Thailand MHESI Delegation Visits SARI

A delegation of 13 people led by Prof. Pasit Lorterapong, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation of Thailand, visited the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Chinese Academy of Sciences on February 12, 2023.Prof. Zhao Zhentang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), Prof. Tai Renzhong, Vice President of SARI and deputy director of SSRF, Prof. Jiang Biao, Director of Innovation Cooperation Center (Bangkok), CAS led the Chinese delegation. Mr. Yang Wenzhan, Program officer from the International Cooperation Department, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality also joined the visit.Accompanied by Chinese scientists, the delegation first visited the storage ring and two experimental stations at SSRF, the Shanghai Soft X-ray Free Electron Laser, and the superconducting RF cavity test platform for Shanghai Hard X-ray FEL Facility.At the meeting, Prof. Tai first extended a warm welcome on behalf of SARI to the visit of Prof. Pasit Lorterapong and his delegation. Tai briefly introduced the historical development and research direction of the Institute, and expressed his hope to enhance understanding through mutual visits and further promote the cooperation between China and Thailand in science and technology.Prof. Zhao Zhengtang delivered a report, introducing in details the operation and scientific research achievements at SSRF and reviewing the cooperation between China and Thailand in the field of synchrotron light source.In the final discussion, Prof. Pasit Lorterapong expressed his gratitude for the reception of sari, and said that through this visit, they had a deep understanding of the huge space for cooperation between China and Thailand in the field of science and technology. They will continue to promote mutual visits between the two sides and strive to produce more results in scientific research cooperation.
　　

Congratulations to Prof. Alessandro Sepe on Winning the 2022 Shanghai Magnolia Silver Award

On December 18, 2022, the Shanghai "Magnolia Silver Award" ceremony was held in Shanghai. Prof. Alessandro Sepe, Chief Scientist of the Big Data Science Center (BDSC) at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), was awarded this award for his outstanding contributions supporting the construction of major national science and technology infrastructures, promoting Shanghai's urban economy and social development, and promoting foreign exchanges and cooperation.

On December 18, 2022, the Shanghai "Magnolia Silver Award" ceremony was held in Shanghai. Prof. Alessandro Sepe, Chief Scientist of the Big Data Science Center (BDSC) at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), was awarded this award for his outstanding contributions supporting the construction of major national science and technology infrastructures, promoting Shanghai's urban economy and social development, and promoting foreign exchanges and cooperation.                                            
　　Prof. Sepe's main research direction is synchrotron Big Data science, and he has joined the SSRF full-time as the chief scientist of the BDSC since March 2018, where he led his team carrying out a series of innovative research and development works culminating in the architecting, design and deployment of the BDSC at the SSRF, while making a number of core technological breakthroughs in the design and development of scientific computing infrastructures, and in the research and development of automatic data processing pipelines. This architecture provides a unified Big Data management and processing framework for the SSRF, supporting multiple running beamlines, while capable of supporting the new additional beamlines part of the SSRF Upgrade Project.In 2020, in the early stage of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the BDSC fully guaranteed the emergency opening of the Crystallography beamline at the SSRF, supporting the domestic users in obtaining, for the first time, the structural properties of a number of key proteins of the new coronavirus, fully supporting, at the most difficult moment, the principle of "fighting the epidemic and resuming work and production", while strongly supporting drug screening and research and development, as well as vaccine research and development and other related research projects. Moreover, subsequent research carried out on the new coronavirus at the Crystallography beamline at the SSRF has largely benefited from the support of the BDSC.Furthermore, Prof. Sepe has actively used his overseas research network to promote SSRF's foreign exchanges and cooperation. He has participated in many top international academic conferences in the field of scientific Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to large scientific installations, where he gave invited reports, which improved the international visibility of the SSRF. Prof. Sepe’s outstanding work has been reported by Italian TV academic channels and newspapers, which aroused great interest in the international community to build Shanghai into a science and technology innovation center with global influence. Moreover, Prof. Sepe has actively led and promoted strong and robust domestic cooperation, sharing his achievements on synchrotron Big Data science with the other domestic light source large scientific facilities in China. Furthermore, as an international expert, Prof. Sepe guides and trains a number of graduate students of the ShanghaiTech University, while cultivating young scholars.
　　On July 2018, at the SSRF, Prof. Alessandro Sepe and Prof. Sir Tony Hey, Chief Data Scientist at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), worked on a memorandum of cooperation.
　　 
　　On October 2018, at the ShanghaiTech University, the first national symposium on Big scientific Data at Large Scientific Facilities was held with the participation of the SSRF Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, CAS, ShanghaiTech University, , Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, and the China Spallation Neutron Source.
　　On November 2019, the international conference “Artificial Intelligence Applied to Photon and Neutron Science” hosted by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) at Grenoble, France was held. Prof. Sepe was invited to give a lecture on the BDSC at the SSRF, as The First Superfacility Platform in China.
　　 
　　Established by the Shanghai Municipal Government in 1989 and named after the city flower of Shanghai, the magnolia, the Magnolia Silver Award is awarded annually to thank outstanding expatriates in recognition of their positive contributions to Shanghai's foreign exchanges and urban development. This year, 50 outstanding expatriates from 13 countries, including the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Australia and Japan, received the award.
　　

