Qiuzhen College To Begin Enrolling International Doctoral Candidates in 2023
We are excited to announce that, in fall 2022, Qiuzhen College will begin accepting applications from international students for doctoral studies at Tsinghua University beginning in fall 2023.
About Tsinghua University
Founded in 1911, Tsinghua University is one of the most prestigious higher education institutions in China for nurturing talented students and promoting advanced scientific research. According to the QS world university rankings, Tsinghua university has ranked #17 globally.
Tsinghua mathematics ranked 24th in the world in the 2022 QS World University Rankings for Mathematics, ahead of various well-known North American universities such as Yale, Cornell, and Waterloo.
About Qiuzhen College
Qiuzhen College was established at Tsinghua University in 2021 with the goal of providing world-class mathematical training in China. Qiuzhen enrolled its first class of undergraduate students in 2021. A number of these students are enrolled in a special eight-year combined undergraduate/doctoral program. Qiuzhen will enroll its first class of domestic doctoral students in the fall of 2022, and later this year, Qiuzhen will begin accepting doctoral applications from students worldwide.
Research opportunities at Qiuzhen College
Doctoral students at Qiuzhen College will be supervised by faculty at the well-established Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua. Established in 2009, the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center [https://ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/] vigorously recruits leading mathematicians from China and abroad and now boasts over 80 full-time faculty members. These include world-renowned mathematicians such as director and dean and 1982 Fields Medalist Shing-Tung Yau, 2018 Fields Medalist and former Cambridge professor Caucher Birkar, Nicolai Reshetikhin (previously professor at UC Berkeley), and Akito Futaki (previously at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo). Qiuzhen College is one of the few institutions anywhere in the world to count two Fields Medalists among its faculty. Some of these scholars were specifically recruited to support the work of Qiuzhen College.
In addition, over 30 of our faculty are young up-and-coming researchers who are graduates of world-class universities such as Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford. Roughly 20% of our faculty are international (from places such as the US, the UK, France, Germany, and Japan), more than any other mathematical institute in China.
Our faculty conduct research in many different areas of pure and applied mathematics, including algebra, algebraic geometry and number theory, geometric topology, analysis, partial differential equations and dynamical systems, mathematical physics, probability and statistics, and computational mathematics. In addition, we are active in fostering collaborations with other departments and centers at Tsinghua (including the Department of Computer Science and Technology, the Department of Economics, and the Center for Statistical Science).
International collaborations
Qiuzhen College has established exchange programs with multiple top international institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Oxford, and Cambridge, which provide opportunities for short-term research visits at these institutions. Additionally, each year the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center invites over 300 mathematicians and researchers in related fields for research or academic visits, including lectures and workshops. (Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, many of these interactions presently take place online.)
Classes and seminars
Qiuzhen College and the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center provide high-level classes taught by our faculty. Classes organized to date include a course on Birational Geometry taught by 2018 Fields Medalist Caucher Birkar, and classes on invariants of knots and 3-manifolds and topological invariants and representation theory taught by Nicolai Reshetikhin (previously at UC Berkeley).
In addition to these clases, the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center organizes a large number of seminars, mini-courses, and lectures each week. One of these is the Master's Forum, which was initiated by Professor Yau in 2013. These forums, some of which are held at the Tsinghua International Mathematics Forum in the resort town of Sanya on Hainan Island, invite 2 -- 4 leading thinkers to give research seminars. They have produced more than 900 reports, and more than 1650 well-known mathematicians and scientists have attended, including 3 Nobel Prize winners, 9 Fields Medalists, and 5 Wolf Prize winners.
A lecture series established in the name of four leading Chinese mathematicians and Tsinghua alumni, Shiing-Shen Chern, Loo-Keng Hua, Pao-Lu Hsu, and Chia-chiao Lin, invites annually a top mathematical scholar to talk at Tsinghua.
The Lectures on Modern Mathematics series is another notable resource. Every Friday an expert in a particular field of mathematics is invited to give a lecture introducing current research and recent progress in that field. This lecture series also serves to increase opportunities for collaboration between researchers in and out of China.
Doctoral students are also encouraged to organize their own seminars to talk about their research, and to develop teaching and presentation skills.
Financial support
In addition to the financial support normally provided by Tsinghua University, Qiuzhen College has established funding to provide an overall financial package comparable to that offered by other schools such as Harvard University or MIT. We want all students at Qiuzhen College to be able to focus entirely on their research without being concerned about living expenses.
All doctoral students are welcomed to work as a TA for one class per term, for which they receive additional compensation.
Admissions information
Details about the admissions process will be posted in the fall of 2022. In the meantime, general information about the application process at Tsinghua, obtaining visas, etc., can be found at the university-wide Graduate Admissions page at https://yz.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/.
