Collaborators on campus:
- CAM@PS:
we are all part of the "
Computational
and
Applied
Mathematics at
Penn
State"
- MATCASE:
MATerials: Computers-Algorithms-Science-Engineering; our
interdisciplinary NSF-ITR research team from 2002-2007
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We are working with Dr.Cheng Dong's experimental group of
the bioengineering dept to study the tumor metastasis.
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CCMD: Center for Computational Materials Design. We are part of this
NSF supported Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC)
between PennState and GaTech.
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We had a joint project on applying data mining techniques to
physical simulations with
Prof.Hongyuan Zha of Computer science, as well
as facutly members Richard Li in Statistics and Jorge Sofo in Physics dept
- We also had joint research project
with the Communications and Space Sciences
Lab in the Electrical Engineering dept
- We have close contact with the experimental groups on
superconductivity and atomic physics at the Physics dept.
- We also establishedworking relations with
a research group in Chemistry.
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I am serving (or served) on thesis committees outside the math dept,
and learning sujects like: Bose-Einstein condensates,
multicomponent material simulations, geological studies.
Recent thesis committees we have served include:
William Trevor, Ph.D., Atomic Physics
Jianxin Zhu, Ph.D., Materials science
Rolf Ryham, Ph.D., Mathematics
Jingzhi Zhu, Ph.D., Materials science
Jason Williams, Ph.D, Physics
Yizhong Qu, Ph.D, Mech Engineering
Weixin Yao, Ph.D., Statistics
Michael Higley, Ph.D., Mathematics
Jia Pan, Ph.D., Mathematics and Economics
Qina Zhou, Ph.D., Electric Engineering
Shenyang Hu, Ph.D., Material science
Long Chen, Ph.D., Mathematic
Michael Sostarecz, Ph.D., Mathematics
Former members/students:
- Paul Gray: Paul graduated from
MSU, worked at Emory, now a tenured computer scientisit in Iowa
- Joan
Remski: Joan graduated after I left
MSU, she is now a tenured associate professor teaching in Michigan
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Lili Ju: Lili was at IMA as an industrial post-doc, UMN
and he is now a tenure track assistant professor at Univ. of S. Carolina.
He received his first NSF research grant in 2006.
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Desheng Wang.
Desheng was a former post-doc and an expert on meshing. He got
his Ph.D in CAS, China and had worked at the Swansea (UK). He
is now a tenure track faculty in Singapore.
- Maria Emelianenko:
Maria was supported by NSF-CCR and NSF-ITR;
she worked on
some CVT related projects and optimization methods
for computing thermodynamic phase diagrams; she has published a nice
paper on phase equilibria computation
jointly with Z. Liu at material science dept (was one of the
top download at the journal web-site), she
also completed a number of papers on computing CVTs including
multi-level algorithms. She
has visited IMA and also given a couple of very impressive presentations
at NIST, Copper Mountain iterative conference, NYU domain decomposition
conference, SIAM annual meeting in 2005.
She received an honorable mention for student paper competition
at the 2005 Copper Mountain iterative conference.
She is now working as post-doc offer at the
Center of Nonlinear Studies at Carnegie Mellon, and
she was also offered
a three year assistant professorship offer from University
of Michigan (Ann Arbor). In 2007, she recerived tenure track
offers from the Univ of Minn, Purdue Univ and a number of other
schools.
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Xiaoqiang Wang:
Xiaoqiang is supported by NSF-DMS on imaging, phase field
related projects;
he wrote a paper on image segmentation and he also finished
several papers on cell membrane computation that appeared in Journal of
Computational Physics, Nonlinearity, CPAA, SIAM J. Applied Math; his art-work
can be found in our
picture
gallery. Together with Chun, we also found a very neat generalization of
the Euler-Poincare index for membranes using the phase field model (to appear
in SIAM Appl Math).
Xiaoqiang's work on clustering has been presented at 2004 SIAM meeting on
data mining (he went the Disney world resort in April!).
Another work has been presented at IEEE Visualization 2004
conference (yes, he went to Austin also in 2004).
He also presented his work on cell membranes at the AMS sectional meeting in
Pittsburgh and SIAM annual meeting in New Orleans in 2005.
After working as an IMA industrial post-doc in 2006, he
is now at the school of computational sciences at FSU as a tenure track
faculty in fall of 2006.
- Wenxiang Zhu:
Wenxiang was a post-doc supported in part by NSF-ITR, he
worked on the phase field simulations
and on some mathematical
control problems and their approximations, he helped
speeding up the phase field computations
and finished a couple of paper on ETD schemes; he attended the 2004
TMS annual conference to present the team work.
Wenxiang is now a tenure track faculty at Idaho State Univ
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Peng Yu:
Peng came to join us after getting his doctoral degree from
Carnegie Mellon;
he has been a Chowla research assistant professor, supported partly by the
department endowment and partly by the NSF-ITR, he worked on phase field
simulations and complex fluids;
he wrote several nice papers on anisotropic mobility formulation
and on moment closure for the FENE model of polymeric fluid, he also
spoke at the AMS Tallahassee and Pittsburgh meetings to talk about the latest
work. He also helped implementing moving mesh methods into the
phase field modeling.
He made a lot of contributions to our team. He got a tenure track
assistant professor offer from Ohio State in 2005, but he was also
recruited by a big investment firm from Wall St (a computational
mathematician with good modeling and simulation skills can go a long
way!)
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Liyong Zhu: Liyong got his Ph.D from the Academy of Mathematical
and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He studied
the error analysis of mixed finite element methods for the phase
field models of biological vesicles and also relations between
quality of grids and efficiency of solvers.
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Jiakou Wang worked on an interdisciplinary research
project with a bioengineering group. It involved
mathematical modeling, analysis and simulations of problems
related to tumor metastasis. His efforts were on the
cell aggregations and numerical simulations. One of his paper
apeared in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering.
He developed a beautiful framework to explore the relation
between stochastic and determinstic modeling. His expertise
on stochastic analysis got him a big offer from a leading
financial investment firm. He is the receipient of the
Pritchard Fellowship in 2007.
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- Former MS students: Anthony Faulds, Bo Yu, Gregory Kidzie, Tony Wong, Tianyu Zhang,...
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