Source: www.chinanews.com 2012-09-21
Written by: Yang Wei, Huang Aicheng

The CPS 2012 Fall Meeting, hosted by Chinese Physical Society (CPS), and organized by Sun Yat-sen University and Guangdong Physics Society, opens in Sun Yat-sen University on September 21. Academician Xue Qikun, President of Chinese Physical Society and Head of Department of Physics of Tsinghua University, Academician Yu Lu, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician Xu Ningsheng, President of Sun Yat-sen University, a total of over 2,000 people in the physics community attend the meeting.

It is learned that this annual meeting will last till September 23 and the experts will discuss 16 topics including particle physics, field theory and cosmology, nuclear physics and accelerator physics in the forms of plenary invited lectures, parallel sessions invited lectures, oral presentations and poster sessions.

Moreover, AIP special report sessions, the expanded meeting of the CPS Teaching Committee, a roundtable discussion of female physicists, Guangdong Physics Society annual conference council meeting, a special report session for high-tech enterprises, educational equipment exhibitions and book fairs will also be held during the CPS 2012 Fall Meeting.

It is learned that 1,932 people have registered online for 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).

According to the host, the CPS Fall Meeting is an annual academic conference under the auspices of the Chinese Physical Society with the aim to provide a platform for academic discussions and exchanges among physicists from various fields. It is the grandest gathering in the Chinese physics community at present.

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