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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

nurture gifted students and postdoctoral fellows in the pursuit of

knowledge. It raises community interest in the latest scientific and

technological discoveries.

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

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Message froM The DireCTor

Welcome to the hKUSt JocKey clUb InStItUte for AdvAnced StUdy (IAS)!

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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;

• 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

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 anD Mission

vISIonIAS 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.

mISSIonSet 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.

Vision anD Mission

HKUST JOCKEY CLUB INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY 2013

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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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Prof Sir Christopher Pissarides is the first Nobel laureate appointed to HKUST faculty.

He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Prof Dale

Mortensen of Northwestern University and Prof Peter Diamond of the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, for his work in the economics of labor markets, especially

his work on markets with frictions and unemployment. Prior to that, in 2005, he

became the first European economist to win the IZA Prize in Labor Economics,

sharing it again with his collaborator Prof Dale Mortensen.

Prof Pissarides received his PhD in Economics in 1973 from the London School of

Economics and Political Science (LSE) and has been on its faculty since 1976. He

is the Regius Professor of Economics at the LSE, the Professor of European Studies

at the University of Cyprus, and the Chairman of the Council of National Economy

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.

Prof Pissarides is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Athens,

the Academia Europaea and several other learned societies, and he is a Lifetime

Honorary Member of the American Economic Association. He has been honored

by several universities worldwide with doctorates or professorships. In 2011 he

received the Grand Cross of the Republic of Cyprus, the highest honor of the

Republic. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013.

Prof Pissarides has written extensively in professional journals, magazines and the

press. His book Equilibrium Unemployment Theory is an influential reference in

the economics of unemployment that has been translated into many languages.

He is frequently quoted in the press on issues concerning the Eurozone and the

future of European integration.

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


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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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Robert Austin Professor of Physics, Princeton University (NAS; AAAS)

Édouard Brézin Professor Emeritus, École Normale Supérieure (French Academy of Sciences, Foreign Associate of NAS)

Arup Chakraborty Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry and of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (NAE; AAAS)

Aaron Ciechanover Distinguished Research Professor, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Foreign Associate of NAS)

Marvin Cohen University Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (2001 US National Medal of Science; NAS; AAAS; American Philosophical Society)

Steven DenBaars Mitsubishi Chemical Chair in Solid State Lighting and Displays, University of California, Santa Barbara (NAE)

Weinan E Professor, Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University (CAS)

John Ellis Clerk Maxwell Chair of Theoretical Physics, King’s College London and Physicist, CERN (2005 Paul Dirac Medal & Prize (IOP); FRS; CBE)

Jianqing Fan Frederick L. Moore ‘18 Professor of Finance, Professor of Statistics and Chairman of Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University (AAAS; Academia Sinica)

IAS vISItInG ProfeSSorSIAS 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.


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Richard C. Flagan Irma and Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Environmental Science & Engineering, California Institute of Technology (NAE)

Roland Glowinski Cullen Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston (Academia Europaea)

Chih-Ming Ho Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Chair Professor, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles (NAE; Academia Sinica)

Thomas Y. Hou Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology (AAAS

Roger E. Howe William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics, Yale University (NAS; AAAS)

Evelyn Hu Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and of Electrical Engineering, Harvard University (NAS; NAE; AAAS; Academia Sinica)

Tony Hunter American Cancer Society Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Renato Dulbecco Chair, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (FRS; NAS; IOM; AAAS)

Thomas K. Kuech Milton J. and A. Maude Shoemaker and Beckwith-Bascom Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (NAE)

Hau L. Lee Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (NAE)


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Patrick A. Lee William and Emma Rogers Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005 Dirac Medal (ICTP); NAS)

Steven G. Louie Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (NAS; AAAS; Academia Sinica)

Yiu-Wing Mai University Professor and Personal Chair in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Sydney (Royal Society; FREng; AAS)

Eric S. Maskin Adams University Professor, Harvard University (Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; NAS; AAAS)

Shuji Nakamura Cree Chair of Solid State Lighting and Displays, University of California, Santa Barbara (2006 Millennium Technology Prize; NAE)

Elaine Oran Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland (NAE; AAAS)

Stanley Osher Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (NAS; AAAS)

George Papanicolaou Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University (NAS; AAAS)

Sir John Pendry Chair Professor in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London (1996 Dirac Medal & Prize (IOP); FRS; Knight Bachelor)

Paul Schimmel Ernest and Jean Hahn Professor of Molecular Biology and Chemistry, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute (NAS; AAAS; American Philosophical Society; Institute of Medicine)

Surendra Shah Walter P. Murphy Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University (NAE; Foreign Member of CAE)

Yuen-Ron Shen Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (NAS; AAAS; Academia Sinica)

