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{{short description|Taiwanese-American mathematician}}
{{Western name order|Terng Chuu-Lian}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Chuu-Lian Terng
| image              = Chuu-Lian Terng, 2010 (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Terng in 2010
| native_name        = 滕楚蓮
| native_name_lang   = zh
| nationality        = Taiwanese-American
| education          = [[National Taiwan University]] ([[B. S.|BS]])<br>[[Brandeis University]] ([[PhD]])
| occupation         = Mathematician
| years_active       = 1976–present
| spouse             = [[Richard Palais]]
}}
'''Chuu-Lian Terng''' ({{zh|t=滕楚蓮|p=Téng Chǔlián}}) is a Taiwanese-American [[mathematician]]. Her research areas are [[differential geometry]] and [[integrable systems]], with particular interests in completely integrable Hamiltonian [[partial differential equations]] and their relations to differential geometry, the geometry and topology of submanifolds in [[symmetric spaces]], and the geometry of isometric actions.<ref name=profile>{{citation|title=Chuu-Lian Terng Faculty Profile|url=https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5122|publisher=University of California at Irvine|accessdate=6 December 2020}}</ref>

==Education and career==
She received her [[B. S.|B.S.]] from [[National Taiwan University]] in 1971 and her [[Ph.D.]] from [[Brandeis University]] in 1976<ref>{{cite web|title=UCI ADVANCE Program Advance Chair > Chuu-Lian Terng|date=17 August 2017 |url=http://advance.uci.edu/pages/AChair-Terng.html}}</ref> under the supervision of [[Richard Palais]],<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=35876}}</ref> whom she later married.<ref>{{cite web|title=Richard Palais' Home Page|url=http://vmm.math.uci.edu/|publisher=University of California at Irvine, Department of Mathematics|year=2006}}</ref> She is currently a professor emerita at the [[University of California at Irvine]].<ref>{{citation|title=Chuu-Lian Terng at the Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine|url=https://www.math.uci.edu/people/chuu-lian-terng|publisher= University of California at Irvine\accessdate=6 December 2020}}</ref>
She was a professor at [[Northeastern University]] for many years. Before joining Northeastern, she spent two years at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] and four years at [[Princeton University]]. She also spent two years at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] (IAS) in Princeton and two years at the [[Max-Planck Institute]] in [[Bonn, Germany]].<ref name=profile/>

Terng has been an active member of the [[Association for Women in Mathematics]] (AWM).  She served as AWM President from 1995 to 1997, chaired the Julia Robinson Celebration of Women in Math Conference, which was held July 1–3, 1996,<ref>{{citation|title=Julia Robinson Celebration for Women in Mathematics Conference at MSRI|url=https://awm-math.org/about/history/julia-robinson-celebration-of-women-in-mathematics-conference/|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|accessdate=6 December 2020}}</ref> and chaired the Michler Prize and Travel/Mentoring Grant Committees.<ref name=AWM>{{citation|title= Historical List of AWM Committees|url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W4VOug4DLEOX4J2TtbN0zeiQaSQ4KODRMd0KWs_KyCs/edit#gid=467480858|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|accessdate=6 December 2020}}.</ref>

Terng has served on the editorial boards of the [[Transactions of the AMS]], the Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, Communications of Analysis and Geometry, the [[Proceedings of the AMS]], and the Journal of Fixed Point Theory and its Applications.<ref>{{citation|title=Chuu-Lian Terng Faculty Profile|url=https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5122|publisher=University of California at Irvine|accessdate=6 December 2020}}</ref>

In 1999, she was selected as the [[AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer]]. Her citation reads:<ref>{{cite journal |title=AWM/MAA Lecture |journal=Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics |date=July–August 1999 |volume=29 |issue=4 |page=29 |url=https://www.drivehq.com/folder/p8755087/14194965962.aspx |accessdate=4 April 2019}}</ref>

<blockquote>Her early research concerned the classification of [[natural transformation|natural]] [[vector bundle]]s and natural [[differential operator]]s between them. She then became interested in [[submanifold]] geometry. Her main contributions are developing a structure theory for [[isoparametric manifold|isoparametric]] submanifolds in <math>\mathbb{R}^n</math> and constructing [[soliton]] equations from special submanifolds. Recently, Terng and [[Karen Uhlenbeck]] ([[University of Texas at Austin]]) have developed a general approach to [[integrable system|integrable]] PDEs that explains their hidden symmetries in terms of [[loop group]] actions. She is co-author of the book Submanifold Geometry and Critical Point Theory and an editor of the Journal of Differential Geometry survey volume 4 on "Integrable systems".

Professor Terng served as president of the [[Association for Women in Mathematics]] (AWM) from 1995 to 1997 and as Member-at-Large of the Council of the [[American Mathematical Society]] (AMS) from 1989 to 1992. She is currently on the Advisory Board of the National Center for Theoretical Sciences in Taiwan, the Steering Committee of the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] Park City Summer Institute, and the Editorial Board of the Transactions of the AMS.</blockquote>

== Honors ==
* [[Sloan Fellowship]] in 1980.
* [[Humboldt Senior Scientist Award]] in 1997.
* [[AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer]] in 1999
* Fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]], 2012.<ref>[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-08-25.</ref>
* Fellow of the [[Association for Women in Mathematics]], 2018 (inaugural class).<ref>{{cite web|title=2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2018-awm-fellows/|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|accessdate=6 December 2020}}</ref>

==Recognition==
With 
[[Sun-Yung Alice Chang]], [[Fan Chung]], [[Winnie Li]], [[Jang-Mei Wu]], and [[Mei-Chi Shaw]],
Terng is one of a group of six women mathematicians from [[National Taiwan University]] called by [[Shiing-Shen Chern]] "a miracle in Chinese history; the glory of the Chinese people".<ref name=shaw>{{citation
 | last = Shaw | first = Mei-Chi
 | doi = 10.4310/ICCM.2014.v2.n1.a11
 | issue = 1
 | journal = ICCM Notices
 | mr = 3237703
 | pages = 59–74
 | title = A woman mathematician's journey
 | volume = 2
 | year = 2014| doi-access = free
 }}. Reprinted in {{citation
 | last1 = Casazza | first1 = Peter
 | last2 = Krantz | first2 = Steven G.
 | last3 = Ruden | first3 = Randi D.
 | isbn = 978-0-88385-585-0
 | mr = 3362652
 | pages = 227–250
 | publisher = Mathematical Association of America | location = Washington, DC
 | series = MAA Spectrum
 | title = I, Mathematician
 | year = 2015}}. See in particular p. 70 of ''ICCM Notices'' or [https://books.google.com/books?id=8HsTBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA243 pp. 243–244] of ''I, Mathematician''.</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://math.uci.edu/~cterng Terng's Home Page] at University of California, Irvine. 
*{{MathGenealogy|id=35876}}
*{{cite journal|editor=Uhlenbeck, Karen|title=The Contributions of Chuu-Lian Terng to Geometry|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|date=March 2024|volume=71|issue=3|pages=327–337|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202403/rnoti-p327.pdf|doi=10.1090/noti2889|doi-access=free}}

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