Institute of Advanced Studies

1 to 2 December 2016Nanyang Executive CentreNanyang Technological University

2nd Forum of Asian Institutes for Advanced Study

CONTENTS

04 Foreword

05 Organising Committee

06 Programme

■ 1 December 2016 (Thursday) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06 ■ 2 December 2016 (Friday) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08

09 Invited Directors and Professors

■ Chi Tat CHONG .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09 ■ Da Hsuan FENG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 ■ Michael HANNON .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 ■ Jaewan KIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ■ LE Tuan Hoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 ■ Yong-Hee LEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 ■ Yoshiaki MAEDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 ■ Shigeru MUKAI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 ■ NGÔ Bảo Châu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 ■ Kok Khoo PHUA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 ■ Eliezer RABINOVICI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 ■ Ernst RANK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 ■ Giorgio RIELLO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 ■ Peter VALE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 ■ Rebecca VIPOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

24 Notes

4

The 1st Forum of Asian Institutes for Advanced Study was held in Korea from 26 to 27 September 2011. It was initiated by the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS). One of the aims of the forum was to create a network among the invited Institutes of Advanced Study. Participants at the forum exchanged ideas and perspectives on a variety of topics related to challenges and strategies of regional IAS.

The Institute of Advanced Studies @ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore is organising the 2nd Forum of Asia Pacific IASs from 1 to 2 December 2016. During the 1st Forum, most of the IASs that took part were institutes for sciences, such as theoretical physics and mathematics. We will continue with this tradition to invite most of the IASs to attend the 2nd forum. In this sequel, we have also invited IASs from Munich, Warwick, Birmingham, Israel, South Africa and other countries outside the Asia-Pacific region so as to promote more international collaboration and exchanges between the different IAS worldwide. Some of these IASs are centres for social sciences and interdisciplinary research.

I would like to thank all our distinguished guests for making the effort to attend this Forum. Let us maintain this network and hopefully extend it to the rest of Asia. I wish you a fruitful period of active discussions and networking.

Prof Kok Khoo PHUA Founding Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University

FOREWORD

5

Chairman Kok Khoo PHUA Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU

Members Alan CHAN College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, NTU

Leong Chuan KWEK Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU and NUS

San LING College of Science, NTU

Hwee Boon LOW Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU

Pinaki SENGUPTA School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU

Shuyan XU Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU and National Institute of Education

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

6

PROGRAMME

9:00 am — 9:20 am Welcome addresses by Jaewan KIM (Director of Open KIAS Center, Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

and

Kok Khoo PHUA (Founding Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU)

Chairman: Kok Khoo PHUA (Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU)

9:20 am — 10:05 am Eliezer RABINOVICI (Professor Emeritus, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University) The Role of UBIASs within the Family of Institutes for Advanced Study

10:05 am — 10:30 am Chi Tat CHONG (Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS) The Role of a Mathematical Institute in Singapore

10:30 am — 11:10 am Group Photo and Coffee Break

Chairman: Choy Heng LAI (Deputy Director, Centre for Quantum Technologies, NUS)

11:10 am — 11:35 am Da Hsuan FENG (Director, Global Affairs Office, University of Macau) Philosophical Principal, Leadership and Environment: The Heart Soul and Existence of a University

11:35 am — 12:00 pm Michael HANNON (Director, The Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Birmingham) The Birmingham Institute of Advanced Studies — Reflections and Opportunities

12:00 pm — 12:25 pm LE Tuan Hoa (Director, Institute of Mathematics Hanoi, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) Institute of Mathematics Hanoi and a Category 2 Centre under the Auspices of UNESCO in a near future

1 December 2016 (Thursday)Venue: Function Hall 1, Level 3 @ NEC

7

12:25 pm — 12:50 pm Yoshiaki MAEDA (Vice-Director, Tohoku Forum for Creativity, Tohoku University) Activities of Tohoku Forum for Creativity

12:50 pm — 2:00 pm Lunch

Chairman: Huu Du NGUYEN (Managing Director, Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Hanoi)

2:00 pm — 2:25 pm Kok Khoo PHUA (Founding Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU) The First Ten Years of IAS, NTU

