SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (SKKU), SEOUL, KOREA


January-February, 2018 Vol. 1
Worldwide
  • "SKKU, A University Always Ahead of Its Time" by Nature
  • Rector of RWTH Aachen University Visits SKKU
  • SKKU Holds Southeast Asia Sungkyun Writing Contest
Discovery
  • SKKU Ranks No.2 in Korean University Rankings by JoongAng Daily
  • SKKU Ranks 200th in U.S. News & World Report's 2018 Global University Rankings
  • SKKU Ranks 1st Korean Private Comprehensive University in the 2018 Asia University Rankings
  • SKK GSB Ranked as No. 1 MBA Program in Korea and No. 54 in the World by FT
Top Schools
  • H.E. Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, Speaker of the Mexican Senate, Gives Special Lecture at SKKU
  • The 5th Korea-Russia Rector's Forum
  • SKKU-Leiden Joint Forum Successfully Held on Jan 31st
  • AORC Signs MOU with the Center for Combinatorics at Nankai University and the Center for Applied Mathematics
Leading Alumni in a Global Society
  • New Year's Message from SKKU President CHUNG Kyu-sang
Leading Alumni in a Global Society
  • Noticeable Articles Recently Published in Journals
Leading Alumni in a Global Society
  • 2017 Graduate School of China 一帶一路 Long March
  • SKKU Receives Best Students Project Award at IETF Hackathon 2017
  • Capstone Design Team Wins Gold Medal at 2017 iENA
Leading Alumni in a Global Society
  • 647 International Students Newly Entered SKKU in Fall 2017
AORC Signs MOU with the Center for Combinatorics at Nankai University and the Center for Applied Mathematics

In the fields of big data and artificial intelligence, which are leading the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the importance of algorithms and optimization theory has been increasing. With the objective of leading this field, on October 23rd at Tianjin University in China, the SKKU Applied Algebra and Optimization Research Center (AORC) held a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony with the Center for Combinatorics at Nankai University and the Center for Applied Mathematics at Tianjin University.

With the growing importance of combinatorics and graph theory in algorithms and optimization theory, Prof. CHEON Gi-sang, Director of SKKU's AORC and a professor in the SKKU Department of Mathematics, and Prof. William Y. CHEN, Director of the two research centers in China, intend to foster the development of joint research areas in combinatorics and graph theory through this academic exchange agreement.

Nankai University was founded in 1919 in Tianjin as the first private university in China. After it became a public university, it became famous for producing the first Premier of China, Enlai ZHOU, and the world-renowned mathematician Shiing-Shen CHERN. The Center for Combinatorics at Nankai University, established by Prof. W. Y. CHEN in 1997 with the support of the city of Tianjin, has consistently received government support and grown to become a global research center. Currently, 12 full-time faculty members, along with many visiting researchers and graduate students, are actively conducting research at the center. In particular, the journal "Annals of Combinatorics", which was founded at the same time the center was established, is now the leading SCI journal in the field of combinatorics.

The Center for Applied Mathematics at Tianjin University was founded in 2012 according to the proposal of Prof. S.-S. CHERN and with the support of the Tianjin City Government. Prof. W. Y. CHEN has been the director since the center was established. There are 50 full-time faculty members at the center who are actively conducting research in applied fields of mathematics, and more than 50 additional faculty members are expected to be recruited within the next few years. The center's goal is to become a world-class applied mathematics research institute and facilitate the application of mathematics to scientific and practical problems.


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