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TDLI 2025 Annual Report was released
The 2025 Annual Report of the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute was officially released. It provides a detailed record of the Institute’s achievements and progress over the past year.
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Pudong New Area Signed an Agreement to Jointly Build Zhangjiang Quantum Science and Technology Research Base
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On April 4, a signing ceremony for the strategic cooperation agreement between Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the People's Government of Pudong New Area to jointly establish the Zhangjiang Quantum Science and Technology Research Base was held at SJTU's Minhang Campus. The University will leverage this partnership to collaborate with Pudong New Area in building a globally influential hub for quantum science and technology innovation. Read more
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TDLI Hosted Donation Signing Ceremony and Symposium for "Jie Ge Fund"
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April 3, TDLI held a donation signing ceremony and symposium for the "SJTU Jie Ge Fund". The event was attended by alumna Katherine He, a 1985 undergraduate graduate of SJTU's Department of Power Mechanical Engineering and President of the SJTU America Foundation; Academician Jie Zhang, Director of the TDLI; Yushen Wang, Director of the SJTU Development and Liaison Office and Secretary-General of the SJTU Education Development Foundation; along with Zhe Chen, Secretary of the CPC TDLI Committee and Shushu Li, Deputy Secretary of the CPC TDLI Commitee. Read more
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TDLI Director Jie Zhang Led Delegation to Department of
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On April 12, a TDLI delegation led by Director Jie Zhang visited Tsinghua University's Department of Physics for discussions on disciplinary development, research, and talent cultivation. Both sides agreed to launch bilateral academic forums and exchange programs. Jie Zhang also gave an invited lecture on laser fusion and held a dialogue with students. The two sides will continue to deepen collaboration in research, education, and resource sharing. Read more
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Deepening Global Collaboration: Academician Jie Zhang Led TDLI Delegation on Tour of Spain, Germany, and France
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From May 18 to 22, TDLI Director Jie Zhang led a delegation to leading institutions in Spain, Germany and France to discuss joint Ph.D. programs, postdoctoral recruitment, and major facility cooperation, aiming to expand the Institute's global partnerships. Read more
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Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory Inaugurated: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and Hefei Metalforming Intelligent Manufacturing Deepen Strategic Collaboration
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TRIDENT Project Successfully Completed Integrated Deep-Sea Test at a Depth of 3,500 Meters
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Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the TRIDENT Project team recently conducted a sea test of deep-sea neutrino detection equipment aboard the R/V Haiyang Dizhi II near the preselected TRIDENT Basin site. The successful test laid a solid foundation for Phase I construction. Read more
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A Smooth Handover: PandaX-4T Completed Its Operational Phase as PandaX Enters the 20-Ton Era
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At 15:56 on April 17, the PandaX-4T detector, located 2,400 meters underground in the Jinping Underground Laboratory in Sichuan, completed Run 11162 and was shut down as scheduled. PandaX-4T operated successfully for a total of 1,465 days and completed its mission for this phase of the experiment. The PandaX collaboration shifted its focus to the construction of the next-generation twenty-ton-scale detector, PandaX-20T. Read more
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Congratulations! Shanghai Jiao Tong University Muon Physics Team Shared Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
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The 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded jointly to the three-generation muon anomalous magnetic moment experimental collaborations (the Muon g-2 Collaborations) at CERN, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. This prize is one of the three major categories of the Breakthrough Prize, with a single award of $3 million, and is often referred to as the "Oscars of Science." Among the three, the Fermilab Muon g-2 Collaboration played a particularly crucial role in this recognition, released its final measurement results in 2025, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University muon physics team shared this top international honor in fundamental physics alongside 376 researchers worldwide. Read more
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ATLAS Team Selected for FOP 2025 Top Ten Physics Advances!
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Recently, the results of the "2025 Top Ten Physics Advances" selection campaign were announced. The campaign was organized by Frontiers of Physics — a physics journal supervised by the Ministry of Education and published by Higher Education Press — in collaboration with KouShare Academic. The ATLAS research team from SJTU's Tsung‑Dao Lee Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy was selected for this prestigious list. Their featured work is titled "Important Experimental Progress in Higgs New Physics — The First 'Cosmology‑Consistent' Dark Higgs Search and the First Experimental Study of the Triple‑Higgs Process." The team includes postdoctoral scholar Changqiao Li and Jing Chen, doctoral students Qibin Liu and Xuliang Zhu, undergraduate students Qimin Jiang and Qi Cai, Tenured Fellow Shu Li, and Distinguished Fellow Haijun Yang. Warm congratulations to the team! Read more
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Only Two in the World! Huilin Qu, a Tenured Fellow at TDLI, Received the IUPAP C11 Young Scientist Award!
