# Curriculum vitae

## Education:

Ph. D. in Mathematics, 1990,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.
M.S. in Mathematics, 1986,
East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R. China.
B.S. in Mathematics, 1983,
East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R. China.

## Employment:

Professor, Sep. 2002-Present,
University of Houston
Associate Professor, Sep. 1997- Sep. 2002,
University of Houston
Assistant Professor, Sep. 1995- Sep. 1997,
University of Houston
Research Fellow, Jan.1996- Jun. 1996,
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
Benjamin Pierce Assistant Professor, 1992-1995,
Harvard University
Assistant Professor, 1990-1992,
National University of Singapore

## Visiting Positions:

Visiting Professor, May, 2005,
University of Paris Sud, Orsay, France
Visiting Professor, August, 2004,
National Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Chuhui Scholar and Visiting Professor, September, 2003 -January, 2004
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and Tongji University, P.R. China
Visiting Professor, September, 2003 -October, 2003
Fudan University, P.R. China
Visiting Professor, October, 2003
Visiting Professor, June-July, 2001,
Tongji University, P.R. China
Visiting Member, July and August, 1998

## Research Interest:

Complex Analysis, Diophantine Approximation, Differential Geometry

## Research Funding:

PI, National Security Agency Research Grant in Mathematics, H98230-11-1-0201, 2011-2013.
PI, National Security Agency Research Grant in Mathematics, H98230-09-1-0004, 2009-2011.
PI, National Security Agency Research Grant in Mathematics, H98230-07-1-0050, 2007-2009.
PI, National Security Agency Research Grant in Mathematics, H98230-05-1-0042, 2004-2006.
PI, National Security Agency Research Grant in Mathematics, MDA904-03-1-0067, 2002-2004.
PI, National Security Agency Research Grant in Mathematics, MDA904-01-0051, 2000-2002.
PI, National Science Foundation Research Grant in Mathematics, DMS-9800361, 1998-2002.
PI, National Security Agency Research Grant in Mathematics, MDA904-99-1-0034, 1998-2000.
PI, National Science Foundation Research Grant in Mathematics, DMS-9506424, 1995-1998.
PI, National Science Foundation Research Grant in Mathematics, DMS-9300526, 1993-1995

## Awards and Honors:

Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, University of Houston, 1999.
Epson Award in Value Distribution Theory, for his outstanding achievements in the field of the value distribution and its applications, Hong Kong, July 1996
Chuhui Scholar, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, July-Jan., 2004

## Editoral Boards:

Houston Journal of Mathematics, 2006-

## Outside Service:

Adjudication panelist for the "2011 S.T. Yau High School Mathematics Awards" in China (similar to Siemens Westinghouse Prize), December, 2011.

