On November 24, the "Interdisciplinary Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics" was successfully held in the lecture hall No.108 of Zhiyuan Building. This seminar aims to introduce and discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence and computational mathematics and their influence on each other in the era of big data. Professor XU Jianping, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Tongji University, attended the seminar and delivered a speech. Academician SHI Zhongci of State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chaired the meeting. Nearly 100 teacher and student representatives of our school participated in this seminar.

The seminar invited many experts and scholars including Academicians SHI Zhongci, CUI Junzhi and ZHANG Pingwen of State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor ZHANG Ping, Director of the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor FU Jixiang, TANG Shanjian of the School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Professor HUANG Jianguo of the School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Professor XU Xuejun, Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences, Tongji University. They exchanged views on the current cutting-edge issues of intelligent computing such as informatization, cloud computing, big data, intelligent engineering, and high-performance computers.

Academician CUI Junzhi first gave a report entitled "Intelligent Engineering Based on Big Data and Computational Mathematics", mainly introducing modern information technology in the information era, including the application of cloud computing and a new generation of high-performance computers, mobile Internet of Things, etc. And he put forward suggestions for intelligent engineering at the end of the report.

Then, Academician ZHANG Pingwen gave a special report on the topic of "Big Data's Opportunities and Challenges to Applied Mathematics", introducing several aspects in detail including the understanding of applied mathematics, the status of talent training, the defects in the development of big data and the opportunities it brings to applied mathematics, and emphasizing the importance of mathematical principles.

The atmosphere of the seminar was lively and warm, and the experts had a cordial communication. The undergraduate and postgraduate representatives of the School of Mathematical Sciences listened carefully to the reports. Students expressed that being able to stand at the frontier of the development of computational mathematics and artificial intelligence at the level of national strategy is a great incentive and spur for all students majoring in mathematics, and that they expected the disciplines of mathematics to move forward and grow in the wave of development of the times.