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Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu
劉秋菊
Born (1974-12-15) 15 December 1974 (age 50)
Taiwan
Alma materNational Taiwan University (BS)
Harvard University (PhD)
AwardsMorningside Silver Medal (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsHarvard University
Northwestern University
Columbia University
Thesis Moduli of J-Holomorphic Curves with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions  (2002)
Doctoral advisorShing-Tung Yau
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese劉秋菊
Simplified Chinese刘秋菊
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLiú Qiūjú
Bopomofoㄌㄧㄡˊ   ㄑㄧㄡ   ㄐㄩˊ
Wade–GilesLiu Ch'iu-chü

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.

References

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae Archived 2015-02-06 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2015-01-12.
  2. Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-12.

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