Yum-Tong Siu

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

Siu attended school in Macao and from 1949 to 1960 in Hong Kong. He studied at the University of Hong Kong (Bachelor 's degree 1963), the University of Minnesota ( master's degree in 1964 at Eugenio Calabi ) and received his doctorate in 1966 from Princeton University with Robert Gunning on a theme from the theory of several complex variables ( Coherent Noether - Lasker Decomposition of Subsheaves and Sheaf Cohomology ). After that, he was Assistant Professor at Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame and from 1970 professor at Yale University and in 1978 from Stanford University. Since 1982 he is a professor at Harvard University, from 1992 when William Elwood Byerly Professor. 1996 to 1999 he was Chairman of the Faculty of Mathematics at Harvard. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, Hong Kong, Paris ( 1972), the MSRI, University of California, Berkeley, 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.

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 with on the ICM, of which 1983 in Warsaw and in 2002 in Beijing a plenary lecture.

He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Hong Kong and Bochum. Siu was co-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 Guggenheim and Sloan Fellow. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

Writings

  • Michael Schneider ( eds.): 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, Birkhauser, 1987 ( DMV Seminar Dusseldorf 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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