Shing-Tung Yau

Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau
Born	April 4, 1949 (age 75); Shantou, Guangdong, Republic of China
Nationality	China (1949-1990), American (since 1990)
Alma mater	Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known for	Analysis and geometry of the Plateau problem and minimal surfaces; Bernstein's problem for maximal surfaces; Bogomolov–Miyaoka–Yau inequality; Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau theorem; Frankel conjecture; Geometry of positive scalar curvature; Gradient estimates for partial differential equations; Minkowski problem; Monge–Ampère equation; Omori−Yau maximum principle; Positive mass theorem; Resolution of the Calabi conjecture and construction of Calabi–Yau manifolds; Resolution of the Willmore conjecture in the non-embedded case; SYZ conjecture and mirror symmetry; Thomas–Yau conjecture;
Spouse	Yu-yun Kuo
Children	Michael Yau, Isaac Yau
Awards	John J. Carty Award (1981); Veblen Prize (1981); Fields Medal (1982); Crafoord Prize (1994); National Medal of Science (1997); Wolf Prize (2010); Shaw Prize (2023)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Tsinghua University; Harvard University ; University of California, San Diego ; Stanford University ; Stony Brook University ; Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis	On the Fundamental Group of Compact Manifolds of Non-Positive Curvature (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Shiing-Shen Chern
Doctoral students	Richard Schoen (Stanford, 1977); Robert Bartnik (Princeton, 1983); Mark Stern (Princeton, 1984); Huai-Dong Cao (Princeton, 1986); Gang Tian (Harvard, 1988); Jun Li (Stanford, 1989); Wanxiong Shi (Harvard, 1990); Lizhen Ji (Northeastern, 1991); Kefeng Liu (Harvard, 1993); Mu-Tao Wang (Harvard, 1998); Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Harvard, 2002); Valentino Tosatti (Harvard, 2009);

Shing-Tung Yau (/jaʊ/; Chinese: 丘成桐; pinyin: Qiū Chéngtóng; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese-American mathematician. He is the director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University and professor emeritus at Harvard University. Until 2022, Yau was the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, at which point he moved to Tsinghua.^[1]^[2]

Yau was born in Shantou in 1949, moved to British Hong Kong at a young age, and then moved to the United States in 1969. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, in recognition of his contributions to partial differential equations, the Calabi conjecture, the positive energy theorem, and the Monge–Ampère equation.^[3] Yau is considered one of the major contributors to the development of modern differential geometry and geometric analysis. The impact of Yau's work are also seen in the mathematical and physical fields of convex geometry, algebraic geometry, enumerative geometry, mirror symmetry, general relativity, and string theory, while his work has also touched upon applied mathematics, engineering, and numerical analysis.

^ "Questions and answers with Shing-Tung Yau", Physics Today, 11 April 2016.
^ Ling, Xin (2022-04-21). "Chinese-born maths genius leaves Harvard to help China become a powerhouse on subject". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
^ Albers, Donald J.; Alexanderson, G. L.; Reid, Constance. International Mathematical Congresses. An Illustrated History 1893-1986. Rev. ed. including ICM 1986. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986

[1] "Questions and answers with Shing-Tung Yau", Physics Today, 11 April 2016.

[SCMP-2] Ling, Xin (2022-04-21). "Chinese-born maths genius leaves Harvard to help China become a powerhouse on subject". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2022-04-22.

[3] Albers, Donald J.; Alexanderson, G. L.; Reid, Constance. International Mathematical Congresses. An Illustrated History 1893-1986. Rev. ed. including ICM 1986. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986

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Shing-Tung Yau

Born	(1949-04-04) April 4, 1949 (age 75) Shantou, Guangdong, Republic of China
Nationality	China (1949-1990), American (since 1990)
Alma mater	Chinese University of Hong Kong University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known for	Analysis and geometry of the Plateau problem and minimal surfaces Bernstein's problem for maximal surfaces Bogomolov–Miyaoka–Yau inequality Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau theorem Frankel conjecture Geometry of positive scalar curvature Gradient estimates for partial differential equations Minkowski problem Monge–Ampère equation Omori−Yau maximum principle Positive mass theorem Resolution of the Calabi conjecture and construction of Calabi–Yau manifolds Resolution of the Willmore conjecture in the non-embedded case SYZ conjecture and mirror symmetry Thomas–Yau conjecture
Spouse	Yu-yun Kuo
Children	Michael Yau, Isaac Yau
Awards	John J. Carty Award (1981) Veblen Prize (1981) Fields Medal (1982) Crafoord Prize (1994) National Medal of Science (1997) Wolf Prize (2010) Shaw Prize (2023)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Tsinghua University Harvard University University of California, San Diego Stanford University Stony Brook University Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis	On the Fundamental Group of Compact Manifolds of Non-Positive Curvature (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Shiing-Shen Chern
Doctoral students	Richard Schoen (Stanford, 1977) Robert Bartnik (Princeton, 1983) Mark Stern (Princeton, 1984) Huai-Dong Cao (Princeton, 1986) Gang Tian (Harvard, 1988) Jun Li (Stanford, 1989) Wanxiong Shi (Harvard, 1990) Lizhen Ji (Northeastern, 1991) Kefeng Liu (Harvard, 1993) Mu-Tao Wang (Harvard, 1998) Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Harvard, 2002) Valentino Tosatti (Harvard, 2009)