Xueming YANG, Acting Vice President of SUSTech and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Jiping ZHANG, Director of the SUSTech International Center for Mathematics and Academician of the CAS, spoke about their respective academic journeys with the theme of the event entitled “In Search of Excellence”.

Recently, Hai-Zhou LU, Chair Professor of the Department of Physics at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), was awarded the 2021 Achievement in Asia Award (AAA Robert T. Poe Prize) by the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers (OCPA) in recognition for his pioneering explorations on the theories of emergent quantum Hall effects.

Professor Xiaofei Chen’s team from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has recently published their findings on an anisotropic tomographic model showing that anisotropy in the forearc segment of the slab is well consistent with the feature caused by the subducted hydrated faults.

Dispersion means that waves have different propagation velocities at different frequencies. Dispersion curve inversion is an important technique in seismology to detect the inner structure of the earth. The traditional dispersion curve usually refers to the normal mode dispersion curve extracted from Rayleigh or Love surface waves. In addition to the normal modes occupying the main energy in the seismic wave, the leaky (leaking) mode of weak energy also exhibits dispersion.

Recently, Clarivate Analytics released its latest Essential Science Indicators (ESI) ranking data. The Physics discipline of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) entered the top 1% of ESI in the world for the first time, making it the University’s sixth discipline on the list, following Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering, Clinical Medicine, and Environment/Ecology.

Associate Professor Yanqing Hu’s research group from the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) recently published a research article that proposes a new percolation model with an indirect influence mechanism. Through the statistical analysis of empirical data on collaboration behaviors of scientists, it is found that indirect collaborators have a more important influence on the changes of their research fields. And based on this empirical phenomenon, an induced percolation model for behavioral propagation is proposed.