Source: Graduate School

Written by: Graduate School

Translated by: Wang Chun

After approved by China Scholarship Council (CSC) and interviewed by Samuel C .C. Ting’s Laboratory in Switzerland, two doctoral candidates, Feng Jie (Supervisor Professor Jiang Shaoji) and Li Yang (Supervisor Professor He Zhenhui) from School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, have received full funding from CSC. From April of this year, they will carry out a two-year research project under the guidance of the research team in Samuel C. C. Ting’s Laboratory.

The selection of excellent doctoral students to study in Samuel C. C. Ting’s Laboratory is a new program launched by CSC in 2012, which is aimed to respond to the strategy of reinvigorating China through human resources development, strengthen the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents in basic subjects, and improve the training capability of urgently needed talents in space technology. The selection work for the joint doctoral training program of Samuel C. C. Ting’s Laboratory was carried out for the first time this year. 29 doctoral candidates recommended by universities nationwide took part in the interview, and 4 of them were finally accepted, including Feng Jie and Li Yang from SYSU, and the other two students come from Harbin Institute of Technology and Southeast University respectively.

According to the arrangement, the selected doctoral candidates will participate in the core work of AMS-02 Project of Samuel C. C. Ting’s Laboratory, including extracting and analyzing cosmic ray data. AMS is the English abbreviation of Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. This project is a large international research program collaboratively undertaken by 56 research institutions from 16 countries and regions, including the United States, Mainland China and Taiwan, Switzerland and Germany. It is led by Professor Samuel Chao Chung Ting, the famous Chinese-American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It has a total investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. This is the first time that human beings have conducted experiment in space with particle physics detector technology and is also the only large-scale scientific experiment conducted on the International Space Station. It is designed to search the antimatter and dark matter in space, measure the elemental composition of the universe and thus is of extremely important significance for mankind to understand the formation mechanism of the universe.