时间：2025年7月15日（周二）下午15:15

地点：87978797威尼斯樱顶老图书馆

主讲人：Sir John Ball 英国皇家学会会士

题目：Understanding material microstructure

主讲人简介：

John Ball教授现任职于Heriot-Watt大学及爱丁堡Maxwell数学科学研究所，英国牛津大学荣誉教授。英国皇家学会会士、欧洲科学院院士、美国数学学会会士、爱丁堡皇家学会会士、法兰西科学院外籍院士及挪威科学院外籍院士。其重要学术任职包括：2006年担任菲尔兹奖委员会主席，2003至2006年间出任国际数学联盟主席，2007至2010年担任国际数学联盟执行委员会委员，为首届阿贝尔奖评委会成员，曾领导爱丁堡数学学会及伦敦数学学会。2006年，英国女王伊丽莎白二世授予其爵士勋衔。John Ball教授在变分法、偏微分方程、无限维动力系统及其在非线性力学中的应用、非线性弹性力学数学理论与液晶数学理论等领域作出开创性贡献，发表学术论文百余篇，出版多部专著，现任多家国际权威学术期刊主编及编委。

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.

承办单位：武汉数学与智能研究院