NSF Beijing Office Opens

The Official opening of the NSF Beijing Office - May 24, 2006.

U.S.-China Conference Celebrating Decades of S&T Cooperation and Opening of the NSF Beijing Office. May 24th, 2006 Kunlun Hotel, Beijing, China Organized by NSF Beijing Office, U.S. Embassy Beijing

CONFERENCE AGENDA :
9-10am Poster Exhibits

10-11am Celebration Remarks

Chaired by Dr. Tom Weber, Director, Office of International Science and Engineering, NSF

Dr. Arden Bement, NSF Director

Dr. ZHANG Xianen, Director, Department of Basic Science Research, MOST

Mr. CAO Jinghua , Deputy Director, Bureau of International Cooperation, CAS

Dr. CHEN Yongjun, Deputy Director, Chemistry Department, NSFC

Dr. HUANG Ping, Director, International Cooperation Bureau, CASS

Mr. CEN Jianjun, Deputy Director, Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges, Ministry of Education

11–11:45am Presentations of Science Projects –
Information Science, Engineering & GEO Science

Chaired by Dr. Peter Freeman, NSF Assistant Director, Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate

Dr. Fred Roberts, Director, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers University
Research and Education Opportunities: U.S. –China Cooperation in Computer Information Science

Dr. Jason Cong, Chair, Department of Computer Science, UCLA
Giga-Scale System-on-a Chip Design

Dr. Greg Cole, Research Director, UT-ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Sciences & US Principal Investigator, Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD), Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development

Dr. OU Jinping, Professor and President, Dalian University of Technology and Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology
Smart Sensors, Sensor Networks and Health Monitoring
Systems for Intelligent Civil Infrastructure

Dr. QI Xiaozhai, Professor, Institute of Engineering Mechanics.
China Earthquake Administration
Temporal Characteristics of Velocity/Acceleration Pulses and Damage of Structures

Dr. Samuel Bowring, Professor, MIT
EARTHTIME: An International Community-Based Effort Towards High-Precision Calibration of Earth History

11:45-12:30 am Presentations of Science Projects –
BIO, MPS, OISE, SBE

Chaired by Dr. Bill Chang, Director, NSF Beijing Office

Dr. Alec M. Wodtke, Director, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
THE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - ELECTRON CHEMISTRY AND CATALYSIS AT INTERFACES

Dr. CAO Min, Deputy Director, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS
The effects of tree girdling on CO2 efflux from soil under a subtropical forest in the Ailao Mountains, Yunnan, SW China

Dr. OUYANG Zhiyun, Professor in the Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, CAS& Director of State Key Lab of Systems Ecology
Complex Interactions among Policies, People, and Panda Habitat in Wolong Nature Reserve

Dr. ZHAO Wei, Senior Associate Vice President for Research
Texas A&M University
Improving China-US Relations -- China-US Relations Conference Series

Mr. LI Xin, Program Officer, MOST
Summer Institute in China

Dr. Bill Chang, Director, Beijing Office
NSF Beijing Office

12:30-2pm Lunch at Four Seasons Restaurant of the Kunlun Hotel

2-4 pm Open House at NSF Beijing Office for conference participants

Remarks and updated abstracts delivered at this conference may be found on the NSF Beijing Website at www.nsfbeijing.cn.

CONTACT INFORMATION :
Phone: +86-10-6410-6931 or +86-10-6410-6932
Fax: +86-10-6410-6917
Email: nsfbeijing@nsf.gov entire staff
Email: wychang@nsf.gov William Y. Chang, Office Head
Email: bsun@nsf.gov Bo Sun, Program Specialist
Email: yshen@nsf.gov Yu Shen, Administrative Assistant

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