9月28日，吉林大学超硬材料国家重点实验室马琰铭教授前来实验室进行学术交流与访问，并为师生们作“ Materials Structural Prediction via CALYPSO Methodology”的学术报告。
　　Prof. Yanming Ma received his Ph.D degree in Condensed Matter Physics from Jilin University, China, in 2001. He then spent several years in National Research Council of Canada, ETH of Zurich, RIKEN of Japan, and HongKong University for long-term postdoctoral or short-term collaboration researches. He is currently a full Professor in Jilin University. His research interests mainly focus on development of methods on structural prediction of materials (e.g., bulk, 2D layers, surface, interface, and cluster, etc.) and exploration of intriguing physical phenomena and exciting new physics of condensed matters under high pressure. He has given more than 30 invited talks in the international conferences and published more than 150 peer-viewed papers, some of which appear on Nature, Nature Commun, PNAS, PRL, JACS, etc. His research work on “transparent dense sodium” has been selected as 2009 Top Ten News of Fundamental Researches in China. His CALYPSO method on structural prediction has been used by more than 300 researchers world-widely distributed over 26 countries. He has won the “Jamesion award” from international association on high pressure science and technology, outstanding young scientists’ award of China and Changjiang scholarship of Ministry of Education.