Year:    2011

CAM-Net Digest, Vol. 8 (2011), Iss. 18 : p. 12

Abstract

2011年9月22日，来自斯坦福大学的Richard Schoen教授将在清华大学作陈省身讲座。该系列讲座共三场，其中第一场面向大众，第二、三场面向数学系学生和数学工作者。细节如下：
Professor Richard Schoen from Stanford University will give Tsinghua University
Shiing-Shen Chern Distinguished Lecture (a 3-lecture series) beginning in Sept. 22.
The details are as follows:
为了表彰陈省身教授在微分几何领域的基础性贡献，清华大学数学科学中心于2011年设立清华大学陈省身讲座。该奖将颁给在几何领域做出杰出贡献的个人。获奖者将受邀来清华大学发表演讲，并接受证书以及奖金。
Tsinghua University Shiing-Shen Chern Distinguished Lecture is established in 2011by Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University to honor the fundamental contributions of Shiing-Shen Chern to differential geometry. The lectureship is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the advancement of geometry. The recipient will deliver a public lecture at Tsinghua University. The award includes round-trip travel to Beijing, a citation and a cash prize.
Tsinghua University Shiing-Shen Chern Distinguished Lecture Title: "Highlights in Differential Geometry: 1950 to the present"
Speaker: Richard Schoen (Stanford University)
Time: 19:00 - 20:00, September 22, 29 and October 13, 2011
Tea Break: 18:30-19:00
Place on Sept. 22: Reception Room, Main Building, Tsinghua University
Place on Sept. 29 and Oct. 13: 3rd Floor, Jin Chun Yuan West Building
清华大学作陈省身讲座
报告题目: "Highlights in Differential Geometry: 1950 to the present"
主讲人：Richard Schoen (斯坦福大学)、
时 间：9月22、29日、10月13日，19:00 - 20:00
茶 歇：18:30-19:00
9月22日地点：清华大学主楼接待厅
9月29日/10月13日地点：近春园西楼三层
报告摘要
Abstract: S. S. Chern was a leader of global differential geometry in the 20th century.
Since 1950 the subject has seen dramatic developments particularly through the
introduction of deep analytic methods. In the first lecture we will highlight some of the main problems of differential geometry. In the second lecture we will survey some of the deep problems which have been solved by variational techniques, and we will briefly describe some of the important geometric variational problems including the Plateau problem and the Yamabe problem. In the third lecture we will introduce geometric flows including the Ricci flow and survey some of the results achieved by flow methods.
The first lecture is intended for a general audience with little mathematical training.
The second and third should be accessible to a general mathematical audience including advanced undergraduate math majors.
报告人介绍：
Richard M. Schoen教授1950年10月23日出生于美国俄亥俄州的Fort Recovery市。他于1977年从斯坦福大学获得博士学位，现在是该校的Anne T.和Robert M. Bass人文和科学教授。Schoen教授是微分几何和广义相对论方面的著名专家。1979年，他和丘成桐教授一起，证明了广义相对论中的正能量定理。1984年，他得到了紧流形上Yamabe问题的完全解。这一研究将他之前和丘教授在研究中发展的新观点，以及Thierry Aubin 和 Neil Trudinger的研究成果结合了起来。2007年，他和Simon Brendle用Hamilton的Ricci flow证明了著名的1/4-pinching 微分球定理，从而在正截面曲率流形的研究中做出了基础性贡献，使得这一长达50年的问题得以解决。此外，Schoen教授还在1983年获得了MacArthur研究基金，在1989年获得了Bocher纪念奖，并在1996年获得了Guggenheim研究基金。现在，他是美国国家科学院院士和美国艺术和科学院院士。
Introduction of Speaker
Professor Richard M. Schoen was born on October 23, 1950 in Fort Recovery, Ohio.He received his PhD in 1977 from Stanford University where he is currently the Anne T.and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences.Professor Schoen is a world leading expert in differential geometry and general relativity.In 1979, together with Shing-Tung Yau, he proved the fundamental positive mass theorem in general relativity. In 1984, he obtained a complete solution to the Yamabe problem on compact manifolds. This work combined new techniques with ideas developed in earlier work with Yau, and partial results by Thierry Aubin and Neil Trudinger. More recently, using Hamilton's Ricci flow, Simon Brendle and Richard Schoen in 2007 proved the famous 1/4-pinching differentiable sphere theorem, a fundamental result in the study of manifolds of positive sectional curvature which was open for about 50 years. Professor Schoen received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1983, the Bocher Memorial Prize in 1989, and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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