MathPolo 2025
A Mathematical Bridge Between Nanjing and Rome
Rome, October 2-3, 2025

 

Following in the footsteps of Marco Polo, this workshop seeks to foster mathematical collaboration and exchange between China and Italy. It will showcase research from the Mathematics Departments of Nanjing University (China) and University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy).

 

Thursday, October 2

Villa Mondragone
9:45 – 10:30 Welcome coffee and opening
10:30 – 11:15 Eleonora Di Nezza, Special metrics in Kähler geometry
11:15 – 12:00 Pengfei Huang, Some steps toward general nonabelian Hodge correspondence
12:00 – 12:15 Break
12:15 – 13:00 Carlangelo Liverani, Heat equation from a deterministic dynamics
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 15:15 Hao Zhu, The onset of instability for zonal stratospheric flows
15:15 – 16:00 Piermarco Cannarsa, Singularities in Hamilton-Jacobi equations: A story of mathematical collaboration between Nanjing and Tor Vergata
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:15 Wei Wei, k-Yamabe problem and its related Sobolev inequalities

Friday, October 3

Aula Dal Passo, Mathematics Department
9:30 – 10.00 Welcome coffee
10:00 – 10:45 Xuezhang Chen, The strong Green function rigidity conjecture
10:45 – 11:30 Hendrik Speleers, On the power of smoothness in isogeometric analysis
11:30 – 11:45 Break
11:45 – 12:30 Hua Qiu, Brownian motions and Dirichlet forms on self-similar fractals
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:45 Stefano Vigogna, Understanding neural networks with reproducing kernel Banach spaces
14:45 – 15:30 Liyuan Cao, How sampling distribution affects gradient-free optimization
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45 Martina Lanini, Equivariant localisation in representation theory
16:45 – 17:00 Closing