On October 19, Yang Kexin, Vice-Chancellor of Nankai University, was invited to attend and deliver a speech at the “2024 Japan Confucius Institutes Conference”, which was hosted by the Confucius Institute at Aichi University in Nagoya, Japan. Representatives from Confucius Institutes at 14 Japanese universities and institutions, including Waseda University and Ritsumeikan University, also participated.In her address, Dr. Yang highlighted the significant progress achieved through the collaboratio
On October 9, Qaisar Abbas, President of University of Sargodha in Pakistan and an alumnus of Nankai University’s School of Economics, visited Nankai University. Bai Chengming,Vice Presidentof Nankai University,welcomed him at the Balitai Campus.Bai Chengming warmly welcomed Qaisar Abbas, noting the strong ties between China and Pakistan, and commended him as an outstanding Nankai alumnus. He expressed hopes for both universities to strengthen cooperation in key academic areas, fostering closer
Recently, distinguished Nankai University alumnus Yi Xiaozhun, former Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), former Vice Minister of China’s Ministry of Commerce, and former Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of China to the WTO, delivered an academic lecture titled “China and the WTO” at Nankai University’s 105th Anniversary Symposium and “Nankai Economics Lecture Series”. The event was jointly organized by Nankai University’s School of Economics and the APEC Study Cent
On October 10, Nankai University signed a supplementary cooperation agreement and a donation agreementwithENN Groupto establish the Quality and Trust IntelligenceLab and the Fusion IntelligenceLab under the Nankai-ENN Cognitive Technology Innovation Center. This move signifies a strategic upgrade and acceleration of their collaboration, aligning with the national agenda for developing cutting-edge interdisciplinary science and technology. It is expected to strongly promote technological innovati
On November 13, Prof. Chen Jun, an academician of the CAS Member, Vice President of Nankai University, met with Irene Tracey, President of the University of Oxford in Shenzhen. During the meeting, both sides expressed their friendship and sought common development, reaching many consensuses in further promoting the high-quality development of the relationship between the two schools.Zhang Wenzhong, lifetime board member of Nankai University, chairman of Nankai Alumni Entrepreneurs Association, f
On October 10, Nankai University hosted the “Double Ninth Festival: Celebrating Culture and Heritage” — a Chinese-foreign cultural exchange event and the prelude tothe Foreign Language Festival at Langyuan, the Collegeof Foreign Languages.Nankai University students, including both Chinese and international attendees, participated in various traditional activities, including knowledge quizzes, arrow throwing, Chinese brush calligraphy, sachet-making, and tasting Double Ninth pastries. These activ
Recently, Sheng Bin, Vice President of Nankai University, welcomed a delegation led by Antoni Granollers, Vice President of University of Lleida, Spain, at the Balitai Campus. Headsfrom the Collegeof Foreign Languages and the Office ofInternational Affairsalso attendedthe meeting.During the meeting, Sheng Bin briefedAntoni Granollers and his delegation onNankai University’s history, recent developments, distinctive programs, and the development of theSpanish language program. He also reviewed th
A research team led by Prof.Chen Zhigang and Prof. Xu Jingjun from Nankai University has made anadvancement in photonic graphene.They havepresenteda concept of “optical vortex ladder”(OVL)for stepwise generation of optical vortices through Sisyphus pumping of pseudospin modes in photonic graphenewith arbitrary integralorbital angular momentum.Furthermore, the OVLs may open exciting new avenues for application of topological singularities, with the potential to impact the fields of optical commun
Recently, a research team led by Professors Wu Qiang, Lu Yao and Xu Jingjun atNankai University has made important progress in the study of stimulated phonon polaritons. The team demonstrated giant Kerr effect of terahertz waves by leveraging the strong coupling between terahertz waves and lattice vibrations in ionic crystals to excite the nonlinearity of stimulated phonon polaritons. This breakthrough offers new possibilities in advancing terahertz optical communications, optical computing, and
TheChartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) held its Logistics Research Network (LRN) Conference in Dublin, Irelandrecently. The Research Center of Logisticsteam from Nankai University was invited to attend and presented the English report titled Contemporary Logistics in China, which is edited by the Center and exclusively published globally by Springer, arenowned scientific publisher. The report garnered significant attention and high praise from international scholars and corpora
The “Mitochondria and Immunity” international academic conference was held in Beijing from September 23 to 25. This event was jointly organized by Nankai University’s College of Life Sciences in collaboration with the journals Nature Cell Biology, Nature Metabolism, and Nature Immunology. Co-sponsors included the Chinese Society for Immunology, the National Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Biology, and the National Key Laboratory of Immunology and Inflammation.The conference welcomed 16inte
On September 25, a collaborative research team from Nankai University’s Institute of Transplantation Medicine and Tianjin First Central Hospital, led by Professors Shen Zhongyang and Wang Shusen, along with their collaborators, published a groundbreaking study in the prestigious journal Cell. This research reports the first international case of transplanting insulin-producing islet cells derived from chemically inducedpluripotent stem cells, achieving a functional cure for a patient with type 1
Apaper titled “A Dichotomy for Hörmander-type Oscillatory Integral Operators”, co-authored by Prof. Guo Shaoming, a Chair Professor at the Chern Institute of Mathematics atNankai University, along with Wang Hong from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Zhang Ruixiang from the University of California, Berkeley, has beenpublished online in the prestigious mathematics journal Inventiones Mathematicae.This paper presents a significant advancement in the study o
On September 8, Nankai University held a grand opening ceremony for its more than 10,000 incoming studentsof the Class of 2024.This year marks the 105th anniversary of Nankai University. Students dressed in purpleformed eye-catching formations spelling out “1919”(the founding year), “2024”, “NKU”, and “105”.Theceremony was attended by NKUleaders including Yang Qingshan, Chen Yulu, Yang Kexin, Zhao Meirong, Liang Qi, Sheng Bin, Fang Yongchun, and Zhu Shoufei, along with Song Licheng, an academici
A study titled Efficient Neural Collaborative Search for Pickup and Delivery Problems by Kong Detian, a doctoral student from Research Center of Logistics at Nankai University, has recently been published in the prestigious journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), a leading publication in artificial intelligence (AI).Nankai University is the principalinstitution, with Professor Xiao Jianhua, Director of the Research Center of Logistics, serving as the