- Written by: Thomas Weise
On Monday, 2019-07-08, we had the honor to host our distinguished guest Prof. Dr. Alexander A. Solovev, full professor at Fudan University [复旦大学] (Shanghai). Prof. Solovev gave the talk "Man-Made Nano- and Micromachines" at 10:00 in Room 210 of the Sino-German Incubator of our Hefei University (the newly renovated Building 33), in which we learned about the astonishing achievements of tiny devices, such as nano-tubes and the advantages and potential of such microscopic motors for a variety of applications, ranging from medicine over clean water/air/energy to improving the cost/benefit ratio of chemical reactions by orders of magnitude. We are thankful to Prof. Solovev for his interesting talk and the exchange of thoughts and inspiring discussions that followed. This talk was followed by the presentation "GAIN – The Global Academic Innovation Network" given by Mrs. Irina Lebedeva.
- Written by: Thomas Weise
It is often not easy for researchers to find other scientists to partner with for projects or to share expensive equipment with. Academic researchers also often find it hard to get in touch with industry partners to turn theoretical or fundamental research into real products, whereas small and mid-sized companies have a hard time discovering and teaming up with scientists to find answers to their research problems. On Monday, 2019-07-08, Mrs. Irina Lebedeva, COO of GAIN and PhD candidate in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) [华东理工大学] in Shanghai, gave the talk "GAIN – The Global Academic Innovation Network" at 10:45 in Room 210 of the Sino-German Incubator of our Hefei University (the newly renovated Building 33). GAIN answers the above-mentioned problems by providing a comprehensive web platform, bringing together researchers from different domains, faculties, and universities as well as industry partners. We are thankful to Mrs. Lebedeva for her introduction into this helpful and indeed very needed platform, as well as for her work to develop and conceptualize it together with Prof. Dr. Alexander A. Solovev – who gave his talk "Man-Made Nano- and Micromachines" at the same meeting.
- Written by: Thomas Weise
On June 3rd and 4th, 2019, I attended the second meeting "Research and Teaching in China" co-organized by the DAAD, the [Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst], i.e., the German Academic Exchange Service [德国学术交流中心], and the German Consulate General in Shanghai. Similar to the first meeting in Beijing, there was a great attendance of about 60 German researchers who live, work, study, and teach in China. I had the chance to meet and talk with researchers from such diverse fields as material science, social science, law, water science, spatial planning, mathematics, theoretical computer science, city planning, project management, chemistry, agriculture, and bio-informatics. This second meeting again shows how strongly the science communities of China and Germany are connected and how much exchange is taking place for the benefit of both of our countries, from the level of young researchers up to the very top-level of senior and world-leading experts. I want to wholehearted thank both the team of the German Consulate General and the DAAD, who did a marvelous job in organizing this meeting. On one hand, there were there many highly interesting talks, discussing topics such as cross-cultural project management as well as research funding opportunities in China. On the other hand, us attendees also had plenty of opportunities for socializing and personal discussions. After a very nice opening ceremony in the residency of the German Consulate General on June 3rd, the talks on June 4th took place in the beautiful meeting room in the 40th floor of the Kunlun Jingan Hotel, granting a perfect view on Shanghai. In summary, I am very thankful for the opportunity to attend this meeting and I hope that many such meetings will follow.
Read more: Second DAAD Meeting "Research and Teaching in China" in Shanghai
- Written by: Thomas Weise
Today, we had the honor to host excellent talks by two outstanding researchers. Prof. Dr. Dachuan Xu [徐大川] from the School of Mathematics and Physics [北京工业大学数理学院] of the Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) [北京工业大学] presented his work on "Streaming Submodular Maximization under Noise." Prof. Dr. Xiaoyan Zhang [张晓岩] from the School of Mathematical Sciences [南京师范大学数学科学学院] of the Nanjing Normal University (NNU) [南京市仙林大学] gave a talk on his results on the "Max-3-Cut with Limited Unbalance and Application via Complex Semidefinite Programming." These two talks were a highlight for our team and colloquium and were followed by inspiring discussions. We want to thank again both speakers for their visit and their presentations.
Read more: Research Talks by Profs. Dachuan Xu (BJUT) and Xiaoyan Zhang (NNU) [2019/04]
- Written by: Thomas Weise
Our team warmly welcomes Mr. Lalin Heng, lecturer at the Department of Information Technology and Communication of the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) [វិទ្យាស្ថានបច្ចេកវិទ្យាកម្ពុជា] in Phnom Penh [ភ្នំពេញ], Cambodia [កម្ពុជា] for a research stay from February to March 2019. Mr. Heng has received his Master of Electrical Engineering with specialization in Information Technology in 2017 from the Gadjah Mada University, Yokyakarta, Indonesia and holds two Bachelor degrees, a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science also from ITC (2015) and a Bachelor of Education in TEFL from the Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL) of the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) [សាកលវិទ្យាល័យភូមិន្ទភ្នំពេញ], Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2018). He holds several professional certificates in computer networking both from Cisco and Huawei and has gathered work experience in several internships in this field, too. He has published four academic papers on routing and cell selection. The research interests of Mr. Heng include computer networks and security, which are important areas of application of optimization and computational intelligence. His work and interests are therefore closely related to the Distributed Computing research field of our institute. We are looking forward to working with Mr. Heng. Welcome to Hefei University!
Addendum: Mr. Heng has now successfully completed his stay in our team. It was a very nice and inspiring time for all of us. We enjoyed working together and exchanging ideas. We were particularly happy that we could find an intersection of Mr. Heng's interest in network security and our computational intelligence theme. As a result, we conducted a joint research project and could even publish our results at an international scientific conference
We wish Mr. Heng all the best for his future. Let's keep in touch.
- Research Presented at AAAI 2019
- Deadline Extension until January 31, 2019: Special Session on Benchmarking of Evolutionary Algorithms for Discrete Optimization (BEADO)
- Black Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB) Workshop
- Special Session on Benchmarking of Evolutionary Algorithms for Discrete Optimization (BEADO)