Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu

Taiwanese mathematician

劉秋菊

Born (1974-12-15) 15 December 1974 (age 49)

Taiwan

Alma materNational Taiwan University (BS 1996)
Harvard University (Ph.D. 2002)AwardsMorningside Silver Medal (2007)Scientific careerFieldsMathematicsInstitutionsHarvard University
Northwestern University
Columbia UniversityThesis Moduli of J-Holomorphic Curves with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions (2002)Doctoral advisorShing-Tung Yau Chinese nameTraditional Chinese劉秋菊Simplified Chinese刘秋菊

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Liú Qiūjú
Bopomofo	ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄑㄧㄡㄐㄩˊ
Wade–Giles	Liu Ch'iu-chü

Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (simplified Chinese: 刘秋菊; traditional Chinese: 劉秋菊; pinyin: Liú Qiūjú; born December 15, 1974) is a Taiwanese mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. Her research interests include algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry.^[1]

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.^[1]^[2]

Career

After continuing at Harvard as a Junior Fellow, she took a faculty position at Northwestern University, and moved to Columbia in 2006.^[1]

Liu won the Morningside Silver Medal in 2007.^[1] She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.^[1] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Curriculum vitae Archived 2015-02-06 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2015-01-12.
^ Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-12.