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The Fourth Pacific Rim Conference on Mathematics opened at CityU on 7 December, bringing together an esteemed collection of mathematicians from around the region and marking the tenth anniversary of the University’s Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
Professor Li Ta-tsien, one of the most renowned mathematicians on the mainland, delivered the fourth lecture of the William Benter Distinguished Lecture Series at CityU on 25 January.
During a three-week visit to CityU in June, world renowned mathematician Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Director of Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques conducted the third lecture of the William Benter Distinguished Lecture Series on 15 June.
The celebrated mathematician Professor Stephen Smale gave the second lecture of the William Benter Distinguished Lecture Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics on 8 June.
As the first in the William Benter Distinguished Lecture Series on pure and applied mathematics launched by CityU's Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences on 26 January 2005, Professor Roger Temam presented "Theoretical and computational problems for the equations of the ocean and the atmosphere".
A passion for mathematics not only translates into breakthroughs in the language of science but, in some cases, turns deep admiration into philanthropy as well.