On April 16th and 17th, the “Conference on Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations of Fractional Order” was held at Room 401 of the Administrative Building by the Department of Mathematics of SUSTech. Proposed by the CAS academician Professor Guo Boling, this conference was aimed to communicate recent advances and to exchange new ideas in the field of Partial Differential Equations of Fractional Order. The organizing committee comprised of five faculty members of Dept. of Mathematics, who are Prof. Tao TANG, Zhihong Jeff XIA and Xuefeng WANG, Associate Prof. Jingzhi LI, and Assistant Prof. Linlin SU.

    At 8:30 am, the conference was inaugurated and Prof. Zhihong Jeff Xia, the Head of Dept. of Mathematics, made the opening remarks. He gave the participants an overview of the department and elaborated on its development, followed by Vice President Tao TANG’s address. With great expectations for the Department of Mathematics, Tao TANG expressed his hope for the participants to kindly introduce SUSTech and Dept. of Mathematics to a great many prominent talents.

Vice President Tao TANG Addressing the Audience

    Professor Zhihong Jeff XIA, Head of Dept. of Mathematics

    This conference has attracted scores of domestic researchers in the field of PDEs research, who were from a plurality of universities and research institutions including Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (Beijing), Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of CAS, Sun Yat-Sen University, Xiamen University, Jilin University, Capital Normal University, South China University of Technology, and South China Normal University, etc. In the two-day conference, there were altogether 18 participants giving lectures, starting by Prof. Guo Boling’s speech. During and after the sessions, the participants have had quite inspiring talks and discussions.

Professor Guo Boling and Younger Researchers

    The conference was highly acclaimed by all the participants. After the conference, the participants took a picture together.