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Curriculum Vitae of Jiang-Hua Lu
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Name: Jiang-Hua Lu
Position: Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics
Institution: The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Rd. Hong Kong
Telephone: (852-****-**** (O ce), 2559-2225 (Fax)
Email: ****@*****.***.**
EDUCATION:
Ph.D, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, (1985-
1990). Dissertation director: Alan Weinstein.
B.S., Department of Mathematics, Beijing University, Beijing, P.R. China, (1979-
1983).
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Symplectic and Poisson geometry; Lie theory.
EMPLOYMENT:
July 2007 - present: Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Hong
Kong;
July 2002 - June 30, 2007: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Uni-
versity of Hong Kong;
May 1997 - July 2002: Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Mathe-
matics, University of Arizona, USA;
July 1994 - May 1997: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University
of Arizona, USA;
September 1993 - June 1994: Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton;
September 1990 - June 1993: C. L. E. Moore Instructor, Massachussetts Institute
of Technology;
January 1985 - June 1990: Teaching/Research Assistant, Department of Mathemat-
ics, University of California Berkeley.
VISITING POSITIONS:
August 1 - December 31, 2008: Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli, Ecole Polytechnique
F d rale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;
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August, 2004 and July 2006: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA;
April 2004 - May 2004: Institut des Hautes Etudes Scienti ques, France;
August 2003: Erwin Schoedinger Institute, Vienna, Austria;
June 2003: Institut des Hautes Etudes Scienti ques, France;
March - June 2001: Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong;
July - August, 2000: Institut des Hautes Etudes Scienti ques, France;
April 1997 - August 1998: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;
July, 1994: Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematics, Cambridge, England;
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May - June, 1994: Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France.
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
(1) Hong Kong RGC grant 704310 (HK$754, 055), 2010 - 2013;
(2) Seed Funding for Basic Research at HKU (HK$67, 000), 2010 - 2012;
(3) Hong Kong RGC grant 703707 (HK$570, 000), 2007 - 2010;
(4) Hong Kong RGC grant 703405 (HK$463, 600), 2005 - 2008;
(5) Seed Funding for Basic Research at HKU (HK$70, 000), 2005 - 2007;
(6) Hong Kong RGC grant 703304 (HK$392, 000), 2004 - 2007;
(7) Hong Kong RGC grant 701603 (HK$486, 000), 2003 - 2006;
(8) Croucher Croucher Foundation Travel Grant (HK$16550), 2003;
(9) New Sta Seeding Fund at HKU (HK$120, 000), 2002 - 2004;
(10) HHY Physical Sciences Fund at HKU (HK$27, 000), 2002 - 2003;
(11) (USA)NSF grant DMS-0105195 (US$48, 800), 2001 - 2004;
(12) (USA)NSF grant DMS-0217057 (US$14, 820), 2001, Co-PI for Workshop on Geom-
etry and Topology of Quotients, December 5-8, 2002, Tucson, Arizona;
(13) (USA)NSF grant DMS-0072551 (US$75, 657), 2000 - 2003;
(14) (USA)NSF grant DMS-9803624 (US$67, 812), 1998 - 2001;
(15) (USA)NSF grant DMS-9508920 (US$66, 000), Postdoctorial Research Fellowship,
1995 - 1998;
(16) University of Arizona Foreign Travel Grant, 1995;
(17) (USA)NSF grants DMS-9306389, Postdoctorial Associates (PI: R. Melrose), 1993;
(18) (USA)NSF grants DMS-8907710, Postdoctorial Associate (PI: V. Guillemin), 1991;
(19) Charles B. Morrey graduate student award, University of California at Berkeley,
1987.
