The 5th Silk Road International Spring Symposium for Distinguished Young Scholars
April 10-14, 2019, 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 Xian 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 1000 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 spring 2019 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
(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, Design Science
(8) Interdisciplinary Fields over above Fields
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.
Registration start time and end time:Jan1- Mar15, 2019
4. Schedule
Apr 10th: Registration
Apr 11th: Keynote Session in XJTU ; Visiting the Innovation iHarbour
Apr 12th -13th: Parallel Sessions, meeting with school leaders/distinguished professors, Lab tour etc.
Apr 14th: End of the Symposium
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 to xjtusris@xjtu.edu.cn or via phone at +86 29 8266 6336.
XJTU, as one of the first universities entering Chinas "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. Now, XJTU is on the List of World-class Universities and First-class Disciplines (abbreviated as Double First-class ) released in 2017 by the Ministry of Education of China, as a Double First-class university in Category A, which means that the government will support it financially to develop into a world-class university, and its eight disciplines into the first-class level in the world.
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 27 nation-level research centers and 115 provincial and ministerial key research centers. Since 2000, XJTU has led 21 projects under the 973 Program and 5343 research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The university has been awarded 68 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.