Professor Shing-Tung Yau is one of the most eminent mathematicians of the century. He has received a number of prominent awards in mathematics including the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize and the Crafoord Prize. Following the footsteps of his adviser Professor Chern Shing-shen, the late giant in geometry, he is the second Chinese to be awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He is now the Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and the Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. The renowned mathematician, Prof. Shing-Tung Yau, has proved that these manifolds exist, and argues that not only is geometry fundamental to string theory, it is also fundamental to the very nature of our universe. In this talk, Prof. Yau will bring us to explore the geometry of the hidden dimensions that may change the way we consider the universe on both its grandest and smallest scales.
| Speaker | : | Professor Shing-Tung Yau |
| Date | : | 11 December, 2010 (Saturday) |
| Time | : | 10:30am–12:00nn |
| Venue | : | Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Science Museum |
| Language | : | English |