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Tong YANG 杨彤
NationalityChinese
Alma materZhongshan University
University of California, Davis, USA
AwardsMorningside Silver Medal of Mathematics (1998)[1]

Chair Professor, Changjiang Scholars Program (2005)[2][3]

Croucher Senior Research Fellow (2011)[4][5]

Second-class Award, State Natural Science Award, China (2012)[6][7]

Foreign Member, the European Academy of Sciences (2018)[8]

First-class Award in Natural Sciences, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology),Ministry of Education, China (2019)[9]

RGC Senior Research Fellow Award 2020/21[10][11]

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2021)[12]

Member of the World Academy of Sciences (2021)[13][14]

Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences (2021)[15]

First-class Award in Natural Sciences, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology), Ministry of Education, China (2022)[16][17]

Foreign member of Academia Europaea (2022)[18][19]

Kuok Group Endowed Professor in Mathematical Science (20204-2029)[20][21]
Scientific career
FieldsPartial differential equations and kinetic theory
InstitutionsDepartment of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Doctoral advisorJ. Blake (John) Temple.[22]

Tong Yang (Chinese: 杨彤) is a Chinese mathematician.[23] He holds the position of Chair Professor of Mathematical Science of the Department of Applied Mathematics in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)[24][25] since 2020, and had been the President of The Hong Kong Mathematical Society[26] in 2016-2020.[27][28]

Education

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Yang received his Ph.D. degree in 1993 from University of California, Davis in USA,[29] after obtaining his bachelor's and Master's degree from Zhongshan University in 1987 and 1990 [30], respectively.

Research

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Yang's research lies in the field of partial differential equations and kinetic theory.[31]

In collaboration with Tai-Ping Liu, Yang introduced the Liu-Yang functional to assess the stability of BV solutions in systems of hyperbolic conservation laws,[32][33] which addressed a significant and challenging mathematical problem. This functional provided a conclusive resolution to the well-posedness theory for conservation laws and has applications in various other fields.[34][35]

Alongside his collaborators, he developed a new macro-micro decomposition for the Boltzmann equation to study its fluid phenomena [36][37], which can directly implement some of the analytical techniques used in conservation laws.

Awards

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Yang was ranked among the World's Top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University in 2020[38], 2021[39], 2022[40], 2023[41], and 2024[42].

He received several awards for his work in mathematics. In 1998, Yang was awarded the Morningside Silver Medal of Mathematics "for his contributions to Well-Posedness theory for hyperbolic conservation laws"[1]. He received The Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2011/12 as an acknowledgement of "excellence in the scientific work on mathematical theories of the Boltzmann equation and related models",[4] and the second-class award of 2012 State Natural Science Award, China for his project on "conversation laws and the Boltzmann equation"[6][7]

Yang earned the first-class award in Natural Sciences of the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology) by the Ministry of Education of China for the joint work "Well-posedness of the Prandtl equation in Sobolev spaces"[43] in 2019 [9][44], and another joint work on mathematical theory of compressible Navier-Stokes equations and related models[45] [46] in 2022 [16][17]. In 2020/2021, he was awarded the RGC Senior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Committee for his project "Some Mathematical Theories for Kinetic Systems".[10][11]

He was elected for various memberships and fellowships for his contributions to mathematics and science. In 2018, he was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences for "outstanding contributions to science and technology".[47] Yang was also named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society for his work on hyperbolic conservation laws and kinetic equations,[12][48] and an elected member of the World Academy of Sciences as a recognition for fundamental contributions to hyperbolic conservation laws, kinetic theories, boundary layer theories and high Reynolds number limit in 2021.[13][14] He became a member of Academia Europaea in 2022.[18][19]

