In 3rd of March, recipient of the Einstein Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Anthony J. Leggett visited Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Infromation Technology (SIMIT), CAS. Dr. Leggett is one of the Nobel Prize winners in Physics in 2003, and currently the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC), USA. He gave a lecture with the title “Cuprates without a model” in the institute and discussed with researchers and graduate students regarding to the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity as well as new superconducting materials. [ Learn more ]

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) held a news conference for the result of the academicians’ electionin the afternoon of December 14th. Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress Committee, academician of Chinese academy of sciences, executive president of the Presidium of CAS LU Yongxiang announced 35 prominent scientists have been elected academicians together with six foreign scientists elected CAS academicians. [ Learn more ]

Led by vice president of Chinese research and develop section Al Bryant, vice-group leader of Boeing research and develop section Patrick J. Stokes, program manager Michael S. Foster together with another two representatives visited Shanghai Institute of Mircrosystem and Information Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIMIT) from December 9th to 10th.The purpose of this visit is to impetus the “Memorandum of understanding between CAS and Boeing” signed by vice president Jiang Mianheng and CTO & Senior Vice president John J. Tracy, and to look for substantial cooperation. [ Learn more ]

Recently, high leaders of Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT) and scientists from SIMIT and Research Center Juelich, Germany, celebrated their encouraging results of cooperation. [ Learn more ]

WGSN 3rd plenary session was held in Wuxi Millennium Hotel during Oct. 27-30, 2009. Tan Xueming, the Vice Mayor of Wuxi City, Zhao Bo, the Deputy Director of MIIT’s (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) Electronics & Information Division, and Tian Jing, the director of Bureau of High-Tech Research and Development Chinese Academy of Sciences all attended this meeting and delivered a speech. [ Learn more ]