Notices of the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians

Volume 6 (2018)

Number 2

Contents

Fields Medalists of ICM 2018

pp. 1-2

Geometry motivated by physics

Shing-Tung Yau

pp. 3-8

Small eigenvalues of surfaces: old and new

Werner Ballmann, Henrik Matthiesen, and Sugata Mondal

pp. 9-24

Noether’s problem and descent

Fedor Bogomolov and Yuri Tschinkel

pp. 25-31

From the Borel–Serre compactification to curve complex of surfaces

Lizhen Ji

pp. 32-41

Geometry of symplectic log Calabi–Yau pairs

Tian-Jun Li and Cheuk Yu Mak

pp. 42-50

Volume minimization and obstructions to solving some problems in Kähler geometry

Akito Futaki and Hajime Ono

pp. 51-60

Szu-Hoa Min (1913-1973): A pioneer of analytic number theory in China

Yingbo Zhang and Jianya Liu

pp. 61-82

Open problems

Kefeng Liu and Hao Xu

pp. 83-85

The New World Mathematics Awards

pp. 86-93

Mathematical encounters

Jorge Sotomayor

pp. 94-98