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After Yau Chengtong, another Fields Medal winner officially joined Tsinghua!
Professor Caucher Birkar, winner of the Fields Medal in 2018.
Qiu Yong, President of Tsinghua University, awarded him the Letter of Appointment as a Professor of Tsinghua University.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" >△ Source: Tsinghua University</h1>
After joining Tsinghua, he will teach at Qiuzhen College, teaching students in the leadership class and the elite class.
It is said that the appointment is the first time that a Chinese university has introduced non-Chinese Winners of the Fields Medal.
Academician Qiu Chengtong once commented that he was a master of a generation, a young and promising, and a very talented person.
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Caucher Birkar, a former professor at the University of Cambridge, was born in 1978 on a self-sufficient farm in Iran and earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Tehran.
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In 2001, he travelled to the University of Nottingham to pursue a PhD, during which time he was awarded the Shehirkin Scholar Traveling Scholar Award by the Mathematical Society of London with the most promising Doctoral conditions.
He delved into algebraic geometry and made important contributions to the field of biorgan geometry, especially in presenting his views on minimal models, singularities, and linear systems.
In 2018, he won the Fields Medal, known as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics", for his breakthrough in the field of biortic geometry.
As a mathematician who has been recognized by the authoritative award at a young age, he mentioned in an interview with Tsinghua University that these qualities are especially important for a mathematician.
creativity. You have to be able to build on existing research and evolve new perspectives.
Hard work, the pie will not fall from the sky, you must pour your heart and effort.
Patience, success will not happen overnight, you need to have perseverance and the determination not to give up.
Have the courage to face difficulties and challenges, because in the process of doing research, you may encounter many challenges that have never been seen before.
He also believes that everyone can become a mathematician, but whether they can become the best mathematician in the world is difficult to say, and this is not the goal.
In addition, what most people don't know is that he came out of the countryside and spent elementary and junior high school on the farm.
Referring to the trip, Caucher recalls that because there was no high school in the countryside, he realized that he had to go to the city to study, and originally thought that he did not have the opportunity to compete with the city's outstanding students.
But after a while, he found himself no different from them.
As long as I work hard, I can be like them, which is nothing special.
I felt the same way when I went to college from my hometown to the capital.
Therefore, he also sent a message to students whose families are in financial difficulty: No matter where you come from, as long as you work hard, you can get results. I hope these students don't worry too much, just do their best.
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This time, he will participate in the promotion of the "Yau Chengtong Mathematics Leadership Talent Training Program".
For this plan, it was extraordinary from birth.
Selected students will receive a "3+2+3" training program, from undergraduate to doctoral level.
The first 3 years are the foundation stage, and the main study is the basic course of mathematics and science. In the middle of the two years, more emphasis is placed on discovering students' interests, and the world's top international masters will be invited to teach.
The last 3 years are the doctoral stage, which is designed for students to become scientists, which can be pure mathematics or interdisciplinary fields with different disciplines such as physics and computers.
In March this year, Tsinghua University set up a college for this project, Qiuzhen College, with Fields Medal winner and Director of Tsinghua University's Mathematics Center Yau Chengtong himself as its dean.
At present, a number of heavyweight academic bulls have joined.
In addition to this Caucher Birkar professor, there is also the internationally renowned low-dimensional topology, group representation theory and quantum field theory expert, UC Berkeley Professor Nicolai Reshetikhin teaches quantum mathematics.
Professor Wilfred Schmid of Harvard University regularly comes to the college for three months a year, and will start classes for college students based on Math 55, one of the most famous courses in Harvard's mathematics department. Bill Gates is said to have taken this course.
Wu Baozhu, a 2010 Fields Medal winner and a professor at the University of Chicago, regularly comes to the college for one month every year.
At the beginning of the establishment, the goal was clear:
It is necessary to train these young people to become important talents who are world leaders in the field of mathematical sciences.
At the 12th Yau Chengtong University Student Mathematics Competition, which ended last month, Academician Yau Chengtong said at the award ceremony that China has the possibility of building a mathematical power.
And said: in the next ten years, we will build a world-class research institute in China.
And whether it can be realized or not, the decision is still in the current first-class teachers and first-class students.
Reference Links:
[1]https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/seyBrPmQ97SucsTdJzheQA
[2]http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2021/6/458905.shtm
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