YANG MIN
Education
2003.9-2007.6 School of Optical Communication (the first major at HUST), specialized in Information Science.
2006.2-2007.6 School of Computer science (the second major at HUST), specialized in Computer Science.
2007.9-current School of Physics, (supervisor: Zhao xingzhong)
Research Experience
2007.9-2008.2 research on quantum dots.
2006.05: Audit lectures on Quantum computers and quantum information given by Prof. X. Li-Jost.from Max-Planck Institute of Mathematics in Leipzig, Germany.
2006.07: Participate in research seminar on quantum computation and quantum computer directed by Dr. N. Jing from N. C. State Univ.
English Skills
Pass CET-4,CET-6, TOEFL(iBT):95;GRE:1180
With great pronunciation and English listening capability that could fluently communicate with the foreigners without misunderstanding and long hesitations, so are those for essay reading and composing.
Courses:
Audited courses on Quantum mechanics, string theory, conformal field theory, advance mathematics, special functions, partial differential equations.
Social Activities
You can call me Yang Min, a Wuhan citizen in P.R.China. I hope to have the chance to study in your department and I believe I can do the research well.
In my undergraduate years in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, I tried every effort to equip myself with all types of related knowledge. As I would like to be better understanding in the study of my major, Optical Information Science, I take computer science as my second major, accompanied with many practices of simple programming tasks that are shown in my resume. In order to express myself clearly and fluently in English, I take an English Summer Camps and some New Oriental Oral English Classes in my leisure time to practice my oral English, which is still awful in the exam but some kind of nature in the communication with English-Speaking student and professor.
As I came to Wuhan University for my master’s degree in physics, I have done some research on quantum dots, an imitation protocol to carry out certain results in nature biology under the direction of Prof. Li. For this research, I had been familiar with the basic chemical operations like centrifugalization, condensing, and electrophoresis by gelose and Polyacrylic Acylamide Gel Experiment (PAGE). During the research I gradually shifted my interest to theoretical physics as I would like to understand the theoretical background for these experimental results. This shift is in a sense natural as the fundamental question in information science is to design a fast computation protocol, and I become more and more interested in quantum information science. It is this shift that took me to apply to your department for my next level of education.
Quantum information is a rapidly developing subject and has attracted many researchers from different areas such as mathematics, physics and engineering sciences. I became aware of this subject when I entered Wuhan University for my master degree. At beginning I was mainly motivated by the so-called Moore’s Law, which asserts that the computation speed of current computers is doubled in every other year. Naively this is mean that in 10 years the current computational speed will be increased by 32-fold. Of course this can not and will not be true for ever. The great puzzle behind this theoretical and technological difficulty means that we must come up with another new type of computers. This new type of computational protocol is called Quantum Computer. Currently lots of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers have turned their attention to
this new multidisciplinary subject.
About 2 years ago, I attended a special lecture by Professor X. Li-Jost from Max Planck Institute of Mathematics in Leipzig, Germany. Her lecture was about algebraic invariants for quantum entanglements. Quantum entanglement is one of main theoretical subject in quantum computational science. Dr. Li-Jost introduced me to Professor Naihuan Jing at your department. Luckily Dr. Jing himself also came to Wuhan University to give a series of lectures on quantum computations in the summer of 2006. At this class I found myself completely attracted by the mathematics of this new multidisciplinary subject. If I have an opportunity to continue my current study at your department, it will be a turning point in my career and I believe that I belong to the type of students that prosper at right research environment.
Since I am so interested in mathematics, I sat in classes on mechanics, quantum mechanics, differential geometry, modern algebra, group theory. At my undergraduate year my math classes were taken together with math majored students for the following classes: linear algebra, calculus, differential equation, analysis.
The reason why I would like to stick to the research rather than work is that I am a person who is curious about the unknown, loving to study with a tight schedule and tend to venture for a different life. I never tied about the exploration of the unknown, even in my leisure time, I read some Chinese Traditional Philosophy and Medicine. Therefore, I believe that maybe I am not the greatest student in the university; I must be the most curious one.