Lai-Sang Young
American mathematician
74 years oldCapricornUnited States
Biography
Lai-Sang Lily Young (Chinese: 楊麗笙, born 1952) is a Hong Kong-born American mathematician who holds the Henry & Lucy Moses Professorship of Science and is a professor of mathematics and neural science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of
New York University. Her research interests include dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory, probability theory, statistical mechanics, and neuroscience. She is particularly known for introducing the method of Markov returns in 1998, which she used to prove exponential correlation delay in Sinai billiards and other hyperbolic dynamical systems.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- University of California, Los Angeles
- New York University
- University of Arizona
- Northwestern University
Awards & honours (7)
- Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
- Noether Lecture
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Sofia Kovalevsky Lecture
- Heinz Hopf Prize
- Rolf Schock Prizes
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- How old is Lai-Sang Young?
- Lai-Sang Young is 74 years old (born January 5, 1952).
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- Lai-Sang Young was born on January 5, 1952.
- Where was Lai-Sang Young born?
- Lai-Sang Young was born in Hong Kong.
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- Lai-Sang Young's zodiac sign is Capricorn.
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- Lai-Sang Young is a citizen of United States.
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- Lai-Sang Young is known as mathematician, university teacher.
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