Mu-Tao Wang

Mu-Tao Wang is a Taiwanese mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University.

Education In 1984, Wang enrolled at National Taiwan University (NTU) with the initial intent to study international business but, after a year, he switched to mathematics.

He was a Sloan Research Fellow from 2003 to 2005. In 2007, he was named a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Chern Prize . Wang is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and won the Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics in 2010.

In 2010, Wang delivered the plenary address at the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, and was plenary speaker at the International Congress on Mathematical Physics. He was elected to Academia Sinica in 2022.

After winning the Morningside Medal, Wang told interviewers that he did not consider himself a particularly good student and did not consistently make good grades.

Selected bibliography "A fixed point theorem of isometry action on Riemannian manifolds", Journal of Differential Geometry 50 (1998), no. 2, 249-267 "Mean curvature flow of surfaces in Einstein four-manifolds", Journal of Differential Geometry 57 (2001), no. 2, 301-338 "Long-time existence and convergence of graphic mean curvature flow in arbitrary codimension", Inventiones Mathematicae 148 (2002), no. 3, 525-543 (with Knut Smoczyk) "Mean curvature flows of Lagrangian submanifolds with convex potentials", Journal of Differential Geometry 62 (2002), no. 2, 243-257 "The Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface system in arbitrary codimension", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 57 (2004), no. 2, 267-281 (with Shing-Tung Yau) "Isometric embeddings into the Minkowski space and new quasi-local mass", Communications in Mathematical Physics 288 (2009), no. 3, 919-942 (with Ivana Medoš) "Deforming symplectomorphisms of complex projective spaces by the mean curvature flow", Journal of Differential Geometry 87 (2011), no. 2, 309-342 (with Simon Brendle and Pei-Ken Hung) "A Minkowski type inequality for hypersurfaces in the Anti-de Sitter-Schwarzschild manifold", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (with Po-Ning Chen and Shing-Tung Yau) "Quasilocal angular momentum and center of mass in general relativity", arXiv:1312.0990