Lectures by Famous Professors Series was held as promised on the afternoon of November 10, 2021 in Guosheng Lecture Hall in Kuang Yaming Honors School. It was honored to invite Professor Wan Xiangang from School of Physics. After Dean Ge’s brief introduction, Professor Wan presented a different computational physics world from his unique perspective.

Professor Wan started with experimental physics, an important branch of physics, and introduced it from Aristotle's experiments, pointing out the important proposition that "science needs self-consistency". In addition, he explained the realization of artificial white light from Newton’s dispersion experiments.

After that, Wan shared the story of renowned physicist Shuji Nakamura: from being ignored to winning the Nobel Prize in Physics.

In the second part, Professor Wan introduced the relevant knowledge of theoretical physics from Newton's three laws to Maxwell's equations, and then to quantum mechanics.

In the third part, Wan began with "Is that enough?” to introduce the importance of computational condensed matter physics. He described the origin, formation, development and advantages of computational physics, and pointed out that "computational physics has become the paradigm of matter research".

At the end of the lecture, Wan asked: “What can we do?” to provoke thoughts. Then he communicated with Dean Ge and interacted with students, which further stimulated students' enthusiasm for learning and clarified the direction of scientific research, benefiting students a lot.