Shiing-Shen Chern (/tʃɜːrn/; Chinese: 陳省身; pinyin: Chén Xǐngshēn, Mandarin: [tʂʰən.ɕiŋ.ʂən]; October 28, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and is widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, winning numerous awards and recognition including the Wolf Prize and the inaugural Shaw Prize. In memory of Shiing-Shen Chern, the International Mathematical Union established the Chern Medal in 2010 to recognize "an individual whose accomplishments warrant the highest level of recognition for outstanding achievements in the field of mathematics". Chern worked at the Institute for Advanced Study (1943–45), spent about a decade at the University of Chicago (1949-1960), and then moved to University of California, Berkeley, where he co-founded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in 1982 and was the institute's founding director. Renowned co-authors with Chern include Jim Simons, an American mathematician and billionaire hedge fund manager. Chern's work, most notably the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet Theorem, Chern–Simons theory, and Chern classes, are still highly influential in current research in mathematics, including geometry, topology, and knot theory; as well as many branches of physics, including string theory, condensed matter physics, general relativity, and quantum field theory. According to Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern (2011): [His] formidable mathematical contributions were matched by an approach and vision that helped build bridges between China and the West. (Wikipedia).
The Story of Chinese Character :石
石 depicts a chime, since a stone is difficult to be drawn, so a chime made of stone is used to represent the concept of stone.
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First session Yang's TaiChi 15: Hand Strums the Lute 2 (Practice)
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The Story of Chinese Character :端
端is composed of 立(the picture of a standing man) and 耑(the picture of long hair and long beard). An elder male has long hair and long beard, ancient China is an andro-centric society, elder males are respected, so they need to be respectful. In addition, a standing object can be seen as a
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The Story of Chinese Character : 親
親 is composed of the variant of 辛(the picture of a chisel )and 見(to see). The variant of 辛 depicts a wood being broken by a chisel, when someone chisels a wood, he need to get close and look clearly , so 親 is used to describe something close and intimate.
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Metrics of constant Chern scalar curvature and a Chern-Calabi flow
Speaker: Sisi Shen (Northwestern) Abstract: We discuss the existence problem of constant Chern scalar curvature metrics on a compact complex manifold. We prove a priori estimates for these metrics conditional on an upper bound on the entropy, extending a recent result by Chen-Cheng in the
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PiTP 2015 - "Quantum Geometry in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect" - Duncan Haldane
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Metrics of constant Chern scalar curvature - Xi Sisi Shen
Seminar in Analysis and Geometry Topic: Metrics of constant Chern scalar curvature Speaker: Xi Sisi Shen Affiliation: Columbia University Date: May 03, 2022 We discuss the existence problem of constant Chern scalar curvature metrics on a compact complex manifold. We prove a priori estima
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Behind Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Professor Jing Tsu, the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures in Yale's Department of Comparative Literature, will discuss the genesis of the project that led to the publication of her recent book, Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Mo
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Warm-up of Yang's TaiChi: Lift up, Press down(Practice)
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Billionaire Mathematician - Numberphile
Full length version of this interview (one hour): https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0 More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More about The Simons Foundation: http://bit.ly/SimonsFoundation James Harris Simons has been described as "the world's smartest billionaire", amassing a fortune
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Yuguang Shi - Quasi-local mass and geometry of scalar curvature
Quasi-local mass is a basic notion in General Relativity. Geometrically, it can be regarded as a geometric quantity of a boundary of a 3-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold. Usually, it is in terms of area and mean curvature of the boundary. It is interesting to see that some of quasi
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2020 Theory Winter School: Srinivas Raghu (pt2)
Topic: Boson-ferimon duality in strongly coupled field theories Part 2 For more information on the 2020 Theory Winter School: https://nationalmaglab.org/news-events/events/for-scientists/winter-theory-school
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Bill Hayton “Maps, Myths And The Making Of China’s Maritime Geobody”
Bill Hayton, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House. Presented at Conflict in the South China Sea, May 6-7, 2016. An international conference at Yale exploring the history of the ongoing dispute in the South China Sea, featuring speakers from universities and research institution
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Tobias EKHOLM - 3/3 Knot contact homology, Chern-Simons theory, and topological string
We explain how knot contact homology is related to the physical theories mentioned in the title. We report on recent progress developing symplectic field theory beyond genus 0 and how this relates to topological strings and open Gromov-Witten invariants. 16 juillet 2015
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#ASUgrad Graduate Commencement 2019 | Arizona State University
We are live, from Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe Arizona, at ASU Graduate Commencement 2019. Congratulations graduates! #ASUgrad Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/asu About ASU: Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the country’s most innovative school, Arizona State University is whe
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