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HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Naming Ceremony and Inauguration of HKUST Jockey Club IAS Named Professorships
A Significant Platform to Bring Together Brilliant Minds
27 Nov 2013
HKUST held a naming ceremony for HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and an inauguration of HKUST Jockey Club IAS Named Professorships, marking another milestone in the University's innovative academic and technological development. In recognition of a generous donation by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, IAS is named after the Jockey Club. The University also received great support from The Bank of East Asia, Dr Helmut and Mrs Anna Sohmen, Si Yuan Foundation and TT & WF Chao Foundation, enabling HKUST to establish its first IAS Named Professsorships.

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IAS Visiting Professors Conferred Honorary Doctorates at HKUST's 21st Congregation
8 Nov 2013
IAS conveys its heartiest congratulations to three IAS Visiting Professors, Prof Marvin COHEN, Prof Evelyn HU and Prof Bright SHENG, for their conferment of honorary doctorates at HKUST's 21st Congregation. They are awarded in recognition of their distinguished achievements and contributions.

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IAS Fellow Awarded the Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics
16 Jul 2013
Prof He Xuhua, IAS Fellow and Associate Professor of Mathematics at HKUST was awarded the prestigious 2013 Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics. The announcement was made at the opening of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) in Taipei, Taiwan. Prof He is the only scholar in Hong Kong receiving this prestigious award this year.

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IAS Members Awarded Close to HK$100 Million from UGC for Areas of Excellence Projects
12 Jul 2013
Two pioneering HKUST research projects led by Prof Che Ting CHAN, Executive Director of IAS and Chair Professor of the Department of Physics, and Prof Mingjie ZHANG, IAS Senior Fellow and Kerry Holdings Professor of Science of the Division of Life Science, were awarded close to $100 million in total by the University Grants Committee (UGC) under its Sixth Round of Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme, driving world-class research in Photonic and Phononic Advanced Materials and Signaling Mechanisms in Neuro-disorders.

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IAS Executive Director and Senior Fellow Won First Brillouin Medal for Groundbreaking Research in Phononics
10 Jul 2013
HKUST Physicists Prof Ping SHENG (IAS Senior Fellow), Prof Che Ting CHAN (Executive Director of IAS) and Prof Jason Yang were jointly awarded the inaugural Brillouin Medal by the International Phononics Society (IPS) for their discovery of locally resonant acoustic / elastic metamaterials and related contributions. Prof Sheng and Prof Chan attended the second International Conference on Phononic Crystals / Metamaterials, Phonon Transport & Optomechanics (Phononics 2013) held at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in early June to receive the Medal and deliver the Award Lecture.

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