Yum-Tong Siu

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Yum-Tong Siu (born May 6, 1943 in Guangzhou ) is a Chinese-American mathematician who deals with complex analysis, complex algebraic geometry and complex differential geometry .

Siu 2006 in Suzhou

Siu attended school in Macau and from 1949 to 1960 in Hong Kong . He studied at the University of Hong Kong (Bachelor's degree in 1963), the University of Minnesota (Master's degree in 1964 with Eugenio Calabi ) and received his doctorate in 1966 from Princeton University with Robert Gunning on a topic from the theory of several complex variables ( Coherent Noether-Lasker Decomposition of Subsheaves and Sheaf Cohomology ). He was then an Assistant Professor at Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame and from 1970 Professor at Yale University and from 1978 Stanford University . Since 1982 he has been a professor at Harvard University , from 1992 as William Elwood Byerly Professor . From 1996 to 1999 he was chairman of the math department at Harvard. Among other things, he was visiting professor at Columbia University , in Hong Kong, Paris (1972), the MSRI , the University of California, Berkeley , and the University of Bochum .

Siu is a leading researcher in the analysis of several complex variables . He examined questions from the interface of complex analysis, differential geometry and algebraic geometry. With Shing-Tung Yau he solved the Frankel conjecture.

In 1978 ( Extension problems in several complex variables ), 1983 ( Some recent developments in complex differential geometry ) and 2002 ( Some recent transcendental techniques in algebraic and complex geometry ) he was invited speaker at the ICM , including in 1983 in Warsaw and 2002 in Beijing a plenary lecture.

He is an honorary doctor from the Universities of Hong Kong and Bochum. Siu was Associate Editor of the Annals of Mathematics and Editor of the Journal of Differential Geometry. Siu received the Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society, was a Guggenheim and Sloan Research Fellow . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and is an external member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Yum-Tong Siu

Fonts

  • with Michael Schneider (Ed.): Several complex variables , MSRI Publications, 1999, Online
  • as editor: Complex analysis of several variables , American Mathematical Society, 1984
  • Lectures on Hermitian-Einstein metrics for stable bundles and Kähler-Einstein metrics , Birkhäuser, 1987 (DMV seminar Düsseldorf 1986)
  • Techniques of extension of analytic objects , Dekker 1974
  • with Günther Trautmann : Deformations of coherent analytic sheaves with compact supports , AMS, 1981
  • with Trautmann: Gap-sheaves and extension of coherent analytic subsheaves , Springer, 1971
  • Siu Pseudoconvexity and the problem of Levi , Bulletin AMS, 1978, PDF file

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personal data
SURNAME Siu, Yum-Tong
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Guangzhou , China