Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) is committed to cultivating excellent engineers and scientific talents with innovative ability, global vision and humanistic quality. Since 2021, the "Guangdong-Technion Leadership in Science and Technology Lecture Series" has been launched to provide a platform for high-impact dialogues that explore topics that are pertinent to our faculties, students and community.

On April 11, Nobel Prize Laureate (Chemistry 2011) Prof. Dan Shechtman will deliver a lecture entitled "The connection between the Nobel Prize and Education for Innovation and Entrepreneurship" for faculties and students of GTIIT and Shantou University (STU). 

Prof. Dan Shechtman has once created courses on innovation and entrepreneurship at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which has benefited tens of thousands of students. In May 2014, he visited Shantou and conducted academic exchanges, sharing his views on "technology entrepreneurship" with more than 1,000 teachers and students of STU and local middle school students, which aroused a widespread response from all sectors. Ten years later, he will deliver a wonderful lecture again at GTIIT to share his views on innovative education and his experience of winning Nobel Prize.

We are looking forward to your participation.

Information
Date: April 11, 2024 (Thursday)

Time: 20:00-22:00 (Beijing Time)

Venue: GTIIT Auditorium (North Campus)

Topic: The connection between the Nobel Prize and Education for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Speaker: Prof. Dan Shechtman

Host: GTIIT Vice Chancellor Prof. David Gershoni

Language: English

Zoom Link

(1) By mobile phone: please scan the QR code to attend the lecture (Please download Zoom in advance for online participation)

(2) By PC: please click here to attend the lecture

BIO

Prof. Dan Shechtman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering, his MSc and PhD in Materials Science, all from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

As of 1975 he was on the faculty of Materials Science and Engineering of the Technion and currently he is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor. From 2004, he is also a Distinguished Professor of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. 

Prof. Shechtman developed and studied structural defects and properties of metallic alloys and intermetallic compounds, mainly by transmission electron microscopy. His scientific work achieved very broad recognition and many prizes including the 1999 Wolf Prize in Physics for "the experimental discovery of quasi-crystals, non-periodic solids having long-range order, which inspired the exploration of a new fundamental state of matter" and solely the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery of quasicrystals".

Dan Shechtman has twelve grandchildren, four children and one wife, Prof. Zipora Shechtman of Haifa University.

Text/Photos: RIGS, GTIIT News & Public Affairs