We are constantly looking for diligient
and bright students to join us
and to form an active and diverse team on various research projects.
If you are interested in working with us,
email me!
News flash
Congratulations to our team's alumni Maria Emenlianenko
for receiving the highly competitive NSF career award in 2011.
Maria was one of the first Ph.D students graduated from our
group at Penn State and she has received a number of awards
in her career (2011-09).
Congratulations to team member Yanxiang Zhao
for winning the 2010 department graduate teaching award and the
ZZRQ service award!
Yanxiang has also served as the founding president for the Penn State
SIAM student chapter, thanks for his contributions to the department!
Yanxiang is going to be a post-doc researcher at UCLA/UCSD (2011-05).
Congratulations to team member Yanping Ma
for winning the 2010 graduate teaching award and the ZZRQ award!
It is a recognition of
her many outstanding services to the department: slow pitch
organizer, member of Woman in math, officer of SIAM student chapter!
Yanping is going to start her tenure track position
at Loyola Marymount (2011-05).
Here are our current Math members :
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• Li Tian
is a Chowla postdoc in the dept, with partial support from
our research project. He got his Ph.D from USC under the
guidance of Lili Ju and joined
us in 2009.
• Tadele Mengesha
joined us in 2011 as a post-doc for the DOE project
on peridynamics.
He got his Ph.D from Temple and has worked at LSU before joining our group.
• Thinh Le was
first doing
pure mathematics then changed
direction to join our group. He now uses ideas of
geometry in several applications.
He published an
extension of the 3d MacPherson-Srolovitz formula for microstucture
evolution/coarsening in CMS. He presented his work at
the SIAM materials conference.
•
Kun Zhou is
working on the nonlocal peridynamic models and nonlocal calculus and
had a couple of recent papers published
in SINUM and M2AN and several papers completed. His work was supported by
the Sandia National Lab. He has been invited
to presented his works at several conferences including SIAM meeting,
Oberwolfach and ICIAM. He is the current president of Penn State
SIAM student chapter.
•
Jingyan Zhang
has worked on several projects involving analysis, algorithms and
computation. She had a paper on a nonlocal optimal domain
partition published in DCDS-A, a paper on PCVT accepted and also
several papers on saddle point search methods and
uncertainty quantification of materials data set completed.
She has presented her research in AMS sectional meeting, ICIAM and
BICMR.
•
Peter Gael
has passed his comprehensive, he is working with Lyle Long
and our group on spiking neural networks and speech recognition.
•
Qichuan Bai
has passed her comprehensive, she is working with Andrew Belmonte
and our group and dynamic bucklings.
• Matthew Baran and some other students
are also participating
our research activities.
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Our post-docs and graduate assistants
are paritially supported by grants from
agencies like
NSF, NIH, DOE as well as CCMD and the Willaman fund (see
a
list of some recently funded research projects).
We coined the term TEAMS
as the theme for the CAM@PS group's effort in graduate student training.
TEAMS
stands for the
Training in
Experiments,
Analysis,
Modeling and
Simulation for
our mathematics students. We hope that this can better prepare them to
excel in their interdisciplinary research careers in computational and
applied mathematics as well as other disciplines.
Our group has a weekly unannounced research
seminar where the members present their latest reading/research/questions,
(the discussions are often very lively and stimulating, and we get a lot
of laughs if nothing else).
Others
are welcome to join us by emailing
me.
We are working with some other math faculty members and students,
colleagues from other departments at Penn
State and many collaborators at other research institutions
worldwide.
A few team members have just departed. We wish them the best in their
new adventures.
• Brandon Chabaud
joined us in 2009 as a post-doc for the DOE project
on regional ocean modeling jointly funded between PSU/CSU/FSU.
He got his Ph.D from UMN under Carme Calderer. He is now working at Los Alamos.
• Yanxiang Zhao
is working on geometric
variations and flows such as those involving
anisotropic mean curvature energies and multicomponent membranes.
His latest work can be found in PRE. He presented his
works at a couple of SIAM meetings.
• Yanping Ma is
working with bioengineering colleagues on our joint NIH research
project, co-supervised by Dr.Cheng Dong. Her
recent paper can be found in a special
issue of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. She presented her
work in a couple of meetings.
You may check out the list of our
alumni and former team members
and links to some of our
collaborators on campus.
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