On the morning of June 24, 2025, the School of Mathematical Sciences of Shenzhen University held its Graduation Ceremony and Degree Conferral for the Class of 2025 at Yuanping Gymnasium, Yuehai Campus, with great solemnity.
Attendees included Dean and Party Secretary Wang Yu, Honorary Dean Wang Yuefei, Vice Dean Lu Jian, Deputy Party Secretary Ye Xing, professors Chen Zhibing and Feng Jianwen, department chairmen, class advisors, counselors, 158 undergraduate graduates, 68 master’s graduates, and their families. Deputy Party Secretary Ye Xing presided over the ceremony.
The ceremony commenced with the national anthem as all attendees rose.
Vice Dean Lu Jian summarized the overall status of the Class of 2025.
Undergraduate representative Wang Housen from the Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (Financial Mathematics Pilot Program) spoke on behalf of all undergraduates. He reflected on four precious years at Liyuan: the intellectual sparks in mathematical modeling competitions, study footprints in the library, and professors’ rigorous scholarship, showcasing the school’s ethos of "strong foundations, practical excellence, and interdisciplinary innovation." He pledged that graduates would write new chapters of the era with rationality and responsibility.
Graduate representative Gao Xuefeng from Mathematics recalled her academic journey and thanked the school for its expansive platform. Using mathematical functions as metaphors, she encouraged peers to face the future with poise, shine in their own time zones, and compose brilliant life chapters while staying grounded and aspirational.
Professor Feng Jianwen, representing faculty, shared three insights: Safeguard intellectual curiosity to challenge cognitive boundaries in the AI era with Copernican courage; cherish lifelong learning as a vital asset to navigate change; uphold dreams like the campus flame trees, blooming brilliantly through perseverance. He concluded: "Soar from Liyuan toward mountains and seas; journey to the cosmos – boundless horizons await!"
The Dean congratulated graduates, opening with two breakthroughs in Chinese mathematics: Wang Hong’s team resolving the century-old 3D Kakeya Conjecture (Terence Tao hailed it as "redrawing boundaries between geometry and harmonic analysis"), and Deng Yu’s mathematical bridge across micro/macro physics solving Hilbert’s Sixth Problem. He urged graduates to embrace audacity in three dimensions: dare to endure academic solitude with Perron Tree-like imagination; pioneer change with axiomatic thinking amid algorithmic rationality; advance human welfare by decoding life and civilization through mathematics – the purest form of "mathematical romance." He envisioned graduates as "slender bamboo piercing mountains" (flexible yet transformative) and "hard spheres leaping through collisions," urging them to define a "third solution" beyond "compete" or "quit" narratives while seated on Shenzhen University’s symbolic Audacity Chair.
Honorary Dean Wang Yuefei announced recognitions for Outstanding Undergraduate Graduates and Outstanding Master’s Graduates.
Professor Zhou Yan, Chair of Statistics and Data Science, honored Outstanding Student Cadres and Outstanding Undergraduate Theses.
Party Secretary Wang Yu presented certificates to awardees.
Professor Tao Qiang, Chair of Applied Mathematics, declared the conferral of Bachelor’s Degrees and Honors Bachelor’s Degrees.
Associate Professor Chen Bo, Chair of Information and Computing Science, announced the Master’s Degree Conferral.
The Dean conducted the tassel-moving ritual while conferring degrees and took commemorative photos with each graduate.
Graduates presented bouquets to faculty and distinguished guests.
The ceremony concluded with a flash-mob chorus of The Road Where Flame Trees Bloom.
May the Class of 2025 blaze forward in life’s new journey, blooming as passionately as flame trees, with futures splendid as starry rivers! Shine brilliantly in your unique coordinates, and return often to your academic home!
