WLA International "Big Science" Projects Strategic Dialogue

Highlights:

International "Big Science" Projects are important means for human beings to exploit the frontiers of knowledge, explore the unknown world and solve major global problems. 20 domestic and international strategic scientists will discuss continuously for 200 minutes, focusing on research areas that the international science and technology community generally concerned about, and that have a deep influence on the development of human society and the technological progress. They will promote new academic ideas, new scientific discoveries, new technological inventions and new directions in the industry in the collision of ideas.

Some of the Topics:

①Human Genome Project

②Earth BioGenome Project

③Square Kilometre Array

④Geochemistry (A project of UNESCO International Centre On Global-Scale Geochemistry)

⑤The International Microbiome Project (proposed by IHMC in Shenzhen)

⑥Brain Science and Neurodegenerative Diseases

⑦International Space Weather Meridian Circle Program

⑧Group on Earth Observations

⑨Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

Participants:

Part of the Laureates, Representatives from"Big Science" Projects institutes, innovative enterprises.

Venue: Crowne Plaza Shanghai Harbour City

WLA Brain Science and Neurodegenerative Disease Summit

Highlights:

Discussions on frontier technology and major key issues in the field of brain science and medical imaging, including common areas of brain cognition such as Alzheimer's disease, neurodegenerative diseases, mental illness, aging, and reading of consciousness; neuroscience such as nerve level, cell level, and intercellular changes in the nervous system; and research on new high-resolution molecular imaging and brain imaging technology. To discover the working mechanism of the human brain, explore difficult diseases and pathogenic mechanisms, and seek deepening of human brain application and disease treatment;

Topics:

① brain neuroscience and brain cognition

② self-learning mechanism of brain cell

③ vesicle transport regulation mechanism and pathological study of nervous system diseases

④ single cell detection of live cell applications

⑤ molecular imaging and clinical medicine

Participants:

Laureates: 7 Nobel Laureates, 1 Lasker Laureate, 1 Albany Laureate and 1 Warren Alpert Laureate;

Academicians of the CAS and CAE, Young Scientists.

Venue: Multi-Function Hall of The Lingang Administration Committee of the Shanghai FTZ

WLA Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Summit

Highlights:

Discussions on frontier technology and major key issues in the field of artificial intelligence, including artificial intelligence, bio-intelligence, supercomputing, brain thinking, encryption algorithms, blockchain technology, voice and image recognition, and other interdisciplinary fusion of artificial intelligence and bio-intelligence. Discussions on the future smart industry prospects.

Topics:

① Blockchain Technology and 5G Communication Security

② Computational Learning and Model Construction

③ Computational Chemistry and Big Data Medicine

④ Model Detection Technology and 5G Communication Protocol Security

Participants:

Laureates: 2 Nobel Laureates, 3 Turing Laureates and 3 Fields Laureates;

Academicians of the CAS and CAE, Young Scientists.

Venue: Shanghai Dian Ji University

WLA Carbon-hydrogen Bond and Novel Chemistry Summit

Highlights:

Discussions on frontier technology and major key issues in the field of carbon-hydrogen bonds and novel chemistry, covering new methods of carbon-hydrogen bond catalysis and functionalization, application of click chemistry and chiral catalytic reactions, and activation of carbon-hydrogen bonds of hydrocarbons by soluble transition metal complexes; and the development of the future of novel chemistry;

Topics:

① click chemistry and chiral catalytic reaction

② carbon-hydrogen bond catalysis and functionalization

③ large organic molecular synthesis and metal catalysis

④ the drug manufacturing mechanisms of Buchwald-Hartwig amination

Participants:

Laureates: 2 Nobel Laureates, 1 MacArthur Laureate and 3 Wolf Laureates;

Academicians of the CAS and CAE, Young Scientists.

