The Doctoral Dissertation Proposal and Academic Exchange Meeting of Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of CAS was held at the meeting room of Postgraduate Department from October 29 to October 31, 2012. Four groups including optics group, optical engineering group, signal and information processing group and physical electronics group at the meeting conducted deep discussion and quantitative examination on dissertation proposals of 39 doctoral candidates. Deputy director Gao Limin was present and guided at the meeting. More than 20 tutors including vice-chairman of Academic Degree Committee of XIOPM researcher Yao Baoli, vice-chairman researcher Yang Jianfeng, researcher Zhou Sizhong, researcher Su Xiuqin participated in the assessment. Part of staff and workers and students also attended the meeting.
Doctoral dissertation proposal is generally carried out half a year after candidates are admitted into laboratory and the meeting is aimed at promoting information communication between different disciplines and activating the atmosphere of academic exchange of postgraduates. Students and tutors are required to attend the meeting. Dissertation proposal is required to attach importance to investigation and research work of discipline frontier home and abroad. Besides, question time for judges should be kept at the meeting.

Based on prophase investigation and research, 39 doctoral candidates made comprehensive elaboration and primary demonstration on research subject in terms of topic basis, research contents, innovation points, implementation plan, core problems intending to solve, etc. at the meeting. Experts present had in-depth discussion on each of the foregoing aspects and carried out quantitative examination on each evaluation indicator. Not only did they help ascertain research direction for doctoral dissertation for which research direction was not clear, but also suggest doctoral candidates whose dissertations are lack of innovativeness to dig deep and find new path. At the same time, experts present proposed improving suggestions for handling relationship between “making program well” and “completing doctoral dissertation well” to tutors and students.
The dissertation proposal assessment not only improved tutors’ understanding of relative disciplines of our institute, but also made students aware their deficiencies. Both tutors and students felt that they had gained greatly from the meeting and confirmed the necessity of unified dissertation proposal. As a result, the dissertation proposal assessment has reached its target.