Bright Sheng Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Composition, University of Michigan (2001 MacArthur fellow)

Pravin Varaiya Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (NAE; AAAS)


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Jeff Wu Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (NAE; Academia Sinica)

Eli Yablonovitch James and Katherine Lau Chair in Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (NAE; NAS; AAAS; Foreign Member of the Royal Society)

Shou-Wu Zhang Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University and Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University (AAAS)

Ya-Qin Zhang Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation

IAS Visiting Professors share their latest research findings through various formats, for instance,

• co-organizing IAS topical research programs

• co-organizing international conferences, symposiums and workshops

• teaching credit-bearing PG courses and non-credit bearing short courses

• giving distinguished lectures

They also collaborate with HKUST faculty to apply for major research grants and develop research projects, as well as provide academic and research advice to HKUST management, faculty and students. Their association and actual visits promote academic and research excellence at HKUST and beyond.

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 fAcUltyApart 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

Songnian Chen Chair Professor, Department of Economics

Albert Ha Wei Lun Foundation Professor of Business, Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

James Kai-Sing Kung Yan Ai Foundation Professor of Social Science, Division of Social Science

Hoi-Sing Kwok Dr William M W Mong Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Chung-Yee Lee Cheong Ying Chan Professor of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management

Bozhong Li Chair Professor, Division of Humanities

Jian-Shu Li Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics

Charles W. W. Ng Chair Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Albert Francis Park Chair Professor, Division of Social Science and Professor, Department of Economics

Ping Sheng Dr William M W Mong Professor of Nanoscience, Department of Physics

Gary Shiu Chair Professor, Department of Physics

Ben Zhong Tang Stephen Kam Chuen Cheong Professor of Science, Department of Chemistry

Mingjie Zhang Kerry Holdings Professor of Science, Division of Life Science

Tong-Yi Zhang Fang Professor of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

IAS Fellows

Xuhua He Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics

Daniel Palomar Associate Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering


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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 (Jan - Aug 2011)

• IAS Program on Arithmetic Geometry and Representation Theory (Dec 2011 - Jan 2012)

• IAS Program on Metamaterials, Plasmonics and Transformation Optics (Oct - Nov 2012)

• IAS Program on Topological Materials and Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems (Dec 2012 - Jan 2013)

• IAS Program on Particle Theory (Feb - Dec 2013)

• IAS Program on Human Resources and Economic Development (Jun - Jul 2013)

• IAS Program on Gromov-Witten Theory and Quantization (Jul 2013)

• IAS Program on Statistical Physics and Computational Neuroscience (Jul 2013)

• IAS Program on Chinese Creative Writing (Fall Term, 2013)

• IAS Program on Frontiers of Soft Matter Physics: from Non-equilibrium Dynamics to Active Matter (Jan 2014)

• IAS Program on Topological Matter, Superconductivity and Majorana (Jan 2014)

• IAS Program on Special Cycles and p-adic L-functions (Jan 2014)

• IAS Program on Metamaterial (Jan - Jun 2014)

• IAS Program on Representation Theory (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

First organized in 1931, the reputable US based Gordon Research Conference

(GRC)’s meetings have been recognized as the world’s premier scientific

conferences, where leading investigators from around the globe spend 5

days together to discuss their latest work and future challenges in a uniquely

informal, interactive format. Beginning this summer, IAS has become a

long-term partner of GRC in Hong Kong. Each GRC meeting brings to

HKUST 100-200 younger and established scientists with a combination of

geographic and gender diversity.

2013 GRCs @ IAS

• Posttranslational Modification Networks

• Nano-Mechanical Interfaces

• Marine Molecular Ecology

• Spin Dynamics in Nanostructures

2014 GRCs @ IAS

• Hybrid Electronic & Photonic Materials and Phenomena

• 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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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 Foundation, The Bank of East Asia Limited, Tin Ka Ping Foundation, and United Company RUSAL.

Donations are vital in furthering the development of IAS.Donors

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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 Argonne National Laboratory; 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics

Sir Michael Atiyah University of Edinburgh; 1966 Fields Medal

David Baltimore California Institute of Technology; 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Steven Chu Stanford University; 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics

Aaron Ciechanover Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Tord Claeson Chalmers University of Technology; Former Chair, Physics Panel, Nobel Prize Committee

Marvin Cohen University of California, Berkeley; 2001 US National Medal of Science

Peter Goddard Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; 1997 Dirac Prize

David J. Gross University of California, Santa Barbara; 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics

Alan Heeger University of California, Santa Barbara; 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

H. Robert Horvitz Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Neal Lane Rice University; Former US Presidential Advisor