2:25 pm — 2:50 pm Yong-Hee LEE (President, Korea Institute for Advanced Study) Korea Institute for Advanced Study: A 20-year-old Culture

2:50 pm — 3:15 pm Peter VALE (Director, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study) The Johannesburg Institue for Advanced Study (JIAS): Afro-Asian Co-operation in the 21st Century

3:15 pm — 3:45 pm Coffee Break

Chairman: Khiang Wee LIM (Executive Director, Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), National Research Foundation, Singapore)

3:45 pm — 4:10 pm Ernst RANK (Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich) TUM-IAS: An Institute for Advanced Study in a Technical University

4:10 pm — 4:50 pm Giorgio RIELLO (Director, Warwick IAS) and Rebecca VIPOND (Research Officer, Warwick IAS) Supporting Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Warwick: A Post-Brexit Future

8

PROGRAMME

Chairman: Chi Tat CHONG (Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS)

9:00 am — 9:45 am NGÔ Bảo Châu (Scientific Director, Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study; Fields Medallist 2010) On the Role of an Institute for Advanced Studies in Developing Countries

9:45 am — 10:10 am Shigeru MUKAI (Director, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto) RIMS, 50 Years as a Joint Research Center, and the Next

10:10 am — 10:40 am Coffee Break

10:40 am — 12:15 pm Panel Discussion Moderated by Da Hsuan FENG (Director, Global Affairs Office, University of Macau)

12:15 pm — 1:30 pm Lunch

2 December 2016 (Friday)

9

INVITED DIRECTORS AND PROFESSORS

Chi Tat CHONG Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore

Title of talk: The Role of a Mathematical Institute in Singapore

Bio: Prof Chong Chi Tat is University Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore, and Director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences. He received his PhD degree from Yale University and works in the field of computation theory. He served as Deputy Vice Chancellor as well as Provost and Deputy President of the University from 1996 to 2004. He is a fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science.

10

INVITED DIRECTORS AND PROFESSORS

Da Hsuan FENG Director, Global Affairs Office, University of Macau

Title of talk: Philosophical Principal, Leadership and Environment: The Heart Soul and Existence of a University

Bio: Prof Feng Da Hsuan is the Director of Global Affairs and Special Advisor to Rector of University of Macau (UMacau). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and an expert in nuclear and nuclear astrophysics, quantum optics, and mathematical physics, with wide range of experiences and outstanding achievements as a scholar, researcher and leader of university comprehensive development. Prof Feng assists UMacau in developing global strategies, thus allows UMacau to attain new level of international recognition.

Prof Feng has accumulated more than three decades of experience working in the academia and corporate arenas in the United States and Taiwan. He was M. Russell Wehr Chair Professor of Physics at Drexel University, director of the Division of Theoretical Physics of the United States National Science Foundation, Vice President for research and economic development at the University of Texas at Dallas, Vice President of the Fortune 500 Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and Senior Vice President of Tsing Hua University and Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. Throughout his career, Prof Feng has maintained intimate contact and collaborations with universities and other organisations in Europe, the United States, Canada as well as East, South and Southeast Asia. He has served in the capacity as advisor and board member at numerous national labs and high-tech companies in the United States; visiting professor and honorary professor at 13 top universities in China; as well as board member and advisor for science and technology at several universities in China, Malaysia and Indonesia.

11

Michael HANNON Director, The Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Birmingham

Title of talk: The Birmingham Institute of Advanced Studies — Reflections and Opportunities

Bio: Prof Michael Hannon is Professor of Chemical Biology at Birmingham. His prize-winning research lies at the interface between chemistry and the life sciences, focused on metal complexes in biology and medicine as both imaging agents and therapeutics. In particular his work on the non-covalent recognition of DNA Y-shaped junctions has transformed the field of study and prompted a sudden and growing international activity in exploring the use of metallo-supramolecular structures in DNA recognition and as anti-cancer drugs. He is President of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, an international learned society, chaired the prestigious Gordon Research Conference ‘Metals in Medicine’ in 2014 and will co-chair the European Biological Inorganic Chemistry conference in Birmingham in 2018.

