News Archive

News (May 2021 and onwards)

2 December

Launch of the Louis Chen Science Merit Scholarship, in honour of Emeritus Professor Louis Chen

During his many years of service with NUS, Emeritus Professor Louis Chen made significant contributions to the university. He helped lay the foundations critical to the development of the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability into the world-renowned programmes that they are today. He also played a key role in advancing the Institute for Mathematical Sciences (IMS) into a renowned mathematical research institute in Singapore and beyond.  The Louis Chen Science Merit Scholarship was established in Emeritus Professor Louis Chen’s honour by colleagues and friends to recognise his achievements and contributions to the university, and to spur the next generation of researchers. Generous gifts came from former and present colleagues as well as friends, notably Mr Ng Kok Lip who holds Prof Chen in high honour, esteem and affection. The first scholarship will be awarded in the academic year 2021/2022.

30 November

Dr An Xinliang has written a general science article (in Chinese) on the mathematical exploration of black hole formation and its connection to nonlinear wave equations. Read the article here

28 September

Congratulations to Dr Lim Zhi Han for winning the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY 2018/2019.

20 August

Congratulations to our recent graduate Mr Yap Jit Wu (class of 2020) for winning the gold medal of the Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition 2020.   Jit Wu will be starting his PhD studies at Harvard from September.
The Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition is jointly organized by the China Association for Science and Technology, the Alibaba Foundation, and Alibaba DAMO Academy.

11 August

Congratulations to our colleagues Prof CHAN Heng Huat and Prof LOKE Hung Yean for receiving the Long Service Medal, 2020 National Day Awards. The Singapore National Day Awards recognize various forms of merit and service to the nation.

20 July

Professor DINH Tien Cuong has been appointed as Provost’s Chair from 1 July 2020. 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 at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians. He also received the Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in 2018.

05 June 

Recent papers in top journals by Department’s young faculty members: Congratulations to CAI Zhenning, Subhroshekhar GHOSH, TONG Xin, Marko WEBER, ZHANG Lei, and ZHANG Tengren for their papers in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, Annals of Statistics, Management Science, Annals of Mathematics, and Geometric and Functional Analysis.

• Cai Zhenning co-authored “Inchworm Monte Carlo Method for Open Quantum Systems”, in Comm. Pure Appl. Math. (2020);
• Subhroshekhar Ghosh co-authored “Gaussian determinantal processes: A new model for directionality in data”, in PNAS (2020);
• Tong Xin co-authored “Statistical inference for model parameters in stochastic gradient descent”, in Ann. Statist. (2020);
• Marko Weber co-authored “Swing Pricing for Mutual Funds: Breaking the Feedback Loop between Fire Sales and Fund Redemptions”, in Management Science (2020);
• Zhang Lei co-authored “Arthur parameters and cuspidal automorphic modules of classical groups”, in Ann. Math. (2020);
• Zhang Tengren co-authored “Flows on the PGL(V)-Hitchin component”, in Geom. Funct. Anal. (2020).

29 April

Congratulations to Dr WANG Dong on his promotion to Associate Professor, with effect from 1 July 2020.

07 April

Professor Goh Say Song, Vice-Dean (Outreach and Admissions) at the Faculty of Science, has been appointed concurrently as Dean-Designate of the Office of Admissions from 1 April 2020. He will assume the role of Dean of Admissions from 1 July 2020. Professor Goh began his career with the Department of Mathematics in 1994.

23 March

Professor Sun Yeneng will be appointed Dean-Designate of the Faculty of Science from 1 April 2020, and Dean with effect from 1 July 2020. Professor Sun began his career with the Department of Mathematics in 1989.

Professor Shen Zuowei, Dean of the Faculty of Science (FoS), will be appointed Vice Provost (Graduate Education) from 1 April 2020. In his new leadership role, Professor Shen will focus on the strategic transformation and management of postgraduate programmes, leveraging his extensive education-related experience. He will concurrently be Dean of Science until 30 June 2020. Professor Shen began his career with the Department of Mathematics in 1993.

Our alumnus Professor Lim Lek-Heng (BSc. Honors, class of 1996) has been elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2020 Class), for his contributions to applied mathematics, particularly numerical linear algebra.

