2008 & 29 Prof Patrick A. Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology January 30 There are No Excuses in Paradise – The Institute for Advanced Study: Past, Present and Future by Prof Peter Goddard, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton February 19-22 Bio-Science Lecture Series by Prof Paul Schimmel, The Scripps Research Institute Prof Xiang-Lei Yang, The Scripps Research Institute March 10 Nanoporous Silica-based Materials for Drug Delivery Applications by Prof Jesus Santamaria, University of Zaragoza and Nanoscience Institute of Aragon March 19 Challenges and Opportunities of Emerging Nanotechnology for VLSI Nanoelectronics by Dr Robert Chau, Intel Corporation April 1 經濟發展與中國文化的復興 by Prof Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University and The World Bank April 16 Evolution, Cooperation, and Repeated Games by Prof Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences May 14 Recent Developments in the Ubiquitin System: Mechanisms, Drug Targeting, and Future Challenges by Prof Aaron Ciechanover, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry May 26 Biomedical Sciences in the New Century by Prof Shu Chien, University of California, San Diego June 5 Cars: Chemistry in Motion by Prof Richard Zare, Stanford University June 13 Low Cost ‘Plastic’ Solar Cells by Prof Alan Heeger, University of California, Santa Barbara; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry July 28 How Advances in Science Are Made by Prof Douglas Osheroff, Stanford University; Nobel Laureate in Physics September K-Theory and the Index of Elliptic Operators by 4-5 & 11-12 Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh September 9 & 11 The History and Developments of Nitride-Based Blue LEDs and Laser Diodes Recent Breakthroughs in GaN LEDs and Laser Diodes by Prof Steven DenBaars, University of California, Santa Barbara Prof Shuji Nakamura, University of California, Santa Barbara October 3 Maxwell’s Demon and Biotechnology: Some Devilish Ways to Separate the Living from the Dead by Prof Robert Austin, Princeton University
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November 18 - Imaging in Random Media by December 3 Prof George Papanicolaou, Stanford University December 12 Science and Policies for Climate Change by Prof Lord Julian Hunt, University College London December 17 Applications of Nanosystems to Environment and Energy Issues by Dr Jean-Alain Dalmon, CNRS
January 20 The Mysteries of Four-Dimensional Space by 2009 Prof Clifford Taubes, Harvard University March 2-3 Climate Change and Air Pollution Atmospheric Organic Aerosols by Prof John Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology March 19 Symmetry: More Than Pretty Pictures by Prof Roger Howe, Yale University March 21 Molecules That Changed The World by Prof K C Nicolaou, The Scripps Research Institute and University of California, San Diego April 20 Values, Past and Future, for a Great Research University by Prof Robert Zimmer, University of Chicago August 27 Will China Become the Next USA? by Prof Robert Austin, Princeton University October 15 Glacial Inceptions: Past and Future by Prof Lawrence Mysak, McGill University November 11 The Emergence of An Outward Looking China by Prof Gregory Chow, Princeton University November 20 月球探測的緣由與中國嫦娥工程 by Prof Ziyuan Ouyang, Chinese Academy of Sciences November 27 A Hundred Years of Nanoscience and Superconductivity by Prof Marvin Cohen, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory December 10 Personalized Medicine and Statistics by Prof Wing Hung Wong, Stanford University
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January 7 Science, Society and Sustainability by 2010 Sir Harold Kroto, Florida State University; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry January 7 Reflections on Our Hot, Flat and Crowded World by Mr Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prizewinner January 29 Eyes of the 21st Century: Controlling the Placement and Environments of Molecules at All Scales by Prof Paul Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles March 18 轉變發展方式，建設低碳經濟 by Prof Kuangdi Xu, Chinese Academy of Engineering March 19 Prospects for Cloaking at Optical Frequencies by Sir John Pendry, Imperial College London March 29 Mechanisms of Protein Transport across Membranes by Prof Tom Rapoport, Harvard University April 28 The Development of Mathematics of China and Japan in the 19th and Early 20th Century by Prof Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong May 10 Discovery of a Large New Class of Biologics at HKUST by Prof Paul Schimmel, The Scripps Research Institute May 11 Shell Theory: The Classical and Intrinsic Approaches by Prof Philippe Ciarlet, City University of Hong Kong May 18 Nash and Stackelberg Differential Games by Prof Alain Bensoussan, University of Texas at Dallas and Hong Kong Polytechnic University June 3 From the Binomial Theorem to the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities and Beyond by Prof Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin – Madison June 9 On the Numerical Simulation of Red Blood Cell Motions in Micro-Channels by Prof Roland Glowinski, University of Houston June 11 Is Cancer a Disease or Does it Provide a Fitness Advantage? by Prof Robert Austin, Princeton University June 15 DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life by Prof Nadrian Seeman, New York University July 8 The Replica Potential Approach to Glassy Systems by Prof Giorgio Parisi, Sapienza University of Rome July 9 Very Large Scale Simulations of the Off-equilibrium Dynamics of Spin Glasses (from 1 picoseconds to 0.1 seconds) by Prof Giorgio Parisi, Sapienza University of Rome
