On the afternoon of June 24, the graduation ceremony of 2023 undergraduates of Qiuzhen College was held in Room 401 of the Second Teaching Building of Tsinghua University. Mr.Shing-Tung Yau, Dean of Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua University, Zhang Bo, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of Computer Science Department, Tsinghua University, Wang Xiaofang and Chen Zhijie, vice presidents of Qiuzhen College, Zhu Yi, vice President of Beijing Yanqi Lake Applied Mathematics Research Institute and a member of the Teaching and Training Committee of Qiuzhen College, Zhang Yihua, member of the International Student Admission Committee of Qiuzhen College, Zuo Huai, Assistant Dean of Qiuzhen College, Zhang Yingying, head of the student working group of Qiuzhen College, Wang Xuecheng, head teacher of Class 90, Representatives of teachers of Qiuzhen College, representatives of administrative teachers of Qiuzhen College, representatives of counselors of Qiuzhen College, Graduates of Qiuzhen College in 2023, Representatives of non-graduating students and relatives and friends of students from Class 90 attended the ceremony. Chen Zhijie presided over the ceremony.
Graduation ceremony
At the beginning of the ceremony, they all stood up and sang the National anthem of the People's Republic of China. Chen Zhijie welcomed all the leaders, guests, graduates, relatives and friends and students who attended the graduation ceremony, and briefly introduced the graduation situation of the class of 2023. There are 15 graduates, including 11 from graduate students, 1 from other domestic universities, and 3 for further study abroad.
All the chorus of the national anthem.
Chen Zhijie presided over the ceremony.
Mr.Yau sent an sincere message to the students. He first congratulated the class of 2023 and was pleased with the growth and achievements. He recalled his undergraduate study experience, which time was very important in his life, when he learned a lot of truth and attitude, made a lot of good friends, and also got a lot of inspiration. He hoped the students can cherish their friends in college, and encourage everyone courageously renewed relentlessly resourceful, scaling new heights.
Message from College President Yau.
Mr.Yau said that students should not be afraid of failure on the road of growth and learning, do not feel discouraged or give up easily because of failure, "we should know that life is very long, to do a successful career can not live without dozens of failures, otherwise the question you are asking for is not be too profound."He stressed the importance of accumulated knowledge and experience, which encouraged the students to find more articles, listen to other scholars, discuss with their classmates, friends, and absorb different ideas, slowly accumulated, to "stand on the shoulders of giants", through the accumulation, step by step, so that they can solve some questions which have never been solved before.
Mr.Yau believed that different disciplines can create beautiful sparks, and he shared some of his experiences with string theory. He said that he did not know much about many physics concepts at first, and some friends who studied mathematics dissuaded him, thinking that it was not necessary to enter the field of physics. However, he insisted on spending a lot of effort to study, listening to lectures and discussing with experts, and gradually he could do some meaningful questions. He encouraged students to dare to explore, not to think that they do not understand the subject. He wants the students to have a broad mind, dare to look for different route and direction, on the way to keep learning, improvement, "I hope that a few years later, you graduate students can finish the world first-class thesis, this is my very deep expectation", Mr.Yau finally put forward his hope to the students .
Academician Zhang cymbals delivered a speech In his speech.
Academician Zhang Bo told the teachers and students about the importance of mathematics in automatic control and artificial intelligence. “I worked in the field of automatic control for 20 years and found that mathematics is extremely important for automatic control,” he said. “Mathematics is necessary to analyze closed-loop dynamic systems.” He went on to say that artificial intelligence has entered the era of ChatGPT. We now encounter a huge amount of system data, and GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters. Many phenomena in this system are difficult to understand or even explain now, and we need mathematical help for analysis. Academician Zhang Bo thought that the artificial intelligence research in Tsinghua university should become a world-class one which lacks no first-class mathematics is impossible to achieve. He said "from the point of the whole development process of artificial intelligence, from mathematics, to the use of mathematics, to now, mathematics is not enough to be used, it has fully illustrated that mathematics is very important in the process of the development of artificial intelligence". He expressed his ardent expectations for the Qiuzhen graduates who are engaged in mathematics research to cooperate with the AI Research Institute in the future to jointly promote the development of the AI.
Wang Xuecheng, as the representative of the head teacher, sent a message to the graduates. He put forward two instructions to the graduates, one is to recognize themselves, the other is to maintain the courage to define themselves. He hoped to be helpful to the graduates in their future study, work and life. Finally, he sincerely wished that in the future life, everyone can be full of courage, recognize themselves, actively pursue their dreams, and constantly break through their limits.
Message from Teacher Wang Xuecheng
Zhou Bingkun delivered a speech on behalf of the graduates of 2023.
Zhou first of all, on behalf of all the undergraduate students of 2023, expressed his gratitude to all the teachers, counselors and relatives. He said the road ahead is more difficult, but the future is also foreseeable. The North Sea is far awar, but the great wind can also achieve it. He said that his undergraduate life had passed, no matter what kind of honor or regret, all the students should carry on the past, embrace dreams and down-to-earth, dare to think and do well, so that the masters' mathematical knowledge will blossom and bear fruit on the land of China.
In 2022, The College established the "Outstanding Graduation Thesis" award to encourage students to pursue academic ideals. This year, three winning papers were selected from the dissertations of the class of 2023 graduates. After the recommendation of the instructor and the evaluation by the Teaching and Training Committee of Qiuzhen College, the graduation thesis of Xu Fulin, Liu Jin and Li Ximing was awarded the "Outstanding Graduation Thesis" of Qiuzhen College. Yau and Zhang presented certificates of honor and customized prizes to the students.
Students were awarded "Outstanding Graduation Thesis".
The teachers and students who attended the ceremony also watched the video of the students of class 90 in Tsinghua and recalled the good time together.
Finally, the teachers and students of the Qiuzhen College sing the academy song together. We hope that the students will continue to move forward, embrace the pure heart and dream, with the ardent expectations of their families and teachers, live up to the youth, in the pursuit of learning to continue to struggle, realize the dream in the heart, he will meet at the peak, to make due contributions to the country and the people.
Graduation group photo.
Manuscript | Liu Xin, Xie Lufang
Photo | Zhang Yuguang
Proofread | Guo Youran
Video | Cui Jingning
Typography | Gong Wei
Auditing | Wang Xiaofang, Zhou Zhi
Translation | Gao Xudong
