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Huai-Dong Cao is A. Everett Pitcher Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 at Lehigh University

Lehigh University

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. He collaborated with Xi-Ping Zhu

Xi-Ping Zhu

Zhu Xiping is a Professor of Mathematics at Sun Yat-sen University. He collaborated with Cao Huaidong of Lehigh University in verifying Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture. The Cao–Zhu team was one of three teams formed for this purpose...

 of Zhongshan University in verifying Grigori Perelman

Grigori Perelman

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's proof of the Poincaré conjecture

Poincaré conjecture

In mathematics, the Poincaré conjecture is a theorem about the characterization of the three-dimensional sphere , which is the hypersphere that bounds the unit ball in four-dimensional space...

. The Cao–Zhu team is one of three teams formed for this purpose. The other teams are the Tian–Morgan team (Gang Tian

Gang Tian

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 of Princeton University

Princeton University

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 and John Morgan

John Morgan (mathematician)

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 of Columbia University

Columbia University

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) and the Kleiner–Lott team (Bruce Kleiner

Bruce Kleiner

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 of Yale University

Yale University

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 and John Lott

John Lott (mathematician)

John Lott is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working on Ricci flow....

 of University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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).

Professor Cao received his B.A. from Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University , colloquially known in Chinese as Qinghua, is a university in Beijing, China. The school is one of the nine universities of the C9 League. It was established in 1911 under the name "Tsinghua Xuetang" or "Tsinghua College" and was renamed the "Tsinghua School" one year later...

 in 1981 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1986 under the supervision of Shing-Tung Yau

Shing-Tung Yau

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, a Fields Medal

Fields Medal

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ist and National Medal of Science recipient. Professor Cao's specialty is geometric analysis

Geometric analysis

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 and he is a leading expert in the subject of Kähler–Ricci flow

Ricci flow

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Professor Cao is a former Associate Director, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA. He has held visiting Professorships at MIT, Harvard University, Isaac Newton Institute, Max-Planck Institute, IHES, ETH Zurich, and University of Pisa. Professor Cao has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (2004) and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (1991–1993). He is Managing Editor of Journal of Differential Geometry

Journal of Differential Geometry

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Selected bibliography

• Huai-Dong Cao and Xi-Ping Zhu. "A Complete Proof of the Poincaré and Geometrization Conjectures – application of the Hamilton–Perelman theory of the Ricci flow", vol. 10, no. 2, p.165–492, Asian Journal of Mathematics, June 2006.
• Huai-Dong Cao and Xi-Ping Zhu. "Erratum to “A complete proof of the Poincaré and geometrization conjectures — application of the Hamilton-Perelman theory of the Ricci flow”, Asian J. Math., Vol. 10, No. 2, 165–492, 2006". Asian Journal of Mathematics 10 (4): 663–664. MR2260801.
• Huai-Dong Cao. On Harnack's inequalities for the Kähler–Ricci flow, Inventiones Mathematicae 109 (1992), no. 2, 247–263.
• Huai-Dong Cao. Deformation of Kähler metrics to Kähler–Einstein metrics on compact Kähler manifolds, vol. 81, no. 2, 359–372, Inventiones Mathematicae, 1985.