HKUST JOCKEY CLUB INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY 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. 3 HKUST JOCKEY CLUB INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY 2013 AN INTELLECTUAL HUB 4 HKUST JOCKEY CLUB INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY 2013 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. 5 AN INTELLECTUAL HUB HKUST JOCKEY CLUB INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY 2013 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). 6 HKUST JOCKEY CLUB INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY 2013 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