On October 17, which marks the 105th anniversary of Nankai University, an online exchange activity "Meeting with the Chair of Stanford Mathematics Department Prof. András Vasy" was held at Shiing-Shen Building. This event was facilitated by Wenzhong Zhang, a Distinguished Professor and tenured member of the Board of Trustees of Nankai University, Chairman of Nankai Alumni Business Association, and the founder of Wumart Group and Dmall Inc., attended by Chengming Bai, the Vice President of Nankai University, Yiming Long, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor at CIM, and Haibing Zhou, a tenured member of the Board of Trustees of Nankai University and Co-Chair of Nankai Alumni Business Association, and presided over by Wenzhong Zhang.

The event was also attended by over 200 faculty members and students from the Chern Institute of Mathematics (CIM), School of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Combinatorics and School of Statistics and Data Science of Nankai University, together with the representatives of the winners of Chinese Mathematical Olympiad.

Yiming Long introduced the history of Nankai's mathematics discipline since its foundation, and the outstanding mathematicians that used to study at Nankai University.

Chengming Bai, on behalf of the NKU mathematics discipline, expressed heartfelt thanks to Wenzhong Zhang and Stanford mathematics department for their strong support. He stressed that this event builds a great cooperation platform for NKU and Stanford, and will promote in-depth communication and collaboration between the two sides. It is expected that in the future NKU and Stanford mathematics will develop deeper friendship, conduct more concrete cooperation, and contribute more to the development of mathematics.

András Vasy, the Chair of Stanford Mathematics Department, welcomed NKU's students to apply to Stanford's Mathematics PhD Program, and introduced the experts from Stanford who attended this online meeting, including Prof. Jonathan Wing-hong Luk, a scholar of analysis and partial differential equation; Prof. Jan Vondrák, a scholar of probability and combinatorial theories; Prof. Richard Taylor, a scholar of number theory, and Prof. Yakov Eliashberg, a winner of Wolf Prize and a scholar of symplectic geometry and topology.

During the Q&A session presided over by Shaoming Guo, a Chair Professor of CIM, Nankai University, professors from Stanford gave detailed answers to students' questions. Haibing Zhou mentioned in his speech that he and Wenzhong Zhang will do more to support the development of mathematical sciences in the future.

Attendees of this event also included the heads of CIM, School of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Combinatorics and School of Statistics and Data Science of Nankai University.