On August 30, at the invitation of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Professor Zhang Yitang, a famous Chinese mathematician and Chief Scientist of the Research Center for Applied Mathematics of the Hong Kong Advanced Institute of Science and Technology of Sun Yat-sen University, gave an academic lecture titled "the Landau-Siegel Zero Problem: History and Recent Progress". Professor Xu Haiyang, President of NENU, and Professor Chang Qing, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of NENU, attended the event. More than 100 people joined the event, including the leaders of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, secondary school students from the Secondary Schools of Excellence Program, as well as the teachers and students from NENU.The event was hosted by Xu Haiyang.
(From News Center, translated by Kong Shanshan, revised by Qiu Yunlong)