The First Dean Forum for Mathematics of Excellency 9 was held successfully in Zheng Dong Library in Peiyang Park Campus of Tianjin University from November 16th to 18th, 2018. Sun Guangping, deputy Party secretary of Tianjin University attended and addressed the opening ceremony in this forum which was proposed and sponsored by School of Mathematics， Tianjin University. More than 20 representatives of mathematics discipline from Excellency 9 participated in the forum, including Beijing Institute of Technology, Chongqing University, Dalian University of Technology, Southeast University, Harbin Institute of Technology, South China University of Technology, Tianjin University, Tongji University and Northwestern Polytechnical University. Faculty representatives from School of Mathematics of Tianjin University attended the forum as well.
The forum was divided into three stages. The first stage was the opening ceremony presided over by Sun Xiaotao, dean of School of Mathematics, Tianjin University. Sun Xiaotao firstly expressed thanks to the representatives for their participation. He then mentioned that on the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of the founding of School of Mathematics, the Dean Forum for Mathematics of Excellency 9 proposed and sponsored was to build a platform for maths colleagues of Excellency 9 to deepen their understanding and promote a win-win situation.
Subsequently, Sun Guangping delivered the speech of welcome, and he expressed his sincere welcome and warm greeting to the representatives from Excellency 9 for they gathering in Tianjin University to seek common development. He pointed out that eight years ago, nine universities of Excellency 9 signed a cooperation framework agreement, and reached a consensus to jointly explore rules and modes of outstanding talents cultivation. And then starting from the independent recruitment, deep communications and cooperation in all aspects have been carried out in undergraduate cultivation, postgraduate cultivation, collaborative innovation, resource sharing, international cooperation, faculty and staff developing, policy research and cultural construction, and a lot of remarkable results have been achieved. At present, the importance of mathematics was increasingly prominent in the development process of "new engineering". However, the development of mathematics in Excellency 9 all were facing the same opportunities and challenges, he hoped that this forum could promote the deep cooperation to make mutual benefit and win-win in the field of mathematics of Excellency 9, and wished the forum a complete success!
In the second stage of the forum, deans from the nine schools (departments) of mathematics of excellency 9 introduced their own development characteristics in discipline construction, scientific research, talents cultivation, international exchanges and cooperation.
In the third stage, the deans and representatives from nine universities unanimously all agreed that School of Mathematics of Southeast University would be the host of next Dean Forum for Mathematics of Excellency 9. Sun Xiaotao, dean of School of Mathematics of Tianjin University, and Yu Wenwu, vice dean of School of Mathematics of Southeast University, handed over the rotation flag.
Subsequently, experts and scholars attending the meeting conducted in-depth discussions on cooperation of the nine universities in enrollment, talents cultivation and subject co-construction.
By: Zhang Jiawei, Ma Changying
Editor: Qin Mian and Keith Harrington
