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| Distinguished Lecture:
"Eyes of the 21st Century: Controlling the Placement and
Environments of Molecules at All Scales" |
| Prof Paul Weiss from UCLA develops new
techniques to expand the applicability and chemical specificity
of scanning probe microscopies. His research group applies these
and other tools to the study of catalysis, self- and directed
assembly, physical models of biological systems, and molecular
and nano-scale electronics. Details |
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| 01.2010 |
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| Workshop:
"Ubiquitin System and Pathogenesis of Diseases" |
| IAS Visiting Member Prof Aaron Ciechanover
organizes the subject workshop and brings along three
distinguished scientists in the field, namely Prof Michael Karin
from UC San Diego, Prof Ron Kopito from Stanford University and
Prof Brenda Schulman from St Jude's Children Research Hospital.
A weeklong series of lectures, seminars and tutorials enhances
our understanding of ubiquitination from various aspects.
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| 01.2010 |
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| Frontiers of Knowledge Seminars:
"Introduction to String Cosmology" |
| The second visit of IAS Fellow Prof Gary Shiu
introduces cosmic inflation as a link between string theory and observation.
He poses arguments that an inflationary universe - our current theoretical paradigm of the macroscopic world - is incomplete on its own and requires a microscopic completion. Details |
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| 01.2010 |
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| Nobel Lecture:
"Science, Society and Sustainability" |
| An ardent advocate for science education, Nobel
Laureate in Chemistry Sir Harold Kroto devotes much of his time
and energy to promoting science, engineering and technology
among young people through various initiatives. He suggests how
chemistry, or NanoScience and NanoTechnology, has transformed
science and revolutionize technology and open up unforeseen new
horizons. Details |
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| 01.2010 |
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| Distinguished Leccture:
"Reflections on Our Hot, Flat and Crowded World" |
| Three-time Pulitzer prizewinner, world-renowned
author and journalist Thomas Friedman inaugurates HKUST’s
Division of Environment by giving a lecture with updated views
of the hot, flat and crowded world, followed by a panel
discussion with Sir Harold Kroto, Secretary for the Environment
Mr Edward Yau, Mr Ronnie Chan and Dr Christine Loh. Details |
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| 12.2009 |
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| Seminars on Geometric Representation
Theory:
"Antiorbital Complexes" & "Conjugacy Classes in the Weyl
Group and Unipotent Conjugacy Classes" |
| The profound interaction between representation
theory and geometry has been one of the most active researches
in mathematics. Prof George Lusztig from MIT has solved classical
problems in these disciplines and created new ones. The two
seminars feature his recent research in this area. Details |
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| 12.2009 |
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| Distinguished Lecture:
"Personalized Medicine and Statistics" |
| Combining biotechnology and information technology, Prof Wing Wong from Stanford University applies statistical modeling and data mining to extract personalized health records
in an electronic manner. Details |
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| 12.2009 |
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| Workshop on Evolution: Foundations, Fundamentals, and Disease |
| This multidisciplinary workshop addresses
fundamental issues of evolution from a theoretical and
experimental perspective. The foundations and consequences of
evolution are examined, with an emphasis on the impact of
evolution in the propagation of disease, in particular cancer. Details |
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| 11.2009 |
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| Distinguished Lecture:
"A Hundred Years of Nanoscience and Superconductivity" |
| Prof Marvin Cohen from University of California at berkeley discusses some of the history and conceptual underpinnings of condensed matter physics with examples related to research on the electronic structure of solids, nanoscience, and superconductivity. Details |
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| 11.2009 |
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| Seminar Series:
"An Introduction to Strong Correlation Physics and the
Phenomenology of High Temperature Superconductivity" |
| It's been the third year Prof Patrick Lee
visits IAS and gives a series of seminars. The focus this time
is on experimental observations of the subjects, supplemented by
the introduction of theoretical concepts.
