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CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY AND ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY
edited by Shiing-Shen Chern (Nankai Institute of Mathematics, P R China) , Lei Fu (Nankai Institute of Mathematics, P R China) , & Richard Hain (Duke University, USA)
About the Editors Professor S S Chern retired from UC Berkeley and is now based in the Nankai Institute of Mathematics, which he founded in 1985. He is also the founding director of the Mathematical Science Research Institute, Berkeley (1981). He was awarded the National Science Medal in 1975 and Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1983/4. His area of research was differential geometry where he studied the (now named) Chern characteristic classes in fibre spaces. The Chern Visiting Professorship, begun in 1996, honors the Berkeley professor emeritus widely regarded as the greatest geometer of his generation. “Chern's belief in young people and his encouragement of them had a lot to do with the spectacular growth of geometry in the second half of this century” mathematician Blaine Lawson has said. “It is not easy to find a geometer who was not for some period of time either a student or a post-doctoral fellow in the orbit of Chern. (http://math.berkeley.edu/) Professor Chern is also the editor of the book — Selected Papers of Wei-Liang Chow, also published by World Scientific Publishing.
Professor Richard Hain is the Chair of Mathematics Department, Duke University. He has published more than 50 research papers in major journals.
The Wei-Liang Chow and Kuo-Tsai Chen Memorial Conference was proposed and held by Prof S S Chern in Nankai Institute of Mathematics. It was devoted to memorializing those two outstanding and original Chinese mathematicians who had made significant contributions to algebraic geometry and algebraic topology, respectively. It also provided a forum for leading mathematicians to expound and discuss their views on new ideas in these fields, as well as trends in 21st Century mathematics. About 100 mathematicians participated in the conference, including Sir Michael Atiyah, Jacob Palis, Phillip Griffiths, David Eisenbud, Philippe Tondeur, Yujiro Kawamata, Tian Gang, etc.
This invaluable volume contains the selected papers presented at the conference. The topics include canonical maps of Gorenstein 3-folds, fundamental groups of algebraic curves, Chen's interated integrals, algebraic fiber spaces, and others.
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