Chinese International Workshop Inspired by UGA Physics Professor

Last Spring Prof. Bo Zheng came to the UGA Center for Simulational Physics (CSP) annual International Workshop as an invited speaker from Zhejiang University in China, one of the top five universities in China. This occasion was noteworthy not only for the high caliber of Prof. Zheng’s scholarship, but also for a unique outcome of his participation. The format of the Workshop, with equal emphasis on presentation and in-depth discussion of frontier research, so impressed Prof. Zheng that he returned to China and organized an international workshop that parallels the one he attended here at UGA. He invited Dr. David Landau, Director of the Center for Simulational Physics and a Distinguished Research Professor of Physics here at UGA, to travel to China to lend his support to this first workshop in early November by serving as Chairman of the International Organizing Committee.   The 17 years the CSP workshop has been hosted here at UGA has served as an effective outreach vehicle for international collaborations and relationships between established and upcoming scientists from all over the world.  Having an international workshop patterned after UGA’s CSP workshop is a new way to expand the international influence of the Center and UGA and to extend the participation of international researchers in stimulating research and cooperation in simulational physics.   Dr. Landau travels extensively all over the world promoting simulational physics at meetings, serving on organizing committees, collaborating on manuscripts and books, and staying current on new methods in research. The opening event of the Chinese workshop included an honor to Dr. Landau and the UGA Center for SImulational Physics with the presentation of the Senior Guangbiao Distinguished Professorship in the Institute of Modern Physics at Zhejiang University.  This honor is especially noteworthy in that it ranks above the Distinguished Research Professor position here at UGA, and it is a position above the normal academic hierarchy in China.  Receiving this honor reflects on both Dr. Landau and the contributions of the Center’s members, past and present, and the caliber of research performed at UGA.

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