Mei-Chi Shaw (; born 1955) is a professor of mathematics at the

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. Her research concerns

partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a Multivariable calculus, multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be sol ...

Life and career

Shaw was born in

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in 1955.Shaw, Mei-Chi. "A Woman Mathematician's Journey," ICCM Not. 2 (2014), no. 1, 59-74. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in mathematics from

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...

in 1977. Shaw received her PhD from Princeton University four years later in 1981, working with Joseph Kohn. She then took a postdoctoral position at

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...

During this time, she married her husband, Hsueh-Chia Chang. In 1983, Shaw took a tenure-track position at

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, moving to

University of Houston The University of Houston (UH) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the List of universities in Texas by enrollment, university in Texas ...

in 1986 and finally relocating to the

in 1987, first as an associate professor and then as full professor.

Awards and honors

In 2012, Shaw became a fellow of the

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. For 2019 she received the

Stefan Bergman Prize The Stefan Bergman Prize is a mathematics award, funded by the estate of the widow of mathematician Stefan Bergman and supported by the American Mathematical Society. The award is granted for mathematical research in: "1) the theory of the kernel f ...

.Stefan Bergman Prize 2019
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Selected publications

*Chen, So-Chin; Shaw, Mei-Chi. Partial differential equations in several complex variables. AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 19. ''American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI''; International Press, Boston, MA, 2001. xii+380 pp. *Shaw, Mei-Chi. L2-estimates and existence theorems for the tangential Cauchy-Riemann complex. ''Invent. Math.'' 82 (1985), no. 1, 133–150. *Boas, Harold P.; Shaw, Mei-Chi Sobolev estimates for the Lewy operator on weakly pseudoconvex boundaries. ''Math. Ann.'' 274 (1986), no. 2, 221–231.

References

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