Prof Xiao-Gang Wen from MIT gives a general knowledge lecture on the story of light. He explains how photons may evolve from the universe, and light as a fluctuation of strings that come from the collective string-like motions in space.

Dirac Medalist Prof Patrick Lee from MIT visited HKUST in January 2007 and shares his research insights on quantum spin liquid and and how the phenomenon of superconductivity is related to a mathematical structure inherited in our universe.