Huai-Dong Cao
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| Names | |
|---|---|
| Chinese Simplified: | 曹怀东 |
| Chinese Traditional: | 曹懷東 |
| Pinyin: | Cáo Húai-Dōng |
| Wade-Giles: | Ts`ao2 Huai2-Tung1 |
Huai-Dong Cao is A. Everett Pitcher Professor of Mathematics in Lehigh University. He collaborated with Xi-Ping Zhu of Zhongshan University in verifying Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture. The Cao-Zhu team is one of three teams formed for this purpose. The other teams are the Tian-Morgan team (Gang Tian of Princeton University and John Morgan of Columbia University) and the Kleiner-Lott team (Bruce Kleiner of Yale University and John Lott of University of Michigan). Manifold Destiny, a controversial article in The New Yorker, put the events surrounding the paper by Cao and Zhu in a very negative light.
Professor Cao received his B.A. from Tsinghua University in 1981 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1986 under the supervision of Shing-Tung Yau, a Fields Medalist and National Medal of Science recipient. Professor Cao's specialty is geometric analysis and he is a leading expert in the subject of Kähler Ricci flow.
Professor Cao is a former Associate Director, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA. He has held visiting Professorships at MIT, Harvard University, Isaac Newton Institute, Max-Planck Institute, IHES, ETH Zurich, and University of Pisa. Professor Cao has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (2004) and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (1991-1993). He is Managing Editor of Journal of Differential Geometry.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Huai-Dong Cao and Xi-Ping Zhu. "A Complete Proof of the Poincaré and Geometrization Conjectures - application of the Hamilton-Perelman theory of the Ricci flow", vol. 10, no. 2, p.165-492, Asian Journal of Mathematics, June 2006.
- Huai-Dong Cao. On Harnack's inequalities for the Kähler-Ricci flow, Inventiones Mathematicae 109 (1992), no. 2, 247--263.
- Huai-Dong Cao. Deformation of Kähler metrics to Kähler-Einstein metrics on compact Kähler manifolds, vol. 81, no. 2, 359-372, Inventiones Mathematicae, 1985.
