News Archive

News Archive

02 Jan

Professor Shen Zuowei has been elected as a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), a global science academy for the advancement of sciences in developing countries based in Trieste, Italy.

Thirty-six new TWAS Fellows were elected into its membership, including two mathematicians. Prof Shen will be among the global academy’s 1,278 fellows, representing over 100 countries.

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23 Dec

Congratulations to our staff members for winning the Faculty Awards 2019:

  • Faculty Teaching Excellence Award AY2018/2019: Dr LIM Zhi Han, A/P TAN Hwee Huat, A/P Victor Tan
  • Teaching Assistant (Full-time) Award AY2018/2019: Mr Christian Ong GO
  • Teaching Assistant (Part-time) Award AY2018/2019: Mr Andrew Ernest HENDRICKSON, Mr TEO Yi Han
16 Dec

Congratulations to our undergraduates who have won prizes in the Simon Marais Mathematics Competition 2019

Individual prize: 4th place – YAP Jit Wu
Pairs prize: 7th place – LIM Li and LING Yan Hao

And for the first time, NUS qualified for the University Prize and won the first place. Congratulations to Team NUS!

11 Nov

Presidential Young Professor Dr Bao Huanchen, jointly with Wang Weiqiang of the University of Virginia, will receive the (2020) Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory for their fundamental contributions to the theory of quantum symmetric pairs. Our heartiest congratulations!

18 Oct

The Department of Mathematics heartily congratulates Professor TOH Kim Chuan on being conferred the President’s Science Award (2019), for his fundamental contributions to the theory, algorithms, and applications of convex optimisation, especially the development of algorithms and software for semi-definite and conic programming. The President’s Science Award (PSA) is presented to research scientists and engineers in Singapore who have made outstanding contributions in basic research leading to the discovery of new knowledge or the pioneering development of scientific or engineering techniques and methods.

01 Oct

Congratulations to Profs Bao Weizhu, Chong Chi Tat, Dinh Tien Cuong, Gan Wee Teck, Goh Say Song, Shen Zuowei, Tan Eng Chye, Toh Kim Chuan, and Zhu Chengbo, on winning the 90th Anniversary Awards. The nine awards are given by the Department of Mathematics to recognize faculty members who have made significant contributions to the Department’s reputation and success, through voting by full time faculty members. A 90th Anniversary Special Award is also presented to Dr Bao Huanchen to recognize his fundamental contributions to the theory of quantum symmetric pairs.

25 Sep

Congratulations to A/P A/P Tan Kai Meng on his promotion to Professor, with effect from 1 July 2019.

15 Aug

Congratulations to Dr Xudong Li (PhD 2015, NUS) for winning the Best Paper Prize for Young Researchers in Continuous Optimization at the International Conference on Continuous Optimization held in Berlin, August, 2019.

The award is given for his contribution on “Exploiting second order sparsity in big data optimization”, in particular for the paper: X.D. Li, D.F. Sun, and K.C. Toh, A highly efficient semismooth Netwon augmented Lagrangian method for solving Lasso problems, SIAM J. Optimization, 28 (2018), pp. 433–458.

13 Aug

Congratulations to our colleagues for receiving the 2019 National Day Awards. The Singapore National Day Awards recognize various forms of merit and service to the nation.

The Long Service Medal
Prof GOH Say Song, Prof LEE Soo Teck, Prof TOH Kim Chuan and Prof YANG Yue

12 Jul

Professor Toh Kim Chuan has been appointed as Leo Tan Professor in Science. This appointment is in recognition of his excellence and international recognition in the area of science and all its related disciplines, as well as significant and impactful leadership in raising standards of the University with respect to research or creative activity, teaching and service.

30 May

The Department of Mathematics warmly congratulates Dean’s Chair Associate Professor Vincent TAN on receiving the University Young Researcher Award 2019.

21 May

Congratulations to Dr Dilip RAGHAVAN on his promotion to Associate Professor, with effect from 1 July 2019.

01 Apr

Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor SHEN Zuowei has been selected as a SIAM Fellow (Class of 2019) for his contributions to approximation theory, wavelet theory, and image processing.

13 Mar

Provost Chair Professor Dinh Tien Cuong has been elected the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award. The Humboldt Research Award is granted in recognition of a researcher’s entire achievements to date to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.

