Following in the footsteps of Marco Polo, this workshop seeks to foster mathematical collaboration and exchange between China and Italy. It will showcase research from the Mathematics Departments of Nanjing University (China) and University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy). See https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/progetto/Events_pages/2025/Mathpolo2025/page-mathpolo2025.php for more information. Note the two days of the event are in different venues.
Friday schedule (Tor Vergata):

• 10:00 – 10:45 Xuezhang Chen, The strong Green function rigidity conjecture
• 10:45 – 11:30 Hendrik Speleers, On the power of smoothness in isogeometric analysis
• 11:45 – 12:30 Hua Qiu, Brownian motions and Dirichlet forms on self-similar fractals
• 14:00 – 14:45 Stefano Vigogna, TBA
• 14:45 – 15:30 Liyuan Cao, How sampling distribution affects gradient-free optimization
• 16:00 – 16:45 Martina Lanini, TBA