Newsletter

No.50

Feb., 2007

Headline News	Innovation and Development	Applied Technology	Basic Science	Geoscience
Cooperation between CAS and Local Governments	Bioscience	International Cooperation	Brief News	Visits & Exchanges

On Dec. 4th, Ben H. Thacker, head of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, the SwRI-Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), paid a visit to the Institute of Metal Research, CAS on invitation, together with three of his entourage, including N. Sridhard, Project Director and Dr. Wei Ronghua for discussion of bilateral cooperation.
On Dec. 5th, Prof. Tomasz Janowski from UNU-IIST paid a visit to the Institute of Computing Technology, CAS.
Recently, at invitation of the FY-4 Scan Radiometer Research Team and the Sixth Research Group of the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (SITP), CAS, Hu Yann, Full Professor and Doctoral Tutor of the University of Strasbourg, France paid a visit to SITP for technological exchanges.
Recently, Valeriy Pokrovskiy, Vice President of the Institute of Surface Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Prof. Natalia Galagan, paid a visit to the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS on invitation.
On Dec. 14th, Mr. Patrick Baudelaire, Thomson’s Chief Scientist and Wang Chuanming, President of Thomson’s Beijing Research Institute, paid a visit to the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR) of the Institute of Automation, CAS with their entourage.
On Dec. 19th, a delegation led by Seth Berkley, President of IAVI, paid a visit to the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, CAS together with Zhang Linqi, Director of the AIDS Research Center, CAMS/PUMC and held panel discussion with the researchers there.
From Dec. 20th to 21st 2006, at invitation of Bi Jicheng, Research Fellow of the Institute of Coal Chemistry, CAS, Dr. Matsuoka and Dr. Sharma of AIST, paid a visit to the State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, and held academic exchange with researchers there on use of biomass and novel method for the production of hydrogen.
On Jan. 18th, Liu Zhiren and Yang Jie, Professors of the US Georgia State University, paid a visit to the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS at invitation of the National Analytical Research Center of Electrochemistry and Spectroscopy.
On Jan. 4th, Zhu Jingxu, Director of the Particle Technology Research Western (PTRW), University of Western Ontario, who is an internationally renowned expert of fluidization and particuology, paid an academic visit to the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, CAS on invitation. Both sides reached common understanding on the research regarding the “theoretical model for biomass circulating fluidized-bed gasifier” and entered into agreement.??
On Jan. 10th, Dr. Chai Fei, Professor of the US University of Maine and a famous expert of ocean ecosystem dynamics, paid a visit to the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO),CAS.
On Jan. 15th, Risto Kuittinen, Director General of the Finish Geodetic Institute (FGI), Prof. Ruizhi Chen, Director of FGI’s Navigation and Location Research Team and Juha Hyyppa, Director of FGI’s Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Research Team, paid a 2-day visit to the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics on invitation.
On Jan. 16th, Dr. Charlotte Braungardt and Dr. Colin Trier from the School of Earth, Ocean & Environmental Sciences of the University of Plymouth paid a visit to the Key Laboratory of tropical Marine Environmental Dynamics, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS (LED) at the invitation of Chen Chuqun, research fellow of the Laboratory.
On Jan. 18th afternoon, Mr. Guy Riba, Vice President of the Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) and Gérard Matheron, Director General of CIRAD, paid a visit to the Institute of Zoology, CAS.