The 7th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM 2016) by Yuefei Wang* The Seventh International Congress of Chinese Speakers Mathematicians (ICCM) will be held from August 6 to Confirmed speakers of Morningside Lecture 11, 2016 in Beijing. This session of ICCM is jointly include: hosted by the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS) and the Morningside Center of Math- Björn Engquist University of Texas at ematics (MCM). It is expected that about 1,500 partic- Austin ipants will attend the Congress. Camillo de Lellis University of Zurich Winners of the Morningside Medal of Mathemat- Stanley Osher University of California, Los ics, the Chern Prize and the ICCM International Co- Angeles operation Award will be announced at the ceremony Wilfried Schmid Harvard University on the first day of the Congress. In the following five Yuri Tsinkle New York University days, there will be about seven Morningside Lectures, Edward Witten Institute for Advanced probably at Tsinghua University. Additionally, about Study in Princeton 30 plenary lectures and 200 invited lectures, which cover more than 40 topics of mathematics, will be Confirmed speakers of Plenary Lecture include: presented at the AMSS or in neighboring buildings. David Cai New York University The International Congress of Chinese Mathe- Raymond Honfu Chan Chinese University of Hong maticians is a triennial event that brings together Chi- Kong nese and overseas mathematicians to discuss the lat- Xiuxiong Chen Stony Brook University est research developments in pure and applied math- I-Liang Chern National Taiwan University ematics. It was created by Professor Shing-Tung Yau Qiang Du Columbia University and is funded mainly by the Morningside Center of Jianqing Fan Princeton University Mathematics. ICCM is hosted by institutions in main- Lei Fu Nankai University land China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, on a rotating ba- Fan Chung Graham University of California, San sis. Diego The first Congress was held in December 1998 Xianfeng David Gu Stony Brook University at the Great Hall of the People, and at the Morning- Xuhua He Hong Kong University of side Center of Mathematics in Beijing. The second Science and Technology Congress took place at Taipei in 2001, the third at Lizhen Ji Michigan University Hong Kong in 2004, the fourth at Hangzhou in 2007, Samuel Kou Harvard University the fifth at Beijing in 2010, and the sixth at Taipei in Thomas Lam University of Michigan 2013. In 2016, ICCM will return to Beijing again. Kai-Wen Lan University of Minnesota * Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Naichung Conan Leung Chinese University of Hong Academy of Sciences Kong E-mail: [email protected] Jun Li Stanford University 102 NOTICES OF THE ICCM VOLUME 3,NUMBER 2 Changshou Lin National Taiwan University vate leading scientists and talents, by gearing their Si Li Tsinghua University research to the international academic frontier and Jianya Liu Shandong University national strategic demands. The goal of the AMSS is Kefeng Liu University of California, Los to become a world-renowned center for scientific re- Angeles search, talent training, and scholarly exchanges in the Hsian-Hua Tseng Ohio State University field of mathematics and systems science; and an ad- Mu-Tao Wang Columbia University visory center on national strategic issues. Xiao-Ping Wang Hong Kong University of Besides the four institutes, the AMSS also houses Science and Technology several key laboratories, including the National Cen- Hao Xu University of Pittsburgh ter for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hongwei Xu Zhejiang University the HUA Loo-Keng Key Laboratory of Mathematics, Jun Yin University of Wisconsin- the State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Masison Computing, the Key Laboratory of Management, De- Lexing Ying Stanford University cision and Information Systems, the Key Laboratory Xinyi Yuan University of California, of Systems and Control, the Key Laboratory of Math- Berkeley ematics Mechanization, the Key Laboratory of Ran- Jiu-Kang Yu Chinese University of Hong dom Complex Structures and Data, the Morningside Kong Center of Mathematics, and the Center for Forecast- Jeng-Daw Yu National Taiwan University ing Science. The AMSS has also set up several new Jing Yu National Taiwan University interdisciplinary research centers in recent years. Pin Yu Tsinghua University Ping Zhang AMSS, CAS Wei Zhang Columbia University About the Morningside Center of Hongkai Zhao University of California, Mathematics Irvine Xiangyu Zhou AMSS, CAS The Morningside Center of Mathematics, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was founded in 1996 with an endowment from Chinese Academy of Sci- About the AMSS ences and Morningside Group. Shing-Tung Yau is the The Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sci- director of the Center. The purpose of the Center is ence (AMSS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to nurture young mathematicians and to bring about (CAS), was founded in December 1998 with the in- high-level achievements in mathematical research. tegration of the Institute of Mathematics, the Insti- The Center normally runs six to ten projects ev- tute of Applied Mathematics, the Institute of Systems ery year, which are selected by its scientific commit- Science, the Institute of Computational Mathematics, tee, focusing on the fields from pure and applied and Scientific/Engineering Computing. mathematics to computational mathematics to theo- As a national comprehensive research center of retical physics. Countless scholars and graduate stu- mathematics and systems science, its mission is to dents have benefited greatly from these multifarious conduct original and crucial research, and to culti- projects. DECEMBER 2015 NOTICES OF THE ICCM 103.