Math’s guru receives honorary doctorate
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./.