About Lo Yang’s work
From December 1992 to March 1993, Lo Yang held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. At the time, Yang was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Lo Yang graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Peking University in 1962, and was admitted to the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the same year as a graduate student. In 1987, he became the Director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1992 he became the President of the Chinese Mathematical Society, in 1996 he founded the Morningside Mathematics Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He was the Vice Chairman of the All-China Youth Federation, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. His outstanding achievements in the theory of value distribution were a representative work of Chinese mathematics that was world-renowned in that era. Yang had won many major awards such as the National Science Conference Award, the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, the Hua Luogeng Mathematics Award, the Chen Kah Kee Mathematical Science Award, and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Award.