Opening Ceremony

Tuesday, 17 April

  • 8:00-8:10 The President of Tsinghua University, Binglin Gu, meets with the attending heads of ministries and the major invited participants (Location: VIP Room on the 1st floor of FIT building).
    Participants:
    • Bing Li (Associate Director of State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs)
    • Xian'en Zhang (Director of Department of Basic Research, Ministry of Science and Technology of P.R. China)
    • Huanzhong Xie (Director of Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education of P.R. China)
    • Zhaotian Zhang (Associate Director of Department of Information Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China)
    • Binglin Gu (President of Tsinghua University)
    • Weihe Xie (Vice President of Tsinghua University)
    • Andrew C Yao (Professor of Tsinghua University, A.M. Turing Award Winner of Year 2000)
    • Adi Shimir (Professor of Weizmann Institute of Science, A.M. Turing Award Winner of Year 2002)
  • 8:10-8:20 PKC 2007 general chair, professor Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, introduces the attending leaders and the honored guests
  • 8:20-8:28 Speech by Weihe Xie, Vice President of Tsinghua University
  • 8:28-8:36 Speech by Zhaotian Zhang, National Natural Science Foundation of China
  • 8:36-8:44 Speech by Huanzhong Xie, from Ministry of Education of China
  • 8:44-8:52 Speech by Xian'en Zhang, from Ministry of Science and Technology of China
  • 8:52-9:00 Speech by Bing Li, from State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs