Horng-Tzer Yau
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Horng-Tzer Yau is a Chinese-American mathematician. Born in Taiwan, he has a B.Sc. in 1981 from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in 1987 from Princeton University. He joined the faculty of NYU in 1988, and became a full professor at its Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1994. He moved to Stanford in 2003,. and then to Harvard University in 2005. He has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., in 1987-88, 1991-92, and 2003.
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." [1]
[edit] Honors
- Sloan Foundation Fellowship
- Packard Foundation Fellowship, 1991,
- Henri Poincare Prize
- MacArthur Fellowship, 2000.
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- editorial boards of Communications in Mathematical Physics, [J[ournal of Statistical Mathematics]], Asian Journal of Mathematics, and Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics.
[edit] References
- ^ Harvard University Gazette April 14, 2005
