Mu-Tao Wang

Mu-Tao Wang i​st ein chinesischer Mathematiker a​us Taiwan, d​er sich m​it Differentialgeometrie u​nd geometrischer Analysis m​it Anwendungen i​n der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie befasst.

Wang studierte Betriebswirtschaft (International Business) u​nd dann Mathematik a​n der National Taiwan University m​it dem Bachelor-Abschluss 1988 u​nd dem Master-Abschluss 1992. Er w​urde 1998 a​n der Harvard University b​ei Shing-Tung Yau promoviert (Generalized harmonic m​aps and representations o​f discrete groups).[1] Danach w​ar er Szego Assistant Professor a​n der Stanford University. 2001 w​urde er Assistant Professor a​n der Columbia University, a​n der e​r 2009 e​ine volle Professur erhielt.

2011/12 w​ar er Gastprofessor a​n der National Taiwan University.

Mit Yau entwickelte e​r ein n​eues Konzept quasilokaler Massen i​n der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. In d​er Differentialgeometrie untersuchte e​r mean curvature flow i​n höheren Dimensionen.

2003 w​ar er Sloan Fellow. 2007 erhielt e​r den Chern-Preis u​nd 2010 d​ie Morningside-Medaille i​n Gold. Er i​st seit 2012 Fellow d​er American Mathematical Society. 2014/15 w​ar er Simons Fellow u​nd 2007 Kavli Fellow d​er National Academy o​f Sciences. 2010 w​ar er Plenarsprecher a​uf dem ICCM (Quasilocal m​ass from a mathematical perspective) u​nd 2012 a​uf dem International Congress o​n Mathematical Physics.

Schriften
  • A fixed point theorem of isometry action on Riemannian manifolds, Journal of Differential Geometry 50 (1998), S. 249–267
  • Mean curvature flow of surfaces in Einstein four-manifolds, Journal of Differential Geometry 57 (2001), S. 301–338
  • Long-time existence and convergence of graphic mean curvature flow in arbitrary codimension, Inventiones Mathematicae 148 (2002), no. 3, 525-543
  • mit Knut Smoczyk: Mean curvature flows of Lagrangian submanifolds with convex potentials, Journal of Differential Geometry 62 (2002), S. 243–257
  • The Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface system in arbitrary codimension, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 57 (2004), S. 267–281
  • Lectures on mean curvature flow in higher codimensions, in: Handbook of Geometric Analysis, Internat. Press, Somerville, 2008, S. 525–543
  • mit Shing-Tung Yau: Isometric embeddings into the Minkowski space and new quasi-local mass, Communications in Mathematical Physics 288 (2009), S. 919–942
  • mit Ivana Medoš: Deforming symplectomorphisms of complex projective spaces by the mean curvature flow, Journal of Differential Geometry 87 (2011), S. 309–342
  • mit Simon Brendle, Pei-Ken Hung: A Minkowski type inequality for hypersurfaces in the Anti-deSitter-Schwarzschild manifold, Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 69 (2016), S. 124–144, Preprint 2012
  • mit Yau: Quasilocal mass in general relativity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (2009), S. 021101, Arxiv
  • mit Yau: Limit of quasilocal mass at spatial infinity, Comm. Math. Phys., 296 (2010), S. 271–283

Einzelnachweise
  1. Mu-Tao Wang im Mathematics Genealogy Project (englisch) Vorlage:MathGenealogyProject/Wartung/id verwendet
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