Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Zhiming Chen
Professor and Director
Institute of Computational Mathematics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100080, PR China

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Numerical analysis and scientific computing: Finite element methods; adaptivity and a posteriori error analysis; nonlinear PDEs; numerical homogenization.

Applications: phase transitions (shape memory alloys, superconductivity, continuous casting problem); electromangetic waves; flow transport in heterogeneous porous media.

EDUCATION

UNDERGRADUATE
B.Sc. Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing (China), July 1986
GRADUATE
M.Sc. Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China), July 1989
Ph.D. STUDY
Ph.D. Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg (Germany), February 1992
Thesis supervisor: Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Hoffmann

PREFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Full Professor, March 2000-present

Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Full Professor, October 1997-February 2000

Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor, June 1995-September 1997

Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Professor, June 1994-May 1995

Munich University of Technology, Munich (Germany), Scientific Research Fellow, March 1992-May 1994.

VISITING POSITIONS

Institute for Mathematics and its Applications: Program on ``Mathematics of Materials and Macromolecules: Multiple Scales, Disorder, and Singularities'',
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (US), November 1 - 30, 2004

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences: Program on Computational Challenges in Partial Differential Equation, Cambridge (UK), March 30 - May 10, 2003

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (USA), March 1999-February 2000

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, May-June 1998

University of Maryland, College Park (USA), February 1998

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 1996-January 1997

Munich University of Technology, Munich (Germany), June-July 1996

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 1996

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, March-April 1996

PRIZES AND HONORS

K.C. Wong Science Research Prize, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1994)

Hundred Talent Project, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999)

NSFC Outstanding Young Scientist Grant (2000)

Feng Kang Scientific Computing Prize (2001)

Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, Spain (2006)

SELECTED PUBLICATION

1. On a non-stationary Ginzburg-Landau superconductivity model, with K.-H. Hoffmann and J. Liang, Math. Methods in Appl. Sci. 16 (1993), 855-875.

2. On a one-dimensional nonlinear thermoviscoelastic model for structural phase transitions in shape memory alloys, with K.-H. Hoffmann, J. Diff. Equations 112 (1994), 325-350.

3. Mixed finite element methods for a dynamical Ginzburg-Landau model in superconductivity, Numer. Math. 76 (1997), 323-353.

4. Residual type a posteriori error estimates for elliptic obstacle problems, with R.H. Nochetto, Numer. Math. 84 (2000), 524-548.

5. An adaptive finite element method with error control for the continuous casting problem, with R.H. Nochetto and A. Schmidt, Computer Meth. Appl. Mech. Engrg. 189 (2000), 249-276.

6. Adaptive Galerkin methods with error control for a dynamical Ginzburg-Landau model in superconductivity, with S. Dai, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 38 (2001), 1861-1985.

7. A mixed multiscale finite element method for elliptic problems with oscillating coefficients, with T. Hou, Math. Comp. 72 (2002), 541-576.

8. Numerical homogenization of well singularities in the flow transport through heterogeneous porous media, with X.Y. Yue, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: A SIAM Interdisciplinary Journal, 1 (2003), 260-303.

9. An Adaptive Finite Element Method with Perfectly Matched Absorbing Layers for the Wave Scattering by Periodic Structures, with H.J. Wu, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 41 (2003), 799-826.

10. An adaptive finite element method with reliable and efficient error control for linear parabolic problems, with F. Jia, Math. Comp. 73 (2004), 1163-1197.

11. An Adaptive Perfectly Matched Layer Technique for Time-harmonic Scattering Problems, with X.Z. Liu, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 43 (2005), 645-671.

12. Sharp $L^1$ a posteriori error analysis for nonlinear convection-diffusion problems with G.H. Ji, Math. Comp. 75 (2006), 43-71.

GRANTS

China NSF, Principal Investigator, Subject: Phenomenological Superconductivity Models and Adaptive Computations, January 1995-December 1997 (Grant No. 19401032)

China National Key Project "Large Scale Scientific and Engineering Computing", Principal Investigator, Subject: Numerical Solutions of Free Boundary Problems" January 1997-December 1999

China NSF, Principal Investigator, Subject: Numerical Methods for nonlinear PDEs, January 1998-December 2000 (Grant No. 19701080)

China National Key Project "Large Scale Scientific Computing Research", Subproject Leader, Subject: Basic Research in Computational Method, October 1999-September 2004

Chinese Academy of Sciences "Hundred Talent Project", Principal Investigator, Subject: High-end Technology and Scientific Computing, June 2000-May 2002

China NSF Outstanding Young Scientist Grant, Principal Investigator, Subject: Scientific Computing Research on some Problems from High Technology, January 2001-December 2004 (Grant No. 10025102)

China NSF Outstanding Oversea Young Scientist Grant, Co-Principal Investigator with Bao Gang, Subject: Computational Mathematics and Scientific Engineering Computing, January 2005-December 2007 (Grant No. 10428105)

China National Basic Research Project (973 Project), Chief Scientist, Subject: High Performance Scientific Computing Research, December 2005-November 2010 (Grant No. 2005CB321700)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the editorial board of Journal of Computational Mathematics , Executive Editor, May 2000-June 2006, Associate Editor, July 2006-present

Member of the editorial board of Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica (in Chinese) , January 2002-present

Member of the editorial board of Sciences on China (Series A) , January 2003-present

Member of the editorial board of Discrete and Continuous Dynaimical Systems-B , November 2003-December 2007

Editor in Chief of Numerical Mathematics: A Journal of Chinese Universities , January 2004-present

Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling , January 2004-present

Member of the editorial board of Journal of Information & Computational Science , September 2004-present

Member of the editorial board of European Journal of Applied Mathematics , January 2005-present

Member of the editorial board of Communications in Mathematical Sciences , January 2005-December 2006

Member of the editorial board of SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis , January 2005-present

Member of the editorial board of Mathematics of Computation , February 2007-present

Member of the editorial board of Chinese Journal of Engineering Mathematics , August 2007-present

MEMBERSHIP

Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (USA) January 1995-present

Member of the Standing Committee of China Society of Computational Mathematics, November 1998-October 2002

Vice president of China Society of Computational Mathematics, November 2006-October 2010

Vice president of Chinese Mathematical Society, January 2008-December 2011

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION SERVICES

Director of the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, May 2007-present

Director of the State Key Laboratory on Scientific and Engineering Computing, February 2006-present

Vice director of the State Key Laboratory on Scientific and Engineering Computing, January 2001-January 2006

Vice director in general of the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, March 2003-April 2007

Curriculum Vitae ( PDF )