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August 3 Distinguished Lecture Series on Inequality and Poverty: IQ, Gender, and Mortality in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study by Prof Robert Hauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison September 14 Nanopatterned Semiconductors to Achieve New Functionality by Prof Thomas Kuech, University of Wisconsin-Madison September 17 A Data-Driven Stochastic Multiscale Method by Prof Thomas Y Hou, California Institute of Technology September 30 Expansion in Linear Groups and Applications by Prof Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton September 30 Incomplete Character Sums: Problems and Some Results by Prof Mei-Chu Chang, University of California, Riverside October 4-6 A Geometer Explores the Nucleus by Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh October 7 IHÉS: 52 years in Search of Excellence by Prof Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques October 7 Imagining and Calculating in Many Dimensions by Prof Ian Sloan, University of New South Wales and Hong Kong Polytechnic University October 8 A (Brief) History of (Metric) Geometry by Prof Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques October 12 NMR of physisorbed 129Xe used as a probe to investigate various materials by Prof Jacques Fraissard, University Pierre and Marie Curie October 14 Recent Advances in High Brightness Blue and White GaN Based LEDs and True Green Laser Diodes by Prof Steven DenBaars, University of California, Santa Barbara October 18 How Does a Ribozyme Work? by Prof David Lilley, University of Dundee October 29 Difference Between Heaven and Earth: Urban-rural Disparities in Health and Well-being in China by Prof Donald J. Treiman, University of California, Los Angeles and HKUST November 9 From Matter to Life: Chemistry? Chemistry! by Prof Jean-Marie Lehn, University of Strasbourg and Collège de France November 24 The Laplacian Paradigm: Emerging Algorithms for Massive Graphs by Prof Shang-Hua Teng, University of Southern California November 29 Understanding Hearing Molecular Mechanisms: Advances Rooted in Hereditary Deafness by Prof Christine Petit, Pasteur Institute and Collège de France
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November 30 Transistor Laser: Three Port Laser for Optoelectronics New Frontier by Prof Milton Feng, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign December 14 Teaching in Class and on MIT's OpenCourseWare by Prof Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology December 15 DNA Topoisomerase IIß: An Enigma in Genetic Programming in Differentiating Cells by Prof James C. Wang, Harvard University December 16 The Economy, Public Policies and Poverty in the United States: Implications for Hong Kong by Prof Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan
January 5 & 12 In Search of Majorana by 2011 Prof Patrick A. Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology January 6 Environmental, Health and Safety Studies of Nanoparticles in Support of Sustainable Nanotechnology by Prof David Pui, University of Minnesota January 7 How Does a Solar Cell Work? The Influence of Light Trapping and Light Extraction on Ultimate Solar Cell Efficiency by Prof Eli Yablonovitch, University of California, Berkeley February 11 Bing Dialog Model: Intent, Knowledge and User Interaction by Dr Harry Shum, Microsoft Corporation February 17 Market Failure and the Spectacular Rise in Inequality by Prof David Grusky, Stanford University February 22 Strongly Interacting Gases: Overview and Issues by Prof Jason Ho, The Ohio State University March 1 Worldwide Program on Quantum Simulation: Overview and Issues by Prof Jason Ho, The Ohio State University March 7 American Science on the Decline? by Prof Yu Xie, University of Michigan March 8 New Wave of Computing by Dr Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft Corporation March 10 Grain Growth, Shape, and Topology in all Dimensions: beyond von Neumann by Prof David Srolovitz, Institute of High Performance Computing March 11 Cell Signaling: Receptor Down-regulation and Membrane Trafficking by Prof Scott Emr, Cornell University
