YIMING LONG

Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University
Address: 94 Weijin Road,Tianjin 300071, People’s Republic of China
Tel: 0086-22-23505553; Fax: 0086-22-23501532; e-mail:longym@nankai.edu.cn 

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal and Educational Data:
              1948 born in Chongqing, China;
              1981 Master of Sciences, Nankai Univ.;
              1987 PhD.Univ.  of Wisconsin-Madison.

 


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Employment:
              1-10.1988 Post Doc. FIM, ETH-Zürich;
              10.1988 � 12.1990 Associate Professor at Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Nankai Univ.;
              12.1990 - now Full Professor at Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Nankai Univ.  (Nankai Inst. of Math. changed its name to Chern Institute of Mathematics in  2005).

Research Interests:
              Hamiltonian dynamics,Variational methods, Symplectic  geometry,Riemannian and Finsler  geometry.

Selected Awards and honouries:
              1987 Dissertation Award, Sigma-Xi Research Association, Wisconsin Chapter;
              1996 Excellent Young Scholar Award, Hong Kong Qiu Shi Science and Technology foundation;
              1998 Shiing-Shen Chern Award, Chinese Mathematical Society;
              2003 Award for Advances in Science and Technology (First class), by the Ministry of Education of China;
              2004 National Award in Natural Science of China (Second class), by the State Council of China;
              2004 TWAS Award in Mathematics, by the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS);
              2007 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;
              2008 Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS);
            2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected Academic Services and Functions:
              Dean of School of Mathematics, Nankai University, 1998-2003;
              President of Tianjin Mathematical Society, 2002-2010;
              Vice President of Chinese Mathematical Society, 2004-2011;
              Representative in the Pacific Rim Mathematical Association, 2005-2009;
              Director of Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, 2008-6.2012;
              Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee of Nankai University, since 2008;
              Vice Chairman of Tianjin Association of Science and Technology, since 2009;
              Member of the Executive Committee of International Mathematical Union, since 2011;
            Editor/Editorial board member:  Chinese Annals of Mathematics, Advanced Nonlinear Studies, Acta Mathematica Sinica, Frontiers of Mathematics in China, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis.

Selected address
              Plenary  address, 2010 Chinese Math. Soc. and Korea Math. Soc. joint Conference  and the Annul Conference
              of Chinese Math. Soc., Chongqing, 2010;
              Invited  speaker, Symplectic Geometry Session, Congress of the Pacific Rim Mathematical Association,  2009;
              Invited  speaker, The TWAS 16th conference, Alexsandra, 2005;
              Invited  speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing, 2002;
              Plenary  address, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Taipei, 2001;
              Plenary  address, SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, Maui,  2000;

Selected publications
              [1] Multiple solutions of perturbed  superquadratic second order Hamiltonian systems. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 311 (1989) 749-780.
              [2]  Maslov-type index, degenerate critical points, and asymptotically linear  Hamiltonian systems. Science in China. Series A. 33 (1990) 1409-1419.
              [3]  Bott formula of the Maslov-type index theory. Pacific J. Math. 187 (1999), 113-149.
              [4] Precise  iteration formulae of the Maslov-type index theory and ellipticity of closed  characteristics. Advances in Math. 154 (2000) 76-131.
              [5]  (Joint with Chaofeng Zhu) Closed characteristics on compact convex hypersurfaces  in R2n. Annals of Mathematics. 155 (2002).  317-368.
              [6]  Index Theory for Symplectic Paths with Applications. Progress in Math. 207,  Birkh?user. Basel.  2002.
              [7] Multiplicity  and stability of closed geodesics on Finsler 2-spheres. J. of Euro. Math. Soc. 8 (2006) 341-353.
              [8]  (Joint with Wei Wang, Xijun Hu) Resonance identity, stability and multiplicity  of closed characteristics on compact convex hypersurfaces. Duke Math. J. 139 (2007) 411-462.
              [9] (Joint with Huagui Duan)  Multiple closed geodesics on 3-spheres. Advances  in Math. 221 (2009) 1757-1803.
          [10] (Joint with Victor Bangert) The existence of  two closed geodesics on every Finsler 2-sphere. Math. Ann. 346 (2010) 335-366.