Speaker: W. Brian Arthur Professor, Santa Fe Institute, USATime: 10:30-12:00, June 07, 2025Venue: Room 420, National School of Development, Peking UniversityAbstract: It is obvious that the economy creates technology, but less obvious that technology cre...

Speaker: Fabrizio Catanese (Universität Bayreuth)Time: 16:00-17:00 p.m., Jun 3, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Room 77201, Jingchunyuan 78, BICMR, PKUAbstract:In the beginning, elementary, part I shall explain some basic notions about binary codes, vector spaces over the f...

Eligibility Criteria:Applicants for the PKU Summer School International 2025 should fulfill the following requirements:• Be between the ages of 18 and 50 (inclusive) and be in good health;• Be currently attending college/university;• Academic records that meet...

Speaker: Julia Adams, Margaret H. Marshall Professor of Sociology, Yale UniversityAt Yale she has chaired the Department of Sociology and the Council of Heads of College. In 2014-24, Adams was the last Master of Yale’s Calhoun College and the first Head of Gra...

Speaker: Prof. Tao Min, Nanjing UniversityTime: 13:30-14:30 p.m., May 28, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Room 109, Zhihua Building, PKUAbstract:In this talk, we introduce three classes of challenging optimization problems, analyze their interconnections, and reveal their i...

Speaker: Miles A. Reid FRS (University of Warwick)Time: 16:00-17:00 p.m., May 27, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Room 77201, Jingchunyuan 78, BICMR, PKUAbstract:The family denoted D_n is a main trunk of the classification of simple algebraic groups. For n >= 5, D_n corr...

Speaker: Fabrizio Hochschild-Drummond Former UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General Liu Qiao Dean, Professor of Finance, Guanghua School of Management, Peking UniversityTime: 13:30-16:00, May 24, 2025Venue: R...

Speaker: Donglin Bai, Ph.D, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, the University of Western OntarioTime: 10:00-11:00 a.m., May 23, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Room B106, Lui Che-woo Building, PKUAbstract:Most early studies on gap junction (G」) channel function and...

Speaker: Ivan Tomašić (Queen Mary University of London)Time: 14:00-15:00 p.m., May 22, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Room 77201, Jingchunyuan 78, BICMRAbstract:Differential and difference algebra were founded by Ritt and his students Kolchin and Cohn in the 1950s as the s...

Speaker: Çağlar ÖzdenDeputy Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa, World BankChair: Lei XiaoyanProfessor, Chair of the management council, National School of Development, Peking UniversityTime: 13:30 – 15:00, May 20Venue: Room 420, NSD, PKUAbstract: Th...

Speaker: Reza Seyyedali(Institute for Research in Fundamental Science)Time: 16:00-17:00 p.m., May 20, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Room 77201, Jingchunyuan 78, BICMR, PKUAbstract:Arezzo and Pacard proved that if a compact Kahler manifold M admits constant scalar curvatur...

Speaker: Laura Bogue Edgerton, Postdoctoral Research Scientist Van Kasteren Research Group, Chemical Biology and Immunology (CBI), Leiden University, Netherlands.Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m., May 19, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Lui Che Woo Building B101, PKUAbstract:Immune ce...