Scientists at NCTS work on the following major research subjects and research topics: High Energy Phenomenology, String and Gravity: dark matter, dark energy, nature of electroweak symmetry breaking, neutrino physics, collider physics, holographic and quantum informatic property of gravity, scattering amplitudes, inflationary cosmology, quantum geometry and branes, exact results in QFT.

NCTS operates a number of academic programs in order to engage researchers in creative scientific activities.

Programs include the NCTS Topic Programs whose purpose is to encourage collaboration and to foster the generation of new ideas and initiatives for breakthrough; Rapid Response Workshop whose purpose is to respond actively and quickly to any sudden development of the field which has a significant potential of impact; NCTS Distinguished Lecturer whose objective is to bring distinguished scholars to NCTS to give a lecture or lecture series on a specific topic of research or a topic of general interest.

These groups have been the breeding ground for a number of young brilliant PhD students and postdoctoral researchers who have gone on for a successful career in physics.

NCTS Annual Theory Meeting on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Dec 9-12, 2015 Forum on Future of High Energy Physics,Dec 11, 2015 Israel-Taiwan Workshop on Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, and Quantum Matters, Dec 14-15, 2015 NCTS Annual Theory Meeting 2015: Condensed Matter Physics, Dec 16-19 Japan-Taiwan workshop on KAGRA, Dec 23, 2015 The 1st KEK-KIAS-NCTS Joint Workshop on Particle Physics Phenomenology, May 26-28, 2016 Public lecture by Prof. Jerome Friedman (1990 Nobel laureate in Physics), July 12, 2016 The 13th Taiwan International Symposium on Statistical Physics and Complex Systems (StatPhys-Taiwan-2016), Sep 6-8, 2016 The 19th Asian Workshop on First-Principles: Electronic Structure Calculations (ASIAN-19), Oct 31-Nov 2, 2016 9th Taiwan String Workshop, Nov 11-13, 2016 NCTS distinguished lecture, Nov 22-24,2016 NCTS Annual Theory Meeting 2016: Particles,Cosmology and String, Dec 06-09, 2016 NCTS Annual Theory Meeting 2016: Quantum Simulations and Numerical Studies in Many Bodies Physics, Dec 09-11, 2016 UNESCO talk on CERN, Apr 19, 2017 Searching for – and finding!