MIT China Forum: Doing Science while Chinese in America
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT Building E51, E51-345
The challenges Chinese scientists face in this new political climate.
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Xiaoxing Xi is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Physics at Temple University, and former chair of the Physics Department. Prior to joining Temple in 2009, he was Professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University. He received his PhD degree in physics from Peking University and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, in 1987. After several years of research at Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, Germany, Bell Communication Research/Rutgers University, and University of Maryland, he joined the Physics faculty at Penn State in 1995. He is a renowned expert on thin film materials. His notable contributions include early work on epitaxial thin films, heterostructures, and electric-field effect in high temperature superconductors, pioneering work on lattice dynamics in ferroelectric thin films and nanostructures, invention of hybrid physical-chemical vapor deposition for magnesium diboride, and development of atomic layer-by-layer laser molecular beam epitaxy for oxide thin films and interfaces. He is author of over 340 refereed journal articles and 3 U.S. patents and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Born in Beijing, China, Professor Xi is a naturalized American citizen. In 2015, the U.S. government arrested and charged him for sharing a U.S. company technology with China. The charges were later dropped because they were false. Since then, he has spoken out for civic engagement by the Chinese-American community and the scientific community, and against racial profiling.
Yangyang Cheng is a postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University, and a member of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Her current research focuses on searches for dark matter, and designing the next generation silicon tracking detectors. Born and raised in China, Cheng received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 2015, and her Bachelor’s in Science from the University of Science and Technology of China's School for the Gifted Young. She writes the Science and China column for SupChina. Her essays have also appeared in Foreign Policy, MIT Technology Review, ChinaFile, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and other publications.
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