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Chinese space physicists to cooperate with North-Eastern Federal University

  • 24 August 2016
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Chinese space physicists to cooperate with North-Eastern Federal University

On 19 August, the Chinese delegation of the International Conference “Space Weather” visited North-Eastern Federal University. Researchers of the Chinese technical universities expressed interest in cooperation with NEFU and noted that the geographical setting of Yakutia allows to explore space.

Long Xu, representative of PRC National Observatory, noted that there were scientists from the Chinese universities among the conference participants. “I’ve been to Yakutsk several times and noticed that the city is rapidly developing. We are ready to discuss the cooperation with the Yakut university together with researchers from Beijing Research Center and China University of Technology”, the scientist said.

Vice Rector for International Cooperation Vladlen Kugunurov told about relations of the university with the Chinese universities. “The main research area of the federal university is challenge of life in the North and Arctic. There are over 20 universities in China and 2 cooperation agreements on nanocomposite research with Changchun University of Applied Chemistry and Beijing Institute of Genomics”, the Vice Rector said.

Nadejda Savvinova, Director of NEFU Institute of Physics and Technologies, told about scientific developments of the institute and invited researchers to cooperate with the university. Mr. Q.-G Zong, representative of Beijing University, noted that the geographical setting of Yakutia allows to explore space. “I was already introduced to the scientific works of the Yakut scientists and glad I came to the conference. We can cooperate in the field of space research”, the representative said. 

Author: Tatiana NOKHSOROVA, NEFU Newsroom

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