Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu | |||||||||||
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| 劉秋菊 | |||||||||||
| Born | (1974-12-15)15 December 1974 (age 50) | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | National Taiwan University (BS) Harvard University (PhD) | ||||||||||
| Awards | Morningside Silver Medal (2007) | ||||||||||
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| Fields | Mathematics | ||||||||||
| Institutions | Harvard University Northwestern University Columbia University | ||||||||||
| 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 (Chinese:劉秋菊;pinyin:Liú Qiūjú; born 15 December 1974) is a Taiwanese mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics atColumbia University. Her research interests includealgebraic geometry andsymplectic geometry.[1]
Liu was born on December 16, 1974, in Taiwan. She graduated fromNational Taiwan University with herBachelor of Science (B.S.) in mathematics in 1996 and earned herPh.D. in mathematics fromHarvard University in 2002 under the supervision ofShing-Tung Yau.[1][2]
After continuing at Harvard as aJunior Fellow, she took a faculty position atNorthwestern University, and moved to Columbia in 2006.[1]
Liu won theMorningside Silver Medal in 2007.[1] She was aninvited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.[1]In 2012, she became one of the inauguralfellows of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[3]
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