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March 22 Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind by Prof Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard University March 28 Inside the Wavelength – Seeing Really Small Objects with Light by Sir John Pendry, Imperial College London April 15 Control of Complex Systems by Prof Chih-Ming Ho, University of California, Los Angeles April 19 FASP Solvers for Large Scale Systems: From Basic Theories to Practical Applications by Prof Jinchao Xu, Pennsylvania State University April 26 徐冰：我的藝術方法 by Prof Bing Xu, China Central Academy of Fine Arts April 29 Mechanisms Controlling Chromosome Integrity by Prof Marco Foiani, University of Milan May 13 The Numerical Solution of the Monge-Ampère Equation by Prof Roland Glowinski, University of Houston June 1 The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics by Prof David Gross, University of California, Santa Barbara; Nobel Laureate in Physics June 13 New Paradigms in Invariant Theory by Prof Roger Howe, Yale University June 20 Quantum Optics: From Fundamental Physics to HighTech Application by Prof Horace Yuen, Northwestern University June 23 Physics of Graphene and Graphene Nanostructure by Prof Steven G. Louie, University of California, Berkeley June 24 Global Financial Stability and Long Run Risks by Prof Robert Engle, New York University; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences July 22 Light Detection in the Retina by Prof King-Wai Yau, Johns Hopkins University August 1 How Do Bacteria Evolve Resistance to Antibiotics? by Prof Robert Austin, Princeton University August 19 Cloaking and Transformation Optics? by Prof Gunther Uhlmann, University of California, Irvine and University of Washington August 26 On the Crushing and Energy Absorption of Cellular Materials by Prof Stelios Kyriakides, University of Texas at Austin
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September 5 Fundamentals of Condensed Matter Physics by Prof Marvin Cohen, University of California, Berkeley September 16 Multiscale, Superresolved, Ultrasensitive Optical Molecular Imaging by Prof Shimon Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles October 12 What’s Hot in Computing? by Prof Jeannette Wing, Carnegie Mellon University October 19 Vapor Phase Growth of Complex Semiconductor Alloys by Prof Thomas Kuech, University of Wisconsin – Madison October 24 New Developments in Understanding Long Range Internal Stresses by Prof Michael Kassner, US Office of Naval Research October 25 Turbulence and Stochasticity in High-Speed Reactive Flows by Prof Elaine Oran, US Naval Research Laboratory October 25 The End of "Foreign" Policy by Prof Philip Zelikow, University of Virginia October 31 On Efficiently Financing Retirement by Prof Edward Prescott, Arizona State University and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences November 2 Demystifying the Chinese Economy by Prof Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University and The World Bank November 2 Advances in Research and Practice in Underground Construction – The Future of Megacities by Prof Robert Mair, University of Cambridge November 4 The Future of BioMEMS by Dr Kurt Petersen, KP-MEMS November 14 Semipolar/Nonpolar GaN-based Visible LEDs and LDs by Prof Shuji Nakamura, University of California, Santa Barbara November 16 Unconventional Hybrid Materials for Electronics: From Printable Transistors to Plastic Solar Cells by Prof Tobin Marks, Northwestern University November 21 Replacing the Transistor; Searching for the Milli-Volt Switch by Prof Eli Yablonovitch, University of California, Berkeley November 29 Controlling Properties of Concrete through Nanomodification by Prof Surendra Shah, Northwestern University November 30 Pollen, Mold, and Aeroallergens by Prof Richard Flagan, California Institute of Technology
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December 1 Airborne Nanoparticles by Prof Richard Flagan, California Institute of Technology December 6 Extracting Trend and Instantaneous Frequency from Nonlinear and Non-stationary Data by Prof Thomas Hou, California Institute of Technology December 7 Moore’s Law and the Ascent of the Right Brainers by Prof Donald Greenberg, Cornell University December 12 Post-Fisherian Experimentation: From Physical to Virtual by Prof Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology December 15 Employment, Education, Poverty and Inequality During the Great Recession by Prof Timothy Smeeding, University of Wisconsin – Madison December 19 Musubi: An Open Mobile Social Network by Prof Monica Lam, Stanford University
