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November 11-13, 2026

International Terahertz / Submillimeter Observing Universe Symposium (Co-Organized)

11–13 November 2026 | Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Sha Tin

November 13, 2026 @ 16:00 - 17:00

Academician Colloquium: Free Electron Laser Technology and its Applications in Science

Speaker: Professor Xueming Yang (Southern University of Science and Technology & Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS)

November 13, 2026 @ 17:00 - 18:00

Academician Colloquium: Superconducting Detectors and Terahertz Astronomy

Speaker: Professor Sheng-Cai Shi (Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS)

November 17, 2026 @ 13:30 - 14:30

The Local Hot Bubble: Lessons from X-ray CCDs and prospects with NewAthena

Speaker: Dr. Michael Yeung (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

November 17, 2026 @ 16:00 - 17:00

Higgs inflation: Connecting Particle Physics, Gravity, and Cosmology

Speaker: Dr. Minxi He (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

Dec 18, 2025 @ 2:00pm - 3:00pm

A nonlinear voice from GW250114 ringdown

Speaker: Dr. Yifan WANG, Postdoc and Junior Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

Dec 12, 2025 @ 11:00am - 12:00pm

Constraining cosmological parameters from FRB-GW association events without redshifts

Speaker: Mr. Jiaming ZHUGE, PhD Candidate, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dec 12, 2025, @ 10:00am - 11:00am

Efficient general-relativistic simulation: Magnetic field amplification and electromagnetic signals of binary neutron star mergers

Speaker: Dr. Harry Ho-Yin NG, Croucher Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology

Nov 4, 2025 @ 4:30pm - 5:30pm

HKU Distinguished Lecture Series: Exploring Einstein’s Universe with Pulsars

Professor Matthew Bailes demonstrates how astronomers have used radio telescopes to discover thousands of pulsars — the highly magnetised neutron stars left over when large stars explode at the end of their lives.

Nov 3, 2025

HKIAA Inauguration and the first HKIAA Symposium

The Symposium features HKIAA members from four universities presenting their cutting-edge research across diverse areas of astrophysics.