From May 25 to 26, 2019, the 237th Shuangqing Forum of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) was held in Shenzhen. The theme of this forum was “Chemistry research in the era of artificial intelligence (AI)”. The forum was co-sponsored by the College of Science, the Office of Research of SUSTech, and organized by the NSFC.

Last weekend saw the Department of Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) host a seminar on Space Geodesy and Global Changes in Applied Science. More than 60 experts from across mainland China and around the world travelled to SUSTech to attend the conference.

Over the weekend, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and the Shenzhen Grubbs Institute hosted the first Shenzhen Grubbs Institute –Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOC-CAS) Seminar. SUSTech University Council Vice Chairperson Li Fengliang, SIOC-CAS Director Tang Yong, and Deputy Secretary Liu Fei of the SIOC-CAS Party Committee attended the seminar. Department head of Chemistry Zheng Zhiping and Executive Director of the Shenzhen Grubbs Institute presided over the seminar.

Last week, Academician Gao Song from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and President of South China University of Technology (SCUT) came to Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech).

On the morning of March 21st, 2019, the 8th edition of the Grubbs Symposium opened at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). Robert H. Grubbs, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005, the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), foreign associate of Chinese Academy of Science, and SUSTech President Shiyi Chen attended the opening ceremony.

January 11-13th saw the Chinese Chemical Society’s Chiral China 2019 Academic Seminar (Seminar) held at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). SUSTech President Chen Shiyi and Dean of the College of Science Yang Xueming attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. More than 540 representatives from domestic research institutes and universities along with R&D experts in chiral science and drugs from around the world attended the Seminar.