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Recently, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Particles and Fields (C11) announced the recipients of the 2026 Early Career Scientist Prize. Qu Huilin, a Tenured Fellow at Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, has been awarded this prize in recognition of her key contributions and leading role in the development of advanced machine learning algorithms. These algorithms have significantly enhanced the identification capability of high-momentum heavy-particle decays and have been applied to important physical processes, such as the search for H→cc decays at the Large Hadron Collider. Notably, he is one of only two recipients worldwide of this prestigious award. Read more
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Congratulations to TDLI Tenured Fellow Kim Siang Khaw Received 2026 SJTU President's Award!
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The Shanghai Jiao Tong University President's Award is the university's highest honor in the realm of spiritual and cultural excellence. It is conferred upon faculty, staff, and students who have made outstanding contributions to promoting the spirit of patriotic dedication, carrying forward SJTU's culture, and exemplifying SJTU's spirit. Read more
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Congratulations to TDLI Tenure-track Fellow Baiqing Lv on winning the Sir Martin Wood China Prize in Physical Science!
Award Citation:
For significant contributions to the experimental discovery of topological Weyl semimetals.
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Congratulations to Thomas Baycroft for winning the Michael Penston Thesis Prize!
On 9 June, the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) announced the "winner" of the 2025 Michael Penston Thesis Prize, which is for the best PhD thesis in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Dr. Thomas Baycroft, a T. D. Lee Postdoctoral Scholar at TDLI, is the only doctoral graduate to receive this prestigious award in 2025. Read more
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Distinguished SJTU Alumnus Jun Ye Visited TDLI and Shares His Scientific Journey with Students
On the afternoon of April 8, TDLI hosted a special lecturel. The event featured Professor Jun Ye, a world-renowned physicist, member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who returned to his alma mater to share his scientific journey and insights with students. Professor Ye is an alumnus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's inaugural honors program, Class of 1989. The lecture drew an audience of over 150 students from the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Zhiyuan College, the School of Physics and Astronomy, and Pujiang International College. Read more
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TDLI Hosted the 2nd International Open Conference on PandaX-xT
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The 2nd PandaX-xT International Open Meeting was successfully held at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute from April 6 to 12. This marked the second international open conference organized by the PandaX Collaboration since 2025. The meeting brought together nearly 100 researchers from countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia, and so on. The conference was co-chaired by Professor Yifei Niu from Shanghai Jiao Tong University's School of Physics and Astronomy, Professor Jianglai Liu from Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Professor Fedor Simkovic from Comenius University in Slovakia, and Professor Qing Lin from the University of Science and Technology of China. Read more
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Workshop on High-Energy Particle Astrophysics Science Models and LHAASO Intelligent Engineering Progress Held in Shanghai
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From April 9 to 10, A joint workshop on high-energy particle astrophysics science models and LHAASO intelligent engineering progress was recently held at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute. The meeting was co-hosted by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and organized by Tianfu Cosmic Ray Research Center. This workshop effectively facilitated exchange and collaboration among the project team in the field of artificial intelligence technologies. It also strengthened discussions and mutual learning with other large‑scale scientific facilities on AI applications, promoted the deep integration of AI with experimental facilities, and supported high‑quality scientific output and operational control for LHAASO. Read more
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No.31 T. D. Lee Colloquium by Professor Imad Laktineh
On April 23, Professor Imad Laktineh from the University of Lyon was invited to visit Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and delivered the 31st T. D. Lee Colloquium entitled "The Two Quantum Revolutions". Nearly 40 faculty members and students attended in person, including TDLI Deputy Director Jianglai Liu and Chair Professor Xiaogang He. Professor Xiaogang He chaired this session of the T. D. Lee Colloquium. Read more
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2026 Annual Exchange Meeting of the State Key Laboratory of Dark Matter Physics Was Successfully Held
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On April 25, the State Key Laboratory of Dark Matter Physics held its 2026 Annual Exchange Meeting at the Tsung‑Dao Lee Institute, with over 100 attendees including management committee members, researchers, doctoral students, and open‑project principal investigators. The meeting reviewed the laboratory's past‑year accomplishments and research advances, while also fostering substantive discussions on core scientific challenges and future strategic directions across all research fields. Read more