06 Mar

The Department of Mathematics is celebrating her 90th anniversary this year. Commemorative activities during the year include

  • Critical Conversations: Rare Events, a public lecture by Emeritus Professor Louis Chen, Thursday 14 March (the pi day), 7.30pm @ NUS Museum
  • Celebratory Reception for Department’s 90th Anniversary and Opening Show of NUS Arts Festival 2019: A Disappearing Number, Friday 15 March, from 6:00pm @ University Cultural Centre
  • 90th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture I:
    Coxeter groups and regular polyhedra, by David Vogan, Wednesday 20 March, 4:00pm @ S17 Colloquium Room
  • 90th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture II:
    The Moment-SOS hierarchy and some of its applications, by Jean-Bernard Lasserre, Wednesday 4 September, 2:00pm @ S17 Colloquium Room
02 Jan

The paper “Conservation relations for local theta correspondence” by Binyong Sun and Chen-Bo Zhu, published in the Journal of the American mathematical Society, 28 (2015), 939-983, has been selected for a 2018 award from the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM), as one of the best mathematical papers published in the past five years, with at least one author of Chinese descent.

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18 Dec

Congratulations to our undergraduates who have won prizes in the Simon Marais Mathematics Competition 2018

Individual prize:  1st place – ANG Yan Sheng
Pairs prize:  1st place – LIM Li and LING Yan Hao and 3rd place – BAY Wei Heng and CHO Ming En

18 Dec

Congratulations to our staff members for winning the Faculty Awards 2018:

14 Dec

Professor TAN Eng Chye has been awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Southampton, UK in recognition of his passion and excellence as an award-winning educator and leader.
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13 Nov

Dr Vincent TAN has been appointed as Dean’s Chair Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering.

09 Oct

Professor TAN Eng Chye has been honoured for his outstanding achievements with the prestigious Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, the highest award that can be bestowed on an alumnus by Yale University and the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association.

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24 Sep

Professor SUN Yeneng, who is jointly appointed with the Department of Economics, has assumed his appointment as acting director of the NUS Risk Management Institute (RMI) on 1 September 2018. RMI is a university-level research institute dedicated to the area of financial risk management, and was established in 2006 with the support of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under its program on Risk Management and Financial Innovation.

13 Aug

Congratulations to our staff members for receiving the National Day Award 2018. The Singapore National Day Awards recognize various forms of merit and service to the nation.

The Commendation Medal
Dr NG Kah Loon

The Long Service Medal
Mdm CHAN Lai Chee, A/Prof LEUNG Ho-Hon, Denny, A/Prof LEUNG Man Chun, Prof SUN Yeneng, Mdm Rubiah Bte TUKIMIN, Prof TAN Eng Chye, A/Prof TAN Hwee Huat, A/Prof Victor TAN, Prof TO Wing Keung and Prof ZHU Chengbo

24 Jul

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Mdm CHAN Lai Chee, Mdm SIM Choo Geok, Lilian and Mr Muhammad Ghazali Bin SUNGIT on winning the Department Quality Service Award 2018.

17 Jul

Congratulations to our student award winners!Class of 2018:

 

PhD:

12 Jul

The Department of Mathematics heartily congratulates Provost Chair Professor TOH Kim Chuan, Professor SUN Defeng and their former graduate student Dr YANG Liuqin (PhD, 2016)  on winning the triennial Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming 2018 by the Mathematical Optimization Society. The award recognizes their work on SDPNAL+, which is a MATLAB solver for large-scale semidefinite programming with bound constraints.

23 May

Distinguished Professor GAN Wee Teck has been named as a fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS), among 10 individuals who have distinguished themselves in the field of science.
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22 May

Dr WANG Fei has won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for the Academic Year 2016/2017. The award is given by the University to recognize faculty members who have demonstrated a very high level of commitment to, and achievement of, good teaching.

15 May

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor CHONG Chi Tat and Professor TOH Kim Chuan on being conferred the University Outstanding Service Award and the University Research Recognition Award respectively, at the University Awards Ceremony on 14 May.In a career spanning over four decades, Professor CHONG has made numerous major contributions in the areas of education, research and administration, both within NUS and beyond. His passion and dedication in research has also inspired generations of students and young staff in the Department of Mathematics.Professor TOH is among the world’s leading figures in semidefinite programming. The University Research Recognition Award is a fitting recognition of his outstanding research in and fundamental contributions to the theory, practice and application of convex optimisation.

