Chunwei Song

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Chunwei Song is a Chinese mathematician who specializes in combinatorics, graph theory, and intellectual history. He is a professor of mathematics at Peking University.

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Education and career

Song received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania, with the dissertation Combinatorial Theory of -Schröder Polynomials, Parking Functions and Trees under the supervision of Professor James Haglund. [1]

Prior to joining Peking University, Song held visiting faculty positions at Boston College in Massachusetts and Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. From 2005 to 2006, he served as a visiting associate professor in the Department of Mathematical and Computing Science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (now Science Tokyo). In 2010, he was a visiting associate professor at the University of Delaware. [2]

Research contributions

Song is the author of Lattice Path Combinatorics and Special Counting Sequences: From an Enumerative Perspective, CRC Press, Boca Raton, ISBN 978-1032671758.

Coauthored with Chen Dayue (陈大岳) and Xu Zhongqin (许忠勤), Song is a main editor of the tribute volume Ding Shisun and Chinese Mathematics (《丁石孙与中国数学》). [3]

Song also has scholarly interests in Chinese and East Asian intellectual history. He is the author of Heroes Brought Buddhism to the East of the Sea: A Fully Annotated Translation of The Preface of Haedong Kosŭng Chŏn , published in Sino-Platonic Papers (Issue 183).

Academic talks

In 2014, Song gave a talk at Academia Sinica titled The Art of Lattice Path Combinatorics and Combinatorial Statistics. [4]

In 2021, Song delivered an invited talk at the 14th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME 14) at its Thematic Afternoon activities. [5]

In 2022, he gave a Plenary Address at the 11th National Forum on Mathematics Culture organized by the Chinese Mathematical Society. [6]

Editorial boards

Song is on the editorial boards of Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications, [7] Advances and Applications in Discrete Mathematics, [8] Frontiers of Mathematics, [9] and several other academic journals.

Ph.D. students

By 2024, Song had supervised seven doctoral students in the field of mathematics at Peking University, including one (Dr. Yong Zhang, with the dissertation A Study on the Early History of Homotopy Theory: From Brouwer to Hurewicz) on mathematical history co-advised with Prof. Wu Guosheng 吴国盛. [1]

Recognition and influences

Song was a Council Member of both the 12th and the 13th Councils of the Chinese Mathematical Society. [10] [11]

In 2023, Song became an elected delegate of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress. [12]

As a scholar, he contributes opinion pieces to prominent media outlets such as Phoenix Weekly , Southern Metropolis Daily , and The Daily Pakistan . His writings engage diverse audiences across various countries, offering insightful and impactful perspectives on a wide range of themes. [13] [14] [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 Chunwei Song at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ "Lattice Path Combinatorics and Special Counting Sequences : From an Enumerative Perspective". Taylor & Francis. doi:10.1201/9781003509912/lattice-path-combinatorics-special-counting-sequences-chunwei-song.
  3. ↑ 陈, 大岳; 许, 忠勤; 宋, 春伟 (December 7, 2017). "丁石孙与中国数学". Global Publishing. doi:10.1142/g408.
  4. ↑ The Art of Lattice Path Combinatorics and Combinatorial Statistics
  5. ↑ TA11: Chinese Mathematics Curriculum, Teaching and College Entrance Examination
  6. ↑ "11th National Forum on Mathematics Culture" (PDF).
  7. ↑ "Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications". ecajournal.haifa.ac.il.
  8. ↑ "Editorial Team | Advances and Applications in Discrete Mathematics". pphmjopenaccess.com.
  9. ↑ "Frontiers of Mathematics". SpringerLink.
  10. ↑ "12th Council of the Chinese Mathematical Society" (PDF).
  11. ↑ "中国数学会第十三届理事会和监事会名单". www.cms.org.cn.
  12. ↑ "北京市第十六届人民代表大会代表选举产生，全名单公布". xinwen.bjd.com.cn.
  13. ↑ "作者：宋春伟（北京大学数学科学学院教授）-凤凰周刊". www.ifengweekly.com.
  14. ↑ "教师资格证认定不宜捆绑体貌-南方都市报·奥一网". epaper.oeeee.com.
  15. ↑ SONG, CHUNWEI (November 14, 2020). "A Parent's Ban on TikTok". Daily Pakistan English News.
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