時間：2025年7月15日（周二）下午15:15

地點：武漢大學櫻頂老圖書館

主講人：Sir John Ball 英國皇家學會會士

題目：Understanding material microstructure

主講人簡介：

John Ball教授現任職于Heriot-Watt大學及愛丁堡Maxwell數學科學研究所，英國牛津大學榮譽教授。英國皇家學會會士、歐洲科學院院士、美國數學學會會士、愛丁堡皇家學會會士、法蘭西科學院外籍院士及挪威科學院外籍院士。其重要學術任職包括：2006年擔任菲爾茲獎委員會主席，2003至2006年間出任國際數學聯盟主席，2007至2010年擔任國際數學聯盟執行委員會委員，為首屆阿貝爾獎評委會成員，曾領導愛丁堡數學學會及倫敦數學學會。2006年，英國女王伊麗莎白二世授予其爵士勛銜。John Ball教授在變分法、偏微分方程、無限維動力系統及其在非線性力學中的應用、非線性彈性力學數學理論與液晶數學理論等領域作出開創性貢獻，發表學術論文百余篇，出版多部專著，現任多家國際權威學術期刊主編及編委。

Brief Introduction of Sir John Ball

John Ball is a Professor at Heriot-Watt University and the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academia Europaea and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which he was President from 2021-2025. He is also a foreign academician of the French Academy of Sciences and the Norwegian Academy of Science and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He served as Chair of the Fields Medal Committee (2006), President of the International Mathematical Union (2003-2006), Member of the Jury of the First Abel Prize Committee, and President of both the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the London Mathematical Society. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006. He has made outstanding contributions in the fields of variational calculus, partial differential equations, infinite-dimensional dynamical systems and their applications in nonlinear mechanics, materials science and liquid crystals.

承辦單位：武漢數學與智能研究院