The fifth session of "Xishu·Wuli" high-level academic lecture series was successfully held in College of Mathematics and Physics on April 8th in the Qiuzhen Lecture Hall at Changping Campus. Professor Wang Yuming from Nankai University was invited to deliver an academic report titled "A Ray of Light for High-Energy Exploration". Nearly 200 participants, including graduate students, undergraduate students, and faculty members from the Changping Campus, attended the event. The report was chaired by Wang Lijun, Secretary of the Party Committee of the College of Mathematics and Physics.

Professor Wang Yuming shared insights on scientific research gleaned from the experiences of several modern masters of physics, including Peter Higgs, David Politzer, and Chen-Ning Yang. He explored the fundamental elements essential for success in basic scientific research and elaborated on the valuable opportunities for high-energy physics research in the era of large-scale scientific facilities, as well as the interplay between rigorous mathematics and physical intuition.

During the interactive session, faculty and students actively asked questions concerning the connections between mathematics and high-energy physics, scientific research methodologies, and other topics. Professor Wang patiently addressed the inquiries and, drawing from his own research experience, encouraged the audience to engage in diligent study and bold exploration. By facilitating dialogue with renowned domestic scholars, this event further fostered a strong academic atmosphere dedicated to deepening fundamental disciplines and exploring cutting-edge fields, providing valuable support for the School's talent cultivation and scientific research endeavors.

【Introduction to the expert】

Wang Yuming is a Professor at Nankai University. He is a national leading talent, recipient of the Overseas High-Level Young Talent program, and a grantee of the Tianjin Distinguished Young Scholars Fund. He has been consecutively named to Stanford University's World's Top 2% Scientists list four times (2021-2024). Professor Wang's primary research focuses on heavy quark physics and quantum chromodynamics (QCD) theory. He has published 64 papers in leading international academic journals, including Phys. Rev. Lett., with a total citation count of approximately 4,800 and an h-index of 40. Three of his papers have each been cited over 300 times (with one paper exceeding 500 citations), and his papers boast an average citation rate exceeding 70. He has achieved internationally influential research results in several frontier areas, including heavy quark physics and CP violation, QCD factorization, effective quantum field theory, higher-order radiative/power corrections, hadronic light-cone distribution amplitudes, and non-perturbative field theory techniques.