January 5 Protein Sorting in the Secretory Pathway: Lessons from Yeast Applied to Mammalian Development by 2012 Prof Randy Schekman, University of California, Berkeley January 11 Novel Phenomena at the Oxide Interface by Prof Patrick Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology January 16 Cosmic Information: IT from BIT, from BITs in IT by Prof J. Richard Bond, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto January 17 Selling Random Wind by Prof Pravin Varaiya, University of California, Berkeley February 8 Organic Light Emitting Diodes and Organic Solar Cells by Prof Ching W. Tang, University of Rochester February 28 New Paradigms in Invariant Theory: The Littlewood-Richardson Rule by Prof Roger Howe, Yale University March 1 On the Future of High Performance Computing: How to Think for Peta and Exascale Computing by Prof Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee March 9 Prenatal Gene Therapy for Genetic Diseases - Hopes, Fears and Ethical Considerations by Prof Charles Coutelle, Imperial College London March 16 Minimizing Effects of Uncertainty in Reliability-Based Design and in Risk-Informed Decisions by Prof Alfredo H. Ang, University of California, Irvine
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March 22 China’s Rise: The View from Washington by Prof Kenneth Lieberthal, Brookings Institution and University of Michigan March 26 Graphene-based and Graphene-derived Materials, and their Properties by Prof Rodney Ruoff, University of Texas at Austin April 2 Physical Aspects of Viral Infectivity by Prof William M. Gelbart, University of California, Los Angeles April 10 The First Step from Tissue Engineering to Organ Engineering by Prof Chih-Ming Ho, University of California, Los Angeles April 12 How to Hit HIV where It Hurts by Prof Arup Chakraborty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology April 16 Mimicking the Senses of Taste and Smell by Prof Eric Anslyn, University of Texas at Austin April 18 Dilemmas of Decentralization in Developing Countries by Prof Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Berkeley April 30 Structural Biology of Small RNA-mediated Gene Regulation and Methylation-mediated Epigenetic Regulation by Prof Dinshaw Patel, Cornell University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center May 4 EIT Label – A New Brand for Engineering Educational Programs at Postgraduate Level by Prof Anders Flodström, Royal Institute of Technology and European Institute of Innovation and Technology May 18 Deng Xiaoping: The Man Who Changed the World by Prof Ezra Vogel, Harvard University May 28 Towards a Molecular Basis for Understanding NAADP-mediated Calcium Signalling by Prof Antony Galione, University of Oxford May 29 Thinking ‘Inside the Box’: Confining Light to Ever Smaller Volumes by Prof Evelyn Hu, Harvard University June 13 Force Sensing: Towards a Molecular Understanding of Touch, Hearing, Osmotic-Force Sensing, etc. by Prof Ching Kung, University of Wisconsin – Madison June 26 Perspectives in Biomedical Engineering by Prof Shu Chien, University of California, San Diego June 28 A Thousand Years Old Problem and a Million Dollars Prize by Prof Shou-Wu Zhang, Columbia University and Princeton University July 3 Science and Technology of Modern Permanent Magnet Materials by Prof George Hadjipanayis, University of Delaware
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July 4 Energy Savings Potential of LEDs for Energy Efficient Lighting and Future Research Directions in LEDs Latest Progress of Nonpolar/Semipolar Blue & Green LEDs and Laser Diodes by Prof Steven DenBaars, University of California, Santa Barbara Prof Shuji Nakamura, University of California, Santa Barbara September 18 Probing Mechanical Principles of Cell-nanomaterial Interactions by Prof Huajian Gao, Brown University September 19 Asteroids, Comets and the Origin of the Oceans The Power of Observations: Discovering the Kuiper Belt by Prof David Jewitt, University of California, Los Angeles Prof Jane Luu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology September 24 The Business of Science by Prof Daniel Zajfman, Weizmann Institute of Science October 3 Addressing the Under-representation of Women Faculty in Science and Engineering at MIT – A Data-driven Approach by Prof Nancy Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology October 5 Genes for Development and Disease in Zebrafish and Reflections on a Career in Cancer Research by Prof Nancy Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology October 12 Regulation of Cell Signaling by Protein Phosphorylation, Ubiquitylation and SUMOylation by Prof Tony Hunter, Salk Institute for Biological Studies October 19 On Some Large Time Behaviors of Surface Water Wavesv by Prof Sijue Wu, University of Michigan November 2 The Higgs-like Particle Discovery and Beyond – A Global Endeavor by Prof David Charlton, University of Birmingham and ATLAS Collaboration, CERN November 7 Liquid Crystal Displays and LC-Materials: Historical Reminiscence by Dr Martin Schadt, Inventor of the LCD November 9 Multiscale Imaging of the Nervous System: Where is the Dark Matter? by Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh November 9 Travel Time Tomography by Prof Mark Ellisman, University of California, San Diego November 10 Bioimaging at the Nanoscale: Single-molecule and Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy by Prof Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University November 14 The Youthful Spirit of Mathematics by Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh