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01 Apr

Provost Chair Professor TOH Kim Chuan has been selected as a SIAM Fellow (Class of 2018) for his contributions to the development of algorithms and software for semidefinite programming and, more generally, conic programming.

27 Mar

A/P Roger TAN Choon Ee will be appointed Associate Vice President at the Office of the President (UPR) from 1 April 2018. A/P Tan will head the Organisational Excellence Transformation Unit (OETU) within UPR.

05 Mar

Mathematics Adjunct Prof YU Chien Siang received the Hall of Fame Award in Singapore’s inaugural Cybersecurity Awards. Professor Yu developed Singapore’s first secure email system and PC security system and pioneered the implementation of public key systems for the Singapore Government.

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13 Feb

Recent progress on the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjectures was the subject of a Bourbaki Seminar in January 2018 presented by Raphaël BEUZART-PLESSIS. The Séminaire Nicolas Bourbaki (Bourbaki Seminar) is a series of seminars (in fact public lectures with printed notes distributed) that has been held in Paris since 1948. It is one of the major institutions of contemporary mathematics, and a barometer of mathematical achievement, fashion, and reputation.

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12 Jan

Congratulations to Dr Vincent TAN on his promotion to Associate Professor, with effect from 1 January 2018.

07 Dec

Congratulations to our staff members for winning the Faculty Awards 2017:

  • Faculty Teaching Excellence Award AY2016/2017: Dr NG Wee Seng, Dr WANG Fei, Dr ZHOU Chao
  • Faculty Honour Roll AY2016/2017: Prof LEE Soo Teck
  • Teaching Assistant (Part-time) Award AY2016/2017: CUI Hanwen, TEO Yi Han
  • Outstanding Service Award: Mdm Rubiah Bte TUKIMIN
01 Dec

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Dr Vincent TAN who has been awarded the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellowship. The NRF Fellowship Scheme is a competitive programme that seeks to attract, recruit and root outstanding young scientists from around the world to conduct independent research in Singapore.

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27 Nov

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Emeritus Prof Louis CHEN, Founding Director of NUS’ Institute for Mathematical Sciences (IMS) on being conferred the NUS Distinguished Alumni Service Award 2017 for his service to NUS and contributions to the advancement of science. Prof CHEN built up IMS into one of the finest institutes in the world. His research on the Chen-Stein method has grown into one of the most important areas of discrete probability.

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22 Nov

Congratulations to our undergraduates who have won prizes in the Simon Marais Mathematics Competition 2017

  • ANG Yan Sheng and YAP Jit Wu: Top two individual prizes
  • HOW Si Wei and LI Yao’an: Top pairs prize as well as the Hofflin Prize (awarded for most creative solution to any problem)
14 Nov

The Department of Mathematics heartily congratulates Professor GAN Wee Teck on being conferred the President’s Science Award (2017), for his illustrious contributions to the field of mathematics, and his outstanding work on the Langlands programme and the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture. The President’s Science Award (PSA) is presented to research scientists and engineers in Singapore who have made outstanding contributions in basic research leading to the discovery of new knowledge or the pioneering development of scientific or engineering techniques and methods.1 Oct

The Department of Mathematics at NUS remembers Professor Vladimir VOEVODSKY (4 June 1966 – 30 September 2017) of the Institute for Advanced Study, USA:

12 Sep

Congratulations to Professor ZHANG De-Qi and Professor ZHAO Gong Yun for receiving the 2017 National Day Awards – The Long Service Medal. The Singapore National Day Awards recognize various forms of merit and service to the nation.

28 Aug

The Department of Mathematics heartily congratulates Provost Chair Professor TOH Kim Chuan on winning the 2017 Farkas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society.

Prof. TOH was an (double) alumnus of NUS (B.Sc, First Class Honours and M.Sc in Mathematics), and began his academic career as a Senior Tutor in the Department of Mathematics in 1991. The 2017 Farkas Prize was awarded to Prof. TOH for his fundamental contributions to the theory, practice, and application of convex optimization, especially semidefinite programming and conic programming.

