Jun Li () is a

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who is currently a Professor of Mathematics at

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and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at

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. He focuses primarily on moduli problems in

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and their applications to

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and

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Education

Li graduated from Shanghai Lu Xun High School in 1978. After finishing first in the national high school mathematics competition, he was exempt from the

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and directly accepted by

. He earned his BS and MS in mathematics from Fudan in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. from

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in 1989, under the supervision of

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Awards

Li was an invited speaker at the 1994 ICM. He received a Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics in 2001 "for his contributions to the study of moduli spaces of vector bundles and to the theory of stable maps and invariants of Calabi-Yau manifolds.""Notices of the AMS – Mathematics People"
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'', May 2002.

References

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