Y. T. Lee Academia Sinica; 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Ferid Murad George Washington University; 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Douglas Osheroff Stanford University; 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics

Samuel Ting Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics

Andrew Yao Tsinghua University; 2000 Turing Award


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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

MEMBERSKhaled 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

2006

2007

June 15 The Origin of the Universe by 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 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 & 29

Graphene and the Physics of the Two-Dimensional Dirac Spectrum by 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 4-5 & 11-12

K-Theory and the Index of Elliptic Operators by 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 BarbaraProf 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 - December 3

Imaging in Random Media by 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 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 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 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 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 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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PUblIc lectUre

October 11 Mathematics and Civilization - from Pythagoras to Newton by Prof Wu-yi Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley and HKUST2010

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


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2010

2011

2012

October 29 New Weapons Against Cancer: Genetically Engineered Antibodies by 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 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 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 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

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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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2007

2008

2009

September 18 The Life and Death of Brain Circuits by 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 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 January 2010 Prof Wokyung Sung, Pohang University of Science and Technology

Prof Masaki Sano, University of TokyoProf Yu-qiang Ma, Nanjing UniversityProf Ming-Chih Lai, National Chiao Tung UniversityProf Akira Onuki, Kyoto University Prof Robert Austin, Princeton University

Prof Ming Li, Chinese Academy of SciencesProf Weileun Fang, National Tsing Hua UniversityProf Charles Yang, Nanyang Technological UniversityProf Xiaosong Chen, Chinese Academy of SciencesProf Hyoung Jin Choi, INHA 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 & January 4 2010

Antiorbital Complexes Conjugacy Classes in the Weyl Group and Unipotent Conjugacy Classes by Prof George Lusztig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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2012

January 11, 13 & 15

Introduction to String Cosmology by 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 5, 10 & 12

Seminars on Congruent Number Problem by 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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October 20 Some Recent Theoretical Studies of Nanostructures, Photovoltaics and Superconductors by Prof Marvin Cohen, University of California, Berkeley

September 28 String Theory, the LHC and the Early Universe by Prof Fernando Quevedo, University of Cambridge and Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

2010

2012

qUAntItAtIve fInAnce SemInAr SerIeS

November 5 Arrow-Debreu Equilibria for Rank-Dependent Utilities by 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 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

2012

2013


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2006

2007

2009

2010

September 13 Scientists as Poets: Imagining Everyday Life in the 21st Century by Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh Prof Paul Chu, HKUST Dr Kai-Fu Lee, Google Inc.

Prof Xiaodong Wang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterProf Chen-Ning Yang, Tsinghua University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Nobel Laureate in Physics

April 10 The Research University in the 21st Century by Prof Roland Chin, HKUSTProf Paul Chu, HKUST Prof Da Hsuan Feng, University of Texas at Dallas

Prof Aaron Ciechanover, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

May 18 The Beauty of Computing and Mathematics by Prof Roland Chin, HKUST Prof Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego

Prof Ronald Graham, University of California, San Diego Prof Chung Laung Liu, National Tsing Hua University

October 12 President’s Forum: Dialogue with Sir Michael Atiyah by 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 Mr Oleg Deripaska, UC RUSAL

September 29 Meet with Scientists: Dialogue with Mathematics Giants by Prof Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh Prof Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Prof Tony F. Chan, HKUST


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March 21 UC RUSAL President’s Forum: Equilibrium in the Labour Market with Search Frictions by 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 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 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

2012

2013

WorKShoPS, conferenceS And SymPoSIUmS

September 6, 7, 13 & 14

Frontiers in Mathematics: 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)

September 11-12 Frontiers in Mathematics: Geometry and Physics

2007

2008

2011


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2010

2011

January 5-6 Inaugural Symposium: “Mapping Frontiers of Science”

December 8-10 Workshop on Evolution: Foundations, Fundamentals, and Disease

January 18-22 Workshop on Ubiquitin System and Pathogenesis of Diseases

July 15 Symposium on Statistical Physics

February 25 Frontiers of Cold Atom Research

May 30 - June 1 Conference on Cosmology since Einstein

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

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

2012

2013


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ProGrAmS

Jan 1 - Aug 31 IAS Program on Cosmology and String Theory

December 15, 2011 - January 15, 2012

IAS Program on Arithmetic Geometry and Representation Theory

October 8 - November 30

IAS Program on Metamaterials, Plasmonics & Transformation Optics

December 3, 2012 - January 31, 2013

IAS Program on Topological Materials and Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems

February 1 - August 31

IAS Program on Particle Theory

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 - December 31

IAS Program on Chinese Creative Writing

2011

2012

2013

2013

Gordon reSeArch conferenceS

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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