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November 16 Quest for Prosperity: New Structural Economics and New Growth Recipe by Prof Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University November 28 From Cell to Embryo: The Magic of Gastrulation by Prof Claudio Stern, University College London November 30 Performance-based Design in Geotechnical Engineering by Prof Malcolm Bolton, University of Cambridge December 3 Defining the Evolutionary Space of HIV: Steps toward Rational Immunogen Design by Prof Arup Chakraborty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology December 11 Memristor, Hodgkin-Huxley, and Edge of Chaos by Prof Leon Chua, University of California, Berkeley and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University December 13 From Killer Marine Snails to Drugs for Pain by Prof Baldomero Olivera, University of Utah December 14 Multiscale Simulation of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Problems by Prof Wenquan Tao, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University December 17 Random Fractals Coming from 2-D Statistical Physics by Prof Gregory Lawler, University of Chicago March 9 Prenatal Gene Therapy for Genetic Diseases – Hopes, Fears and Ethical Considerations by Prof Charles Coutelle, Imperial College London March 16 Minimizing Effects of Uncertainty in Reliability-Based Design and in Risk-Informed Decisions by Prof Alfredo H. Ang, University of California, Irvine March 22 China’s Rise: The View from Washington by Prof Kenneth Lieberthal, Brookings Institution and University of Michigan
February 25 How an Organelle Gets into Shape by 2013 Prof Tom Rapoport, Harvard University February 28 Game Theory as a Tool for Describing Communication by Prof Joel Sobel, University of California, San Diego March 15 Mechanism and Function of Spindle Orientation in Drosophila Neural Progenitors by Prof Chris Doe, University of Oregon March 19 Identifying Deception and Charisma Computationally by Prof Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University
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April 16 From TNF to TLRs: How the Innate Immune System Senses Infection by Prof Bruce Beutler, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine April 23 Understanding Explosions: From Catastrophic Accidents to the Creation of the Universe by Prof Elaine Oran, US Naval Research Laboratory June 5 Micron Scale Patterning of the Fluid Phospholipid Bilayer: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications by Prof Vann Bennett, Duke University June 11 Science in the World around Us: Electricity Was Not Invented by Trying to Make Better Candles by Prof Édouard Brézin, École Normale Supérieure July 2 Energy for the World, Today and Tomorrow – A Perspective by Prof John C. Chen, Lehigh University July 25 Carbon Nanoscience and Electronic Structure by Prof Louis Brus, Columbia University August 13 Exceptional Structures and Symmetry by Prof Roger Howe, Yale University September 2 A Random Walk in Big Data by Prof Jianqing Fan, Princeton University September 26 China’s Global Role: Comments on Its Strengths and Weaknesses by Prof Yizhou Wang, Peking University October 18 What are Proteins, What is Protein Folding and What is Anfinsen’s Dogma? by Prof Stephen Smale, City University of Hong Kong October 28 Recent Progress on the Clay Millennium Problem on 3D Navier-Stokes Equations by Prof Thomas Hou, California Institute of Technology October 29 The Specialty of Writing in Mainland China by Prof Lianke Yan, Renmin University of China
Public Lecture
October 11 Mathematics and Civilization - from Pythagoras to Newton by 2010 Prof Wu-yi Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley and HKUST
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JOINT SCHOOL Lectures / Seminars
October 29 New Weapons Against Cancer: Genetically Engineered Antibodies by 2010 Prof Stefan Dübel, Technical University of Braunschweig December 3 Nanophononics: a nonlinear battleground par excellence by Prof Christos Flytzanis, École Normale Supérieure
January 11 Our Daily Life with Semiconductor Lasers by 2011 Prof Dieter Bimberg, Technical University of Berlin March 21 Information and Inference in the Wireless Physical Layer by Prof H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University April 1 Plankton Food-web Structure, Trophic Fluxes and Regulatory Relationships in the Equatorial Pacific by Prof Michael Landry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of San Diego October 11 The Changing Role of Universities in Society by Prof Ben Martin, University of Sussex December 20 Applying Genetic Algorithm to Material Science Problems by Prof Kai Ming Ho, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
