Speaker: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto) Alexander Bird (University of Cambridge) Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford)Time: August 23-24, 2025Venue: New Sun Student Center, Room 210Abstract: The objective of the Peking University Intern...

Peking University and the University of Chicago have a longstanding and well-established history of cooperation and exchange as strategic partners. In 2019, Peking University Chicago Center was registered in the U.S., becoming the first overseas center establi...

Time: June 16 - 20, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Lecture Hall, Jiayibing Building, Jingchun Garden 82, BICMR, PKUAbstract:Geometric group theory is a relatively new research field devoted to the study of the geometry of finitely generated groups and became a clearly iden...

Speaker: Fabrizio Catanese (Universität Bayreuth)Time: 16:00-17:00 p.m., Jun 3, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Room 77201, Jingchunyuan 78, BICMR, PKUAbstract:In the beginning, elementary, part I shall explain some basic notions about binary codes, vector spaces over the f...

Eligibility Criteria:Applicants for the PKU Summer School International 2025 should fulfill the following requirements:• Be between the ages of 18 and 50 (inclusive) and be in good health;• Be currently attending college/university;• Academic records that meet...

Speaker: Julia Adams, Margaret H. Marshall Professor of Sociology, Yale UniversityAt Yale she has chaired the Department of Sociology and the Council of Heads of College. In 2014-24, Adams was the last Master of Yale’s Calhoun College and the first Head of Gra...

Speaker: Prof. Tao Min, Nanjing UniversityTime: 13:30-14:30 p.m., May 28, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Room 109, Zhihua Building, PKUAbstract:In this talk, we introduce three classes of challenging optimization problems, analyze their interconnections, and reveal their i...

Speaker: Miles A. Reid FRS (University of Warwick)Time: 16:00-17:00 p.m., May 27, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Room 77201, Jingchunyuan 78, BICMR, PKUAbstract:The family denoted D_n is a main trunk of the classification of simple algebraic groups. For n >= 5, D_n corr...

Speaker: Fabrizio Hochschild-Drummond Former UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General Liu Qiao Dean, Professor of Finance, Guanghua School of Management, Peking UniversityTime: 13:30-16:00, May 24, 2025Venue: R...

Speaker: Donglin Bai, Ph.D, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, the University of Western OntarioTime: 10:00-11:00 a.m., May 23, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Room B106, Lui Che-woo Building, PKUAbstract:Most early studies on gap junction (G」) channel function and...

Speaker: Ivan Tomašić (Queen Mary University of London)Time: 14:00-15:00 p.m., May 22, 2025, GMT+8Venue: Room 77201, Jingchunyuan 78, BICMRAbstract:Differential and difference algebra were founded by Ritt and his students Kolchin and Cohn in the 1950s as the s...

Speaker: Çağlar ÖzdenDeputy Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa, World BankChair: Lei XiaoyanProfessor, Chair of the management council, National School of Development, Peking UniversityTime: 13:30 – 15:00, May 20Venue: Room 420, NSD, PKUAbstract: Th...