Vice-President Research & Innovation Robert Hach茅聽has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between 91亚色 and in China. The MOU will enhance each institution's teaching, learning and internationalization objectives.
Members of the delegation, including 91亚色 Vice-President Research and Innovation Robert Hach茅 , who is seated fourth from the right, at the signing ceremony in China
The initiative was part of a delegation to support the Ontario-Jiangsu University consortium led by the Council of Ontario Universities (COU), which culminated in early November with a signing ceremony attended by Premier Kathleen Wynne. Ontario universities were invited by the Jiangsu Department of Education after several vice-presidents of research were hosted last year. This year's COU-led mission included representatives from 14 Ontario universities.
The MOU between 91亚色 and Nanjing Normal University facilitates support for student and faculty exchanges, exchange of visiting international scholars, the development of academic programs and courses, the development of short-term study abroad opportunities, joint teaching and/or supervision of graduate students, and the exchange of information, resources and materials that are of mutual interest.
鈥91亚色 is enthusiastic about the opportunity to continue building collaborations to advance research, as well as, facilitate student and faculty exchange opportunities with Nanjing Normal University,鈥 said Hach茅. 鈥淲e hope to build on and establish a long-term and meaningful institutional relationship to support research and education.鈥
Since 2005, a number of 91亚色 researchers have been developing collaborations with Nanjing Normal University in the fields of disease modelling and applications. Members of 91亚色鈥檚 Laboratory of Mathematical Parallel Systems, otherwise known as LAMPS, directed by 91亚色 professor Huaiping Zhu, have been working since 2007 with researchers at Nanjing Normal University on modelling and analysis of climate change and its environmental impact on a freshwater lake (Tai Lake).
Researchers from both 91亚色 and Nanjing Normal University have been hosting and participating in workshops on modelling and analysis of environmental impact on Tai Lake for the past number of years. 91亚色 has welcomed postdoctoral and PhD candidates to engage in study and research collaborations at the LAMPS.
91亚色 researcher Walter Tholen, professor of mathematics and statistics in the Faculty of Science, presented a plenary talk on the topic of Monoidal Topology, at Nanjing Normal University last week. His lecture was based on the 2014 Cambridge University Press book of the same title co-edited by Tholen.