February 6 Studies in Retail Competition by 2012 Prof Ram Rao, University of Texas at Dallas February 20 Emergence: Gravity as Thermo- and Hydro-dynamics by Prof Bei-Lok Hu, University of Maryland March 5 A New Paradigm for Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cell Survival: Dynamic Reprogramming of tRNA Modifications and Ribosomes Controls Selective Translation of Stress Response Proteins by Prof Peter Dedon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology March 15 Spin Caloritronics by Prof Gerrit Bauer, Tohoku University and Delft University of Technology April 2 Sizing Low-Power MOS Circuits with the E.K.V.1 Model by Prof Paul Jespers, Université Catholique de Louvain June 4 Regulation of RNA Polymerase: From the Catalytic Center to Genome Distribution by Prof Robert Landick, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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July 4 Novel Materials for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology by Prof Hongjie Dai, Stanford University July 6 Multi-Scale, Multi-Physics Computational Electromagnetics by Prof Weng Cho Chew, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign September 26 Bio-Nano Hybrids for Chemical Detection by Prof Charlie Johnson, University of Pennsylvania November 15 Cross-Coupling Reactions of Alkyl Electrophiles by Prof Gregory Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology November 27 Impacts of the Tibetan Plateau on Asian Climate and Its Trend by Prof Guoxiong Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences November 27 Global Climate Change – Integration, Coherence, and Governance by Prof Hong-Yuan Lee, National Taiwan University and Ministry of the Interior of Taiwan November 28 ENCODE: An Initial Systematic Analysis of Non-coding DNA by Dr Ewan Birney, European Bioinformatics Institute November 28 Leadership of Innovation by Dr Andy Palmer, Nissan Motor Company Limited November 30 Dynamics and Control of Rigid-Flexible Multibody Systems via Absolute Coordinate Based Method by Prof Haiyan Hu, Beijing Institute of Technology December 3 Blended Program Analysis for Improving Reliability of Real-world Applications by Prof Barbara Ryder, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University December 19 K-stability and Einstein Metrics by Prof Gang Tian, Princeton University and Peking University
February 5 Functional Regeneration beyond the Glial Scar by 2013 Prof Jerry Silver, Case Western Reserve University February 22 Flow Control in the Presence of Shocks by Prof Enrique Zuazua, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics March 1 Protein Analogous Micelles: Versatile, Modular Nanoparticles by Prof Matthew Tirrell, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory April 3 Probing Fundamental Physics with Cosmological Observations by Prof Uroš Seljak, University of California, Berkeley and University of Zürich April 8 String Theory, Particle Physics and Black Holes by Prof Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania 44 HKUST JOCKEY CLUB INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY 2013
April 17 Container Shipping and Logistics Management – Challenges and Opportunities by Mr Andy Tung, Orient Overseas Container Line April 19 Scientific Integrity: Error and Fraud in Research by Prof Rick Danheiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology April 22 New Cycloaddition Strategies Based on Strained and Unusual Molecules by Prof Rick Danheiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology May 22 Culture and the Historical Process by Prof Nathan Nunn, Harvard University May 29 Robust Discretization and Precondition for Coupled PDE Systems by Prof Jinchao Xu, Pennsylvania State University June 3 Small Particles, Big Science: A Personal Perspective by Prof Aibing Yu, The University of New South Wales June 6 Recent Development and Application on Seismic Resistance, Seismic Isolation, Passive and Active Control in China by Prof Fu-lin Zhou, Guangzhou University July 2 From Multiscale Modeling to Meso-science by Prof Jinghai Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences July 27 Innovation and the Future of Space Technology by Dr Leopold Summerer, Advanced Concepts Team, European Space Agency August 27 Markov Random Fields in Genomics Studies by Prof Hongyu Zhao, Yale University August 28 Doing Science with Two X Chromosomes by Prof Joan Bennett, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey September 17 Meta Analysis of the Scientific Literature, Lessons for Meta Analysis of Investment Performance? by Prof David Donoho, Stanford University September 25 Spin Filtering: How to Write and Read Quantum Information on Mobile Qubits by Prof Amnon Aharony, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev September 26 Thermoelectric Transport in Nano Device by Prof Ora Entin-Wohlman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev October 11 What is the Higgs Boson? by Prof Gary Shiu, HKUST October 11 The Microbiome, Infectious Diseases, and Next-generation Sequencing by Prof George Weinstock, Washington University in St. Louis
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Seminars
September 18 The Life and Death of Brain Circuits by 2007 Prof William Mobley, Stanford University November 19 Translating Human Genomics into Therapeutics: We are Beginning to Speak the Right Language by Prof Karoly Nikolich, Stanford University
