Education
From the University of Minnesota and Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University, in the period 1963–1966.
萧荫堂, 蕭蔭堂
From the University of Minnesota and Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University, in the period 1963–1966.
Siu has been a prominent figure in the mathematics of several complex variables for a quarter-century. He has mastered techniques at the interfaces between complex variables, differential geometry, and algebraic geometry. Foreign example, he applied estimates of the complex Neumann problem and the theory of multiplier ideal sheaves to algebraic geometry, to resolve various conjectures.
(cf MSRI Publications, Volume(s) 37: Several Complex Variables).
Siu"s education included a Bachelor in mathematics from the University of Hong Kong, Master of Arts He started his academic career as Assistant Professor in Purdue and Notre Dame Universities, but rose fast in the ranks and became full Professor at Yale and then Stanford Universities. In 1982 he joined Harvard as Professor, and in 1992 became the William Elwood Byerly Professor.
In addition he was former Chairman of the Harvard Mathematics Department. He lives in the Greater Boston area.
He has been an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki (1978), Warsaw (1983) and Beijing (2002).
He also received the Stefan Bergman Prize of the American Mathematical Society, honorary doctorates at the University of Hong Kong, University of Bochum, Germany, and University of Macau. In 2006, Siu published a proof of the finite generation of the pluricanonical ring.
National Academy of Sciences. Göttingen Academy of Sciences. Chinese Academy of Sciences]
He is a Corresponding Member of the Goettingen Academy of Sciences (elected 1993), a Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (elected 2004), a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (elected 1998), the National Academy of Sciences (elected 2002), and Academia Sinica, Taiwan (elected 2004).
He is also a member of Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Mathematics Sciences, National University of Singapore (since 2009) and of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (since 2006).
