From November 3 to November 4, Doctor Steven Chu, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, visited Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).
On the morning of November 3, Dr. Chu attended the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2016 (ACP2016), the 9th International Photonics and OptoElectronics Meetings (POEM2016), and the 13th International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine (PIBM2016). The three conferences were all hosted by HUST and organized by Wuhan National Lab for Optoelectronics (WNLO). In the special session named as Light the World, Dr. Chu delivered a report entitled as How Optics Will Revolutionize the World, which drew enthusiastic responses.
On the morning of November 4, Dr. Chu and his wife, accompanied by Prof. Ding Lieyun, the president of HUST, visited WNLO. Prof. Luo Qingming, the vice-president in HUST, introduced HUST's researches on Brain conectome Atlas, and Prof. Han Hongwei from Photonics for Energy Division of WNLO did a report about Mesoscopic Solar Cells.
Dr. Chu delivered a lecture in the School of Physics at HUST. Dr. Chu shared his life experience from a point of view of a scientist with the teachers and students present. He introduced his family, a family of scholars, his learning experience at the University of Rochester and University of California, Berkley, his work experience at the Bell Labs, Stanford University and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as his personal research in different periods. His lecture included hearty advices on personal growth for students and the honest sharing of perceptions of life. Dr. Chu interacted with teachers and students and answered their questions.He told students that sharing and exchange were vital in learning physics, because a teacher need keep learning when teaching others. He said that it was significant to concentrate on one's interest. After sppech, Dr. Chu visited the Center for Gravitational Experiments of School of Physics of HUST.
Professor Steven Chu is from Stanford University, focusing on atomic physics and laser science. His pioneering research on the laser cooling and atoms trapping won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips. Dr. Chu served as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy from Jan. 2009 to Apr. 2013.