## Conferences Organized:

1. Co-Organizer(with J. Bland (Toronto), S. Kulad (Toronto), K. Consani (John-Hopkins), P. Vojta (UC Berkely), and P.M. Wong (Notre Dame)), Special Year in Arithmetic Geometry, Hyperbolic Geometry and Related Topics at the Fields Institute, July-December 2008.
2. Co-Organizer for the upcoming workshop on Distribution of Rational and Holomorphic Curves in Algebraic Varieties'' at the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, March 15-20, 2015.
3. Co-Organizer(with Etgen, Ji and Torok), 2009 Spring Texas Geometry and Topology Conference and Co-Organizer (with Ji, Heier and Torok), 2012 Spring Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, University of Houston
4. Co-organizer for "2012 conference on Nevanlinna theory and related topics", University of Notre Dame, March 2012.
5. Co-organizer for 2010 International Conference on Several Complex Variables'', August 6-10 in Shanghai, China, 2010.
6. Co-organizer for Hyperbolicity in the symplectic category workshop'', BIRS, Canada, March 28-April 4, 2010.
7. Co-organizer for International Conference on Complex Analysis and Related Topics'' in Beijing, China, August 2009.
8. Co-Organizer(with Julie Wang and Jin Yu), Conference on Value Distributions and Complex Geometry, the National Center for Theoretical Sciences(NCTS), Taiwan, July 27-30, 2009.
9. Co-Organizer, Workshop on Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry --in honor of Professor Chen Zhihua on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, July, 2008.
10. Co-Organizer(with Siqi Fu and Zhihua Chen), Special Session on Several Complex Variables and Applications, First Joint International Meeting of AMS with the Shanghai Mathematical Society Shanghai, China, December 17 - 21, 2008.
11. Co-Organizer(with Etgen and Bao), Texas Geometry and Topology Conference (In Memory of Prof. S.S. Chern), University of Houston, Spring 2006.
12. Co-Organizer(with Ji and Bao), Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, University of Houston, Spring 2003.
13. Co-Organizer, Special Session in "Interconnections among Diophantine geometry, algebraic geometry, and value distribution theory", American Mathematics Society Meeting, University of Texas, October 8-10, 1999.
14. Co-Organizer(with Etgen abd Bao), Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, University of Houston, Spring 1998.
15. Co-Organizer(with Etgen and Ji), Mini-Conference on Complex Geometry and Related Topics, University of Houston, Jan. 1997.

## Book:

Min Ru. Nevanlinna theory and its relation to Diophantine approximation, World Scientific Publishing, 2001.