02 January

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:

• Faculty Teaching Excellence Award AY2017/2018: Dr LI Wei, Dr TAN Ban Pin
• Faculty Honour Roll AY2017/2018:  Dr NG Wee Seng, Dr WANG Fei
• Teaching Assistant (Full-time) Award AY2017/2018: CHEN Lin, Christian Ong GO
• Teaching Assistant (Part-time) Award AY2017/2018: CUI Hanwen, TEO Yi Han
• Outstanding Scientist Award 2018: Prof DINH Tien Cuong

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:

• Lim Soo Peng Book Prize:
  Way TAN
• Tan Teck Chwee Book Prize:
  KOR Chong Luck Ryan
  ANG Yan Sheng
• Leong Teng Kiang Memorial Prize in Mathematics:
  HUANG Yiming
• Ho Family Prize:
  CHEN Yue
• Lijen Industrial Development Medal:
  AIK Kian Cheong
  CHEONG Yu Jia
  MENG Xiang
• Singapore Mathematical Society Medal and Prize:
  TRAN Hoang Bao Linh
• The Ven. Dr. D. D. Chelliah Gold Medal:
  YOU Pengxin
• Medal of Excellence in Mathematics:
  QUEK Ming Hao
• Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS):
  HONG Lu

PhD:

• Louis Chen Hsiao Yun Best Dissertation Prize:
  CUI Ying
• Best Graduate Researcher Award:
  DAO Van Thinh

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.

30 Nov

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

• Faculty Teaching Excellence Award AY2015/2016: Prof LEE Soo Teck, Prof LOKE Hung Yean, Dr NG Wee Seng, Dr WANG Fei
• Teaching Assistant (Part-time) Award AY2015/2016: GUO Jiancang, LAM Xin Yee
• Outstanding Scientist Award 2016: Prof ZHANG De-Qi

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 way we live, work and play. A short video on NUS’ leadership and advancements in Data Science is here.

May

LEE Soo Teck and Victor TAN have won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) 2013/2014, which recognizes faculty members who have displayed a high level of commitment to their teaching

May

ZHANG Louxin has been invited to serve as Area Co-Chair for the Evolution and Comparative Genomics track of the ISMB/ECCB 2015 meeting (the World’s Premier Conference on Computational Biology), to be held in Dublin, Ireland, in July 2015.

Apr

The Department of Mathematics heartily congratulates Professor Louis Chen Hsiao Yun on being conferred the title of Emeritus Professor by NUS, effective from July 1, 2015. The award of Emeritus Professorship is conferred to full professors on retirement in recognition of their sustained contributions to the University in terms of dedicated teaching, distinguished scholarship and conspicuous service.

Apr

The Department of Mathematics warmly congratulates Professor Gan Wee Teck on winning the University’s Outstanding Researcher Award 2015. The University Awards honour and recognise members of the NUS community who, through their consistently high performance and resolute commitment, set new benchmarks in the areas of education, research and service. The award citation for Professor Gan is here.

Apr

Dr. Zhao Xiaofei (PhD, class of 2014, NUS) has been selected to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2015. 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).

Mar

The Department of Mathematics is pleased to establish a new University-level award titled “Medal of Excellence in Mathematics”, with effect from AY2014/2015. Consisting of a gold medal and book prize of $500, this annual award will be awarded to a student in Mathematics who has obtained First Class honours and who has also demonstrated excellence and potential in the pursuit of Mathematics. The first award will be given out at Commencement 2015.

Mar

The paper “Polynomial chaos and scaling limits of disordered systems”, jointly authored by Francesco Caravenna, Rongfeng Sun, and Nikos Zygouras, will appear in a future issue of the Journal of the European Mathematical Society.

Mar

The paper “Optimal tax-timing with asymmetric long-term/short-term capital gains tax”, jointly authored by Min Dai, Hong Liu, Chen Yang and Yifei Zhong, will appear in a future issue of Review of Financial Studies.

Feb

The MOE Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 funds significant research with a good potential for creating new knowledge that will benefit the larger academic community. Two recent AcRF Tier 2 projects awarded to members of the Department are :

• “Graph-sparsification-based method for transcriptome cleanup”, led by ZHANG Louxin and Choi Kwok Pui, with total project value of $471K, and
• “Network Communication with Synchronization Errors: Fundamental Limits and Codes”, led by Vincent TAN Yan Fu, who is jointly appointed at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Mathematics, with total project value of $486K.

Feb

Prof SHEN Zuowei has joined the editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS), from January 2015.

Feb

YU Shih-Hsien has joined the editorial board of the “Asian Journal of Mathematics”, from January, 2015.

Jan

The inaugural Oppenheim Lecture, a distinguished lecture series jointly organized by the Department of Mathematics and IMS, takes place on January 28 (Wednesday, 2:00-3:00pm, Seminar Room 1) and is delivered by Prof Ngo Bao Chau, of the University of Chicago and Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics. Prof Ngo is best known for proving the fundamental lemma in the Langlands programme, which was selected by the Time magazine as one of the Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2009.  He was awarded the Fields medal in the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, held in India.

