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Professor Frederick Tsz-Ho FONG was awarded the 2024 Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching
Professor Frederick Tsz-Ho FONG was awarded the 2024 Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching. This is HKUST's highest teaching accolade, awarded in recognition of his outstanding contributions to education.
Professor Lin FU was awarded the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund
LinkProfessor 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 2M 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 Weiping LI was awarded State Natural Science Award (2nd Class)
Congratulation to Professor Weiping LI, 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.