References

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  1. ^ a b "List of 1998 Recipients, Morningside Award".
  2. ^ "Changjiang Chair Professor 2005" (PDF).
  3. ^ "2005年度长江学者特聘教授、讲座教授人选和"长江学者成就奖"人选".
  4. ^ a b "The Croucher Senior Research Fellowships 2011-2012".
  5. ^ Order of Ceremony, Croucher Foundation, 24 March 2011 (PDF)
  6. ^ a b "Second-class Award, State Natural Science Award 2012" (PDF).
  7. ^ a b "Three CityU scientists conferred national science awards, retrieved January 15, 2025". 30 January 2013.
  8. ^ "Member, the European Academy of Sciences, retrieved on January 16, 2025". 13 April 2022.
  9. ^ a b "Announcement of 2019 MoE Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award, retrieved January16, 2025".
  10. ^ a b "Awardee of 2020/21 RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme, retrieved January 13, 2025".
  11. ^ a b "RGC Award Presentation Ceremony (Nov 2020)".
  12. ^ a b "American Mathematical Society Fellow 2021, retrieved January 13, 2025".
  13. ^ a b "Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, retrieved January 13, 2025".
  14. ^ a b "Tong YANG, Prizes/ Honours, CityU Scholars, retrieved January 13, 2025".
  15. ^ "Member of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, retrieved January 13, 2025".
  16. ^ a b "PolyU receives two Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards".
  17. ^ a b "Professor Tong YANG awarded the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology) 2022 by the Ministry of Education, retrieved January 13, 2025".
  18. ^ a b "Academia Member, Academia Europaea, retrieved January 13, 2025".
  19. ^ a b "ASHK member, Professor Tong YANG elected a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, retrieved January 13, 2025".
  20. ^ "Kuok Group Endowed Professorship in Mathematical Science".
  21. ^ "Prof. Yang Tong, Kuok Group Professor in Mathematical Science, retrieved January 13, 2025". YouTube. 9 October 2024.
  22. ^ "J. Blake (John) Temple at the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
  23. ^ "Tong Yang, Google Scholar".
  24. ^ "Tong Yang, Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Retrieved January 13, 2025".
  25. ^ "Warm Welcome to Chair Professor Yang Tong to the AMA Family, retrieved January 15, 2025".
  26. ^ "The Hong Kong Mathematical Society - 香港數學學會".
  27. ^ "2016-2018 Council Member, The Hong Kong Mathematical Society".
  28. ^ "2018-2020 Council Member, The Hong Kong Mathematical Society".
  29. ^ "Tong Yang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
  30. ^ {cite web|title=Tong Yang, ORCID|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9807-7230}}
  31. ^ "Tong Yang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Retrieved January 13, 2025".
  32. ^ "T.-P. Liu, T. Yang, L1 stability for 2×2 systems of hyperbolic conservation laws, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (3) (1999) 729–774" (PDF). JSTOR 2646212.
  33. ^ "Liu, T. P., & Yang, T. (1999). L1 stability for systems of hyperbolic conservation laws. Contemporary Mathematics, 238" (PDF).
  34. ^ "T.-P. Liu, T. Yang, Well-posedness theory for hyperbolic conservation laws, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 52 (12) (1999) 1553–1586". doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0312(199912)52:12<1553::AID-CPA3>3.0.CO;2-S.
  35. ^ "Liu, TP. (2001). Well-Posedness Theory for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws. In: Freistühler, H., Szepessy, A. (eds) Advances in the Theory of Shock Waves. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 47. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA". doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0193-9_1.
  36. ^ "Liu , T.P. , Yang , T. , Yu , S.H. ( 2004 ). Energy method for Boltzmann equation. Physica D 188: 178 – 192". doi:10.1016/j.physd.2003.07.011.
  37. ^ Saint-Raymond, Laure (26 March 2009). Saint-Raymond, L. (2009). Hydrodynamic limits of the Boltzmann equation (No. 1971). Springer Science & Business Media. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-92846-1.
  38. ^ "Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists by Stanford University, 2020".
  39. ^ "Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists by Stanford University, 2021".
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  41. ^ "Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists by Stanford University, 2023".
  42. ^ "Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists by Stanford University, 2024".
  43. ^ "Alexandre, R., Wang, Y. G., Xu, C. J., & Yang, T. (2015). Well-posedness of the Prandtl equation in Sobolev spaces. Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 28(3), 745-784" (PDF).
  44. ^ "2019 MoE Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award - First Prize" (PDF).
  45. ^ "Vong, S. W., Yang, T., & Zhu, C. (2003). Compressible Navier–Stokes equations with degenerate viscosity coefficient and vacuum (II). Journal of Differential Equations, 192(2), 475-501". doi:10.1016/S0022-0396(03)00060-3.
  46. ^ Li, Hai-Liang; Li, Jing; Xin, Zhouping (2008). "Li, H. L., Li, J., & Xin, Z. (2008). Vanishing of vacuum states and blow-up phenomena of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 281, 401-444". arXiv:0811.3818. doi:10.1007/s00220-008-0495-4.
  47. ^ "Foreign Member, European Academy of Sciences 2018" (PDF).
  48. ^ "Fellows of AMS 2021, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, pp 642, Vol 68, No.4, April 2021, retrieved January 20, 2025" (PDF).