## Publications:

1. X. Pang & Min Ru. On the total number of entire deficient functions of entire functions, Chinese Ann. of Math., Vol 6, Ser. A, No. 4(1985), 411-424, (in Chinese).
2. Min Ru. A general theorem on the total number of deficient values for a class of meromorphic functions, Chinese Ann. of Math., Vol 9, Ser. A, No. 2 (1988), 178-187 (in Chinese). MR: 90h: 30077.
3. Min Ru. Some discussion on common Borel directions of meromorphic functions, J. East China Normal Univ. Sci. Ed.,} No. 1 (1989), 39-50, (in Chinese). MR: 90h: 30078.
4. Min Ru & W. Stoll. Courbes holomorphes $\acute e$vitant des hyperplans mobiles, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris t310, sere I, (1990), 45-48.
5. Min Ru & P.M. Wong. Integral points of P^n - {2n + 1 hyperplanes in general position}, Inventiones Mathematicae, Vol. 106, (1991), 195-216.
6. Min Ru. On the Gauss map of minimal surfaces immersed in R^n, Journal of Differential Geometry, Vol. 34, No. 2, (1991), 411-423.
7. Min Ru & W. Stoll. The second main theorem for moving targets, Journal of Geometric Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 2, (1991), 99-138.
8. Min Ru. On the Gauss map of minimal surfaces with finite total curvature, Bulletin of the Australian Math. Soc., 44(1991), 225-232.
9. Min Ru & W. Stoll. The Cartan conjecture for moving targets, Proceeding of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, AMS, Vol. 52, Part 2, (1991), 477-508.
10. Min Ru & W. Stoll. The Nevanlinna conjecture for moving targets, Research and Lecture notes in Mathematics, Mediterranean Press, 1991, 293-308.
11. Min Ru. Integral points and the hyperbolicity of the complement of hypersurfaces, J. Reine Angew. Math., 442(1993), 163-176.
12. Min Ru. Gauss map of minimal surfaces with ramification, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 339, No. 2, (1993), 751-764.
13. Shanyu Ji & Min Ru. Global Lojasiewicz inequality, defect relation and applications of holomorphic curve theory, Contemp. Math., Amer. Math. Soc., Vol 142, (1993), 49-59.
14. Min Ru. Geometric and arithmetic aspects of $P^n$ minus hyperplanes, American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 117, No. 2, (1995), 307-321.
15. Min Ru & P. Vojta. Schmidt's subspace theorem with moving targets, Inventiones Mathematicae, Vol. 127 (1997), 51-65.
16. Min Ru. The second main theorem on parabolic manifolds, Indiana Univ. Math. Journal., Vol. 46, No. 1, (1997), 299-318.
17. R. Osserman & Min Ru. An estimate for the Gauss curvature on minimal surfaces in ${\bf R}^m$ whose Gauss map omits a set of hyperplanes, Journal of Differential Geometry, 46(1997), 578-593.
18. Min Ru. On the general form of the second main theorem, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 349(1997), 5093-5105.
19. Min Ru. Nevanlinna theory and its relation with Diophantine approximation, Bulletin of the Hong Kong Math. Soc., Vol 1 (1997), 343-349.
20. K. Gyory and Min Ru. Integer solutions of a sequence of decomposable from inequalities, Acta Arithmetica, Vol. 86 (1998), 227-237.
21. Min Ru and J. Tzu-Yueh Wang. Diophantine approximation with algebraic points of bounded degree, Journal of Number Theory, 81(2000), 110-119.
22. Min Ru. Algebroid functions, Wirsings theorem and their relations, Mathematische Zeitschrift, Vol. 233, No. 1 (2000), 137-148.
23. Min Ru. A uniqueness theorem for rational points in projective space, Journal of Number Theory, 85(2000), 85-91.
24. Min Ru. A weak effective Roth's theorem over function fields, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 30, No. 2, (2000), 723-734.
25. Min Ru. A note on p-adic Nevanlinna theory, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129(2001), 1263-1269.
26. Min Ru. The moving target problems in Nevanlinna theory, Complex Variables, 43(2001), 417-431.
27. Min Ru. A uniqueness theorem for moving targets without counting multiplicities, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 129(2001), 2701-2707.
28. Min Ru. Uniqueness theorems for p-adic holomorphic curves, Illinois Journal of Mathematics, 45(2001), 487-493.
29. Min Ru and Julie Wang. Truncated second main theorem with moving targets, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 356(2004), No. 2, 557-571.
30. Min Ru. A defect relation for holomorphic curves intersecting hypersurfaces, American Journal of Mathematics, 126(2004), 215-226.
31. W. Cherry and Min Ru. Rigid analytic Picard theorems, American Journal of Mathematics, 126(2004), 873-889.
32. Min Ru and Eunjeong Yi. Nevanlinna theory and iteration of rational maps, Mathematische Zeitschrift, 249(2005), 125-138.
33. Zhihua Chen and Min Ru. Decomposable form equations without the finiteness property, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 133(2005), 1929-1933.
