The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) inked on May 17, 2004 an agreement with the Institute of High Energy Physics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in a move to forge full-fledged cooperation ties with the latter in the field of disciplinary capacity building and training. USTC also singed on May 24, 2004 a cooperation agreement with the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences under CAS, to establish a department of system biology at the University, the first of its kind in the country. USTC has so far established full-fledged cooperation ties with nearly hundred institutes under the CAS system, becoming the largest research-education alliance in the country.
To build itself into a world-class university, USTC had sent more than 200 students to work for the socalled ??student research program?¯ initiated with CAS institutes. The joint research endeavors have created 142 projects, of which 10 are listed as priorities, with a paid-in fund of RMB 30.18 million.
Beijing based Institute of High-energy Physics, a part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (a research body that established its cooperation tie with USTC in earlier days), allows the Department of Modern Physics to construct four sub-systems for BESIII, a large science project undertaken by the Institute for phase II development of the Beijing Positron and Electron Collider. Not long ago, both sides established a joint lab for nuclear detection technology and nuclear electronics, working on key technologies in high-energy physics, nuclear physics, particle astrophysics, and nuclear technologies, in an attempt to establish a new CAS key lab. In collaboration with Beijing Institute of Physics, Institute of Semiconductors, and Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, all affiliated to CAS, Prof. GUO Guangchan, CAS academician with USTC who chaired a national 973 project, has harvested a range of world-class research findings that constituted outstanding contributions to China?¯s information security. |
