Intersection of two passions

  • Tonghai Yang | University of Wisconsin-Madison

In this talk, I will discuss how I, a pure mathematician, established the charity Hometown Education Foundation and how this program impacts on poor kids on their basic education and how it works to make sure that 100 percent of the donation goes to the needy students. I will also discuss how we encourage the poor kids move forward instead of dependence. A little support makes a real difference to the poor kids who have so little.

*Please Note: This presentation is given in Mandarin, however the slides are in English.

Speaker Details

Tonghai Yang is a visiting researcher at Microsoft this semester from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is a math professor. He started to teach 7-9th graders in rural areas of China at age 17 for 4 years… He established the Hometown Education Foundation (US) in 2004 to help poor kids in China to get a basic education and the charity supports currently over 700 poor students a year, all with personal donation from the public. Mathematically, he published three books and over 40 research papers in number theory and has a pending patent (joint). In addition to Microsoft, he has visited Harvard, Institute for Advanced Study, MSRI, Max-Plank Institute (Bonn), the Academy of Science of China, and Tsinghua University and so on.

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