34. Zhihua Chen and Min Ru. Integer solutions to decomposable form inequalities, Journal of Number Theory, 115(2005), 58-70.
35. Yuancheng Liu and Min Ru. Degeneracy of Holomorphic Curves in Surfaces, Science in China, Series A, Mathematics, 48(2005), 156-167.
36. Yuancheng Liu and Min Ru. A defect relation for meromorphic maps on parabolic manifolds intersecting hypersurfaces, Illinois Journal of Mathematics, 49(2005), 237-257.
37. Min Ru and Julie Wang. A seond main theorem on parabolic manifolds, Asian J. Math. 9(2005), 349-372.
38. Lu Jin and Min Ru. A unicity theorem for moving targets counting multiplicities, Tohoku Math. Journal, 57(2005), 589-595.
39. Zhihua Chen and Min Ru. A uniqueness theorem with moving targets, Houston J. of Math., 32(2006), No. 2, 589-601.
40. Lu Jin and Min Ru. Values of Gauss maps of complete minimal surfaces in ${\Bbb R}^m$ on annular ends, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 359(2007), 1527-1546.
41. Lu Jin and Min Ru. Algebraic curves and the Gauss map of algebraic minimal surfaces, Differential Geometry and its Applications, 25(2007), 701-712.
42. Min Ru. The second main theorem with hypersurfaces over function fields, Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex Geometry and Related Fields, AMS/IP Stud. Adv. Math. 39(2007), 251-261.
43. Yan Xu and Min Ru. Uniqueness theorem for algebraic curves on compact Riemann surfaces, Science in China, Series A, 50(2007), 683-688.
44. Min Ru. A fundamental inequality for holomorphic curves into projective varieties, Proceedings ICCM (International Congress of Chinese Mathathematicians), Vol II(2007), 534-544, Higher Educational Press (Beijing, China)/International Press (Somerville, MA, USA).
45. Matt Dulock and Min Ru. A uniqueness theorem for holomorphic curves into encountering hypersurfaces in projective space, Complex Variables & Elliptic Equations, 53(2008), 797-802.
46. Yasheng Ye and Min Ru. A big Picard theorem for holomorphic maps into complex projective space, Canadian Math. Bulletin, 52(2009), 154-160.
47. Min Ru. Holomorphic curves into algebraic varieties, Annals of Mathematics, 169(2009), 255-267.
48. Zhihua Chen, Min Ru and Qiming Yan. The Truncated Second Main Theorem and Uniqueness Theorems, Science in China, 53(2010), 605-616.
49. Matt Dulock and Min Ru. Uniqueness of holomorphic curves into abelian varieties, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 363(2011), 131-142.
50. Min Ru. Integer solutions to decomposable and semi-decomposable form inequalities, Publ. Math. Debrecen, 79(2011), 663-673
51. Min Ru and Suraizou Sogome. Non-integrated defect relation for meromorphic maps of complete K$\ddot{A}$hler manifolds into $\mathbb{P}^n(\mathbb{C})$ intersecting hypersurfaces, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 364(2012), Number 3, 1145-1162
52. Min Ru and Julie Tzu-Yueh Wang. An effective Schmidt's subspace theorem for Projective Varieties Over Function Fields, IMRN (International Mathematics Research Notices), (2012), 651-684 (first published online March 28, 2011).
53. Gordon Heier and Min Ru. On essentially large divisors, Asian Journal of Mathematics, 16(2012), 387-407
54. Zhihua Chen, Min Ru and Qiming Yan. The Degenerated Second Main Theorem and Schmidt's Subspace Theorem, Science in China, 55(2012), 1367-1380
55. Min Ru and Suraizou Sogome. A uniqueness theorem for meromorphic maps of a complete K$\ddot{a}$hler manifold into ${\bf P}^n({\bf C})$ sharing hypersurfaces, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 141(2013), 4229-4239
56. Min Ru. Some Generalizations of the Second Main Theorem Intersecting Hypersurfaces, Methods and Applications of Analysis, 21(2014), 503-526.
57. Hungzen Liao and Min Ru. A note on the Second Main Theorem for holomorphic curves into algebraic varieties, Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica (New Series), 9(2014), No. 4, 671-684
58. Zhihua Chen, Min Ru and Qiming Yan. Schmidt's Subspace Theorem with Moving Hypersurfaces, IMRN (International Mathematics Research Notices), (2015), No. 15, 6305-6329
59. Lei Shi and Min Ru. An improvement of Chen-Ru-Yan's degenerated second main theorem, Science in China, 58(2015), No. 12, 2517-2530
60. Min Ru. A defect relation for holomorphic curves intersecting general divisors on projective varieties, Journal of Geometric Analysis, 26(2016), No. 4, 2751-2776
61. Min Ru .A general diophantine inequality, Funct. Approx. Comment. Math., to appear
62. Jungim Park and Min Ru. Unicity results of Gauss maps of minimal surfaces immersed in ${\bf R}^m$, Journal of Geometry, available as 'Online First' on SpringerLink
63. C. Mills and Min Ru. An improvement defect relations for holomorphic curves in projective varieties. Proceedings of  the Conference Complex Analysis and Dynamical Systems VII, AMS Series Contemporary Mathematics, to appear .

