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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.
香港高等研究院资深院士卢柯教授，联同中国科学院金属研究所的研究团队，通过实验和分子动力学模拟在多晶纯铜中發现了一种新型的亚取代类型。研究显示，当尺寸到几个纳米尺度时，重置晶界网络能够限制多晶体中的晶界，转化成三维的最小界面结构。在这一多晶结构中，甚至温度升高到熔点附近，颗粒粗化现象依然可被有效抑制，保证其强度不会發生下降（依然接近铜的理论值）。这發现为纳米金属稳定化的發展开拓了新方向。
香港高等研究院資深院士盧柯教授，聯同中國科學院金屬研究所的研究團隊，通過實驗和分子動力學模擬在多晶純銅中發現了一種新型的亞取代類型。研究顯示，當尺寸到幾個納米尺度時，重置晶界網絡能夠限制多晶體中的晶界，轉化成三維的最小界面結構。在這一多晶結構中，甚至溫度升高到熔點附近，顆粒粗化現象依然可被有效抑制，保證其強度不會發生下降（依然接近銅的理論值）。這發現為納米金屬穩定化的發展開拓了新方向。
Professor Herbert Gleiter, HKIAS Senior Fellow, was conferred the Honorary Doctoral Degree and appointed as a Senior Fellow from the University of Lanzhou in China. The award ceremony will be held during The Gleiter Symposium on Frontier of Nanoscience on 23 November 2020. Professor Gleiter will deliver a plenary lecture titled “New Concepts in Nanoscience - New Kinds of Materials opening the Way to New Technologies” at the conference. In view of the pandemic, the conference and the ceremony will be conducted online.
香港高等研究院资深院士Herbert Gleiter教授将获中国兰州大学颁授荣誉博士学位名衔及委任为资深院士。颁授仪式将于11月23日在兰州举行的Herbert Gleiter纳米科学前沿研讨会上颁發。Gleiter教授将于研讨会上主持题目为「纳米科学的新概念 - 新型材料开拓新科技」的演讲。由于疫情关係，研讨会及颁授仪式将以网上直播。
香港高等研究院資深院士Herbert Gleiter教授將獲中國蘭州大學頒授榮譽博士學位名銜及委任為資深院士。頒授儀式將於11月23日在蘭州舉行的Herbert Gleiter納米科學前沿研討會上頒發。Gleiter教授將於研討會上主持題目為「納米科學的新概念 - 新型材料開拓新科技」的演講。由於疫情關係，研討會及頒授儀式將以網上直播。
A world-renowned mathematician, Professor Philippe G. Ciarlet, University Distinguished Professor of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), delivered an online lecture titled “Nonlinear Korn Inequalities on a Surface” for the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) at CityU on 5 November 2020.