Ling Long is a Chinese mathematician whose research concerns

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s, elliptic surfaces, and dessins d'enfants, as well as number theory in general. She is a professor of mathematics at Louisiana State University.

Early life and education

Long studied mathematics, computer science, and engineering at Tsinghua University, graduating in 1997. She went to

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for her graduate studies; her dissertation, ''Modularity of Elliptic Surfaces'', she worked on with

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, visiting from

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, in her time as a graduate student. She was supervised and influenced by

Winnie Li Wen-Ch'ing (Winnie) Li (; born December 25, 1948) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

Career

After postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study, Long joined the faculty at Iowa State University in 2003. After a year at Cornell University in 2012–2013, she moved to Louisiana State.

Recognition

Long was the 2012–2013 winner of th
Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize
of the Association for Women in Mathematics. She was named to the 2023 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, "for contributions to hypergeometric arithmetic, noncongruence Modular Forms, and supercongruences". She is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the Association for Women in Mathematics.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Long, Ling Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Chinese mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians American women mathematicians Tsinghua University alumni Pennsylvania State University alumni Iowa State University faculty Louisiana State University faculty 20th-century women mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians 20th-century American women 21st-century American women Fellows of the American Mathematical Society