Yum-Tong Siu
Mathematician, Award Winner
1943 –
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
- PhD, Princeton University
- Employment
- Yale University
- Harvard University
- Stanford University
- Lived in
- Greater Boston
(1982 - )
- Greater Boston
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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