Tonghai Yang

Honors and Awards

AMS Centennial Fellowship, 1999-2000, $38,000.

NSF grant DMS-9700777, 1997-2000, $66,000.

Special AMS grant to attend ICM conference at Berlin, Germany, Aug. 18-27, 1998, $1950.

Rackham Summer Faculty Fellow, 1997, $7000.

Education

Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Maryland, 1991-95. Advisor: Stephen Kudla

M.S. Mathematics, Anhui Normal University, 1984-87. Advisor: Huaiding Tang

Publications

Invited Presentations

The Morningside Center of Mathematics, Beijing, China, June 11-July 16, 2000:

A series of lectures on CM abelian varities and Hecke L-series.

Number theory seminar at Univ. of Mass. at Amherst, Mar. 28, 2000:

Nonvanishing of the central derivative of canonical Hecke characters.

Colloquium at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Mar. 8, 2000:

Elliptic curves and L-functions.

Number theory seminar at Harvard Univeristy, Feb. 15, 2000,

Nonvanishing of the central derivative of canonical Hecke characters.

Algebra seminar at Princeton University, Feb. 14, 2000,

On a very nice family of Hecke characters and abelian varieties.

Number theory seminar at the University of Minesota, Nov. 30, 1999

Taylor expansion of an Eisenstein series and its application to Hecke L-series.

Harvard number theory seminar, Harvard University, Oct. 13, 1999,

The Tangent line of an Eisenstein series at the `center'.

AMS meeting special session, Urbana-Champaign, Il, Mar. 18-21, 1999,

The central derivative of certain Hecke series.

11/14/98

AMS meeting special session, Tucson, AZ: ``The central derivative of certain Hecke series.''

10/24/98

AMS meeting special session, State College, PA: `` The central derivative of certain Hecke series.''

10/5/98

Number theory seminar at Columbia University: ``The central derivative of certain Hecke series.''

9/24/98

Colloquium at SUNY Stony Brook:`` Leading coefficient of L-series, a casual introduction to number theory.''

7/15/98

Number theory seminar at MPI, Bonn Germany:`` A peculiar modular form of weight one.''

7/7/98

Number theory seminar at Mannheim University, Germany: ``Central Hecke L-values and rank of elliptic cruves.''

4/19/98

Dynamic System seminar at SUNY at Stony Brook: ``Central Hecke L-values.''

3/19/98

Number theory seminar at McGill University: "Central Hecke L-values and rank of elliptic cruves."

2/20/98

Colloquium at UC at Santa Cruz: "Special values of zeta functions at the center."

2/12/98

Colloquium at Rutgers at Newark: "Special values of L-functions at the center."

2/11/98

Colloquium at Boston College: "Special values of zeta functions at the center."

01/22/98

Number theory seminar at the Penn State University: "Nonvanishing of central Hecke L-values and rank zero elliptic curves."

12/09/97

Haar seminar at the Ohio State University: "Central value of Hecke L-functions and rank zero elliptic curves."

10/07/96

AMS meeting at Rider's University, NJ: " Ranks of Gross's elliptic curves."

03/23/96

AMS meeting at University of Iowa: " Theta liftings and Hecke L-functions."

03/14/96

Lie Group seminar at University of Maryland: " Central values of Hecke L-functions of CM number fields."

10/02/95

Algebra Seminar at University of Pennsylvania: " Special Values of Heck L-functions. "

01/30/95

Number Theory Seminar at Columbia University: " Theta liftings and L-functions of elliptic curves."

Contributed Talks (outside home institutes)

10/25/97

The Missouri Algebra Weekend in Columbia, MO: "Central derivatives of Eisenstein series"

07/31/97

Number Theory Seminar at MPI:" Local density of quadratic forms."

06/04/97

Number Theory Seminar at MPI:"Nonvanishing of central Hecke L-value and rank of certain elliptic curves."

08/13/95

Fermat Last Theorem Conference at Boston University: "Cusp forms of weight one associated to Fermat curves."