Kefeng Liu
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Kefeng Liu (Chinese: 刘克峰; born 12 December 1965), is a Chinese-American mathematician who is known for his contributions to geometric analysis, particularly the geometry, topology and analysis of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and Calabi–Yau manifolds. He is a professor of mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles, as well as the executive director of the Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University. He is best known for his collaboration with Bong Lian and Shing-Tung Yau in which they establish some enumerative geometry conjectures motivated by mirror symmetry.
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Kefeng Liu | |
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Born | (1965-12-12) 12 December 1965 (age 58) |
Nationality | Chinese |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Harvard University Chinese Academy of Sciences Peking University |
Awards | Morningside Gold Medal (2004) Guggenheim Fellow (2002) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zhejiang University University of California, Los Angeles |
Doctoral advisor | Shing-Tung Yau |
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