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Personal Profile of Professor Richard M. Schoen

Professor Richard M. Schoen
Department of Mathematics

Home Page: http://math.stanford.edu/~schoen/
Biography

Dr. Richard Schoen received his PhD from Stanford University in 1977. He held positions at the Courant Institute, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego before returning to Stanford as Professor in 1987. He is currently the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences. Dr. Schoen works in differential geometry and partial differential equations. His research interests include geometric variational problems and general relativity.

In 1983 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress in Warsaw. In 1986 he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress in Berkeley, and in 2010 he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress in Hyderabad. He has been the recipient of Sloan and Guggenheim Fellowships, and from 1983 to 1988 he held a MacArthur Fellowship. In 1989 Dr. Schoen was awarded the BĂ´cher Prize by the American Mathematical Society for his resolution of the Yamabe problem of differential geometry.

Dr. Schoen is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications and on the Fachbeirat of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitation in Golm, Germany. Dr. Schoen also serves on several editorial boards.

Current/Future Committee Membership
Name Office Start Date End Date
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Past Committee Membership
Name Office Start Date End Date
Board of Trustees Ex-officio Trustee (SAC Co-Chair) Jul 01, 2009 Jun 30, 2012
Scientific Advisory Committee Co-Chair (7/1/2009-6/30/2012) Apr 01, 2007 Jun 30, 2012
Steering Committee Ex officio (SAC Co-Chair) Jul 01, 2009 Jun 30, 2012
  1. Workshop Introductory Workshop: Modern Riemannian Geometry

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    Jan 21, 2016
    Thursday
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Minimal submanifolds and lower curvature bounds I
    Richard Schoen (University of California, Irvine)
    Jan 22, 2016
    Friday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Minimal submanifolds and lower curvature bounds II
    Richard Schoen (University of California, Irvine)
  2. Workshop Initial Data and Evolution Problems in General Relativity

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    Nov 20, 2013
    Wednesday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Approximating general data by optimally flat data"
    Richard Schoen (University of California, Irvine)
  3. Workshop Introductory Workshop: Mathematical Relativity

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    Sep 10, 2013
    Tuesday
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Constructing localized solutions of the Einstein constraint equations
    Richard Schoen (University of California, Irvine)
  4. Workshop The Global Theory of Minimal Surfaces (Summer Graduate Program II)

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    Jul 02, 2001
    Monday
    11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
      Lecture 1 - 3: Applications of minimal surfaces to general relativity and Riemannian geometry
    Richard Schoen (University of California, Irvine)
    Jul 23, 2001
    Monday
    09:15 AM - 10:45 AM
      Lecture I - II: Variational problems in Lagrangian geometry: Special Lagrangian submanifolds
    Richard Schoen (University of California, Irvine)