Jan

In conjunction with the Oppenheim Lecture, there is also a Workshop on Representation Theory & Automorphic Forms (January 27-29), with speakers from the Asia-Pacific region and the NUS community. Professor Ngo will also meet students on January 29 (Thursday, 3:00-5:00pm, Seminar Room 1).

Jan

The Department of Mathematics is pleased to introduce the ASEAN Mathematician Visit Programme, which aims to encourage collaboration and to support growth in mathematical research in the ASEAN region. Under the programme, mathematicians from the ASEAN countries will visit the Department of Mathematics, and will collaborate with members of the Department on research topics of mutual interests.

Dec

Prof ZHU Chengbo will join the editorial board of “Representation Theory” (An Electronic Journal of the AMS), from February, 2015.

Dec

Profs SHEN Zuowei will join the editorial board of the “Asian Journal of Mathematics”, from January, 2015.

Dec

Prof CHAN Heng Huat has been invited to deliver a series of lectures on “Elliptic Functions” in 2015 at the East China Normal University (ECNU) as part of ECNU’s Graduate Education Program by International Scholars.

Dec

Future Resilient Systems” (FRS) is a research project under the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) to address the challenges with critical infrastructure systems that provide essential services to modern societies, which is of particular importance to innovation-driven economies like Singapore and Switzerland. A submodule of FRS, called Hidden Interdependencies, will be led by Dr XU Huan, Profs SUN Defeng and TOH Kim Chuan, with the total project value of $640K.

Nov

The Faculty of Science celebrates its 85th anniversary this year, and the celebrations culminated with the 85th anniversary celebration dinner on 8 November. This year’s recipients for the Faculty’s Distinguished Alumni and Outstanding Alumni awards received the awards from President Tony Tan at the dinner.

Nov

The department congratulates our alumni for receiving the Outstanding Alumni Award 2014

Dr HANG Kim Hoo
BSc (Hons) 1983, MSc 1999, PhD 2007
Principal, NUS High School of Mathematics and Science

Dr KOH Khee Meng
BSc 1968
Former Professor, Department of Mathematics, NUS

Prof John K.-H. QUAH
BSc (Hons) 1986
Professor, Economic Theory, Oxford University

Oct

The MOE Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 funds significant research with a good potential for creating new knowledge that will benefit the larger academic community.
Two recent AcRF Tier 2 projects awarded to members of the Department are

Oct

The NUS Young Investigator Award (YIA) offers research-funding to highly-promising young faculty members who are likely to make significant contributions to the development of research at NUS. Dr Vincent Tan Yan Fu, who is jointly appointed at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Mathematics, has won the 2014 NUS YIA for his project “An Information-Theoretic Understanding of Machine Learning Algorithms”, with the total project value of $497K.

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 CHONG Chi Tat and A/Prof REN Weiqing are among the four featured speakers of this year’s event, which will take place on Friday 26 September, 2014 in NUS.  The full programme can be viewed here

Sep

The Department and the IMS will jointly organize a distinguished lecture series, called the Oppenheim Lectures, beginning from the Academic Year 2014/2015. This is to be held annually and is in honour of Sir Alexander Oppenheim, who held the position of Professor and first Head of the Department from 1931, at the time of Raffles College, until 1959.   The inaugural Oppenheim Lecture will be delivered by Prof Ngo Bao Chau (University of Chicago and 2010 Fields Medallist), entitled “Recent works on the Langlands functoriality conjecture”.   The event will take place in January 26-29, 2015.

Aug

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Profs BAO Weizhu, Gan Wee Teck, SHEN Weixiao and YU Shih-Hsien who will deliver invited lectures at the upcoming International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Seoul, Korea, August 13-21, 2014. They will respectively speak on their ground-breaking work on Bose-Einstein Condensation, Theta Correspondence, Interval Dynamics and Boltzmann Equation.

Aug

The Department also congratulates Prof SHEN Zuowei who will deliver an invited lecture at the 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), to be held in Beijing, China in 2015.

Aug

The Singapore National Day Awards recognise various forms of merit and service to the nation. Congratulations to our staff members who have received the honours this year.

Jul

The Department of Mathematics warmly congratulates its students from the class of 2014 who receive the following university-level medals & prizes at Commencement 2014:

Jul

The Department also congratulates its class of 2013 PhD student, TANG Qinglin for winning the Student Paper Prize (Second Prize) at The 10th East Asia SIAM Conference (EASIAM 2014), held in Thailand.

