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American mathematician and academic

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1952 · age 74
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Lai-Sang Lily Young is a Hong Kong-born American mathematician who holds the Henry & Lucy Moses Professorship of Science and is a professor of mathematics and neural science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.

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2024Rolf Schock Prizes
2023Heinz Hopf Prize
2007Sofia Kovalevsky Lecture
2005Noether Lecture
2004Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997Guggenheim Fellowship
1993Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics

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Lai-Sang Lily Young is a Hong Kong-born American mathematician who holds the Henry & Lucy Moses Professorship of Science and is a professor of mathematics and neural science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. Her research interests include dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory, probability theory, statistical mechanics, and neuroscience. She is particularly known for introducing the method of Markov returns in 1998, which she used to prove exponential correlation delay in Sinai billiards and other hyperbolic dynamical systems.

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Born 1952 · age 74
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