Ferroelectric (FE) materials, showing switchable electrical polarizations under external electric fields, have shown great potential in applications of non-volatile memories, field-effect transistors, transducers, actuators, and other devices.

On September 26, 2022, the 2022 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition winners were announced.

Causal order is the basic concept for us to comprehend the world, which is also the basis of time. It plays a crucial role in our cognition, allowing us to determine the cause of certain events, make scientific predictions for the future, and choose reasonable action to achieve the goal.

On September 8, 2022, Prof. Raymond Chan from Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong was invited to the 83th Science Lecture of College of Science, SUSTech. He gave a lecture themed “Sparsity—The Beauty of Less is More”, which was chaired by Prof. Qiman Shao, head of Department of Statistics and Data Science, Southern University of Science and Technology.

On September 14, the University held a grand professorship conferment ceremony to welcome Professor Efim Zelmanov.

Xue Qikun, China’s first Fritz London Memorial Prize winner, highlighted the role of basic research for achieving China’s scientific and technological advancements when delivering an online report to an international conference in Japan recently.