On the morning of June 25, the 2022 Commencement for Graduate Students of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS) was held in the West Meadow of North Court, Tsinghua University. Professor Luo Yong, Party Secretary and Dean of the DESS, attended and addressed the ceremony. A total of 21 graduates and supervisors of the DESS Class of 2022 attended the ceremony, which was held both online a...
After winter came spring, and summer followed springThe COVID-19 pandemic in 2022 has left us a special memory.The Graduation Thesis Defense in 2022This important ceremony of “completing graduate study”In this special periodAssumed a different meaning.Despite the inevitable regret of being separated in two placesWe have recorded this wonderful regretSending graduates our best wishesThat they ...
On February 10, 2022, the Department of Earth Science System (DESS) and the Institute of Global Change of Tsinghua University held the "Earth System Science Forum: Nobel Prize and Climate Change Science" online, to promote the development of earth system science and inspire young students' interest in research on climate change. Also attending the forum was Academician Qin Dahe of the China Met...
1. The Tsinghua DESS supercomputing team won the Gordon Bell Prize for the third timeOn the afternoon of November 18 (U.S. time), the 2021 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize, the highest international honor in the field of supercomputing application, was announced at a hybrid virtual/in person supercomputing (SC21) conference held in St. Louis, U.S. state Missouri. The...
Li Wei’s Research Group of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University has recently published a research paper online, revealing the biophysical effects of growing bioenergy crops at large scale in the world, and exploring the impact of different bioenergy crop types, distributions and planting areas on biophysical effects.Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS...
On November 29, Zhang Qiang’s Research Group and Tong Dan’s Research Group of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University jointly published a paper titled “Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls” online in Nature Climate Change, revealing that the health co-benefits of carbon emission reduction in th...
On the afternoon of November 18, US time, the winning team of the Gordon Bell Prize in 2021 was announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (SC21) in St. Louis, Missouri. The Chinese supercomputing team won this honor for its achievement “Closing the Quantum Supremacy Gap: Achieving Real-Time Simulation of a Random Quantum Circuit Using a New Sunway Supercomputer” (SWQSIM). The m...
On November 8, 2021,the Press Conference on the 2021 Lancet China Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change (hereinafter the Report) was held in Beijing. Zeng Rong, Vice President of Tsinghua University, and Gong Peng, Co-chairman of “The Lancet Countdown” and Vice President of the University of Hong Kong, delivered speeches online, and Helena Wang, Executive Editor-in-Chief of The Lance...
On October 21, 2021, the National “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” Scientific and Technological Innovation Achievement Exhibition was held in the Beijing Exhibition Center, which would last until the 27th of the month. Themed “Innovation-Driven Development Towards a Science and Technology Power”, the Achievement Exhibition highlighted the major scientific and technological achievements made by C...
On the afternoon of September 6, the inaugural ceremony of the Class of 2021 graduate students of the Department of Earth System Science was held in 6A205 of the sixth teaching building. Luo Yong, Dean and Secretary of the Party Branch of the Department, Zhang Qiang, Deputy Dean (in charge of teaching) of the Department, Yang Kun, faculty representative, and Lu Hui, Director of the Graduate Stu...