Jun

A summer school on the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjectures will take place in the Institut de Mathmatiques de Jussieu Paris, from June 18 – 27, 2014. Gan-Gross-Prasad refers to the conjectures of GAN Wee Teck, Benedict GROSS and Dipendra PRASAD, which among other things, predict relations between certain period integrals of automorphic forms and special values of L-functions.

Jun

The paper “Conservation relations for local theta correspondence”, jointly authored by SUN Binyong and Zhu Chen-bo, will appear in a future issue of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

May

KU Cheng Yeaw and Ng Kah Loon have won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) 2012/2013, which recognizes faculty members who have displayed a high level of commitment to their teaching.

May

ZHU Chengbo has been elected as a fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science, “For his contributions to the representation theory of classical groups, in particular for proving the multiplicity one conjectures for smooth representations and conservation conjecture for local theta correspondence.”

May

SUN Yeneng has been elected as a fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science, “For his path-breaking work in mathematical economics by providing a much needed mathematical foundation for modelling a large market with many agents under individual level uncertainty, and for his discovery of a series of surprising results in probability theory and economics.”

May

In the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject (2014), NUS Math is ranked among the best mathematics departments in Asia.

Apr

SUN Defeng has joined “Mathematical Programming Journal, Series B” as an associate editor, effective from Jan, 2014.

Apr

SHEN Weixiao has joined “Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems” as an executive editor, effective from Jan, 2014.

Apr

The paper “The metamathematics of Stable Ramsey’s Theorem for Pairs”, jointly authored by CHONG Chi Tat, Theodore A. SLAMAN and YANG Yue, has appeared in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, on March 25, 2014.

Apr

The paper “Formal degrees and local theta correspondence”, jointly authored by Gan Wee Teck and Atsushi Ichino, has appeared in the March 2014 issue of Inventiones mathematicae.

Apr

The paper “The regularized Siegel-Weil formula (the second term identity) and the Rallis inner product formula”, jointly authored by GAN Wee Teck, QIU Yannan and Shuichiro TAKEDA, will appear in a future issue of Inventiones mathematicae.

Apr

The paper “Finsler metrics and Kobayashi hyperbolicity of the moduli spaces of canonically polarized manifold”, jointly authored by TO Wing-Keung and YEUNG Sai-Kee, will appear in a future issue of the Annals of Mathematics.

NUS Arts Festival 2019: A Game of Numbers, held in conjunction with our Department’s 90th Anniversary

• Channel News Asia, 13 March 2019 –  By the numbers: Singapore’s first mathematics-themed arts festival opens this week
• Arts Equator, 6 March 2019 –  Of Math and Art: “A Game of Numbers” with NUS Arts Festival 2019
• The Straits Times, 18 February 2019 –  British theatre group Complicite’s A Disappearing Number to be staged at NUS Arts Festival

Lianhe Zaobao, 31 August 2014 –  The NUS Mathematics Society has been holding regular Rubik’s Cube contests since four years ago

The Straits Times, 16 December 2013 – NUS appoints award-winning mathematician as new Dean of the Faculty of Science

NUS News, 11 November 2013 – Our alumni Dr Yeo Sze Ling received the NUS Outstanding Alumni Award.

The New Paper, 20 October 2013 – Our alumni Dr Yeo Sze Ling received the Her World Young Woman Achiever Award.

The Straits Times, 25 August 2013 – A Beautiful Mind: Our alumni Dr Yeo Sze Ling’s grit moved Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to cite her as an inspiration in his National Day Rally speech.

The Straits Times, 21 June 2012 – Our alumni Dr Yeo Sze Ling receives the Singapore Youth Award 2012, the highest national accolade for youth.

The Straits Times, 25 Nov 2011 – Professors Louis Chen, Chong Chi Tat, Shen Zuowei and Tan Eng Chye have been conferred as inaugural fellows of the Singapore National Academy of Science, an umbrella organisation that represents the scientific community in Singapore.

AlumNUS, Oct-Dec 2011 – Prof Peter Lancaster, alumni and recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award, reminisces about his time spent in Singapore and at the Department.

The Business Times, 21 Jan 2011 – Prof Andrew Wee, Dean of the NUS Faculty of Science, said that the partnership between NUS and the Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA) opens up opportunities for students at the NUS Dept of Mathematics and Dept of Statistics and Applied Probability to be attached to the CRA.

NUS Centre for the Arts, Arts Festival 2008 – The Singing Professor – Prof Koh Khee Meng

The Straits Times, 14 Sept 2007 – The winners of this year’s National Science and Technology Awards hail from various disciplines such as biomedical sciences, IT and maths.  But they share something in common – great aptitude in science.

The Straits Times, 7 July 2007 – Want to make it big in animation? Know your maths!

