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110 Part 3 • Research Units and University Extensions The institute offers postgraduate study programmes for both master’s and doctoral degrees and runs a postdoctoral fellowship programme and a short-term visitor programme. It regularly organizes postgraduate courses, academic colloquia and workshops, and lectures by visitors. It also publishes research reports and runs three international research journals. Activities in the pipeline include yearly programmes in geometrical analysis; nonlinear evolution partial differential equations and computational fluid dynamics; numerical and theoretical analysis of inverse problems; harmonic functions, fractals and wavelets. The institute plans to strengthen collaboration with institutions on the mainland and abroad, and to lead research in the region. Institute of Optical Science and Technology Tel.: 2609 8370 Fax.: 2603 7210 E-mail: chinlon@ie.cuhk.edu.hk , kntsang@ie.cuhk.edu.hk The institute was formed in October 2002 to promote research excellence in all areas of advanced photonic science and technology as well as industrial application. It oversees several existing photonics-related laboratories in the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Science. Its two major research centres are the Centre for Advanced Research in Photonics (CARP) and the Centre of Optical Sciences (COS). CARP focuses on R&D and engineering applications of photonics in components, devices, modules, subsystems, systems and networks, whereas COS concentrates on basic research in photonic physics, optical spectroscopy, novel photonic materials, and new processes. Centre for Advanced Research in Photonics Tel.: 2609 8370 Fax.: 2603 7210 E-mail: chinlon@cuhk.edu.hk The centre’s mission is to promote research excellence in all areas of advanced photonics technology and their engineering application. Areas of interest include optoelectronic devices, components, subsystem modules, optical communication systems, optical networks as well as photonic sensors for biomedical applications. Much of the research is interdisciplinary, involving collaboration of researchers from different speciality areas in the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Science. Affiliated with the centre are several laboratories such as the Lightwave Communications Laboratory, the Optoelectronics Laboratory, the Solid State Electronics Laboratory, the Photonics Packaging Laboratory, the MOVPE Laboratory, and the Centre for Micro and Nano Systems. Centre of Optical Sciences Tel.: 2609 6103 Fax.: 2603 5204 E-mail: dlo@phy.cuhk.edu.hk