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著名材料科學家，香港城市大學(城大)大學傑出教授劉錦川教授於2020年11月25日為香港高等研究院(高等研究院)主持網上傑出講座，講題是「簡單無序及複雜有序材料系統的合金設計」。講座有接近400人透過網上參加。

The Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) General Meeting was held at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on 18 November 2020. The meeting was hosted both face-to-face and online through Zoom.

香港高等研究院（高等研究院）周年会议于2020年11月18日在香港城市大学（城大）举行。是次会议透过面对面及网上方式主持。

香港高等研究院（高等研究院）周年會議於2020年11月18日在香港城市大學（城大）舉行。是次會議透過面對面及網上方式主持。

Professor Qi-Kun Xue, HKIAS Senior Fellow, has been appointed as the President of the Southern University of Science and Technology, China, effective from November 2020.

香港高等研究院资深院士薛其坤教授，于2020年11月出任中国南方科技大学校长。

Professor Qi-Kun Xue, HKIAS Senior Fellow, has been appointed as the President of the Southern University of Science and Technology, China, effective from November 2020.

When COVID-19 began to spread across the world in January 2020, academics from the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) were quick to act.

Two recent talks presented by senior fellows of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study highlight a platform for sharing results of high-impact research.

A finding by Professor Ke Lu, HKIAS Senior Fellow and the research team from The Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences was featured on Science. Metals with nanometer-sized crystal grains are super strong, but they do not generally retain their structure at higher temperatures. This property undermines their high strength and makes their use in applications challenging. Professor Lu and the research team found a minimum-interface structure in copper with 10-nanometer-sized grains that, when combined with a nanograin crystallographic twinning network, retains high strength to temperatures just below the melting point. This discovery suggests a different path forward for stabilizing nanograined metals.