Professor Lin FU, Assistant Professor of Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Department of Mathematics, was awarded the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund with a grant of 200M RMB. The National Excellent Young Scientists Fund is a prominent fund under the National Natural Science Foundation of China affiliated directly to the State Council for the management of the National Natural Science Fund. It is granted annually to support young scientists with outstanding achievements in basic research to conduct innovative research in their areas of interest and expertise. Please refer to https://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab1533/ for more details on the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund.
Professor Huailiang CHANG was awarded the 2024 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
Professor Huailiang CHANG, Professor of Department of Mathematics, was awarded the 2024 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars with a grant of 280M RMB. This fund award supports young scholars who have made outstanding achievements in basic research to select their own research directions to conduct creative research, so as to speed up the growth of young scientific talents in the forefront of world science and technology. Prof. Chang’s research interests are in algebraic geometry and string theory. This prestigious award showcased his significant academic influence in these research fields. Please refer to https://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab1535/ for more details on the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.
Professor LI Weiping was awarded State Natural Science Award (2nd Class)
Congratulation to Professor LI Weiping, Chair Professor of Mathematics, for winning the prestigious Second Class of the State Natural Science Award in June of 2024 in the research project "Change of numerically geometric invariants under birational transforms" jointly engaged by Professor Li and Professor HU Jianxun from Zhongshan University. In the seventies of last century, Atiyah and Bott among others proposed to study low dimensional topology using ideas from quantum field theory in physics. This viewpoint led to the discovery of various numerical invariants defined via some moduli spaces such as Gromov-Witten invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants, and Vafa-Witten invariants. The research on these geometric invariants has been a hot topic ever since. The main goal of such research is on the structural theory and their applications to topological and geometric problems. One approach to study the structural theory is to investigate the variations of these invariants under some geometric or topological changes. The project studies in depth the Vafa-Witten's S-dualty conjecture, Gromov-Witten invariants, and Donaldson-Thomas invariants under some birational changes. The results from the project are impactful and highly regarded in the field.
Professor PENG Zhichao wins the HKUST-KTH Global Knowledge Network Awards 2024
Professor PENG Zhichao wins the HKUST-KTH Global Knowledge Network Awards 2024. The team including Professor PENG Zhichao, Assistant Professor in Department of Mathematics and Professor RYAN Jennifer from KTH won the HKUST-KTH Global Knowledge Network Awards 2024. The award was given due to the intellectual merit of their project on "Denoising Stochastic Solvers for Kinetic Equations through Filters" which has great potential to foster future collaborations and research initiatives, as well as fit with campus research strengths and priorities.