Venue: Shanghai Dian Ji University

WLA New Drug Discovery and Translational Medicine Summit

Highlights:

Discussions on frontier technology and major key issues in the field of new drug discovery and translational medicine, including the latest tumor and cancer technologies such as molecular typing and targeted therapy of cancer, stem cell and cell therapy, researches on high-risk virus, infectious diseases and artemisinin, related innovative drugs R&D and mechanisms and cycles of the pharmaceutical industry;

Topics:

① protein degradation and target drug development

② supramolecular chemistry and drug innovation path

③ tumor suppressor gene mutation

④ HPV and cervical cancer research

⑤ mechanism of hypoxic cell sensing mechanism in coronary artery disease

Participants:

Laureates: 7 Nobel Laureates and 2 Lasker Laureates;

Academicians of the CAS and CAE, Young Scientists.

Venue: Shanghai Ocean University

WLA New Energy and New Materials Summit

Highlights:

Discussions on frontier and key technologies in the field of new materials and new energy, covering energy renewable technologies and applications such as ocean, thermal, hydrogen, electricity, radioactive waste treatment; energy applications such as new energy vehicles, new generation solar cells, and super materials; and discussions on the industry landscapes and ecological chains of new materials and new energy in the future;

Topics:

① global ecological and energy-conservation development

② super materials science

③ functional modification of graphene materials and composite materials

④ semiconductor nanostructures and nanomaterials

⑤ functional modification of carbon nanotube materials and composite materials

Participants:

Laureates: 6 Nobel Laureates, 1 MacArthur Laureate and 1 James C. McGroddy Prize Laureate;

Academicians of the CAS and CAE, Young Scientists.

Venue: Shanghai Ocean University

 WLA Life Science Summit

Highlights:

Discussions on core and major key issues in the field of life sciences, including emerging technologies of supramolecular chemistry and the development of adaptive chemistry such as the structures determination of proteins and ribosomes, the application of cryo-electron microscopy technology based on ribosome determination and the development of artificial enzymes; molecular machinery and regulatory mechanisms of neurotransmitter release and the analysis of the operational mechanisms of life-based substances;

Topics:

① high-resolution structure determination of ribosomes

② artificial enzyme synthesis and supramolecular chemistry

③ histone modifications and their role in genetics

④ molecular imaging and clinical medicine

⑤ protein three-dimensional structure high-resolution imaging and targeted new drug development

Participants:

Laureates: 6 Nobel Laureates and 3 Lasker Laureates;

Academicians of the CAS and CAE, Young Scientists.

Venue: Shanghai Jian Qiao University

WLABlack Hole and Aerospace Technology

Highlights:

Discussions on frontier technology and major key issues in the field of the physical fundamental physics such as astrophysics, quantum, and microphysics, covering cutting-edge technologies in the fields of space discovery, dark matter, quantum entanglement, cosmic acceleration, quantum satellite and aerospace technologies; to explore the innovative future of unknown space field and the aerospace industry;

Topics:

① dark energy observation

② big bang

③ LIGO detector and gravitational wave detection

④ quantum chromodynamics and time crystals

⑤ topological phase transition and topological quantum computation

⑥ experimental quantum and high energy physics

Participants:

Laureates: 9 Nobel Laureates;

Academicians of the CAS and CAE, Young Scientists.



Venue: Shanghai University of Electric Power

WLA Economic and Financial Summit

Highlights:

Exploring the development cycle and trends of global science and technology development and economic and financial development. Discussions on frontier dynamics of financial and economic fields such as innovation and entrepreneurship, economic equilibrium, global macroeconomic trends, scientific and technological development and financial support, technological innovation and regional economic development, seeking the blend of technological frontiers and industrial front;

Topics:

① global economic growth and cycle

② capital market expectations and asset price assessment

③ rational expectations and decision science

④ economic structure and optimal economic countermeasures design

⑤ game market and economic balance

Participants:

Laureates: 5 Nobel Laureates and 1 Wolf Laureate;

Academicians of the CAS and CAE, Young Scientists.

Venue: Shanghai Maritime University