On June 9, the award ceremony for the 15th S.-T. Yau College Student Mathematics Contest was held at Tsinghua University. Tsinghua students excelled in the contest, securing the Individual Overall Award gold and silver medals, as well as six gold, nine silver and 14 bronze medals, totaling 29 awards.

Tsinghua University President Li Luming, Chief Chair of the competition, Director of Tsinghua’s Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, and Dean of Qiuzhen College Shing-Tung Yau, President of the Chinese Mathematical Society and Vice-President of ShanghaiTech University Xi Nanhua, Vice-President of the China Association of Higher Education Jiang Enlai, and Fields Medalist and Tsinghua University Professor Caucher Birkar, attended the award ceremony.

Tsinghua Qiuzhen College students won 25 Individual Awards. Wang Zichang and Yang Yicheng, undergraduates who enrolled in 2021 both won the Individual Overall Award gold medal "Shing-Tung Yau Award" and the Individual Award gold medal "Shiing-Shen Chern Award". Zuo Junchi, an undergraduate who enrolled in 2021, won the Individual Overall Award silver medal "Shing-Tung Yau Award" and the Individual Award gold medal "Hua Luogeng Award". Cai Ziyue, an undergraduate who enrolled in 2022, won the Individual Award gold medal "Chia-Chiao Lin Award".

Wang Zichang (second from right) and Yang Yicheng (third from right) receive their awards.

This year’s competition saw over 3,000 students from more than 500 universities registering for the individual events, while 43 teams registered for the team competition. A total of 103 individual contestants and nine teams made it to the finals.

Editor: Li Han