Summer Camper for Future Scientist

　　On July 4th, 2016, the opening ceremony of
Future Physicist International Summer Camp (FPISC) took place on 5th
floor, Activity Center on East Campus, together with the Future Chemist
International Summer Camp. Professor HOU Zhonghuai hosted the ceremony
and greeted International students quoting the famous Chinese idiom 'How
happy we are to have friends from the far'.

　　Then Chusheng Chen, Vice President of USTC, made a speech for the
opening ceremony. He illustrated how progress in fundamental science
would make our life better and emphasized the importance of providing a
chance for future scientists to cooperate with each other. "The
friendship that established while you are young certainly will have
unexpected, even unintended impact on your future career and life."

　　Qi Sun delivered a speech as the representative of FPSIC members from
USTC. He presented the overview of Hefei City, USTC as well as School
of Physical Sciences, expressing his expectation that all FPSIC members
would enjoy the summer camp and establish friendships with each other.

　　Julia Wei from Yale University gave a speech representing
International students attending FPSIC. She illustrated the schedule of
FPISC and appreciated the chance to communicate directly with
outstanding USTC scientists with great passion.

　　The opening ceremony ended after Vice President Chusheng Chen handed
sub-camp flags to student representatives. All the members gave a brief
self-introduction about the universities they from, their realm of
interest in physics as well as hobbies. International students from
Caltech, Oxford, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, University of
Twente and many other top universities recieved a warm welcome from USTC
students.

　　Afterwards, Professor Junhua Yuan gave a lecture on "Bacterial motile
behavior: from single motor to signaling network". With vivid
animations and various of diagrams, he demonstrated the bacterial
motions intuitively and explained some recent works of his lab.In the
afternoon, FPISC members paid a visit to Yuan's lab. Graduate students
in the lab explained the experiment they are carrying on and elaborated
on how the equipments work.

　　After visiting Yuan's Lab, FPISC members attended a lecture on
Chinese language and culture featuring basic phraseology. With great
enthusiasm, international students learned how to greet others and
briefly introduce themselves in Chinese.

　　In the following two weeks, participants of FPISC will have further
communications with each other and do deeper research together.
Organized by University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and
the School of Physical Sciences , Future Physicist International Summer
Camp aims at promoting international science communication and leaving
all the campers indelible memories.

School of Physical Sciences