Professor of Mathematics

Background

Ph.D., Numerical Analysis, Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, 1987

B.S., Computational Mathematics, Peking University, China, 1982

A brief CV

Contact Information

Research

• Main research interests: numerical analysis, spectral methods and scientific computing with applications in fluid dynamics, atmosphere and ocean dynamics and materials science
• Downloadable Publications
• Erratum and Some Matlab & Fortran codes for the book "Spectral and High-Order Methods with Applications" (by Jie Shen and Tao Tang, Science Press of China, 2006; To purchase the book, please send email to periodical@bjzhongke.com.cn).

• Research support and group

Teaching

• Spring 2008: MATH/CS 514: Numerical Analysis
• Fall 2004: MA692B.01.01: Approximations of Navier-Stokes Equations: numerical analysis and implementation
• Spring 2004: CS614.01.01: Numerical Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations
• Spring 2003: MA598S.01.01: Introduction to Spectral Methods for Scientific Computing

Service

• Editorial boards:

  Mathematics of Computation 2005 --

  Communications in Computational Physics 2005 --

  International Journal of Numerical Analysis & Modeling 2004 --

  Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Series B) 2001 --

Guest Professorships

• Xiamen University 2002 --

• Shanghai Normal University 2002 --

Other Resources

• Comput. & Applied Math Seminar Series at Purdue

• International Workshop on Recent Advances on Spectral Methods and Related Applications, Xiamen, June 14-16, 2007.

• Summer School/Workshop on Ferroelectric Phenomena in Liquid Crystals Kenn State University, June 19-28, 2007.

• American Institute of Mathematics Workshop on Ferroelectric Phenomena in Soft Matter Systems, Palo Alto, CA, May 12-16, 2008.

• Computing Research Institute at Purdue.

• Pre-release version of SpecPack, a software package of fast elliptic solvers using spectral methods.