I'm attending the 4th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, which is essentially the creation of one man, S. T. Yau. Previous ones were in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taipei, but this one apparently is the biggest one yet, with over a thousand mathematicians attending. This year it is being held at Zhejiang University (main gate shown above) in Hangzhou.
There are banners all over campus like the one above. Below is the student center, where the plenary talks are being given. Of the two hundred or so invited speakers, there are about thirty 'foreign" (meaning "non-Chinese") speakers who were invited specially. The rest are mathematicians of Chinese descent.
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