ICCMICCM NOTICESNOTICES Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians
Volume 2, Number 1 July 2014 ISBN: 978-1-57146-286-2
Editors-in-Chief Shiu-Yuen Cheng (Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology) Ming-Chang Kang (National Taiwan University) Kefeng Liu (University of California at Los Angeles) Papers Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University) Lo Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) On unification, superstrings, and geometry Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University) by Yang-Hui He...... 11 Editorial Board Ching-Li Chai (University of Pennsylvania) The hidden geometry in Vermeer’s “The Art of Painting” Jiaxing Hong (Fudan University) by Gerhard Gutruf and Hellmuth Strachel...... 27 Yizhao Hou (California Institute of Technology) Sen Hu (University of Science and Technology of China) Lizhen Ji (University of Michigan) Open problems: Descending cohomology, geometrically Tze Leung Lai (Stanford University) by Barry Mazur...... 37 Ka-Sing Lau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Jun Li (Stanford University) Chang-Shou Lin (National Taiwan University) Essays Song-Sun Lin (National Chiao Tung University) Wen-Wei Lin (National Chiao Tung University) Mathematics: Its content, methods, and meaning Feng Luo (Rutgers University) Jason Payne (National Taiwan University) by Shing-Tung Yau...... 1 Yat Sun Poon (University of California at Riverside) Wing Hung Wong (Stanford University) A plea for adaptive data analysis for understanding physical Jie Xiao (Tsinghua University) Zhouping Xin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) phenomena Hongwei Xu (Zhejiang University) by Norden E. Huang...... 16 Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard University) Jing Yu (National Taiwan University) Big Data and Small Data: Reflections on data science, statistical Hongkai Zhao (University of California at Irvine) Fangyang Zheng (The Ohio State University) modeling, and financial and health care reforms Xiping Zhu (Sun Yat-Sen University) by Naihua Duan...... 22
A few words on research for graduate students by Fan Chung Graham ...... 41
Best Jobs 2014...... 58 The cover photograph of Mount Tai appears by courtesy of Noritsugu Kanegae. A woman mathematician’s journey The cover photograph of Jade Mountain appears by by Mei-Chi Shaw ...... 59 courtesy of Lu Hong-Wen 䥶⸞㠖 ICCMICCM NOTICESNOTICES Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians
History and Biography
Forgotten motives: The varieties of scientific experience by Yuri I. Manin...... 6
On the life and scientific work of Gino Fano by Alberto Collino, Alberto Conte and Alessandro Verra...... 43
Raoul Bott at Harvard by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis ...... 87
Institutes and Centers
The tiny, elite California Institute of Technology by Yuk Ling Yung...... 75
A new home for the world mathematics: The grand opening of Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum by Lizhen Ji ...... 80
Why is Harvard Harvard? by Lizhen Ji ...... 93
My visit to the Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard University by Sepideh Mirrahimi...... 96
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