Loring W. Tu

Loring W. Tu (traditional Chinese: 杜武亮; Wade–Giles: Tu Wu-liang; born 1955) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician working in algebraic topology and geometry.

Life

Tu was born in Taipei, Taiwan, the grandson of Taiwanese pharmacologist Tu Tsung-ming, founder of Taiwan's first private medical school (now Kaohsiung Medical University) and the first dean of the School of Medicine of National Taiwan University.

Tu is a younger brother of Charles Wuching Tu, who is a professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) at the University of California, San Diego. He also has another brother, Samson Tu; all siblings became academics. During his childhood, Tu and his family lived with his grandparents. When Tsung-ming established Kaohsiung Medical University, Tu and his family moved with him to Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Career

Tu has been working at Tufts University since 1986, and plans to retire after 2025.

Introductory Lectures on Equivariant Cohomology (2020) Differential Geometry: Connections, Curvature, and Characteristic Classes (2017) An Introduction to Manifolds (2007) Hodge Theory And The Local Torelli Problem (1983) Differential Forms In Algebraic Topology (1982, with Raoul Bott)