Campus hosts “Tsinghua Week”
| 19 March 2010
BERKELEY — Nobel Prize winners, faculty, administrators and students from the University of California, Berkeley, and Tsinghua University in Beijing will meet April 5-7 to strengthen academic and cultural ties. They will explore collaborations in fields ranging from science, engineering and transportation to architecture, public policy, psychology, philosophy, history, social welfare and higher education.
Organizers said that units, departments and schools from across the disciplines will promote exchange with China on numerous topics of mutual interest during this event, which is unique because of the wide range of issues being addressed and the large number of participants. About 130 representatives from Tsinghua are expected.The three-day event will kick off on Monday, April 5, with keynote speakers from Tsinghua and UC Berkeley exploring China’s innovation evolution over the last 30 years and the scientific search for good news in the human genome.
The opening panel for Tsinghua Week will highlight scientific exchange between UC Berkeley and Tsinghua University in an examination of “Eastern” and “Western” views of physics today. Panelists will include UC Berkeley Chancellor and professor of physics Robert Birgeneau, UC Berkeley Nobel laureates Charles Townes and George Smoot, Tsinghua University Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang and other faculty members from both universities.
On Tuesday, concurrent academic panels will address issues and trends in higher education in the United States and China,