Sun Song (Chinese: 孙崧; pinyin: Sūn Sōng, born in 1987) is a Chinese mathematician whose research concerns geometry and topology. A Sloan Research Fellow, he was a professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley from 2018 until 2023. In 2019, he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. As of 2024, Sun is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (IASM), Zhejiang University.[1]
Sun Song | |
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 Sun in Berkeley in 2022 | |
| Born | 1987 (age 36–37) Huaining County, Anhui, China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Alma mater | University of Science and Technology of China University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Awards | Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Imperial College London Stony Brook University University of California, Berkeley Zhejiang University |
| Thesis | Kempf–Ness theorem and uniqueness of extremal metrics |
| Doctoral advisor | Xiuxiong Chen |
Biography
editSun attended Huaining High School in Huaining County, Anhui, China, before being admitted to the Special Class for the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2002.[2] After graduating from the program with a B.S. in 2006, he moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, obtaining his Ph.D in mathematics (differential geometry) in 2010.[2][3] His doctoral advisor was Xiuxiong Chen, and his dissertation was titled "Kempf–Ness theorem and uniqueness of extremal metrics".[4]
Sun worked as a research associate at Imperial College London before becoming an assistant professor at Stony Brook University in 2013.[3] He was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2014.[3] In 2018, he was appointed an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley.[5]
He was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.[6] In 2021, he was awarded the New Horizons Prize in Mathematics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.[7]
In January 2024, it was revealed that he had returned to China and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (IASM) at Zhejiang University.[8]
Conjecture on Fano manifolds and Veblen Prize
editIn 2019, Sun was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, together with his former advisor Xiuxiong Chen and English mathematician Simon Donaldson, for proving a long-standing conjecture on Fano manifolds, which states that "a Fano manifold admits a Kähler–Einstein metric if and only if it is K-stable". It had been one of the most actively investigated topics in geometry since a rough version of it was conjectured in the 1980s by Fields Medalist Shing-Tung Yau, who had previously proved the Calabi conjecture.[9] The conjecture was later given a precise formulation by Donaldson, based in part on earlier work by Gang Tian. The solution found by Chen, Donaldson and Sun was published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society in 2015 as a holistic three-article series, "Kähler–Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds, I, II and III".[9][10]
Major publications
edit- Donaldson, Simon; Sun, Song (2014). "Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler manifolds and algebraic geometry". Acta Math. 213 (1): 63–106. arXiv:1206.2609. doi:10.1007/s11511-014-0116-3. S2CID 120450769.
- Chen, Xiuxiong; Donaldson, Simon; Sun, Song (2015). "Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds. I: Approximation of metrics with cone singularities". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1): 183–197. arXiv:1211.4566. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00799-2. S2CID 119641827.
- Chen, Xiuxiong; Donaldson, Simon; Sun, Song (2015). "Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds. II: Limits with cone angle less than 2π". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1): 199–234. arXiv:1212.4714. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00800-6. S2CID 119140033.
- Chen, Xiuxiong; Donaldson, Simon; Sun, Song (2015). "Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds. III: Limits as cone angle approaches 2π and completion of the main proof". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1): 235–278. arXiv:1302.0282. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00801-8. S2CID 119575364.
References
edit- ^ "Star mathematician Sun Song leaves US for China". South China Morning Post. 6 January 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ a b "陈秀雄孙崧荣获维布伦奖". University of Science and Technology of China Initiative Foundation. 2018-11-20. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ a b c "Song Sun Awarded Prestigious Sloan Fellowship for Mathematics". Stony Brook University. 2014-02-18. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
- ^ "Song Sun". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
- ^ "Song Sun". Department of Mathematics, University of California Berkeley. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
- ^ "Invited Section Lectures Speakers". ICM 2018. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
- ^ Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2021
- ^ "Star mathematician Sun Song leaves US for China". South China Morning Post. 6 January 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ a b "2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry to Xiuxiong Chen, Simon Donaldson, and Song Sun". American Mathematical Society. 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ "Song Sun to receive the 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. Congratulations!". Department of Mathematics, University of California Berkeley. Retrieved 2019-04-03.