The  Sino-German "Galaxy Formation and Cosmic Large-Scale Structure"  Bilateral Workshop have been held in Nanjing,during the 24th to 27th  October 2012.The workshop was co-sponsored by the Purple Mountain  Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the German Max-Planck  Institute for Astronomy. There are 50 participants from Max-Planck  Institute for Astronomy,  Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics,  National Astronomical Observatories, Shanghai Astronomical  Observatory,Shanghai Jiaotong University, Nanjing University, Tianjin  Normal University and the Purple Mountain Observatory.

The theme of  the workshop is "galaxy formation and cosmic large-scale structure”. The  conferees have witnessed warm discussions on the hot issues of the  galaxy and cosmology, including galaxy and large-scale structure  formation in the cold dark matter model, hydrodynamic simulations,  gravitational lensing, warm dark matter model and non-standard dark  energy model, during the 3 days. The Sino-German astronomers have  enhanced the mutual understanding in the field of galaxy and cosmology ,  and reached a preliminary consensus on cooperation, in the workshop. 

This workshop  is the first bilateral workshop after the establishment of the　  Sino-German Max-Planck Partner Group (PMO & MPIA).  Dr Xi Kang, who  is the Chinese leader of the group, said that more regular meetings will  be held and more astronomers will be invited in the future.