Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu

{{short description|Taiwanese mathematician}}

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| work_institutions = Harvard University
Northwestern University
Columbia University

| alma_mater = National Taiwan University (BS)
Harvard University (PhD)

| doctoral_advisor = Shing-Tung Yau

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| prizes = Morningside Silver Medal (2007)

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| thesis_title = Moduli of J-Holomorphic Curves with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions

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Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu ({{zh|s=|t=劉秋菊|p=Liú Qiūjú}}; born 15 December 1974) is a Taiwanese mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. Her research interests include algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry.[http://www.math.columbia.edu/~ccliu/Liu-CV_201411.pdf Curriculum vitae] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206023039/http://www.math.columbia.edu/~ccliu/Liu-CV_201411.pdf |date=2015-02-06 }}, retrieved 2015-01-12.

Early life and education

Liu was born on December 16, 1974, in Taiwan. She graduated from National Taiwan University with her Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in mathematics in 1996 and earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002 in mathematics under the supervision of Shing-Tung Yau.{{mathgenealogy|id=69488}}

Career

After continuing at Harvard as a Junior Fellow, she took a faculty position at Northwestern University, and moved to Columbia in 2006.

Liu won the Morningside Silver Medal in 2007. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.

In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2015-01-12.

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