COURSES TAUGHT:
(1) Algebra I (The University of Hong Kong, Fall, 2006, 2007, 2009);
(2) Algebra II (The University of Hong Kong, Spring, 2006);
(3) Functional Analysis (The University of Hong Kong, 2003-present);
(4) Introduction to Riemannian Symmetric Spaces (The University of Hong Kong,
2004);
(5) Introduction to Di erential Geometry (The University of Hong Kong, 2002, 2009);
(6) Introduction to Symplectic Geometry (The University of Arizona, 2001);
(7) Topic Course in Di erential Geometry ((The University of Arizona, 2000);
(8) Algebraic topology (University of Arizona, Spring and Fall, 1999);
(9) Di erential manifolds (University of Arizona, Fall, 1998);
(10) Trigonometry (University of Arizona, Fall, 1995);
(11) Real Analysis (undergraduate/graduate course, University of Arizona, Spring, 1994);
(12) Complex Analysis (undergraduate/graduate course, University of Arizona, Spring,
1994);
(13) Real Analysis (MIT, 1991 - 92);
(14) Ordinary Di erential Equations (MIT, 1991 - 92; HKU 2011, 2012);
(15) Linear Algebra (MIT, 1990);
(16) Partial Di erential Equations (Teaching Assistant, University of California Berkeley,
1988);
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(17) Calculus (UC Berkeley, 1985-1988; MIT, 1990; University of Arizona, 1995 - 1999;
The University of Hong Kong, 2003, 2004.);
STUDENTS:
(1) SO, Bing Kwan, MPhil, 2003-2005;
(2) CHOW, Alan Shek Hei, MPhil, 2003-2005;
(3) NG, Ka Chun, MPhil, 2005-2008;
(4) TO, Simon Kai Ming, PhD, 2006-2010;
(5) LAU, Lai Ngor, MPhil, 2007 -2009;
(6) CHAN, Kei Yuen, MPhil, 2008 -2010;
(7) MOUQUIN, Victor, PhD, 2009 -;
(8) BALAZS, Elek, Mphil, 2010-.
UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICES:
(1) Head, Department of Mathematics, HKU, September 1, 2011 -
(2) Course Seclection Advisor, Department of Mathematics, HKU, 2010 - 2011
(3) Chief examiner, Department of Mathematics, HKU, 2007 - 2011;
(4) Higher Degrees Committee for the Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong,
2003 - 2007;
(5) Departmental Research Postgraduate Committee, Department of Mathematics, The
University of Hong Kong, various years.
(6) Faculty Review Committee for MPhil/PhD Candidates, Department of Mathemat-
ics, The University of Hong Kong, 2003 - 2006;
(7) Oral Examination Panel, The University of Hong Kong, 2002 - 2010;
(8) Promotion and Tenure Committee, University of Arizona, 1998-1999;
(9) Mathematics Colloquium Chair, University of Arizona, 1995-1996;
(10) Departmental Head Search Committee, University of Arizona, 1995-1996;
(11) Degree exam committees, University of Arizona, University of Hong Kong, and the
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1994 - present.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
(1) Editor for the Paci c Journal of Mathematics, 2002 - present;
(2) Editor for Traveaux Mathematique, 2005 - present;
(3) Scienti c Committee on Poisson 2012, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2012;
(4) Co-organizer of Workshop in Lie Theory and Geometry, March 25 - 26, 2011, The
University of Hong Kong;
(5) Scienti c Advisory Committee on Poisson 2008, Lausaine, Swizerland, 2008;
(6) Scienti c Advisory Committee on Poisson 2006, Tokyo, 2006;
(7) Co-organizer of Workshop in Geometry, May 25 - 30, 2006, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong;
(8) Scienti c Advisory Committee for the third International Congress for Chinese
Mathematicians, Hong Kong, December 2004;
(9) Co-organizer for the workshop on Geometry and Topology of Quotients, December
5-8, 2002, Tucson, Arizona;
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(10) Co-organizer for the conference on Poisson geometry and Lie theory, December
1999, Tucson, Arizona;
(11) Co-organizer of the symplectic geometry conference, MIT, May 1993;
(12) Scienti c Advisory Committee for the Workshop on Quantum Groups and Quantum
Spaces, Warsaw, Poland, November 1995;
(13) (USA)NSF panel member;
(14) Referee for (USA)NSF proposals;
(15) Referee for various mathematical journals;
INVITED COLLOQUIUM TALKS:
(1) Graduate Colloquium, Mathematics Institute, University of Gottingen, Germany,
July 16, 2009;
(2) Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium, October 2002;
(3) Penn State University, April, 2000;
(4) University of California at Santa Cruz, November 1999;
(5) University of California at Berkeley, January 1997;
(6) California Institute of Technology, May 1996;
(7) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, February 1996;
(8) University of Maryland, April 1993;
(9) University of Oregon, January 1993;
LECTURE SERIES/MINI-COURSES:
(1) Summer school of Poisson 2010, Rio de Janeiro, July 20-23, 2010;
(2) Troisieme Cycle Romand de Math matiques, Cours du semestre d automne 2008 `
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l EPFL, September 17 - December 17, 2008;
(3) 11 th National Summer school of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Sci-
ence and Technology, Hong Kong, July - Augut 2006;
(4) Pathway Lecture Series in Mathematics, Keio University, Japan, November 24 - 26,
2005;
(5) One week lectures for the summer program of Institute for Mathematics and Its
applications, Minnesota, July 2001;
(6) Lecture series on symplectic geometry, The University of Hong Kong, March - June,
2001;
(7) Lecture series at the Workshop on Poisson geometry, Nankai Mathematics Institute,
Tianjin, China, June 1995.
INVITED CONFERENCE TALKS:
(1) International workshop on representation theory and harmonic analysis, Chern In-
stitute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, June 5-11, 2011.
(2) The International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Beijing, Dec. 17-22, 2010;
(3) Atlas on Lie groups workshop, University of Utah, July 19, 2010;
(4) Symplectic and Poisson Geometry in interaction with Algebra, Analysis and Topol-
ogy in honor of Alan Weisntein s retirement, MSRI, Berkeley, May 4-7, 2010.
(5) Workshop on Transverse Poisson Structures and Poisson Singularities, EPFL, Switzer-
land, October 9-10, 2008;
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(6) Workshop on Moment maps, EPFL, Switzerland, August 4-8, 2008
(7) Poisson 2008, July 4-11, 2008, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;
(8) The International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Zhejiang University, Hang
Zhou, Dec. 17-22, 2007;
(9) The Fourth Paci c Rim Conference on Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong,
Dec. 7-11, 2007;
(10) Geometric Aspects of Analysis and Mechanics: a conference in honor of the 65th
birthday of Hans Duistermaat, August 20-24, 2007, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
(11) Poisson 2006: Poisson geometry in mathematics and physics, June 5 - 9, 2006,
Tokyo, Japan;
(12) Summer School and Conference on Poisson Geometry, July 4 - July 23, 2005, ICTP,
Treiste, Italy;
(13) Symposium Lie Groups: from Topology to Arithmetic in memory of Armand Borel,
Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland, June 29 - July 4, 2005;
(14) The Third International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Hong Kong, Decem-
ber 17 - 22, 2004.
(15) International Symposium on Representation Theory and Harmonic Analysis, Urumqi,
Xinjiang, China, August 2-8, 2004;
(16) Hong Kong Mathematical Society, April 17, 2004;
(17) Workshop on moment maps, Erwin Schoedinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, August
2003;
(18) International EuroSchool and EuroConference PQR 2003, Brussels, Belgium, June
19, 2003;
(19) Rencontres Math matiques de Glanon, Glanon, France, July 1, 2003;
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(20) Poisson 2002, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2002;
(21) The Second International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Taiwan, December
2001;
(22) International conference on orbits, crystals, and representation theory, IHP, Paris,
May 22-25, 2000;
(23) PSU Mini geometry conference, Penn State University, April 7-8, 2000;
(24) Mimi symplectic geometry conference at MIT, October 1999;
(25) Groupoidfest, Arizona State University, December, 1998;
(26) AMS invited plenary address, Tucson, November, 1998;
(27) Workshop on Poisson geometry, Banach Center, Warsaw, August 1998;
(28) Symplectic geometry conference at MIT, April 1997, May 1995, October 1999;
(29) Special session of AMS conference, Columbia, Missouri, November, 1996;
(30) Colloquium on geometric quantization (organizers: M. Vergne, M. Du o and L.
Je rey), Luminy, France, July 1996;
(31) Workshop on quantum groups and quantum spaces, Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland,
November 1995;
(32) Joint American Mathematical Society meetings, San Antonio, January 1993;
(33) Association for Women in Mathematics Symposium on the Future of Women in
Mathematics, San Francisco, January 1991.
SEMINAR TALKS:
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(1) IMS geometry seminar, Chinese Unviersity of Hong Kong, October 28, 2009;
(2) Seminar on fundamental interactions, University of Feiburg, Gemany, December 12,
2008;
(3) S minaire Alg bre G om trie Alg brique Topologie Alg brique, Universit Mont-
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pellier 2, Montpellier, France, December 11, 2008;
(4) S minaire Groupes de Lie et espaces des modules, University of Geneva, Geneva,
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Switzerland, September 30, 2008;
(5) Department of Mathematics, Beijing University, July 4, 2007.
