Westlake University, which pursues the principle of "only advertising overseas, not digging into the wall at home", has brought in strong support from abroad.
According to Westlake University's WeChat *** on December 21, recently, Ivan Fesenko, a former professor at the University of Nottingham, joined Westlake University full-time as a distinguished professor of the Institute of Theoretical Science and established an advanced number theory research group. He has served as an assistant professor and associate professor at St. Petersburg State University and as a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Nottingham.
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According to Westlake University, Ivan Fesenko's mathematical research, including explicit reciprocal formulas, explicit class field theory and higher class field theory, advanced ADELIC structures, advanced Zeta integrals, and the extension of IUT theory and applications, have contributed to the pioneering development of many fields of modern number theory. From 2015 to 2021, he devoted a lot of time and energy to the study of Far Abelian geometry and the IUT theory of Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki, and co-organized 4 IUT international conferences with him. In July 2022, he collaborated with Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki and three other young mathematicians to publish the first proof of the effective ABC inequality and the new proof of Fermat's theorem. He has been teaching for nearly 40 years, and has about 60 doctoral students and postdoctoral students from his research group, including a Fields Medal winner. After moving to China, the mathematics professor was particularly passionate about nurturing people. Chinese children have long been world-renowned for their performance in the International Mathematics Olympiad, but in mathematics research, especially in establishing a school that can lead academic development, more efforts are needed to achieve more good results in some internationally recognized awards for mathematical research.
Westlake University is a new type of research university organized by social forces and supported by the state, which was initiated and established in March 2015 and officially approved by the Ministry of Education on February 14, 2018.
On November 19 this year, at the "Bay Area Presidents Forum" of the parallel forum of the "2023 Xili Lake Forum", Shi Yigong, the founding president of Westlake University, mentioned that in the past seven years, Westlake University has received more than 30,000 resumes, more than 95% of which are from overseas. "Westlake University pursues the practice of only advertising and promoting overseas, and does not dig up the wall in China, so more than 90% of the 212 doctoral supervisors who have officially signed contracts are directly introduced from overseas," Shi Yigong said, Westlake University attaches more importance to the potential of young people, and the average age of all 212 doctoral supervisors is just 40 years old, and 60% are under the age of 40.
In recent months, Yaochu Jin, Humboldt Chair Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bielefeld School of Engineering in Germany, Alexey Cheskidov, former full professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, have joined Westlake University full-time.
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