The 4th Silk Road International Autumn Symposium for Distinguished Young Scholars
September 18-22, 2018, Xi’an, China
Looking forward to your participation!
1. Introduction of SRIS
Silk Road International Symposium (SRIS) is an extraordinary communicating event for academic and professional development which is held by Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) for outstanding young scholars from all over the world. Meanwhile, XJTU would also like to take this opportunity to facilitate the communication and collaboration between the invited scholars and XJTU faculties, present XJTU’s talents recruitment schemes and attract interested distinguished scholars to join XJTU.
XJTU has already held the SRIS three times since 2015. In total, around 770 distinguished young scholars who came from more than 30 countries and regions have been invited to participate this extraordinary event.
In order to attract young scholars at home and abroad in wide range, the SRIS will be held twice a year from 2018, one session in spring and the other in autumn respectively. SRIS autumn 2018 is now open for distinguished young scholars from following disciplines:
Target Disciplines: Energetics and Engineering Thermophysics, Nuclear Science and Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Electric Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Civil Engineering, Architecture
(3) Fields of Machinery, Aeronautics & Astronautics and Materials
Target Disciplines: Mechanical Engineering, Instrument Science and Technology, Mechanics, Aerospace Science and Technology, Materials Science and Engineering
(4) Fields of Electronics and Information
Target Disciplines: Electronic Science and Technology, Information and Communication Engineering, Control Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Cyberspace Security, Software Engineering
(5) Fields of Medical Science and Bioscience
Target Disciplines: Preclinical medicine, Clinical Medicine, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Pharmacy, Stomatology, Combination of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nursing, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Global Health
(6) Fields of Administration and Economics
Target Disciplines: Practical Economics, Theoretical Economics, Management Science and Engineering, Business Administration, Public Administration
(7) Fields of Humanities & Social Sciences
Target Disciplines: Foreign Languages and Literatures, Law, Philosophy, Marxist theory, Journalism and Communication, Sociology, Pedagogy, Science of Physical Culture and Sports, Design Science
(8) Interdisciplinary Fields over above Fields
Related Schools of XJTU: Frontier Institute of Science and Technology
2. Application Requirements
►Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree, be under the age of 40 (including 40) and generally have more than 2 years of working experience.
►Applicants should have achieved outstanding academic accomplishments and high reputation in their research field, having earned recognition in the scholarly community.
►Applicants should have a broad academic vision and innovative thinking with enormous potential of future leadership in their research field.
►Applicants should be dedicated to research, law abiding and ethical.
3. Registration
►Applicants could log on to SRIS website at http://sris.xjtu.edu.cn/English for online registration and uploading his/her curriculum vitae (CV) in Word or PDF format. The CV should include the following information: personal information (including education and working experiences), research interests, academic achievements (including list of publications), and other information deemed necessary by the applicants. The CV to be uploaded can be either in English or in Chinese.
►Application Deadline for SRIS Autumn 2018: August 25, 2018
4. Schedule
►Activity 1: Keynote Session organized by Shaanxi Province
►Activity 2: Keynote Session in XJTU
►Activity 3: Tour of university campus, the Innovation iHarbour, Memorial hall of XJTU, Library, Housing, Kindergarten, Primary school and High School Affiliated to XJTU
►Activity 4: Parallel Sessions, meeting with school leaders/distinguished professors, Lab tour etc.
5. Other Information
►SRIS charges no registration fees. Domestic and international travel expenses will be reimbursed for all the invited scholars. Accommodation, food and airport/railway station transportation will be provided by the university.
►For further information about SRIS, please contact the secretariat by sending E-mail tosris2018@xjtu.edu.cn or via phone at +86 29 8266 6336.
XJTU, as one of the first universities entering China's "211 Project" and 985 Project , is selected to be developed into a global first-class university. XJTU is a comprehensive research university with scientific focus. It is composed of 10 branches of disciplines, namely: science, engineering, medicine, economics, management, literature, law, philosophy, education and art. In recent years, XJTU focuses on national strategy, vigorously promoting the establishment of the Western China Science & Technology Innovation Harbour, which is designed to be an innovative unit with a union of campus, industrial zone and community , a combination of technologies and services, and a link center of science, technology and industry.
XJTU takes talents strategy as a key developing strategy, now, it has more than 400 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Changjiang Scholars, Outstanding Young Investigator Award laureates and other scholars. Moreover, XJTU has 45 first degree disciplines, 25 Post-doctoral research stations, 27 nation-level research centers and 115 provincial and ministerial key research centers. In recent years, XJTU has not only led 38 projects under the 973 Program and national key research and development program, but also 23 major projects of the national social science fund. In the same period, university scientists and engineers have had 5506 projects approved by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The university has been awarded 61 national science and technology prizes as the first author. The total number of basic research projects and grants places XJTU in the front rank among Chinese universities.