Professor Xiaoxing Xi, who was wrongfully arrested for espionage, was awarded the 2020 Andrei Sakharov Prize of the American Physical Society for his human rights advocacy work.  He speaks online on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, at 4:00pm. 

Please pre-register for the Zoom meeting.  

Amid rapidly escalating tension between the United States and China, professors, scientists, and students of Chinese ethnic origin, as well as those engaging in academic collaborations with China, are under heightened scrutiny by the federal government. In 2015, I became a casualty of this campaign despite being innocent. This experience gave me insights into the challenges Chinese scientists face and the immediate threat to the open         environment in fundamental research on university campuses. 

Co-sponsored by: LSA Physics, INDIGO, and the U-M Association of Chinese Professors.