Song Sun

Short description: Chinese mathematician

The native form of this personal name is Sun Song. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Song Sun (Chinese: 孙崧; pinyin: Sūn Sōng, born in 1987) is a Chinese mathematician whose research concerns geometry and topology. A Sloan Research Fellow, he is a professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been since 2018. In 2019, he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.

## Contents

* 1 Biography
* 2 Conjecture on Fano manifolds and Veblen Prize
* 3 Major publications
* 4 References

## Biography

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.[1] 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.[1][2] His doctoral advisor was Xiuxiong Chen, and his dissertation was titled "Kempf–Ness theorem and uniqueness of extremal metrics".[3]

Sun worked as a research associate at Imperial College London before becoming an assistant professor at Stony Brook University in 2013.[2] He was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2014.[2] In 2018, he was appointed an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley.[4]

He was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, in Rio de Janeiro.[5] For 2021 he received the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics – New Horizons in Mathematics.[6]

## Conjecture on Fano manifolds and Veblen Prize

In 2019, Sun was awarded the prestigious 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.[7] The conjecture was later given a precise formulation by Donaldson, based in part on earlier work of Chinese mathematician Gang Tian. The solution 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".[7][8]

## Major publications

* Donaldson, Simon; Sun, Song (2014). "Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler manifolds and algebraic geometry". Acta Math. 213 (1): 63–106. doi:10.1007/s11511-014-0116-3.
* Chen, Xiuxiong; Donaldson, Simon; Sun, Song (2015). "Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds. I: Approximation of metrics with cone singularities". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1): 183–197. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00799-2.
* Chen, Xiuxiong; Donaldson, Simon; Sun, Song (2015). "Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds. II: Limits with cone angle less than 2π". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1): 199–234. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00800-6.
* Chen, Xiuxiong; Donaldson, Simon; Sun, Song (2015). "Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds. III: Limits as cone angle approaches 2π and completion of the main proof". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1): 235–278. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00801-8.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "陈秀雄孙崧荣获维布伦奖". 2018-11-20. https://www.ustcif.org/default.php/content/4053/.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Song Sun Awarded Prestigious Sloan Fellowship for Mathematics". 2014-02-18. https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/general/2182014songsun/. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
3. ↑ "Song Sun". https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=144609. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
4. ↑ "Song Sun". https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/song-sun. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
5. ↑ "Invited Section Lectures Speakers". http://www.icm2018.org/portal/invited-section-lectures-speakers.html. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
6. ↑ Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2021
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry to Xiuxiong Chen, Simon Donaldson, and Song Sun". 2018-11-19. http://www.ams.org/news?news_id=4705.
8. ↑ "Song Sun to receive the 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. Congratulations!". https://math.berkeley.edu/news/song-sun-receive-2019-oswald-veblen-prize-geometry-congratulations. Retrieved 2019-04-03.

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Recipients of the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry

* 1964 Christos Papakyriakopoulos
* 1964 Raoul Bott
* 1966 Stephen Smale
* 1966 Morton Brown and Barry Mazur
* 1971 Robion Kirby
* 1971 Dennis Sullivan
* 1976 William Thurston
* 1976 James Harris Simons
* 1981 Mikhail Gromov
* 1981 Shing-Tung Yau
* 1986 Michael Freedman
* 1991 Andrew Casson and Clifford Taubes
* 1996 Richard S. Hamilton and Gang Tian
* 2001 Jeff Cheeger, Yakov Eliashberg and Michael J. Hopkins
* 2004 David Gabai
* 2007 Peter Kronheimer and Tomasz Mrowka; Peter Ozsváth and Zoltán Szabó
* 2010 Tobias Colding and William Minicozzi II; Paul Seidel
* 2013 Ian Agol and Daniel Wise
* 2016 Fernando Codá Marques and André Neves
* 2019 Xiuxiong Chen, Simon Donaldson and Song Sun

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