The latest news and top stories on Yau Shing-tung, a Chinese-American mathematician and the Director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University and Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Known for his contributions to differential geometry and geometric analysis, he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 for solving the Calabi conjecture and the positive mass conjecture. His expertise spans partial differential equations, general relativity and string theory. He has founded several mathematical institutes in China and actively promotes mathematics development.