The Straits Times, 4 July 2007 – Of Brains and Brawn – Norwegian maths professor Helmer Aslaksen, 47, chats to Straits Times reporter Elaine Young about keeping fit, and Sudoku.

The Straits Times, 26 Apr 2007 – French International Student Mr Francois Delatorre chooses NUS over other universities in France. He is on the University Scholars Programme and a first year undergraduate at the Faculty of Science, majoring in Applied Mathematics

The Straits Times, 10 Mar 2007 – Winning the crypto-war, an article by Professor Harald NIEDERREITER, professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at NUS

The Straits Times, 27 Jan 2006 – Don’t leave maths out of the equation, an article by University Professor CHONG Chi Tat, Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy, NUS

The Straits Times, 21 Aug 2005 – Have you played the popular Japanese puzzle Sudoku? Learn how Mathematics can help you solve the puzzles faster: An interview with Assoc Prof Helmer ASLAKSEN

The Straits Times, 24 May 2005 – featured our graduate Miss YEO Sze Ling, who earned her Bachelor’s degree (Honours) and a Master’s degree from National University of Singapore (NUS), and who is now into research on coding mathematics theories and cryptography.

The Straits Times, 30 April 2005 – featured Prof Louis CHEN, Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, who had received the French government decoration for services to education.

The Straits Times, 23 April 2005 – featured Prof CHONG Chi Tat, Department of Mathematics, providing one-to-one undergraduate lessons for GOH Jun Le who is currently studying in NUS High School.

The Straits Times, 6 July 2004 – featured an NUS student whose passion for Mathematics leads him to do a second degree.

The Straits Times, 16 Oct 2003 – featured Prof Louis CHEN, who was elected to head the California-based Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), a rare honour for someone outside the United States.

The Straits Times, 26 Sept 2003 – featured Prof Harald NIEDERREITER, Prof XING Chaoping and Assoc Prof LING San, winners of the National Science & Technology Award 2003.

The Straits Times, 26 June 2003 – featured Assoc Prof CHAN Heng Huat, winner of the Young Scientist Award (Science & Technology) 2003.

TheStraits Times, 1 Sept 2002 – featured Prof LAM Lay Yong, a retired professor of the Department of Mathematics, NUS, for her contributions to the history of mathematics.  Prof LAM won the Kenneth O. May medal, the highest honour given by the International Commission on the History of Mathematics once every four years.

The Straits Times, 23 June 2002 – more on Prof LAM Lay Yong…..

The Straits Times, 14 June 2002 – more on Prof LAM Lay Yong……

The Straits Times, 19 March 2002 – featured Prof Louis CHEN, father of the Chen-Stein method which played a crucial role in the mapping of the human genome.

The Straits Times, 18 Feb 2002 – featured Malaysian boy WONG Jiang Fung who made the news when he became a student of the National University of Singapore at the ripe old age of 15. Scroll down for the first report on him in 1999!

BusinessWorld, 4 Dec 2001 – featured 72 local and foreign professors, including Prof KOH Khee Meng, who converged in Manila recently to pay homage to renowned graph theorist Frank HARARY. His pioneering work in graph theory, an applied branch of mathematics, has touched on 36 disciplines, including psychology, economics, social sciences, art and architecture.

The Straits Times, 1 Sept 2000 – featured Prof SUN Yeneng, winner of the  Science & Technology Award 2000.

The Straits Times, 12 Dec 1999 – featured Malaysian boy WONG Jiang Fung, 15, Maths Whiz, and youngest student at NUS.

The Straits Times, 2 Sept 1999 – featured Assoc Prof CHAN Heng Huat, winner of the Young Scientist Award 1999.

The Straits Times, 17 Sept 1998 – featured the work on wavelets carried out by researchers of the Centre for Wavelets, Approximation and Information Processing (CWAIP). Prof LEE Seng Luan, Assoc Prof Wayne M. LAWTON and Prof SHEN Zuowei, all from the NUS Mathematics Department, won the National Science & Technology Award 1998 for their basic mathematical research on wavelets theory.

RiceMedia, 27 July 2019
If school made you hate Math, Sudoku will teach you to love it

The Independent, UK, 8 Apr 2014
The cancer equation: Mathematically modelling the cure

The Straits Times, 18 Aug 2007
Why Hollywood needs Maths too

BBC, 19 Mar 2007
248-dimension maths puzzle solved – An international team of mathematicians has detailed a vast complex numerical “structure” which was described more than a century ago.

Physorg.com, 19 Feb 2007
Computer scientist reveals the math and science behind blockbuster movies
(Source: Stanford University)

Business Week, 23 Jan 2006
Math will rock your world