Year:    2009

CAM-Net Digest, Vol. 6 (2009), Iss. 19 : p. 6

Abstract

主  题： 新世界数学奖

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the International Congress of  Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) Organizing Committee, it is my  pleasure to ask you nominating the candidates for the New World Math Award  for undergraduate, Master and PhD students of Chinese descendant  around the world. Sponsored by the New World Development  Company, we establish the New World Math Award in 2007 to encourage  outstanding math students of Chinese descendant in their pursuit of  mathematical truth.

The first award has been presented in the  Fourth ICCM 2007, Hangzhou. Beginning this year, the New World Math  Award results will be announced annually, and winner will claim  their prizes in a ceremony during an ICCM. The candidates are the  undergraduate, MSc and PhD math students of Chinese descendant around the  world who have completed a thesis in 2008 or 2009.

To cover theses of 2008 and 2009, the New  World Math Award 2009 consists of the following:

(1) Undergraduate Thesis Award (no more than  4 gold prizes and 6 silver prizes),
(2) MSc Thesis Award (no more than 2 gold  prize and 2 silver prizes)
(3) PhD Thesis Award (no more than 2 gold  prizes and 4 silver prizes).

There are also 9 honorary mentions and each  recipient will receive cash prize 500 RMB. The details of the award  have been announced in the official website:
http://www.cms.zju.edu.cn/nwma/index.html

We would appreciate if you can tell your  department, colleagues and students about this award. The students  should send an application and a copy of their theses via our online  submission
http://www.cms.zju.edu.cn/nwma/index.html

A letter of recommendation should be sent to  our secretary (wx@cms.zju.edu.cn) at Zhejiang University.  A national committee will choose about thirty of such theses for an  international committee to rank. Results will be announced in December  2009. Awards will be presented in ICCM 2010.

I would like to encourage everyone to  liberally submit his/her theses for consideration before September 30, 2009.

Best regards,

Shing-Tung Yau
Chairman of ICCM