30^th Anniversary of the Morningside Center of Mathematics

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Pierre-Henri Chaudouard is Professor at Université Paris Cité and a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research lies in automorphic forms and the Langlands program, with a particular focus on Arthur–Selberg trace formulas, relative trace formulas, and their applications to Langlands functoriality, the Gan–Gross–Prasad program, and the geometry of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles. He is well known for his joint work with Gérard Laumon on Arthur's weighted fundamental lemma, and for important contributions to the Gan–Gross–Prasad conjectures for unitary groups. He has won the Compositio Mathematica Prize.

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Professor Pierre Colmez is a Directeur de recherche at CNRS, affiliated with the Jussieu Institut of Mathematics, Sorbonne University. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Grenoble in 1988, under the guidance of John Coates and Jean-Marc Fontaine. He is a leading expert in p-adic Hodge theory, Iwasawa theory, and the p-adic Langlands program. His construction of the p-adic local Langlands correspondence for GL_2(Qp) is a landmark contribution to modern number theory.

Professor Colmez was an invited speaker at the ICM in 1998 and the ECM in 2012, and has received several major honors, including the Prix Gabrielle Sand et Guido Triossi (1999), Fermat Prize (2005), and Prix Léonid Frank (2016). He is a member of the Academy of Europe (2020).

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Professor Xiuxiong Chen, the founding director of the Institute of Geometry and Physics, University of Science and Technology of China. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and studied under the famous geometer Eugenio Calabi. In 2002, he was invited to give a 45-minute lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians. In November 2018, he won the Veblen Prize of the American Mathematical Society. In June 2019, he won the Simmons Investigator Award.

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Jun-Muk Hwang is the founding director of the Center for Complex Geometry at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea, established in September 2020. He received the Korea Science Prize in 2001 and the Ho-Am Prize in 2009. He was an invited speaker at the ICM2006 and a plenary speaker at ICM 2014.

Hwang's research focuses primarily on complex algebraic geometry, with a particular emphasis on using the theory of rational curves to study the geometry and classification of projective algebraic varieties. His work has profoundly revealed the intrinsic relationships among Fano varieties, homogeneous manifolds, and projective varieties with a rich structure of rational curves. Hwang's work combines geometric intuition with algebraic rigor. His achievements have not only advanced the field of complex geometry but also deeply intersected with representation theory, differential geometry, and mathematical physics. As a leading figure in Korean complex geometry, he has cultivated an active research team, making the Center for Complex Geometry a major international hub in this field.