HIAS was quiet for a holiday.
It encountered snow in spring.
Misty all around.
After the snowflakes comes the rising temperature.
A long-awaited bustle once again comes to the campus.
Students entered a new academic year.
In this semester, HIAS is expected to offer 71 courses with 77 sessions, with 58 courses and 64 sessions in the first and second week combined, and the official opening date is February 21. In the spring semester, 142 teaching faculty members took part in the teaching duties, including 116 teaching faculty members of professional courses, 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Tang Yong and Li Jinsong), 18 scholars enjoying the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars and 19 scholars in the "Thousand Talents Program", "Ten Thousand Talents Program", Young Changjiang Scholars, and Outstanding Young Scholars.
Tang Yong, Dean of the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director and research fellow of Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Sichuan Normal University in 1986 and a Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996. From 1996 to 1999, he engaged in postdoctoral research at Colorado State University and Georgetown University in the United States, and joined Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry in 1999. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. He is mainly engaged in the research of metal organic chemistry and polymer chemistry. His research group has designed and synthesized a series of new catalysts (reagents) by using the sidearm strategy, and successfully applied them to the research of asymmetric catalysis, Ylide Chemistry and olefin controlled polymerization. Some achievements have been successfully transformed and industrialized. He has won the Second Prize of the State Natural Science Award.
Recently, Tang Yong, Dean of the School of Chemistry and Materials Science of the Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS came to HIAS andtaught the first lesson for students taking the course ofOrganometallic Chemistry and Catalysis, starting from chemistry and human civilization, and divided into four parts: history of organometallic chemistry and its development, organometallic chemistry and organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry and polymer materials, and his research experiences and insights.Mr. Tang Yong gave a great academic lecture to the students.
At the beginning of the course, Mr. Tang Yongstarted from the most common cases in daily life and described the connotation of chemistry and its contribution to society in an easy-to-understand and very interesting way.Mr. Tang said that in today's world, chemistry is deeply embedded in our lives, and people habitually apply chemistry and enjoy the fruits of chemical science every day, the same way we eat and drink water every day. Imagine what era we would be back to if there were no chemistry.
Next, Mr. Tang Yong gradually opened up the conversation about chemistry and took the course to a deeper level. After describing what organometallic chemistry is and its history, Mr. Tang Yong took several important reactions in organometallic chemistry such asolefin metathesis as examples and explained the differences between organometallic chemistry and traditional organic chemistry, and used the discovery and development of polyolefin materials as examples to illustrate the application of organometallic chemistry in the creation of polymer materials and catalytic degradation of waste polyolefins and other materials.Through these lectures, everyone has a general understanding of organometallic chemistry and catalysis.
Regarding the research concept, Mr. Tang Yong described his understanding of the "three pockets" of his doctoral supervisor, Academician Huang Yaozeng, and believed that "The purpose of scientific research is to solve problems—achievements should be useful for the exploration of knowledge; chemical science should serve mankind —efforts should be made to promote the commercialization of what has been achieved; chemistry should be sustainable—doing a good job of cultivating talents." When sharing his research experience, Mr. Tang said that good research must come up with good ideas and methods for important issues. The key is to "make complex things simple, persevere in doing simple things, and do what you stick to with all your heart" so that you will definitely have the opportunity to be successful.
When sharing his life experience, Mr. Tang Yong made a lot of golden words. He passed on his experience to the students present without reservation and give them three tips:in terms of doing things, get the task at hand done; in terms of conducting oneself as a person, one should seek harmony without uniformity, and do everything you need to do without competing for fame and fortune; in doing research, it is important to have a dream in mind and persevere in achieving it. He hoped that everyone should "think about the big things, start with the small things, and act immediately".
In the view of Zhou Jingyu, Mr. Tang's chemistry courses can be said to be full of useful information. "The teacher told us about the years of his study and research gains, which not only enriched our academic knowledge and ideas but also gave us a lot of good suggestions for scientific research. I hope we can also do our part in the study afterward and overcome the difficulties in our experiments."
"Mr. Tang is very experienced in the field of metal-organic and explains profound theories in simple language, which makes us further understand the course. This subject plays a very important role in production and life."To Zang Haojie, Mr. Tang is like a kind senior. As a person who has been there, Tang brought inspiration to the students and made Zang Haojie more convinced of the simple but extraordinary truth that "we should start from small things and stick to our dreams".
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