{"id":23035,"date":"2026-08-21T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/?p=23035"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:53:12","slug":"tianyuan-mathematics-research-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2026\/08\/21\/tianyuan-mathematics-research-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Tianyuan Mathematics Research Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23036\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kunming-2026-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-23036 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kunming-2026-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kunming-2026-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kunming-2026-1-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kunming-2026-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kunming-2026-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kunming-2026-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frontiers in Random Matrix Theory and Applications - Tianyuan Mathematics Research Center, Kunming, August 16\u201322, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have spent a week at the <a href=\"http:\/\/tianyuan.amss.ac.cn\/en\/\">Tianyuan Mathematics Research Center<\/a> (TYMC), near Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, attending a very enjoyable workshop on random matrix theory and its applications. This is one of the most impressive mathematical research facilities I have ever visited \u2014 a Chinese Oberwolfach. It opened only three years ago and lies in the heart of a forest.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23038\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TMRC-2-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-23038 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TMRC-2-web-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"View on the Chaishitan Reservior from TMRC\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TMRC-2-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TMRC-2-web-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TMRC-2-web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TMRC-2-web-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TMRC-2-web.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Chaishitan Reservoir from TYMC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent a week at the Tianyuan Mathematics Research Center (TYMC), near Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, attending a very enjoyable workshop on random matrix&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2026\/08\/21\/tianyuan-mathematics-research-center\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tianyuan Mathematics Research Center<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23035"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23057,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035\/revisions\/23057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}