MPS/CAS Partner Group on Cosmology

The Partner Group does research in cosmology, focussing on the quantitative modeling of the structure and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters, the pattern of galaxies and of larger structures.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Radio Astronomy

The Partner Group does research on cosmic magnetic fields using radio astronomy methods. Magnetic fields are found in every astronomical object: the Earth, the Sun,planets, stars, pulsars, the Milky Way,nearby galaxies and in distant radio galaxies. The role of the magnetic fields in the cosmic universe has not been well investigated, mainly because of the difficulties of their observation.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Geometric Analysis

The Partner Group works on topics in geometric analysis in cooperation with the corresponding research group at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Nanostructured Materials

As one of the first Partner Groups which were initiated to foster scientific exchange and interaction between the Max Pianck Society (MPS) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Partner Group led by Lu Ke was established on April 1, 1999.During the past five years, the group has received substantial support from the CAS for equipment and from the MPS for personnel and travel expenses. Extensive and productive collaborations between the research staff and students of the Partner Group with several professors (departments) in the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research (MPI-MF) have led to significant advances in synthesis,mechanical properties, melting and superheating of nanostructured metals. The research is well recognized internationally and a substantial number of publications in high quality, peer-reviewed journals (including Science and Physical Review Letters) have resulted.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Nanotechnology in Catalysis

The first contact between Bao Xinhe and the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) of the Max Planck Society goes back to 1989, when he was a Humboldt Scholarship holder in Germany. He worked at the FHI with Gerard Ertl on the surface and catalytic properties of Ag-cluster until 1995, when he returned to China and joined the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The cooperation with the FHI continued in 2000, when a Partner Group was established under the leadership of Robert Schlogl and Bao Xinhe.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Plant Molecular Physiology and Signal Transduction

Rice is mankind's most important food crop - the staple diet for half of the world's population - and is also tremendously important for Chinese food production.Hence, understanding how rice grows and interacts with its environment, which often adversely affects plant development and crop yield, is of prime importance.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Interfacial and Amorphous Structures in Advanced Ceramics

The scientific work of the Partner Group is aiming to comprehend the fundamental properties of internal interfaces that play a key role in the microstructure development and in the thermal, mechanical, and functional properties of ceramics.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on the Development of Mechanical Knowledge in China

China's long and continuous cultural tradition offers scholars the special opportunity for cross-cultural studies in the long-term development of science. The Partner Group focuses on an exemplary case of such long-term development, the development of mechanical knowledge in China from antiquity to the early modern period.     

MPS/CAS Partner Groups in China

MPS/CAS Partner Groups have become an important backbone of Sino-German collaboration, and they are considered to function as a nucleus for defining topics for the envisaged next generation of cooperation - as seen from the following reports and future plans.     

An MPG/CAS Partner Group Set Up at USTC

The Max Planck Society (MPG) and CAS have recently decided to set up a partner group at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), which is located in Hefei,capital of east China's Anhui Province.     

Prospects of CAS/MPS Cooperation

In the next 20 years, collaboration between the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPS) will meet with great strategic opportunities. We should seek the chance to innovatively improve our cooperation. This could include further improvement of the mechanisms,expansion of areas, actively seeking new patterns, and strengthening our research on science and technology foresight.     

MPS/CAS Cooperation on Solid State Chemistry

The cooperation between Zhao Jingtai and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids was initiated immediately after the research field Inorganic Chemistry (headed by Rüdiger Kniep) started its work in Dresden. The first contact was established when Zhao Jingtai came from the Xiamen University as a Max Planck fellow. At that time, the chemistry of the intermetallic compounds of rare-earth metals was chosen as a topic of joint investigations with Yuri Grin. Later, the solid state chemistry of the borophosphates was added to the program of concerted research in the group of Zhao Jingtai and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.     

MPG, CAS Set Up a New Partner Group

Max Planck Society (MPG) and CAS recently set up a Partner Group on First-Principles Theory of High-pressure Oxidation Catalysis at the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP).     

CAS/MPS partner group makes fruitful achievements

After five years of development, a partner group between CAS and Max Planck Society （MPS） on interfacial and amorphous structure in advanced ceramics has scored encouraging progress, commented members of the Scientific Advisory Board of the group, which convened on 15 April in Shanghai.     

CAS and MPS Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Cooperation in Germany

Berlin witnesses a grand reunion between Chinese and German scientists to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the rewarding cooperation between the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Max Planck Society (MPS) in Germany. A series of celebrations were held on Nov. 8 and 9, 2004 to mark this historic moment,not only renewing old friendships but also seeking new approaches to higher quality of collaboration.     

中德科技合作深入发展的新起点——中科院与马普学会科技合作30周年庆祝活动综述

2004年5月24日，中国科学院与德国马普学会在北京举行科学合作30周年庆祝大会，有50余人组成的德国科学家访华团与众多中国科学家一起，纪念中德科技合作30周年。中国     

关于我院科技评价工作的若干思考

本文从评价对象、内容和方法三维视角,分析归纳了国际科技评价的特点与趋势及世界知名科研团体各具特色的科技评价。回顾总结了中国科学院科技评价的实践经验,分析了存在的问题。提出了科技评价的美国模式和欧洲大陆模式,提出要探索适合中国科学院特点的科技评估模式,制定评价管理规范,重点开展支撑战略管理的科技评价、促进研究所竞争发展的科技评价和体现政策导向的专项科技评价等政策建议。     

CAS releases 2007 Science and Society Series

The 2007 Science and Society Series of CAS, consisting of reports on scientific progress, high-tech advancements and sustainable development, has been off the press.     

中国科学院研究所科技评价探讨

为了对中国科学院的研究所进行更加合理有效的科技评价,本文在探讨了论文等出版物及影响因子、检索系统收录情况和被引频次、获奖成果、专利和软件著作权、项目数和经费、将帅人才这些科学院知识创新工程研究所评价体系基础评价指标元素的基础上,提出了完善指标体系、重视科技成果的应用和社会效益、基于学科专业建立评价模型、分专业领域和学科进行评价、研究指标相关性和把握评价周期等对策建议。使之更适合中国科学院的创新评价需求并达到评价导向和支撑科学院战略管理与绩效管理的需求。