Siu, Yum-Tong.

William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics and chair of the Mathematics Department, Harvard University

Previously taught at Yale and Stanford
 
 

Education:
PhD, Princeton, 1966
advisor: Robert Clifford Gunning
Dissertation: Coherent Noether-Lasker Decomposition of Subsheaves and Sheaf Cohomology
 

Honors:

American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS), 1998

National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 2002
Citation: For the past 25 years, Siu has been the world's most dominant figure in the field of several complex variables. He has made major contributions to every aspect of the subject, he has mastered every technique developed by others, and he has created many new ones.

Guggenheim, 1985

the former chair of the U.S. National Committee for Mathematics
 

Publications:

Several Complex Variables, edited by Yum-Tong Siu and Michael Schneider. Cambridge U. P., 1999.  (MSRI Volume 37)

Gap-Sheaves and Extension of Coherent Analytic Subsheaves, by Yum-Tong Siu and Gunther Trautmann.  Springer-Verlag, 1971.

Complex Analysis of Several Variables. Edited by Yum-Tong Siu.  American Mathematical Society, 1984.
(MSRI Volume 41)

Complex Differential Geometry and Nonlinear Differential Equations. Yum-Tong Siu (Editor) American Mathematical Society, March 1986.

Deformations of Coherent Analytic Sheaves with Compact Supports. Yum-Tong Siu, Gunther Trautmann. American Mathematical Society, 1981.

Modern Methods in Complex Analysis
Thomas Bloom (Editor), Yum-Tong Siu (Editor), David W. Catlin (Editor)  Princeton University Press / February 1996

Techniques of Extension of Analytic Objects
Yum-Tong Siu.  Marcel Dekker / August 1974