Lan-Hsuan Huang 黃籃萱

Professor of Mathematics

Professor Huang’s research centers on general relativity and geometric analysis. Her contributions to the field have been recognized with several honors, including a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Simons Fellowships, and an NSF CAREER award. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from National Taiwan University and earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford University. Prior to her current appointment, she held academic positions at Columbia University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Here is a short CV.

Outreach educational activities:

Professor Huang has actively engaged in efforts to promote science to a broader audience, including mentoring beginning graduate students and promoting K–12 education initiatives.

• In an interview with UConn Today, The Shape of Universe, she explained the concept of center of mass in general relativity.
• Trapped surfaces, topology of black holes, and positive mass theorem - an expository article for beginning graduate students in Notices of the AMS. The article has been translated in Chinese, published in Mathematics Advance in Translation (数学译林)
• She was the featured scientist in this episode, Bubble Trouble, of children’s podcast STEAM Daydream, produced by National Children’s Museum

Organization activities

Professor Huang has co-organized research activities that serve the broader scientific community, including the SLMath Semester Program New Frontiers in Curvature in Fall Semester 2024.

She has also led several research initiatives at the University of Connecticut aimed at engaging both graduate and undergraduate students:

• Northeast Workshop in Geometric Analysis (2022)
• UConn Summer School in Minimal Surfaces, Flows, and Relativity (2018)
• UConn Geometry Day (2016 - 2020)
• UConn Semester in Differential Geometry (2013)

Research

Professor Huang’s research lies at the intersection of analysis, differential geometry, topology, and partial differential equations. Her primary focus is on general relativity and differential geometry, though she maintains a strong passion for physics and broader scientific inquiry. Reflecting this interdisciplinary interest, she has collaborated with researchers in mechanical engineering. Her research activities are currently supported by the National Science Foundation through

Grant DMS-2304966 (2023-present)
Grant CMMI-2130668 (Mechanical Engineering 2022-present)