Li Jianshu

Li Jianshu (simplified Chinese: 励建书; traditional Chinese: 勵建書; born 1959), also known as Jian-Shu Li, is a Chinese mathematician working in representation theory and automorphic forms. He is the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics at Zhejiang University and Professor Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Li Jianshu
Born
Xiaoshan, Zhejiang, China
Alma materYale University
Zhejiang University
Awards
Sloan Research Fellowship (1992)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsInstitute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (Zhejiang University)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
University of Maryland, College Park
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisTheta series and distinguished representations for symplectic groups (1987)
Doctoral advisorRoger Evans Howe
Doctoral studentsSun Binyong
In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.

Early life and education

Li was born in Xiaoshan, Zhejiang, China. He graduated from Xiaoshan Middle School. Li studied mathematics at the Department of Mathematics at Zhejiang University. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University under the supervision of Roger Evans Howe in 1987.[1][2]

Career

Li was a Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.[3] Li is Professor Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,[4] and has previously served as President of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society and as Chang Jiang Chair Professor of Zhejiang University.

Li is the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics at Zhejiang University[5]

Awards and honors

Li was a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1992 [6] and an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1994 (Section: Lie Groups). [7] He has been a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) since 2013.[8]

Selected works
  • "Singular unitary representations of classical groups", Invent. Math. 97 (1989), no. 2, 237–255.
  • "Nonvanishing theorems for the cohomology of certain arithmetic quotients", J. Reine Angew. Math. 428 (1992), 177–217.
  • "Theta lifting for unitary representations with nonzero cohomology", Duke Math. J. 61 (1990), no. 3, 913–937.
  • "On the classification of irreducible low rank unitary representations of classical groups", Compositio Math. 71 (1989), no. 1, 29–48.
  • "Ramanujan duals and automorphic spectrum", with M. Burger and P. Sarnak, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 26 (1992), no. 2, 253–257.

References
  1. Li Jianshu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-24. Retrieved 2008-07-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2008-07-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "People". Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  5. "浙江大学成立数学高等研究院（筹）".
  6. "Sloan Research Fellowships".
  7. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers".
  8. "HKUST Mathematics Professor Elected to Chinese Academy of Sciences".
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