Horng-Tzer Yau
Horng-Tzer Yau (Chinese: 姚鴻
According to William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, "Professor Yau is a leader in the fields of mathematical physics, ... who has introduced important tools and concepts to study probability, stochastic processes, nonequilibrium statistical physics, and quantum dynamics."[3]
Yau is a 2000 MacArthur Fellow.
Honors
[edit]- Simons Investigator Award[4]
- Sloan Foundation Fellowship
- Packard Foundation Fellowship, 1991
- International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998[5]
- Henri Poincaré Prize, 2000
- MacArthur Fellowship, 2000[6]
- Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics, 2001[7]
- Academician of the Academia Sinica, 2002[8]
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences[9]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012[10]
- Simons Investigator, 2012[11]
- Editor-in-Chief of Communications in Mathematical Physics
- the 2017 Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics & Physics[12]
References
[edit]- ^ Horng-Tzer Yau at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Horng-Tzer Yau". Institute for Advanced Study (ias.edu).
- ^ Harvard University Gazette April 14, 2005
- ^ 2012 Simons Investigators September, 2012
- ^ Yau, Horng-Tzer (1998). "Scaling limit of particle systems, incompressible Navier-Stokes equation and Boltzmann equations". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 193–202.
- ^ H.-T. Yau Receives MacArthur Fellowship October, 2000
- ^ Notices of the AMS May, 2002
- ^ "Horng-Tzer Yau". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ News from the National Academy of Sciences Archived 2016-04-04 at the Wayback Machine April, 2013
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-09-01.
- ^ Simons Investigators Awardees, The Simons Foundation
- ^ "Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics".
External links
[edit]- 1959 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Mathematical physicists
- Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
- Princeton University alumni
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
- Stanford University faculty
- Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty
- MacArthur Fellows
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Simons Investigator
- 20th-century Taiwanese mathematicians
- 20th-century Taiwanese physicists
- Members of Academia Sinica
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences