Yiming Long

Yiming Long，Professor of Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University

Personal and Educational Background

1948 born in Chongqing, China;

1981 Master of Sciences, Nankai University

1987 PhD.University. of Wisconsin-Madison

Employment

1-10.1988 Post Doc. FIM, ETH-Zürich;

10.1988 – 12.1990 Associate Professor at Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Nankai Univ.;

12.1990 - now Full Professor at Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Nankai Univ. (Nankai Inst. of Math. changed its name to Chern Institute of Mathematics in 2005).

Research Interests

Hamiltonian dynamics

Variational methods

Symplectic geometry

Riemannian and Finsler geometry

Selected Awards and Honors

1987 Dissertation Award, Sigma-Xi Research Association, Wisconsin Chapter;

1996 Excellent Young Scholar Award, Hong Kong Qiu Shi Science and Technology foundation;

1998 Shiing-Shen Chern Award, Chinese Mathematical Society;

2003 Award for Advances in Science and Technology (First class), by the Ministry of Education of China;

2004 National Award in Natural Science of China (Second class), by the State Council of China;

2004 TWAS Award in Mathematics, by the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS);

2007 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;

2008 Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS);

2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.