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28 Aug

The Department of Mathematics heartily congratulates our alumnus Professor LIM Lek-Heng of the University of Chicago on winning the 2017 James H. Wilkinson Prizein Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing and the 2017 Stephen Smale Prizeof the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics. Prof. LIM received B.Sc. (Honors) in Mathematics from NUS in 1996.

03 Aug

New papers in top journals by Department members:

  • Professor DINH Tien Cuong’s co-authored paper “Unique ergodicity for foliations in P2  with an invariant curve” will appear in Inventiones Math.
  • Professor Gan Wee Teck’s co-authored paper “Local theta correspondence of tempered representations and Langlands parameters” will appear in Inventiones Math.
  • Professor LOKE Hung Yean’s co-authored paper “Local theta correspondences of supercuspidal representations” will appear in Annales scientifiques de l’École normale supérieure.
  • Dr TONG Xin’s co-authored paper “Robustness and Accuracy of finite Ensemble Kalman filters in large dimensions” will appear in Communications on Pure and Applied Math.
  • Professor ZHANG Louxin’s co-authored paper “Reconciliation with non-binary gene trees revisited” will appear in the Journal of the ACM.
31 Jul

Professor TAN Eng Chye will become the next NUS President. A 1st Class Honours graduate in mathematics, Professor Tan began his academic career as a Senior Tutor with the Department of Mathematics in 1985, and rose through the ranks to become a full professor in 2006.

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21 Jul

Professors Sanjay JAIN (School of Computing, NUS) and Frank STEPHAN, and their collaborators, Dr LI Wei from NUS’ Department of Mathematics, and Professors Cristian Calude and Bakhadyr Khoussainov from the University of Auckland, won the STOC 2017 Best Paper Award for their paper, ‘Deciding Parity Games in Quasipolynomial Time’, at STOC 2017 Theory Fest: the 49th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing.

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17 Jul

Congratulations to our student award winners!Class of 2017:

 

PhD:

13 Jul

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Mdm Rubiah Bte TUKIMIN and Mdm SIM Choo Geok, Lilian on winning the Department Quality Service Award 2017.

05 Jul

DINH Tien Cuong has been appointed as Provost’s Chair from 1 July 2017. Provost’s Chair appointments are for a three year period, and are made in recognition of the recipients’ outstanding and impactful scholarly accomplishments which are internationally acknowledged. Professor Dinh is considered one of the world’s top analysts working on Complex Dynamics of Several Variables. He has been invited as a sectional speaker for “Analysis and Operator Algebras” at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a singular honour to be invited to speak at the ICM, and the achievement is widely acclaimed by the international mathematical community as a mark of excellence.

03 Jul

Professor GAN Wee Teck has joined the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics/Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, from January 2017.

Professor CHAN Heng Huat has joined the editorial board of the Ramanujan Journal, from May 2017.

Professor YU Shih-Hsien has joined the editorial board of the International Journal of Mathematics, from May 2017.

01 Jun

Shuichiro TAKEDA of the University of Missouri has been awarded the prestigious AMS Centennial Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. Takeda’s research focuses on automorphic forms and representations of p-adic groups, especially from the point of view of the Langlands program. He will use the Centennial Fellowship to visit the National University of Singapore during the academic year 2017-2018.

19 Apr

Our warmest congratulations to Professor DINH Tien Cuong on being selected as a sectional speaker for “Analysis and Operator Algebras” at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The ICM is the largest and the most prestigious international congress in the mathematics community and is held once every four years.

For more information on ICM 2018, please see the link.

13 Apr

Mr ZHAO Quan (PhD student, 2013 cohort) and Mr ANG Yan Sheng (Undergraduate student, 2015 cohort) have been selected to participate in the 5th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, to be held from September 24 to 29, 2017 in Heidelberg, Germany. About 200 highly talented young researchers will participate in the forum.

13 Mar

Victor TAN has been elected as the President of the Singapore Mathematical Society (SMS). Other key members of the SMS Management Committee include Vice Presidents A/P CHAN Song Heng (NTU), Professor GAN Wee Teck (NUS), Dr Hang Kim Hoo (Jurong Junior College), and Honorary Secretary Dr Tang Wee Kee (NTU).

