Professor Ta-Tsien LI (CAS member) was invited to give a 45-minute address at the 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2015), to be held in Beijing, China. He was awarded the ICIAM Su Buchin Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions to applied mathematics and to the dissemination of mathematical sciences in developing countries. His work was introduced in the opening ceremony by the CAS member Yaxiang YUAN on behalf of ICIAM. 

Professor Ta-Tsien LI made an invited presentation in the morning of the next day.

The International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, held every four years, is one of the largest and the most prestigious conferences in the field of industrial and applied mathematics. The year 2015 witnessed the number of participants and reports hit a record high. It is reported that more than 3100 delegates from 70 countries and regions participated in ICIAM 2015 whose program included a public lecture, 27 invited lectures, more than 2900 reports and around 300 posters.

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