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T. D. Lee Special Colloquium by Prof. Xiaofeng Wang
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On April 29, Prof. Xiaofeng Wang from Tsinghua University was invited to visit Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and deliver the T. D. Lee Special Colloquium entitled "From Explosion Mechanisms to the Hubble Tension: Insights from Stellar Explosions". 30 faculty and students attended the lecture on site. At the end of the lecture, Academician Jie Zhang, on behalf of TDLI, presented Prof. Wang with an adjunct professor appointment certificate and wished both sides a smooth and fruitful future collaboration. Read more
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Physics Faculty and Students from Peking University and Beihang University Visited for Research and Exchange Activities
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From May 9 to 10, the School of Physics and Astronomy and Tsung-Dao Lee Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University welcomed a delegation of over 60 outstanding faculty members and students from Peking University and Beihang University for a two‑day immersive research and study program. The visiting group was led by Academician Yuanning Gao and Professors Qinghong Cao and Xueqing Yan from Peking University, as well as Professors Hongbo Zhou and Lisheng Geng from Beihang University. Faculty and students from the three universities gathered together to engage in discussions on the frontiers of physics and to explore the path of scientific research. Read more
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No.32 T. D. Lee Colloquium by Professor Jim Gates
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On May 14, Professor Jim Gates from the University of Maryland was invited to visit Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and delivered the 32th T. D. Lee Colloquium entitled "From Parity-Violation To 4D String Theory". Over 60 faculty members and students attended in person, including the director of TDLI, Academician Jie Zhang, Chair Professors Xiangdong Ji and Xiaogang He. Prof. Xiangdong Ji chaired this edition of the T. D. Lee Colloquium. Read more
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The 2026 "Tsung-Dao Lee PhD student" Program Open Day Successful Conclusion!
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From May 23 to 24, the 2026 Open Day for the "Tsung-Dao Lee PhD student" Program was successfully held at Tsung-Dao Lee Institute. Over 150 outstanding undergraduate students from more than 60 universities — including Tsinghua University, Fudan University, and Zhejiang University — came together with over 50 senior scholars and early‑career researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University for two days of in‑depth exchange and a shared journey into science. Read more
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The 7th TRIDENT Collaboration Meeting and the 2nd International Cooperation Symposium Were Successfully Held
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From May 29 to 31, the 7th TRIDENT Collaboration Meeting and the 2nd International Cooperation Symposium were successfully held, alongside the inaugural meeting of the TRIDENT Neutrino Laboratory (Hainan). The event brought together over 60 experts and scholars from research institutions and universities both in China and abroad. The successful convening of this meeting marks significant progress for the TRIDENT Project in terms of collaborative organization, key technology validation, and engineering implementation support. It has laid a stronger foundation for accelerating the construction of TRIDENT Phase I and moving closer to the goal of building a world‑leading next‑generation deep‑sea neutrino telescope. Read more
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The 2026 Shanghai Science and Technology Festival, was Drawn to A Successful Close
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Recently, as a major part of the Shanghai Science and Technology Festival's "Science Popularization Open House" program, two SJTU key laboratories — the State Key Laboratory of Dark Matter Physics and the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Cosmology — held a joint Open Day at Tsung‑Dao Lee Institute. Read more
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Cheers to the Class of 2026! TDLI's Graduate Commencement and Degree Conferral Ceremony Took Place
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On June 25, the 2026 Graduate Commencement and Degree Conferral Ceremony of Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was held in TDLI. The ceremony was attended by Jie Zhang, Academician and Director of TDLI; Zhe Chen, Secretary of the CPC TDLI Committee; Jinfeng Jia, Academician and T. D. Lee Chair Professor; Xiaohu Yang, Deputy Director and Distinguished Fellow; Shushu Li, Deputy Secretary of the CPC TDLI Committee; Shaofeng Ge and Rongrong Zhang, Assistants to the Director; faculty advisors and class advisors; administrative staff representatives; as well as all 2026 graduates and their families and friends, who gathered together to witness this solemn and heartwarming milestone. The ceremony was presided over by Zhe Chen. Read more
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Science+1! Hong Ding Team: Experimental Discovery of Fractional Flux Superconducting Vortices
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Recently, a joint research team led by Professor Hong Ding, T. D. Lee Chair Professor at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, published a Research Article in Science entitled "Observation of quantum vortex core fractionalization and skyrmion formation in a superconductor".
