Ngaiming Mok


Ngaiming Mok (born 1957 in Hong Kong) is a mathematician specializing in complex differential geometry and algebraic geometry. He is currently a professor at the University of Hong Kong.[1]

After graduating from high school in Hong Kong, Mok studied at the University of Chicago and Yale University, obtaining his M.A. in Mathematics from Yale in 1978.[2] He obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University under the guidance of Yum-Tong Siu.[3] He taught at Princeton University, Columbia University and the University of Paris-Sud before joining the faculty of the University of Hong Kong in 1994. He has been the director of the University of Hong Kong's Institute of Mathematical Research since 1999.

The awards Mok has received include a Sloan Fellowship in 1984, the Presidential Young Investigator Award in Mathematics in 1985, and the Stefan Bergman Prize in 2009.[4] Mok was an invited speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich and served on the Fields Medal Committee at the 2010 ICM in Hyderabad. He was on the editorial board of Inventiones Mathematicae from 2002 to 2014,[5] and he is currently an editor of Mathematische Annalen.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Ngaiming Mok", HKU. Retrieved on 16 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Edmund and Peggy Tse Professorship in Mathematics", HKU. Retrieved on 16 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Ngaiming Mok", Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved on 16 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Mathematics People", American Mathematical Society. Retrieved on 16 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "Inventiones Mathematicae", Springer. Retrieved on 16 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Mathematische Annalen", Springer. Retrieved on 16 November 2016.
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