- Zhu Chengbo, National University of Singapore
Chengbo Zhu is Provost’s Chair Professor of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his BSc from Zhejiang University, China in 1984, and his PhD from Yale University, USA in 1990, and joined NUS the following year. His research interests are in representation theory of Lie groups. Together with his collaborators, he has contributed to the branching problem of smooth representations, the theory of local theta correspondence, and to the understanding of a fundamental class of unitary representations known as special unipotent representations. Professor Zhu was the President of the Singapore Mathematical Society from 2009-2012, and served as the Head of the Department of Mathematics at NUS from 2014-2020. He has actively participated in scientific and regional cooperation events in Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Professor Zhu is a fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science, and an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2022.
- Nguyen Huu Hoi, The Ohio State University, USA
Nguyen Huu Hoi was born and raised in Quang Ngai, Vietnam. He completed his PhD in 2010 at Rutgers University, under the guidance of Prof. Van H. Vu. After spending a few years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, he joined The Ohio State University in 2013. His interests include Discrete Mathematics and Probability. He was a Von Neumann fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2016, and a Simons fellow in 2023. Nguyen Huu Hoi was awarded an NSF CAREER grant in 2018.
- Alex Lubotzky, The Hebrew University, Israel
Alex Lubotzky is a Professor of Mathematics at Weizmann Institute and Weil Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University.
Lubotzky is a mathematician working mainly in group theory and its connections with number theory, geometry, combinatorics and computer science. He has published over 160 papers, 1 textbook, 3 research books (two of which received the Ferran Sunyer I Balaguer Prize – an international prize for research books). He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2014), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005) and the Hungarian Academy of Science (2022). He has received a number of awards: the Erdos Prize (1990), the Rothschild Prize (2002), the Israel Prize (2018) and an honorary degree from the University of Chicago (2006). He has received ERC advanced grants three times (2009-2014, 2015-2020, 2021-2026). He served on various Israeli and international committees, was a member of the Israeli parliament (Knesset) 1996-1999, and the president of the Israeli Mathematical Union (2019-2020).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lubotzky
- Ulrike Tillmann, University of Oxford, UK
Ulrike Tillmann FRS has worked broadly in topology, K-theory, and non-commutative geometry. Her work on the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and manifolds of higher dimensions has been inspired by problems in quantum physics and string theory, while new challenges in data science have motivated some of her recent work.
After finishing school in Germany, Tillmann went to Brandeis University as a Wien International Scholar and studied for her PhD with Ralph Cohen at Stanford University. She then worked with Graeme Segal at Cambridge University before she took a position in Oxford where she has been a professor since 2000. Currently, she is Director of the Isaac Newton Institute and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Tillmann was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society in 2004 and the Bessel-Humboldt Forschungs Preis in 2008. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2008, an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012, and a member of the Leopoldina in 2017. She has been a founding fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and is co-director of the Centre for Topological Data Analysis, Oxford. Presently she is also President of the London Mathematical Society and a Vice-President of the International Mathematical Union.
- Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University, USA
Sergiu Klainerman is an Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. He is a PDE analyst known for his seminal contributions to the study of hyperbolic differential equations and General Relativity. He was awarded the Bocher Memorial Prize by the American Mathematical Society in 1999, and has been a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2018), a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2005), a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences (2002), and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996). He was a plenary speaker at ICMP 1991 and an invited speaker at ICM 1983. He has been an editor of the Annals of Mathematics since 2011. Homepage: https://web.math.princeton.edu/~seri/homepage/seri.htm
- Nguyen Trong Toan, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Toan T. Nguyen is a Professor of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University. He received a Bachelor's degree from Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City (2002), a Master's degree from University of Texas at San Antonio (2006), and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Indiana University (2009). He was awarded an AMS Centennial Fellowship (2018), a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics (2019), and the SIAM's T. Brooke Benjamin Prize (2022). His current research interests include hyperbolic and dispersive PDEs, fluid dynamics, kinetic theory, and general relativity.