Date
Event
Organizer(s) / Speaker(s)
7 May 2015
IAS / School of Science Joint Lecture on Enantioselective Synthesis
Shengming Ma
Fudan University
of Allenes: The Second Generation Technology and Application
IAS Distinguished Lecture on Unexpected and Separate Connections
Susan A. Martinis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
of tRNA Synthetases to HIV and to Novel Antibiotics
Karin Musier-Forsyth
The Ohio State University
8 May 2015
IAS Quantitative Finance Seminar Series on Yesterday's Tomorrows:
Robert I. Webb
The University of Virginia
Past Visions of Future Financial Markets
11 May 2015
IAS Distinguished Lecture on Malthus and the First Divergence -
Hans-Joachim Voth
University of Zurich
How did Europe Pull Ahead of China after 1500?
13 May 2015
IAS Distinguished Lecture on Sustaining the Silicon Revolution:
From 3D Transistors to 3D Integration
Tsu-Jae King Liu
University of California at Berkeley
31 May - 5 Jun 2015
Gordon Research Conference on String Theory & Cosmology:
New Ideas Meet New Experimental Data
Ulf Danielsson
Uppsala University
Gary Shiu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
14 - 19 Jun 2015
The 11th International Conference on Optical Probes of Conjugated
Polymers and Organic Nanostructures
Ching W. Tang
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kam Sing Wong
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
4 - 5 Jun 2015
TUM-HKUST IAS Workshop on Blue Water Green Environment for Smart Cities
Guanghao Chen
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
12 Jun 2015
IAS Distinguished Lecture on Inferences from Task Difficulty:
Daphna Oyserman
University of Southern California
Metacognition and Identity Based Motivation
15 Jun 2015
IAS Seminar Series on Big Data - Predicting Stopout in MOOCS:
Una-May O'Reilly
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mining Behavioral Data
5 Jun 2015
IAS Symposium on Aero/Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics
Huihe Qiu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kun Xu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xin Zhang
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
7 - 12 Jun 2015
Gordon Research Conference on Particle Physics:
Prospects of Particle Physics at the 13TeV Large Hadron Collider
John Ellis
CERN and King’s College London
Tao Liu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hitoshi Murayama
The University of Tokyo and
University of California at Berkeley
The following events will take place between May and August 2015:
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21 - 26 Jun 2015
Gordon Research Conference on Modulation of Neural Circuits &
Behavior: Neuromodulatory Signaling Pathways that Modify the
Function of Circuits
Joy A. Alcedo
Wayne State University
Andres Villu Maricq
The University of Utah
Chung-Fang Wu
The University of Iowa
Yun Zhang
Harvard University
28 Jun - 3 Jul 2015
Gordon Research Conference on Topological & Correlated Matter:
Advances in Topological Phases of Matter in Crystalline Solids and
Cold Atom Systems
Yong-Baek Kim
University of Toronto
Tai-Kai Ng
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
and The Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education
Nai Phuan Ong
Princeton University
Yayu Wang
Tsinghua University
19 - 24 Jul 2015
Gordon Research Conference on Nano-Mechanical Interfaces:
Theory, Computations and Experiments
Narayan R. Aluru
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Julia R. Greer
California Institute of Technology
Yuan Lin
The University of Hong Kong
25 - 26 Jul 2015
Gordon Research Seminar on Spin Dynamics in Nanostructures:
Interplay of Spin, Charge and Lattice Dynamics
Davide D. Bossini
Radboud University
Yunshan Y. Cao
Delft University of Technology
26 - 31 Jul 2015
Gordon Research Conference on Spin Dynamics in Nanostructures:
Nanoscale Spintronics with Magnons, Phonons, and Photons
Gerrit E. W. Bauer
Tohoku University
Stuart Parkin
IBM Almaden Research Center
1 - 2 Aug 2015
Gordon Research Seminar on Marine Molecular Ecology:
Recent Developments in Marine Microbial Interactions: New
Approaches and Techniques
Ezequiel Marzinelli
University of New South Wales
Emma Rocke
University of Cape Town
2 - 7 Aug 2015
Gordon Research Conference on Marine Molecular Ecology:
Linking Molecular Mechanisms with Ecological Outcomes
Stanley Lau
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hongbin Liu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Peter D. Steinberg
University of New South Wales
Curtis Suttle
The University of British Columbia
5 - 10 Jul 2015
Gordon Research Conference on Posttranslational Modification
Networks: Gaining a Proteomic Understanding of Cellular
Regulation Mechanisms in Animals and Plants
Alma L. Burlingame
University of California at San Francisco
Heribert Hirt
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Lan Huang
University of California at Irvine
Zhiyong Wang
Carnegie Institution for Science
Event Highlights
May 2015
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