Officials of the National Sun Yat Sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan visited the National Institute of Physics(NIP) to discuss possible research collaborations between NSYSU and the NIP. A meeting with the NIP Director Dr. Roland Sarmago (center) and other NIP professors was held on January 17, 2013.
The NSYSU delegates included (from center to left) Dr. Li-wei Tu, Vice President, Office of Research and Development; Dr. Quark Chen, Chairman of the Physics Department, and Professors Dr. Feng-Chuan Chuang and Dr. Der-Jun Jang.
The NIP previously had a faculty and student exchange agreement with NSYSU. The agreement, however, expired in 2008. In spite of this, the NIP has continuously worked with the Physics Department of the NSYSU, collaborating on mathematical modeling of indium and tin deposition on silicon. The collaborative work, headed by Dr. Henry Ramos of the NIP, Dr. Chuang of NSYSU and Dr. Marvin Albao of UP Los Baños, was published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B in 2011.
Also present in the meeting were Dr. Cristine Villagonzalo, UP Diliman Director of the Office of Extension Coordination (rightmost); Dr. May Lim, NIP Deputy Director for Academic Affairs (sixth from right); Dr. Wilson Garcia, NIP Deputy Director for Research and Extension (fifth from right); Dr. Percival Almoro, NIP Deputy Director for Facilities and Resources (not shown); and NIP faculty members Dr. Armando Somintac (leftmost), Dr. Elmer Estacio (fourth from right), Dr. Arnel Salvador (third from right), and Dr. Francis Norman Paraan (second from right).