Prof Hannon was appointed IAS Director in April 2015, after seven years’ experience in creating and supporting interdisciplinary research as founding Director of two award-winning, inter-disciplinary research training Centres at the interface between physical sciences and biomedicine. He has a particular interest in the ways people from different countries, cultures, and disciplines create stimulating intellectual environments that promote paradigm-shifting research. He organised and hosted the Directors meeting of the UBIAS international network of University-based IASs in 2016.

12

INVITED DIRECTORS AND PROFESSORS

Jaewan KIM Director of Open KIAS Center, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

Bio: Prof Jaewan Kim is Professor of School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) and the Director of Open KIAS Center. After he worked for Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) until 2000 and for Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) until 2002, he joined KIAS for the research of quantum information science. At Samsung, he did computer simulations and holds a patent on electric inkjet. He proposed quantum teleportation by single photon entanglement and qudit cluster state by entangling optical coherent states, which might be used for various types of quantum information processing. His Open KIAS Center activity includes Transdisciplinary Program, Research Station Program, Conferences, and Outreach Activities for young students such as “e-day e-time” and science lectures for general public.

13

LE Tuan Hoa Director, Institute of Mathematics Hanoi, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology

Title of talk: Institute of Mathematics Hanoi and a Category 2 Centre under the Auspices of UNESCO in a near future

Bio: Prof Le Tuan Hoa is the Director of the Institute of Mathematics Hanoi (IMH) of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology since 2013.

He completed his undergraduate studies at Belarus, obtained his PhD in 1990 at the University of Halle in Germany, and his Doctor of Science in 1995 at the IMH. He joined IMH in 1981, where he served as Deputy-Director from 1998 to May 2011 and became full professor in 2004. In 2011 he was elected as a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in developing countries (TWAS).

He was also Managing Director of the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (2011-2013), President of the Vietnam Mathematical Society (2008- 2013) and President of the South East Asian Mathematical Society (2012-2013).

His research focuses on the complexity of algebraic objects and has more than 50 publications.

The Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (IMH-VAST) was established in 1970. Its mission is to promote excellence in mathematical research and applications as well as to provide first-rate education to PhD and graduate students. Members of IMH have published more than 3000 research papers in international journals, many of them in first rank journals. In 1994, it was recognized by The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) as a Centre of Excellence in the South.

14

INVITED DIRECTORS AND PROFESSORS

Yong-Hee LEE President, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

Title of talk: Korea Institute for Advanced Study: A 20-year-old Culture

Bio: Prof Yong-Hee Lee is the President of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) and Professor of Physics at KAIST. He joined the Agency for Defence Development in 1979 and AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1987. In 1991, he joined the Department of Physics in KAIST.

During his stay at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Prof Lee pioneered and demonstrated the 850-nm proton-implanted top-emitting VCSELs in 1990 and holds the original patent on this industrially-accepted VCSEL. In 1991, he joined KAIST and has continued his researches on VCSELs. Recently his main interest lies on photonic nano-structures and nano-photonic integrated circuits. His laboratory demonstrated various forms of photonic crystal lasers.

Within Korea, he has received the National Academy of Sciences Award (Natural Science) in 2002 and the Science Prize (Physics) in 2010 from MOEST. He has co-authored over 180 papers related to nanophotonics, with cumulative citations of >12,000 and H-index of 56(Google Scholar). He advised and produced over 40 PhD students in physics during his stay at KAIST.

15

Yoshiaki MAEDA Vice-Director, Tohoku Forum for Creativity, Tohoku University

Title of talk: Activities of Tohoku Forum for Creativity

Bio: Prof Yoshiaki Maeda was an Associate Professor at Keio University from 1978 to 1985, and a Professor from 1985 to 2014. Upon retiring from Keio University, he became a Professor Emeritus at Keio University. In 2014, he was appointed Vice Director of Tohoku Forum for Creativity at Tohoku University. His research specialty is mathematics, in particular differential geometry and symplectic geometry.