SARI Visiting Research Professor Wins Magnolia Silver Award

On September 15th 2021, Professor Kenji Hosoyama, Visiting Research Professor of SARI, was awarded the 2021 Magnolia Silver Award in recognition of his positive contributions to Shanghai’s economic and social development.

　　On September 15th 2021, Professor Kenji Hosoyama, Visiting Research Professor of SARI, was awarded the 2021 Magnolia Silver Award in recognition of his positive contributions to Shanghai’s economic and social development, especially for supporting the construction of major national science and technology facilities, fostering Sino-Japan exchanges and training of Chinese young scientists.
　　Professor Kenji Hosoyama
　　Magnolia Silver Award
　　Prof. Hosoyama is a world-renowned scientist in liquid helium cryogenic technology, superconducting radio frequency (SRF) technology and superconducting magnet technology. He has built a long history of friendship with Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) since its R&D in 1999. As an experienced scientist in High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan, Prof. Hosoyama has contributed much effort in building ties and foster international exchange between SSRF and KEK. Under his guidance and coordination, multiple technical obstacles in liquid helium cryogenic system and SRF system had been addressed, and a group of young scientists of SSRF got training in KEK.
　　 
　　KEK’s helium liquefaction system ready for shipment to Shanghai (2005)
　　Since 2018, Prof. Hosoyama was invited to join the accelerator team of Shanghai High Repetition Rate X-ray FEL and Extreme Light Facility (SHINE) as the Visiting Research Professor of SARI and ShanghaiTech University. As the contact person of international cooperation in superconducting accelerator technology between SARI and KEK, he actively promoted the signing of cooperation agreement, holding of annual technical seminar, and substantive technical cooperation in SRF technology, etc. Through his work and coordination, key equipments for SRF cavity fabrication had been built and R&D of SRF cavity prototype has made great progress.
　　 
　　Prof. Hosoyama addressed on International Workshop on Superconducting Linac Technology held by SHINE (2019)
　　Named after the city flower of Shanghai, the Magnolia Award was set up by the Foreign Affairs Office of the Shanghai Municipal Government in 1989. It has become one of the top awards to foreign individuals who have made outstanding contributions to Shanghai's economic development, social progress and international exchange and cooperation.
　　

The Researchers from the Safety and Emergency Lab Got the First Place in “Data Collection” Category in EWSN 2019 Dependability Competition

The 16th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, EWSN 2019, was held in Beijing. Prof. Dr. Jianming Wei’s group, the Safety and Emergency Laboratory from the Intelligence Information Communication Technology Research and Development Center, SARI, took part in the EWSN 2019 Dependability Competition and won the first place in “Data Collection” Category with their DeCoT+.

