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IAS Distinguished Lectures
Usually lasting for 1-2 hours, these lectures focus on topics of wider interests for a general audience.
Speaker: David Srolovitz University of Maryland; IAS Visiting Professor
Speaker: Henri Berestycki PSL Research University
Speaker: Zuyu Chen China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research
Speaker: David Weitz Harvard University
Speaker: Hui-Ming Cheng Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joint School Lectures
In collaboration with various Schools, these events cover a specific topic that is of interest to those from a particular discipline.
Speaker: Chao Yang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Speaker: Serguei Netessine INSEAD
Speaker: Pui-Yan Kwok University of California at San Francisco
IAS Programs
These advanced activities feature in-depth discussions on specific research topics in such formats as seminars, workshops and student-led discussions, often spanning multiple days.
Speaker: Wolfgang Härdle Humboldt University of Berlin
Organizers:
I-Ming Hsing HKUST
Sumita Pennathur University of California at Santa Barbara
Kevin Plaxco University of California at Santa Barbara
Shuhuai Yao HKUST
Organizers:
John D Fortner Washington University in St. Louis
Daniel E Giammar Washington University in St. Louis
Irene Lo HKUST
Gordon Research Conferences (GRC)
As one of the world's premier conferences, GRC gathers prominent scientists in biological, chemical and physical science disciplines at IAS for a weeklong conference, which provides an interactive platform for hundreds of researchers, scholars and postgraduate students to exchange new research ideas and broaden their network in the global academic community.
Chairs & Vice-Chairs:
Topological & Correlated Matter (Jun 18 - 23)
Yong-Baek Kim – University of Toronto
Yayu Wang – Tsinghua University
Vic Law – HKUST
Ali Yazdani – Princeton University
*Particle Physics (Jun 24 - 30)
Hitoshi Murayama – University of California at Berkeley / Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe / University of Tokyo
Tao Liu – HKUST
Andrew Cohen – HKUST
Genome Architecture in Cell Fate & Disease (Jul 2 - 7)
Wange Lu – University of Southern California
David M Gilbert – Florida State University
Yijun Ruan Jackson – Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
Neurobiology of Drug Addiction (Jul 16 - 21)
Eric J Nestler – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinal
Yan Dong – University of Pittsburgh
Yavin Shaham – National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health
Marina E Wolf – Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
*Marine Molecular Ecology (Jul 22 - 28)
Stanley Lau – HKUST
Curtis Suttle – University of British Columbia; IAS Senior Visiting Fellow
Madeleine van Oppen – Australian Institute of Marine Science / The University of Melbourne
Qinglu Zeng – HKUST
Nano-Mechanical Interfaces (Jul 30 – Aug 4)
Julia R Greer – California Institute of Technology
Yuan Lin – The University of Hong Kong
Gang Li – Clemson University
Wenjing Ye – HKUST
*Neutron Scattering (Aug 5 - 11)
Bruce D Gaulin – McMaster University
Masatoshi Arai – European Spallation Source
*Posttranslational Modification Networks (Aug 12 - 18)
Heribert Hirt – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Lan Huang – University of California at Irvine
Steven P Briggs – University of California at San Diego
Yingming Zhao – The University of Chicago
*These four conferences start with a Gordon Research Seminar on the first day. For more details: ias.ust.hk/grc
The above activities were last updated on Feb 15, 2017 and are subject to change. For the latest list of events, please visit ias.ust.hk/events