Source: News Center, School of Physics and Engineering
Text by: News Center, School of Physics and Engineering
Photos by: News Center, Kai Saier
Translated by: Chen Zhiyong

From September 21 to 23, The CPS 2012 Fall Meeting, hosted by Chinese Physical Society (CPS), and organized by Sun Yat-sen University and Guangdong Physics Society, was held in Sun Yat-sen University. Academician Xue Qikun, President of Chinese Physical Society and Head of Department of Physics of Tsinghua University, Academician Yu Lu, Academician Zhu Bangfen, and Academician Xu Ningsheng, President of Sun Yat-sen University, a total of over 2,000 people in the physics community attended the meeting.


The opening ceremony took place on the morning of September 21, chaired by Prof. Wang Biao, Dean of the School of Physics and Engineering (SPE). President Xu Ningsheng delivered a speech at the ceremony, thanking the Chinese Physical Society for giving SYSU the opportunity to host this distinguished academic meeting and welcoming the distinguished guests and representatives. President Xu looked back at the development of physics in SYSU. He said that SYSU set up the discipline of physics since its foundation and a considerable number of renowned professors of physics have taught in the university. SYSU’s physical science has been expanded and optimized after years of efforts, having its obvious characteristics and strength in basic and applied research, and enhancing its ability to be of service to national and local economic development. The history of SYSU’s physical science is actually a part of that of China’s physical science. He also hoped that experts and scholars could generate new ideas and viewpoints in the course of the meeting and that they could support and help SYSU’s physical science as ever before.


Later, Academician Xue Qikun, convener of the organizing committee, introduced the history of the organizing committee of CPS Fall Meeting, and hoped that with their joint efforts the participating experts could contribute to the development of physical science. Prof. Wang Xuehua of SPE, SYSU, representative of local organizing committee, introduced the preparation and attendance of the meeting.


The opening ceremony was followed by invited lectures. Prof. Wilson Ho of University of California, Prof. Tin-Lun Ho of The Ohio State University and Tsinghua University, Prof. Fang Zhong of Institute of Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Wang Yifang of Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences made their academic reports respectively. Many participants found the reports wonderful and straightforward, the atmosphere vigorous and the session beneficial.

The meeting also organized parallel sessions invited lectures, oral presentations and poster sessions for the participants to have discussions. The expanded meeting of the CPS Teaching Committee, a roundtable discussion of female physicists, educational equipment exhibitions and book fairs were also held during the meeting.

The attendants include not only academicians and experts from home and abroad, members of the organizing committee of physics society, deans of School of Physics and heads of Department of Physics, but also delegates from American Physical Society (APS), American Institute of Physics (AIP), and Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP).