Recently, Prof.Yang CHEN, a Professor of Mathematics in Department of Mathematics of University of Macau (UM) visited the Institute for Advanced Study.

Yang Chen is currently a Professor of Mathematics in Department of Mathematics, Universityof Macau (UM). Prof. Chen got his BSc degree from National University ofSingapore in 1981, followed by his master degree from Illinois Institute ofTechnology in 1983, a PhD degree from University of Massachusetts in 1987.After that, he did postdoctoral research work at Cavendish Laboratory and Karlsruhe University. From 1992 to 2012, Prof. Chen worked at Imperial College London and served as professor from 2003. He was awarded as the Chang JiangScholar of Ministry of Education in 2005. In 2012, Prof. Chen was appointed asa Professor of Mathematics in Department of Mathematics, University of Macau(UM). He has served as founding editor and editorial board member for Random Matrices: Theory and Applications and Member of Advisory Board for Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. The research interests of Prof. Chen lieon General Relativity, Statistical Mechanics of Polymers, Associated ElectronicSystems, Random Matrix Theory and Orthogonal Polynomials. Prof. Chen currently studies on Random matrix theory and the relevant orthogonal polynomials. Prof.Chen has published 114 papers in international journals, such as J.Func.Anal.,Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. and Phys. Rev. Lett.

On January 11,2019, invited by Research Scientist Chengfa Wu, Prof. Yang CHEN, gave a lectureat Conference Room 207 at Office Building, titled “Smallest eigenvalues oflarge Hankel matrices at Critical point: Comparing a conjecture withparallelized computation”. Over 20 faculty and students attended the meeting, including Prof. Steven F. Chen, the Dean of IAS, Dr. Yang Wei, the assistant Dean of IAS, Prof. Jingsong He.

In this talk, Prof. Yang CHEN compare a conjecture (Chen-Lawrence) on the smallest eigenvalue of the Hankel form generated by the weight

With the numerical computation on the smallest eigenvalues, obtained from the HPCC of the University of Macau. HPCC= High Performance Computing Cluster. Hankel matrix

After the report, faculty and students from IAS had stimulating discussions with Prof. Yang Chen for scientific problems.