(6) Department of Mathematics, University of Hawaii, December 28, 2005;
(7) Geometry seminar, University of Californian at Santa Barbara, August 24, 2004;
(8) Quantum group seminar, Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris, France, May 2, 2004;
(9) Mathematical Physics Seminar, University of Lyon, France, May 7, 2004;
(10) Symplectic geometry seminar, University of California, Berkeley, March 8, 2004;
(11) Pure mathematics seminar, ZhongShan University, GuangZhou, China, 2003;
(12) Lie theory seminar, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, February
13 and 15, 2001;
(13) Geometry seminar, University of Lyon, France, September, 2000;
(14) Physics inspired mathematics seminar, Univ. of North Carolina, April, 2000;
(15) Special seminar, University of California, Berkeley, November 2000;
(16) Special seminar, Ecole Polytechnique, France, June 1998;
(17) Symplectic geometry seminar, UC Berkeley, April 1997, November 1999;
(18) Symplectic geometry seminar, MIT, February 1997, 1990 - 1993;
(19) Geometry seminar, University of Arizona, August 1994 - 1999;
(20) Topology seminar, Cornell University, March 1996;
(21) Geometry Seminar, Pennsylvania State University, March 1996;
(22) Berkeley-Stanford-Davis-Santa Cruz symplectic geometry seminar, February 1995;
(23) Integrable system seminar, University of Strassburg, France, June 1994;
(24) Symplectic geometry seminar, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France, June 1994;
(25) Geometry seminar, University of Maryland, April 1994;
(26) Member seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, March 1994;
(27) Geometry seminar, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, January 1994;
(28) Department of Mathematics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, January 1994;
(29) Algebra seminar, Rutgers University, November 1993;
(30) In nite dimensional Lie algebra seminar, MIT, 1992;
(31) Lie group seminar, MIT, 1991;
(32) Symplectic geometry seminar, University of California, Berkeley, 1987-1990.
PUBLICATION:
(1) S. Evens and J.-H. Lu, On some invariants of orbits in the ag variety under a
symmetric subgroup, arXiv:1104.2640.
(2) J.-H. Lu, On a dimension formula for twisted spherical conjugacy classes in semisim-
ple algebraic groups, 269 (3-4), 1181-1188 (2011)
(3) X. He and J.-H. Lu, On intersections of certain partitions of a group compacti ca-
tion, Intern. Math. Res. Notices, 2011(11), 2534 - 2564 (2011) (published online
on September 15, 2010).
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(4) K. Y. Chan, J.-H. Lu, and K. M. To, On intersections of conjugacy classes and
Bruhat cells, Trans. Groups, 15(2), 243 - 260 (2010).
(5) J.-H. Lu and M. Yakimov, Group orbits and regular partitions of Poisson manifolds,
Comm. Math. Phys., 283(3), 729 - 748 (2008).
(6) J.-H. Lu, A note on Poisson homogeneous spaces, Poisson geometry in mathematics
and physics, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol 450, 2008.
(7) Evens, S., Lu, J.-H., Poisson geometry of the Grothendieck resolution of a complex
semisimple group, Moscow Mathematical Journal 7 (4) (special volume in honor of
V. Ginzburg s 50 th birthday), 613 - 642 (2007).
(8) J.-H. Lu and M. Yakimov, Partitions of the wonderful group compacti cation,
Transform. Groups 12 (2007), no. 4, 695 723.
(9) Evens, S., Lu, J.-H., On the variety of Lagrangian subalgebras, II, Ann. Scient.
Ecol. Norm. Sup., 39 (2), 347 - 379, 2006.
(10) P. Foth and J.-H. Lu, Poisson structures on complex ag manifolds associated with
real forms, Trans. AMS, 358 (4), 1705 - 1714, 2006, (electronically published on
September 22, 2005).
(11) J.-H. Lu and M. Yakimov, On a class of double cosets in reductive algebraic groups,
Inter. Math. Res. Notices, 13, 761-797, 2005;
(12) S. Evens and J.-H. Lu, Thompson s conjecture for real semi-simple Lie groups,
Progress in Mathematics, Vol. 232 (2005), Marsden, Jerrold E.; Ratiu, Tudor S.
(Eds.), 121 - 147.
