Vita

Huai-Dong Cao

Education

    B.A.   Tsinghua University (Beijing), 1981
    M.A. Princeton University, 1983
    Ph.D. Princeton University, 1986

Academic Appointments

    August 2003 - Present
    A. Everett Pitcher Professor, Lehigh University

    January 2002 - June 2003
    Associate Director, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA

    September 1999 - August 2004
    Professor, Texas A&M University

    September 1993 - August 1999
    Associate Professor, Texas A&M University

    September 1992 - August 1993
    Member, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton

    September 1987 - August 1992
    Ritt Assistant Professor, Columbia University

    September 1986 - August 1987
    Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley

Editorial Board and Selected Other Professional Service

    Managing Editor, Journal of Differential Geometry, 2003 - Present
    Member, Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the
                   Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, 2011-2016.
    Member, International Advisory Committee of Mathematical Sciences Center,
                   Tsinghua University (Beijing), China, 2009-present.
    S.-T. Yau College Student Mathematics Contest: Member of Geometry and Topology Subcommittee, 2010-present.
    S.-T. Yau High School Mathematics Award: Adjudication Panel Member (2011)
    Member, Board of Trustees of IPAM (ex-officio), 2002-03
    Member, Scientific Advisory Board of IPAM (ex-offcio), 2002-03

Visiting Positions

    July 1998
    Visiting Professor, Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University (Beijing), China

    September 1999 - December 1999
    Visiting Professor, MIT

    January 2000 - May 2000
    Visiting Scholar, Harvard Unviersity

    February 2001 - June 2001
    Visiting Member, Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

    July 2001
    Visiting Member, Max-Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany

    August 2001
    Visiting Member, IHES, France

    June 2003 - July 2003
    Visiting Professor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    May 2005 - June 2005
    Visiting Professor, University of Pisa, Italy

    Fall 2005
    Visiting Chair Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    July 2009
    Visiting Professor, University of Provence, Marseille, France

    October-December, 2010
    Visiting Professor, Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Awards and Fellowships

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (2004)
Outstanding Overseas Young Researcher Award, National Science Foundation of China, 2005
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (1991-1993)

Grants

NSF Research Grant DMS-0909581 (PI), 2009-2013.
NSF Conference Grant \International Symposium on Geometry and Topolgy", PI, 2010-2013.
NSF Research Grant DMS-0506084 (PI), 2005-2010
NSF Cnoference Grant: " Lehigh/Harvard Geometry and Topology Conference", DMS-0511215 (Co-PI), 2005-2008
NSF Focused Research Group (FRG) Grant DMS-0354621 (PI), 2004-2007.
NSF Research Grant DMS-0206847 (PI), 2002-05.
NSF Conference Grant: "Texas Geometry and Topology Conference" (PI, with J. Pitts), 2003-2006
NSF Conference Grant: "Texas Geometry and Topology Conference", DMS-0072372 (Co-PI with J. Pitts), 2000-2003.
NSF Research Grant DMS-9803549 (PI), 1998-2001.
NSF Group Infrastructure Grant (GIG) DMS-9600483 (Co-PI), 1996-1999.
IMA Grant for "Workshop in Geometric Analysis" (Co-PI with Jon Pitts), 1996-1997.
NSF Research Grant DMS-9504925 (PI), 1995-1997.
NSF Research Grant DMS-9307297 (PI), 1993-1996.
NSF Research Grant DMS-9004062 (Research Associate), 1990-1992.
NSF Research Grant DMS-8704209 (Research Associate), 1988-1990.
Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University, 1981-1982.

