Zhi-Ming Ma. () is a Chinese mathematics professor of

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...

. Ma is a former Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee for

International Mathematical Union The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world. It is a member of the International Science Council (ISC) and supports ...

., a two times president of

Chinese Mathematical Society The Chinese Mathematical Society (CMS, ) is an academic organization for Chinese mathematicians, with the official websitwww.cms.org.cn It is a member of China Association of Science and Technology. History The Chinese Mathematical Society (CMS) w ...

, an elected member of World Academy of Sciences and the Chairman of Graduate Degree Committee of Academy of Math and Systems Science,

Biography

Ma was born in January, 1948 at

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

while Jiaocheng County in Shanxi Province was his native origin. He obtained his first degree in Mathematics from

Chongqing Normal University Chongqing Normal University (Simplified Chinese: 重庆师范大学) is a major public research university in Chongqing, China. Founded in 1954 as East Sichuan Normal School, it is one of the institutions of higher learning in the People's Republic ...

in 1978. In 1981, he received his Master's degree from China Science and Technology University, Graduate School of Science

Beijing Municipality } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

. In 1984 he received his doctorate degree in

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from

Contributions

Ma's contribution in the theory of Dirichlet forms and Markov processes brought an end to a twenty years puzzle in the field. Ma and his team discovered a new framework of quasi-regular Dirichlet forms which correspond to right processes in one-to-one manner. His book, written in collaboration with Michael Rockner, An Introduction to the Theory of (Non-symmetric) Dirichlet Forms, has become a notable text in this field. His work on the proof of the Feynman-Kac probabilistic representation of mixed boundary problems of Schrodinger operators with measure-valued potentials is an important contribution to the theory of the Schrodinger equation.

Selected publications

*Zhi-Ming Ma, M. Röckner
Introduction to the theory of (non-symmetric) Dirichlet forms
1 November, 1992 *Guan, QY., Ma, ''ZM''
Reflected Symmetric α-Stable Processes and Regional Fractional Laplacian. Probab. Theory Relat. Fields
134, 649–694 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-005-0438-3 *Albeverio, Sergio, Ma, Zhiming Additive functionals, nowhere Radon and Kato class smooth measures associated with Dirichlet forms. https://doi.org/10.18910/8386

Awards

Ma's contributions to science have led to his recognition with various awards including; the First Class Prize for Natural Sciences by the

, the Max-Planck Research Award by the Max-Planck Society and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Chinese National Natural Sciences Prize, the Shiing Shen. Chern Mathematics Prize, the Qiu-Shi Outstanding Young Scholars Prize, the He-Liang-He-Li Sciences and Technology Progress Prize，and the Hua Loo-Keng Mathematics Prize. *

Memberships

Ma is a member of different recognised scientific organisations. He was elected as an Academician of the

in 1995 and he became a fellow of the

Third World Academy of Sciences The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is a merit-based science academy established for developing countries, uniting 1,000 scientists in some 70 countries. Its principal aim is to promote scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable devel ...

in 1999. He was the Chairman of the organizing committee for 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 ...

that was held in

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

(2002). He was elected as a member of the Executive Committee for

in 2003 and he became the Vice president in 2007. He was elected as a member of

and he became the president in 2003.

References

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