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| 01.2008 |
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| Book Launch: "Scientists as Poets" |
| The second pop science book from HKUST and
Commercial Press comprises of lectures by distinguished
scientists including Nobel Laureates Prof YT Lee and the
late Alan MacDiarmid, and a roundtable discussion of life in
the 21st century.
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| 01.2008 |
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| IAS-Biochemistry Seminar: "Regulation
of Emotion and Cognition: Focus on GABAA Receptors" |
| Prof Hanns Mohler from University of Zurich
and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) exemplifies
how the neuronal oscillatory system is governed by the
interactions between GABA interneurons and GABAA receptors. About the speaker |
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| 01.2008 |
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| IAS Lecture Series: "Graphene
and the Physics of the Two-Dimensional Dirac Spectrum" |
| IAS Visiting Member Prof Patrick A Lee from
MIT discusses the electronic structure of a single-layer
graphite and shows that it is an example of the massless
Dirac spectrum. Read more |
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| 01.2008 |
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| IAS Lecture by Prof Peter Goddard:
"There are No Excuses in Paradise - The Institute for
Advanced Study: Past, Present and Future" |
| The Director of the Institute for Advanced
Study in Princeton reflects on the remarkable rise and
achievements of the venerable institution and explains how
the absence of formal outside pressure and prescriptive
expectations creates great self-imposed pressures on its
members to achieve great things. Read more |
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| 02.2008 |
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| IAS Bio-Science Lecture Series |
| From the second genetic code to biologics,
IAS Visiting Member Prof Paul Schimmel and Prof Xiang-Lei
Yang from the Scripps Research Institute seek to obtain new
understanding of aminoacyl tRNA synthetases and its
applications to disease therapies. Read more |
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| 03.2008 |
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| IAS Lecture:
"Nanaporous Silica-based Membranes for Drug Delivery
Applications" |
| Renowned chemical engineer Prof Jesus
Santamaria of University of Zaragoza attempts to create drug
delivery vehicles with nanoporous coatings in order to
increase the efficiency and selectivity of therapeutic
efforts. Read more |
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| 03.2008 |
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| IAS Lecture:
"Challenges and Opportunities of Emerging Nanotechnology for VLSI Nanoelectronics" |
| Intel Senior Fellow Dr Robert Chau
showcases the most recent silicon innovations made for
advanced CMOS transistors in the nanotechnology era. Potential applications of emerging nano-devices are
explored, ranging from data storage to energy conversion. Read more |
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| 03.2008 |
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| Tin Ka Ping Education Fund sets up
IAS Fellowship |
| The Tin Ka Ping Foundation has generously
pledged a donation of HK$3 million to HKUST. With the
government's matching grant, a total sum of HK$6 million
will be made available for setting up the "Tin Ka Ping
Education Fund" to help finance research development at IAS. Read more |
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| 04.2008 |
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| Distinguished Lecture by Prof Justin
Lin: "Economic Development and Cultural Renaissance in
China" |
| Professor Justin Yifu Lin, Founding Director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University and the World Bank’s Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, shares his insights on how the Chinese culture interacts
with the nation's economic base and modernization. Speaker's Bio (Chinese version) |
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| 04.2008 |
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| IAS Nobel Lecture: "Evolution,
Cooperation, and Repeated Games" |
| Prof Eric Maskin, the 2007 Nobel Laureate
in Economic Sciences, shares his recent work with Prof Drew
Fudenberg on repeated-game theory. It expands from the
classical Prisoner's Dilemma and the Battle of the Sexes, and explains how evolutionary forces promote
cooperative behavior. Speaker's Bio |
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| 05.2008 |
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| IAS Distinguished Speakers Series: "Biomedical
Sciences in the New Century" |
| Prof Shu Chien from UC San Diego is one of
the first few scholars who received "grand slam" memberships
from US National Academy of Sciences, US National Academy of
Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
Institute of Medicine. His multidisciplinary research takes
an integrative approach that combines engineering and
biomedical sciences. Speaker's Bio |
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| 06.2008 |
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| IAS Distinguished Speakers Series: "Cars:
Chemistry in Motion" |
| Prof Richard Zare from Stanford illustrates
how the automobile industry relies heavily upon chemical
industry innovations to enhance productivity. He also
addresses the challenge of cutting carbon dioxide emissions
to reduce the risk of incurring severe global climate
change. Read more |
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| 06.2008 |
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| IAS Nobel Lecture: "Low Coast
'Plastic' Solar Cells" |
| Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Prof Alan Heeger unveils the secrets of "plastic solar cells" with the world's highest energy efficiency rating for such cells made with organic materials.
It is expected to have significant contribution to meeting the energy needs of our planet in the future. Speaker's Bio |
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| 06.2008 |
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| IAS Mathematics Seminar: "Numerical
Solution of Non-Smooth Eigenvalue Problems from Visco-Plasticity" |
| IAS Visiting Member Prof Roland Glowinski's
second visit at HKUST covers the constants involved in the modeling and simulation of visco-plastic flows, which can be viewed as solutions of non-smooth eigenvalue problems. Details |
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| 07.2008 |
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| IAS Nobel Lecture: "How Advances in Science Are Made" |
| Prof Douglas Osheroff from Stanford
illustrates some of the research strategies that can
substantially increase the probability of one’s making a
discovery, including the work he did as a graduate student
for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. Details |
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| 09.2008 |
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| IAS Distinguished Speakers Series:
"K-Theory and the Index of Elliptic Operators" |
| IAS Visiting Member Sir Michael Atiyah
gives a series of lectures on K-Theory, which played an
important role in proving the Index Theorem. Several
other scholars are invited to our second "Frontiers in
Mathematics" workshop on related applications in
geometry and physics. Details |
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| 09.2008 |
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| IAS Distinguished Speakers Series: "The
History and Developments of Nitride-Based Blue LEDs and Laser
Diodes" |
| IAS Visiting Member Prof Shuji Nakamura and
Prof Steven DenBaars from UC Santa Barbara talk about the
history of nitride-based blue/green/white LEDs and their
applications. In particular, white LEDs have been recently
used for lighting applications in order to reduce the
energy consumptions due to a great concern of the global
warming issues. Details |
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| 12.2008 |
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| IAS Distinguished Speakers Series:
"Science and Policies for Climate Change" |
| Professor Lord Julian Hunt from
University College London was formerly Director-General
and Chief Executive of the UK Meteorological Office. He
expounds how analyses and simulations of possible
scenarios, using economics and complex systems modelling,
can test and propose environmental strategies for
resilience and sustainability. Details |
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| 12.2008 |
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| IAS Distinguished Speakers Series:
"Applications of Nanosystems to Environment and Energy
Issues" |
| Dr Jean-Alain Dalmon of the French
National
Center for Scientific Research is a pioneer in the area
of
catalytic membrane reactor for chemical synthesis and
pollution abatement. With advances in nanomaterials, he
introduces new concepts of capturing carbon dioxide from
motor vehicles and wastewater treatment. Details |
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