Chuu-Lian Terng
Chuu-Lian Terng (born February 1, 1949 in Hualien , Republic of China (Taiwan) ) is a Sino-American mathematician.
Terng studied at the National University of Taiwan (bachelor's degree in 1971) and from 1972 at Brandeis University , where she received her doctorate in 1976 with Richard Palais ( natural vector bundles and natural differential operators ). From 1976 she was a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley , in 1978 she became an assistant professor at Princeton University , 1982 associate professor and 1986 professor at Northeastern University . She has also been a professor at the University of California, Irvine, since 2004 . In 1979 and 1997/98 she was at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and in 1981/82 and 1991 onMax Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. In 1984/85 she was visiting professor at Berkeley.
It deals with differential geometry and integrable Hamiltonian systems (especially geometry of soliton equations ). She worked with her husband Richard Palais and with Karen Uhlenbeck , with whom she investigated hidden loop group symmetries (loop group actions in the space of soliton solutions) of integrable partial differential equation systems. In differential geometry, she dealt with the geometry and topology of submanifolds , especially the structural theory of isoparametric submanifolds .
In 1980 she was a Sloan Research Fellow and in 1996 she received a Humboldt Research Award . In 2006 she was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( Applications of loop group factorization to geometric soliton equations ). In 1999 she was the Falconer Lecturer of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM, of which she was president from 1995 to 1997) and the Mathematical Association of America ( Geometry and Visualization of Surfaces ). From 2003 to 2006 she was on the scientific council of the MSRI and from 1998 to 2001 in that of the IAS Summer Institute in Park City. She is also a member of the Council of the National Center for Theoretical Sciences in Taiwan. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
She is the editor of the Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics and Communications in Analysis and Geometry . From 1997 to 2001 she was editor of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society .
In 1994 she and Karen Uhlenbeck founded a mentoring program for women in mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study (Women and Mathematics, WAM).
Fonts
- with Richard Palais Submanifold Geometry and Critical Point Theory , Springer Verlag 1988
- as editor of Integrable systems, geometry and topology , AMS 2006
- with Karen Uhlenbeck: Geometry of solitons , Notices AMS, 2000, No. 1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of birth according to IAS 1980 membership book
- ↑ Chuu-Lian Terng in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Terng, Chuu-Lian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hualien |