Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu | |||||||||||
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| 劉秋菊 | |||||||||||
| Born | 15 December 1974 | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | National Taiwan University (BS) Harvard University (PhD) | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 劉秋菊 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 刘秋菊 | ||||||||||
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Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Chinese: 劉秋菊; pinyin: Liú Qiūjú; born 15 December 1974) is a Taiwanese mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. Her research interests include algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry.[1]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Liu was born on December 16, 1974, in Taiwan. She graduated from National Taiwan University with her Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in mathematics in 1996 and earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 2002 under the supervision of Shing-Tung Yau.[1][2]
Career
[edit | edit source]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 | edit source]- ^ 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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