Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS) in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), founded in December 1998, is integrated with Institute of Mathematics (established in 1952), Institute of Applied Mathematics (established in 1979), Institute of Systems Science (established in 1979) and Institute of Computational Mathematics and Science/Engineering Computing(established in 1995). Professor Yang Lo (Member of CAS) was the first president of AMSS, and Professor Guo Lei (Member of CAS) is the current president.
AMSS is a national comprehensive academic research center of mathematics and systems science. The strategic objectives of AMSS are to make important, original and pivotal research results, and to bring up academic leads and talents in the field of mathematics and systems science, gearing the research to the international scientific frontiers and the national strategic demands. The target of AMSS is to make a great influential research center in the world, a famous training center for advanced researchers, and an important researching and consulting center for national economy and the construction of national defense issues in the field of Mathematics and Systems Science.
Besides the four institutes, AMSS possesses the State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Key Laboratory of Management, Decision and Information Systems of CAS, Key Laboratory of Systems and Control of CAS, Key Laboratory of Mathematics Mechanization of CAS, the Morningside Center of CAS,
and the Center for Forecasting Science of CAS. AMSS has set up several new research centers based upon some intersecting disciplines in recent years. AMSS now has 15 Members of CAS, 2 Members of CAE (Chinese Academy of Engineering) and 5 Fellows of the Third World Academy of Sciences. There are graduate students, doctors and post-doctors, altogether about 400 in AMSS.
In the past years, the scientific personnel of the four institutes have made important contributions to the country's development of chinese mathematics and systems science as well as contributions to national economy and national defense. They have won more than 400 scientific awards, including one National Top Science and Technology Prize (Wentsun Wu), 4 first National Natural Science Award, i.e. The theory of functions of several complex variables over classical domains by Hua Loo-Keng, Studies on characteristic classes and embedding classes by Wentsun Wu, Studies on the Goldbach conjecture by Chen Jingrun and Wang Yuan, etc., Symplectic geometric algorithm of Hamiltonian systems by Feng Kang, etc., and a number of important international awards. For some of its important research achievements in applied science, AMSS has been acknowledged by the central government leaders and relevant departments of application. This has proved the important role of mathematics in the national economy and defense.
AMSS has established exchange and cooperation relationship with many academic institutions abroad,and received more than 300 visitors both home and abroad each year. AMSS has a library with abundant collection in mathematics and systems science, up to more than 200,000 books, and an advanced system of computers and network.
The Chinese Mathematics Society, the Operations Research Society of China, and the Systems Engineering Society of China, etc. set up their offices in AMSS. AMSS sponsors 14 academic journals.
