International Congress of Basic Science(ICBS) opened today at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with the theme of "Focusing on Basic Science, Leading the Future of Mankind". This is a top academic event in the field of basic science. Global scientists gathered in Beijing to discuss cutting-edge achievements in the field of basic science and look forward to the future development direction of basic research.
Important guests attending the conference include 8 Fields Prize winners, 3 Turing Prize winners, 1 Nobel Prize winner, and other world-renowned scientists; More than 50 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the American National Academy of Sciences, of the American Academy of Sciences for Arts and Sciences, of the Academy of Sciences of Europe, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, of the Academy of Japan; Principals of 10 domestic universities from Tsinghua University, Capital Normal University, Nanjing University, Southeast University were invited to attend the conference; And representatives from the international Mathematical Union, International Science Council, International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing, International Society for Computational Linguistics, International Statistical Association and other international academic organizations. Many of the participants won the Breakthrough Prize, the highest prize in statistics COPSS Presidents' Award, the highest prize in physics Dirac Medal, and the highest honor in theoretical computer Godel Prize.