January 10 Regulation of Emotion and Cognition: Focus on GABAA Receptors by 2008 Prof Hanns Möhler, Zurich University and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) June 27 Numerical Solution of Non-Smooth Eigenvalue Problems from Visco-Plasticity by Prof Roland Glowinski, University of Houston
February 2009 - Seminar Series on Soft Matter by 2009 January 2010 Prof Wokyung Sung, Pohang University of Science and Technology Prof Ming Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof Masaki Sano, University of Tokyo Prof Weileun Fang, National Tsing Hua University Prof Yu-qiang Ma, Nanjing University Prof Charles Yang, Nanyang Technological University Prof Ming-Chih Lai, National Chiao Tung University Prof Xiaosong Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof Akira Onuki, Kyoto University Prof Hyoung Jin Choi, INHA University Prof Robert Austin, Princeton University August 26 String Theory and the Quantum Universe by Prof Gary Shiu, University of Wisconsin – Madison Dr Fernando Marchesano, CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research Dr Yoske Sumitomo, University of Wisconsin – Madison October 9 & 12 The Geometry and Topology of the Freudenthal Magic Square by Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh November 3-19 An Introduction to Strong Correlation Physics and the Phenomenology of High Temperature Superconductivity by Prof Patrick A. Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology December 23 2009 Antiorbital Complexes Conjugacy Classes in the Weyl Group and Unipotent Conjugacy Classes by & January 4 2010 Prof George Lusztig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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January Introduction to String Cosmology by 2010 11, 13 & 15 Prof Gary Shiu, University of Wisconsin – Madison March 17 Elections and Strategic Voting: Condorcet and Borda by Prof Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences March 19 Destruction as an Incentive Device in Bilateral Contracts by Prof Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences April 15 Translational Research in Sustainability, Nano & Bio Engineering by Prof Ken Chong, George Washington University May 24 Recent Progress on Dynamic Stability and Global Regularity of 3D Incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations by Prof Thomas Hou, California Institute of Technology May 27 Adaptive Data Analysis via Nonlinear Compressed Sensing by Prof Thomas Hou, California Institute of Technology July 7 Calabi-Yau Theorem and Algebraic Dynamics by Prof Shou-Wu Zhang, Columbia University November 19 Micro-nanoscale Interfacial Phenomena in Soft Matter and Complex Fluids by Prof Chia-Fu Chou, Academia Sinica
July Seminars on Congruent Number Problem by 2012 5, 10 & 12 Prof Shou-Wu Zhang, Columbia University and Princeton University November 15 Geometric Models of Matter by Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh
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Quantitative Finance Seminar Series
November 5 Arrow-Debreu Equilibria for Rank-Dependent Utilities by 2012 Prof Xunyu Zhou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Oxford December 13 Capturing Option Anomalies with a Variance-Dependent Pricing Kernel by Prof Peter Christoffersen, University of Toronto December 18 Cream Skimming in Financial Markets by Prof José Scheinkman, Princeton University December 20 Black-Litterman Asset Allocation and Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization when Means and Covariances are Unknown by Prof Tze Leung Lai, Stanford University
January 17 In Search of a Statistically Valid Volatility Risk Factor by 2013 Prof Robert Anderson, University of California, Berkeley February 4 Feedback Trading between Fundamental Information and Non-fundamental Information by Prof Hui Ou-Yang, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business March 26 The Economics of Restructured Debt by Prof Sanjiv Das, Santa Clara University April 15 Using Stocks or Portfolios in Tests of Factor Models by Prof Jun Liu, University of California, San Diego
Colloquiums
October 20 Some Recent Theoretical Studies of Nanostructures, Photovoltaics and Superconductors by 2010 Prof Marvin Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
September 28 String Theory, the LHC and the Early Universe by 2012 Prof Fernando Quevedo, University of Cambridge and Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Forums and Panel Discussions
September 13 Scientists as Poets: Imagining Everyday Life in the 21st Century by 2006 Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh Prof Xiaodong Wang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Prof Paul Chu, HKUST Prof Chen-Ning Yang, Tsinghua University and The Chinese University Dr Kai-Fu Lee, Google Inc. of Hong Kong; Nobel Laureate in Physics
