On the afternoon of June 1st, the forum "Geometry and Life --Dialogue with the Well-known Mathematician Mr.Shing-Tung Yau" was held in the press studio of the Press Building of Renmin University of China. The forum is jointly organized by the Qiuzhen College of Tsinghua University and the School of Sociology and Population Studies , and co-organized by Yilin Publishing Group. Professor Feng Shi...
On May 27th, 26 teachers and students of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) (hereinafter referred to as "Hua Class") visited Tsinghua University and held a mathematics seminar with teachers and students of Qiuzhen College of Tsinghua University in classroom A112 of the Science Building. The seminar was hosted by Professor Chen Zhijie, vice president of Qiuzhen College. Profess...
On the afternoon of May 30, the latest winners of the 2023 Shaw Prize were released. Yau, an international master of mathematics, and professor at Tsinghua University, and Vladimir Drinfeld from the University of Chicago, won the 2023 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Science for their contributions to mathematical physics, arithmetic geometry, differential geometry and Keller's geometry.Picture: The ...
To encourage young people to begin mathematical research during their undergraduate years, and to locate outstanding undergraduate students and creative papers, the ICCM Creative Undergraduate Thesis Award was established and conferred for the first time at the 9th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) by Prof. Shing-Tung Yau.Through judge recommendation and self-recommendatio...
Life at Qiuzhen College consists of occasional, fun off-campus events, including the distinguished one—Youmu Lecture Series. The term Youmu can be traced back to the ancient Chinese poem "Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion," translating to catch glimpses into something. In this context, the Youmu Lecture Series intends to offer middle school students a snapshot into the history of mathematics an...
Fully employing Tsinghua's education and research resources and cultivating leading talents in interdisciplinary subjects, Qiuzhen College (QZC) and the School of Economics and Management (SEM) have entered a partnership agreement to train Ph.D. students jointly. During the signing ceremony, Prof. Yau first expressed his delight in seeing a critical step forward in the collaboration between QZC...
The 2022 Weyl-Wigner Award has been awarded to Nicolai Reshetikhin of the University of California at Berkeley (USA) for his seminal contributions to representation theory of quantum groups, integrable systems and their applications in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory.
Time flies, and it has already been a year since the establishment of Qiuzhen College.In conjunction with Tsinghua University’s 111th anniversary, the first-anniversary celebration of Qiuzhen College was held at the Meng Minwei Concert Hall. Featuring the theme of “Time·Growth”, the event combined academic lectures and artistic performances by faculties and students, showing the utmost beaut...