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Research Highlight | Laboratory Laser-Produced Plasmas: A New Perspective on Astrophysical Magnetic Fields
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Academicians Jie Zhang from Tsung-Dao Lee Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the National Key Laboratory of Dark Matter Physics, in collaboration with Professor Jiayong Zhong from the College of Arts and Sciences at Beijing Normal University, published an invited review paper online in the internationally renowned review journal Nature Reviews Physics (2024 impact factor: 39.5; 5-year impact factor: 53.2), titled "Laser-produced plasmas as probes of astrophysical magnetic fields." Read more
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Interfacial Orbital Hybridization Unlocks Ising-type Superconductivity in Confined Gallium
Recently, Tenure-track Fellow Hemian Yi from the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, in collaboration with Prof. Chao-Xing Liu and Prof. Cui-Zu Chang from Pennsylvania State University, published a paper titled "Orbital-hybridization-induced Ising-type superconductivity in a confined Gallium layer" in Nature Materials. This study reveals an Ising-type superconducting state induced by orbital hybridization in Gallium (Ga) trilayer. Read more
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Demagnifying Gravitational Lenses Open a New Window to Probe Dark Matter Structures and Nonminimal Couplings to Gravity
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Recently, Dr. Hong-Yi Zhang, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, made new progress in the study of gravitational microlensing of dark matter. The work, entitled Demagnifying Gravitational Lenses as Probes of Dark Matter Structures and Nonminimal Couplings to Gravity, was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Read more
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Helical Electron Beam Micro-Bunching by High-Order Modes in a Micro-Plasma Waveguide
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Recently, Postdoctoral Scholar Xinju Guo and Tenure-track Fellow Longqing Yi from the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, published a research paper titled "Helical Electron Beam Micro-Bunching by High-Order Modes in a Micro-Plasma Waveguide" in Advanced Science, proposing a new scheme for generating high-energy electron beams with tunable vortex structures. Read more
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PandaX-4T Constrained Neutrino Self-Interactions and Dark Matter Self-Interactions: Latest Results from Theory-Experiment Collaboration
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The PandaX Collaboration at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in collaboration with the theory group led by Chair Professor Michael Ramsey-Musolf, has placed the most stringent laboratory constraints on neutrino self-interactions in the 0.8–2 MeV mass range using xenon-136 double-beta decay data. Combined with cosmic microwave background data, the team also set strong limits on dark matter self-interactions. The results, published in Physical Review Letters on June 18, 2026, highlight the power of PandaX double-beta decay research in probing new physics beyond the Standard Model. Read more
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Science Walk: An Immersive Learning and Exchange Activity
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On June 5, the Science Walk interdisciplinary exchange activity was successfully held in Shanghai’s Hengshan-Fuxing Road Historic Conservation Area. Organized by SJTU Faculty and Staff Union and jointly hosted by the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, the School of Artificial Intelligence, and the Institute of Natural Sciences, the event combined city walking, red heritage education, and technology exploration to create a unique interdisciplinary learning experience connecting Shanghai’s revolutionary history, urban cultural heritage, and cutting-edge scientific innovation. Read more
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Highlights from the 51st University Sports Games! Our Faculty and Students Shine on the Track
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Popular Science Talk | Professor Douglas N.C. Lin: From Curiosity to Understanding the Universe
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Recently, Tenure-track Fellow Fabo Feng of TDLI interviewed Professor Douglas N.C. Lin, from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Lin reviewed his academic and research journey, shared the background of the planetary orbital migration theory, recounted his interactions with Hawking at Cambridge, and discussed the internationalization of Chinese astronomy and his expectations for young researchers, drawing on his experience in founding the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University. Read more
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Congratulations! TDLI Students Achieved Outstanding Results in the 15th "Challenge Cup" Shanghai College Students' Entrepreneurship Plan Competition
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From June 5 to 7, the 15th "Challenge Cup" Shanghai College Entrepreneurship Competition were held. SJTU won the "Winner's Cup", and TDLI competing for the first time, took home a First Prize. The winning project, "Muon Imaging — Safeguarding Megacities", was led by TDLI doctoral student Yinghe Wang and included 11 graduate students from TDLI and SJTU's School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering — five of whom are international students. The advisors are TDLI Tenured Fellow Kim Siang Khaw and Ailan Che, a researcher from the School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering. The project used cosmic‑ray muon imaging to solve key problems in underground detection for megacities — such as limited depth, high costs, and difficulty in continuous monitoring — offering a more accurate and affordable solution for urban safety.
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On May 27, the Third Fun Sports Meet Kicked Off with Great Energy
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SJTU Astronomy Summer Academic Camp
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TDLI Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates
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Axion-Photon Conversion: Terrestrial and Cosmic Searches
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New Directions Exploring the Unknown beyond the Standard Model (NEXUS 2026)
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September 10 - September 13, 2026
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August 31, 2026 - September 5, 2026
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From July 1 to July 3, 2026
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NuFact 2026 - The 27th International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators
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August 31, 2026 - September 5, 2026
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Editor: 段丽莎 Lisa Duan (duanlisha@sjtu.edu.cn)
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