Long Yiming

Long is a professor at Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, China, where he was previously assistant lecturer, lecturer, and associate professor (1981-83, 1988-90). He has made fundamental contributions to Hamiltonian dynamics. In particular, he is acknowledged for his index iteration theory for symplectic paths and for his deep studies on periodic solution orbits of Hamiltonian systems including closed characteristics and geodesics. His awards include: Prize in Math., TWAS (2004); National Natural Scientific Awards (second class), State Council of China (2004); Yangzi River Prof., Education Ministry of China (2003); S. S. Chern Prize and L. G. Hua Prize, Chinese Math. Soc. (1998, 2017), Excellent Young Researcher Awards, Hong Kong Qiushi Foundation (1997), Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, Ho Leung Ho Lee foundation (2012). He was an invited speaker of Inter. Congress of Math.-2002. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Math. Society, and a fellow of American Math. Society.