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HKSAR Chief Executive Donald Tsang and some of the world’s top scientists joined hands to plant trees at the site of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), to mark the opening of the Institute’s inaugural symposium entitled “Mapping Frontiers of Science”. Mr Tsang was flanked by Prof C N Yang, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 and currently Chair of the IAS International Advisory Board, and HKUST President Paul Chu, who is also the Founding Director of IAS. “Today is a major milestone not only in the development of the IAS, but for the advancement of science at the regional and even global level,” said President Chu. Construction of the IAS Building, located at the top of a knoll adjacent to the southern side of the HKUST campus, is scheduled to start by late 2009.