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| 10.2009 |
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| Distinguished Lecture:
"Glacial Inceptions: Past and Future" |
| Prof Lawrence Mysak from McGill University is
internationally regarded for his work on air-ice-ocean
interactions and the modeling of glacial and warm climates. He
reviews various modeling studies on past glacial inceptions and
examines the influence of a near-term global warming scenario. Details |
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| 10.2009 |
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| President's Forum:
"Dialogue with Sir Michael Atiyah" |
| HKUST President Tony Chan talks with
distinguished IAS Visiting Member Sir Michael Atiyah to explore
his life and mind as a great scholar, teacher, and intellectual
leader. Details |
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| 10.2009 |
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| Frontiers of Mathematics Seminars:
"The Geometry and Topology of the Freudenthal Magic Square" |
| With the Kervaire invariant problem been
recently solved, Sir Michael Atiyah attempts to use the
Freudenthal magic square to explain the list of manifolds of Kervaire
invariant 1. Details |
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| 09.2009 |
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| Seminar Series on Soft Matter:
"Single Molecule Manipulation and Advanced Biomaterials" |
| Prof Ming Li from the Chinese Academy of
Sciences exemplifies how the recently emerged single-molecule
manipulation techniques have led to new insights on the dynamics
and reaction mechanisms of enzymes. Details |
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| 08.2009 |
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| Distinguished Lecture:
"Will China Become the Next USA?" |
| Prof Robert Austin concludes his
first visit at IAS by sharing his experiences as an American in Hong
Kong this past year and comparing the road that the USA has gone
down with the directions China seems to be traveling along. Details |
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| 08.2009 |
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| Frontiers of Knowledge Seminar:
"String Theory and the Quantum Universe" |
| Prof Gary Shiu from University of Wisconsin -
Madison and two post-docs,
Fernando Marchesano and Yoske Sumitomo, give a series of
seminars in various aspects of string theory, ranging from D-branes
to the holographic principle. Details |
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| 07.2009 |
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| Seminar Series on Soft Matter:
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being: An Introduction to The Role of Softness in Biological Molecules" |
| Prof Robert Austin from Princeton University,
who is also our IAS Visiting Member, explores the conformational flexibility of proteins and the softness of DNAs and explain their importance
to basic physics. Details |
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| 06.2009 |
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| Seminar Series on Soft Matter:
"Modeling and Simulations of Soft Matters" |
| Prof Akira Onuki from Kyoto University
exemplifies various molecular interactions in charged fluid
systems, in particular the solvation effects in electrolytes,
polyelectrolytes, ionic surfactants, colloids etc resulting from
ion-dipole interactions. Details |
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| 05.2009 |
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| Seminar Series on Soft Matter:
"Effective Simulations of Interfacial Flows" |
| Prof Ming-Chih Lai from Taiwan's National Chiao
Tung University proposes a numerical method for the simulation
of two-dimensional fluid interfaces with surfactant. Our postdoc
at HKUST also presents a collaboration with IAS Visiting Member
Roland Glowinski for simulating flow-body interactions with the
fictitious domain method. Details |
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| 04.2009 |
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| Distinguished Lecture:
"Values, Past and Future, for a Great Research University" |
| Widely regarded as one of the world's foremost
universities, University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer
shares the values and other unique components that build up a
great research university. Details |
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| 04.2009 |
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| Seminar Series on Soft Matter:
"Self-assembly and Hydrodynamics at Interfaces" |
| The third Soft Matter seminar covers the
mechanism of self organization in confined soft materials by
Prof Yu-qiang Ma of Nanjing University, hydrogen bonding in
polymer solutions and interfacial microrheology. Details |
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| 03.2009 |
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| Distinguished Lecture:
"Molecules That Changed The World" |
| Prof K C Nicolaou, who holds joint appointments
at the Scripps Research Institute and UC San Diego, has broad
interests in the chemistry, biology and medicine of natural and
designed molecules. He expounds on the profound impact of
chemical synthesis in our lives. Details |
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| 03.2009 |
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| Distinguished Lecture:
"Symmetry: More Than Pretty Pictures" |
| Mathematician Prof Roger Howe from Yale
University is well known for his contributions to representation
theory. In this talk, he conveys the basic ideas of mathematical
symmetry and how these get used in art and in fundamental
physics. Details |
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| 03.2009 |
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| Seminar Series on Soft Matter:
"Novel Interactions and Dynamics in Complex Fluids" |
| The second Soft Matter seminar features Prof
Masaki Sano from University of Tokyo and two postdocs, who
demonstrate various interactions of colloidal particles
under temperature gradients and at a water-air interface. Details |
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| 03.2009 |
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| Distinguished Lectures:
"Climate Change and Air Pollution" & "Atmospheric Organic
Aerosols" |
| Increasing levels of particles in the air exert
complex effects on climate and lead to pollution. Prof John
Seinfeld from California Institute of Technology explores in
particular the organic portion of atmospheric aerosols. Details |
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| 02.2009 |
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| Seminar Series on Soft Matter:
"Fluctuations Effects in Soft Matter" |
| Aiming to enhance regional academic research
exchanges and collaborations and promote interactions among research graduate students
and postdocs, the seminar series is kick-started by Prof Wokyung
Sung from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea,
with 2 additional talks by postdocs from POSTECH and HKUST. Details |
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| 01.2009 |
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| Distinguished Lecture:
"Mysteries of 4-Dimensional Space" |
| What are the possible large scale 'shapes' of
spaces of a particular dimension? The answers is more or less
known for all except dimension 4. Prof Clifford Taubes from
Harvard University explains why it is different from the others. Details |
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| 01.2009 |
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| IAS International Advisory Board
Meeting and Inaugural Ceremony |
| IAS International Advisory Board members
had their first meeting at HKUST on 5 Jan 2009, with HKSAR
Chief Executive Donald Tsang officiating a tree-planting
ceremony at the construction site of IAS. Details |
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| 01.2009 |
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| IAS Inaugural Symposium:
"Mapping Frontiers of Science" |
| The two-day symposium comprises over 20 lectures under five categories - New Frontiers in Science, Science of New Materials, New Frontiers in Life Science, Computation Science, and Emerging Technology for Energy - followed by a roundtable discussion on future directions. Details |
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