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Professor MOK, Ngaiming

Professor MOK, Ngaiming

Edmund and Peggy Tse Professorship in Mathematics & Professor: Chair of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, HKU

M.A. Yale; Ph.D. Stanford


  • 3917 1998
  • 2559 2225
  • Room 406, Run Run Shaw Building, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong

 Teaching Areas

  • Complex Analysis

  • Mathematical Analysis

  • Differential Geometry

Current Research

  • Uniruled projective manifolds (especially Fano manifolds)
  • Varieties of minimal rational tangents, geometric structures and substructures
  • Finite-volume quotients of bounded symmetric domains (including Shimura varieties)
  • Meromorphic foliations, Ax-type theorems in functional transcendence theory 
 

 

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Fellowships

2019-

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

ETH

2017-

Fellow, Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong

2015-

Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1998

Croucher Senior Research Fellow, Hong Kong

1984

Sloan Fellow, USA

 

Research Interest

  • Several complex variables
  • Complex differential geometry
  • Algebraic geometry
  • Arithmetic geometry 
  • Functional transcendence theory
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Awards and Honors

2019-

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

2017-

Fellow, Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong

2015-16

Member of the Selection Committee for the Ramanujan Prize of the ICTP (International Center for Theoretical Physics), Trieste, Italy

2015-

Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2015-

Member of Academic Committee of the Hua Loo-Keng Laboratory of Mathematics, AMSS, CAS, China

2012-17

Member of the Academic Committee of the Academy of Mathematics and System Science (AMSS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

2012-14

Core Member of the Selection Panel on Analysis and its Applications in the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2014 in Seoul, Korea

2011

Distinguished Research Achievement Award, HKU

2009

Bergman Prize

2007-10

Member of the Fields Medal Committee for the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2010 in Hyderabad, India

2007

State Natural Science Award, China

2004-16

Vice-Chairman, Hong Kong Mathematical Society

2004-06

Core Member of the Selection Panel on Algebraic and Complex Geometry in the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2006 in Madrid, Spain

2000

Outstanding Researcher Award, HKU

1998

Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award, Hong Kong

1994

Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 1994 in Zurich, Switzerland

1992-94

Prime d'encadrement doctoral et de recherche, France

1989-91

Prime d'encadrement doctoral et de recherche, France

1985

Presidential Young Investigator Award, USA

1984

Sloan Fellowship, USA