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Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu
劉秋菊 |
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| Born | 15 December 1974 |
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| Alma mater | National Taiwan University (BS 1996) Harvard University (Ph.D. 2002) |
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| Awards | Morningside Silver Medal (2007) | ||||||||||
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| Fields | Mathematics | ||||||||||
| Institutions | Harvard University Northwestern University Columbia University |
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| 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 (simplified Chinese: 刘秋菊; traditional Chinese: 劉秋菊; pinyin: Liú Qiūjú; born 15 December 1974) is a Taiwanese mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. Her research interests include algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry.
Education
Liu graduated from National Taiwan University in 1996, and earned her Ph.D. in 2002 from Harvard University under the supervision of Shing-Tung Yau.
Career
After continuing at Harvard as a Junior Fellow, she took a faculty position at Northwestern University, and moved to Columbia in 2006.
Liu won the Morningside Silver Medal in 2007. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010. In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
See also
In Spanish: Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu para niños
