Chuu-Lian Terng

Chuu - Lian Terng ( born 1 February 1949 in Taiwan) is a Chinese- American mathematician.

Terng studied at the National Taiwan University ( Bachelor's degree 1971) and in 1972 at Brandeis University, where she received her doctorate under Richard Palais 1976 ( Natural vector bundles and natural differential operators ). From 1976 she was a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, 1978, she was Assistant Professor at Princeton University, 1982 Associate Professor and in 1986 Professor at Northeastern University. In addition, it is since 2004 professor at the University of California, Irvine. 1979 and 1997/98 she was at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and 1981/82 and 1991 at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. 1984/85 she was a visiting professor at Berkeley.

It deals with differential geometry and integrable Hamiltonian systems (especially geometry of Soliton Equations ). They worked together and with Karen Uhlenbeck with her husband Richard Palais, with whom she studied hidden loop group symmetries (Loop Group Actions in the area of ​​Solitonenlösungen ) of integrable partial differential equations. In differential geometry, she dealt with geometry and topology of submanifolds, especially structural theory of isoparametric submanifolds in.

In 1980 she was Sloan 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 Falconer Lecturer of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM, whose president she was from 1995 to 1997 ) and the Mathematical Association of America ( Geometry and Visualization of Surfaces ). 2003 to 2006 she was in the scientific council of the MSRI and 1998-2001 in the IAS Summer Institute in Park City. She is also on the Council of 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. 1997 to 2001 she was editor of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

  • With Richard Palais submanifold Geometry and Critical Point Theory, Springer Verlag 1988
  • As editor Integrable systems, geometry and topology, AMS 2006
  • With Karen Uhlenbeck: Geometry of solitons, Notices AMS, 2000, No.1
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