Luo Wei graduated from the middle school affiliated to Harbin Normal University. In fact, in the freshman year, Luo Wei, who was 15 years old, won the first place in Heilongjiang Division of the National High School Mathematics League. Just because the organizer of the winter camp didn't send him a notice because of negligence at work, Luo Wei missed the opportunity to participate in the winter camp. Fortunately, he was not discouraged. 19 1, 1992 international mathematical olympiad. After receiving his bachelor's degree in Peking University, he went to the Mathematics Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology for further study, studied under Professor Qiu Chengtong, and received his doctorate in 2003. After that, I visited the mathematics department of Harvard University for one year. Luo Wei's main research interests are differential geometry and mathematical physics.
When talking about the help of mathematical competition to mathematical research, Luo Wei believes that mathematical competition is very beneficial to training people's thinking, but it has a negative impact on mathematical research by overemphasizing fast thinking and relying too much on skills. Taubes, a professor of mathematics at Harvard University, once said that you should learn to chew slowly and think about mathematical problems comprehensively.
Talking about some outstanding figures in previous international mathematics competitions, such as 1987 bronze medalist Gao Xia, who taught at Peking University after returning to China; Chen, winner of gold medal in 1988, is currently teaching at Albert University in Canada, engaged in algebra and geometry research. Last month, Chen also gave a lecture at the Mathematics Center of Zhejiang University. Cha, who won the silver medal in 1988, is an associate researcher at the Institute of Mathematics, China Academy of Sciences; 1989 silver medalist Yan Huafei in Texas A & amp； M University as an associate professor, doing combinatorial mathematics; As Li Qun said, He Hongyu, who won the gold medal perfectly in 1988, also taught at GSU. Wang Song, winner of two gold medals, 1990 and 19 1, teaches algebra and number theory at Yale. In addition to many other people who have switched to not doing mathematics, there are many gold and silver medal winners in the Olympic Games who are now studying in the mathematics departments of top universities in the United States or Europe, such as Zhu (95 gold, symplectic geometry) and Yao Jiangang (94 gold, topology) of Berkeley; Yi Ni of Princeton (97 gold medal, topology), Yun Zhiwei (00 gold medal); Yuan Xinyi of Columbia University (00 gold medal, algebraic number theory); Yao Yijun (95 gold medal, noncommutative geometry), Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris. I hope to see these talented students with high hopes in the future and give my people a surprise.
For life abroad, Luo Wei specifically mentioned that American culture emphasizes personal self-choice and few people will interfere with other people's lifestyles, so in the United States, few people will think that mathematicians are nerds.
Regarding the choice of returning to China, Luo Wei also thinks that the domestic scientific research environment has been greatly improved, and the office of the Mathematics Center of Zhejiang University is much more spacious and bright than that of MIT.
Luo Wei has many hobbies, such as mountain climbing, swimming, novels, singing, badminton, yoga, playing cards, parties and so on.