Chenyang Xu - Wikipedia

Chinese mathematician The native form of this personal name is Xu Chenyang. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Chenyang Xu
许晨阳
Xu at Oberwolfach in 2011
Born	1981 (age 43–44)Chongqing, China
Alma mater	Peking University (BS, MS)Princeton University (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Higher-dimensional geometry
Institutions	MITUniversity of UtahPeking UniversityPrinceton University
Thesis	Topics on Rationally Connected Varieties (2008)
Doctoral advisor	János Kollár
Website	web.math.princeton.edu/~chenyang/

Chenyang Xu (Chinese: 许晨阳; born 1981) is a Chinese mathematician in the area of algebraic geometry and a professor at Princeton University. Xu is known for his work in birational geometry, the minimal model program, and the K-stability of Fano varieties.

Career

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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.

In 2020, Xu moved to Princeton University as Professor.

Awards

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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 won 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] In 2021, he received the Cole Prize in Algebra from the AMS.[4] In 2022, he was awarded the Simons Investigator.

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".[5]

In 2018, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM).

In 2018, he became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.[6]

Selected publications

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• 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

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1. ^ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Chenyang Xu". Retrieved 26 June 2016.
2. ^ "ICTP - Ramanujan Prize Winner 2016". Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
3. ^ Dunne, Edward (October 20, 2018), "Break on Through", Beyond Reviews: Inside MathSciNet, American Mathematical Society
4. ^ Cole Prize in Algebra 2021
5. ^ 2020 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2019-11-03
6. ^ "The Asian Scientist 100". Asian Scientist. Retrieved 13 March 2025.

External links

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• Beijing International Center of Mathematics Research

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