The Plenary Sessions, which will last for several days, give young people who have scientific ideals the opportunity to listen to top scientists and ignite the passion to explore the unknown.

On Auguest 1, the top scientists who share with the camperstheir Scientific insights and life experiences include Prof. Liao Fulong, Deputy Director of the Academic Board, Artemisinin Research Center; Prof. Jean Francois Le Gall，Wolf Mathematics Prize winner in 2019, Member of the Académie des sciences and  Prof. Eliezer Rabinovici,Chairman of the Israeli Committee of High Energy Physics of the Israeli Academy of Sciences.

In the morning on 1st August, Prof. Liao Fulong，who comes from the team of Prof. Tu Youyou, gave us an unusual lecture about Chinese Medicine. For some of foreign students, this is their first time to learn Chinese Medicine professionally.

To start with, Prof. Liao Fulong introduced Prof. TU Youyou's personal experience about how she was inspired by ancient wisdom and finally isolated artemisinin, which has benefited millions of people. Then, he talked about Hua Tuo's five animal exercise and mentioned his fitness idea that "diseases are prevented as blood flow is promoted", which is the forsight of biological effects of blood shear stress (SS). Experiment have proved that the combination of exercise (swimming or running) and herbal medicine could prevent atherosclerosis through a synergistic manner.

Listen intently

The students are all interested in this lecture very much. The Australia girl, Zofia, who have heard about Chinese Medicine before, said that this is her first time to learnChinese Medicine. She said if it is possible, she wanted to experience it by herself, who comes from Israel firstly thought it was very interesting and attractive. She is a medical student, and wants to learn something about Chinese Medicine in the future.

Jean Francois Le Gall discussed about the discovery history of Brownian motion to reveal the physical phenomenon behind it. From a one-dimensional random walk to a two-dimensional random walk then to the idea of mathematical limits, he used images to guide campers to think further. Also, he took economics, mathematical finance, medicine, industry and other fields as examples to illustrate Brownian motion mathematical model plays an important role in many fields. At the end of the session, Professor Jean Francois Le Gall presented the model of self-avoiding random walking and put forward the unsolved problems in physics for campers to think and discuss after the lecture.

 Addict into studying

Being asked why he chose the Brownian motion mathematical model as a research project, he said: "Mathematics is beautiful and it's useful in many areas. So does Brownian motion."

High Energy Physics-Results, Challenges and Magic

High-energy physics is one of the frontiers of modern physics as well as the popular subject in Nobel Prize, which focuses on the study of micro world. During the lecture, Prof. Eliezer Rabinovici described the big picture of high-energy physics, which is exploring the basic laws and ingredients of objects. Also, he explained some of the basic points such as the standard model of electromagnetic, weak, colored (strong) as well as gravitational forces. Although there are still challenges in physical research, Prof. Eliezer Rabinovici is optimistic. "It seems to have magic that attracts those doing research in this field."

He also praised the holding of the ASC, and encourage campers, "Once you choose the way to scientific research, you should dive into it. Keep asking questions and challenging academic authorities. This is also the most recommended teaching method in Israel."

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Text by ASC 2019 Media group (Liu Jing, Quan Zhiyue, Zhang Zihan)  

Photos by ASC 2019 Media group (Daiyi, Quan Zhiyue, Zeng Jiayi)  

Text edited by GTIIT News and Public Affairs, ASC 2019 Media group (Chen Yutian)

Photos edited by STU News Center