In this talk, we'll give a brief introduction to several complex variables, emphasizing its interactions with PDE. We’ll also present some recent advances in this area.

Bio: Zhou Xiangyu, Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. The nominee has solved the extended future tube conjecture posed by Bogolyubov and Wightman in 1950's; He has jointly found an optimal L2 extension theorem and solved several open problems, proved Demailly strong openness conjecture, which causes solutions of several open problems, solved Demailly-Kollar conjecture and Johnson-Mustata conjecture. Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he has received the Tan Kah Kee Science Award, the National Natural Science Award and the S.S. Chern mathematical prize, Russian's Dr. of Science in 1997, among others.