Song Sun

Sun attended Huaining High School in Huaining County, Anhui, China, before being admitted to the Special Class for the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2002.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ustcif.org/default.php/content/4053/|title=陈秀雄孙崧荣获维布伦奖|date=2018-11-20|website=University of Science and Technology of China Initiative Foundation|access-date=2019-04-09}} After graduating from the program with a B.S. in 2006, he moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, obtaining his Ph.D. in mathematics (differential geometry) in 2010.{{cite web|url=https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/general/2182014songsun/|title=Song Sun Awarded Prestigious Sloan Fellowship for Mathematics|date=2014-02-18|website=Stony Brook University|accessdate=2019-04-03}} His doctoral advisor was Xiuxiong Chen, and his dissertation was titled "Kempf–Ness theorem and uniqueness of extremal metrics".{{cite web|url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=144609|title=Song Sun |website=The Mathematics Genealogy Project |accessdate=2019-04-03}}

Sun worked as a research associate at Imperial College London before becoming an assistant professor at Stony Brook University in 2013. He was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2014. In 2018, he was appointed an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley.{{cite web|url=https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/song-sun|title=Song Sun|website=Department of Mathematics, University of California Berkeley|accessdate=2019-04-03}}

He was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.{{cite web|url=http://www.icm2018.org/portal/invited-section-lectures-speakers.html|title=Invited Section Lectures Speakers|website=ICM 2018|accessdate=2019-04-03}} In 2021, he was awarded the New Horizons Prize in Mathematics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.[https://breakthroughprize.org/News/60 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2021]

In January 2024, it was revealed that he had returned to China and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (IASM) at Zhejiang University.{{Cite web|title=Star mathematician Sun Song leaves US for China|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3247240/star-mathematician-sun-song-leaves-us-china|website=South China Morning Post|date=6 January 2024 |access-date=5 October 2024}}

In 2019, Sun was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, together with his former advisor Xiuxiong Chen and English mathematician Simon Donaldson, for proving a long-standing conjecture on Fano manifolds, which states that "a Fano manifold admits a Kähler–Einstein metric if and only if it is K-stable". It had been one of the most actively investigated topics in geometry since a rough version of it was conjectured in the 1980s by Fields Medalist Shing-Tung Yau, who had previously proved the Calabi conjecture. The conjecture was later given a precise formulation by Donaldson, based in part on earlier work by Gang Tian. The solution found by Chen, Donaldson and Sun was published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society in 2015 as a holistic three-article series, "Kähler–Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds, I, II and III".{{Cite web|url=http://www.ams.org/news?news_id=4705|title=2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry to Xiuxiong Chen, Simon Donaldson, and Song Sun|date=2018-11-19|website=American Mathematical Society|access-date=2019-04-09}}{{cite web|url=https://math.berkeley.edu/news/song-sun-receive-2019-oswald-veblen-prize-geometry-congratulations|title=Song Sun to receive the 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. Congratulations! |website=Department of Mathematics, University of California Berkeley |accessdate=2019-04-03}}

• {{cite journal |last1=Donaldson |first1=Simon |last2=Sun |first2=Song |title=Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler manifolds and algebraic geometry |journal=Acta Math. |date=2014 |volume=213 |issue=1 |pages=63–106|doi=10.1007/s11511-014-0116-3 |s2cid=120450769 |doi-access=free |arxiv=1206.2609 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Xiuxiong |last2=Donaldson |first2=Simon |last3=Sun |first3=Song |title=Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds. I: Approximation of metrics with cone singularities |journal=J. Amer. Math. Soc. |date=2015 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=183–197|doi=10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00799-2 |arxiv=1211.4566 |s2cid=119641827 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Xiuxiong |last2=Donaldson |first2=Simon |last3=Sun |first3=Song |title=Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds. II: Limits with cone angle less than 2π |journal=J. Amer. Math. Soc. |date=2015 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=199–234|doi=10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00800-6 |arxiv=1212.4714 |s2cid=119140033 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Xiuxiong |last2=Donaldson |first2=Simon |last3=Sun |first3=Song |title=Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds. III: Limits as cone angle approaches 2π and completion of the main proof |journal=J. Amer. Math. Soc. |date=2015 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=235–278|doi=10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00801-8 |arxiv=1302.0282 |s2cid=119575364 }}

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