Xi-Ping Zhu

Zhu Xiping is a Professor of Mathematics at Zhongshan University. He collaborated with Cao Huaidong of Lehigh University in verifying Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture. The Cao-Zhu team was one of three teams formed for this purpose. The other teams were the Tian-Morgan team (Gang Tian of Princeton University and John Morgan of Columbia University) and the Kleiner-Lott team (Bruce Kleiner of Yale University and John Lott of the University of Michigan).

Award

In December 2004, Zhu won the Morningside Medal of Mathematics at the Third International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM), a triennial congress hosted by institutions in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong on a rotating basis. According to ICCM [ [http://www.hkedcity.net/article/project/iccm2004/iccm_e.phtml The Third International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians | What is ICCM? ] ] , "Awardees (of the Morningside Medal) are selected by a panel of international renowned mathematicians with the aim to encourage outstanding mathematicians of Chinese descent in their pursuit of mathematical truth."

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References

* Huai-Dong Cao and Xi-Ping Zhu, " [http://www.ims.cuhk.edu.hk/~ajm/vol10/10_2.pdf A Complete Proof of the Poincaré and Geometrization Conjectures - application of the Hamilton-Perelman theory of the Ricci flow] ", vol. 10, no. 2, p.165-492, "Asian Journal of Mathematics", June 2006.
* Huai-Dong Cao and Xi-Ping Zhu, [http://arxiv.org/abs/math.DG/0612069 Hamilton-Perelman's Proof of the Poincaré Conjecture and the Geometrization Conjecture] , a revised version of the previous paper on the Cornell arxiv.