Fields Medalist Shing-Tung Yau to Give Special Lecture at UNIST

Technical Exchange Meeting for Three Days from the 10th

Scholars from Columbia University and Caltech Also Participating

Fields Medal laureate Professor Shing-Tung Yau will take the stage at UNIST. He will meet with the university's future mathematicians and talk about the life of a mathematician.

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at UNIST (President Yong-Hoon Lee) announced that it will hold a special lecture for students with Professor Shing-Tung Yau on the 11th at the UNIST Academic Information Center, Jigwanseoga.

Professor Yau, a Chinese-American, won the Fields Medal, known as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics," in 1982 for proving the existence of Calabi-Yau manifolds.

Renowned as a master of differential geometry, he served as a professor at Harvard University and has been a chair professor at Tsinghua University in China since 2022.

Xingtong Yau, Professor at Tsinghua University.

On this day, Professor Yau will give a lecture titled "the Shape of a Life" to students from science high schools in the Gyeongnam region and UNIST students. He will share the reasons he became a mathematician, his mindset as a mathematician, and his research attitude.

Professor Yau is currently visiting Korea to attend a technology exchange meeting organized by the UNIST Department of Mathematical Sciences. The technology exchange meeting is a program operated by the Korea Federation of Science and Technology Societies to enhance collaboration opportunities between international scholars and domestic researchers.

This technology exchange meeting, themed "Quantum Fields, Strings, and Geometry," will be held from the 10th to the 12th. World-renowned scholars such as Richard Schoen, Chair Professor at the University of California, Irvine, Mutao Wang, Professor at Columbia University, and Sergey Gukov, Professor at Caltech, are visiting UNIST.

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