On October 23, 2023, Prof. Patrick Y. S. Lam from the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute was invited to the 131st Science Lecture in the College of Science. He gave a lecture themed “From World's Best-Selling Small-Molecule Drug (Eliquis) to a Powerful Chinese Name Reaction (Chan-Lam-Coupling)”.

On October 24, the American Physical Society (APS) announced that Qikun XUE, President of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Chair Professor of College of Science(SUSTech), Professor of Tsinghua University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has received the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize (Oliver E. Buckley Prize) in recognition of his achievements in the fields related to topological insulators and the quantum anomalous Hall effect.

On October 9, 2023, Prof. Marisa Kozlowski from the University of Pennsylvania was invited to the 128th Science Lecture in the College of Science.

Junxin GUO, Research Assistant Professor of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), won the C.F. Ying (Chongfu Ying) Award for Young Ultrasonics Scholars.

In the field of mathematical physics, the mathematical foundation of quantum mechanics is based on the celebrated Dirac-Von Neumann axioms, which consists of Hilbert spaces and the algebra of operators acting on the Hilbert spaces. Since the phase space of a classical mechanical system is described mathematically as a symplectic manifold, the quantization of a symplectic manifold became one of the central topics in the study of symplectic geometry.