Tsinghua Mathcamp 2016
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them. - Galileo.
The Tsinghua Mathcamp is a summer camp for mathematically talented and strongly motivated secondary school students from all across China. A highly selected group of students will be invited to join a four-week rigorous program to explore the art of creative problem solving with masters. Mathcamp will also offer a great opportunity for students to work on research projects through collaborative discoveries guided by their coaches and teachers.
This year’s Mathcamp promises to be especially exciting because two of the most important international conferences will be held in Beijing this summer. String 2016, where the world’s leading expert in string theory and related subjects will gather and present their latest findings, and the triannial International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, or the 2016 ICCM, where foremost mathematicians will be nominated by their international colleagues to present their research, will take place in August. In addition, Mathcampers will be invited to celebrate the achievements of mathematical brothers and sisters at the 2016 Yau College Mathematics Competition Award Ceremony. Mathcampers will be given a front row seat to witness these exciting events!
The 2016 Mathcamp will be held on the Tsinghua University campus in Bejing. The camp is primarily sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Tsinghua University, and the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center.
- • Time: the 4-week camp runs during July 17 – August 13, 2016.
- • Place: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing
- • Mathcamp activities: our curriculum is expected to have two parallel tracks, with focus on theoretical and applied subjects respectively. Each track will run three 1 1 2-hour classes every weekday conducted by research mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists; in addition, we have a 2-3-hour daily discussion session in small groups led by coaches, who are advanced undergraduate or graduate students recruited from China and the U.S.; all classes and discussions are expected to be conducted in English, though Chinese may be used through an interpreter occasionally. Highlights of the camp feature guest lectures by of world-renowned mathematicians. In addition, Mathcamp may organize weekend excursions to famous institutions and historical attractions in Beijing.
- • Subjects: our courses are expected to cover a range of topics from Linear Algebra, Galois Theory, Number Theory, Algebraic Combinatorics, Analysis and Topology, Computer Imaging, Probability Theory and Statistics, and Computational Mathematics.
- • Selection criteria: students are selected on a competitive basis from a group of students nominated by some of the top high schools across China prior to the Mathcamp. About sixty of the best students, usually aged 15-17, will be invited to the camp.
- • Tuition fees: as in the last two year, admission to the Mathcamp will be offered free of charge to all qualified students.
Tsinghua Mathcamp 2016 Personnel Directory
July 17 – August 13, 2016
Unless exceptions noted, office numbers are in the Tsinghua Univ. Mathematical Sciences Building 清华大学理科楼数学科学系. YMSC refers to the Yau Mathematical Science Center 丘成桐数学科学中心 located in the Jin Chun Yuan West Building.
| Camp organizers: | |
| External organizer: | |
| Prof. Bong Lian 连文豪 | Rm A230, lian@brandeis.edu |
| Brandeis University | |
| Local organizers: | |
| Prof. Shiu-Yuen Cheng 郑绍远 | YMSC Rm 134, macheng@ust.hk |
| Hong Kong UST & Tsinghua YMSC | |
| Prof. Jun Ye 叶俊 | Rm A211, jye@math.tsinghua.edu.cn |
| Tsinghua University | |
| Prof. Jie Xiao 肖杰 | Rm 314, jxiao@math.tsinghua.edu.cn |
| Tsinghua University | |
| Camp administrative staff members: | |
| Ms. Xinpai Chen 陈新湃, weeks 1-2 | Rm B201, xpchen@math.tsinghua.edu.cn, 6277-2984 |
| Tsinghua University | |
| Ms. Xiujuan Yu 于秀娟, weeks 3-4 | Rm A228, xyu@math.tsinghua.edu.cn, 6279-8384 |
| Tsinghua University | |
| Lecturers and Coaches: | |
| Linear algebra: | |
| Prof. Bong Lian 连文豪, Lecturer | Rm A230, lian@brandeis.edu |
| Brandeis University | |
| Chenlong Yu 余成龙, Coach | yucl@math.harvard.edu |
| Harvard University | |
| Xin Zhao 赵鑫, Coach | zhao-x15@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn |
| Tsinghua University |
| Algebraic Combinatorics: | |
| Prof. Erik Carlsson, Lecturer, weeks 3-4 | Rm TBA, erikcarlsson17@gmail.com |
| University of California at Davis | |
| Prof. An Huang 黄岸, Lecturer, weeks 1-2 | Rm TBA, anhuang@math.harvard.edu |
