Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (simplified Chinese: 刘秋菊; traditional Chinese: 劉秋菊; pinyin: Liú Qiūjú; born December 15, 1974) is a Taiwanese mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. Her research interests include algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry.[1]
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu 劉秋菊 | |||||||||||
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| Born | 15 December 1974 | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | National Taiwan University (BS 1996) Harvard University (Ph.D. 2002) | ||||||||||
| Awards | Morningside Silver Medal (2007) | ||||||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||||||
| Fields | Mathematics | ||||||||||
| Institutions | Harvard University Northwestern University Columbia University | ||||||||||
| Thesis | Moduli of J-Holomorphic Curves with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions (2002) | ||||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Shing-Tung Yau | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 劉秋菊 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 刘秋菊 | ||||||||||
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Education edit
Liu graduated from National Taiwan University in 1996, and earned her Ph.D. in 2002 from Harvard University under the supervision of Shing-Tung Yau.[1][2]
Career edit
After continuing at Harvard as a Junior Fellow, she took a faculty position at Northwestern University, and moved to Columbia in 2006.[1]
Liu won the Morningside Silver Medal in 2007.[1] She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.[1] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Curriculum vitae Archived 2015-02-06 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-12.
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