Gui-Qiang Chen

Gui-Qiang G. Chen ( Chinese 陈贵强 , Pinyin Chén Guìqiáng ; born May 25, 1963 in Cixi , Zhejiang Province of the People's Republic of China ) is a British - American mathematician of Chinese origin who deals with partial differential equations. He is a professor at Northwestern University .

Chen studied mathematics at Fudan University in Shanghai with a bachelor's degree in 1982 and received his doctorate in 1987 from Academia Sinica in Beijing . As a post-doctoral student he was at the Courant Institute from 1987 to 1989 , while at the same time from 1987 he was assistant professor at the Academia Sinica. In 1989 he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago , Associate Professor in 1994 and Professor at Northwestern University in 1996. Since 2008 he has been a professor at Oxford University .

He was visiting scholar at the IMA (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications) in Minneapolis, at the MSRI (1990/91), at the Institute for Advanced Study (1994), at Stanford University , the University of Nice , at the IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) in Los Angeles, at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, at the Mittag-Leffler Institute , at the MATCH (Mathematical Center) in Heidelberg, at Fudan University and at the Center for Advanced Study of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in Oslo.

Among other things, he dealt with non-linear partial differential equations (PDE) and conservation theorems , their application, for example, in continuum mechanics (such as Navier-Stokes equations and Euler equations ) and differential geometry ( isometric embedding problem ), non-linear PDE of mixed type (e.g. hyperbolic-elliptical or hyperbolic-parabolic), free boundary value problems and numerics of partial differential equations.

In 1989 he received the first prize in mathematics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences . He was a Sloan Research Fellow (from 1991) and received the Humboldt Research Award . In 2008, Chen gave the DiPerna lecture (Nonlinear Conservation Laws of Mixed Type in Mechanics and Geometry).

Fonts

Multidimensional conservation laws: overview, problems, and perspective. In: Alberto Bressan, Gui-Qiang G. Chen, Marta Lewicka, Dehua Wang (editors): Nonlinear conservation laws and applications. IMA Vol. Math. Appl., 153, Springer, New York, 2011, pp. 23-72.

personal data
SURNAME	Chen, Gui-Qiang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chen, Gui-Qiang G .; 陈贵强 (Chinese); Chén Guìqiáng (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British-American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cixi (Ningbo)