The 16th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, EWSN 2019, was held in Beijing. Prof. Dr. Jianming Wei’s group, the Safety and Emergency Laboratory from the Intelligence Information Communication Technology Research and Development Center, SARI, took part in the EWSN 2019 Dependability Competition and won the first place in “Data Collection” Category with their DeCoT+.
　　 The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks is a highly selective, annual forum for presenting research results in the field of networked embedded systems, broadly defined, including for example Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, or Cyber-Physical Systems. Over the last decade, a large number of low-power wireless communication protocols have been proposed by both academia and industry. Their performance, however, has rarely been benchmarked under the exact same settings. Furthermore, little is known about the performance of most low-power wireless protocols in the presence of RF interference, which often leads to an increase in packet loss, end-to-end latency, and energy consumption. Since 2016, the EWSN dependability competition aims to fill this gap by quantitatively comparing the dependability of state-of-the-art WSN and IoT communication protocols under the same settings and in environments rich of radio interference. This year, 12 international teams, many of them including industry partners, were competing for the most dependable IoT networking solution. After more than one month’s official evaluation, DeCoT+ won the first place depending on a better performance under harsh interference. Xiaoyuan Ma, as the main contributor of DeCoT+, presented their solution at the conference in Beijing.

Member of CAS and Vice President of CAST Wang Xi Assumes Presidency of Science Council of Asia

The 18th Conference of the Science Council of Asia was successfully held from December 5-7,in Tokyo, Japan. During the event, Mr. Wang Xi, Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of China Association for Science and Technology, officially assumed office as the President of Science Council of Asia for a two-year term starting from December 2018.

　　The 18th Conference of the Science Council of Asia was successfully held from December 5-7,in Tokyo, Japan. During the event, Mr. Wang Xi, Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of China Association for Science and Technology, officially assumed office as the President of Science Council of Asia for a two-year term starting from December 2018.
　　The Science Council of Asia(SCA) is an international scientific organization founded in 2000. SCA aims to provide scientists in all fields, including cultural and social as well as natural sciences and technology, a collaborative platform for promoting scientific exchange and cooperation in Asia, and to develop and promote a holistic vision focusing on sustainable development and improvement in quality of life. China is a founding member of the SCA and will hold the 20th Conference of the Science Council of Asia.With Academician Wang Xi assuming the presidency of SCA, China will play an important role and contribute Chinese wisdom to and in collaboration for global science and technology governance, utilizing international innovation resources for promoting The Belt and Road science and technology cooperation and advancing the balanced development of world science.
　　 

Belt and Road Science Alliance Launched in Beijing

A Belt and Road international science organisations alliance was launched on Sunday in Beijing with the aim of tackling major scientific challenges such as climate change.

　　 The launch ceremony of the Alliance of International Science Organizations in the Belt and Road Region in Beijing on November 4. CAS
　　A Belt and Road international science organisations alliance was launched on Sunday in Beijing with the aim of tackling major scientific challenges such as climate change.
　　The Alliance of International Science Organizations in the Belt and Road Region, or ANSO, was initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
　　ANSO, which is non-profit and non-governmental, will include more than 40 national, regional and international scientific and research institutions. It will focus on tackling major scientific challenges such as ecological resources, climate change, environmental protection and public health, said CAS president Bai Chunli at the launch ceremony.
　　Further, the alliance plans to publish consultation reports based on joint projects that will provide the governments and policymakers of the countries within the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) with scientific advice.
　　The alliance will also train young scientists and grant awards to promote cooperation among scientists and scientific institutions, Bai added.
　　Chinese president Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to ANSO ahead of its launch, saying that promoting cooperation in science and technology among countries constituted an important part of the building of the Belt and Road. The message went on to say that cooperation also played a positive role in improving people's livelihoods, promoting development and coping with common challenges.
　　The BRI is a multitrillion-dollar project proposed by Xi in 2013. It is China's attempt to create a modern version of the Silk Road, in order to boost trade and economic integration among the countries involved through investments in roads, pipelines, ports, communication networks and other such infrastructure. (GBTimes)