## Invited Talks:

• Integral points of P^n - {2n + 1 hyperplanes in general position}.'' Invited colloquium talk at the University of Notre Dame, April, 1991.
• Diophantine approximation and holomorphic curve theory.'' Invited colloquium talk at the University of Hawaii, June, 1992.
• Nevanlinna theory and Diophantine approximation.'' Invited colloquium talk at Purdue University, November, 1992.
• Recent progress in number theory and Nevanlinna theory.'' Invited main speaker at Workshop on Diophantine Geometry'', MSRI, Berkeley, March, 1993.
• Integral points and complex hyperbolicity.'' Invited talk at Yale University, April, 1993.
• On the Gauss map of minimal surfaces.'' Invited talk at Harvard University, April, 1993.
• Holomorphic curves in Abelian varieties.'' Invited talk at Harvard University, April, 1994.
• Diophantine approximation and complex hyperbolicity.'' Invited talk at Johns Hopkins University, March, 1994.
• Applications of Nevanlinna theory in number theory and differential geometry.'' Invited main speaker at Complex Geometry Workshop'', University of Notre Dame, March, 1994.
• Nevanlinna theory and its application.'' Invited colloquium talk at Northwestern University, 1995.
• Nevanlinna theory and its application.'' Invited colloquium talk at University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995.
• Nevanlinna theory and its application.'' Invited colloquium talk at University of California, Riverside, 1995.
• Nevanlinna theory and Diophantine approximation.'' Invited main speaker at "Complex Geometry Workshop", Hong Kong University, July, 1995.
• Complex hyperbolicity and Diophantine approximation.'' Invited talk at Texas A \& M University, 1995.
• Schmidt's subspace with moving targets.'' Invited talk at the University of Texas, Austin, 1995.
• Gauss map of minimal surfaces in ${\bf R}^n$.'' Invited talk at Texas Geometry and topology conference'', Univ. of Houston, 1996.
• Schmidt subspace theorem with moving targets.'' Invited talk at MSRI, March, 1996.
• Some applications of value distribution theory.'' Invited main speaker at Value distribution and its application'', the Hong Kong University of Science and technology, 1996.
• Nevanlinna theory and Diophantine approximation.'' Invited colloquium talk at the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 1998.
• Gauss map of minimal surfaces'' Invited colloquium talk at National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1998
• Integer solutions of decomposable equations'', Invited colloquium talk at National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, 1998.
• Picard's theorem and its generalization'', Invited talk at the Millican Lecture Series in University of North Texas, 1998.
• Invited Talk at Unoversity of California, Irvine, 1999.
• Some results in p-adic Nevanlinna theory", Invited main speaker at Complex Geometry Conference, Hong Kong University, 2000.
• Nevanlinna theory and its relation to Diophantine approximation", A sereis of lectures given at Tongji University, China, 2001.
• Some progress in Diophantine approximation", invited talk at Workshop on Diophantine approximation, Leiden, Netherlands, 2003
• A defect relation for holomorphic curves intersecting hypersurfaces", invited colloquium talk at colloquium talk at the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Novemebr, 2003
• Colloquium talk at the Department of Mathematics, East China Normal University, China, Oct., 2003
• Colloquium talk at the Department of Mathematics, Fudan University, China, Sept., 2003
• Colloquium talk at the Institute of Mathematics, Academian Sinica, China, Oct., 2003
• Some recent development in Diophantine approximation'', Invited talk at National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, November, 2003
• Invited Main Speaker at the International Workshop on Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, Fujian Normal University, December, 2003.
• Colloquium talk at the Institute of Mathematics, Academian Sinica, China, August, 2004
• Plenary Speaker at the First International Conference on Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry, Beijing, August, 2004.
• Colloquium talk at University of Tokyo, Japan, December, 2004
• Invited Main Speaker at Hayama Symposium on Several Complex Variables, Shonan Village, Japan, December, 2004.
