Professor Xun-Li Wang, Executive Director of Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) and Chair Professor of Department of Physics at City University of Hong Kong (CityU), attended the 110th anniversary celebration of Physics at Peking University on 14 October.

Professor Serge Haroche, Chairman of Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) and Professor Xun-Li Wang, Executive Director of HKIAS visited the Croucher Foundation and met with Mr David Foster, Director of Croucher Foundation on 6 October.

A sharing session on 3 October, featuring Professor Serge Haroche, Chairman of Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) and Nobel Laureate in Physics (2012), sheds light on the inter-relationship between teaching and research.

We are immensely pleased that three distinguished scholars have been appointed by Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) as Senior Fellows.

A world-renowned mathematician, Professor Shing-Tung Yau, Director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University, visited HKIAS, CityU on April 25.

The flagship HK Tech Forum series was initiated by Professor Way Kuo, President of City University of Hong Kong (CityU), and hosted by the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS), CityU. Under the theme “Empowering Society for a Better Future”, the series serves as a dynamic platform for discussing innovative strategies and approaches to major challenges in science and technology. The 5th and the 6th forums concluded the 2022 inaugural series, attracting leading academic and industry researchers from around the world to share their insights on quantum physics and complex systems; as well as metabolism in health and disease on 7-9 and 15-16 December respectively.

Organised by the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), the HK Tech Forum series provides a platform for discussing new strategies and approaches to major challenges in science and technology. Two forums were held earlier this month: one on quantum physics and complex systems, and the other on metabolism in health and disease. Hosted by the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) of the CityU, the Forum on Quantum Physics and Complex Systems was held during December 7-9. The fifth forum of this HK Tech Forum series provided an exceptional multidisciplinary, cross-pollination arena for world-leading scientists to discuss complex systems, including spin glasses, neural networks, proteins, and related problems.

Eminent scholars from academia worldwide shared their insights into complex signaling networks in various metabolic pathways at the HK Tech Forum on Metabolism in Health and Disease hosted by the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) and the Department of Biomedical Sciences (BMS) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) from 15 to 16 December.

Leading academic and industry researchers in the rapidly developing fields of quantum computation, quantum physics, and related areas gathered at the HK Tech Forum on Quantum Physics and Complex Systems hosted by the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) from 7 to 9 December.

Professor Xun-Li Wang, Executive Director of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) and Chair Professor of the Department of Physics of City University of Hong Kong was elected International Councilor of the American Physical Society (APS). He will serve a four-year term beginning 1 January 2023. Professor Wang has been a Fellow of the APS since 2010.