Sergey Zelik awarded Thousand Talents Plan Distinguished Professorship in China

Sergey Zelik has been awarded the title of “Thousand Talents Plan Distinguished Professor” by the Chinese government’s Thousand Talents Program.  The award is accompanied by approximately 5 Million RMB for research expenditure. The grant runs for 3 years and Sergey will spend 6 months of each year at Lanzhou University.  He is setting up a sequence of conferences, the first of which will be in July on “Infinite-dimensional dynamics and Atrractors“, the second in August 2019, and then a major conference in summer 2020.  The photo above shows Sergey at a ceremony in January at Lanzhou University, and the photo below left shows Sergey in Pekin with Alexei Ilyin.