07 Mar

Congratulations to A/P Victor TAN for winning an Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY2015/2016. The award is given by the University to recognize faculty members who have demonstrated a very high level of commitment to, and achievement of, good teaching.

17 Feb

Congratulations to Dr ZHANG Louxin on his promotion to Professor, with retrospective effect from 1 January 2017.

13 Jan

Professor SHEN Zuowei has been elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, for contributions to approximation theory, wavelet theory, and image processing. The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. The list of 2017 Class of the Fellows of the AMS is here.

05 Jan

Congratulations to Dr REN Weiqing on his promotion to Professor and Dr WANG Fei on his promotion to Senior Lecturer, both effective from 1 January 2017.

30 Nov

Congratulations to our staff members for winning the Faculty Teaching and Research Awards 2016:

16 Nov

Professor SHEN Zuowei has been named among the most prominent researchers in the world by Clarivate Analytics in The Highly Cited Researchers 2016 report. A total of eleven NUS scientists and engineers made it to the list. The NUS News Highlight is here.

1 Oct

Dr ZHANG Hong has been awarded the inaugural Louis Chen Hsiao Yun Best Dissertation Prize (2016). Established in the Academic Year 2015/2016, this prize is awarded annually to the student with the best PhD thesis in mathematics and its applications, and is open to all graduating PhD students from the Department of Mathematics, NUS. Dr Zhang’s thesis is entitled “Conformal Metrics on the Unit Ball with the Prescribed Mean Curvature” and is written under the direction of Professor XU Xingwang.

8 Sep

Congratulations to our staff members for winning the NUS and Department Quality Service Award 2016:

  • NUS Quality Service Award 2016: Ms Chan Lai Chee
  • Department Quality Service Award 2016: Ms CHAN Lai Chee and Mr Muhammad Ghazali Bin SUNGIT
16 Aug

Congratulations to our staff members for receiving the National Day Award 2016 – The Long Service Medal: (The Singapore National Day Awards recognize various forms of merit and service to the nation)

  • A/Prof CHUA Seng Kee, Mdm Shanthi d/o D DEVADAS, Mdm Nor’Aini Binte MAULUD, A/Prof PANG Yu-Hin, Peter, A/Prof TAN Choon Ee, Roger, and Prof TAN Ser Peow
22 Jul

Congratulations to the Singapore IMO team lead by A/P Wong Yan Loi for the fantastic results in the 57th IMO held in Hong Kong (July 2016): overall country ranking at No. 4, with 4 gold medals, 2 silver medals.

01 Jul

Professor Steven KOU has been appointed as a Class of ‘62 Professor , with retrospective effect from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2019 . This appointment is in recognition of his excellence and international recognition in research as well as significant and impactful leadership in raising standards of the University with respect to research, teaching and service.

01 Jul

Professor TOH Kim Chuan has been appointed as Provost’s Chair from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2019. This appointment is in recognition of his outstanding and impactful scholarly accomplishments which are internationally acknowledged.

01 Jul

Professor GAN Wee Teck has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor of the University, from 23 June 2016. The Distinguished Professorship is awarded to a senior faculty member who has demonstrated excellence and international recognition in research and creative activity, together with significant and impactful leadership in raising standards of the University with respect to research or creative activity, education and service.

01 Jun

New papers in top journals by Department members: Congratulations to DINH Tien Cuong, GAN Wee Teck , SHEN Weixiao, ZHANG De-Qi, BAO Weizhu, Steven KOU for papers accepted by the prestigious Annales de l’Ecole Normale Superieure, Inventiones Mathematicae, Journal of the European Mathematical Society, Publications mathématiques de l’IHÉS, Physical Review Letters, and Management Science.

