Lizhen Ji

  • Here is a picture of me in Hangzhou, July 2004
  • Professor

    Department of Mathematics,
    University of Michigan,
    530 Church Street
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043

    1834 East Hall
    (734) 936-4821

    lji at umich.edu


  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Research

  • List of Publication
  • Current Research Interests
  • Invited Talks
  • Joint book with A.Borel, published by Birkhauser, December, 2005. Click here
  • (The cover of the book is here)

  • A survey on applications of buildings in geometry and topology. Click here
  • A Summary of the work of Gregory Margulis. Click here
  • Editorial Work

  • An editor of the Asian Journal of Mathematics
  • An editor of Science in China, Series A: Mathematics
  • The organizer of the online Michigan Lectures in Mathematics, where one could find lecture notes
    of public talks, colloquium talks, lecture series at Michigan
  • A founding editor and chief editor of Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly
  • The managing editor of a special issue of the Asian Journal of Mathematics in memory of Armand Borel, Volume 8, no. 4
    (For the table of contents of this issue, click here)
  • Currently, I am the managing editor of special issues of Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly
    in honor of the following people
  • In memory of Armand Borel, in conjuction of the Borel conference in Hangzhou, 2004
  • In honor of the 80th Birthday of J.P.Serre
  • In honor of the 80th Birthday of F.Hirzebruch
  • In honor of the 60th Birthday of J.Coates
  • In honor of the 60th Birthday of R.MacPherson
  • In honor of the 60th Birthday of L.Simon
  • In honor of the 60th birthday of G.Margulis
  • In honor of the 60th birthday of J.Tate
  • In honor of the 60th birthday of M.Atiyah and I.Singer
  • In honor of the 60th birthday of J.Tits
  • I am one of the chief-editors of a book series
    Advanced Lectures in Mathematics
  • published jointly by Higher Education Press and International Press

  • I am one of the chief-editors of a book series on Popular Mathematics
    Mathematics and Mathematical People
  • An article about Robert MacPherson compiled by me: Robert MacPherson seen through the eyes of others
  • Outreach Activities

  • I am an co-organizer of a popular conference on Chinese mathematics, June 30-July 2, 2006, in Hangzhou, China
    Chinese mathematics from the past to the present
  • In July 2004, I organized a public panel discussion on experiences of eminent mathematicians (Masters in Mathematics) in Hangzhou
    Why Math? Ask Masters!
  • In December 2004, I co-organized and hosted another public panel discussion in Hong Kong
    The Wonders of Math
  • Here is an article (in Chinese) on Symmetry and its role in Art and Science
  • Conferences organized

  • I co-organized a conference:
    International Conference on Cohomology and Representation Theories (July 2009).
  • I co-organized a conference:
    Perspectives and open problems in geometric analysis, I. (July 2009).
  • I co-organized a RTG workshop:
    Geometric Group Theory (April 2009).
  • I co-organized a conference:
    Geometric Analysis: Present and Future (August 2008).
  • in honor of the 59th birthday of Shing-Tung Yau.

  • I co-organized an Instructional Conference:
    DYNAMICS OF TEICHMUELLER SPACE (April 2008).
  • I co-organized an International Instructional Conference:
    Langlands and Geometric Langlands Program (June 2007).
  • I co-organized an Instructional Conference:
    ASPECTS OF TEICHMUELLER THEORY (April 2007).
  • I co-organizd an Internationl conference
    Geometry, topology and analysis of locally symmetric spaces and discrete groups
    at the Morningside Center of Mathematics, Beijing, from July 17 to Aug 4, 2006.
  • I co-organized an International Conference in memory of Armand Borel
    Algebraic groups, arithmetic groups, automorphic forms and representation theory (July 2004)
  • I co-organized an AMS special sesion "Differential Geometry", March, 2002