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Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae Stephen Shing-Toung Yau e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] December 11, 2014 Education • Visiting Professor, Harvard University (Winter 1999) • Ph.D (1976), The State University of New York at Stony Brook • Visiting Professor, University of Pisa, Italy (Spring 1990) • M.A. (1974), The State University of New York at Stony Brook • Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University (1989 - 90) Positions • University Scholar, University of Illinois at • Professor, Department of Mathematical Science, Chicago (1987 -90) Tsinghua University, (2011-) • Visiting Professor, Institute Mittag-Leffler, Swe- • Emeritus Distinguished Professor of University den (Winter 1987) of Illinois at Chicago (2011-) • Visiting Professor, Yale University (1984-85) • Distinguished Professor of University of Illinois at Chicago (2005-2011) • Visiting Associate Professor, University of Southern California (1983-84) • Professor,Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,University of Illinois at • Member, The Institute for Advanced Study Chicago (1984-2005) (1981-82) • Visiting Research Mathematician, Princeton U- • Professor, Department of Electrical and Com- niversity (Spring 1981) puter Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (2002-2011) • Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (1980-84) • Director, Laboratory of Control and Information (1993-) • Alfred P.Sloan Research Fellow (1980-82) • Director, Institute of Mathematics, East China • Benjamin Pierce Assistant Professor, Harvard U- Normal University (2002-2011) niversity (1977-80) • Zi-Jiang Professor, East China Normal Univer- • Member, The Institute for Advanced Study sity (2002-2011) (1976-77) 1 Stephen Shing-Toung Yau 2 Prizes and Awards • National Security Agency (2002-2005, 2005- 2007) • American Mathematical Society Fellow 2013 • Research Board, University of Illinois at Chicago • University Distinguished Professor, University of (1987, 1984, 1983, 1981) Illinois at Chicago 2005 • The Clark and the Topier Fund, Harvard Uni- • IEEE Fellow 2003 versity (1977-80) • Guggenheim Fellowship, 2000-2001 Honors • University Scholar, University of Illinois at • Open Invitation to spend 1984-86 as a Research Chicago (1987-90) Professor at Sonderforschungsbereich \Theo- • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1980-82) retische Mathematic", University of Bonn, Ger- many • Biographical note in American Men And Women of Science • Invited one-hour address at the AMS Meeting, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 1985 • Biographical note in Who's Who in America • Invited one-hour address at the Swedish Math- • Biographical note in Who's Who in Science and ematical Society Meeting, Linkoping, January Engineering 1987 • Biographical note in Who's Who in the Midwest • Invited to visit one week and give a colloquium lecture at Aarhus University, Denmark, Febru- • Biographical note in Who's Who in American ary 1987 Education • Invitation to spend a month at Fudan University, • Biographical note in Who's Who among Asian Shanghai, People's Republic of China to give a Americans series of lectures, November and December 1987 • Biographical note in Who's Who in Sciences • Invitation to spend one week at the Institute Higher Education of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, Peo- Membership ple's Republic of China to give several lectures, December 1987 • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electron- ic Engineers • Invitation to spend eight weeks at the University of Pisa, Italy to give a series of lectures, January • Member of Society for Industrial and Applied - February 1990 Mathematics • Invitation to spend 9 days at Global Analysis • Member of American Mathematical Society Research Center, Seoul National University, Ko- Grants rea to give a series of lectures, February 1992 • Army Research Office (1989-2005) • Invitation to spend one month at Nanjing U- niversity, People's Republic of China to give a • National Science Foundation (1976-88, 1989- series of lectures, May 1993 2003, 2005-20011) • Invitation to spend one month at National Tai- • National Science Foundation Special Year Grant wan University, Republic of China to give a series (1987-88) of lectures, May 1994 Stephen Shing-Toung Yau 3 • C.M. Cha Fellow from Hong Kong Baptist Uni- • Invited hour speaker in the workshop on Com- versity May-July, 1995 plex Analysis and Complex Geometry, Wuhan University, June, 2011. • Invitation to spend two months at Hong Kong Baptist University to give a series of lectures, • Invitation to spend two and half months as Vis- May-July, 1997 iting Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to give a lecture and • Invitation to spend two months as Visiting Pro- conduct research project, June-August, 2011. fessor at the University of Science and