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
On October 19, Nankai University celebrated the 40th anniversary of its Institute of Modern Optics and hosted the Symposium onIndustry-University-Research Cooperation inOptoelectronic Information. The event was attended by Zhao Meirong, Vice-Chancellorof Nankai University, together with over 300 participants, including academic and industry experts, scholars, alumni, and facultyand studentrepresentatives from the university.Ms. Zhao Meirongdelivered a welcome address on behalf of the university.
Nankai University News Network(Correspondent Gao Yutong, PhotographerZhang Zhihe) The launch ceremony for the new book From the Mediterranean to the Yellow River: Hellenistic Civilization and the Silk Road, which was the results of a major project under the National Social Science Fund of China, a project under the “14th Five-Year Plan” national key publication publishing program, and the results of a project funded by the National Publication Foundation, was held at the library center on Jinnan
On October 17, during the Nankai University’s 105th-anniversary celebration, the event “Face-to-Face with Professor András Vasy, Chair of Department of Mathematicsat Stanford University” was successfully held at the Shiing-ShenBuilding on the Balitai Campus. The event, spearheaded by Zhang Wenzhong, Distinguished Professor at Nankai University and Chairman of Nankai Alumni Business Association, featured a mix of in-person and online participation. Bai Chengming,Vice Presidentof Nankai University
On the afternoon of November 3, Pierre Agostini, an 83-year-old Emeritus Professor at Ohio State University, and a 2023 Nobel Laureate in Physics, was formally appointed Honorary Professor at Nankai University.In 2023, Pierre Agostini, along with Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work in experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter—a breakthrough in ultrafast optics achieved be
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
Diana Azevedo, Vice President of the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, led a delegation to visit Nankai University and discuss further bilateral cooperation on the morning of November 18. Zhao Meirong, Vice Chancellor of Nankai University met with the guests at the School of Foreign Studiesat Nankai University.After extending a warm welcome to the guests, Zhao Meirong reviewed the history of cooperation between China and Brazil, Nankai University and Federal University of Ceará, andalso int
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