Vitae for Terence Tao

Last updated: Apr 11, 2002

Personal

Date of Birth: 17 July, 1975
Birthplace: Adelaide, Australia
Citizenship: Australian
Visa status: O-1
Visa expires: 27 Oct 2002
Permanent Address: 6 Jennifer Ave, Bellevue Heights, SA 5050, Australia
Current Address Dept. of Math. UCLA 405 Hilgard Ave 90095 LA, CA
Phone: 1-310-206-4844
Fax:  1-310-206-6673
E-mail: tao@math.ucla.edu
WWW: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao

Education

Degree Date Institution Advisor Subject Thesis title
Ph. D. Jun 1996 Princeton University Elias Stein Mathematics Three regularity results in harmonic analysis
M. Sc. Aug 1992 Flinders University Garth Gaudry Mathematics Convolution operators generated by right-monogenic and harmonic kernels
B. Sc. (Hons) Dec 1991 Flinders University Garth Gaudry Mathematics N/A

Research interests

Primary: Secondary:
  • Geometric quantization
  • Geometric PDE (e.g. Yang-Mills)
  • Analytic number theory and harmonic analysis
  • Microlocal analysis, wavelets, martingales
  • General Relativity

Experience

1992-1994 Flinders Medical Centre Assistant Researcher
1993-1994 Princeton University Assistant Researcher
1996-1998 UCLA Hedrick Assistant Professor
Fall 1997 MSRI Member
1999 UCLA Acting Assistant Professor
1999 UNSW Visiting Fellow
2000 UCLA Assistant Professor
2001-2003 Clay Mathematical Institute CMI Long-term Prize Fellow
2000- UCLA Full Professor
2000 UNSW Visiting Professor
2001 ANU Honourary Professor

Awards

1986 International Mathematical Olympiad Bronze Medal
1987 International Mathematical Olympiad Silver Medal
1988 International Mathematical Olympiad Gold Medal
1992 Flinders University University Medal
1992-1995 Fulbright Association Post-graduate award
1995 Sloan Foundation Post-graduate Fellowship
1997-2000 National Science Foundation Summer grant DMS 9706964
1999-2001 Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
1999-2004 David and Lucille Packard Foundation Foundation Fellowship
2000 Salem Prize 2000 Salem Prize
2002 American Mathematical Society Bocher Prize

 Teaching at UCLA

Fall 1996 Math 132 Complex Analysis
Winter 1997 Math 31B (Hons) Calculus and Analytic Geometry
Spring 1997 Math 132
Math 121
Complex Analysis
Introduction to Topology
Winter 1998 Math 32A Calculus of Several Variables
Spring 1998 Math 32A
Math 132
Calculus of Several Variables
Complex Analysis
Fall 1998 Math 132 Complex Analysis
Winter 1999 Math 254A Topics in Analysis: Oscillatory Integrals and applications
Spring 1999 Math 254B Topics in Analysis: Restriction theorems and applications
Winter 2000 Math 132 Complex Analysis
Spring 2000 Math 121
Math 199
Introduction to Topology
Problem Solving
Winter 2001 Math 254A Topics in Analysis: Harmonic Analysis in the Phase Plane

Teaching at UNSW

Semester 2, 1999 Math 2620 (lecture + tutorial)
Math 1241 (2 tutorials)
Higher Complex Analysis
Higher Mathematics 1B
Semester 2, 2000 Math 2620 (lecture + tutorial)
Math 1241 (1 tutorial)
Higher Complex Analysis
Higher Mathematics 1B

Students

Deborah Cromer Honours Undergraduate, UCLA/UNSW Uniform distribution of sequences mod 1 2000
Thomas Lam Honours Undergraduate, UNSW Cycles of even length in graphs 2000-2001

Miscellaneous Duties

1998- Zentralblatt Math. Reviewer
1998-1999 UCLA Putnam Committee
Real Analysis Quals
1999-2000 UCLA Putnam Committee
Real Analysis Quals
Library Committee
Computing Committee
2000-2001 http://www.arxiv.org/ math.AP moderator
2001 Workshop in oscillatory integrals and non-linear PDE Organizing commitee
2001 UCLA Analysis seminar (Winter)
2002- http://www.arxiv.org/ Global moderator