Wei Zhang (mathematician)
Wei Zhang (Chinese: 张伟; born 1981) is a Chinese mathematician specializing in number theory. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
Wei Zhang | |
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Zhang at the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach in 2017 | |
| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) |
| Alma mater | Columbia University Peking University |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Columbia University |
| Thesis | Modularity of Generating Functions of Special Cycles on Shimura Varieties (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Shou-Wu Zhang |
Education edit
Zhang grew up in Sichuan province in China and attended Chengdu No.7 High School. [2] He earned his B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University in 2004 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2009 under the supervision of Shou-Wu Zhang.[3][4]
Career edit
Zhang was a postdoctoral researcher and Benjamin Peirce Fellow at Harvard University from 2009 to 2011. He was a member of the mathematics faculty at Columbia University from 2011 to 2017, initially as an assistant professor before becoming a full professor in 2015. He has been a full professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2017.[4][5]
Work edit
His collaborations with Zhiwei Yun, Xinyi Yuan and Xinwen Zhu have received attention in publications such as Quanta Magazine and Business Insider.[6][7] In particular, his work with Zhiwei Yun 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."[6]
Zhang has also made substantial contributions to the global Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture.
Awards edit
He was a recipient of the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2010, for "far-reaching contributions by himself and in collaboration with others to a broad range of areas in mathematics, including number theory, automorphic forms, L-functions, trace formulas, representation theory, and algebraic geometry.”[8] In 2013, Zhang received a Sloan Research Fellowship; in 2016 Zhang was awarded the Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics.[4][9] In December 2017 he was awarded 2018 New Horizons In Mathematics Prize together with Zhiwei Yun, Aaron Naber and Maryna Viazovska. In 2019 he received the Clay Research Award.[10]
He was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry and geometric representation theory".[11] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.[12]
Publications (selected) edit
- "Automorphic period and the central value of Rankin-Selberg L-function", J. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (2014), 541–612.
- "On arithmetic fundamental lemmas", Invent. Math., 188 (2012), No. 1, 197–252.
- "Fourier transform and the global Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture for unitary groups", Annals of Mathematics 180 (2014), No. 3, 971–1049.
- "Selmer groups and the indivisibility of Heegner points", Cambridge Journal of Mathematics 2 (2014), no. 2, 191–253.
- (with Michael Rapoport, Ulrich Terstiege) "On the Arithmetic Fundamental Lemma in the minuscule case", Compositio Mathematica 149 (2013), no. 10, 1631–1666.
- (with Xinyi Yuan, Shou-Wu Zhang) "The Gross–Kohnen–Zagier theorem over totally real fields", Compositio Mathematica 145 (2009), no. 5, 1147–1162.
- (with Xinyi Yuan, Shou-Wu Zhang) "The Gross–Zagier formula on Shimura curves", Annals of Mathematics Studies vol. 184, Princeton University Press, 2012.
- (with Manjul Bhargava, Christopher Skinner) "A majority of elliptic curves over Q satisfy the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture", preprint.
- (with Zhiwei Yun) "Shtukas and the Taylor expansion of L-functions", Annals of Mathematics 186 (2017), No. 3, 767–911.
- (with Xinyi Yuan, Shou-Wu Zhang) "Triple product L-series and Gross–Kudla–Schoen cycles", preprint.
- (with Yifeng Liu, Shou-Wu Zhang) "On p-adic Waldspurger formula", preprint.
References edit
- ^ "Wei Zhang | MIT Mathematics".
- ^ "成都七中2000届校友张伟获2019年克雷研究奖，首位华人数学家". 15 September 2019.
- ^ "Wei Zhang", Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ a b c "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Wei Zhang. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ^ "Wei Zhang". Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mathematics. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ^ a b "Math Quartet Joins Forces on Unified Theory", Quanta Magazine. Retrieved on 4 December 2016.
- ^ "Math Quartet Joins Forces on Unified Theory", Business Insider. Retrieved on 4 December 2016.
- ^ Notices of the AMS, January 2011, American Mathematical Society.
- ^ "Wei Zhang awarded the 2016 ICCM Morningside Gold Medal", Columbia University. Published 18 August 2016.
- ^ Clay Research Award 2019
- ^ 2019 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2018-11-07
- ^ New members, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2023, retrieved 2023-04-21