Chau used to attend the HNU’s senior high school studying mathematics. During the three years here, he obtained two international gold medals.
In 2010, Chau was awarded the Field Medal, the world’s top mathematics prize, for his proof of the Fundamental Lemma in the theory of automorphic forms, by introducing new algebro-geometric methods.
Earlier in 2005, he was made a professor in Vietnam, becoming the country’s youngest professor at that time.
Before working in the US , Chau was a maths professor at the Paris-Sud XI University and published 14 scientific works in both the French and English languages.
Together with Chau, Professor Annick Suzor Weiner, the former director of the Paris-Sud XI University, was also presented with the HNU’s Honorary Doctorate.
In 2005, Professor Weiner initiated and promoted cooperation in training and research between the two universities.
She also called on French firms to provide scholarships to students and introduce post graduate training programmes for Vietnam.
Weiner was presented with the Vietnamese Government’s Friendship Medal in 2005./.
