Hundreds of science enthusiasts had a blast on Saturday at NYU Shanghai by envisioning the future world with leading researchers from the most cutting-edge frontiers of life science and artificial intelligence.
Event Highlights
On Tuesday, Professor Alain-Sol Sznitman from the ETH Zurich, a renowned mathematician, member of the Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, delivered a riveting lecture titled “On Disconnection and Level Sets” at the NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Justice Samuel Alito shared his judicial philosophy and life as a judge on the US's highest court.
NYU’s President-Designate, Andrew Hamilton, visited NYU Shanghai this week as part of a sequence of visits to meet his new colleagues at NYU’s degree granting campuses in Shanghai and Abu Dhabi.
November 7-8, 2015 - NYU Shanghai students hosted the 2nd HackShanghai 2015 (Hack上海), attracting 250 students from top schools, including Harvard, MIT and Tsinghua to the intense 24 hour marathon coding competition.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 -- Vice Chancellor Lehman hosted a lunchtime talk with Michael Spence, professor of economics at NYU Stern and a recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for work on the dynamics of information flows and market development.
From June 8-10, 2015, NYU Shanghai hosted the International Conference on Mathematics of Nonlinearity in Neural and Physical Science, bringing together some of the world’s top researchers to discuss and understand the role of nonlinearity in neural and physical science.
On January 29, prominent NYU neuroscientist Paul Glimcher lectured on how incorporating neurobiological constraints can rationalize human choice behavior.
On November 27, 2014, NYU Shanghai celebrated the launch of its Volatility Institute.
On October 27, 2014 Peter Blair Henry, Dean of New York University’s Leonard N.
On October 7, the United States Ambassador to China Max Baucus gave a talk at NYU Shanghai. This was his first event with students since assuming the Ambassadorship in March. Students from NYU Shanghai as well as East China Normal University (ECNU) attended the talk.
NYU Shanghai kicked off its “Conversations with the Vice Chancellor” series on November 12, with featured guests Wang Shi and Dr. Wang Jian.
On the evening of September 12th, Dr. James Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, visited NYU Shanghai to address the students. He spoke about the interdependence of nations and the need for international cooperation to solve the world’s most pressing issues.