Math prof named Sloan fellow
Special to The Observer
Xiaobo Liu, associate professor of mathematics at Notre Dame, has been awarded a two-year research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundtion. He joins Qing Han, Nancy Stanton, Bill Dwyer, Andrew Sommese and Timothy O'Meara as Sloan winners in the Department of Mathematics.
Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded to holders of a doctoral degree in physics, chemistry, mathematics, neuroscience, computer science or economics.
Strong evidence — in submitted publications and supporting letters — of a nominee's independent creativity is one of the most important considerations in the review process, and selection procedures are designed to identify those who show the most promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge.
Once chosen, Sloan research fellows are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry most interest them.
Liu, whose dissertation was titled "Volume Minimizing Cycles in compact Lie Groups," earned his bachelor's degree in applied mathematics in 1987 from Tsinghua University in China and his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994.
Results of his research in differential geometry have been published in top journals, including the American Journal of Mathematics, Duke Mathematics Journal, the Journal of Differential Geometry and the Annals of Mathematics.
From 1995-1997, Liu served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Augsburg and as visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institut fur Mathematik in Bonn, Germany.
Upon returning to th United States, Liu taught pure mathematics at MIT before joining the Notre Dame faculty last August.
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