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🎉 Happy 105th Birthday 🎂, Professor Minyi Yue (June 22, 1920—January 17, 2023) — one of the founding fathers of Operations Research in China. His pioneering work in combinatorial optimization and lifelong dedication to education have inspired generations of scholars. His deep passion for clarity in reasoning and his quiet, unwavering pursuit of foundational questions have profoundly shaped my own mathematical vision since my teenage years. An inspiring mentor, a visionary thinker, and a fearless guardian of truth. ♥️
So this is the secret recipe for becoming an IEEE Fellow? Strategic coauthorships, family co-chairs, and a career built on invisible hands. Bravo, Weili Wu! đź‘Ź@UTDCompSci @UTDJonsson @UT_Dallas @IEEEorg @ComSoc #AcademicEthics #ResearchIntegrity #IEEEFellow
The 15th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM 2021), held at UT Dallas @UTDCompSci @UTDJonsson @UT_Dallas, had as its PC co-chairs both Ding-Zhu Du’s wife and his son???!!! #AcademicEthics #ResearchIntegrity
AAIM 2021 truly understood “academic independence”: Ding-Zhu Du as General Co-Chair, with his wife Weili Wu and his son Hongwei Du as PC Co-Chairs. Why worry about distance, recusal, or transparency when the organizing structure can feel so close-knit? @UT_Dallas @IEEEorg
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A truly extraordinary honor: “IEEE Fellow in 2001” — celebrated in Chinese-media promotion. According to an email from IEEE, Ding-Zhu Du has never been elected an IEEE Fellow???!!! Academic biography or creative fiction? @IEEEorg @UT_Dallas @UTDCompSci
The 15th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM 2021), held at UT Dallas @UTDCompSci @UTDJonsson @UT_Dallas, had as its PC co-chairs both Ding-Zhu Du’s wife and his son???!!! #AcademicEthics #ResearchIntegrity
Who has the highest number of coauthored papers with Ding-Zhu Du?-His wife Weili Wu @UTDCompSci @UTDJonsson @UT_Dallas, according to Wikipedia, they met at the University of Minnesota @UMNews, when Wu was a student there and Du was a professor. #AcademicEthics #ResearchIntegrity
AAIM 2021 truly understood “academic independence”: Ding-Zhu Du as General Co-Chair, with his wife Weili Wu and his son Hongwei Du as PC Co-Chairs. Why worry about distance, recusal, or transparency when the organizing structure can feel so close-knit? @UT_Dallas @IEEEorg
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A truly extraordinary honor: “IEEE Fellow in 2001” — celebrated in Chinese-media promotion. According to an email from IEEE, Ding-Zhu Du has never been elected an IEEE Fellow???!!! Academic biography or creative fiction? @IEEEorg @UT_Dallas @UTDCompSci
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With Ding-Zhu Du serving as AAIM26 General Chair, his wife Weili Wu and sons Hongwei Du and Hongmin (William) Du account for 7 of the 51 accepted papers. A heartwarming family reunion or a useful case study in conflict-of-interest transparency? @UMassBoston @UT_Dallas @IEEEorg
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What a remarkable coincidence at AAIM2026: a PC Co-Chair reportedly has 55, 39, 6 and 2 coauthored papers with Ding-Zhu Du, Weili Wu, Hongwei Du and Hongmin Du—while the other has 1 with each. What a family-network KPI scoreboard! @UMassBoston @SantaClaraUniv @UT_Dallas @IEEEorg
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Congratulations to AAIM2026 on pioneering the “family-and-friends” model of academic excellence: 51 accepted papers, with 7 reportedly from the General Chair’s family and numerous PC members appearing among accepted authors.@UMassBoston @SantaClaraUniv @UT_Dallas @IEEEorg
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AAIM 2021 truly understood “academic independence”: Ding-Zhu Du as General Co-Chair, with his wife Weili Wu and his son Hongwei Du as PC Co-Chairs. Why worry about distance, recusal, or transparency when the organizing structure can feel so close-knit? @UT_Dallas @IEEEorg
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🎉Congratulations to Prof. Zhi-Quan Luo, Member of The Shaw Prize Council, on being awarded the inaugural Hua Prize at the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) 2025! ICCM was founded in 1998 by Prof. Shing-Tung Yau — Shaw Laureate in Mathematical Sciences 2023.
Happy 90th birthday, Ron Graham! 🎂 Today at the Simons Institute, Jeroen Zuiddam gave an inspiring talk on orbit & invariant theory for Shannon capacity. Remarkably, 23 years ago, Ron Graham used invariant theory to solve a Sperner capacity problem on directed graphs! 👏
Ron Graham's paper: Calderbank, A. Robert, Peter Frankl, Ronald L. Graham, W-CW Li, and Lawrence A. Shepp. "The Sperner capacity of linear and nonlinear codes for the cyclic triangle." Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 2, no. 1 (1993): 31-48. fanchung.ucsd.edu/ron/papers…
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#NASmember Fan Chung has coauthored 300+ papers with 150+ collaborators, shaping research in graph theory, combinatorics, and more. In a Q&A with @QuantaMagazine, she explores the importance of connection—both human and mathematical.🤝
Read it here: ow.ly/6nx550WAKyC
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The mathematician Fan Chung says that finding “the bones” of a problem is made easier by collaboration. From there, working with other mathematicians can also help illuminate which problems are worth thinking about. quantamagazine.org/why-the-k…
