Following the Program of Innovative Talents in Chemistry for Energy Materials 2015 on which Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, XMU, cooperated with University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), this year, XMU embraced another international joint program. The Program for Innovative Talents with Multiple Skills in Scientific Calculation, a joint effort of School of Mathematical Sciences, XMU and University of Bordeaux, was authorized by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and listed among the 2017 International Joint Programs for Innovative Talents. The program will last for 3 years, and every year 3 students or teachers who meet the requirements can be sent to University of Bordeaux to conduct doctoral or postdoctoral research.

International Joint Programs for Innovative Talents 2017 was established by CSC in 2014 to develop talents with innovation and multiple skills, and thus to achieve the goal of “dual first-class” national higher education. In 2015, with the full support of Graduate School, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials led by Prof. Tian Zhongqun cooperated with University of California, Santa Barbara, to work on a joint program, which was successfully authorized after passing various evaluation procedures and the final interview.

The program this year is one of the cooperative programs of Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling and High-Peformance Scientific Counting, XMU and TREFLE Laboratory, University of Bordeaux, which is one of the top university in France with Applied Mathematics ranking the 3^rd. The TREFLE Laboratory serves as an important research center for the Applied Mathematics in University of Bordeaux, has a close relationship and cooperation with many enterprises, and boasts rich experience in developing talents in Applied Mathematics. By contrast, XMU has world-class research groups and well-equipped software and facilities in the the design and analysis of Partial Differential Equation and its numerical methods, especially the spectral method.

Since the program began, both sides have cooperated on the high-performance algorithm of complex fluid, developed talents excellent in cross-disciplines, i.e., Mathematics, Physics, Spaceflight, Material and Energy. Students enrolled spent one or two years in XMU to study Mathematics and Algorithm, and the following year in TREFLE Laboratory to learn the modeling and calculation of complex fluid. After graduation, students could take up jobs in aerospace engineer, R&D of new materials and energy, which helped to fill the gap in the job market of scientific calculation.