16

INVITED DIRECTORS AND PROFESSORS

Shigeru MUKAI Director, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto

Title of talk: RIMS, 50 Years as a Joint Research Center, and the Next

Bio: Prof Shigeru Mukai is a Japanese algebraic geometer. After receiving his Master degree, he was hired as a research assistant at Nagoya University in 1978. He received his PhD at Kyoto University in 1982. His thesis establishes a duality between the derived categories of coherent sheaves on an abelian varieties and its dual, using a certain functor. This duality is an algebro-geometric analogy of the classical Fourier transformation in analysis and the functor is now called the Fourier-Mukai transform.

In the early 1980s, Prof Mukai travelled abroad for two years, financially supported by the Hironaka Foundation. He was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, USA in 1981 and a visiting scholar of the Max-Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany in 1982. During this time, he began his study of K3 surfaces and applied it to the classification of Fano threefolds, an interesting class of 3-dimensional algebraic varieties. He is now working on Eniques surfaces.

Prof Mukai was awarded the Japanese Mathematical Society Prize in 1985 and he was an invited speaker at the International Congress in Beijing in 2002. He has been with the Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences (RIMS) of Kyoto University since 2001, and served as Director of RIMS since April 2014.

17

NGÔ Bảo Châu Scientific Director, Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics; Fields Medallist 2010

Title of talk: On the Role of an Institute for Advanced Studies in Developing Countries

Bio: Prof Ngô Bảo Châu is the scientific director of the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics. He did his undergraduate study at École Normale Supérieure and completed his PhD at the Universite Paris-Sud in 1997. He was a member of CNRS at Paris 13 University from 1998 to 2004.

In 2004, he became a Professor at Paris-Sud 11 University and in the same year, received the title of Professor in Vietnam at age 33, becoming the country’s youngest-ever professor. Since 2007, Prof Ngo has been working at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics. In 2010, he was awarded the Fields Medal for “his proof of the Fundamental Lemma in the theory of automorphic forms through the introduction of new algebro-geometric methods”. He joined the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Chicago in the same year. In 2011, he was appointed the Scientific Director of the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study.

18

INVITED DIRECTORS AND PROFESSORS

Kok Khoo PHUA Founding Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University

Title of talk: The First Ten Years of IAS, NTU

Bio: Prof Phua is the Founding and Executive Director of IAS, NTU. He is also the co-Chairman of the Global Young Scientists Summit organised by the National Research Foundation, and the Chairman of the Annual International Science Youth Forum (Nobel Forum) jointly organised by IAS and Hwa Chong Institution, supported by A*STAR and Ministry of Education. Prof Phua is also the Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

Together with Nobel Laureate Prof C N Yang and other senior physicists, Prof Phua is one of the founding council members of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS). A Fellow of the American Physical Society and an Advisory Board Member of Singapore-China Association for Advanced Science and Technology, Prof Phua is also the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd.

In recognition of his contribution to physics and scientific publishing, he was conferred an honorary doctorate degree by the University of Birmingham, UK in November 2013. Prof Phua was also conferred the Si Yuan Guest Professorship by the University of Nottingham Ningbo China in April 2014, and the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) Fellowship in May 2014.

19

Eliezer RABINOVICI Professor Emeritus, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University

Title of talk: The Role of UBIASs within the Family of Institutes for Advanced Study

Bio: Prof Eliezer Rabinovici is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from the Hebrew University in 1969 and 1971 respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Fermilab (1975-1976) and at Lawrence Berkeley Lab (1977). He has been at the Hebrew University since 1978 as Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor (1981) and Professor (1985).

His area of research is theoretical high-energy physics, in particular quantum field theory and strong theory. He has published over 150 papers and chapters in books. He was invited to hold named visiting professorships and deliver named lectures at leading universities. He has also served on various national and international evaluation committees.

At the Hebrew University, he served as the chair of the Racah Institute of Physics for three years, and as director of the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies from 2005 to 2012, an institution linked to the UBIAS network. He is one of the founding fathers of SESAME and also served as Vice President of SESAME for two years. Currently he is the chair of the Israeli Committee for High Energy Physics and Vice President of CERN’s Council, member of the Board of the American Physical Society, and Louis Michel Professor of IHES Paris.