(13) L. Ji and J.-H. Lu, New realizations of the maximal Satake compacti cation of
Riemannian symmetric spaces, Lett. Math. Phys. 69 (1-3), 139 - 145, 2004;
(14) P. Foth and J.-H. Lu, A Poisson structure on compact symmetric spaces, Comm.
Math. Phys., 251 (3), 557 - 566, 2004;
(15) Evens, S., Lu, J.-H., On the variety of Lagrangian subalgebras, I, Ann. Ecol. Norm.
Sup. (2001), 631 - 668;
(16) Lu, J.-H., Yan M., Zhu, Y.-C., Hopf algebras with positive bases, Journal of Algebra
237 (2) (2001),421 445;
(17) Lu, J.-H., Classical dynamical r-matrices and homogeneous Poisson structures on
G/H and K/T, Comm. Math. Phys. 212 (2000), 337 - 370;
(18) Lu, J.-H., Yan M., Zhu, Y.-C., Quasi-triangular structures on Hopf algebras with
positive bases, New trends in Hopf algebra theory, Proceedings of Colloquium on
quantum groups and Hopf algebras, La Falda, Argentina, August 1999. Edited by
N. Andruskiewitsch, et. al. (1999), 339 - 356.
(19) Lu, J.-H., Yan M., Zhu, Y.-C., On the set-theoretical Yang-Baxter equation, Duke
Math. J. 104 No. 1 (2000), 1-18;
(20) Lu, J.-H., Coordinates on Schubert cells, Kostant s harmonic forms, and the Bruhat
Poisson structure on G/B, Transformation Groups, 4 No.4 (1999), 355 - 374;
(21) Evens, S., Lu, J.-H., Weinstein, A., Transverse measures, the modular class, and
a cohomology pairing for Lie algebroids, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, 50
(1999), 417 - 436;
(22) Evens, S., Lu, J.-H., Poisson harmonic forms, Kostant harmonic forms, and the
S 1 -equivariant cohomology of K/T, Adv. Math., 142 (1999), 171 - 220;
(23) Lu, J.-H., Poisson homogeneous spaces and Lie algebroids associated to Poisson
actions, Duke Math. J., 86 No. 2 (1997), 261 - 304;
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(24) Lu, J.-H., Hopf algebroids and quantum groupoids, Inter. J. Math., 7 No. 1 (1996),
47 - 70;
(25) Lu, J.-H., On the Heisenberg double and the Drinfeld double of a Hopf algebra,
Duke Math. J., 74 No. 3 (1994), 763 - 776;
(26) Lu, J.-H., Moment maps at the quantum level, Comm. Math. Phys. 157 (1993),
389 - 404;
(27) Ginzburg, V., Lu, J.-H., Poisson cohomology of Morita-equivalent Poisson mani-
folds, Duke Math. J., IMRN, No.10 (1992), 199 - 205;
(28) Lu, J.-H., Ratiu, T., On the convexity theorem of Kostant, J. AMS 4 No. 2 (1991),
349 - 363;
(29) Lu, J.-H., Weinstein, A., Appendix to quantization of the Poisson SU (2) and its
Poisson homogeneous space-the 2-sphere by A. Sheu, Comm. Math. Phys., 135
(1991), 217 - 232;
(30) Dazord, P., Lu, J.-H., Sondaz, D., Weinstein, A., A noides de Poisson, Comptes
Rendus de Seances, Academie de Sciences (Paris), Serie I. Mathematique, 312
(1991), 523 - 527
(31) Lu, J.-H., Momentum mappings and reductions of Poisson Lie group actions, Pro-
ceedings of the Seminaire Sud-Rhodanien de Geometrie Berkeley, 1989, 1991
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Springer-MSRI series, 209 - 226;
(32) Lu, J.-H., Weinstein, A. Groupoides symplectiques doubles des groupes de Lie-
Poisson, Comptes Rendus de Seances, Academie de Sciences (Paris), Serie I. Math-
ematique, 309 (1989), 951 - 954;
(33) Lu, J.-H., Weinstein, A., Poisson Lie groups, dressing transformations, and Bruhat
decompositions, J. Di . Geom. 31 (1989), 501 - 526;
(34) Lu, J.-H., A note on a theorem of Stanton-Weinstein on the L4 -norms of spherical
harmonics, Math. Proc. of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 102 (1987), 561 -
563.
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