The Institute of High Energy Physics hosted the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2011) in Pullman Hotel,

the plenary session of ICRC 2011

Beijing from August 11 to 18,2011.

The ICRC is a biennial series conference under the auspices of the Commission on Cosmic Rays (C4) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). Sponsored by the IUPAP, ICRC2011 is the 32nd of its series and is the first time to be held in China (http://icrc2011.ihep.ac.cn/).

The conference covered a wide range of topics in cosmic ray studies. As was expected, Solar and heliospheric phenomena (SH session), Cosmic ray origin and galactic phenomena (OG session), High energy phenomena (HE session) were still hot spots and attracted most of the attendees. 7 invited review talks and 15 highlight talks were delivered at the plenary sessions. About 450 oral talks and 600 posters were presented.

the poster session of ICRC 2011

The cosmic ray research is an old discipline in China that can be traced back to early 1950s. Over the years, great achievements have been made through the construction of the observatories in both Yunnan and Tibet. Notably, scientists from both home and abroad spoke highly of the Yangbajing Observatory and its scientific programs. Talks from the Chinese scientists received a great deal of attention.

 Prof. TAN Youheng, one of the pioneers of the Yangbajing Cosmic Ray Observatory and the first Chinese Speaker for the Sino-Italian and Sino-Japanese Experiments was invited to the conference and gave a lecture in honor of Dr. HESS (the discoverer of cosmic rays).

Over 750 scientific researchers and students from more than 40 countries and regions around the world attended this grand gala of cosmic rays.