Jian-Guo Liu

Institute for Physical Science and Technology & Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-5148(Tel), 314-0827(Fax), jliu@math.umd.edu;
http://www.math.umd.edu/~jliu

Education:

• 1990, Ph.D. in Mathematics, UCLA; Advisor: Bjorn Engquist
• 1985, M.S. in Mathematics, Fudan University
• 1982, B.S. in Mathematics, Fudan University

Regular Positions:

• 2001-Now, Professor, University of Maryland
• 1997-2001, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
• 1993-1997, Assistant Professor, Temple University
• 1991-1993, Courant Instructor, Courant Institute, New York University
• 1990-1991, Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley

Professional Service:

• Managing Editor, Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations (2004-2009)
• Associate editor, Communications in Mathematical Sciences (2001-2005)
• Associate editor, Journal of Information and Computational Science (2005-2008)
• Associate editor, Applied Mathematics A Journal of Chinese Universities (2003--2007)
• Board of Advisors (MATH), World Scientific (2005--Now)
• Member of organizing committee, Beijing International Center for Computational Physics (1997-2001)
• Member of scientific committee, Beijing International Center for Computational Physics (2001-2005)
• Member of scientific committee, Shanghai School on Analysis and Numerics in Modern Sciences (2004--2009)

Selected Recent Talks:

• Invited Speaker, Workshop on "Quantized vortices in superfluidity and superconductivity and kinetic theory IMS/NUS, Singapore, December, 2007
• Invited Speaker, Fourth International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians , Hangzhou, China, December 2007
• "The Second Minnhokee Memorial Lecture", Seoul National University, South Korea, May, 2007
• Invited Speaker, Analytical and Computational Challenges of Incompressible Flows at High Reynolds , CSCAMM, U. of Maryland, October, 2006
• Invited Speaker, "Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics" , New Jersey Institute of Technology, May 2006
• Invited Speaker, Kyoto Conference on the Navier-Stokes equations and their Applications January, 2006
• Invited Speaker, Nanoscale Material Interfaces: Experiment, Theory and Simulation , 24 Nov 2004 - 23 Jan 2005, Singapore
• Invited Speaker, Wall-bounded and free-surface turbelence and its computation , December, 2004, Singapore
• Invited Speaker, 3rd Int'l Congress of Chinese Mathematicians , Hong Kong, December 2004
• Invited Speaker, 6th Int'l Workshop on Mathematical Aspects of Fluid and Plasma , Kyoto, Japan, Septermber 2004
• Plenary Lecturer, 10th Int'l Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics and Applicatiosn, Osaka, Japan, September 2004
• Invited Speaker, Conference of Analysis, Modeling and Computation of PDE and Multiphase Flow, Celebration of Glimm's 70th birthday , Stony Brook, August, 2004
• Invited Speaker, Int'l Workshop on Nonlinear Waves, On the occasion of George Papanicolaou's 60th Birthday , Hong Kong, June 2004
• Invited Speaker, Analytical and Computational Challenges of Incompressible Flows at High Reynolds Number, CSCAMM, U. of Maryland, May, 2004
• Invited Speaker, Mathematics and Computation in Imaging Science and Information Processing December, 2003, Singapore
• Invited Speaker, Analysis and Numerics for Modelling Semiconductor Devices and Biological Channels , CSCAMM, U. of Maryland, May 2003
• Invited Speaker, Perspectives on incompressible flows Comparison of different computational strategies , CSCAMM, U. of Maryland, April 2003
• Conference Committee, Int'l Conference on Scientific Computing and PDEs, On the occasion of Stanley Osher's 60th Birthday, Hong Kong, December, 2004
• keynote Speaker, The Tenth South Eastern Approximation Theory Conference, Athens, Georgia, March 2002

Selected Visiting Positions:

• Spring term 1994, Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• Spring and Summer 1995, and Summer 1996, Visiting Research Staff, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Fluid Dynamics Research Center, Princeton University
• 1996-97, Visiting Member, Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University
• June 1996, Visitor, Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Sept.-Oct. 1997, Member, Institut Mittag-Leffler, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• May-June 1998, Invited Professor, Universite de Reims, France,
• Dec 98, June 1999, June 2000, and June 2001, Visiting Member, Center for Theoretical Study, Taiwan
• June 1999 and Dec 2002 - Jan 2003, Visiting Member, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Hong Kong Chinese University
• May-June 2000 and May-June 2002, Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Sciences and Technology
• 2000-2002, Lecture Professor, Fudan University
• 2001-2004, Guest Professor, Dalian University of Technology
• January 2002, Invited Professor, Universite de Clermont Ferrand, France
• Feb 2003, Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, U.K.
• December 2004- January 2005, Visiting Member, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS, Singapore
• April, 2005, Visiting Member, IPAM, UCLA
• July, 2005; March 2006, Visiting Professor, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
• June-July, 2006, Visiting Member, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• August, 2006, Visiting Member, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada
• 2007-09, Visiting Professor, Duke University

Former Ph.D. Students:

• Hwajeong Choi, PhD 1997, Thesis: ``Robust Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws Using a Biased Averaging Procedure'', Position: Postdoc at Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 1997-8; Korea NSF Postdoc, Seoul National University; 1998--
• Hans E. Johnston, PhD 1999, Thesis: ``Efficient Computation of Viscous Incompressible Flow'', Position: Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Cheng Wang, PhD 2000, Thesis: ``High Order Finite Difference Method for Incompressible Flow'', Position: Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Jianjun Xu, PhD 2001, Thesis: ``Studies of High Order Finite/Spectral Element Methods for Unsteady Incompressible Viscous Flow'', Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine
• Kexue Liu, PhD 2004, Thesis: ``Nonlinear Evolutionary PDEs in Image Processing and Computer Vision'', Position: Researcher, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC
• Jie Liu , PhD 2006, Thesis: "A Class of Efficient, Stable Navier-Stokes Solvers", Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine

Research Grants:

• 2008-2011, Principal Investigator, NSF Grant DMS-0811177, $228,550, ``Efficient Numerical Methods for Viscous Incompressible Flows''
• 2008-2009, Co-PI, NSF Grant DMS-0742260, $28,000, ``International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics and Applications''
• 2008-2009, Co-PI, Office of Naval Research, N000140810386, $23,000, ``International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics and Applications''
• 2008-2009, Co-PI, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, FA9500810082, $10,000, ``International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics and Applications''
• 2005-2008, Principal Investigator, NSF Grant DMS-0512176, $283,442, ``Efficient Numerical Methods for Viscous Incompressible Flows''
• 2001-2005, Principal Investigator, NSF Grant DMS-0107218, $220.000, ``Efficient Numerical Methods for Viscous Incompressible Flows''
• 1998-2001, Principal Investigator, NSF Grant DMS-9805621, $96,000, ``Efficient Numerical Methods for Unsteady Viscous Incompressible Flows''
• 1996-1997, Principal Investigator, ONR Grant N00014-96-1-1013, $50,000, ``Numerical Methods for Incompressible Flows''
• 1995-1998, Principal Investigator, NSF Grant DMS-9505275, $60,000, ``Efficient Numerical Methods for Large Reynolds Number Unsteady Viscous Incompressible flows''