On the afternoon of January 26th, the Principal of Suranaree University of Technology (SUT), Thailand, Dr. Prasart Suebka, together with 8 SUT guests, visited IHEP. The visitors were met by the Director and Deputy Director of the Institute, Prof. Wang Yifang and Prof. Luo Xiao’an, as well as five other IHEP leaders and researchers.
Prof. Wang opened the meeting by expressing a warm welcome to the delegation from SUT. During the meeting, both sides gave positive comments on the memorandum of cooperation signed last year and discussed in detail the preparation of this year’s Hadron and Nuclear Physics (HNP2015) conference as well as plans for cooperation on a Hadron Physics summer school. Furthermore, discussions were held on how IHEP could develop a joint training platform for graduate education with SUT, as well as how to develop collaboration in BES physics and JUNO neutrino physics research. The meeting yielded several constructive results.
After the meeting, Deputy Director Luo Xiao’an led the SUT delegation on a tour of the BEPC central control room, the BES control room and the BSRF experiment hall. Afterwards, the delegation visited the Theoretical Physics Division and held further discussions with some of the researchers there.