Date:

2017 International conference of Public Safety Science and Technology successfully hosted at Beijing

 

On November 11, 2017, the 2017 Annual conference of Public Safety Science and Technology was held in the Beijing Convention Center. The conference was hosted by the Institute of Public Safety Science and Technology, jointly organized by the State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology at Beijing Institute of Technology and the Public Security Institute of Tsinghua University. Prof. Shouwei Zhou (Vice Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering), Prof. Weicheng Fan (Chairman of the Institute of Public Safety Science and Technology and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering), and Professor Teng Long, Assistant President of the Beijing institute of Technology  attended the meeting and delivered welcome speeches. The opening ceremony was hosted by Professor Shifei Shi, Secretary-General of the Institute of Public Safety Science and Technology

 

Prof. Shouwei Zhou (Academician)

 

Prof. Weicheng Fan (Academician)

 

Prof.Teng Long

 

A total of 11 invited reports were included on this conference. Scholars including academician Prof, Weicheng Fan, Academician Prof. Liang Yuan, Qiaoxian Zhang (Chief of China’s 21st Century Agenda Management Center), and experts from government, research institutes, and companies such as the State Oceanic Administration, Tsinghua University, General Armed Police Hospital, National Supercomputing Wuxi Center, Institute of Automation (Chinese Academy of Sciences), made wonderful lectures on new progresses, new technologies, and new ideas in key areas such as national special project deployment and management, science and technology for winter Olympics, mine safety, explosion safety, military-civil integration, smart and safe cities and other related fields. Among them, Professor Cheng Wang, director of the State Key Laboratory of Explosive Science and Technology, gave an invited report titled "Explosion Safety Science and Technology Development and Outlook", which systematically introduced the importance of the State Key Laboratory of Explosive Science and Technology in the field of explosion safety. Research progress highlights the major applications of explosion safety science and related technologies in public safety.

 

 

For the eleven themes including explosion safety, marine safety, aviation safety, petrochemical safety, mine safety, urban security, human safety, social security, early warning and prediction, rescue and disposition, and disaster medicine, the conference hosts 11 corresponding sessions. In each section, participators of all 32 special key projects for public security risk prevention and control and emergency technical equipment initiated in 2016 were scheduled to present their recent progress, and more than 100 well-known experts from the national public safety were arranged to deliver thematic report. Among them, Prof. Chunhua Bai at the Beijing Institute of Technology, as the chairman of the forum of explosion security, organized two special project reports, 10 theme reports, and 13 forum reports. Prof. Guangyan Huang, deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Explosive Science and Technology, present a report titled "Flexible Explosion Protection Mechanism and Its Application Technology", which attracted the attention of participants.

 

 

The conference had more than 1,000 experts and scholars from universities, research institutes, government, and enterprises. Nearly 60 faculty members and students from Beijing Institute of Technology attended the conference. As the organizer of the 2017 public safety science and technology, the successful host of this conference highlighted the requirements of SKLEST at Beijing Institute of Technology to respond to the national needs in the development of science and technology and serves major national and individual requirements. The outstanding contributions made by the parties will play an increasingly important role in China's public safety scientific research, technology application and policy support. At the same time, this conference has received strong support from the Institute of Science and Technology, the School of Mechatronical Engineering, and other schools in the university.