Cesare Tronci is on a two-week tour through China and Singapore, starting on 17 March and arriving back in Guildford the first week of April. In China he visited Shanghai Jiao Tong University. At SJTU he interacted with Professors Tudor Ratiu and Shi Jin to discuss partnership prospects. On Thursday 20 March he met with agents to discuss student recruitment, and he attended an international event with Prof Ratiu and Prof Lou Yuan. At the weekend (15 March) Cesare travelled to Singapore to visit NTUS. His hosts there were Prof Francois Gay-Balmaz and Prof Juan-Pablo Ortega. Professor Ortega is the Head of the Mathematics Division within the local School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences at NTUS, and a Managing Editor of the journal Geometric Mechanics. The photo below shows (from left to right) Juan-Pablo, Francois, Cesare and Cyrus Mostajeran (an Assistant Professor at NTUS).
