Assist. Prof. Alexey Koshelev ShanghaiTech university

Prof. Stephen Anco
Brock University

Henan Academy of Sciences

Dr. Jingcao Cai
Anhui Polytechnic University

Assoc. Prof. Jie Li
Donghua University

Prof. Hu Xiong

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Professor Rong-Gen Cai, a distinguished Chinese physicist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, serves as the President of Ningbo University. Specializing in gravitational theory and cosmology, Prof. Cai has made significant contributions to his field. His expertise is widely recognized, as evidenced by his key positions in various physics societies and leadership of major research projects. Prof. Cai's academic journey began with a Ph.D. from Fudan University, followed by postdoctoral research across China, South Korea, and Japan. His outstanding work has earned him prestigious accolades, including the National Natural Science Award and the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher Award.

Presentation Title: A QCD phase diagram by a holographic model

Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov
Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC)

Prof. Sergei Odintsov is an ICREA Research Professor at ICE (CSIC-IEEC). He is the author of about 730 articles cited over 65000 times, and two of his manuscripts were cited more than 3000 times. Prof. Odintsov is Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy and SANS(Serbia), member of the European Physics Society, and the Italian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation. He was awarded the Amaldi Gold Medal: European Prize for Grav. Physics 2014. Prof. Odintsov is an Editorial Board Member of seven journals. His h-index=125 (Google S.), h=114 (inspirehep). According to research.com he is ranked 532 among the Top 1000 Scientists in Physics in the world (2023). Top Cited Clarivate Analytics Researcher in 2014-2018, 2023.

Presentation Title: The unified universe history from modified gravity
Summary: Current science lacks universality. Each discipline includes dozen and dozen sub-disciplines. It is often happens that researchers working within the same discipline but with different sub-disciplines do not even understand research terminology of each other. This is true for physics, biology, chemistry, etc. We search for some fundamental principles which may help to create the universal approach to the understanding of fundamental laws governing our universe. Symmetry maybe one of such principles. The current talk on theoretical cosmology gives brief overview of the universe history from the inflation to radiation/matter dominance and finally dark energy era via modified gravity. It is reviewed the number of alternative gravities which pretend to describe the universe evolution.Such theories enjoy general covariance and they are often ghost-free ones.Special attention is paid to so-called F(R) gravity and Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. This universal general approach opens the new view to the universe evolution as a whole, not just specific era description what is standard now in cosmology.

Prof. Dr. Jiping Zhang
Peking University

Professor Jiping Zhang is a distinguished Chair Professor at Peking University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Zhang is the Director of The Sino-Russian Mathematics Center and Associate Editors-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of China (Mathematics). As a mathematician he has made outstanding contributions in algebra including representation theory and finite group theory. Professor Zhang was awarded the National Natural Science Prize and Chern Mathematics Prize. He was an Alexander Von Humboldt reseach fellow. He served as the deputy president of Chinese Mathematical Society and members of CDE and CDC-GSC of International Mathematical Union. Professor Zhang was the dean of the School of Mathematics at Peking University initiating and leading the PKU programme to have cultivated many top talents including the welkonwn “ Golden Generation of Mathematics” .

Presentation Title: Symmetry and group action
Summary: Symmetry is fundamental and central in sciences including mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. In mathematics group theory is all about codifying the idea of symmetry. In fact symmetry can be considered an invariant property under the group action. As is well-known Group theory was founded by Evariste Galois and has refashioned the whole of mathematics. In this talk we review the second-generation classification of finite simple groups and some new developments in the study of symmetries.