Scholarships & Honors
Financial Supports
SMS has a comprehensive system of financial support for graduate students. Almost every graduate is supported by a fellowship or an assistantship, in addition to on-campus accommodation (almost free of charge).
Currently there are National Fellowships, President’s Fellowships of Peking University, and the Dean’s Fellowship of SMS. The National Fellowship and President’s Fellowship of Peking University are highest honors for excellent graduate students. The recipients of these fellowships are expected to devote themselves to research and are encouraged to strive for greater progress. From 2012 to 2017,198 graduate students received President’s Fellowship of Peking University(totally 46,000yuan per year)and 86 of graduate students received National Scholarship(totally 30,000yuan per year). This is critically important in recruiting excellent applicants for the graduate program.
Most graduate students are supported via “Three-Assistantships” as Teaching Assistants (TA), Research Assistants (RA) or Administrative Assistants (AA). Students who receive assistantship are required to fulfill some designated duties. Grading homework is a typical task of teaching assistant. Any graduate student making a normal progress is eligible to apply for assistantship. The stipend is enough to cover the living cost of graduate student in light of the almost free dormitory.
With donations from various sources, SMS also provides students with scholarships on top of the financial support mentioned before. Graduate students may get extra money from his/her advisor’s research grant. The average of the total amount of our graduate students is amongst the highest in the universities and research institutes in China. However, some problems have emerged, such as lack of funds and unreasonable distribution of workload. Therefore SMS launched in 2015 a reform of financial support scheme of graduate students to make it simpler and more efficient. This reform has been carried out for two years and moved forwards smoothly.
Honors
Excellent Dissertations are recognized by the University, and a few of them go further to win municipal recognitions of Beijing. Not long ago there were even national recognitions, a great honor for doctoral students and their research advisor. In 2011-2016, 28 dissertations authored by Ph.D. students from SMS have won the best dissertations of Peking University, while the first two won the municipal extinction of Beijing. The list of best dissertations is as follows:
| Name | Title of Dissertations | Year |
| Bin Zhou* | Extreme Metrics on Toric Manifolds---Existence and K-Stability | 2011 |
| Han Wang* | Efficient Molecular Dynamics Methods with Applications | 2012 |
| Zihua Guo | The Cauchy Problems for a Class of Derivative Nonlinear Dispersive Equations | 2011 |
| Sihong Shao | Numerical Methods of Some Fundamental Equations in Quantum Physics and Their Applications | 2011 |
| Chao Zhang | Some Problems on Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations with Variable Exponents | 2011 |
| Zhanli Zhang | Community Structure and Information Transmitting Mechanism with Time Lag in Complex Networks | 2011 |
| Yuanzheng Si | Radiative Transfer Theory and Multimodality Imaging | 2011 |
| Kimin Teng | Existence and Ultiplicity of Solutions for Some Classes of Elliptic Equations and Systems | 2011 |
| Han Wang | Efficient Molecular Dynamics Methods with Applications | 2011 |
| Gang Liao | Statistical Analysis of Differential Dynamical Systems | 2012 |
| Yongsheng Dong | Texture Classification Based on Directional Multi-scale Transform and Statistical Modeling | 2012 |
| Wei Chen | Explosive Percolation in Random Graphs | 2012 |
| Zhengning Cai | Investigations and Applications of the Numerical Moment Method in the Kinetic Theory of Gases | 2013 |
| Wei Wang | Theoretical Analysis on the Dynamical Equations of Liquid Crystals | 2013 |
| Yiyan Xu | On Some Convergence and Degeneration Theorems of Riemannian Metrics | 2013 |
| Yifan Chen | Algebraic Surfaces of General Type with K^2=7 and p_g=0 | 2013 |
| Chao Wang | Extendable Finite Group Actions on Surfaces | 2014 |
| Zhoubin Xia | Factorizations of Almost Simple Groups and Their Application | 2014 |
| Feng Wang | Bakry-Emery Geometry and Kaehler-Ricci Solitons | 2014 |
| Kai Song | Statistical and Bioinformatical Analysis of Alignment-free Sequences Comparison Based on High-throughput Sequencing Reads | 2014 |
| Kang Li | Research on Several Latest Design Problems in Sophisticated Experiments | 2015 |
| Rui Zhang | Central Limit Theorems for Measure-valued Markov Processes | 2015 |
| Lifan Guan | Badly Approximable Vectors and Bounded Orbits of Homogeneous Dynamics | 2015 |
| Xin Wang | Condition for the Vanishing of the Genus-2 G-function | 2015 |
| Weiming Shen | Asymptotic Behaviors of Geometric PDEs in Singular Domains | 2016 |
| Wenshuai Jiang | Bergman Kernel and Sectional Curvature L^2 Estimates | 2016 |
| Zhichao Jiang | Principal Causal Effect Identification and Surrogate Evaluation | 2016 |
| Yuwei Fan | Development and Application of Moment Method in Gas Kinetic Theory | 2016 |