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Subject: AEIC News Release 1043
Date: 11 Oct 92 15:44:21 GMT
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  			 AEIC News Release 1043
  
	                   October 9, 1992
  
                    Academic Exchange Information Center
                          3640 Veazey Street, N.W.
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                             aeic@wam.umd.edu
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1. Meeting held with agriculture delegations ..............................21 
2. Recent China Travel Report .............................................71
3. President Bush Signs 1992 Chinese Student Protection Act ...............19
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1. Meeting held with agriculture delegations ...............................21 
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From: hu@calshp.cals.wisc.edu
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 22:14:37 -0500
    
A general discussion meeting was hosted by Chinese Independent Union
and Biological Chinese Seminar Club of University of Wisconsin-Madison, to
welcome 3 agriculture delegations from Shan-dong, Shan-xi and from Hei-Long-
Jiang provinces at Union South on Sunday night (10/4/92).  The 3 delegates are
headed by Lian Ming, deputy director of Shan-dong Animal Husbandry bureau; Ren
Shining, the Director of Sci. Research & Management Dept, Shan-Xi Academy of
Ag. Sci.; and Liang Qing, the Director of Dairy Association of Anda, Hei-Long-
Jiang respectively.  The main task of the 3 delegates are to attend the Inter-
national Dairy Expo. in Madison, Wisconsin, and to visit some US research &
production stations.
    
About 30 Chinese students attended the discussion.  The discussion was
featured by freely and friendly exchange of information, ideas and opinions on
various topics.  A common point was agreed upon by all that further exchange
of information between overseas students and research and production units is
badly needed.  I introduced them the general information of AEIC and suggested
that possible help could be done by local student organizations in such an
exchange program in the future.
   
The 3 delegates also expressed their deep appreciation to CSS on this
campus for their assistance and help during the visit in Madison.

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2. Recent China Travel Report .............................................71
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From: feng%duvm@psuvm.psu.edu
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 13:55:45 EDT
   
The Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM) in 
Beijing comprises 1000 people working in the fields of nuclear physics, atomic 
physics, condensed matter and surface physics, and computational mathematics. 
It has a stated goal of becoming the prime computational science center in 
China. The traveler, together with Professors D. H. Feng of Drexel University, 
S. H. Chen, H. Y. Fu, J. Q. Jie, D. Y.Li, L. J. Shen, and T. Y. Zhang of the 
IAPCM, are organizing the Second International Symposium on Computational 
Physics, to be held in Beijing, P.R.C., September 13-17, 1993. The traveler is 
co-chairman of the international organizing committee and served as chairman of 
a series of meetings pertaining to the symposium.  A number of sites were 
visited and the IAPCM placed a car, driver, and translator at the disposal of 
the traveler. The discussions addressed most of the major organizational issues,
including the details of a scientific program which would reflect the broad 
budgeting, access to international networks, vendor demonstrations, 
transportation, hotel accommodations, social activities, and numerous problems 
of a local nature.  It was also decided to seek support for the symposium from 
the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics in Vienna, and to have the 
International Advisory Committee consider the issue of making the conference a 
regular occasion with a standing committee.
    
On the morning of August 25 the traveler presented a colloquium entitled
Computational Physics and the Scientific Grand Challenges in the central
auditorium of the IAPCM.  The talk was attended by about 150 scientists and was 
simultaneously translated into Chinese by a technical interpreter.  The 
presentation reviewed the recent hardware and software developments, the
scientific case for the Grand Challenges, the National Research and Education 
Network, and the new Parallel Research Centers. An extensive question and 
answer session followed the talk, with most of the questions concerning details 
of the proposed National Education and Research Network. With the exception of 
the Institute of High Energy Physics, there is no network access to the outside 
world.  The issue of excluding certain technologies from China by the Paris 
Committee was raised by the Institute Director, Professor H. Y. Fu, with the 
traveler. In particular, the IAPCM has readily available funds to purchase Cray 
class computers but is excluded from doing so.
    
The traveler participated in the summer school for three days and presented
a series of our one-hour lectures on the subject of computational physics. The 
school was comprised of about 50 students and faculty.  Besides the traveler, 
there were nine other lecturers at the summer school.  They were as follows:  
Professor L. N. Chang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Professor D. H. Feng, 
Drexel University, Professor C. S. Gao, Beijing University, Professor X. D. Ji, 
M.I.T., Professor J. Ng, Triangle Universities Meson Facility, Professor 
W. K. Tung, Michigan State University, Professor K. Yang, Nagoya University, 
Professor T. Lu, Nanjing University, and Professor M. Ge, Nankai University. The
computational physics lectures dealt briefly with the history of modern 
computing in physics, and developed the theme of programming application for 
massively parallel supercomputers.  Applications were discussed in detail from 
the areas of high-energy, nuclear, and atomic physics, including hydrodynamics, 
particle production, the  Hartree-Fock method, and lattice techniques for field 
theories.
    
The traveler spent a day as the guest of Professor Z. Qiu of the Chinese Center 
for Advanced Science and Technology (CCAST). Presently, CCAST is a small center 
devoted to developing high-energy and particle physics within China. The Center 
has only a few permanent staff members and provides offices and facilities for 
long-term visitors. The scientific direction of the Center is given by 
Professors T. D. Lee and A. Zichichi, with financial support from the World 
Laboratories.  The traveler reviewed the computing and telecommunications plans 
of the Center which hopes to develop a local area network with the Institute of 
High Energy Physics (IHEP).  The IHEP operates a five-GeV electron-positron
collider and has remote access to computer facilities at the Stanford Linear 
Accelerator Center (SLAC). The proposed local area network will be constituted 
from optical fiber cable. It was stated by Professor Qiu that China has very 
good manufacturing facilities for such a cable.
   
Mike R. Strayer
Section Head, Theoretical Physics
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    
(Editor's note: This article has been trimmed without author's permission.)
    
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3. President Bush Signs 1992 Chinese Student Protection Act ............. 19
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From: IFCSS HQ <ifcss@WAM.UMD.EDU> and IFCSS-CCSA
Source: IFCSS HQ NR-4054 and IFCSS-CCSA Update, Oct. 9, 1992
  
Five minutes ago, at 10:50 a.m. this morning, we learned from Senator
Gorton's office that the President had signed S1216, the Chinese Student
Protection Act. Then, we contacted the White House and the news was
confirmed.
    
The HQ believes this victory is the result of the common efforts of
thousands of American friends as well as Chinese students and scholars and
wishes to thank all those who have worked hard in the past week to promote
the presidential signature.
   
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