Li Yanyan (mathematician)

Li Yanyan , mostly quoted as Yanyan Li or YY Li (born December 26, 1961 in Beijing ) is a Chinese mathematician who deals with analysis.

Li received his PhD in 1988 from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University under Louis Nirenberg ( On Second Order Nonlinear Elliptic Equations ). The dissertation received the Kurt Friedrichs Prize. He was then an instructor at Princeton University until 1990 and assistant professor from 1990, then associate professor (1993) and professor at Rutgers University from 1997 . He was visiting professor at the University of Beijing (Beijing Normal University), the University of Science and Technology of China (from 1999), at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and several times at the University of Paris VI with Haïm Brezis . In 2003 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study (1989/90, 1994, 2003).

Li deals with partial differential equations with applications in differential geometry, for example the Yamabe problem . He worked with Brézis (topology of Sobolew spaces of harmonic mappings between manifolds), Nirenberg , Gang Tian (on existence theorems in general relativity).

In 1987/88 and 1993 to 1995 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing ( On some conformally invariant fully nonlinear equations ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

• with GQ Chen, X. Zhu, D. Cao (editor): Advances in nonlinear partial differential equations and related areas . World Scientific 1998

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The surname is Li, the first name Yanyan.
2. ↑ Li Yanyan in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
3. ↑ The real Yamabe problem was solved by Richard Schoen
4. ^ Li, Tian Non existence of axially symmetric stationary solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations with disconnected symmetric event horizon , Manuscripta Mathematica, Volume 73, 1991, p. 83

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Li is the family name here, Yanyan is the first name.