Schedule
(Updated as of August 11, 2026)
Important notes:
| 1. | This Conference will be held in face-to-face mode. |
| 2. | Unauthorized recording of any session is prohibited. |
| 3. | Please obtain the consent from the speaker concerned for any adaptation/sharing of his/her presentation materials. |
| Should you have further enquiries, please feel free to contact the secretariat by email at ias2026rqm@ust.hk. | |
November 30, 2026 (Mon)
Time
Event
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Registration (Venue: Lobby, G/F) |
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Session I: Session Chairs: To be confirmed |
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| 13:00 - 13:10 |
Opening Remarks |
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| 13:10 - 14:00 |
[Keynote Talk] D1-#1: Coordination Self-Assembly: From Origins to the Latest Advances Makoto FUJITA (The University of Tokyo) |
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| 14:00 - 14:40 |
D1-#2: Talk title to be confirmed Johannes V. BARTH (Technische Universität München) |
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| 14:40 - 15:10 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 15:10 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F) |
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| 15:30 - 16:10 |
D1-#3: Symmetry-Enforced Quantum States in Metal–Organic Frameworks Feng LIU (The University of Utah) |
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| 16:10 - 16:30 |
D1-#4: Molecular Qubit Frameworks: Spin Dynamics and Quantum Sensing Applications Lei SUN (Westlake University) |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 17:00 |
End of Day 1 |
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December 1, 2026 (Tue)
Time
Event
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Session II: Session Chairs: To be confirmed |
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| 09:00 - 09:40 |
D2-#1: Talk title to be confirmed Lifeng CHI (Soochow University) |
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| 09:40 - 10:20 |
D2-#2: Spin Manipulation and Coupling at the Single Molecule Level Yongfeng WANG (Peking University) |
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| 10:20 - 10:50 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 10:50 - 11:10 |
Group photo taking & Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F) |
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| 11:10 - 11:50 |
D2-#3: Talk title to be confirmed Shiyong WANG (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) |
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| 11:50 - 12:10 |
D2-#4: Real-Space Imaging of Delocalized Quantum States under Conformational Disorder Bruno DE LA TORRE (The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) |
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| 12:10 - 12:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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Session III: Session Chairs: To be confirmed |
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| 14:00 - 14:40 |
D2-#5: Controlling Rotational Motion in Self-Assembled Porous Networks Sabine MAIER (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
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| 14:40 - 15:20 |
D2-#6: On-Surface Synthesis of 1D and 2D Conductive-MOF Mathieu ABEL (Aix Marseille Université) |
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| 15:20 - 15:50 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 15:50 - 16:10 |
Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F) |
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| 16:10 - 16:50 |
D2-#7: Single Sheet Reticular Materials: Controlling Quantum Behaviour by Host-Guest Interactions Thomas JUNG (University of Basel and Paul Scherrer Institute) |
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| 16:50 - 17:10 |
D2-#8: Hydrocarbon Frameworks with Long-Range Order Seungkyu LEE (The University of Hong Kong) |
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| 17:10 - 17:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 17:30 |
End of Day 2 |
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December 2, 2026 (Wed)
Time
Event
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Session IV: Session Chairs: To be confirmed |
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| 09:00 - 09:40 |
D3-#1: Talk title to be confirmed To be confirmed |
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| 09:40 - 10:20 |
D3-#2: Advances in the Design of 2D Networks at Surfaces David ÉCJIA (IMDEA Nanociencia) |
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| 10:20 - 10:50 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 10:50 - 11:10 |
Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F) |
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| 11:10 - 11:50 |
D3-#3: Talk title to be confirmed Peter LILJEROTH (Aalto University) |
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| 11:50 - 12:10 |
D3-#4: Yu-Shiba-Rusinov Bands in a Self-Assembled Kagome Lattice of Magnetic Molecules Laëtitia FARINACCI (University of Würzburg) |
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| 12:10 - 12:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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Session V: Session Chairs: To be confirmed |
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| 14:00 - 14:40 |
D3-#5: Talk title to be confirmed Rémy PAWLAK (University of Basel) |
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| 14:40 - 15:20 |
D3-#6: Generating Novel 2D-MOFs and Chiral 2D-COFs Using Non-Planar SubPhthalocyanines Jorge LOBO-CHECA (The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) |
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| 15:20 - 15:50 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 15:50 - 16:10 |
Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F) |
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| 16:10 - 17:30 |
Poster Session (Venue: Lobby, G/F) |
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| 17:30 |
End of Day 3 |
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| 18:00 - 20:00 |
Dinner Banquet (For Invited Speakers & Invited Participants Only; Venue: To be confirmed) |
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December 3, 2026 (Thu)
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Event
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Session VI: Session Chairs: To be confirmed |
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| 09:00 - 09:40 |
D4-#1: Coordination Nanosheets: From Molecular Design to Emerging Functions Hiroshi NISHIHARA (University of Yamanashi) |
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| 09:40 - 10:20 |
D4-#2: Assembling Quantum Materials from Molecular Building Blocks: Metallic Transport and Bloch–Grüneisen Behavior in a SURMOF Thin Film Christof WOELL (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) |
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| 10:20 - 10:50 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 10:50 - 11:10 |
Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F) |
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| 11:10 - 11:50 |
D4-#3: On-Surface Synthesis of Magetic 2D MOF on Surfaces Pavel JELINEK (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences) |
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| 11:50 - 12:10 |
D4-#4: Non-Reciprocal Transport in Molecular Intercalated 2D Superconductors Zhong WAN (The University of Hong Kong) |
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| 12:10 - 12:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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Session VII: Session Chairs: To be confirmed |
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| 14:00 - 14:40 |
D4-#5: Organic 2D Crystals and van der Waals Heterostructures Xinliang FENG (The Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics) |
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| 14:40 - 15:20 |
D4-#6: On-Surface Synthesis of Kagome Metal-Organic Frameworks from Halogenated Aromatic Precursors Jennifer MACLEOD (Queensland University of Technology) |
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| 15:20 - 15:50 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 15:50 - 16:10 |
Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F) |
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| 16:10 - 16:50 |
D4-#7: Talk title to be confirmed Wei JI (Renmin University of China) |
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| 16:50 - 17:10 |
D4-#8: High-Mobility Band-Like Charge Transport in 2D Covalent- and Metal- Organic Frameworks Enrique CÁNOVAS (IMDEA Nanociencia) |
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| 17:10 - 17:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 17:30 |
End of Day 4 |
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December 4, 2026 (Fri)
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Event
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Contributed Talks |
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| 09:00 - 12:30 |
Details will be available in due course. |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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Young Scientist Forum |
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| 14:00 - 17:30 |
Details will be available in due course. |
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| 17:30 |
End of Program |
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