  • DINH’s co-authored paper is “Equidistribution speed for Fekete points associated with an ample line bundle”, to appear in Ann. Sci. Ec. Norm. Super..
  • Gan’s co-authored papers are “Globalization of supercuspidal representations over function fields and applications”, to appear in J. Eur. Math. Soc., and “The Gross-Prasad conjecture and local theta correspondence”, to appear in Invent. Math..
  • Shen’s co-authored paper is “The Lyapunov exponent of holomorphic maps”, to appear in Invent. Math..
  • Zhang’s co-authored paper is “Effectivity of Iitaka fibrations and pluricanonical systems of polarized pairs”, to appear in Publications mathématiques de l’IHÉS.
  • Bao’s co-authored paper is “Hubbard model for atomic impurities bound by the vortex lattice of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate”, to appear in Physical Review Letters.
  • Kou’s co-authored paper is “Jumps in Equity Index Returns Before and During the Recent Financial Crisis: A Bayesian Analysis”, to appear in Management Science.
25 May

New Directions in Combinatorics (an afternoon of activities)

23 Apr

Mr WANG LiuQuan (PhD student, 2014 cohort) has been selected to participate in the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2016). Held annually since 2013, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum connects highly talented young researchers with the best scientists in their research fields: mathematics and computer science (Abel, Fields, Turing, and Nevanlinna Laureates).

18 Apr

4th NUS Graduate Symposium in Mathematics

23 Mar

New Developments in Representation Theory (An afternoon of activities)

16-17 Mar

Oppenheim Lecture 2016 (by Emmanuel Candes, Stanford University)
Poster

15 Mar

Dr KU Cheng Yeaw has won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for the Academic Year 2014/2015. The award is given by the University to recognize faculty members who have demonstrated a very high level of commitment to, and achievement of, good teaching.

23 Feb

5th SIAM Student Chapter@NUS Symposium on Applied and Computational Math

Jan

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Dr LOKE Hung Yean on his promotion to Professor, and Dr NG Wee Seng on his promotion to Senior Lecturer, effective from 1 January, 2016.

Jan

Professor SHEN Zuowei has been named among the world’s most prominent scientific minds in Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researchers 2015 report. A total of eleven NUS scientists and engineers made it to the list. The NUS Press Release is here

Jan

Dr CHAN Song Heng [BSc (Hons) Class of 2001, NUS] has been appointed as Head, Division of Mathematical Sciences, in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the Nanyang Technological University, from 1 January, 2016.

Jan

Professor DAI Min has joined the editorial board of the “SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics”, from January, 2016.

Dec

The Department of Mathematics congratulates its alumnus Dr Peng Yinhe (PhD, class of 2013) on winning the 3rd Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award, for his work on some open problems in set theoretic topology using techniques from set theory. First introduced in 2013, this is an annual award recognizing talented young researchers in any of the areas central to topology.

Dec

The Asian Mathematical Conference (AMC) series is a major mathematics conference held every 4-5 years under the auspices of the South East Asian Mathematical Society (SEAMS). The 7th AMC will take place in Bali, Indonesia, in July 25-29, 2016 and is hosted by the Indonesian Mathematical Society. Invited speakers from the NUS community are GAN Wee Teck (plenary speaker), and YANG Yue, DINH Tien Cuong, BAO Weizhu, Adrian Roellin, Vincent TAN and TOH Kim Chuan.

Nov

The Department of Mathematics congratulates
– Ms Chan Lai Chee and Mr Muhammad Ghazali Bin Sungit on winning the Department Quality Service Award 2015.
– Mdm Nor’Aini Bte Maulud, Mdm Tay Lee Lang, Ms Lynette Wong on winning the Faculty Outstanding Service Award 2015, and Mdm Sim Choo Geok the Faculty Commendation Award 2015.

Oct

Professor Steven KOU, who is jointly appointed with the Risk Management Institute (RMI), has been appointed as a co-area editor of Financial Engineering for the journal Operations Research, from Nov 1, 2015 to Oct 31, 2020. Operations Research is one of the flagship journals of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the largest society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research, management science, and analytics.

Oct

The Department of Mathematics is pleased to establish a new University-level award titled “Louis Chen Hsiao Yun Best Dissertation Prize”, with effect from AY2015/2016. This prize is awarded annually to the student with the best PhD thesis in the field of mathematics or applied mathematics, and is open to all graduating PhD students from the Department of Mathematics. The first award will be given out at Commencement 2016.

Sep

Associate Professor Ren Weiqing has been awarded the Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing (2015) by the Chinese Academy of Sciences for his significant contributions in numerical methods for the study of rare events, multiscale modeling and simulation, the moving contact line problem. The award ceremony was held at the General Assembly of the Chinese Society for Computational Mathematics, Guangzhou, 19-22 September, 2015. The Feng Kang Prize, awarded every other year, is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor FENG Kang, the founder and pioneer of Chinese computational mathematics.

