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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.
Energy Transduction in Biomolecular Machines (May 27)
Speaker: Gerhard Hummer Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Origins and the Future of Microfluidics (May 31)
Speaker: Patrick Tabeling École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris
Bumblebees, Cracks and Nonlocal Modeling (Jun 3)
Speaker: Qiang Du Columbia University
Bio-Inspired Low Energy Information Processing and the End of Moore's Law? (Jun 14)
Speaker: Tom Daniel University of Washington
Reverse Engineering Nature's Robots (Jun 17)
Speaker: Tom Daniel University of Washington
The Intersection of Operations Research, Kinetic Theory, and Genetics (Jun 20)
Speaker: David Siegmund Stanford University
From Organic to Bioorganic Devices (Jun 24)
Speaker: Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Joint School Lectures
In collaboration with various Schools, these events cover a specific topic that is of interest to those from a particular discipline.
Mining Social Ties Beyond Homophily (Jun 22)
Speaker: Ke Wang Simon Fraser University
Probing the Dynamic Architecture of Live Cells with Single Imaging and Manipulation (Jun 23)
Speaker: Maxime Dahan Ecole Polytechnique
IAS Programs
These advanced programs feature in-depth discussions on specific research topics in such formats as seminars, workshops and student-led discussions, often spanning multiple days.
Molecular Machines of Life: Simulation Meets Experiment (May 23 - 27)
Organizers:
Qiang Cui University of Wisconsin-Madison
Xuhui Huang HKUST
Haw Yang Princeton University
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:
*Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology (Jun 11 - 17)
John J Ngai University of California at Berkeley
Hybrid Electronic and Photonic Materials and Phenomena (Jun 19 - 24)
Henry Yan HKUST
Deqing Zhang Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Licheng Sun KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (Jun 26 - Jul 1)
Maria Lung The University of Hong Kong
Lawrence Young University of Warwick
George S Tsao The University of Hong Kong
Fei-Fei Liu Princess Margaret Hospital
Personalized Medicine (Jul 10 - 15)
Edward McCabe March of Dimes Foundation
Yen Yun Taipei Medical University
Edward J Benz Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Solar Energy Conversion (Jul 17 - 22)
Edward Sargent University of Toronto
Wei Huang Nanjing Tech University
Ali Javey University of California at Berkeley
Jia Zhu Nanjing University
*Genomic Instability (Jul 23 - 29)
Junjie Chen The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Anja Groth Biotech Research and Innovation Center, University of Copenhagen
Anindya Dutta University of Virginia
Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (Jul 31 - Aug 5)
David A Lange University of Illinois
Changwen Miao Jiangsu Research Institute of Building Science
Pedro Castro Borges CINVESTAV del IPN Unidad Mérida, México
Tissue Niches and Resident Stem Cells in Adult Epithelia (Aug 7 - 12)
Rongwen Xi National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing
Carla Kim Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Jane E Visvader The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
*These two 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 May 20, 2016. For the latest list of events, please visit ias.ust.hk/events