Biography:Xinyi Yuan

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Xinyi Yuan
袁新意
Yuan in 2017
Born1981 (age 44–45)
Macheng, Hubei, China
Alma materPeking University (BA)
Columbia University (PhD)
Awards
  • Clay Research Fellow (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsPeking University
University of California, Berkeley
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton University
Harvard University
ThesisEquidistribution Theory over Algebraic Dynamical Systems (2008)
Doctoral advisorShou-Wu Zhang

Xinyi Yuan (Chinese: 袁新意; born 1981) is a Chinese mathematician who is currently a professor of mathematics at Peking University working in number theory, arithmetic geometry, and automorphic forms.[1] In particular, his work focuses on arithmetic intersection theory, algebraic dynamics, Diophantine equations and special values of L-functions.

Early life and education

Yuan is from Macheng, Huanggang, Hubei province, and graduated from Huanggang Middle School in 2000.[2] That year, he received a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad while representing China.[3] Yuan obtained his A.B. in mathematics from Peking University in 2003 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Columbia University in 2008 under the direction of Shou-Wu Zhang.[4] His article "Big Line Bundles over Arithmetic Varieties," published in Inventiones Mathematicae, demonstrates a natural sufficient condition for when the orbit under the absolute Galois group is equidistributed.[5]

Career

He spent time at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and Harvard University before joining the Berkeley faculty in 2012.[6]

Yuan was appointed a Clay Research Fellow for a three-year term from 2008 to 2013.[7] Together with a number of other collaborators, Yuan was profiled in Quanta Magazine and Business Insider for, among other things, his research on L-functions.[8][9]

Yuan left UC Berkeley to become a full professor at Peking University in 2020.[10]

Research

Together with Shou-Wu Zhang, Yuan proved the averaged Colmez conjecture which was later shown to imply the André–Oort conjecture for Siegel modular varieties by Jacob Tsimerman.[11][12]

Publications (selected)

References

  1. "Xinyi Yuan". https://math.berkeley.edu/~yxy/. 
  2. "黄冈中学近14年来未出省状元 发展过程中矛盾凸显". Xinhua News Agency. 6 April 2015. http://news.xinhuanet.com/yuqing/2015-04/06/c_127660386_5.htm. 
  3. "Xinyi Yuan – Official IMO Results", International Mathematical Olympiad. Retrieved on 4 December 2016.
  4. "Xinyi Yuan CV", UC Berkeley. Retrieved on 3 December 2016.
  5. Yuan 2008.
  6. "IAS Member – Xinyi Yuan", Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved on 4 December 2016.
  7. "Xinyi Yuan", Clay Mathematics Institute. Retrieved on 3 December 2016.
  8. "Math Quartet Joins Forces on Unified Theory", Quanta Magazine. Retrieved on 3 December 2016.
  9. "Math Quartet Joins Forces on Unified Theory", Business Insider. Retrieved on 4 December 2016.
  10. "Xinyi Yuan | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley". https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/xinyi-yuan. 
  11. "February 2018". Notices of the American Mathematical Society 65 (2): 191. 2018. ISSN 1088-9477. 
  12. Yuan & Zhang 2018.