From July 16th to 22nd, 2024, the 3rd Conference on Physics under Synergetic Extreme Conditions, held jointly with the Summer School of SECUF, was successfully organized by the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Jilin University at the Huairou Campus of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Zhongjian Yanqi Lakeview Hotel. The conference invited a total of 115 presenters from 10 countries and staff from 23 experimental stations of the facility to deliver academic reports, with a total of 140 reports, including 9 keynote reports and 23 experimental station introduction reports during the summer school, as well as 4 plenary reports and 104 sub-session reports during the academic exchange. The conference attracted over 500 researchers from both domestic and international backgrounds to attend and visit the laboratories. Both the number of reports and attendees exceeded previous years, with lively discussions, an active atmosphere, and positive feedback throughout the event.
During the summer school, several renowned professors from both China and abroad delivered special reports on frontier science and technology under synergetic extreme conditions. Staff from the Synergetic Extreme Condition Experimental Facility provided detailed introductions to the various experimental stations, and participants had the opportunity to visit some of the Beijing-based experimental stations in person.
At the academic conference, Fang Zhong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Director of the Institute of Physics, and Lan Xiongjing, Deputy Director of the Huairou Science City Management Committee and Deputy District Mayor of the Huairou District Government, delivered welcome speeches respectively. They also jointly presented certificates to representatives of three foreign teams from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' International Partnership Program (PIFI) - Outstanding Team Project, namely Professor Yoshiya Uwatoko from the University of Tokyo, Professor Shigeru Kasahara from Okayama University, and Researcher Alexander Eaton from the University of Cambridge. Professor Takasada Shibauchi from the University of Tokyo, Researcher Zhou Xingjiang from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Du Ruirui from Peking University, and Researcher Subhendu Kahaly from the Extreme Light Infrastructure - Attosecond Light Pulse Source in Europe delivered excellent plenary reports. The academic conference was divided into five sub-sessions, covering: 1) Emerging Quantum Materials and Phenomena under High-Pressure Extreme Conditions; 2) Physical Property Characterization under Synergetic Extreme Conditions; 3) Quantum Transport and Quantum Devices in Low-Dimensional Materials at Extremely Low Temperatures; 4) Ultrafast Physics and Technology; and 5) Techniques and Applications of High-Temperature, High-Pressure, Large-Volume Presses.
The successful hosting of this conference achieved the goal of promoting the Synergetic Extreme Condition Experimental Facility to domestic and international users, facilitating enhanced scientific research exchanges and cooperation under synergetic extreme conditions, and maximizing the operational effectiveness of the facility. Additionally, an expanded meeting of the User Committee was organized during the conference to solicit opinions and suggestions from domestic and international experts and scholars regarding the facility's operation and future planning, which will be beneficial to the future development of the Synergetic Extreme Condition Experimental Facility.
The Synergetic Extreme Condition Experimental Facility is a major national science and technology infrastructure project of the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, primarily constructed by the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with collaboration from Jilin University. The Beijing portion of the facility has entered the comprehensive trial operation stage and is open to domestic and international users, providing advanced extreme experimental conditions such as extremely low temperatures, strong magnetic fields, ultra-high pressures, and ultrafast optical fields for frontier research in material synthesis, physical property characterization, quantum regulation, ultrafast process studies, and other areas of material science.
