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Name: Loring W. Tu
Title: Professor of Mathematics
Departmental Affiliation: Mathematics Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Harvard University; M.A. Harvard University; B.A. Princeton University
Expertise: An algebraic geometer by training, I have done research in the interface of algebraic geometry, topology, and differential geometry, including Hodge theory, degeneracy loci, moduli spaces of vector bundles, and equivariant cohomology.
E-mail: loring.tu@tufts.edu

Other websites: https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/ltuhome/Loring+Tu%27s+Homepage

Scholarship & Research: Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology (with Raoul Bott), Graduate Texts in Mathematics 82, Springer, New York, third correcting printing, 1995. Russian translation, 1989. Japanese translation, 1996. Chinese reprint, 2009.

Equivariant characteristic classes in the Cartan model (with Raoul Bott), in Geometry, Analysis, and Applications (Varanasi, 2000), World Scientific Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 2001, pp. 3--20.

The life and works of Raoul Bott, in The Founders of Index Theory: Reminiscences of Atiyah, Bott, Hirzebruch, and Singer, edited by S.-T. Yau, International Press, Somerville, MA 2003, pp. 85--112. An updated version appeared in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society 53 (2006), pp. 554--570.

Une courte démonstration de la formule de Campbell--Hausdorff, Journal of Lie Theory (2004), pp. 501--508.

On the localization formula in equivariant cohomology (with Andrés Pedroza), Topology and Its Applications (2007), pp. 1493--1501.

An Introduction to Manifolds, Universitext, Springer, New York, 2008.

Computing characteristic numbers using fixed points, to appear in the Proceedings of the Symposium on Raoul Bott's Legacy in Mathematics, Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge, MA, 2009.

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