Longwu Tea Village Team Building: When Researchers Hold a 'Brainstorming Session' in the Tea Garden On April 15th, 30 faculty and students from the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS) of Westlake University visited Longwu Tea Village in Hangzhou for a team-building activity. Rather than just a typical team-building event, it was an opportunity for these research minds to "recharge" in the vast energy field of the West Lake (the real lake!). Known as the "Ten-Thousand-Dan Tea Township,"...

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The First CIS Week of Westlake University Concludes Successfully From November 11th to 14th, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS) at Westlake University successfully held its first academic week with the theme "Physical Forces and Information Processing: from cells to tissues and onto learning dynamics in natural and artificial neural networks." The event brought together top global scholars，faculty, and students from the center to engage in livel...

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QBio Seminar Series is Coming Back! The 21st century has seen rapid development in biology, with basic research in life sciences continuously making significant breakthroughs. The development of science and technology has enabled humans to reach an unprecedentedly high level of understanding of life sciences.In the new era, interdisciplinary integration is bound to become an inevitable trend and will effectively change human prod...

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PEBBLE BioFusion Camp Explores Profound Questions of Life Over two and a half weeks, 27 professors and 49 students from home and abroad gathered at the PEBBLE BioFusion Camp to consider a question raised by Erwin Schrödinger 80 years ago: What is life?Prof. Chao Tang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Westlake University chair professor and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Sciences, used this question to kick off the summe...

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