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The University of Macau (UM) lately held the International Workshop on Scientific Computing and Matrix Analysis in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Macao SAR. UM Rector Wei Zhao initiated the workshop with an inspiring speech, and updated attendees on the current situation of UM and the prospect of the new campus. He also committed to developing UM into a world-class, comprehensive university that meets President Hu Jintao’s expectation summarized with five “first-rates”.
The workshop was organized by the research group of scientific computing of the Mathematics Department of UM. In recent years, the group achieved substantial results in the field of scientific computing under the leadership of Prof. Xiao-Qing Jin, who was invited to give a 45-minute talk at the 4th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in 2007. In the same year, the world-renowned SIAM Press published a monograph co-authored by Prof. Jin and Raymond H. Chan. It was the first time that SIAM had ever published any work by a scholar from the “four cross-strait districts” (namely, the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan). In 2008 Dr. Seak-Weng Vong and Prof. Jin proved the famous Böttcher-Wenzel conjecture. Mr. Ying-Ying Zhang, a PhD student of Prof. Jin, was awarded the EASIAM Student Paper Prize at the 4th EASIAM conference. More recently, a paper jointly authored by Dr. Hai-Wei Sun and his graduate students Spike T. Lee and Hong-Kui Pang was accepted by theSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, one of the world’s leading journals in computational mathematics.
