The development of "soulware" is essential for cross-strait higher education institutions aiming for world-class status, according to Professor Way Kuo, President of City University of Hong Kong (CityU), at a launch ceremony on 8 March for his new book titled The Soulware within Higher Education.

The heart of an inventory model is the modeling of the supply and demand functions, according to Professor J. George Shanthikumar at the inaugural Distinguished Lecture for the new Institute of Advance Study (IAS) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on15 March.

Two renowned engineering scholars delivered lectures on service systems and technology breakthrough, respectively, at two distinguished lectures at City University of Hong Kong (CityU).

The two-day Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Symposium on Chemistry of Complex Matter at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) kicked off with a Nobel Laureate’s distinguished lecture on 14 November. The symposium invited scholars and renowned chemists from Europe and China to share their academic discoveries through a series of lectures delivered during the event.

Nobel Laureate in chemistry, Professor Ei-ichi Negishi, delivered a distinguished lecture titled "Magical Power of d-Block Transition Metals- Past, Present and Future" and met a group of students at an event held by the Institute for Advanced Study at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on 1 Dec.

A renowned scholar in operations management delivered a distinguished lecture held by the Institute for Advanced Study at City University of Hong Kong on 15 December. In the monopoly pricing situation, firms optimally vary prices to learn that demand and variation must be sufficiently high to ensure complete asymptotic learning, according to Professor Birge.