Professor, Department of Mathematics

Director, Center for Computational and Applied Mathematics

Background

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

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

Contact Information

Research

Main research interests: numerical analysis, spectral methods, scientific computing,
computational fluid dynamics and computational materials science

Research support and group

Books and Papers

Teaching

Spring 2013: MATH/CS 51400: Numerical Analysis

Fall 2012: MA 69200: Introduction to Spectral Methods for Scientific Computing

Spring 2012: MA 16200: Plane Analytic Geometry and Calculus - II

Fall 2004: MA692B.01.01: Approximations of Navier-Stokes Equations: numerical analysis and implementation

Professional Service

Editorial boards:
Journal of Scientific Computing 2009 --

Mathematics of Computation 2005 --

Communications in Computational Physics 2005 --

International Journal of Numerical Analysis & Modeling 2004 --

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Series B) 2001 --
Conference organizations:
International Conference on Mathematical Modeling, Analysis and Computation, Xiamen University, China, July 21-25, 2012.

2011 Midwest Numerical Analysis Day, Purdue University, May 7-8, 2011.

The First Cross-Straits Workshop on Computational Mathematics, Xiamen University, China, Aug. 2-5, 2010.

International Conference on Advances in Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, Fudan University, Shanghai, May 31-June 4, 2010.

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

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

Guest Professorships

Xiamen University 2002 --
Shanghai Normal University 2002 --

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