Summary of the 7th National Computational Mathematics Annual Conference

October 19th to October 23rd, 2003

The 7th National Computational Mathematics Annual Conference, sponsored by the Computational Mathematics Society of the Chinese Mathematical Society and hosted by Nanjing Normal University, was held from October 19th to 23rd, 2003, at Nanjing Normal University. Over four hundred delegates from all over the country (including Hong Kong and Macau) as well as two scholars from the United States attended the conference.

The opening ceremony was chaired by Professor Longjun Shen, Vice Chairman of the Computational Mathematics Society. Academician Zhongci Shi delivered the opening speech. Wu Ruilin, Vice Governor of Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, Zhu Bulou, Deputy Secretary-General, Ding Xiaochang, Deputy Director of Jiangsu Provincial Education Department, Liu Fusheng, Director of Jiangsu Provincial Association for Science and Technology, Professor Yongzhong Song, President of Nanjing Normal University and Vice Chairman of Jiangsu Mathematical Society, and Secretary-General Qin Hourong of the Jiangsu Mathematical Society were present at the ceremony. The ceremony also included the awarding of the 5th Feng Kang Prize for Scientific Computing, presented by Chairman Zhongci Shi and Vice Governor Wu Ruilin to Professor Tao Tang from Hong Kong Baptist College and Professor Gang Bao from Michigan State University, USA.

This computational mathematics annual conference received over two hundred academic papers, including twelve splendid keynote speeches by delegates, among them the two Feng Kang Prize winners. The conference also organized six specialized seminars on Information and Computational Science Education, Computational Methods in Applied Science, Multiscale Analysis, Optimization Methods, Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems, Generalized Inverses and Least Squares, along with 32 group report sessions. More than 250 delegates gave group presentations covering various research areas in computational mathematics, including the latest research trends and hot topics in computational mathematics theory and its applications, as well as the latest scientific computing research results in applied fields. Many senior computational mathematics experts, young computational mathematics workers, and graduate students gave brilliant academic presentations, and the delegates engaged in full academic exchanges both during and outside the conference sessions. The wide range and high quality of the conference reports marked significant progress in China's computational mathematics in terms of basic theory, applied research, and talent cultivation.

The conference also hosted a competition for outstanding young papers, with the establishment of the Young Outstanding Paper Award. After deliberation by the jury, Professor Pingwen Zhang, Vice Chairman of the Computational Mathematics Society and Director of the Youth Work Committee, announced the winners during the closing ceremony. The winners were: Jun Hu and Tiaotiao Lu, who received the first prize for the Young Outstanding Paper Award, and Yanna Di and Dr. Liwen Han, who received the second prize. Chairman Zhongci Shi, President Yongzhong Song of Nanjing Normal University, Vice Chairmen Xinghua Wang and Dehao Yu presented the winners with award certificates and souvenirs.

The 7th National Computational Mathematics Annual Conference successfully concluded on October 23rd, 2003. The delegates highly valued this rare opportunity for learning and exchange, engaging in full academic interactions both during and outside the conference sessions, and looked forward to meeting again at the university computational mathematics annual conference in two years.

The conference expressed gratitude to Nanjing Normal University for the extensive organizational work for the successful hosting of the conference and thanked the National Key Basic Research and Development Program "Research on Large-Scale Scientific Computing," Nanjing Normal University, and the Chinese Mathematical Society for their support of the conference.