Report title: Pooling designs
Reporter: Professor Wang Kaishun Beijing Normal University
Reporting time: December 31, 2020, 10:00-11:00 am
Report location: Tencent Meeting ID: 219 866 878
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School contact: Wang Ruishu wangrs_math@mail.jlu.edu.cn
Report summary:
Pooling designs were originally introduced by Dorfman in 1943 as a potential approach to economically screen soldiers with syphilis during World War II. There are many applications such as blood testing, chemical leak testing, codes and DNA screening. In this talk I shall introduce the development on the construction of pooling designs.
Brief introduction of the speaker:
Wang Kaishun is a professor at Beijing Normal University. He is mainly engaged in the research of algebraic combinatorial theory. He has published more than 110 academic papers. He has undertaken a number of National Natural Science Foundations. He was selected as the 2008 New Century Excellent Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education and won the 2010 Ministry of Education Natural Science Award. Second prize (the third finisher). He is currently the Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences of Beijing Normal University, a member of the Graph Theory Combination and Application Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a member of the Combinatorial Mathematics and Graph Theory Professional Committee of the Chinese Mathematical Society, and an editorial board member of Mathematics Progress.
