Position

Professor

Education:

Graduated from Peking University, Department of Mathematics; received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1984. Studied at the Graduate School,    Academia Sinica, for advanced study; received Ph.D in 1989.

Institutions Visited:

Feb.1992---Feb.1993   Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn, Germany

Jan.1996---Oct. 1996   International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

Nov.1996--Jan. 1997   Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Jan.1997--April 1997  Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn, Germany

April 1997-July 1997  Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley

June 1998-July 1998   Univ. De Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

July 1998-Sep. 1998   Inst. Des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France

Feb. 2000-Mar. 2000  Sophia University and TMU, Japan

Aug.2001-July 2002   Dept. of Math., MIT & Princeton University, USA

Mar.2015-April 2015  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

May   2015-Nov.2015 Dept. of Math, UCLA, USA

Participation in Conferences:

1. February 2000 Tokyo, The International Conference on Lie groups and Manifolds. One-hour   address.

2. May 2001 Mareseille, The International Conference on Harmonic Maps and Harmonic   Morphisims. One-hour address.

3. August  004  Beijing, The First International Conference on Complex Geometry. One-Hour address

4. The 10th Pacific Rim Geometry Conference, 2011, Osaka. 60 min plenary talk.

5. The Asian Mathematical Conference, 2013, Busan, Korea. 45 min invited talk.

6. Real and Complex Submanifolds, 2014, Daejeon, Korea, plenary talk.

Scientific   Foundations:

1. State Education Commission of China Grant to Excellent Young Teachers (Number 357 in 1994);

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China. (19531050)

3. National Natural Science Foundation of China. (11071018)

4. The National Outstanding Youth Foundation of China (19925103)

5. The National Outstanding Youth Foundation of China(Class B, 10229101)

6. The 973 Program of National Ministry of Science and Technology (2001-2004 

7. Geometry and topology of submanifolds--the Important Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. (11331002, as the head) (2014-2018)

The Main   Publications:

1.    Codimension 1 & 2 immersions of Lens spaces (with Li B.H.)

--- Lect. Notes in Math.. 1369(1986-87), 152-163, Springer-Verlag.

2.    Isoparametric hypersurfaces with 4 distinct principal curvatures

--- Chinese Sci. Bull. 36 (1991), 1237-1240.

3.    Nonexistence of weakly almost complex structures on Grassmannians

--- Proc. of AMS  21(1994), 1267-1270.

4.  The   Brouwer degrees of the gradient of isoparametric functions

( with Peng C.K.)

----Science in China 39(1996), 1131-1139

5.  On   representing homotopy classes of spheres by harmonic maps

( with Peng C.K.)

---   Topology  36(1997), 867-87

6.  Harmonic maps from spheres to spheres (with Peng C.K.)

---   Topology 37(1998), 39-44

7.    Multiplicities of equifocal hypersurfaces in symmetric spaces

--- Asian J. of Math. 2(1998), 181-213

8.  No   submersions from 23-sphere to Cayley projective plane

---- Bull. of LMS 33(2001), 347-350

9.  New constructions of eigenmaps between spheres

--- Inter. J. of Math. 12(2001), 277-288

10.    Dilatation of maps between spheres (with Peng C.K.)

---- Pacific J. of Math. 204(2002), 209-222 13.

11.  A note on the cohomological below 1/4-pinching theorem

--- Proc. of AMS 130(2002), 577-578

12.  A generalization of Atiyah-Dupont vector field theory (with Zhang W.P.)

---- Comm. in Contemporary Math. (2002), 177-196

13.  Some existence and non-existence results of isometric immersions.

--- Comm. in Contemporary Math. 6(2004), 867-879.

14. Curvature and integrability of an almost Hermitian structure

--- Inter. J. of Math. 17(2006), 97-106.

15. A proof of DDVV conjecture and its equality case (with Ge J.Q. )

--- Pacific J. of Math. 237(2008), 87-95.

16.    Schoen-Yau-Gromov-Lawson theory and isoparametric foliations

( with Xie Y.Q., Yan W.J.)

---- Comm. Anal. Geom. 20(2012), 989-1018

17.    Isoparametric functions and exotic spheres (with Ge J.Q.)

--- J. Reine Angew. Math. 683(2013) , 161-180

18.    Isoparametric foliation and Yau conjecture on the first eigenvalue

( with Yan W.J.)  

--- J. of Diff. Geometry 94(2013), 539-558

19.  Eta invariant and closed geodesics (with Zhang W.P.)

-----Advances in Math. 254(2014), 41-48

20.  Isoparametric foliation and Yau conjecture on the first eigenvalue,II

( with Xie Y.Q. and Yan W.J.)

---J. of Funct. Anal. 266(2014), 6174-6199

21.    Isoparametric functions on exotic spheres (with Qian C.)

---Advances in Math. 272(2015), 611-619

Awards

Contact

Office: Room 720, Shiing-Shen Building,

Email: zztang@nankai.edu.cn