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Biography
Chenyang Xu (Chinese: 许晨阳; born 1981) is a Chinese mathematician in the area of algebraic geometry and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Awards
In 2016 he was announced as a winner of the ICTP Ramanujan Prize for that year, "in recognition of Xu's outstanding works in algebraic geometry, notably in the area of birational geometry, including works both on log canonical pairs and on Q-Fano varieties, and on the topology of singularities and their dual complexes." He earned his doctorate at Princeton under János Kollár's supervision.
He is one of five winners of the 2019 New Horizons Prize for Early-Career Achievement in Mathematics, associated with the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to algebraic geometry, in particular the minimal model program and the K-stability of Fano varieties".
Selected publications
- C. D. Hacon, C. Xu (2013). "Existence of log canonical closures", Inventiones Mathematicae 192 (1), 161–195 49
- C. D. Hacon, J. McKernan, C. Xu (2014). "ACC for log canonical thresholds", Annals of Mathematics 180 (2), 523–571 47