Chuu-Lian Terng

Chuu-Lian Terng
滕楚蓮
Terng in 2010
Nationality	Taiwanese-American
Education	National Taiwan University Brandeis University
Occupation	Mathematician
Years active	1976–present
Spouse	Richard Palais

Chuu-Lian Terng (

Terng has been an active member of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). She served as AWM President from 1995 to 1997, chaired the Julia Robinson Celebration of Women in Math Conference, which was held July 1–3, 1996,^[6] and chaired the Michler Prize and Travel/Mentoring Grant Committees.^[7]

Terng has served on the editorial boards of the

Her early research concerned the classification of natural vector bundles and natural differential operators between them. She then became interested in submanifold geometry. Her main contributions are developing a structure theory for isoparametric submanifolds in ${\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}}$ and constructing soliton equations from special submanifolds. Recently, Terng and Karen Uhlenbeck (University of Texas at Austin) have developed a general approach to integrable PDEs that explains their hidden symmetries in terms of loop group actions. She is co-author of the book Submanifold Geometry and Critical Point Theory and an editor of the Journal of Differential Geometry survey volume 4 on "Integrable systems". Professor Terng served as president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) from 1995 to 1997 and as Member-at-Large of the Council of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) from 1989 to 1992. She is currently on the Advisory Board of the National Center for Theoretical Sciences in Taiwan, the Steering Committee of the Institute for Advanced Study Park City Summer Institute, and the Editorial Board of the Transactions of the AMS.

Honors

• Sloan Fellowship
  in 1980.
• Humboldt Senior Scientist Award
  in 1997.
• AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer
  in 1999
• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.^[10]
• Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 2018 (inaugural class).^[11]

Recognition

With Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Fan Chung, Winnie Li, Jang-Mei Wu, and Mei-Chi Shaw, Terng is one of a group of six women mathematicians from National Taiwan University called by Shiing-Shen Chern "a miracle in Chinese history; the glory of the Chinese people".^[12]

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