Carbene chemistry stands at the forefront of molecular exploration, offering a captivating journey into the unique behavior of carbon species that challenge conventional rules. Carbenes, compounds containing a divalent carbon atom with only six electrons in its valence shell, are very intriguing to scientists.

α-Chiral alkyl thiols and other organosulfur moieties with different sulfur oxidation states are important chiral building blocks in organic synthesis and biochemical processes, as well as key structural elements in a variety of biomolecules, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemicals. Consequently, the efficient catalytic enantioselective carbon–sulfur (C(sp3)–S) bond formation constitutes a longstanding objective in modern chemical and biological research.

The Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) recently hosted the 2023 Shenzhen International Conference on Frontiers of Statistics and Data Science, with the event taking place at the University’s Convention Center from December 1 to 3.

Associate Professor Zhifang Xu’s research team from the Department of Physics at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), in collaboration with Professor Andreas Hemmerich from the University of Hamburg, Professor Congjun Wu from Westlake University, and Dr. Zixiang Li, a specially appointed researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have made significant progress in the research of orbital physics in optical lattices.

Associate Professor Jiashun Hu’s research group from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has recently made new progress in the study of constraining the India-Eurasia collision process using plate rotation records.

On October 30, 2023, Prof. Naoya Shibata from the University of Tokyo was invited to the 133 Science Lecture in the College of Science. He gave a lecture themed “Magnetic-field-free Atomic Resolution STEM”.