The IHEP-INFN Annual Cooperative Meeting was successfully held at IHEP on May 13th, 2013.　

IHEP-INFN Annual Cooperative Meeting held at IHEP

An IHEP group of 10 people headed by Prof. Wang Yifang, Director of IHEP and an INFN group of 4 people headed by Prof. Fernando Ferroni, President of INFN attended the meeting.

Prof. Wang Yifang made a welcome speech followed by an introduction of the scientific activities at IHEP. He spoke highly of the current IHEP-INFN collaborations. In his remarks, Prof. Fernando Ferroni expressed his thanks for the hospitality given by IHEP. Then he introduced on the INFN geographical structure and the research activities being performed at each of the INFN laboratories.

The on-going cooperative activities were reviewed and discussed. Both sides expressed their satisfaction with the status of those activities. Collaborations on Daya Bay Experiment, DM searches, BESIII, space projects and LHAASO  were particularly discussed, it was agreed that those discussions would continue and concrete arrangements would be made to further those collaborations.

Both sides agree that the next INFN-IHEP cooperative meeting will be held in Rome in 2014.