In the just-concluded finals of the 2018 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge, a student team from Zhejiang University claimed the first prize.The Certificate and Trophy ObtainedThe finals were held in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province by Nanchang University during May 5 – May 9. Twenty teams from universities including Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, National University of Defense Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Hong Kong Baptist Universi...

On May 4，the Centre for Applied Archaeology and the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology at University College London signed a Memorandum of Understanding （MoU）with the Cultural Heritage Institute of Zhejiang University regarding the Digital Documentation Project on Endangered Temple Wall-paintings in Shanxi Province. Present at the signing ceremony were Dominic Perring, director of the Centre for Applied Archaeology, CAO Jinyan, dean of the Cultural Heritage Institute an...

On April 22, a group of 6th graders from Hangzhou Baochuta Experimental School enjoyed an interesting lesson on supply chain management, which is staged by Prof. HUO Baofeng and his colleagues from the School of Management, Zhejiang University. Via a mosaic combination of “plays, skits and games”, these pupils savored their first lesson on current hot topic with great passion and pleasure.Although this meticulously orchestrated lesson lasted for more than 2 hours, it captured kids’ ...

Pests are the major enemy of agriculture and forestry production. It is reported that they cause staggering economic losses, reaching 250 billion dollars per year on a worldwide basis. They are also one of the primary reasons for significant yield losses in China. In order to control pests, farmers have to apply pesticides extensively, which not only elevate costs tremendously, but pose a crippling threat to mankind and the environment. Therefore, cultivating strains with strong resistant to pes...

Recently, the research team, led by Prof. ZHAO Yi from the College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, has developed a new kind of low-cost and low-power memory. It will improve the speed of data exchange to a considerable extent and reduce the cost of producing network chips, thereby laying a foundation for the Internet of Things (IoT) in theory. Moreover, data will be tagged, leaving the future IoT society with a vivid imagination.In computing, memory r...

2018 Inter-university Symposium on Asian Megacities (IUSAM) was held on Zijngang Campus on May 5-6. Under the theme of “Space Sharing in Virtual and Physical Worlds”, IUSAM discusses on topics concerning space sharing related to technology, economy, society, culture and arts.YANG Xiaoguang, vice dean of Zhejiang Urban and Rural Planning Design Institute, WEI Biao, professor and senior engineer of Hangzhou City Planning & Design Academy, and JIANG Haifeng, executive president of Planning an...

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A research team led by Professor QI Jianhua has published a research paper entitled “Identification of an Asexual Reproduction Inducer of Phytopathogenic and Toxigenic Fusarium” in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a top journal in chemistry. This paper was highly spoken of by two reviewers, which was rarely seen according to the editor. The research has laid an important foundation for the development of specific antibiotics and antimicrobials.The discovery of hormones (or pheromones) ...

The structure and diversity of the microorganism community plays a crucial role in agro-ecosystems. If the diversity of the microorganism community in soil is destroyed, nourishments in soil will be lost, the structure of soil will degenerate and the ecological function will decline, thereby severely affecting its productivity and health. It is one of the most common agricultural measures to apply nitrogen fertilizers, which will improve crop yield in the short term. However, Long-term elevated ...

The research team led by Prof. ZHANG Guoping with the Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang University, published an article entitled “Genomic adaptation to drought in wild barley is driven by edaphic natural selection at the Tabigha Evolution Slope” in the April 30 issue of the journal of PNAS. Its lead author and corresponding author are WANG Xiaolei (a Ph.D. student) and Prof. DAI Fei.Microsite evolution involving ecological divergences due to geological, edaphic, or climatic conditions req...