Inauguration of Institute for Advanced Study

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Event: Inauguration of Institute for Advanced Study

Date:   22 November 2015 (Sunday)

Time:  11:00am

Venue:            Wong Cheung Lo Hui Yuet Hall, 5/F, Academic 3, CityU

Officiating guests:    

·         Professor Philippe G. Ciarlet, Member of French Academy of Sciences

·         Professor Herbert Gleiter, Member of German National Academy of Sciences

·         Professor Serge Haroche, Nobel Laureate in Physics

·         Professor Way Kuo, CityU President

·         Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

·         Professor Liu Chain-tsuan, Member of US National Academy of Engineering

·         Professor Stephen Smale, Fields Medalist & Wolf Prize Recipient

·         Professor David Yao, CityU IAS Director

 

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) marks a new phase in the promotion of new research for the global challenges of today.

 

IAS, which will be launched on 22 November, is one of the few such centres in the region. It aspires to be an international centre of excellence for the advancement of technology, bringing together a strong team of internationally recognised scholars and researchers, including Nobel laureates and academicians.

 

IAS will extend the frontiers of knowledge, and thus contribute to the solutions of real-world problems, by integrating research capabilities informed by the sciences, technology and humanities. It will raise and invest resources to advance interdisciplinarity and innovation work with an initial focus on three themes: One Health, Digital Society, and Smart City.

 

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