The School of Natural and Applied Science (SNAS) was founded in July 2003 as a combination of the former Department of Mathematics and Information Science, Department of Applied Physics, and Department of Chemical Engineering. SNAS consists of 3 departments and 5 institutes offering 9 programs for Bachelor’s degree, 19 programs for Master’s degree and 6 programs for Ph.D. degree, among which the Ph. D. program of Materials Physics and Chemistry is officially evaluated as one of the State Key Disciplines. In SNAS, the concept of combining science with technology and combining theory with practice is emphasized, forming an effective operation mechanism of “scientific research promoting specialty teaching and specialty teaching facilitating scientific research in turn”. SNAS provides the philosophical and methodological background to our work and, importantly, promotes communication and public understanding of science. In the future, SNAS is determined to grasp the golden historical opportunity of education development and the large-scale development in the west of China, so as to build SNAS a school that is pioneering in the west of China, first class in China and well-known in the world.

The school is staffed with an excellent faculty of 177 members, who have high academic levels, and rich experience in teaching and research, including one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 44 professors (including 19 Ph. D. supervisors), 53 associate professors (or senior engineers), and 40 lecturers (or engineers). The dean of the school, Prof. Bingbo Wei, is a specially appointed professor by Changjiang Scholars Rewarding Program, a winner of Chinese National Award for Distinguished Young Scientists, and an electee of Chinese National Advanced Researcher.

Department of Applied Mathematics
Department of Applied Physics

Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Information Science and Computation Science
Statistics
Applied Physics
Materials Physics
Optical Information Science and Technology
Polymer Material and Engineering
Chemical Engineering and Technology

Pure Mathematics (M.S.)
Differential Equations
Theory of Functions
Algebraic Combinatorics

Computational Mathematics (M.S.)
Special Matrix and Its Fast Algorithm
Information, Coding and Processing of Graphics and Images
Computation Aided Geometric Design and Graphics
Visualization of Engineering Design and Computation
High Performance Computation in Science and Engineering
Fast and Parallel Algorithm in Information Processing

Applied Mathematics (M.S., Ph.D.)
Applied Probability Statistics and Stochastic Dynamic System
Information Processing and Temporal Serials
Quantitative Economics and Financial Mathematics
Numerical Simulation in Science And Engineering
Theory and Application of Fractal, Bifurcation and Chaos
Discrete Mathematics and System Control

Probability and Statistics (M.S.)
Applied Probability Statistics
Theory, Method and Application of Modern Probability Statistics
Mathematical Physical Statistics and Information Processing
Information Processing and Computer Vision

Analysis and Integration of Systems (M.S.)
Professional Systems and Information Processing
Analysis in Financial System
System Analysis and Control
Graph and Optimization of System Modeling

Statistics (Master Degree of Economics)
Quantitative Economics and Financial Mathematics
Industrial Statistics and Quality Control
Financial Temporal Serials Analysis and Financial Systems Engineering Analysis and Control

Operational Research and Cybernetics (M.S.)
Theory, Method and Application of Nonlinear Programming
Theory and Application of Graph and Combinatorics
Optimization Method and Its Application

Materials Physics and Chemistry (M.S., Ph.D.)
Space Materials Science
Intelligent Materials Physics and Chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Physics of Films and Low-dimensional Materials
Physics of Functional Materials
Polymer Chemistry and Physics

Optical Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.)
Optical Information Processing
Novel Optoelectronic Devices
Optical Sensor
Optoelectronotics and Its Applications
Laser and Its Applications
Functional Materials of Optoelectronotic Information

Optics (M.S.)
Modern Information Optics
Nonlinear Optics
Modern Optical Measurement
Optics of Photonic Crystals?
Micro-nano Photonics

Condensed Matter Physics (M.S., Ph.D.)
Liquid Physics
Physics of Low-dimensional Systems
Physics of Intelligent Materials
Properties of Condensed Matter in Physical Fields

Physical Chemistry (M.S.)
Quantum Chemistry
Surface Chemistry
Materials Physics and Chemistry

Polymer Chemistry and Physics (M.S.)
Polymer Synthesization and Theory of Its Performance Modification
Structures and Performance of Polymers
Theory of Polymer Molding
Functional Polymers

Applied Chemistry (M.S.)
Preparation and Applications of Fine Chemical
Environmental Chemistry
Chemical Separation and Purification
Applied Quantum Chemistry
Modern Organic Synthesization

Biomedical engineering (M.S.)
Biomedicine Polymers

Environmental Engineering (M.S.)
Environmental Pollution Prevention and Environmental Simulation
Materials of Environmental Engineering
Environmental Information Processing

Chemical Technology (M.S.)
Development and Applications of Fine Chemical
Energy Technology and New Materials

Materialogy (M.S., Ph.D.)

Materials Physics and Chemistry
Materialogy

There are 15 laboratories, which occupy nearly 7000m2 area for teaching and research, including:
The Laboratory of Scientific Computation
The Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling
The Laboratory of Materials Science in Space
The Laboratory of Condensed Matter Structures and Properties
The Laboratory of Optical Information Science and Technology
The Laboratory of Intelligent Materials Science
The Laboratory of College Physics
The Laboratory of Fundamental Physics
The Laboratory of College Chemistry
The Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
The Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
The Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry
The Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry
The Laboratory of Environmental Science
The Laboratory of Chemical Engineering and Technology

The Institute of Materials Physics and Chemistry
The Institute of Condensed Matter Physics
The Institute of Optical Information and Technology
The Institute of Mathematics and Information Science

SNAS takes great pride in its research. At present, it undertakes more than 100 research projects at the national or provincial level, among which some are funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, 863 High Technology Program, and 921 Project. Nearly 300 papers were published in journals well known at home and abroad, among which near 130 are indexed by SCI, EI and ISTP. The scientific achievements of SNAS have won 15 official awards on or above provincial and ministerial levels, and 8 patent grants. In 2003, the research project of “High undercooling and rapid crystal growth of liquid metals” accomplished by Prof. Bingbo Wei’s group won the second prize of the Chinese National Natural Science Award.

Importance is also attached to international academic cooperation and exchange. SNAS has strong collaborative research links with global partners. International cooperation relations have been established with universities and institutes in USA, Germany, UK, France, Japan, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, Hong Kong and other countries, and many faculty members and graduates of SNAS are conducting cooperative research abroad. More than 65 have been to SNAS for academic exchange. Students benefit from academic staff passing on current developments in their fields.

Zhang Weihong
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