Chenyang Xu

Chenyang Xu (Chinese: 许晨阳; born 1981) is a Chinese mathematician in the area of algebraic geometry and a professor at the Princeton University.

Chenyang Xu
许晨阳 Xu Chenyang
Born1981
Alma materPrinceton
Scientific career
ThesisTopics on Rationally Connected Varieties
Doctoral advisorJános Kollár
The native form of this personal name is Xu Chenyang. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Career

After completing his PhD doctorate at Princeton under János Kollár's supervision,[1] Xu joined MIT as a CLE Moore Instructor between 2008-2011. After a promotion to assistant professor at the University of Utah, Xu returned to Peking University in 2012 to join the Beijing International Center of Mathematical Research, subsequently promoted to professor in 2013.

In 2018 Xu joined the mathematics faculty at MIT as Professor.

Awards

In 2016 he was announced as a winner of the ICTP Ramanujan Prize for that year, "in recognition of Xu's outstanding works in algebraic geometry, notably in the area of birational geometry, including works both on log canonical pairs and on Q-Fano varieties, and on the topology of singularities and their dual complexes."[2]

He is one of five winners of the 2019 New Horizons Prize for Early-Career Achievement in Mathematics, associated with the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his research in the minimal model program and applications to the moduli of algebraic varieties.[3]

He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to algebraic geometry, in particular the minimal model program and the K-stability of Fano varieties".[4] For 2021 he received from the AMS the Cole Prize in Algebra.[5]

Selected publications
  • C. D. Hacon, C. Xu (2013). "Existence of log canonical closures", Inventiones Mathematicae 192 (1), 161–195 49
  • C. D. Hacon, J. McKernan, C. Xu (2014). "ACC for log canonical thresholds", Annals of Mathematics 180 (2), 523–571 47

References
  1. "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Chenyang Xu". Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  2. "ICTP - Ramanujan Prize Winner 2016". Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  3. Dunne, Edward (October 20, 2018), "Break on Through", Beyond Reviews: Inside MathSciNet, American Mathematical Society
  4. 2020 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2019-11-03
  5. Cole Prize in Algebra 2021
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