Recently, CAS Member Wang Yuzhu of SIOM was invited to join an international Scientific Advisory Board (Fachbeirat) for a five-year term of office ending on December 31, 2008. Fachbeitat is going to be established at the Max Planck Research Group Optics, Information and Photonics in Erlangen-Nurnberg. The members of the Scientific Advisory Boards are selected by the President on the basis of proposals made by the Institutes.
  The Scientific Advisory Boards are institutions indispensable to the system of the Max Planck Society. The Scientific Advisory Boards constitute the central instrument of the self-supporting scientific evaluation of the Max Planck Society. The primary task of this board is to counsel the Research Group and to critically assess its scientific performance according to high international standards. The results of this assessment shall be compiled in a written report every other year. The task of Prof. Wang Yuzhu is to decide on essential aspects of Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS and overall.
  It is a great honor both to CAS and to SIOM that Prof.Wang Yuzhu became one member of the international Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck.