Yuan-Pin Lee Receives 2005-2006 AMS Centennial Fellowship

June 7, 2005

Providence, RI---Yuan-Pin Lee of the University of Utah has been chosen to receive an AMS Centennial Fellowship for 2005-2006. These prestigious fellowships are awarded each year to between two and four outstanding mathematicians to help further their careers in research. The amount of the fellowship is $62,000, plus an expense allowance of $3,000. Fellows also receive a complimentary AMS membership for one year.

Lee received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999. He held postdoctoral position at the University of California, Los Angeles and became an assistant professor at the University of Utah in 2002. His research interest is in Gromov-Witten theory and its relations with K-theory, integrable systems, and moduli of curves. He plans to use the fellowship to visit Princeton University, the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley.

Further information about the AMS Centennial Fellowship may be found at http://www.ams.org/prizes/centennial-fellowship.html.

For more information, contact:
Michael Breen or Annette Emerson
AMS Public Awareness Officers
Email: paoffice@ams.org
Telephone: 401-455-4000
Fax: 401-331-3842

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