On the morning of November 30, 2019, the Academy of Statistics and Interdisciplinary Sciences of East China Normal University was inaugurated. Tong Shijun, Secretary of the Party committee of East China Normal University, Ma Zhiming, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yang Shanlin, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, Guo Jianhua, vice president of Northeast Normal University, etc. jointly unveiled the research institute.
In order to further promote the coordinated development of multi-disciplines, the Academy of Statistics and Interdisciplinary Sciences of East China Normal University was officially inaugurated on the morning of November 30, 2019, and the 2019 cross science academic frontier seminar was held at the same time.
The establishment of the Academy of Statistics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (ASIS) of East China Normal University aims to develop statistics and related interdisciplinary subjects, innovate and develop the frontier theories and methods of interdisciplinary subjects, and promote the interdisciplinary integration and development of other disciplines in East China Normal University, such as statistics, economics, business administration, public management, library and information.
ASIS will take the national and local strategic needs as the main discipline to carry out its frontier research.
Tong Shijun, Secretary of the Party committee of East China Normal University, Ma Zhiming, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the Academy of Sciences for developing countries and researcher of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yang Shanlin, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering and professor of Hefei University of Technology, Chen Xiaohong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and President of Hunan University of Technology and Business, Wang Shouyang, academician of the Academy of Sciences for developing countries and academician of the International Academy of Systems and Control Sciences, distinguished researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and others attended the meeting. The opening ceremony of the seminar and the unveiling ceremony of the Academy of Statistics and Interdisciplinary Sciences were presided over by Professor Zhou Yong, executive vice director of the Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University and the dean of the Academy of Statistics and Interdisciplinary Sciences.
Speech by Tong Shijun, Party Secretary of East China Normal University
Tong Shijun said in his speech that East China Normal University established the “Academy of Statistics and Interdisciplinary Sciences”, aiming to promote the development of statistics discipline, further deepen the interdisciplinary integration of statistics, economics, management and other disciplines; deepen the contact and cooperation with the government, enterprises, academic research institutions, and promote the cooperation between government, industry, and university. This is not only a new opportunity for the development of the school discipline, but also an important action for the school to accurately connect with the national and Shanghai strategies and deeply serve the social and economic development.
Tong Shijun said that the university will spare no effort to build ASIS into a research highland of statistics and data science with international influence, a high-level talent training base and a high-level academic exchange platform, and strive to build it into a world-class research institute.
Speech by Zhou Yong, executive vice director of the Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University and the dean of the Academy of Statistics and Interdisciplinary Sciences
“In pursuit of academic excellence, ASIS will take the statistics discipline of the world-class university as the benchmark and the economic management discipline as the support, striving to build itself into an important base for cross scientific research Zhou Yong introduced that ASIS will take the major strategic needs of the country and local governments as the main research line, carry out frontier research, strengthen contact with the government, build into a national high-end think tank, and cultivate a large number of internationally competitive statistics talents and compound talents who are familiar with economic and management knowledge and have practical ability.
With the theme of interdisciplinary science, at the interdisciplinary science academic seminar held on the same day, more than 100 academic celebrities from the fields of statistics, data science, intelligent manufacturing, management science, energy economy, financial engineering, etc. gathered at the riverside of Liwa to conduct in-depth discussion and exchange around interdisciplinary and integration, challenges and opportunities, and carefully plan interdisciplinary science development facing the new era.
Academician Ma Zhiming, Academician Yang Shanlin and Academician Wang Shouyang respectively brought keynote speech, covering interdisciplinary subjects in different fields under the new background and broadening the academic vision of the participants.
Academician Ma Zhiming
Academician Ma Zhiming's report topic is “the intersection of probability and statistics with other disciplines”. He takes Alpha Go algorithm design as the starting point, and points out that the Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) algorithm is closely related to probability and statistics, and is also the basis of many other deep learning and reinforcement learning.Ma Zhiming revealed the deep internal relationship between Huawei 5G technology and martingale theory in probability statistics. He pointed out that “the thoughts, methods and applications of probability statistics are penetrating into many fields of science and technology and social fields in today's human society. Probability, statistics and other disciplines, especially other branches of mathematics, have crossed and infiltrated each other, making extremely rich achievements, and also forming some new branches and growing points of disciplines, which have injected new vitality into the development of probability and statistics and other disciplines.”
Academician Yang Shanlin
Academician Yang Shanlin condensed the major national needs into scientific research direction, described the specific process and remarkable characteristics of intelligent manufacturing engineering management of high-end equipment, and pointed out the technical support system of Boeing aircraft development and the scientific problems encountered in the development of Chinese aero engine. He said that all kinds of things in the world are interrelated and will not develop regularly according to the division of human disciplines. When scientific research is carried out, it is necessary to use the deep cross integration of multi-disciplinary fields.
Academician Wang Shouyang
Academician Wang Shouyang talked about his thoughts on interdisciplinary research and development. He believed that the success of scientific research cannot be separated from comprehensive interdisciplinary research. By analyzing four cases of “the first revolution of Wall Street, Norden E. Huang and empirical mode decomposition, domestic value added and global value chain and iceberg theory of business model, he pointed out that the research and development of interdisciplinary is very important and should be closely related to major issues, because it is the easiest way and cradle for the birth of new disciplines, new fields and new directions. The research and development of interdisciplinary need the support of the whole society, and people from different disciplines need to work together.
During the conference, 16 experts and scholars from universities and research institutions made invited talk, and discussed the latest development trend of interdisciplinary science in combination with the current frontier of different academic fields and hot issues of national economy.
As a relatively independent scientific research entity, the newly established research institute is affiliated with the Faculty of Economics and Management of East China Normal University. East China Normal University has a full range of economics and management disciplines. Finance, statistics, economics, business administration, public management and other disciplines have developed rapidly with distinctive characteristics, and the strength and influence of those disciplines have continued to increase. In September 2017, statistics entered the first-class discipline construction. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation, statistics was rated class A, ranking third in China. In addition, public management, applied economics and business administration were rated class B, forming a good situation of coordinated development of economics and management disciplines.
