Faculty Members and Staff

Alberto Bressan
Eberly Family Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1982
Research Interests: Theory of hyperbolic conservation laws, nonlinear hyperbolic systems, partial differential equations
Alexei Novikov
Professor
Education: M. A., Moscow State University, 1993 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999
Research Interests: Analysis
Andrew Belmonte
Professor
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University, 1994
Research Interests: Fluid dynamics, complex fluids, evolutionary game theory, fragmentation and solid deformation, electrofluidics.
Anna Mazzucato
Professor
Education: BS/MS, State University, Milan, Italy, 1994 Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2000
Research Interests: Partial differential equations, fluid mechanics, elasticity, harmonic and microlocal analysis, inverse problems
Diane Henderson
Professor
Education: M. S., Engineering Sciences, University of Florida Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography / UCSD
Research Interests: Applied Math, Fluid Mechanics, Nonlinear Waves, William G. Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
James Brannick
Associate Director,  Professor
Education: Ph.D., CU Boulder, 2005
Research Interests: Lattice field theory, numerical solutions to PDEs, multigrid methods
Jinchao Xu
Director, Francis R. and Helen M. Pentz Professor of Science
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1989
Research Interests: Numerical methods for partial differential equations and applications
John Harlim

John Harlim

Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, 2006
Research Interests: parameter estimation, machine learning, manifold learning
 
Kris Jenssen
Professor
Education: Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 1998
Research Interests: Partial differential equations, conservation laws, compressible flow, combustion
Leonid V. Berlyand
Professor
Education: Ph.D., Kharkov State University, 1984
Research Interests: PDEs, variational problems and applications to materials and biology
Ludmil Zikatanov
Professor, Associate Head for Computing
Education: B. Sc., Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski, 1988 Ph.D., Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski, 1995
Research Interests: Numerical Analysis, Finite Element methods, Multigrid and Domain Decomposition methods
Mark Levi
Professor
Education: Ph.D., New York University, 1978
Research Interests: Dynamical systems and their applications in physics and engineering
Wen Shen
Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Oslo, 1998
Research Interests: Hyperbolic conservation laws, relaxation, partial differential equations, numerical simulation, numerical analysis, control theory
Wenrui Hao
Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, 2013.
Research Interests: numerical methods for nonlinear systems, mathematical biology
Wenwu Cao
Professor
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1987
Research Interests: Applied mathematics, computer simulations, materials sciences
Xiantao Li
Professor
Education: B. S., Peking University, 1998 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2002
Research Interests: Numerical analysis, computational mechanics, multiscale modeling in crystalline solids.
Xiaoe (Jenny) Li
Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1993
Research Interests: Mathematical economics, mathematical finance, computational economics

Postdoctoral Fellows

Jonathan Siegel

Jonathan Siegel

Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics, UCLA, 2018
Research Interests: Optimization theory, PDE theory, and applications to Machine Learning and Mathematical Physics; Applied Harmonic Analysis.
 
Limin Ma

Limin Ma

Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Peking University, 2018
Research Interests: Eigenvalue problem; Nonconforming methods; Superconvergence analysis.
 
Qingguo Hong
Education: Ph. D in Computational Mathematics, Peking University, 2012
Research Interests: Finite Element Method and Discontinuous Galerkin Method, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Multigrid Method, Numerical Simulation for Non-Newton Fluid
 
Yuwen Li

Yuwen Li

Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics, , 2018
Research Interests: Eigenvalue problem; Nonconforming methods; Superconvergence analysis.
 

PhD Students

Jianhong Chen
Graduate Student  
Thesis Adviser: Jinchao Xu
Education:  B.S, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research Interests:  Big data, machine learning
Qipin Chen

Qipin Chen

Thesis Adviser: Wenrui Hao
Education: B.S, Wuhan University
Research Interests: scientific computing, computational biology, deep learning
 
Xu Xiaofeng

Xu Xiaofeng

Graduate Student  
Thesis Adviser: Jinchao Xu
Education:  B.S, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Research Interests:  Numerical PDE, Machine Learning
Yushuang Luo

Yushuang Luo

Thesis Adviser: Xiantao Li, Wenrui Hao
Education: B.S. Nanjing University; M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests:scientific computing, deep learning
 

Visitors

Contact Us

Jinchao Xu, Director
Tel: (814) 865-7527
Email: ccmapxu@gmail.com
James Brannick, Associate Director
Tel: (814) 863-2737
Email: brannick@math.psu.edu
 
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