About School of Physical Science

 
School of Physical Sciences of USTC was founded in 2009. It is the School of Science of USTC in origin, which was founded in 1994 and comprised department of "Mathematics, Physics ,Chemistry , Astronomy ,Geography, Biology". Its honorary dean is Mr. Chen Ning Yang, the Nobel Prize owner. At present the school consists of “Physics, Modern Physics, Optics & Optical Engineering, Astronomy, Physics Experiment Teaching Center". These five units were established in 1958, the establishment year of USTC. Since then, School of Physical Sciences became the master of physics gathe-ring place, which made it one of the top centers for physics research.
 

School of Physical Sciences now have 252 members of faculty and staff, among whom are 88 professors,81 ass-ociate professors, including 7 academicians of CAS , 82 doctoral supervisors, 2 national excellent teacher, 4 members of Cheung Kong Scholars Programme, 15 members supported by the National Foundation for Distinguished Youths , and 20 members supported by CAS Hundred Talents Programme".

School has 4 key Laboratories of CAS : the key Laboratory of Quantum Information , the key Laboratory of Plasma Physics , the key Laboratory of Nuclear Detector & Electronics , the key Laboratory of Galaxies and Cosmology. 2 Key Laboratories of Anhui province:The Photo-Electro Laboratory as well as The Physical Electronics Laboratory.

 

Meanwhile, school is closely associated with two national laboratories: hefei national laboratory for physical scien-ces at the microscale as well as National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. School has four fields of specialties: phys-ics, astronomy, electronic science and technology, optical engineering, which include 10 sub-disciplines:Optics, cond-ensed matter physics,theoretical physics, particle physics and nuclear physics, plasma physics, atomic and molecular physics, astrophysics, physical electronics, Microelectronics and Solid Electronics , Optical Engineering. Among them physics is the first category of national key specialty, Astrophysics is the second category of national key specialty Phys-ical electronics and optical engineering are key disciplines of Anhui province.

 

Since the year 2000 , School of Physical Sciences of USTC has published about 500 papers as first author every y-ear , among which over 350 papers are indexed by SCI/EI . Physics papers published in journals of high impact factor are in the leading position among national universities .From 2002 to 2008, there were 308 papers published in Phys.Rev.Lett, among which were 79 as first author. For 17 times 10 achievements have been awarded international signifi-cant annual progress on physics, Top ten major news on basic scientific research of the National Department of Scie-nce and Technology as well as top ten scientific and technological progress of Chinese Universities. There are 3 awar-ded second prize of The National Natural Science, 4 awarded first prize of Anhui Natural Science, 3 awarded second p-rize of Anhui Natural Science, 3 awarded first prize of Scientific and technological progress of Higher Education Instituti-ons in Anhui Province.