Yum-Tong Siu

Mathematician, Award Winner

1943 –

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Who is Yum-Tong Siu?

Yum-Tong Siu is the William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.

Dr. Siu has been a prominent figure in the mathematics of several complex variables for a quarter-century. He has mastered techniques at the interfaces between complex variables, differential geometry, and algebraic geometry. For example, he applied estimates of the complex Neumann problem and the theory of multiplier ideal sheaves to algebraic geometry, to resolve various conjectures.

Siu's education included a BA in mathematics from the University of Hong Kong, M.A. from the University of Minnesota and Ph.D. from Princeton University, in the period 1963–1966. He started his academic career as Assistant Professor in Purdue and Notre Dame Universities, but rose fast in the ranks and became full Professor at Yale and then Stanford Universities. In 1982 he joined Harvard as Professor, and in 1992 became the William Elwood Byerly Professor. In addition he was former Chairman of the Harvard Math Department He lives in the Greater Boston area.

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Born
May 6, 1943
Guangzhou
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, Princeton University
    (1963 - 1966)
  • University of Minnesota
Employment
  • Yale University
  • Harvard University
  • Stanford University
Lived in
  • Greater Boston
    (1982 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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