On the afternoon of February 27, Professor Hendrik Jan Busscher of the University of Groningen attendedNankai University Visiting Professor Appointment Ceremonyheld at Haibing Building on Balitai Campus, and gave the first academic report at the “Foreign Expert Lecture”series. Chen Jun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice president of Nankai University, attended the event. Over 160 representative faculty and students of Nankai University listened to the report.Prior tothe aca
Recently, eScience, an international academic journal supervised by the Ministry of Education and published by Nankai University, was officially indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) database under Web of Science.SCIE, as the core database of the Web of Science Core Collection, is globally recognized as the most authoritative citation database for natural sciences.eSciencefocuses on publishing original, impactful, and broadly applicable research in energy, electrochemistry, elect
On December 11, the Signing Ceremony for the “Memorandum of Understanding between Nankai University and the American Chemical Society Publications” was held at the Haibing Centerat theBalitai Campus. Chen Yulu, Presidentof Nankai University, and James Milne, President of ACS Publications, signed the MoU on behalf of their respective institutions. Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice Presidentof Nankai University, and Sarah Tegen, Senior Vice President of ACS Publicat
From November 22 to 24, the First National Construction Robot Skills Competition (ZYFCup) and the Construction Robot Development Forum were held in Suzhou. Co-organizedby the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) and the People’s Governmentof Xiangcheng Districtin Suzhou, and hostedby CAAConstruction Robot Committee, the event drew over 300 participants and 65 entries nationwide. The team from Nankai University’s College of Artificial Intelligence secured the only Gold Medal in the creative co
Zhang Kai, a researchfellowfrom the College of Chemistry at Nankai University, was recently named one of the “Energy and Fuels Rising Stars” by the American Chemical Society (Energy Fuels) and awarded the “The Ninth Chinese Electrochemical Youth Award” at the 22nd National Electrochemical Congress. These accolades highlight his exceptional contributions to the development of critical materials and reaction mechanisms for long-life sodium-ion batteries.Currently serving as a researcher and docto
On November 15, the 2024 World Chinese Language Conference hosted by the Ministry of Education was held in Beijing. President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the conference and congratulated the Confucius Institute on its 20th anniversary.Chen Jun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of Nankai University, attended the conference.Yu Ying, a full-time teacher at Nankai University Confucius Institute, attended the opening ceremony of the conference as an out
On November 13, Chen Jun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of Nankai University, met with Irene Tracey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in Shenzhen. The two sides met to renew friendship and seek common development, and reached consensus on strengthening the high-quality relationship between the two universities.Zhang Wenzhong, Lifetime Trustee of Nankai University, Chairman of Nankai Alumni Business Association, founder of Wumart Group and founder o
Recently, President Xi Jinping and Italian President Sergio Mattarella jointly met with representatives of both sides who attended the Conference on the China-Italy Cultural Cooperation Mechanism and the Chinese and Italian University Presidents Dialogue in Beijing. The two Heads of State were briefed by the representatives on the situation of Chinese-Italian cultural and university cooperation. Chen Yulu, President of Nankai University, attended the event.The Chinese and Italian University Pres
The first World Conference of Classics, co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Ministry of Education of China, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, the Ministry of Culture of Greece, and the Academy of Athens in Greece, was held in Beijing from November 6 to 8. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou sent congratulatory letters to the conference.The conference, with the theme of “Classical Civilization and the Modern World”, drew mo
On November 6, the opening ceremony of the 2024 “Global Nankai” International Exchange Month and the 4th Overseas Study Exchange Education Exhibition kicked off at the Balitai Campus. Chen Jun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of Nankai University, and Wang Junyan, head of the International Cooperation and Exchange Office of the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission, delivered speeches at the event. The events brought together nearly 600 facultyand students from
Nankai University officially appointed the internationally renowned mathematician Ma Xiaonan as a Chair Professoron October 28, a daycommemorating the 113th anniversary of the birth of Shiing-ShenChern —one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, the “Father of Global Differential Geometry”, and founder of the Chern Institute of Mathematics.Ma Xiaonan specializes in differential geometry, complex geometry, topology, andinparticular,global analysis and index theorem on manifolds, the
On October 30, a delegation from the “2024 China-Italy Think Tank Forum” visited Nankai University. The delegation included Patrizio Bianchi, former Italian Minister of Education, Corrado Clini,former ItalianMinister of Environment, and Luca Danese, former ItalianDeputy Minister ofInfrastructure andTransport, along with domestic experts such as Sun Yanhong from the Institute of European Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. President Chen Yulu met withthe delegation onBalitai Campus
The 2024 Tianjin Wudadao Financial Forum, organizedby Nankai University and undertakenby its School of Finance and Instituteof Chinese Path to Modernization, took place in Tianjin from October 12 to 13. With the theme of “Building a Financial Powerhouse and Developing a Financial Innovation Operation Demonstration Zone”, the forum brought together approximately 350 representatives from national authorities, central financial institutions, leading private financial organizations, nationwide finan
Nankai University NewsNetwork (Correspondent Cheng Dan). The phenomenon of vortices is pervasive in nature, manifesting across a broad range of scales, from the motion of particles at the quantum level to the distribution of stars in galaxies. In the field of optics, Allen and colleagues first demonstrated in 1992 that vortex beams carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), thereby ushering in a new era in vortex beam research, bridging classical and quantum perspectives. This seminal discovery not o
On October 15, Javier García-Martínez, former President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and professor at the University of Alicante, Spain, visited Nankai University. Chen Yulu, President of Nankai University,hosted a meetingonthe Balitai Campus and presented him with a certificate as the “Nankai University Overseas Scholar Lecturer”.Prior to the lecture, President Chen extended a warm welcome to Javier García-Martínez and extended his gratitudeto IUPAC for its i