Li Jianshu
Li Jianshu, also known as Jian-Shu Li, is a Chinese mathematician. He is the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics at Zhejiang University.
Formerly he was a chair professor at the Department of Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.Career
Li was born in Xiaoshan, Zhejiang, China. He graduated from Xiaoshan Middle School. Li studied mathematics at the Department of Mathematics at Zhejiang University. He later obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University. Before moving to Hong Kong, Li was a Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Li has also served as President of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society and as Chang Jiang Chair Professor of Zhejiang University.Selected works
- "Singular unitary representations of classical groups", Invent. Math. 97, no. 2, 237–255.
- "Nonvanishing theorems for the cohomology of certain arithmetic quotients", J. Reine Angew. Math. 428, 177–217.
- "Theta lifting for unitary representations with nonzero cohomology", Duke Math. J. 61 , no. 3, 913–937.
- "On the classification of irreducible low rank unitary representations of classical groups", Compositio Math. 71, no. 1, 29–48.
- "Ramanujan duals and automorphic spectrum", with M. Burger and P. Sarnak, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26, no. 2, 253–257.
Awards and honors
Li was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994.
He has been a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2013.