• Invited talk at the University of Paris Sud, Orday, 2005.
• Invited Colloquium talk at Fudan University, China, 2005.
• Invited Colloquium talk at Tongji University, China, 2005.
• Invited talk at Workshop on Number theory and related topics'', Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec. 2006.
• Invited 45-minutes talk at The Fourth International Congresses of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM)'', Hangzhou, China, Dec., 2007.
• Plenary Speaker, The 15th International Conference on Finite or Infinite Dimensional Complex Analysis and Applications, Osaka, Japan, 2007.
• Invited Speaker at the workshop on Holomorphic mappings, Kobayashi hyperbolicity and Diophantine approximation'', University of Tokyo, Japan, 2007.
• Invited Speaker at the workshop on Effective Aspects of Complex Hyperbolic Varieties'', Ouessant, France, 2007.
• Invited Speaker at the workshop on  The geometry of holomorphic and algebraic curves in complex algebraic varieties'', Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM) in Montreal, Canada, April 30-May 4, 2007.
• Talk at the Number theory seminar, University of Toronto, 2007.
• Seminar talk at Florida International University, April 2009.
• Seminar talk at Columbia University, December 2009
• Colloquium talk at Rice University, Oct. 2009.
• Colloquium talk at UC Irvine, April 2009.
• Colloquium talk at Rutgers University, April 2009.
• Invited Speaker at the International Conference on Complex Analysis and Related Topics'' in Beijing, China, August 2009.
• Invited Speaker at the 2009 Workshop on Complex Geometry'' in Academia Sinica. Taiwan..
• Invited talk at "International Workshop on Complex Geometry and Algebraic Geometry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University", China, 2010.
• 2011 KIAS Summer School on Several Complex Variables, Korea, July. Main Speaker,
• Invited Speaker at Frontiers of Nevanlinna Theory I, University College London, 28-30, March, 2011.
• Invited Speaker at ISF Workshop on Normal Families, Meromorphic Functions and Value Distribution Theory, May 23 - 26, 2011, Palm Beach Hotel, Akko, Israel.
• Invited Speaker at Second Conference of Tsignhua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF), Sanya, 19-21, December, China, 2011.
• Invited Speaker at "Conference on Nevanlinna theory and related topics", University of Notre Dame, March 2012.
• Invited Speaker at The international conference on Analysis and Geometry'', Fujian, China, June 16-21, 2013.
• Invited Speaker at International Workshop on Transcendence and Number Theory, in honor of Professor Dale Brownawell's retirement'', National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS), Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. June 22-23, 2013.
• Invited Speaker at Conference on Diophantine Problems and Arithmetic Dynamics'', to be held Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Hong Kong, June 24-28, 2013.
• Invited Speaker at Conference on Complex Geometry'', In honor of Professor Yum-Tong Siu's 70th Birthday, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 25-28, 2013.
• Invited Speaker at the Several Complex Variables Symposium at Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF)'', Sanya, China, May 12-17, 2014.
• Invited Speaker at Workshop on Complex Analysis and Geometry'', Wuhan, China, May 20-23, 2014.

## Student Supervision:

• Eunjeong Yi, Ph.D.(2003) (now at Texas A\&M at Galveston), Yuancheng Liu, Ph.D.(May, 2007) (now at dGB, USA), Matt David Dulock, Ph.D.(2008) (now at the University of North Texas), Suraizou Sogome, Ph.D. (2011)(now at GeoTomo, USA).
• Eunjeong Yi, M.S.(2000), University of Houston. Thesis title: Riemann-Roch Theorem on Riemann Surfaces.
• Lian Leck Soh, M.S., National University of Singapore. Thesis topic: Valiron Deficient Functions of Meromorphic Functions: an Extension. Complete date: October, 1992. (The thesis appeared in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 188(1994), no. 1, 286-296.'')

## University Services:

Elementary Course Committee, Harvard University, 1993-1996
Teachers, Time, and Transformations'' Project of the Education Development Center, Inc: Responsibilities include voluntarily teaching at Arlington high school twice per month, 1994-1995