CIS congratulates winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in PhysicsThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

152024-10

Statistical Physicist Leihan Tang Joins WestlakeStatistical physicist Prof. Leihan Tang joins Westlake University as a full-time chair professor of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the School of Science. He will also establish and lead the statistical physics and complex systems lab.Tang was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society."My work is to translate our curiosity about the real world into equations," Tang said.W...

192024-09

Westlake University's Yungu Campus Phase III CompletedWestlake University witnessed the completion of its Yungu Campus Phase III. The tower building, part of a state-of-the-art library, was topped off, offering a stunning view of Westlake University while encapsulating our spirit of innovation and advancement in academia.Yungu Campus Phase III is a testament to the fusion of art and academia, drawing inspiration from the shape of cells. Featuring ...

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Roundtable with Microsoft Research: How To Make AI Work for Science?The AI industry has been busy lately.OpenAI unveiled Chat GPT (GPT-4o) on May 13. Much like Samantha in the movie “Her,” GPT-4o could converse smoothly with people and appeared to show empathy.A week before that, Google DeepMind published a paper in Nature and launched the brand-new AlphaFold3, an AI model that can predict the structure of proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands and how they interact wit...

202024-05

Why Study Math? Mathematicians at Westlake University Weigh InThe first Peking University - NYU Shanghai - Westlake University Probability Theory Conference, lasting three days, recently took place at the Westlake University Yungu Campus. In attendance were experts and scholars from the organizing institutions as well as from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Hong Kong University of Science...

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Westlake University Adds Math, AI as New Undergraduate MajorsWestlake University added to its 2024 undergraduate admissions catalog Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence as new undergraduate majors. Students can now choose from a total of seven undergraduate majors, including the original five offerings of Biological Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Electronic Information Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering.(1) Math...

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