On April 19, a seminar on “How to Realize Research Collaborations on Electronic Systems” was successfully held by HPSTAR in Shanghai HPSTAR Meeting Room. More than 20 people attended the seminar and 6 professors from famous universities like Peking University and Fudan University etc. were invited to give seminar talks. The seminar was hosted by HPSTAR staff scientist Dr. Xiao-Jia Chen.

The renovation of research building 6 of HPSTAR @ Shanghai has started. The work is supposed to be completed in May, and the lab building therefore has been put on agenda. On February 17, 2014, HPSTAR held start-up meeting for lab building. All the scientific staff @ Shanghai and the administration office members attended the meeting. Director Ho-kwang Mao chaired the meeting.

From January 23 to 24, 2013, “Research Collaborations on High Pressure” symposium was held at Shanghai, and attended by more than 80 professors, staff scientists and researchers from renowned institutions and universities, such as Peking University, Zhejiang University, Jilin University, Sichuan University, and Chinese Academy of Sciences etc.