Zhiwei Yun

Zhiwei Yun (Chinese: 恽之玮; pinyin: Yùn Zhīwěi; born September 1982) is a Professor of Mathematics at MIT specializing in number theory, algebraic geometry and representation theory, with a particular focus on the Langlands program. Before moving to Yale University in 2016, he held assistant and associate professorships at Stanford University from 2012 to 2016 and was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2012.

The native form of this personal name is Yun Zhiwei. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Zhiwei Yun
Born
Yun Zhiwei (恽之玮)

September 1982 (age 38)
Changzhou, China[1]
Alma materPeking University
Princeton University
Known forcontributions to number theory, representation theory and algebraic geometry
AwardsGold Medal, IMO (2000)[2]
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2012)[3]
2018 New Horizons In Mathematics Prize (2018)
Morningside Medal (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Yale University
Doctoral advisorRobert MacPherson

Education

Yun was born in Changzhou, China.[1] As a high schooler, he participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2000; he received a gold medal with a perfect score.[2] Yun received his bachelor's degree from Peking University in 2004. In 2009, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, under the direction of Robert MacPherson.[4][5]

Work

His collaborations with Wei Zhang, Xinyi Yuan and Xinwen Zhu have received attention in publications such as Quanta Magazine and Business Insider.[6][7] In particular, his work with Wei Zhang on the Taylor expansion of L-functions is "already being hailed as one of the most exciting breakthroughs in an important area of number theory in the last 30 years."

Yun also made substantial contributions towards the global Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture.

Awards

Yun was awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2012 for his "fundamental contributions to several areas that lie at the interface of representation theory, algebraic geometry and number theory."[3]

In December 2017, he was awarded 2018 New Horizons In Mathematics Prize together with Wei Zhang, Aaron Naber and Maryna Viazovska.

He was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometry, number theory, and representation theory, including his construction of motives with exceptional Galois groups".[8] In 2019 he received the Morningside Medal jointly with Xinwen Zhu.[9]


Selected publications

References
  1. "北京大学校友恽之玮获2012年"拉马努金"奖". 30 August 2012.
  2. "International Mathematical Olympiad".
  3. "ZHIWEI YUN TO RECEIVE 2012 SASTRA RAMANUJAN PRIZE". Sastra University. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  4. "Zhiwei Yun" (PDF). Stanford University. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  5. "Zhiwei Yun", Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved on 4 December 2016.
  6. "Math Quartet Joins Forces on Unified Theory", Quanta Magazine. Retrieved on 4 December 2016.
  7. "Math Quartet Joins Forces on Unified Theory", Business Insider. Retrieved on 4 December 2016.
  8. 2019 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2018-11-07
  9. Morningside Medal 2019
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