Peng Shige

Peng Shige
彭实戈
Born December 1947 (age 67)
Binzhou, Shandong, China
Residence Jinan, Shandong, China
Nationality Chinese
Fields

Mathematics

Mathematical Finance
Institutions Shandong University
Fudan University
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alma mater Shandong University
Paris Dauphine University
University of Provence
Fudan University
Known for BSDE
Mathematical Finance
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Peng (彭).

Peng Shige (simplified Chinese: 彭实戈; traditional Chinese: 彭實戈; pinyin: Péng Shígē, born December , 1947 in Binzhou, Shandong Province, China) is a Chinese mathematician noted for his contributions in stochastic analysis and mathematical finance.

Biography

He studied in the Department of Physics, Shandong University from 1971 to 1974 and went to work at the Institute of Mathematics, Shandong University in 1978. In 1983 he took an opportunity to enter Paris Dauphine University, France under the supervision of Alain Bensoussan, who was a student of Jacques-Louis Lions. He obtained his PhD from Paris Dauphine University in 1985[1] and from University of Provence in 1986. Then he returned to China and did postdoctoral research at Fudan University before becoming a professor at Shandong University in 1990. In 1992 he was awarded the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches by the University of Provence. He was promoted to Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education of China (Cheung Kong Scholarship Programme) in 1999.

Academic career

Professor Peng generalized the stochastic maximum principle in stochastic optimal control. Along with Étienne Pardoux, Peng founded the general theory of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs for short) in a paper published in 1990. Soon Feynman–Kac type connections of BSDEs and certain kinds of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, e.g., Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation, were obtained, where the solutions of these PDEs can be interpreted in the classical or viscosity senses. As a particular case the solution of the Black–Scholes equation can be represented as the solution of a simple linear BSDE, which can be regarded as a starting point of the BSDEs' applications in mathematical finance. A type of nonlinear expectation, called the g-expectation, was also derived from the theory of BSDEs. General theories of nonlinear expectations were developed later. These have various applications in utility theory, risk measure theory, etc.

Honours

Peng was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. As one of the invited speakers, he gave a one hour plenary lecture[2] at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Hyderabad, India on August 24, 2010.[3][4][5][6] He has been appointed as "Global Scholars" for academic years 2011–2012 by Princeton University, hosted by the university's departments of mathematics, operations research and financial engineering, and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, as he "is a global leader in the field of probability theory and financial mathematics." [7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Shige Peng at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  2. ↑ Official web page of The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2010): PLENARY SPEAKERS/Invited Speakers
  3. ↑ "Chinese Mathematician to Deliver Report at ICM". Chinese Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
  4. ↑ "Professor Peng gave a lecture at Xiamen University" (in Chinese). School of Mathematical Sciences Xiamen University. 2009-04-24. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  5. ↑ "News at Shandong University" (in Chinese). Shandong University. 2009-04-28. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  6. ↑ "More news from other websites". 2009-04-27. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  7. ↑ Eric Quiñones (September 22, 2011). "Four new Global Scholars set to visit campus". Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. p. News at Princeton.
  8. ↑ Council for International Teaching and Research, Princeton University. "2011-12 Princeton Global Scholar Shige Peng". Princeton, NJ 08540, USA: Princeton University.

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