20

INVITED DIRECTORS AND PROFESSORS

Ernst RANKDirector, Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich

Title of talk: TUM-IAS: An Institute for Advanced Study in a Technical University

Bio: Prof Ernst Rank conducts research on numerical mechanics and building informatics. This research focuses on high-order finite element methods and linking numerical calculation to geometric modelling. The objective of this is to develop effective and intuitively usable simulation methods for the optimisation of industrial products and processes.

After studying mathematics and physics at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University, Prof Rank was awarded a doctorate at TUM in 1985. After that, he worked in the USA with the assistance of a research grant until 1986. Following a period working for Siemens, he assumed a professorship at the University of Dortmund, after which he was appointed to TUM in 1997. He served as First Vice President of TUM from 2002 to 2008. He has been Founding Director of the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE) (since 2006), Chairman of the University Council of TU Dortmund (since 2007), Director of the TUM Graduate School from 2008 to 2013 and since 2015 Director of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of TUM.

21

Giorgio RIELLODirector, Warwick Institute of Advanced Study

Title of talk: Supporting Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Warwick: A Post-Brexit Future

Bio: Prof Giorgio Riello is Professor of Global History and Culture and Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick, UK. He received his first degree in Economics from the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy and completed his PhD in Economic History at University College London. Prof Riello has spent the past 10 years at Warwick where he teaches economic and global history and directs the Global History and Culture Centre. He was previously at the London School of Economics.

He is the recipient of fellowships from Stanford (2010-11), The Australian National University (2011), the European University Institute, Florence (2012), and will be a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in 2017-18. His work on the history of trade and commodities received several prizes including the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Wold History Association Book of the Year, and the Iris Prize in Material Culture Studies. His recent books include Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (Cambridge UP, 2013) and Luxury: A Rich History (Oxford UP, 2016).

22

INVITED DIRECTORS AND PROFESSORS

Peter VALE Director, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study

Title of talk: The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS): Afro-Asian Co-operation in the 21st Century

Bio: Prof Peter Vale, BA Hons (Witwatersrand), MA, PhD (Leicester), is Director of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) and Professor of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg. Currently, he chairs the Academy Advisory Board of STIAS (The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study). Between 2008 and 2011, he co-chaired (with Jonathan Jansen) the first inquiry into the state of the Humanities in South Africa for the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).

Prof Vale’s research interests include social thought, intellectual traditions in South Africa, the politics of Higher Education, and the origins of International Relations in South Africa. He has published extensively (both at home and abroad) in all these fields. His most recent co-edited books have been on South African Intellectual Traditions, Critical Perspectives on South Africa after 20 years of democracy, and the state of Political Studies in South Africa.

His career appointments include Director of Research, The South African Institute of Insternational Affairs; Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University; Co-Director (with Rob Davies) of the Centre for Southern African Studies, University of the Western Cape – at the same institution, he acted as Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs. Prior to his appointment to UJ in late-2010, Prof Vale was Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics, Rhodes University.

23

Rebecca VIPOND Research Officer, Warwick Institute of Advanced Study

Title of talk: Supporting Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Warwick: A Post-Brexit Future

Bio: Dr Rebecca Vipond is the Research Officer at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. Her role includes managing the Institute’s cohort of Early Career Fellows, who are in the transitional phase between completing their PhD studies and beginning postdoctoral research careers. She leads the weekly Academic Careers and Employability training programme, designed to provide guidance and resources concerning all aspects of academia, and coordinates events for the wider postdoctoral community at Warwick. She is part of the team launching the Institute’s new WIRL-COFUND Fellowship programme, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions COFUND scheme (grant agreement number 713548). She also organises the Institute’s Annual Symposium, coordinates the Institute’s Annual Report, and is responsible for maintaining the Institute’s webpages and Twitter Account.

24

NOTES

25

26

NOTES

Institute of Advanced StudiesNanyang Technological University

Nanyang Executive Centre60 Nanyang View #04-09

Singapore 639673Tel: (65) 6790 6491 Fax: (65) 6794 4941

Website: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ias