Asia-Europe Physics Summit
swissnex Shanghai's Executive Vice Director, Dr. Lan Zuo Gillet, participated the kick-off meeting of the Asia-Europe Physics Summit, hosted in Jiao Tong University, to present Swiss major research institutes' interests and expectations in large scale and multilateral cooperation in physics.
Dr. Lan Zuo Gillet represented Switzerland’s interests at the kick-off meeting of the summit, hosted by the President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Mr Zhang Jie. Expectations from major Swiss players such as Center of Physics of Plasma of EPFL, Institute of Particle Physics of ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute were collected and consolidated, then presented at the meeting.
Participants came from countries as China, Japan, Korea, France, Russia and Switzerland to discuss issues such as identification of cross broader funding possibilities, interdisciplinary research, large scale infrastructure sharing and training of young physics. Four working groups were formed to prepare in detail next year’s summit, where Dr. Lan Zuo Gillet was invited to take part in one of them to further explore possibilities of multilateral cooperation.
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Dr. Lan Zuo Gillet, Executive Vice Director swissnex Shanghai
