# Celebratio Mathematica

## Shiing-Shen Chern

### Students

 Katsumi Nomizu :Invariant affine connections on homogeneous spaces University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1953 Louis Auslander :Contribution to the curvature theory of Finsler spaces University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1954 San Dao Liao :On the theory of obstructions of fiber bundles University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1955 Jerome Spanier :Contributions to the theory of almost-complex manifolds University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1955 Alexandre Rodrigues :Characteristic classes of homogeneous spaces University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1957 Harold I. Levine :Contributions to the theory of analytic maps of complex manifolds into projective spaces University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1957 Haruo Suzuki :On the realization of Stiefel–Whitney characteristic classes by submanifolds University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1957 Joseph Albert Wolf :On the manifolds covered by a given compact, connected Riemannian homogeneous manifolds University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1959 Nicholas Petridis :Quasiconformal mappings and pseudomeromorphic curves University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1961 William Pohl :Differential geometry of higher order University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1961 Manfredo P. do Carmo :The cohomology ring of certain Kählerian manifolds University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1963 Thomas Banchoff :Tightly embedded two-dimensional polyhedral manifolds University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1964 Leo Amaral :Hypersurfaces in non-Euclidean spaces University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1964 Howard Garland :On the cohomology of lattices in Lie groups University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1964 Robert Brown Gardner :Differential geometric methods in partial differential equations University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1965 Alan Weinstein :The cut locus and conjugate locus of a Riemannian manifold University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1967 Bernard Shiffman :On the removal of singularities in several complex variables University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1968 Robert Alan Wolf :Some integral formulas related to the volume of tubes University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1968 Donald Pelles :Intrinsic measures on complex manifolds and holomorphic mappings University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1969 Robeert Reilly :The Gauss map in the study of submanifolds of spheres University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1969 Steven Jordan :Some invariants for complex manifolds University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1970 Dominic Leung :Deformations of integrals of exterior differential systems University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1970 Hon-Fei Lai :Characteristic classes of real manifolds immersed in complex manifolds University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1971 Shing-Tung Yau :On the fundamental group of compact manifolds of non-positive curvature University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1971 João Barbosa :On the minimal Immersions of $$S^2$$ in $$S^{2m}$$ University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1972 John James Millson :Chern–Simons invariants of constant-curvature manifolds University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1973 David Bleecker :Contributions to the theory of surfaces University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1973 Plinio Simoes :A class of minimal cones in $$R^n$$, $$n > 8$$, that minimize area University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1973 Harold Gerard Donnelly :Chern–Simons invariants of reductive homogeneous spaces University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1974 Shiu-Yuen Cheng :Spectrum of the Laplacian and its applications to differential geometry University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1974 Sidney Martin Webster :Real hypersurfaces in complex space University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1975 Douglas Dunham :Holomorphic and meromorphic vector fields on compact Hermitian symmetric spaces University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1975 Chen Han Sung :Contributions to holomorphic curves in complex manifolds University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1975 James Faran :Segre families and real hypersurfaces University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1978 Peter Li :On the first eigenvalue and eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator on a compact Riemannian manifold and their geometric applications University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1979 Theodore Shifrin :The kinematic formula in complex integral geometry University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1979 Stuart Smith :Contributions to the eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1979 Ai-Nung Wang :Contributions to differential geometry University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1981 Jon Gordon Wolfson :Minimal surfaces in complex manifolds University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1982