Horng-Tzer Yau

Horng-Tzer Yau is a Chinese-American mathematician. Born in Taiwan, he has a B.Sc. in 1981 from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in 1987 from Princeton University. He joined the faculty of NYU in 1988, and became a full professor at its Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1994. He moved to Stanford in 2003, and then to Harvard University in 2005. He has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., in 1987-88, 1991-92, and 2003. According to William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, "Professor Yau is a leader in the fields of mathematical physics, ... who has introduced important tools and concepts to study probability, stochastic processes, nonequilibrium statistical physics, and quantum dynamics." [ [http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/04.14/19-yau.html Harvard University Gazette] April 14, 2005]

Honors

* Sloan Foundation Fellowship
* Packard Foundation Fellowship, 1991
* Henri Poincare Prize
* MacArthur Fellowship, 2000
* Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* Editorial boards of Communications in Mathematical Physics, Journal of Statistical Mathematics, Asian Journal of Mathematics, and Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics

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