As one routine activity of our student chapter, distinguished speech is a very important way to broaden our members’ eyesight of the front edge and hot spot in the field of applied mathematics.

　On 16 May 2014, we are honored to invite Professor Tim Kelly to give us the first SIAM PolyU Student Chapter Lecture. Professor Tim Kelly is a Drexel Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina University. He is a world-renowned expert in numeric methods of nonlinear equations and optimization and applications of those methods. And he is a fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), editor-in-chief of SIAM Review, and chair of the SIAM Board of Trustees.

　In his talk, he not only gave us a detailed introduction to Anderson acceleration, including the first order convergence results for the method and its application to radiative transport, but also listed a few open questions to us. His excellent talk attracted not only staffs and research students of AMA but also research students of other departments.