Yongbin Ruan

Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48105 U.S.A.
Phone: (734) 764-9409
Email: ruan@umich.edu

• Brief CV
• Research
• Teaching
• Activities
• Diving
• Travel
• Geometry and Physics Seminar

Brief CV

Employment:

• 2006-present, University of Michigan, Professor
• 2005-2006, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics
• 1999-2006, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor
• 1995-1999, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Associate Professor
• 1993-1996 University of Utah, Assistant Professor
• 1991-1993, Michigan State University, Research Instructor

Education:

• 1987-1991 University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
  Thesis adviser: Robion Kirby, Tom Mrowka
• 1985-1986 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Teaching assistant
• 1982-1985 Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China, M.S. in Mathematics
• 1978-1982 Sichuan University, B.Sc. in Mathematics

Award:

• Clay Senior Scholar, 2006
• The Ministry of Education of China Changjiang (Jiangzhuo) Professor, 2000-
• Distinguished Overseas Young Scientist Awards, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2000-2003
• Vilas associated award 1998-2000
• ICM98 invited Speaker
• Sloan Research Fellowship 95-97

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Research

Fields of interest: Geometry and Physics

Publications:

• My Papers at Math ArXiv Click Here
• My Papers at Math Reviews Click Here

Teaching

Ph.D students:

Bohui Chen: Ph.D (2001)
Wanchuan Zhang: Ph.D (2001)
Shengdu Hu: Ph.D (2003)
Mainak Poddar: Ph.D (2001)
Bernado Uribe: Ph. D (2002)
Johann Leida: Ph.D (2004)
Paul Johnson: Ph. D (2009)
Marc Krawitz: Fourth Year

Activities

Professional activities:

• 1998 Co-organize (with Aaron Bertram) AMS summer geometry conference on quantum cohomology
• 1999 Initiate (with A. Adem and R. Fintushel) Great Lakes geometry conference series
• 2001 Co-organize (with A. Adem and J. Morava) Conference on mathematical aspect of orbifold string theory
• 2001 Co-organize International conference on symplectic geometry in China
• 2001 Co-organize Hong Kong geometry colloquium
• 2002 Co-organize ICM saterllite conference on stringy orbifolds
• 2006 Co-chair of program "New topological structure in physics" in MSRI
• 2009 Co-organize Clay workshop on Geometry and Physics of Landau-Ginzburg model

Diving

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Travel

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