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Academician Chang-shou Lin's Personal Profiles

Dr. Chang-shou Lin, a native of Taipei City, was born on April 17, 1951. He graduated from Department of Mathematics and Graduate School of Mathematics of National Taiwan University in 1975 and 1977, respectively. In 1983, he obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from New York University. His doctorate dissertation discussed the local isometric embeddings in differential geometry, which was the first breakthrough in this field over many decades. He was therefore conferred by New York University an award in memory of Prof. K.O. Friedrichs and became the first recipient since this award was set up. After graduation, he stayed in Princeton Institute for Advanced study at for two years as visiting scholar and then taught in San Diego, the University of California for two years. In 1987 he returned to Taiwan and taught at National Taiwan University and National Chung Cheng University, respectively. In recent years, he has been serving concurrently as director of the National Center for Theoretical Sciences, in the Campus of Tsing-Hwa University.

Dr. Lin specializes mainly in “Nonlinear Partial differential equations and Differential Geometry.” The related research subjects involve quite a few different scientific areas, ranging from pure mathematics (e.g., differential geometry), theoretical physics, chemistry, and globe science to various applied sciences. Dr. Lin’s researches therefore cover wide-ranging fields, from isometric embeddings at the early period to the “soap bubbling” phenomenon in recent years, all of which are highly difficult equations. His contributions in the area of “conformal scalar differential equations” have long been recognized by both local and international mathematic circles. In Taiwan, Dr. Lin has ever been conferred the Outstanding Award by National Science Council, the Academic Award by the Ministry of Education (1997), the National Chair Professor (1998-2001), and the First Morningside Award (1998). He was elected member of the Academia Sinica in 1998.