Invited Talks at Conferences and Workshops (2001- )

Second Workshop on Diffrential Geometry, Maceio, Brazil, February 2012.
International Conference on Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear PDEs, Changsha, China, May, 2012.
International Conference on Complex Geometry, Singularities, and Related Fields, Beijing, China, August 2012.
International Conference on Geometric Analysis, Seillac, France, September 2012.
Workshop on Geometric Flows and Geometric Structures, Valencia, Spain, September 2012.
Yamabe Memorial Symposium (50th Anniversary): Geometric Analysis, Minneapolis, October, 2012.
Analytic Aspects of Complex Algebraic Geometry, Luminy/Marseille, France, February 2011.
International Conference on Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Diffrential Equations, Hanzhou, China, May 2011.
Numerical Ricci Flow in Computer Science, Geometry and Physics, Vancouver, Canada, July, 2011.
International Conference on Diffeential Geometry, Beijing, China, August, 2011.
Workshop on Geometric Analysis, 2nd Conference of Tsinghua-Sanya International Mathematics Forum, Sanya, China, Dec.19-21, 2011.
International Conference on Finsler Geometry, Chern Institute of Math., China, June, 2010.
International Conference on Geometric and Nonlinear PDEs, Mission Beach, Australia, September, 2010.
5th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Beijing, China, December, 2010.
The Conference on Geometry, Warsaw, Poland, April, 2009.
Complex and Diffrential Geometry, Hannover, Germany, September, 2009
American Mathematical Society 2009 Fall Central Section Meeting, Waco TX, October, 2009
Program on Geometric Flows and Equivariant Problems in Symplectic Geometry, Barcelona, Spain, March, 2008.
Program on Extremal Kahler Metrics and Kahler-Ricci Flow, Pisa, Italy, March, 2008.
Geometric Flows in Mathematics and Physics, Banff, Canada, April, 2008.
XV Brazilian School in Diffrential Geometry, Fortaleza, Brazil, July, 2008.
Workshop on Field Theory and Geometric Flows, Munich, Germany, November, 2008
Plenary Lecture, 59th British Mathematical Colloquium, Swansea, UK, April, 2007.
International Conference on Geometric Analysis, Taipei, Taiwan, June, 2007.
International Conference on Topology and Physics, Tianjin, China, July, 2007
Valencia Geometric Analysis Day, Valencia, Spain, November, 2007.
Einstein Manifolds and Beyond, Marseille, France, November, 2007.
Strings 2006, Beijing, China, June, 2006.
8th Pacific Rim Geometry Conference, South Durras, Australia, December, 2006.
Midwest Geometry Conference, Columbus, Ohio, May, 2005.
Mini-Workshop on Aspects of Ricci-Flow, Oberwolfach, Germany, May, 2005.
Workshop on Flows in Geometry, Boston, MA, May, 2005.
Fragrant Hill Meeting-Frontiers of Mathematical Physics, Beijing, China, August, 2005.
Conference celebrating L.K. Hua's 95th birthday, Beijing, China, November, 2005.
Sino-France Conference in Mathematics, Zhuhai, China, December, 2005
Workshop on Geometric Flows: Theory and Computation, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2004.
Great Lakes Geometry Conference, South Bend, IN, April, 2004.
Program on Diffrential Geometry and Topology (5 lectures), Pisa, Italy, September, 2004.
Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, College Station, TX, October, 2004.
Special Lectures: Introduction to Perelman's Work (3 lectures), Paris, France, December, 2004.
7th Pacific Rim Geometry Conference, Shanghai, China, December, 2004.
3rd International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Hong Kong, December, 2004.
Lehigh Geometry and Topology Conference, Bethlehem, PA, June, 2003.
Perspective in Diffeential Geometry, Banff, anada, July 2003.
Workshop on Geometric Flows, Hamilton Island, Australia, August, 2003.
Diffrential Geometry Conference, Tokyo, Japan, December, 2003.
Workshop on Geometric Evolution Equations, Hsinchu, Taiwan, July, 2002.
Diffrential Geometry and Global Analysis (Satellite Conference to 2002 ICM), Tianjin, China, August, 2002.
6th Pacific Rim eometry Conference, Hong Kong, December, 2002.
International Conference of Mathematics, Hangzhou, China, July, 2001.
Workshop on Geometric Evolution and Nonlinear Elliptic Equations, Cambridge, UK, March, 2001.
972th American Mathematical Society Meeting, Irvine, CA, November, 2001.