Technol- ogy of Hong Kong to give a series of lectures, • Invitation to visit Australia National University 1997. to give a colloquium talk, Oct. 2011. • Invitation to give 5 two-hours Distinguished Lec- • Colloquium talk at the Institute of Mathemat- ture Series on Control Theory, Special Year on ics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing. Mar. Control Theory, October 1997, Morningside In- 2012. stitute, Academia Sinica, China. • Colloquium talk at the Institute of Mathematics, • Invitation to spend two months as Visiting Pro- Chinese Academy of Science, Taipei. Mar. 2012. fessor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong • Invited speaker, Mini-workshop of Algebra, Tai- to give a series of lectures, 1998. da Institute of Mathematical Science, National Taiwan University. Mar. 2012. • Invited 45 minutes speaker at International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Beijing, • Invited speaker, East Asia Mini-Wokshop on CR China, 1998. Geometry, Institute of Mathematics, Chinese A- cademy of Science, Taipei. Mar. 2012. • Zi-Jiang Professor, East China Normal Univer- sity, May-June, 2002-2003. • Invited address at the 2013 Abel Symposium sponsored by the Norwegian Mathematical So- • Director of Institute of Mathematics, East China ciety, Trondheim, Norway, July 2-5, 2013. Normal University, (2002-). • Plenary talk at International Congress of Chi- • Invited 45 minutes speaker at Internation- nese Mathematicians, Taipei, July, 2013. al Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Hong Kong, December, 2004. • Plenary talk at 2013 Annual Conference of Chi- nese Several Complex Variables, XuZhou, Au- • Invited 45 minutes speaker at International gust, 2013 Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Hangzhou, December, 2007. • Plenary Lecture at The Hong Kong Mathe- matical Society Annual General Meeting, Hong • Invited Distinguished lecture at Centennial Ex- Kong, June, 2014 pert's Forum of Lanzhou University, May, 2010. Ph.D Student Supervision • Invited 45 minutes speaker at International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Beijing, 1. Yung Yu (1988) December, 2010. 2. Craig Seeley (1988) • Visiting Distinguished Professor, Center for Ad- 3. Yi-Jing Xu(1990) vanced Study, Warsaw University of Technology, May, 2011. 4. Wen-Lin Chiou (1991) Stephen Shing-Toung Yau 4 5. Chi-Wah Leung (1993) 33. Mo Deng (2011) 6. Tan Jiang (1993) 34. Fei Ye (2011) 7. Li-Xing Jia (1994) 35. Eb Armah (2011) 8. Jie Chen (1994) 36. Yang Jiao (2012) 9. Amid Rasoulian (1995) 37. Huaiqing Zuo (2012) 10. Hon-Wing Cheng (1996) 38. Troy Antonio Hernandez (co-direct with Jie Yang) (2013) 11. Qing-Long Zhang (1996) 39. Xue Luo (2013) 12. Guo-Qing Hu (1997) Selected Professional Activities 13. Zhi-Gang Liang (1998) • Managing Editor and Founder, Journal of Alge- 14. Ke-Pao Lin (1999) braic Geometry (1991-). 15. Xi Wu (2000) • Editors-in-Chief and Founder, Communications in Information and Systems (2000-). 16. Zhe Li (2002) • Guest Editor, Special issues of Science in China, 17. Xue-Jun Wang (2002) Series A: Mathematics, 2006, 2010. 18. Shao-Bo Wang (2002) • Executive Committee, International Congress of 19. Junfeng Ding (2005) Chinese Mathematicians, Beijing, China Dec. 2010. 20. Changchuan Yin (2005) • Program Committee, International Conference 21. Libin iu (2005) on Complex Analysis and Related topics, Bei- jing China, August, 2009. 22. Dongchul Yoo (2005) • Guest Editor, Special issues of Asian Journal of 23. Jiuhong Tang (2005) Math., 2003, 2007, 2011. 24. Dongmin Cai (2006) • Scientific committee, International Congress 25. Ling Zhou (2007) of Chinese Mathematicians, Hangzhou, China, Dec. 2007. 26. Peng He (2007) • Coorganizer, AMS special session on Analysis 27. Chaoxiao Lu (2008) and CR Geometry, De Paul University, Chica- go, Oct. 2007. 28. Rong Du (2009) • Scientific Committee, International Conference 29. Weitian Zang (2009) on Several Complex Variables, Beijing, China, 30. Qian Liang (2010) July, 2006. 31. Bo Zhao (2010) • Organizer, International Conference on Sever- al Complex Variables,University of Science and 32. Chenglong Yu (2010) Technology, Hefei, China, June, 2005. Stephen Shing-Toung Yau 5 • Scientific Committee Member, International • Organizer, Minisymposium on CR Geometry, Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Hong The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May, Kong, December, 2004. 1999 • Organizer, International Conference on Complex • Chair of the Technical Session at the IEEE Con- Geometry and Related Topics, East China Nor- ference of Decision and Control, "Nonlinear Fil- mal University, Shanghai, China, June, 2004. tering II", San Diego, CA 1997, Tampa, FL, 1998 • Coorganizer, AMS special session "iterated func- • Scientific Member, International Congress tion systems and analysis on fractals", Evanston, of Chinese Mathematicians, Beijing, Decem-
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