Sep

The Singapore Mathematics Symposium is an annual one-day event organized by the Singapore Mathematical Society to promote interaction within the mathematical community and to showcase some of the exciting developments originating from Singapore. Prof Dai Min and Prof To Wing Keung are among the four featured speakers of this year’s event, which will take place on Friday 25 September, 2015 in NTU’s School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences. The full programme can be viewed here.

Aug

Emeritus Professor Louis Chen, Department of Mathematics, has been named in a list of Singapore scientific pioneers in a commemorative book about the country’s science and technology efforts, as part of the SG50 celebration. The book lists a total of 25 scientists aged 50 and above who have made exceptional contributions to Singapore’s scientific, engineering, medical and education sectors over the last five decades. The profile on Professor Louis Chen is entitled “A series of rare events”, and is available here.

Aug

The International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is the premier international congress in the field of applied mathematics held every four years under the auspices of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The 8th ICIAM took place in Beijing, China, from August 10th to 14th, 2015. Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor SHEN Zuowei, Department of Mathematics, was among the 27 invited speakers. Professor Shen spoke on “Image Restoration: A Data-Driven Perspective”.

Aug

The fifth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT 2016) will take place in Tokyo, Japan, from August 6th to 11th, 2016. ICCOPT is a flagship conference of the Mathematical Optimization Society, organized every three years. Members of the OR group from the Department of Mathematics will play a notable scientific role in ICCOPT 2016: Professor SUN Defeng has been appointed as a member of the Programme Committee, and Professor TOH Kim Chuan as a cluster co-chair and Summer School Lecturer on Big Data Optimization.

Jul

The Department of Mathematics warmly congratulates its students from the class of 2015 who receive the following university level medals & prizes in the Commencement 2015:

  • Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal and Medal of Excellence in Mathematics: Johan GUNARDI
  • Singapore Mathematical Society Medal and Prize: YE Jin He
  • Leong Teng Kiang Memorial Prize in Mathematics: SUN Qing Wei
  • The Ven Dr. D. D. Chelliah Gold Medal: LIM Weiquan
  • Lijen Industrial Development Medals: CHUA Teoh Guan, SUN Qing Wei, WANG Honghao
Jul

Professor SUN Yeneng, who is jointly appointed with the Department of Economics, has been appointed as a Goh Keng Swee Professor from a period of 3 years from 1 July 2015. The Goh Keng Swee Professorship is an appointment in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and conferred to faculty members in recognition of their outstanding and impacting scholarly accomplishments. Prof Sun previously held the title of Raffles Professor of Social Sciences from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2015.

Jul

Associate Professor JI Hui has been appointed as a Dean’s Chair from 1 July 2015. This appointment recognizes A/P JI’s work on sparse representation and signal recovery which has its significance in both fundamental and advanced application of vision and imaging science.

Jul

Dr Vincent TAN Yan Fu, who is jointly appointed with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has been appointed as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications covering expertise in Finite Length Information Theory and Information-Theoretic Security, from June 2015.

Jun

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Dr CHIN Chee Whye on his promotion to Associate Professor (Educator Track), and Dr HAN Fei on his promotion to Associate Professor (with Tenure), effective from 1 July, 2015.

Jun

SHEN Zuowei has been re-appointed as Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor for a further 3 years from January 2016 to December 2018. The Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professorships are amongst the most prestigious professorships of the University established with private funds. They are bestowed upon academics who have demonstrated an exceptional level of achievement in their field of study, as well as made significant contributions to the academic policies and programmes of the University.

Jun

The paper “A proof of the Howe duality conjecture”, jointly authored by GAN Wee Teck, and Shuichiro TAKEDA, will appear in a future issue of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

May

NUS launched a science and technology exhibition, entitled “Building Our Nation through Science and Technology” in April, 2015 in celebration of its 110th anniversary. Among the featured projects under the theme of Smart Nation is the work on Data Science by NUS colleagues, notably from the Department of Mathematics, which shows how science-based data research, data-driven science research, big data computing and data-driven decision sciences will together transform the w