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Chun Liu

Professor of Mathematics


Ph.D. Mathematics

Courant Institute, New York University

Contact Information

Department of Mathematics
The Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
email: liu@math.psu.edu
Tel: 814-8653611


Teaching


Research

My current research interests center around partial differential equations, calculus of variations and their applications in complex fluids.



  • Energetic Variational Approaches
  • Biology and Physiology
  • Liquid Crystals
  • Mixtures and Interfaces, Grain Growth, Evolution of Surfaces
  • Viscoelastic Fluids and Polymeric Materials



  • Here are some of my publications and a brief cv.
    A patial list of my publications and their BIBTEX entries in MathSciNet.

    Seminars


  • Mathematical Biology Seminar
  • Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar Series
  • Pritchard Lab Seminar
  • Mathematics Colloquium
  • Seminars in College of Sciences




  • Conferences and Workshops

  • Workshop on Mathematical Models of Electrolytes with Application to Molecular Biology, Taida Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. January 05 - January 07, 2012.
  • Progress in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, June 4 -- June 8, 2012.

  • Nonlinear Evolutionary Partial Differential Equations, Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, June 12 -- June 17, 2012.

  • Workshop and Summer School on Coulomb Many-body Systems, Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, June 12 -- June 14, 2012.

  • Workshop on Complex Fluids, The center of excel- lence ”Samrt Interfaces”, Technische University, Darmstadt, Germany, June 10 -- June 13, 2012.

  • 6th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, Biopolis, Singapore, October 15 -- October 19, 2012.

  • Bridging Scales in Computational Polymer Chemistry, ICERM, Brown University, Providence, RI, August 6 -- August 10, 2012.

  • The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 7 January - 5 July 2013.





  • Past Conferences