Sijue Wu

The native form of this personal name is Wu Sijue. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Sijue Wu
Sijue Wu at Oberwolfach, 2006
BornMay 15, 1964
NationalityChinese American
Alma materPeking University, Yale University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
Doctoral advisorRonald Coifman

Sijue Wu (Chinese: 邬似珏; pinyin: Wū Sìjué; born May 15, 1964) is a Chinese-American mathematician who works as the Robert W. and Lynne H. Browne Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Her research involves the mathematics of water waves.[1][2]

Education and career

Wu earned bachelor's and master's degrees in 1983 and 1986 from Peking University.[1][2] She completed her doctorate in 1990 from Yale University, under the supervision of Ronald Coifman.[3] After a temporary instructorship at New York University, she became an assistant professor at Northwestern University. She moved in 1996 to the University of Iowa and again to the University of Maryland, College Park in 1998. She became the Browne Professor at the University of Michigan in 2008.[1]

Awards and honors

A 1997 paper by Wu in Inventiones Mathematicae, "Well-posedness in Sobolev spaces of the full water wave problem in 2-D", was the subject of a featured review in Mathematical Reviews.[4]

Wu was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002, speaking on partial differential equations.[5]

She won the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics[6] and the silver Morningside Medal in 2001, and the gold Morningside Medal in 2010, becoming the first female mathematician to win the gold medal.[2] She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Sijue Wu", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  2. ^ a b c Riddle, Larry (January 10, 2014), "Sijue Wu", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College, retrieved 2015-10-22.
  3. ^ Sijue Wu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  4. ^ Wu, Sijue (1997), "Well-posedness in Sobolev spaces of the full water wave problem in 2-D", Inventiones Mathematicae, 130 (1): 39–72, Bibcode:1997InMat.130...39W, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.129.3989, doi:10.1007/s002220050177, MR 1471885, S2CID 126485710.
  5. ^ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2015-10-22.
  6. ^ "2001 Satter Prize" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 48 (4): 411–412, April 2001.
  7. ^ "American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announces New Members Elected in 2022". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-05-22.