About Jiping Zhang’s work
Jiping Zhang held a Croucher Visitorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from July to December 1999 and from March to April 2000. At the time, Zhang was based at Peking University.
Biography
Jiping Zhang received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Shandong University, and received his PhD in basic mathematics from the Department of Mathematics of Peking University in 1987 before being promoted to professor in 1990. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Beijing International Mathematical Research Center and the Director of the Key Laboratory of Mathematics and Its Applications of the Ministry of Education. In 2019, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He is a member of the President's Office of Southern University of Science and Technology. From 1998 to 2008, he served as the Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences, and made important contributions to the discipline construction and the cultivation of top-notch talents. The arithmetic theory of groups is developed to solve the long-term unsolved problems such as the Hutpert conjecture and the conjugate class length conjecture. He and his students have made leading achievements in the international frontier focus of modular representation theory, the Alperin conjecture inductive condition.