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 Mondragone9:45 – 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 Department9:30 – 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 |