More than 500 people were taken on a journey into the world of Kunqu by Professor Pai Hsien-yung, a renowned writer and Kunqu expert, in a talk at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on 9 March.

The relatively simple phenomenon of a sliding drop on a surface is far from quantitatively understood, according to Professor Dr Hans-Jürgen Butt at the latest City University of Hong Kong (CityU) Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Distinguished Lecture, which was held on 15 May.

Distinguished scientists and scholars discussed future trends and the latest development in nanomaterials at the 14th International Conference on Nanostructured Materials (NANO 2018) from 24 to 29 June at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Materials Summit ran concurrently with the conference.

Organized by Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), the IAS Extended Workshop on Genomes, Cells, and Mathematics ran in the month of July at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), featuring 18 world-renowned speakers with interdisciplinary research expertise in the fields of mathematics, computer science, cell biology, human proteome and human genetics.

Renowned mathematician Professor Ngaiming Mok delivered a distinguished lecture titled “Curvature and Uniformization on Bounded Symmetric Domains” for the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on 8 October.

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Chang Chun-Yen, the Emeritus Senior Fellow of IAS and former President of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), in Taiwan today.

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) will celebrate the major role of City University of Hong Kong (CityU) in developing scientific cooperation between France and Hong Kong, in honour of the 80th Birthday of the renowned Mathematician Professor Philippe G Ciarlet, Senior Fellow of IAS and University Distinguished Professor at CityU, on a full-day IAS Conference on 12 November 2018 at CityU.

Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, an internationally recognized polymer chemist who discovered the Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP), delivered a distinguished lecture titled “Macromolecular Engineering by Taming Free Radicals” for the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on 24 October 2018.

Professor Peter Glynn, a recognized scholar in management science and the IAS Senior Fellow, delivered a lecture on 29 October for the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Distinguished Lecture Series: Frontiers in Operations Research / Operations Management at City University of Hong Kong (CityU).

On 12 November 2018, Instituted for Advanced Study (IAS) organized a full-day conference in celebrating the major role of City University of Hong Kong (CityU) in developing scientific cooperation between France and Hong Kong, in honour of the 80th Birthday of the renowned Mathematician Professor Philippe G.c, Senior Fellow of IAS and University Distinguished Professor at CityU.