Shen Weixiao (; born May 1975 in

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, China) is a Chinese mathematician, specializing in

dynamical system In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a Function (mathematics), function describes the time dependence of a Point (geometry), point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a ...

s (in particular, real and complex one-dimensional dynamics). Shen graduated from the

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in 1995. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2001 with thesis ''On the metric property of multimodal interval maps and density of axiom A'' under the supervision of

Mitsuhiro Shishikura is a Japanese mathematician working in the field of complex dynamics. He is professor at Kyoto University in Japan. Shishikura became internationally recognized for two of his earliest contributions, both of which solved long-standing open probl ...

. Shen was previously a professor at the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...

. He is currently a professor at Fudan University. He published, with Oleg Kozlovski and Sebastian van Strien, a solution of the 2nd part of the 11th problem of

Smale's problems Smale's problems are a list of eighteen unsolved problems in mathematics proposed by Steve Smale in 1998 and republished in 1999. Smale composed this list in reply to a request from Vladimir Arnold, then vice-president of the International Mathema ...

. In 2009 Shen was one of the two winners of the Chern Award of the Chinese Mathematical Society. In 2014 Shen was an invited speaker, with Sebastian van Strien, at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

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Selected publications

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Axiom A In mathematics, Smale's axiom A defines a class of dynamical systems which have been extensively studied and whose dynamics is relatively well understood. A prominent example is the Smale horseshoe map. The term "axiom A" originates with Stephen Sm ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shen, Weixiao 1975 births Living people 20th-century Chinese mathematicians 21st-century Chinese mathematicians University of Science and Technology of China alumni University of Tokyo alumni Academic staff of the National University of Singapore Educators from Anhui People from Chizhou Mathematicians from Anhui Chinese expatriates in Singapore Academic staff of the University of Science and Technology of China