| Brandeis University | |
| Duncan Levear, Coach | dlevear@brandeis.edu |
| Brandeis University | |
| Yuanlong Song 宋元龙, Coach | jlcsyl@sina.com |
| Tsinghua University |
| Analysis and Topology: | |
| Prof. Siu-Cheong Lau 刘绍昌, Lecturer | Rm TBA, lau@math.bu.edu |
| Boston University | |
| Yiting Li 李一霆, Coach | yitingli@brandeis.edu |
| Brandeis University | |
| Senping Luo 罗森平, Coach | luosp1989@163.com |
| Tsinghua University |
| Lecturers and Coaches: | |
| Computer Science: | |
| Prof. Jie Gao 高杰, Lecturer | Rm TBA, jgao@cs.stonybrook.edu |
| Stony Brook University | |
| Jiaxin Ding 丁家昕, Coach | jiading@cs.stonybrook.edu |
| Stony Brook University | |
| Hongyan Li 李洪姗, Coach | lhsusan1016@163.com |
| Tsinghua University |
| Computational Mathematics: | |
| Prof. Yanlai Chen 陈焱来, Lecturer | Rm TBA, yanlai.chen@umassd.edu |
| University of Massachusette at Dartmouth | |
| Bingyu Zhao, Coach | Bingyu_Zhao@brown.edu |
| Brown University | |
| Jinzhi Huang 黄金枝, Coach | huangjz15@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn |
| Tsinghua University |
| Probability and Statistics: | |
| Prof. Paul Horn 保罗·霍恩, Lecturer | Rm TBA, paul.horn@du.edu |
| Denver University | |
| Adam Purcilly, Coach | adam.purcilly@du.edu |
| Denver University | |
| Lishan Yu 余丽珊, Coach | yls15@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn |
| Tsinghua University |
| Mathcamp IT & Webpage Managers: | |
| Xiaopeng Zheng 郑晓朋 | 490290756@qq.com |
| Tsinghua University | |
| Wei Chen 陈伟 | chenwei19861027@gmail.com |
| Tsinghua University |
Tsinghua Mathcamp 2016
Camp Program Schedules
| Week 0: | |
| Jul 17 Sun 9:00-12:00 | Campers registration on 1st floor1 |
| Jul 17 Sun 14:00-15:00 | Welcome ceremony at the Cheng Yu-tung Auditorium 郑裕彤讲堂 |
| Jul 17 Sun 15:00-15:30 | Refreshments on 1st floor lounge |
| Jul 17 Sun 15:30-17:00 | Campers orientation in Rm 112, Math Department. |
| Week 1: | |
| Jul 18-22 Mon-Fri | First week of regular lectures and tutorials |
| Jul 22 Fri 17:00-18:00 | Mathcamp Colloquium by Prof. Shing-Tung Yau 丘成桐 Harvard Univ. & Tsinghua YMSC Lecture (in Chinese) at the Westgate Amphitheater 西阶教室 Title: Developments of Basic Sciences in China 中国基础科学发展 |
| Jul 25 Sun 18:30 | The 2016 Yau College Mathematics Competition Award Ceremony |
| Week 2: | |
| Jul 25-29 Mon-Fri | Second week of regular lectures and tutorials |
| Jul 28 Thu 16:30-17:30 | Mathcamp Colloquium by Prof. Ye Tian 田野, Chinese Academy of Sc. 中科院 Lecture (in English) at the Cheng Yu-tung Auditorium 郑裕彤讲堂 Title: Rational points on plane curves 平面曲线上的有理数点 |
| Jul 30-31 Sat-Sun | Visit to Great Wall & Tsinghua Univ. Shan-Bao Resort |
| Week 3: | |
| Aug 1,3-5,7 Mon,Wed-Fri,Sun | Third week of regular lectures and tutorials |
| Aug 2 Tue | Tsinghua Entrance Exam; no classes or tutorials |
| Aug 2 Tue 18:30-19:30 | Public Lecture by Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute for Advanced Study Lecture (in English) at the Auditorium 大礼堂 Title: Negative Branes, Supergroups and the Signature of Spacetime 反膜, 超群与时空符号 |
| Aug 2 Tue 17:30-20:30 | Public Lecture by Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study Lecture (in English) at the Auditorium 大礼堂 Title: TBA |
| Aug 3 Mon | Campers sign up for research projects |
| Aug 4 Thu 16:30-17:30 | Mathcamp Colloquium, Prof. Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University Lecture (in English) at the Tsinghua Main Building 主楼后厅 Title: Physics & Geometry 物理与几何 |
| Aug 6 Sat | The 2016 International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians |
| Week 4: | |
| Aug 8-12 Mon-Fri | Fourth week of regular lectures and tutorials |
| Aug 13 Sat all day | Rm 112, Research Project Reports and Presentations by Campers |
| Aug 13 Sat evening | Mathcamp adjourns |
| Weekday regular | |
| lectures & tutorials:2 | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Algebraic Combinatorics & Computer science |
| 10:45 - 12:15 | Linear Algebra & Probability/Statistics |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch break |
| 13:15 - 14:45 | Analysis/Topology & Computational Mathematics |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Recess |
| 15:00 - 17:45 | Homework tutorials & research project discussions3 |
| 17:45 - 19:00 | Dinner & free activities |
- 1 Campers to bring student and personal ID documentations.
- 2 All classes and tutorials are expected to be conducted in English.
- 3 On days a Mathcamp colloquium or another special event is scheduled, this interval will be shortened accordingly to accommodate event.