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Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study hosts a 2-day Symposium on Advances in Neuroscience

Organizers, speakers, session chairs and guests of the HKIAS Symposium

 

HKIAS Senior Fellow

Professor Mu-ming Poo

Professor Mu-ming Poo, an internationally renowned neuroscientist whose research interest is the development and plasticity of the brain, was appointed as HKIAS Senior Fellow in February 2019.

HKIAS Senior Fellow Professor Ke Lu receives the 2019 Acta Materialia Gold Medal

Professor Ke Lu

Professor Ke Lu, HKIAS Senior Fellow, has been honored the 2019 Acta Materialia Gold Medal from the Acta Materialia, Incorporated. The award recognizes the outstanding achievements of Professor Lu to Materials Science. The Gold Medal will be presented during the 2019 TMS Spring Meeting and Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas.

HKIAS Visiting Fellow Professor Tei-Wei Kuo elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Professor Tei-Wei Kuo

 

HKIAS Explores New Frontiers in Neuroscience

South China Morning Post · 12 Apr 2019

 

The Symposium on Advances in Neuroscience

 

Extending the Applicability of the Glassy State of Matter

Professor A. Lindsay Greer
 
(Left) Prof. Jacob Huang, Executive Director of HKIAS and Chair Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, presented a souvenir to (right) Prof. A.

Disconnection, Random Interlacements, and the Gaussian Free Field

Professor Alain-Sol Sznitman
 
(Right) Dr. Pierre Nolin, moderator of the lecture and Associate Professor of Department of Mathematics at CityU, presented the souvenir to (left) Prof.

A Mathematical Model of National Sustainability: Where the World is Heading

Professor Yannis A. Phillis
 
Renowned engineering scientist Professor Yannis A. Phillis, presented a distinguished lecture titled “A Mathematical Model of National Sustainability: Where the World is Heading” for the HKIAS.

Professor Yuntian Zhu

Professor Yuntian Zhu

 

Professor Yuntian Zhu, a distinguished professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University, was appointed as HKIAS Visiting Fellow in August 2019.

Professor Hesheng Chen

Professor Hesheng Chen

 

Professor Hesheng Chen, one of the most influential physicists in China, was appointed as HKIAS Senior Fellow in June 2019.