April 10 The Research University in the 21st Century by 2007 Prof Roland Chin, HKUST Prof Aaron Ciechanover, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Prof Paul Chu, HKUST Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Prof Da Hsuan Feng, University of Texas at Dallas May 18 The Beauty of Computing and Mathematics by Prof Roland Chin, HKUST Prof Ronald Graham, University of California, San Diego Prof Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego Prof Chung Laung Liu, National Tsing Hua University
October 12 President’s Forum: Dialogue with Sir Michael Atiyah by 2009 Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh November 6 President’s Forum: Dialogue with Prof Paul Schimmel by Prof Paul Schimmel, The Scripps Research Institute
September 21 UC RUSAL President’s Forum: Dialogue with Oleg Deripaska by 2010 Mr Oleg Deripaska, UC RUSAL September 29 Meet with Scientists: Dialogue with Mathematics Giants by Prof Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh Prof Tony F. Chan, HKUST Prof Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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March 21 UC RUSAL President’s Forum: Equilibrium in the Labour Market with Search Frictions by 2011 Prof Christopher Pissarides, London School of Economics and Political Science; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences October 14 UC RUSAL President’s Forum: The Changing Dynamics of the World by Dr Jim O’Neill, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
May 3 UC RUSAL President’s Forum: Making a Difference, a Stitch at a Time by 2012 Ms Marjorie Yang, Esquel Group November 2 UC RUSAL President’s Forum: 8.5 Billion Global Consumers by 2030: Opportunity or Looming Disaster? by Mr Barry Cheung, UC RUSAL and Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange
April 12 UC RUSAL President’s Forum: Answering Gauguin’s Questions with the Large Hadron Collider: What are we? Where do we come 2013 from? Where are we going? by Prof John Ellis, King’s College London and CERN October 23 Business School and IAS Joint Panel Discussion: 2013 Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences – Demystifying Empirics of Asset Prices? by Profs Pengfei Wang, Jialin Yu and Chu Zhang, HKUST
Workshops, Conferences and Symposiums
September Frontiers in Mathematics: 2007 6, 7, 13 & 14 Quantum Theory, Geometry, and Number Theory September 12-15 HK IAS – US ICMR Workshop on Advanced Materials (jointly organized with International Center for Materials Research, University of California, Santa Barbara) December 9-13 Workshop on Mathematics of Multi-Scale Problems jointly organized (jointly organized with Croucher Laboratory on Multiscale Modeling and Simulations)
2008 September 11-12 Frontiers in Mathematics: Geometry and Physics
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2009 January 5-6 Inaugural Symposium: “Mapping Frontiers of Science” December 8-10 Workshop on Evolution: Foundations, Fundamentals, and Disease
2010 January 18-22 Workshop on Ubiquitin System and Pathogenesis of Diseases July 15 Symposium on Statistical Physics
2011 February 25 Frontiers of Cold Atom Research May 30 - June 1 Conference on Cosmology since Einstein
2012 January 5 International Conference on Scientific Computing May 17 International Conference on Frontiers of Cold Atoms and Related Topics October 3-7 Croucher Advanced Study Institute on New Materials and New Concepts for Controlling Light and Waves November 12 Denmark – Hong Kong Workshop on Metamaterials and Plasmonics December 14-16 IAS Asia Pacific Workshop on Condensed Matter Physics December 17-18 Symposium on Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics - Topological Materials and Related Topics
2013 January 4-5 Conference on Algebraic Groups and Representation Theory May 31 - June 1 Symposium on Economic Governance in China and the Developing World July 15-16 "From Brain to Brain" – Computational Neuroscience Student Conference 2013 July 17-19 StatPhysHK Conference August 28 The First HKUST International Forum on Probability and Statistics (2013) October 10 面對荒誕的世界，文學何為？- 中國當代文學研討會
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Programs 2011 Jan 1 - Aug 31 IAS Program on Cosmology and String Theory December 15, 2011 - IAS Program on Arithmetic Geometry and Representation Theory January 15, 2012
October 8 - IAS Program on Metamaterials, Plasmonics & Transformation Optics 2012 November 30 December 3, 2012 - IAS Program on Topological Materials and Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems January 31, 2013
February 1 - IAS Program on Particle Theory 2013 August 31 June 24 - July 19 IAS Program on Human Resources and Economic Development July 2-12 IAS Program on Gromov-Witten Theory and Quantization July 2-19 IAS Program on Statistical Physics and Computational Neuroscience September 1 - IAS Program on Chinese Creative Writing December 31
Gordon Research Conferences
2013 July 28 - August 2 Posttranslational Modification Networks August 4-9 Nano-Mechanical Interfaces August 11-16 Marine Molecular Ecology August 18-23 Spin Dynamics in Nanostructures
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